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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1924
Page
9
Cleveland market listings show dairy and egg prices with butters at 58 to 60 cents per pound and eggs at 47 cents a dozen. Poultry rates include fowl at 25 cents per pound and turkeys from 30 to 33 cents, with commodities like oleo and animal oils also listed in mid price ranges.
Butter receipts show 7 603 tubs from a creamery with extra firsts priced around 54 cents. Eggs receipts list 8 587 cases across categories including ordinary firsts at 32 to 38 cents and checks at 24 to 25 cents.
Grain close in Toledo shows Wheat cash at 1.12, Corn 78 1/4, Oats 50 7/8, Rye 7 3/4, Barley 67 cents. Clover seed bids 15.80 old, new 13.70. Jan 13.70, Feb and Mar 13.89. Alsike seed 9.50 cash, Jan 9.50, Feb 9.96, Mar 8.70. Timothy 4.05 cash, Jan 4.05, Mar 4.15 asked.
Chicago grain desk reports January 9 trading with wheat May around 1.085, July near 1.96 and 1.07 percent changes, Sept bids at 1.05. Corn May 0.76, July 0.78, with bids at 0.78 and 0.78 percent. Oats May 0.455, July 0.46, with July bids around 0.44.
Cattle receipts 650 with slow steady trade. Calves fetch 13.50 to 15.00 for good to choice. Hogs total 7500 with 25 cent drop. good to choice packers and butchers around 7.70. Sheep receipts 359 show steady market. good to choice 4.50 to 6.00. Lambs steady at 13.00 to 13.50.
CATTLE supplies 100 with market steady. SHEEP AND LAMBS 1200 head, lambs $14.15 down 10 cents. HOGS receipts 6000 with prices 20 to 25 cents lower. prime heavy $7.50 to $8.00. mediums $7.90 to $8.05. light and roughs $7.75 to $6.50. pigs $7.00 to $7.25. stags $5.00 to $3.50.
Chicago hog receipts 48 000 with market 6 to 10 cents lower and top at 7 25. Heavyweights and sows mixed with pigs around 5 75 to 6 75. Cattle receipts 17 000 market 15 to 25 cents lower. beef steers and veal calves varied with prices from 4 00 to 14 00. Sheep receipts 21 000 market steady. lambs 12 59 to 13 73 per cwt and yearlings around 10 00 to 11 00.
Rail timetable lists Athens departures including No 1 at 6 33 am No 3 at 10 05 am and No 2 at 11 16 am plus evening services No 6 4 25 pm No 10 8 00 pm and daily trains to Depot town Northboc with Nos 31 33 87 at 6 50 am 4 45 pm and 6 00 pm Arrivals include No 80 at 9 46 am No 82 3 at 4 09 pm and No 84 at 8 15 pm with daily trains to Southbound routes.
A fragmented timetable lists local transit times and codes. Entries include morning and afternoon departures with multiple signals and abbreviations. Some lines reference westbound trains and rally events rendered as garbled notes.
The listing shows prices for wethers 7.50 to 9.50, ewes 6.50 to 8.50, ewes culls and common 3.00 to 5.00, feeder lambs 1.50 to 13.00, and a range for $10.00 11.75.
Elizabeth Ann Swearingen of Meigs County Ohio born Columbia August 50 194s died Dec 30 1925 at her son Grover’s home aged W years and 4 months wife of Columbus Swearingen died 26 years earlier leaves two sons Pearley A Grover C and daughter in law Mrs Dora A Cady three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. A longtime Bible Christian Church member and devoted mother she faced illness with meekness and fortitude and will be missed by family and community.
Providence R I January 9 Judge Chester W Barrows made absolute and permanent the suspension of Nina Wilcox Putnam Sandersons divorce decree which had been temporarily suspended a week earlier.
Dean John R. Effinger reported that three of Michigan's leading men students and a female student were expelled this afternoon on charges of immorality in a Petroit setting.
The Central Parent-Teacher Association will hold a meeting Thursday at 3 o clock in room 7 of the Central building. Miss Stanfield is scheduled to speak on the program.
Washington report shows more than 108000 farmers lost farms via foreclosure or bankruptcy between 1920 and spring 1928, per the agriculture department estimate.
Justice officials report abundant evidence of propaganda in the United States directed by the Soviet government of Russia. Secretary Hughes made the charge, Russian officials deny it, and Attorney General Daugherty announced the matter today in Washington.
A snapshot shows William P. Jarrett sworn in as the new delegate from the Hawaiian Islands to the United States Congress. He is noted as the first Democrat to represent the Pacific islands in Washington.
A local obituary recalls William 8 son of Mr and Mrs Frastus Phillips born December 27 1866 who died December 20 1923 after illness. He grew up near the farm and engaged in church school and social life while later running a livery business in New Marshfield with Dora Mae Wolfe of Nelsonville. He was kind helpful and faced life’s storms to serve others and now leaves a silent legacy as neighbors reflect on his life.
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