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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1929
Page
9
A dense OCR page shows varied listings from autos and hardware to radios and flowers. It includes used car offerings, paint supplies, skates, furniture finishes, tires and batteries promotions, and several legal and property notices in Athens County Ohio. The document also contains insurance notices and tax or court related notices with names and dates.
Public sale at the courthouse door in Sinson Athens County Ohio on the 2nd of February at 1 PM of multiple tracts in Nye s Addition Chauncey and village Chauncey. Property includes Lots 107 35 2 97 100 07 with appraisals ranging from 1000 to 3000 dollars. Sale proceeds to be cash in hand. conducted by Sheriff William Williams of Athens County.
Paul has filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to operate a motor transportation company. The route is from Pomeroy to Marietta via Route 7, using 145 ton trucks with specified trips. Public comments and a hearing will be addressed to the Ohio Public Utilities Commission at Paul office on the noted date.
Columb Obie of the Division of Insurance certifies that The US ON INO ASSOCIATION Worcester MA is in compliance with state insurance laws and is authorized to transact insurance business in this state. Its annual statement shows assets around 81, net income, and a surplus of 64.77 for the year.
The market notes show wheat priced around 92.15 with cash listings at 40 cents and February futures at 10.23. A device price of 1.50 per cwt is also recorded, reflecting commodity trading activity.
Receipts show butter with multiple price lines including 5 619 and 46 percent standards and Greta 444s. Eggs receipts list 4 431 cases with ordinary prices 30 to 34 cents and seconds 21 to 22 cents, extras 36 to 38 cents.
A fragmentary market note indicates slight price shifts as butter sales in Cleveland involve small lots. The text references buyers and sellers trading limited quantities, with modest price movements noted amid overall market activity.
The readable text shows prices like 9 and 12.80 with unclear names and dates. Specific persons or organizations are not identifiable. The snippet suggests a catalog or ledger fragment with monetary amounts and partial terms.
Market items listed with unit prices include cucumbers at two dollars and onions at one hundred pounds per sack. Other entries reference white sacks, crates, and various fruits and vegetables such as strawberries and rhubarb with unspecified quantities.
A brief Cleveland notice notes corrections to past listings with figures and percentages. The item references produce prices and weights but the readable content is fragmented and lacks full context or names.
In Cincinnati butter buyers hold steady prices with a quoted 30 cents per pound and a related note on 300 units traded, reflecting limited movement amid market counts.
Fragmented OCR lists bids and identifiers for several entities including Ohio Bell Tel, Seaboard Oil, and railway items with scattered numbers and partial dates, indicating a rough prices or bids table. No clear events or outcomes are discernible from the readables.
OCR fragment mentions street extras and testing but provides few readable details. No clear incident, names, dates, or locations are established in the readable text.
The fragment mentions New York production and a special item with unspecified details. It contains garbled phrases making precise facts difficult, but the readable parts suggest a local or regional notice about a product or event labeled as special. No clear persons or organizations are established.
Grain and livestock quotes show cattle at various prices with vealers and cutters listed. Top fat lambs push toward fourteen dollars and fifty to sixteen fifty per head while bulk fat ewes trade around sixty five dollars.
In Columbus two bandits stopped a street car last night and forced the conductor and motorman into a car. They were driven to a distant spot and robbed of 35 dollars. Police described the suspects as intoxicated.
T. H. Johnson county farm extension agent addressed the Vocational Club at Rome Township High School last night at 7:80 o clock. Johnson discussed his Ohio State University college life and what his classmates are doing today, in response to an invitation from Hollis Throckmorton of the agriculture department.
Queen Marie of Romania was ill with influenza today in Bucharest for the second time in recent months. Her doctors expect a quick recovery.
In Jamestown Tennessee in January 10 teachers and parents clash as Clark Range High School principal Elmore Gentry is summoned before the County Board of Education to answer charges of teaching evolution. The board cites three years of very satisfactory service while opponents cite two volumes of The Outline of Knowledge used in class. Bert Jones and Fred Nixon deny accusations involving Nixon's son.
At the annual meeting in McArthur on Tuesday the stockholders re elected L W Pitcher and O B Vollenweider as officers. The board then chose L W Sprague president J W Darby vice president F Pitcher secretary L W Pitcher assistant secretary and E Vollenwether attorney.
Friends in Athens County report the death of Jane McElfresh Dempeter at her Zanesville home on January 3. Born June 10, 1855 near Rouseau Morgan County, she married Lewis H. Donsebentae in 1877. Survived by five children Elizabeth Julia John Alfred Lewis and Mrs Edgar Bower, two brothers, eleven grandchildren. She lived in Zanesville over twenty years and previously in Trimble Nelsonville and Chauncey.
Tasvanes of the telephone department announced that the new phone directories for the first six months of 1929 would be issued January 17. The release includes installation of direct lines for all officers and marks a shift from switchboard use in Athens offices.
Fragmented text shows mixed financial terms about funds, profits, deposits, and unpaid items. The readable portions lack coherent facts, names, dates, or concrete actions to summarize into a proper news item.
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