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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1926
Page
9
James Cruze directs The Pony Express melodrama set in Pony Express days. The film features American historical backgrounds and portrays riders during the iconic mail service era.
Prices reduced on several models effective January 1 1926 with F.O.B. Flint terms. Roadster and Coach listed at $510 and $645 respectively, Sedan at $735, 14 ton truck at $395 and 1 ton truck at $350. Fickel & White advertise Double Diamond gears and pinions reinforcing quality at low cost.
Prices listed for various vehicles including a roadster at 510 dollars and a coupe at 510, a coach at 6465, a sedan at 735, a 14 ton truck at 305, and a ton truck at 550, all F. O. B. Flint.
An advertising snippet promotes Our Rough Dry Service with starch and ironing, and lists Pomeroy Home Laundry contact, plus K. T. Harmon & Co offering men’s ready to wear cleaning, pressing and repairing in Middle Port.
The Home Laundry announces a wet wash option where they wash garments and return them damp. Service location noted as Middle.
Nimee G H Caldwell advertises painless tooth extraction and removable bridgework. Also offers a Ford ton truck with panel body and a good river route serving Middleport Pomeroy Racine and nearby territory. Buyer could purchase cheap from G W Hope at 146 Morris Ave Athens.
Angora government rejects American protest over higher duties on U S goods. The note says U S ratification of the Lausanne treaty is essential before tariff reductions can be hoped for.
Annual convention of the Probate Judges Association of Ohio opened at the Southern hotel in Columbus. A banquet is planned for tonight and officers are to be elected on Wednesday. Unclear fragment notes a Wilmington father claiming his son walked and ate heavy foods at two months.
The piece reports oil industry moves to reassure supply and stabilize prices amid strikes and field conflicts. It highlights mergers to cut costs, seismic exploration in Louisiana, and a 40 to 1 odds dry-hole record in California. Production surges and demand shifts prompt consolidation across three industry divisions.
The National Dairy Products corporation of New York has acquired control of the Franklin Ice Cream company of Kansas City and may expand westward into Denver and other cities.
Willimantic plants of the American Thread company will operate a fifty five hour week this week up from forty eight hours last week. Six of the extra hours will be paid as overtime.
Tulsa January 12 report notes the closing of numerous acreage deals in the Tobler pool district Butler County Kansas. The pull of oil stems from a new barrel producer discovery credited to Amerada Petroleum Corporation.
The record year 1926 saw all Columbia River lumber shipments broken with a total of 1,180,974,000 feet moved. This mark surpassed previous highs and highlighted intense logging and export activity along the river.
The California Prune and Apricot Growers Association withdraws four bulk goods from the market as shortages in prunes and apricots spread. Carton prices stay level while bulk prices are revised upward.
Steel Pittsburgh reports ingot production running above 47 million gross tons annually in recent days. Oil country goods show improvement with drilling up. Plate production for the last year is estimated near 1,650 gross tons.
The rate of a series of gas electric cars designed for suburban traffic is now in commission on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia.
In St Louis on January 12 the Southwestern Shoe Retailers convention reported wholesalers did business surpassing prior records. Officials cited higher demand and a strong turnout as contributing factors to the surge in totals.
In the past week 22,156 barrels of sweet potatoes were shipped from Wilmington and ore shipments of white potatoes total 160,525 barrels so far this year, reflecting continued activity in regional potato trade.
A slight earthquake was felt in Santa Barbara California on January 12 with a brief tremor lasting a few seconds and no damage reported.
The Probate court issued licenses for William Thomas Pancake and Cora Ellen Laud ermilk both at home in Buchtel, and Leonard Francis McGee and Thelma Faye Humphrey at home in Glouster, with additional entry for Kenneth Doolittle and Flossie Walker at home in Carbondale.
A dense OCR list of American and international company names shows entities across steel, oil, refining, rail, and manufacturing sectors. Firms include Bethlehem Steel, U S Steel, International Nickel, General Motors, Texaco, Pan American Petroleum, Reading, Norfolk and Western, Pennsylvania Coal, and Freeport Texas, among many others.
Hog receipts 10 099. market up 10 cents. Bulk light hogs to 12.26. heavy to 10.00. Cattle receipts 10 000. market steady. Calves and beef steers varied. cows 4.00 to 4.50. Sheep receipts 18 000. lambs and yearlings down to 11.50 13.50. ewes 2.50 to 5.00. feeder lambs 15.15 to 15.75.
CATTLE fences show prices for steers and heifers at various grades from good to common. Fresh cows and ringers bring around 60 to 110, veal calves receipts noted with weak market. lambs around 16.10. HOGS receipts 1000, market active and higher with prime heavy 12.66 to 12.90, heavy mixed 12.52 to 12.10, lights 13.10 to 13.15, roughs 10, stags around 0.
Cattle receipts show steady to higher bids with good to choice ranges. Cows and stockers active with 10 to 25 cent gains. Sheep and lamb markets steady to higher with good to choice quality bidders.
The page lists commodity prices across produce, hay, and petroleum with No. 1 and No. 3 hay at 1.45 and 1.15 dollars respectively. It notes dull petroleum at 3.55 to 3.65 and mixed clover at 1,101.40. Pittsburgh prices cover butter prints at about 50 to 60 cents, eggs near 48 to 50 cents, live poultry figures for hens and turkeys, and vegetables like potatoes from Michigan at 7.00 to 7.25 dollars per bag. Nuts include California walnuts at 33 to 34 cents per pound with other varieties.
CV Eveland lists butter at 46 47 cents, firsts 43 cents, eggs fresh 45 cents. Northern Ohio extra firsts 41, Ohio firsts 30, western firsts 38. Oleo 28, poultry fowls 32 54, roosters 16, splinters 33 3k, ducks, geese at 22. Old York cheese 27. Apples Ohio Baldwins 5.75 per barrel. Potatoes Ohio 2.00 2.73 per bushel. Cabbage Ohio Danish 3 to 8 per ton, hothouse tomatoes 3.90 3.75 per 10 lb basket, onions Saxoline 2.50 2.60 per cwt.
Chicago market notes show receipts of 10 818 pounds of creamery butter with prices listed as extra 42 cents 42 3 4 cents standard 42 4 4 cents and firsts 41 4c 40 4 4 cents per pound. Packing stock is recorded at 33 cents per pound.
Cincinnati area ad lists butter in tubs at 28 cents, No 1 packing 28c, No 2 at 10c. Potatoes five dollars seventy five cents per six. Poultry prices for fowls 30c, roosters 18c, broilers 35c, ducks 30c, geese 18c. Eggs fresh gathered 43c, firsts 43c, seconds 33c, nearby ungraded 40c.
Grain prices listed for various commodities including No. 2 red wheat at 11.91, corn No. 3 yellow at 2c 83c, oats No. 2 white at 47c, rye No. 2 at 1.03, barley No. 2 at 5c, cloverseed cash 15.40 with futures, alike and timothy quoted with cash and March prices.
Opening Liberty bond quotations show varied prices with 44s and 4s notes. First 44s at 101.25, second 4s at 100.21, third 44s at 100.30, fourth at 101.31, new 4148 at 106.19. Market figures reflect early trading as investors gauge bond demand.
AMBOY Ill Jan 12 Uncle Jimmy Pankhurst 85 once cared for Mary Brackus promising 10 000 in his will now Mary Brackus wills 15 000 leaving an estate of 20 000 She died last month leading to questions over the bequest and estate allocation
Charles H. Carnes of Cambridge, governor of Rotary International district 22, spoke at the Athens club lunch at Hotel Berry. After Athens, he will visit Nelsonville Logan and Lancaster clubs, with new Rotarians Thomas A. Clarke and Edward J. Schioss welcomed and instructed by Rotarian John Patterson.
Barbara Hawley breaks with fiancé Bruce Reynolds and takes a job at a daily paper where Andrew McDermott is managing editor. After thrilling escapades she faces trouble over a story about the governor's wife wardrobe. McDermott calms the governor's wife, then Barbara is summoned at 2 am by Bob Jeffries to cover a nightclub murder.
Barbara Hawley investigates a murder at Nellie Marie's dance hall with Bob Hawley. They learn Nellie Marie shot her lover after discovering his infidelity, and the suspect hints at family scandal while a city blocks away the street remains bleak and ghostly. Barbara faces the chilling warning that life cannot be beaten.
A road cloth with moire trimming shown is suitable for faille satin kasha or fine serge. Pattern sizes range from 88 to 54 inches bust, with a 44 inch size needing 4 yards of 40 inch material and 1-4 yard contrasting for collar facing and overlap. Dress width at lower edge with plaits extended is 2 1-8 yards. Pattern mailed for one shilling or stamps.
Senate interstate commerce committee questioned Richard V. Taylor of Alabama about fitness for the Interstate Commerce Commission. Attacks centered on former rail connections and Wall Street ties while Republicans and progressive Democrats disputed the nominations of Taylor and Thomas F. Wade. A split among Democrats suggested both appointments may be confirmed.
Daily and Sunday Northbound departures from Athens include No 1 at 6 36 am No 5 at 2 48 pm No 2 at 9 22 pm No 30 at 2 30 pm No 31 at 6 45 am No 83 at 11 49 am No 87 at 6 pm No 30 repeats. Eastbound Westbound and additional No trains listed with times and notes. Debatable station times and exceptions shown for Athens schedule.
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