Ohio University invites bids for tunnel construction project
The Board of Trustees of Ohio University invites bids for labor and materials to build a tunnel from the present tunnel to the Training School Building in Athens Ohio. Plans and specs by Herbert B Briggs are on file with the Auditor of State. Bids due January 23 at 3 00 pm. George C Parks secretary.
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Seanad Granade
Ropow
Board of Trustees
Ohio University
Ohio
Stern
Portetone
Athens
Herbert B. Briggs
Office of
the Auditor of State
Columbus
Hartman
Board OF Trustees OF
George C. Parks
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Ohio legislators flooded with appeals for action in one-day session
In Columbus on January 13, legislators were bombarded with requests for emergency measures. Proposals sought include relief for financially distressed municipalities and counties, Bible reading in public schools, an Ohio State University investigation, and allowing the state utilities commission to hire and fire its own staff. Leaders aim to limit the session to passing the Baxter financial relief bill.
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Columbus
Ohio
Solons
Ohio State University
State Utilities Commission
Warning to youngsters on coasting amid traffic in Cincinnati
Police warned youths about the dangers of coasting on streets with moving vehicles. In the past day another life was lost and eight people were injured in coasting accidents in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Mondhank-Mills Fall to New York Celtics in Lancaster
The Kingston five of New York defeated Mondhank-Mills of Lancaster 29 to 25 here tonight. Kingston showcased a fast passing game and Rhonda, guard, scored 15 of the Kingston points.
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Mondhank-Mills
New York Celtics
Lancaster
Kingston Five
New York
Madison Square Garden
Rhonda
Kingston
Basketball Scores From Various Colleges
Muskingum 43 against Marietta 13. DePauw 438 to Evansville 30. Tulane 4 versus Western Georgia 27. Georgia Tech 23 to Marquette 19. Carnegie beats Tech 27 to Geneva unknown.
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Muskingum
Marietta
Depauw
Evansville
Tulane
W. of Ga
Georgia Tech
Marquette
Carnegie By Tech
Geneva
Auto makers push road growth to match sales boom
New York January 13 Automobile manufacturers at the New York show and world transport congress say 1926 will see ample buyers though road infrastructure lags. For every miles of concrete road built in 1925 577 cars were produced. U.S. motor vehicle registrations exceed 20 million. Delegates stress freight and passenger transport growth and broader financing and consumer plans, noting women influence nearly 80 percent of passenger car sales due to eye appeal.
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New York
World Transport Congress
United States
William H. Connell
American Road Builder’s Association
Transport Congress
M.L. Putcher
Federal Motor Truck Company
Comeere
Kiwanis Hear Ohio Tax Law Talk by Univ Professor
Kiwanis members heard Prof C W Fink of Ohio University lecture on The Inequities of Ohio Taxing Laws. He argued that intangible property such as securities and other assets escape duplication for tax, leaving only five percent taxed. He labeled Ohio’s system antiquated and impractical and urged reforms to ensure broader tax equity.
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Kiwanis Club
C. W
Fink
Ohio
Union
Nye Seated In North Dakota Senate After Battle
North Dakota Senate seats Gerald P. Nye, a youthful Republican insurgent, amid a five week confrontation. Administration leaders had argued Governor Sorlie lacked power to appoint. Senate ruling implies a U.S. senator is a state officer, shaping the vacancy controversy.
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Kington
Stern Progressives
Senate
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Nye
A. G. Sorlie
United States
Sorlie
Oil Stations Closed In New Lexington
An official order restrained operation of Shaeffer Oil company’s main plant in New Lexington, with sheriff seizing the plant after creditor petitions. The firm runs about twenty five filling stations in Perry county and is led by C. B. Shaeffer of New York, with debts around forty thousand dollars. Police allege Shaeffer moved part of his property after seizure. Twigs of limber pine noted for extreme flexibility.
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New Lexington
Shaeffer
Rail stocks lead market in merger driven activity
Speculative interest focused on southwestern railroad stocks as mergers and consolidations are anticipated this year. Motor shares remained subdued with fractional declines, while high priced industrials and specialties firmed with pool support and independents in oil ticked up slightly.
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RAILS
New York
Southwestern Railroad
Market snapshot shows steady bonds and firm oil
Lead New York markets report railroad stocks strong while industrials meet steady call money at 4 14 percent. Grain copper rubber cotton sugar oil and foreign exchange are steady with oil firm and foreign bonds stable.
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New York
Chicago Livestock Market Report Highlights Mixed Hogs Cattle Lambs
Receipts totals 17 000 hogs 12 000 calves and 16 000 lambs across Chicago markets with mixed gains. Hogs top 12 60 while heavy weights and sows show varying advances, calves see steady beef steer quotes up to 11 75, veal prices around 11 50 to 12 50, cows and canners mixed, feeder lambs 15 to 16.
Burgh Livestock Market Receipts and Prices
P Burgh livestock marketAQ apply light market steady with choice steers at 10.50 to 10.75 prime 10.25 to 10.50 good 9.50 to 10.40 tidy butchers 8.75 to 9.25. heifers 6.50 to 7.50. veal calves 16. cows and fat bulls 3.25 to 7.50. fresh cows and springs 50 to 110. Sheep and lambs supply 1088 steady to higher with lambs 16.25. hogs receipts 3,300 and market fairly active with prime heavies 12 to 12.25 and other classes 12 to 13.
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P Burgh
Stags
Cincinnati Livestock Prices Record Mixed Receipts
Cattle receipts 700 head market steady to strong with steers good to choice 8 75 to 10 calves active and up to 14 hogs 5000 head market active strong good to choice stockers and butchers 12 50 to 12 Sheep receipts 150 market steady good to choice lambs 15 to 16 per head with steady overall tone.
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Cincinnati
Market prices for dairy eggs poultry and produce
Pittsburgh produce lists butter at 50c per print unit and 19c per tub with Pennsylvania and Ohio prices. Eggs fresh 48c per dozen. Live poultry quoted for hens light 28c heavy 35c, turkeys 15c to 55c, roosters 18c to 20c, ducks 34c to 40c, geese 60c. Vegetables include Mich potatoes 7.15 to 7.30 per hundredweight, onions 2.25 to 2.50, cucumbers 9 to 10 per hamper, turnips 1.15 to 1.25 per bushel, beans 7 to 9 per pound. Fruits Apples 1.15 to 1.35 per bushel, walnuts 33c per pound, black walnuts 3c to 4c.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Florida
California
Commission Rejects Loan for State Office Site
Columbus January 13 The state industrial commission voted 2 to 1 against lending funds to purchase a site for the new state office building. The decision may delay the project by two years before any further action occurs.
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Columbus
State Industrial Commission
Cricoag Produce Butter Prices Displayed
Receipt data for Cricoag creamery shows butter prices: extra 42c, standard 42c, extra firsts 41 4c, firsts 40 4c, packing stock 1c.
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Cricago
Grain and produce price list from Toledo and Cincinnati markets
Market bulletin lists grain prices for wheat corn oats rye barley cloverseed allire timothy with cash and futures quotes. Cincinnati produce section notes butter tub packings potatoes poultry eggs with per unit prices and quality grades.
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Toledo
Columbia Steel sells over eighty percent of Pacific coast pig iron
Commodity Notes from Provo Utah report Columbia Steel Corporation now supplying over 80 percent of the pig iron used on the Pacific coast. Fabricating plants in Pittsburgh Torrence California and Portland are all said to be active and prosperous.
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STEED
Pacific Gas and Electric Plans 25 Million In 1926 Works
The Pacific Gas and Electric company outlined a 1926 construction program totaling 25 million dollars. Major items include the Pit River dam and intake and the Melones project on the Stanislaus River with a capacity of 86 000 horsepower.
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San Francisco
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pit River
Melones
Stanilas
Cotton Port Expansion Planned on Neches River Channel
Construction of terminals for loading storage of cotton on the Neches River ship channel will start within ninety days and take five years to complete. Dallas financiers backing the project hoped to create another shipping port.
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Cotton
Beaumont
Texas
Dallas
Nashua Manufacturing Posts Profit After Yearly Loss
Textile interests in Boston report Nashua Manufacturing running at 75 percent capacity. For the year ended October 31 the firm showed a net loss of 154,852 dollars after all charges, despite recent profitable months.
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Textiles
Boston
Nashua Manufacturing Company
Liggett Company Buys Macgley Tichner Building in Portland
Liggett Company, a United Drug subsidiary, has purchased the Macgley Tichner Building in Portland for nearly 1 million dollars as part of a Western development program and will establish coast headquarters there.
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Portland
Ore
Liggett Company
United Drug
Macgley - Tichner
Lumber output forecast near record high in 1924
The National Lumber Manufacturers association estimates that lumber production in the last year topped any year since 1916 except 1923 and will closely reach 38,000,000,000 feet.
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Lumber
Washington
National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Packing House Stocks Drop in Kansas City
Stocks of pork in storage at Kansas City total 22,002,200 pounds, down 14,000,000 from a year ago and 18,000 from January 1924, reflecting a sharp drawdown in supplies since last year.
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Packing House Products
Kansas City
Prints of earliest land vertebrate found near Princeton
A plaster cast of footprints believed to be from the earliest land vertebrate was brought back by R. Milton Fulle of Montclair a Princeton senior, from a Christmas trip to the Grand Canyon.
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Princeton
N. J
R. Milton Fulle
Montclair
Grand Canyon
American Held in Red Prison in Solovetsky Island
Helsingsfors Jan 13 An American engineer named Chevalier from Louisiana is confined in the notorious Bolshevist prison on Solovetzky Island near the Arctic circle. Finnish engineer Boris Cedarholm, a former Russian navy commander, says Chevalier endures great hardships and Cedarholm is likely the only foreigner allowed to leave Russia after imprisonment there.
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Helsingfors
Finland
C. P
Chevalier
Louisiana
Notorius Bolshevist
Solovetzky
Arctic Circle
Boris Cedarholm
Cedarholm
Russia
Maya's One Dose Cure Promises Relief for Stomach Ailments
In a testimonial the speaker says many medicines failed for stomach problems until trying Maya's One Dose. The remedy is claimed to remove catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and ease inflammation causing stomach liver and intestinal issues including appendicitis. Money refund offered. McKee Drug Co. Athens Gem Pharmacy Nelsonville and other druggists carry it.
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Thomas
St. Louis
Maya
McKee Drug Co
Athens
Gem Pharmacy
Nelsonville
Lingerie Story Sparks Real Estate Plot in Vale Acres
Barbara Hawley, a reporter at The Messenger, investigates a new real estate venture by Manners Stone and Reynolds. She confronts intrigue as a mysterious rival and a murder plots unfold in Bruce Reynolds's office while Barbara juggles love and career amid pressroom tension.
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Bruce Reynolds
the Messenger
Andrew McDermott
Barbara
McDermott
Bob Jeffries
Mumsy
Mrs. Hawley
Bruce
Miss Hawley
Manners
Stone and Reynolds
Vale Acres
Manners, Stone and Reynolds
Jones Building
of Manners, Stone and Reynolds
Mr. Manners
Mr. Reynolds
Reynolds
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