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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1926
Page
13
French Dry Cleaners offers rough dry service with starch and ironing for ready to use pieces. Pomeroy Home Laundry provides pressing and repairing services and lists phone contact 122L.
Notice to bidders from the Board of Trustees of Ohio University Athens Ohio calls for sealed proposals by January 23 for labor and materials to construct a tunnel from the present tunnel system to the Training School Building. Plans and specs are on file with the State Auditor and State Architect in Columbus.
Columbus Jan 18 Ohio legislators at a one day special session face urgent appeals for emergency relief for financially distressed municipalities and tax districts. An organized push seeks Bible reading in public schools and an OSU investigation while the utilities commission could hire and discharge its own employees. Leaders aim to limit the session to the Baxter financial relief bill.
Police issue warnings to youths about coasting on streets with traffic. One person has died in the last day and eight others injured in coasting incidents in Cincinnati.
Lancaster, Jan 13 The Kingston five of New York champions beat Mondhank-Mills of Lancaster 29 to 25 here tonight. The Easterners displayed a rapid passing attack. Rhonda, guard, scored 16 Kingston points.
Time card fragment notes six twenty p m and weekday bound schedule details. The readable text references rail timing and a bound timetable entry. It implies a scheduled arrival or departure in the evening.
New York January 13 Automakers at the international show and world transport congress say demand remains strong but they worry about road development. For 1925 one mile of concrete road supported 577 new cars, and 38 100 miles of concrete roads could not hold that many. Delegates stress expanding road construction and financing options, with women’s influence on roughly four fifths of passenger car sales noted.
Speculative interest centered on southwestern railroad stocks due to expected mergers this year. Motor stocks stayed largely steady with small declines. High priced industrial and specialty shares rose with pool support, while independent oil stocks showed a slight improvement in tone.
Railroad stocks strong and as and industrial shares steady while domestic and foreign bonds hold firm. Call money at 41 percent, grain copper oil and cotton steady with rub ber and sugar trading firm and foreign exchange steady.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK HOGS Receipts 17,000 market 15c higher bulk 11.12.25 top 12.60 med weights 11.50 12.50 light 11.30 12.60 heavy packing sows 10.40 rough 9.50 10s pigs 12 12.75. CATTLE Receipts 12,000 market steady strong calves 3,000 steady beef steers good and prime 10.15 11.75 medium and good 9.50 10.50, common 7 9.50, cows 4.50 8.50 bulls 4, cutters 2.50 7.50 veal calves 11.50 14.50 feeder steers 5.75 8.75 stocker steers 5. 8.40 stocker cows and calves 5.50. SHEEP Receipts 16,000 market steady lambs fat 15.50 16.25 lambs culls 11.50 13 yearlings 11.50 13.90 yearling wethers 9.50 ewes 8 0.25 ewes culls 3 6 feeder lambs 15 16.
In Pittsburgh area market activity the livestock market remains steady with prime cattle around 10.25 and fat cattle common to good ranges 5 to 7.50. Veal calves near 16. Sheep and lambs show gains with good quality around 10.50 and prime heavies between 12 and 12.25, receipts about 3,300.
Receipts: cattle 700, hogs 5000, sheep 150. Market steady to strong with steers 8.75 to 10.50, calves around 14, hogs to 12.75 for stockers and butchers, lambs around 16 for good to choice. Active demand noted across hogs and cattle categories.
Receipts report Chicago creamery butter at 8 315 pounds with creamery extra 42 cents standard 42 cents extra firsts 41 4 cents firsts 40 1 2 cents packing stock discounted.
Grain prices list No 2 red wheat at 1 per bushel and corn No 3 yellow at 8. Oats No 2 white at 47 and barley No 2 at 75. Cloverseed cash and futurs at 15.80 15.95 and 16. Timothy cash 3.85. Cincinnati butter creameries tubs No 1 packings 28c. Potatoes 5.75. Poultry and eggs prices quoted with fowls 30c roosters 18c broilers 38c ducks 30c geese 18c eggs 38c, firsts and seconds 30c.
Commodity Notes reports Columbia Steel Corporation selling over 80 percent of Pacific coast pig iron. Fabricating plants in Pittsburgh Torrance California and Portland are active and prosperous.
Pacific Gas and Electric announces a 1926 capital program of 25 million dollars. The plan covers the Pit River dam and intake and an 86000 horsepower facility at Melones on the Stanila River to expand electrical capacity.
Construction of loading storage terminals for cotton on the Neches River ship channel will start within ninety days and take five years to complete. Dallas financiers backing the project support a new shipping port.
Boston Jan 13 Nashua Manufacturing reports plants operating at 75 percent capacity while two months of profitable business precede a fiscal year ending October 31 showing a loss of 154,852 dollars after all charges.
Kiwanis members heard Prof. C. W. Fink of Ohio University explain Ohio tax law inequalities. He traced from early statehood to modern times, noting 5 percent of intangible property reaches the tax duplicate and calling Ohio taxation antiquated and impractical.
Local market prices list for eggs poultry vegetables and fruits with regional origins including Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Florida and California. Items show varied rates per dozen, per hamper, per bushel or per pound with several misspellings and incomplete entries.
Washington Jan 13 The Senate seated Gerald P Nye a North Dakota Republican insurgent after a lengthy battle with Western progressives and administration leaders who argued Governor Sorlie lacked power to appoint Nye. The chamber implicitly ruled a United States senator is a state officer, affecting vacancy appointments.
The state industrial commission voted 2 to 1 to withhold funding for purchasing a site for the new state office building in Columbus. The decision delays the project and may push action back by two years.
Liggett Company, a United Drug subsidiary, has purchased the Maegley Tichner Building in Portland for nearly 1 million dollars as part of a West Coast headquarters expansion. The move reflects the firm’s development strategy to train in the West and establish a coast office.
Washington January 13 The National Lumber Manufacturers association says lumber production in the last year exceeded all years since 1916 except 1923 and will approach 38 billion feet.
Stocks of pork in storage in Kansas City total 22,002,200 pounds a drop of 14,000,000 from the previous year and 18,000 from January 1924 reflecting lower meat reserves and price pressures.
Princeton senior R Milton Fulle of Montclair N J returned a plaster footprint cast believed to be from the earliest land vertebrate. The specimen was collected during a Christmas trip to the Grand Canyon.
In Helsingfors on January 13, C. P. reports an American engineer named Chevalier from Louisiana is jailed in the Solovetzky Bolshevist prison near the Arctic circle. Boris Cedarholm, a Finnish engineer and former Russian navy commander, says Chevalier endures great hardships. Cedarholm, possibly the only foreigner ever allowed to leave Russia after Solovetzky imprisonment, confirms the claim.
An individual recalls repeated failures with medicines and doctors for stomach trouble until a St. Louis party praised Maya’s One Dose. He buys a bottle and is no longer a doubting Thomas, claiming the remedy removes mucus from the intestinal tract and soothes inflammation. McKee Drug Co. Athens, Gem Pharmac in Nelsonville and druggists everywhere offer the product with money refunded after one dose.
An official order closed the Shaeffer Oil Company's main producing plant in New Lexington after a creditor petition. Sheriff Harley McNabb acted to seize the site, with the company running about twenty five stations in Perry County under C. B. Shaeffer of New York. Shaeffer’s indebtedness is about forty thousand dollars and authorities accuse him of removing some property after seizure. Twigs of limber pine can be knotted without breaking.
Barbara Hawley a 25 year old reporter breaks with Bruce Reynolds and lands work at The Messenger. Managing editor McDermott assigns a Vale Acres real estate scoop with Manners Stone Reynolds. Barbara navigates office intrigue and a mysterious call from Bruce Reynolds while a nightclub murder story looms.
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