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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1933
Page
9
Local paper highlights the Money To Loan column featuring business services offering loans and financing options. Ads emphasize fast approvals, small business funding, and accessible loan terms for local entrepreneurs seeking quick capital.
The record lists M. D. Hughes and Richard Enlow as executors and administrators in Athens County Ohio. It notes the appointment of M. D. Hughes as Administrator of Nora Been McManaway’s estate and the appointment of Richard Enlow and Chester Enlow as executors of Elmer Enlow’s estate both dated January 1933.
New York stock market held steady in a dull session as price changes were small and buying remained light. Gains appeared in Allied Chemical American Can Pennsylvania New York Central and Union Pacific while United States Steel and American Telephone slipped modestly. Midcontinent crude price slashes by Standard Oil did little to sway stock prices. Poultry eggs butter and potatoes prices are also listed with modest movements in the daily market report.
Baltimore area markets report eggs near 201 and 22 butter creamery extra at 92 score, with price level 220. Buyers see steady demand as fresh eggs and dairy items mix in daily grocery rounds.
Berea officials clarified the new street animal ordinance on January 15 stating tomcats and unleashed dogs are exempt while any leashled dog on main streets must carry a bright red tail lamp or face arrest. City solicitor Paul Mitchell emphasized the lamp rule applies only to animals led or driven on main roads.
Gallipolis January 18 staff special division managers of the Southern Ohio Electric Company announce promotions F L Groves of Nelsonville is appointed general superintendent, moving from assistant superintendent He replaces S M Haffey of Columbus and Athens who becomes general manager in a prior promotion to an executive post at Columbus Railway Light Company pointed out in the same report
Two men aged 21 and 35 broke a shop window in Cleveland to reach six display hams. The favored ham were dummy dummies stuffed with sawdust. They faced hunger but will serve time in jail. coffee and doughnuts to sustain them.
In Tulsa on January 18, Standard Oil of Indiana and Sinclair Prairie Crude Oil Purchasing Co. slashed prices, with oil futures down from a dollar to 52 cents a barrel in Oklahoma, Kansas, and north and central Texas, signaling a potential halt in a regional oil boom within a month.
January 18 report: Kenton City Council urged gas firms to submit competitive bids to serve the community at a reduced rate structure with a 65 cent minimum charge.
Daily and Sunday adjusted schedules for Athens station list No 3 Paris Athens 11 33 pm No 9 7 44 pm Depart Southbound No 2 11 20 am No 4 6 24 pm No 37 5 30 pm No 31 7 60 pm Sun 7 Southbound No 30 11 02 am No 33 7 40 pm Sun Westbound No 1 Netl Limited No 4 daily except Sun No 13 1 43 am daily except Sunday 9 54 am 9 55 pm Eastbound No a 1 43 am daily except Sunday 9 54 am and 9 55 pm.
The record lists butter grades including No. 2 le and No. 3 Be with butter fat around 18 i7e. Eyes-Lowert j cases are mentioned along with extra first IT'ye and Seconds 16'¢e. Meat is ungraded ie.
Butter Nearby tubs and edge nearby receipts show various prices with cents per unit including 184¢ and 194920. Poultry entries cover colored hens leghorns springers colored springers old roosters ducks geese fresh killed hens and turkeys with prices ranging from 1WGN to 20 2c and regional notes for Southern Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky.
Market reports show total receipts 661 head including hogs with 175 to 220 lb culls at 3.25 to 3.30, 220 to 250 lb hogs at 3.89 to 4.20, sows 2.55 to 3.05, boars 3.75, cattle receipts 120 with lightweights active and steers up to 6.5 per cwt, heifers 2.30 to 4.50, fat cattle 1.40 to 2.50, bulls 2.60 to 3.10, milk cows 2.50 to 2.50. Dealers receipts 24, active to strong.
British women fliers crashed in the Kenya Bush wrote SOS with lipstick to Nairobi. Miss Joan Page and Miss Audrey Sale-Barker, stranded after a Cape Town to England flight, endured two and a half days with leg and head injuries while near Lake Nakuru guarded by herdsmen.
Receipts totals show sheep 1500 hogs 1500 cattle 100 calves 50 with market activity varying. Hog prices range 2.25 to 3.78 with packing sow bids 2.25 to 2.75. cattle steady to slow with steers 4.25 to 5.50 and beef cows around 2.34 to 2.50. sheep and wethers steady near 3.60 to 6.66 with best ewes around 6.30 and lambs at mixed bids.
Hog receipts total 100 to 1458 head with direct and through. no holdovers. Early sales largely 19 cents lower. lows down 25 cents. 160 to 225 lb hogs around $3.54. 225 to 250 lb near $3.30 to $3.55. 250 to 275 lb around $3.50 to $2.90. 120 to 140 lb hogs $3.20. A few sows 202.25. Cattle receipts about 700. calves 350. generally steady with slow demand for feeders, heifers, beef cows. Low-grade cows in strong demand. feeders unchanged. Steers and yearlings mostly $4.5. some up to $95.60. Beef cows $2003. low cutters $1.50 to 4.25. bullock figures $2.50 to $3.25. Sheep receipts 150. light supply. Lambs steady to firm, medium to good $5.50 to $6.25. best up to $6.00. Common to medium $3.50 to $5.25. fat ewes mostly $1 and under, some up to $1.50.
Trade shows slight volume gains and improving demand for fine wools. 64s and finer French combing fetch 49 to 42 cents scoured, higher sales on the upper end of the price range. Toledo grain prices list mixed track quotes with wheat at 46 to 48 cents and eggs near 0.91 dollars per dozen.
Market notes show Liberty bonds trading at noon with 44s at 102 and 4th series at 103. Treasuries quote 3 and 4 percent series with values around 101 to 110 depending on issue. The report captures daily price levels for several Liberty and Treasury securities.
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