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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 20, 1921

Page

7

Mary Garden elected to lead Chicago Grand Opera

Opera lovers learn Mary Garden will serve as executive director and artistic manager after the resignations of Herbert Johnson and Gino Marinuzzi. Garden, renowned star and songbird, assumes duties of both posts while continuing her duties as leading performer. Six week engagement opens in New York soon.

Herbert Johnson Chicago Grand Opera Association Gino Marinuzzi Mary Garden Famous Songbird Miss Garden New York

Automobile and Accessory For Sale Incomplete Listings

Automotive and accessory sale notices list four 1920 Ford tourings a 1918 Ford sedan a 1917 Ford roadster a Dodge touring and a Buick Six roadster. Also Panhard tow truck tires and tubes. Farm land in Michigan advertised with price from 15 to 35 per acre and easy terms.

McCune Tire & Accessory Co Panhard W. JL Barstow Antrim Kalkaska Otsegon Mich Swigart First National Bank Bldg Chicago Ill

Government seeks railway mail clerks in Ohio

Government announces examination for railway mail clerks with salaries from 133 to 193 dollars monthly. Traveling expenses paid. Free specimen questions available. Apply at Columbus Institute, Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus Institute Columbus Ohio

For Sale Desirable City Building Lots and Cash Deals

For sale twenty nine building lots in the city area. Suitable for homes or business use. All assessments paid. Priced to sell with cash or installment options. Own your own home with M Patterson contact 4491.

W. R._ Angell Ohio A. E. Potter Athens R. D Albany M. Patterson

Wanted Competent Housekeeper for School Children

Wanted-Competent housekeeper capable of caring for school age children. O. E. Cullums at 9 Franklin Avenue reachable by phone 4153. Also advertised by S. W. Landis at 23 Stimpson Avenue seeking a similar helper for two children with phone 3263 after 5 30 p m.

O. E. Cullums Franklin Avenue W. Landis Stimpson Avenue

Wanted Loyal Young Men Class Meeting and Esther Class Banquet

WANTED forty young men to attend the Loyal Young Men’s Class at First Christian Church on Sunday January 23 and an Esther Class banquet. Also advertised is a modern fully equipped coal mine for exchange for a $200,000 Columbus rental property. W. Tibball, Box 578, Columbus, Ohio. The Security Savings Bank Athens Ohio advertises deposit interest and compounding value. 10 18 f.

Sedalia Home Coal Co Athens The First Christian Church Esther Columbus W. Tibball Ohio Security Savings Bank

Musical Instruments and Local Classified Mix

Classified snippet lists piano sales including a mahogany piano bargain. Also ads for poultry rabbits address and phone, debt disavowals by spouses, a public notice, a dance event at Van Meter's Hall with admission details.

van Meter's Hall

Cincinnati cattle market dull amid mixed livestock receipts

Cattle receipts reach 1000 with a slow to steady market. Shippers paid 8.00 to 9.50. Calves receipts 400 with prices 0.50 lower, extra 14.50 to 15.00. Hogs receipts 8500 with a 0.50 drop, good for packers and butchers 10.00. Sheep receipts 350 steady, extra 4.50 to 5.00. Lambs steady to 0.56 higher, extra 11.00 to 11.50.

Cincinnati

Cincinnati Egg Prices Hold Steady in Early Week Market

Eggs in Cincinnati on January 20 show prices down 5 cents with extra firsts at 60 cents, firsts 58 cents, and ordinary at 57 cents.

Cincinnati

Union Stock Yards Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices

Hog receipts 67000 at 25 to 35 cents lower with bulk at 9.75 to 9.85. Butchers 9.30 to 9.50, packing 8.76 to 9.25, light 9.75 to 10.00, pigs 9.60 to 10.00, roughs 8.50 to 9.75. Cattle receipts 1800 market weak some classes lower bees 7.00 to 11.00, butcher stock 5.25 to 9.76, canners 3.26 to 5.00, stockers 5.25 to 9.00, cows 4.50 to 7.75, calves 10.00 to 12.25. Sheep receipts 15000 market steady wool lambs 7.50 to 10.50, ewes 2.50 to 5.75.

Union Ill

Pittsburg Livestock and Chicago Produce Market Notes

Cattle receipts were light and prices steady with select cattle at 10.00 to 10.25 and primes at 9.50 to 9.75. Veal calves fetched 15.00 to 15.50. Sheep and lambs were light with primes at 6.00 to 6.50, good at 5.00 to 5.50, yearling lambs 10.75 to 11.00. Hogs totals 15 doubles. market down with prime heavy 10.00 to 10.25 and other classes 10.75 to 11.00. Butter prices listed. notices include estates probate appointments.

Pittsburg

Market Prices for Eggs Cheese and Poultry From Local Prices

Listing of various fresh market prices including firsts eggs at 38c and 46c, seconds at 30c, eggs ordinaries 56c and 58c, cheese at 28c with a 6c firsts note, young American cheese at 646, and live poultry at 29c.

Toledo Grain Prices and Futures Decline Mixed

Grain prices at Toledo show mixed shifts with wheat at cash 1.92 and futures 1.91 for March and 1.87 for May. Corn No. 2 yellow cash 70c. oats No. 2 white 47c. rye and barley prices listed. Clover seed ranges from 12.55 to 12.80 with months noted. timothy and al-sike values vary by year and month.

Toledo Timothy Cash Alsike Cash

Immorality and Divorce Rise in Chicago Housing Crisis

Chicago business leader J. R. Patterson says housing shortages and high rents force families to double up. He cites crowded living conditions with up to forty people in one room and notes more divorces and immorality in poorer city areas, linked to unemployment and wage declines.

Chicago J. R. Patterson Chicago Tenants’ Protective Association Patterson

Night Ice Forms Then Thaws On Springlike Day

Night rain froze on contact creating slippery streets for pedestrians. By morning the air warmed to springlike conditions and remaining moisture resembled an April slowed aftermath.

Direct Taxing Would Help to Solve Muddle

Charles S. Fairchild former secretary of the treasury urges universal direct taxation to make every citizen a watchdog of government spending. He says airing the tax burden could curb waste and improve economy, noting big business defaults and proposed budget reform as steps toward balanced finances. Universal disarmament is also endorsed as a solution.

New York The Treasury Charles 8. Fairchild Secretary of the Treasury Cleveland Fairchild

Toledo to Open Soup Kitchens to Feed Hungry Citizens

Toledo will establish free meal stations Friday to aid about 20,000 meals needed by residents as relief from the meat shortage lags. The Social Service Federation handles site selection, seeking factory relief to prevent widespread soup kitchens and long lines.

Toledo

Mexican President Obregon Comments on Excess

In Mexico City on January 30 President Obregon answered reporters on alcohol policy and reform. He joked that the only vice he recognizes is excess, after a brief remark about his stance.

Obregon Mexico City Dent Obregon Mexico Men’s Aires

Coal trade profits blamed for high prices say officials

Washington reports say New York and New England tailors profited by buying coal and selling it to consumers. W A Riley of the justice department told the senate that Calder coal retailers earned excess profits. The war department notes per ton prices at $11. Calder, committee chairman, cites continuing consumer costs.

Washington New York New England W. A. Riley Justice Senate Ae Uaiseriis War Department Calder Ing

Ohio University Freshman-Varsity Boxing and Wrestling Bout Set

Ohio University wrestlers under Thor Olson will host a Freshman-Varsity boxing and wrestling event at the O U gym at 7 30 p m on a January evening. Teams will include listed weight classes for both Varsity and Freshmen with names such as Banos Tippey O Neill Blackstone Hickman Mulvey Johnson Lowther Bisson Arich and Payne. All have trained this year and many previously with the varsity program.

Ohio University Thor Olson O. U Socce Banos Eoseeeet Ren Tippey O'Neill Blackstone Hickman Eeeoonne Mulvey Johnson Johnson, 146 eeeeeeesas + 146 Lowther, 160 steeeeees Bisson Arich Eaeeeereeesees Payne Mate

Robbery at East Market and Elm hits Standard Oil station

Miss Bernice Dice, manager of the Standard Oil filling station at East Market and Elm streets, was robbed of $200. Police halted suspects after a late Wednesday arrest near Olive and Fairfield streets in Warren Ohio.

Warren Olive Fairfield Streets Bernice Dice Standard Oil Company East Market Elm Streets

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