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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1933
Page
9
Local ad promotes heavy galvanized garbage pails with lock tight covers and step on kitchen pails in ivory and green. Prices range from 79 cents to 95 cents with bulk deals.
A page of classified notices presents indexed headings arranged alphabetically. The readable segments suggest opportunities in employment services and sales, with headlines guiding readers to specific listings and contact details.
Bolivia reports a total of about 2,000 dead in a three day Gran Chaco battle at the Nanawa Ayala sector as Paraguayan and Bolivian forces clash. Observers note continuous Bolivian assault with a brief dawn lull before daybreak.
Mrs Kate Starkey aged 83 life long resident of Troy Township died at 7 this morning after a month of flu and infirmities Funeral services will be announced Tuesday She was wife of the late W W Starkey mother of J Monroe Starkey of Guymon Oklahoma and stepmother of Bertha Riley of Topeka Kansas and H M Nichols of Cleveland Neices include Blanche Rose Price and Mrs Ed Ayres Athens She was a member of the Congregational Church at Coolville.
Five men were fined for possession of intoxicating liquor by Magistrate C. H. Porter with all four men from Plantsville Nelsonville and Sugar Creek. Each was fined 100 dollars and costs and jailed for nonpayment. Harold English Derthick pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was fined 25 dollars plus costs and jailed for nonpayment. Earl Hoisington Fisher Station pleaded guilty to hunting on Sunday and paid 25 dollars and costs.
The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended that Congress legalize 3.05 percent beer and wine and remove penalties for manufacture sale and transport of beverages above that content. The amendment to the Volstead Act was reported favorably to the Senate.
Grover C. Bean of Millfield Otis Bean of Guysville were fined five dollars and costs by Magistrate Pearl Miller after pleading guilty to intoxication on Sunday. Deputy Sheriff Roy Goldsberry and Constable Harry Junod arrested them.
New York trading opened with scattered selling and small losses on the Stock Exchange. Losses narrowed as offerings faded and leading issues like Woolworth Nations Dairy and J S Case recovered most of their earlier decline. Railroad stocks led the rebound with Southern Pacific Union Pacific and Pennsylvania turning losses into gains amid renewed speculation.
The piece highlights Ella Widener, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Widener II, among younger debutantes at Palm Beach. It notes her post swim pose and comments on debutante poise in a social setting.
Wilbur Potts of The Plains aged 20 and Helen Fennell of Chauncey aged 19 are described as children of their respective parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Potts and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fennell.
Listing shows Eggs Nearby fresh 17018 with Butter Creamery extra, 92 score 2240 234c. standards 80 score 21 22c. packing stocks 19 20c. Live poultry prices include chickens young colored 12 1e, leghorn 8 11c, old heavy 12 14c, geese nearby 12 1%¢ 28 20c, smaller 18020c ducks 100126, geeys young hens 16 20c, gobbiers 14.
Butter-Packing stock No 2 at 12¢ No 3 at 8c butter fat 15 1 2c. Eggs prices covered lower grades extra firsts 14 1 2c seconds 13 1 2c nearby ungraded 14c.
Nearby figures show a Tue 92 score with extras 1a% and a standards 89 score 18 and Bb score 17. Egga nearby current receipts fire 1G.
The report lists fresh poultry and produce prices across Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, with hens, leghorns, ducks, geese and turkeys priced by grade. Cleveland butter and eggs show weakness while poultry remains steady. Livestock markets show mixed trends: steers and heifers steady to strong, cattle slow, and hogs steady to higher with receipts and price ranges noted.
Hog prices steady to mixed with top and bulk good to choice 160 to 225 pounds at 5.75 dollars and 230 to 250 pounds mostly 5.70 dollars. 250 to 275 pounds largely 3.95 dollars to 2.50. A few heavier butchers 3.15 to 3.95. 120 to 140 pounds 3.35 dollars. Sows scarce and strong 2.00 to 2.28. Light butcher weights up to 2.50. Cattle 1200 and calves 250. Steers slightly uneven but near steady.
Bradford and Allegheny Crude by Tide water 1 47 dollars. Pennsylvania crude in Natl Transit lined by Pennroil 1 971 42. Pennsylvania grade off in Eureka Pipe Line Co lines 1 12. Pennsylvania grade off in Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe lines 1 17. Pennsylvania grade off in Buckeye Pipe Line Co lines 9c. Corning grade off in Buckeye Pipe Line Co lines 10c. Somerset crude 450. Oil in Hines of the Broll Oil Refining Co Ot City Ky 85c. Western Kentucky 70. Lima 700 Illinois 63c. Indiana We Princeton 63. Wooster 70c.
A. E. Hoover claims kinship to Provident Hoover and, with help from the Minnesota Farmers' Holiday Association committee, forestalled a $14 000 mortgage foreclosure on his Grand Meadow Minnesota farm. He reached a compromise with the Joint Stock Land Bank in Des Moines allowing him to stay as a renter after missing one $400 semi annual payment. Hoover says his father and the president’s father were brothers and that he was born in West Branch Iowa.
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