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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1921
Page
7
Classified listing notes items for sale including a saddle and bridle for 12.50 an express wagon for 15 and harness and a race cart. One eyed survey valued at 25 and Kantner's White Ash coat offered at 4 to 5 dollars with delivery contact via Bell phone numbers 142 or 1066.
Swanson Furniture Co announces moving services for local or long distance relocations. Packing and crating of all kinds of household pods offered. Located at 947 Chestnut Street Nelsonville. Phone 772.1-138 to 2-12.
Cattle receipts 550 with a steady market. Shippers paid 8.00 to 9.50. Calves seen steady with 14.50 to 15.00. Hogs receipts 6200 with steady market and good choice packers and butchers 10.25. Sheep 100 with steady market and extras 4.50 to 5.00. Lambs steady with extras 11.00 to 11.50.
Cincinnati January 26 egg market shows prices up across grades with extras at 68 cents and firsts at 56 cents, ordinary at 56 cents.
Hogs receipts 32000 with steady market prices across grades ranging from 8.25 to 10.00 per cwt and specific bids for bulk butchers packing light and pigs. Cattle receipts 11000 show a steady market with beeves priced from 7.50 to 10.75 and various categories from canners to calves. Sheep receipts 19000 report a strong market with wool lambs at 7.50 to 11.25 and ewes from 2.50 to 6.00.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with choice 9.25 to 9.50 and prime 9.00 to 9.25. Veal calves bring 15.00 to 16.00, common 8.00 to 8.50. Sheep and lambs receipts fair, market steady with prime wethers 6.50 to 7.00, good 5.75 to 6.25, yearling lambs 10.75 to 11.05. Hogs receipts 25 doubles with higher market. prime heavy 9.75 to 10.00, mediums 11.00 to 11.25, heavy yorkers 11.00 to 11.25, light yorkers 11.00 to 11.25, pigs 11.00 to 11.25, roughs 7.00 to 8.00, stags 5.75 to 6.25.
Chicago market notes show butter creamery at 45 cents, stand ards 45, firsts 38 to 44 and seconds 30 to 36 cents. Eggs ordinary prices 67 to 60 cents, cheese twins 23, young American 26 cents. Live poultry priced at one cent.
Fragmented text lists several items with prices and codes such as Liberty 314 and Victory entries, but OCR errors obscure exact details and context, leaving an unreadable summary of likely listings or results. The readable parts show monetary amounts like 7.96 8.36 91.04 and 97.32 alongside product or model references.
In Toledo Ohio on January 26 wheat prices rose with cash and futures listed for March and May. Grain others include corn oats rye barley and seed prices. Athens County reports Red Cross enrollment 1920 up 109 percent from 1919, led by M D Hughes and local women clubs with active service men aided daily at the chamber lunch.
In Columbus on January 26 the senate reconvened with the temperance committee backing the Pence personal tax on liquor in bonded warehouses as an emergency bill likely to pass late this week. The Miller bill creating a state enforcement department also gained Senate approval with four votes against. The Archer bill extending county official terms faced delay, while Bender's bill to remove screens at billiard parlors and soft drink shops advanced. In the house Taft's tax limit reform moved toward passage with a cap on deficits matching last year’s budget. Ohio women urged passage of McCoy’s bill to ban holdup crime scenes in motion pictures.
The text notes continued peace-time work aiding soldiers and public health across the country. Thousands benefited. over $50,000 in the last year supported veterans and dependents via Mr. Hughes. More than 1,400 men sought advice at his office, with strong support from Athens business leaders and the Chamber of Commerce.
Investigators led by District Attorney Theodore G. Lewis say they built a complete case against alleged perpetrators in the death of Richard Scott Lawrence, a Denver politician and capitalist who vanished March 21, 1918. A substituted corpse in his coffin and a 115 carat orange yellow diamond are central to the suspected plot.
Prof. T. C. Cherry of Bowling Green Kentucky won the first prize for the best essay on why we should have an American language. The contest was set up by Robert J. O’Brien of Cincinnati and directed by J. Henry Newman, state librarian.
A blaze in Mordec, Kentucky killed twenty five horses and six mules and destroyed three barns and a house. Losses were estimated at twenty thousand dollars.
Notices show qualified appointments in Lane County Ohio with probate judge actions dated January 4 1920 and September 1 1920. The filings reference estates of Bernard Lama and Lillie Coesamee with names of officials and signatures from the probate court. Other items mention a modern coal mine lease or property rents in Columbus with addresses and contact details.
At a Chamber of Com meres lunch Secretary A Gryson said Home Telephone Company is bending every effort to better service with rapid improvement assured. A chamber survey of over twenty major users shows marked betterment in local and long distance service as the company cooperates with the chamber.
Former Ohio Governor Cox arrived for a Wilson appointment and avoided photographers by entering the executive office rather than the White House front door, in Washington.
Retail dealers in Columbus Ohio announced reductions of one cent on a quart and one cent on a pint for bottled milk effective February 1. They cited lower production costs as the reason for the price drop.
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