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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1929
Page
9
The notice indicates a minimum charge of 25 cents and a 10 percent discount applied to three consecutive insertions. It targets advertisers seeking savings on multiple placements.
McCune Tire and Accessory Co lists a Dodge 1022 touring car for 75 dollars. The brief sale notice emphasizes a used automobile offering from a local tire shop.
An item lists keeping and raising Silver Foxes by Paul Austin of Athens Ohio Box 369. It advertises coal at two dollars per ton with a nine mile delivery radius from Kimta and mentions Iva Whitmore. Other entries promote bread by Purtty bakery, a model home inkery new Petate, and a cottage sale with electric finishes. Also listed is a 2 acre house near church and school with outbuildings and young orchard, offered at 300 dollars down. contact Wachenschwang in Nelsonville and Henry at Beasiey for details.
The article notes prisoner James Meiskell No 22596 at Ohio State Reformatory has been recommended for clemency by the superintendent and chaplain. A hearing on the application is planned after July 6, 1929, with clerk R. Simkins recording the action.
Wholesale price quotes for butter eggs wool and pork and beef cattle from Boston Chicago and Cincinnati markets show steady to lower trends. Hog receipts around 4 000 and cattle 900 with beef steers lambs and vealers priced at current market levels. Local stock exchange listings include major firms and energy and chemical entities.
A 1928 study shows Ohio miners suffered 105 deaths and 6 309 injuries with 65 858 days of lost work in Athens County among others. The Industrial Commission creates Mine Safety Engineer Lewis to visit local mines and push safety meetings aiming to reduce accidents and establish county wide safety organization.
The Rev Charles M Coulter in Athens delivers a Sunday sermon continuing a series. He contrasts theater and church aims, warns against the homiletical ideal, and urges worship centered on Christ present with believers for true spiritual thrill.
Roger Q Williams and Lewis A Yancey, transatlantic aviators, are to be decorated with gold medals by King Victor Emmanuel in Rome. They met Pope Pius XI who offered best wishes for their next non stop flight and presented silver jubilee commemorative medals.
Troy reports a first degree murder charge was expected today against Frank Marshall 24 of Springfield in the killing of Frank Metzler Jr 20 of Dayton near Brandt Saturday Metzler was shot during a clash between strikers from the Gm City Store Foundry Dayton and strike breakers Marshall alleged to be in the latter group Local details note a violent confrontation tied to a factory strike and related tensions
Beatrice Carter Lohstroh filed a petition for annulment of her marriage in Athens County Common Pleas Court against Henry Lohstroh. The documents were removed from the clerk of courts office immediately after filing and the plaintiff’s attorneys declined to comment.
Porquer reports his sister Eli Parr in Cleveland in serious but improving condition. Parr’s brother G B Parr in Akron stays nearby for daily hospital visits as Mrs Graham Waddell returns home from McMillan Hospital after tonsil adenoids operation. Various family travels and visits noted including Columbus and Toledo residents.
The United States Davis Cup selection committee meets today to finalize the interzone team for the interzone finals. Germany looms as a strong obstacle, led by Dr. Iu, age 25, with two singles wins, and Hans Mold adding support as their veteran captain.
While playing on No 9 fairway Sunday afternoon at the Athens Country Club, HG G Householder was struck in the left eye by a golf ball driven by J H McClure. The ball broke the brussels and entered his eye. doctors removed glass and treated the cut. Condition not serious.
The state of Ohio case against Dengel Batley for perjury was postponed by Judge J G Wersten Hatley. Batley was indicted in May and pleaded not guilty, awaiting trial on bond of 1900. Attorneys said they did not know the trial had been set for today.
John Hill a 40 year old Clermont County murderer died at the Penitentiary Hospital from blood poisoning. Hill was 19 when convicted of the hammer murder of George Washington Good his hermit neighbor on Goods farm five miles west of Batavia.
An unidentified man about 40 was decapitated by a Wheeling and Lake Erie switch engine in Cleveland. Police reported no immediate identification or motive.
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