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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
9
Local reader notices value in classified ads as a quick guide to buying selling and job leads. Readers report finding affordable items and timely opportunities through listings that span services real estate and automotive sections.
Sand Rock community members hosted and visited relatives across Pleasanton Jerseyville Glouster and Columbus with guests George Gilky Henry King Charley Stahle and Lewis Ogg among others Local events included a Literary Society play and ice cream supper at the Sand Rock schoolhouse and a Ladies Aid quilt contest won by Mrs Percy Lunsford George Brown shows improvement after illness
In New York trading today volume remains light as rails rise slightly and steel steadies. Republic and Studebaker show modest shifts while Allied, American Woolen and other majors react to weekly and seasonal signals. grains and bonds move with a general firm tone overall.
Disjointed figures list multiple price values for various items or entities. The fragment reads 3% 89.62 first 4s 87.68 second 4s 87.28 first 44s 87.60 second 44s 8730 third 44s 91.42 Victory 34s 98.42 Victory 44s 98. 44.
In New York on July 2 the foreign exchange market remained steady. Sterling traded around 38.68 and 4/4 francs 0774, with marks near 0.15.
Wheat prices declined after unfavorable crop news with July wheat opening up and closing lower. September and December wheat showed small losses while corn and oats movements were irregular with mixed gains and losses across contracts.
Harry Redmond testified against Carl Zork as federal prosecutors pressed the gambling scandal tied to the 1919 World Series. Redmond recalled a Chicago hotel talk with Abe Attell and Ben Franklin claiming eight players planned to throw the series, with gamblers aiming to fix Games V through VIII if $40,000 could be raised. he offered $5,000 but declined.
United States Steel Corporation and government officials hold talks over 60 million dollars in disputed taxes for 1917 and 1918. Judge Elbert H. Gary says the firm claimed credits for items the government questions and an agreement date is not yet set.
Closing prices list for wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds with monthly and future quotes. Grain values include cash, futures, and 1920 seed prices alongside butter and hay figures.
Paris July 22 The Franco British dispute over the Upper Silesia course dominated the council of ministers session. Premier Briand advocated sending additional troops into Silesia in opposition to Britain who favors awaiting a report from allied experts to divide the territory between Poland and Germany. The British plan drew animated discussion.
Cleveland July 22 produce changes list price updates across butter eggs and poultry. Butter ranges quoted 46 to 48 cents per pound including extras, eggs show Ohio firsts at 28 to 30 cents, live heavy fowls and broilers priced 20 to 30 cents per pound.
UD Wreck today near Scranton Pennsylvania after train No 3 westbound left at 1 58 p m and wrecked at Glenburn a few miles from the city. Scores are believed injured details unavailable at this time.
Chicago market notes show butter and creamery at 40 percent standards 84c firsts 84 39c seconds 30 33c. Eggs ordinaries 22 24c firsts 27% 28c. Cheese twins 20% 21c Young Americas 24% c. Live poultry 24e.
Cincinnati dairy prices list higher charges for eggs with different grades and sizes. Firsts now 30 cents per dozen, extra firsts 28 cents, ordinaries 22 cents amid market shifts.
One known dead, another believed buried in wreckage, and a third seriously injured after a freight derailment on the Southern Railway between Atlanta and Birmingham today.
University of Alberta experts test new menus for beef and dairy cattle to optimize silage grain or hay for poor to good stock. Ten diet sets study sunflower silage and other feeds, with sunflowers showing the strongest gains and nutritive value comparable to corn fodder.
Cattle receipts 900 with market steady and shippers paying 7.00 to 8.00 per hundredweight. Calves up 0.50 to 10.50, hogs receipts 6500 up 0.25 led by packers and butchers at 11.50, sheep receipts 600 steady with 4.50 extra, lambs steady with 11.50.
Cattle receipts light with steady bids. Choice cattle 8.50 to 8.75, prime 8.25 to 8.50, common 7.00 to 7.75. Sheep and lambs light demand with primes 5.00 to 5.60 for wethers, goods 5.25 to 5.50, yearling lambs around 6 to 9. hogs see higher bids with heavy 10.75, mediums 11.90, heavy yorkers around 11.00 and light yorkers 11.00 to 11.76.
A report notes the United States accounts for about half of all motion pictures produced worldwide. Domestic studios like major companies drive the volume with extensive production, distribution, and export activity shaping global cinema.
Washington July 22 Japan has held that the 1908 exclusion agreement does not apply to Hawaii. J W A McMurray of the state department told the house immigration committee that this explains the large Nipponer immigrant increase to the Mid Pacific islands. The committee passed a resolution demanding all diplomatic correspondence leading to the 1908 pact framed under Secretary of State Knox. McMurray indicated the United States has been forced to accept this view.
In Columbus on July 22 statistician C. J. Weat of the agriculture department said Ohio wheat and oat crops show a great yield reduction. Many fields yield only five to six bushels per acre with few above. bushels and oats quality is often inferior with low yields and fields left uncut. Rainfall in the southeast has aided corn growth despite the drought in other areas.
The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad suspended operation today with J C Murray of Harrison Ark named receiver for the property. The railroad carries a stock and bond indebtedness of 16.8 million dollars and St Louis investors hold over 10 million tied to the 300 mile line with no returns.
Eight people are dead and three others were near death after being caught in an undertow while bathing at Green's Bay mouth near Palacios Texas. The drowning victims were part of a Baptist young peoples union encampment. John E Price died trying to rescue Miss Iona Hodges of Breckenridge. All victims were Texans.
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