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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
9
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Charles Raab, Flint Michigan juvenile detective, says Ralf MacDonald is pursued as the killer of Grace MacDonald. The missing youth is last seen with companion William Terwilliger, as authorities widen the search.
Two art shows greet Ohio University visitors this weekend. College of Education students display post impressionist works in Ellis Hall from 2 to 5 p m Saturday and Sunday with oils textiles pottery and design pieces. Liberal Arts exhibit at Edwin Watts Chubb Library features oils water colors charcoal works and Athens subjects by local students led by Homer Hooven.
One of 11 convicts hunted in Oklahoma after a jailbreak from the Kansas penitentiary abducted the warden and two guards. Wilbur Underhill, a ring leader, was wounded and captured after the breakout.
In Meigs County in the past school year Supt C O Chapman found one room schools had the highest failure rate with 32 percent and 17 eighth grade pupils per teacher in consolidated schools. The report compared 20 one room, 14 two room and nine consolidated schools. Forty six new automobiles were sold in May and 145 used car bills of sale filed in clerk Horton Browns office.
Pomeroy June 1 The annual commencement exercises of Pomeroy High School take place tonight at 8 o'clock in the Junior High Auditorium. A new plan has no outside speaker. Seven seniors speak on Objectives of Education as seventy nine students receive diplomas. Admission is free.
A marriage license was issued in probate court Wednesday afternoon to Norman J. Theias 45 of Racine and Eva Marie Hamm 32 of Racine R D. The notice records the license grant as part of a county filing.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cross and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cross spent Tuesday at Long Bottom for Memorial Day services. Guests from Cleveland and East Liverpool stayed with Ed Reese and family around the holiday. Mr. and Mrs. McKeenan of Delaware visit Doc Farley and family. PTA to meet at the high school auditorium on Tuesday evening, June 6. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Jiden and two children with Mrs. Janie Gorslin and Mrs. Emma Jividen visit Downington relatives and attend Memorial Day rites.
Grain prices show various lots for wheat corn oats and rye with color codes and quality grades. The notes list price ranges for wheat two red and white varieties, corn yellow lots, oats white classes, and rye two white grades with historical percentage figures.
Fragmentary OCR text lists codes with numbers and plant names such as Clover-Cash, Alsike-Casu, and seed values like 1.808 and 7.508. Reads as scattered ledger entries or catalog codes with dates and percentages but lacks coherent narrative.
New York stock market opens higher with copper shares leading the advance. Anaconda and Kennecott rise about a point near yearly highs, Otis firm, GE demand steadies, Steel Common recovers, Du Pont and others gain fractional to over a point, Libby Owens Ford up sharply, National Distillers up two points.
Dun and Bradstreet reports the weighted price index of 30 basic commodities for June 1, 1933. The index stands at 91.79, a new high, with recent figures 01.50 week age 89.10 month age 83.04 year age 72.50. The 1933 high is 91.79 and the low 67.66.
Reads like a historical stock listing showing Allied Chemical American Home Products and many others with percentage figures indicating relative shares or yields. Contains company names such as Gillette Safety Razor Loews Theaters Warner Bros Standard Oil and Goodyear among numerous lines.
Fresh eggs 11-11 1⁄2 dozen nearby. live poultry chickens. old heavy 13 cents per pound. leghorns 10 to 11 cents. Butter packing stock No 2 14 cents. No 3 12 cents. Butterfat delivered 19 cents per pound. Eggs lower with cases included 10 cents per dozen. seconds. Nearby ungraded eggs.
Butter and bugs markets soft with extras at 25 and 12 percent. Poultry steady with heavy fowl 15 to 14, medium fowl 12 to 14, leghorn heavy broilers 20 to 22, No 2 chickens 8, ducks 9 to 11, geese 10, turkeys 15. Potatoes sourced from Michigan New York Ohio and Pennsylvania with sacks per bushel around 55 to 60 for quality No 1 and partly graded.
Market notes weak demand with butter prices steady to lower. Receipts total 46,5468 cases for extras and firsts, with firsts around 11, extras 12 to 11 percent. Current receipts up 10 percent, dirties 94. Butter market similar with prices unchanged to lower, receipts 21,750. Vintage items show specials 21 to 22 percent, extras 21, extra firsts 90 to 20, firsts 19 to 20, seconds 18 to 19, and standards 21 percent.
Nearby tubs show 92 score extras 22 percent and 89 21 percent. 88 21 percent. Bugs receipts list firsts 11 1, fresh extras 13 19 1/ S. Hen dery white extras 19 4 14. Current receipts across southern Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky noted. Poultry prices list colored hens 1 13, leghorns 10 11, colored springers 13 14, leghorn springers 10 11, colored broilers 17 20, leghorn broilers 14 15, old roosters 7 8, stags 8 10, ducks 16 123, geese 8 10, turkeys old toms 7 9, young toms 10 12, young hens 13 15, fresh killed hens 24 26, hog dressed 29 21.
A historical list shows green beans at $2.65 to $2.85 per hamper with varying conditions, cabbage at $2.50 to $3 per crate, lettuce from 62.50 to 85 cents per unit by size and grade, onions across green and white types with price ranges, peas at $1.65 to $2 per crate, potatoes in old and new stock with 90 cents to $2.75 per 100 pounds, radishes and rhubarb by dozen or dozen items with small cents, spinach by bushel, strawberries in crates around $1.50 to $3 depending on grade, and tomatoes in hothouse baskets and lugs with prices from $1.36 to $2.76.
Hog receipts 3700 head with 135 direct and through and 370 held over. Prices 10 cents higher for 170 to 300 lb hogs top and bulk 5. Lights steady. sows 3.75 to 4. Cattle receipts 700 head. calves 600. generally steady. Steers and heifers 5 to 6. beef cows 3 to 4. Bulls 3 to 4. good to choice dealers 4.50 to 5. Sheep 4090 head. opening lamb market steady to weak with some bids around 25 cents lower. Early better grades 7.75 to 8.25. choice 4.25 to 8.80. plainer 6 to 7.25. buck lambs 6.50 to 7.25. fat ewes 1 to 2. best lightweights 2.50.
Hog receipts 1000 with weights 170-300 lbs and prices 5.20 to 5.75. cattle receipts 25 with steers 95.25 to 104.25 and heifers 4.60 to 5.50. cows 3.25 to 4.00. Calves 146 receipts with better dealers 6.00 to 6.50 and common 3.00 to 4.50. Sheep receipts 500 with lambs 7.00 to 8.50 and yearlings 5.75 to 6.50. market steady to slightly higher for some categories.
The Boston Wool Market held steady prices with crowera at 20 to 25 cents per pound grease and up to 26 cents for best medium wools. Ohio Delaine fine combing at 70 cents, three-eighths blood at 32 cents, and other wools firm in grease. The U S Department noted steady to slightly higher prices versus last week with lower volume and slow arrivals of better territory and fleece wools.
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