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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1929
Page
11
A pasted newspaper page fragment shows a dense classified section with categories like Announcements Personals Automotive Real Estate and Employment. The text includes items such as lost pin notices reward offers painting and upholstery services a sheriff sale of real estate and bankruptcy notices with names counties and dates scattered throughout.
Market notes from Toledo list cash grain: Wheat No 2 at 1.24 to 1.25, Corn No 3 and Barley No 3 around 1.05 and 2 cents, Timothy offerings at 2.50, oats and rye quoted. Eggs at 28.9 to 29.0 cents, hay at 1.52 per cwt. Boston wool prices show Ohio combing wools selling around 44 to 45 cents, finer wools at 38 to 40 cents per pound in grease.
Beef and cattle receipts cited with steady to weak demand as buyers adjust. Chicago Butter market firmer with varying price tiers. Cincinnati reports show mixed hogs and lambs while poultry prices listed by weight categories. Stock listings from New York Exchange include multiple majors with fluctuating quotes and sector notes.
Kenneth Underwood aged 17 from Weston died in a car crash on the Dixie Highway near Bowling Green. The fire engulfed the vehicle after the collision. Emergency crews arrived but could not save him.
Paulding County treasurer Albert Drakeslee, 66, attempted suicide in the county treasury vault at the courthouse today. He left a note explaining motive, but Sheriff Frank Jackson has refused to divulge the details.
Vintage sewing notice details pattern 6459 for a skirt jacket blouse and dress ensemble in multiple sizes. It lists fabric requirements including yards of plain and figured material, sleeve options, and crosswise contrast for collar and belt. Two patterns mailed for 15 cents per order.
The page one continuation describes a large parade with bands in white uniforms and veterans from Civil War to Boy Scouts. It features Lincoln Grant Lee and the Statue of Liberty as parade personages, a Maine recall ship float, a dove of peace float with a child, and many patriotic and humorous floats. Officials, veterans groups, National Guard, Gov. Myers Cooper, and diverse civic and fraternal organizations participate.
MINNEY HF Minney of the Athens State Hospital Farm District will host his brother Oliver Minney a Kansas City high school teacher and Captain Floyd Smith of the Columbus police next week. This marks the first reunion of the Minney brothers since World War I.
Albert Fprath, Dayton insurance agent for Equis table Life, was found wounded in his car near Mason after a deadly assault. He reported a loss of 15000 dollars he had collected in Cincinnati. He described being stopped by a white man and a Negro. The victim is in critical condition.
The Athens Post Office bulletin urges proper addresses for mail. Postmaster Harry McKinstry stresses reporting address changes when leaving town for mountain or seaside trips and asks residents to inform friends of new addresses. Cautions against using camp or private estate names as post office names. Students at University urged to register changed addresses at Athens Post Office.
National WB. Ay president Mrs. Bina West Miller will broadcast a 20 minute program from Atlantic City each evening from 5 10 to 8 30 p m during the WAS convention on session at Atlantic City.
The body of a unidentified man was found on the Hocking Valley Railroad track last night. Police said the victim stepped in front of a north bound freight train.
A collage of baseball notes recounts John McGraw staying home while his team went to Philadelphia, Lefty Grove urged to ease up against the Yankees to protect Mickey Cochrane, Harvard captain vexed after Yale’s win, Mel Ott hit by a pitch and forced to pinch run before returning, and Lew Fonseca of the Indians speaking about a school class and a rival’s sharp slide in a later tale about marshalling pride on the field.
Fragmentary OCR item lists numbers and labels, with unclear context. The readable elements include four numeral entries and parenthetical punctuation. No event or identifiable entities are specified.
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