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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1933
Page
13
A column advises readers to scan Real Estate listings to save trips on hilly streets while searching for a new place to live. It emphasizes using the column’s guidance to streamline the home-hunt process.
Crad street's weighted price index of 30 basic commodities for the United Renses average shows 68.51 today, up from 68.34 yesterday and 65.95 a week ago. The 1933 high was 71.20 and the low 67.86.
Court proceedings in Athens County Ohio involve Oscar Perry seeking partition of land in Canaan Township and foreclosure actions by Albert M Perry on a 1915 mortgage. notices name Rowland and Elijah Perry heirs and various defendants. Another sale of premises at 79 Franklin Ave Athens is scheduled with appraised value 1400 dollars. sheriff Charles Stratton to conduct auction with cash terms. Additional notices appoint Arthur Cole administrator of Fiasco Cole estate and reflect multiple foreclosure cases in Conroy v Astrup Bond and Eleanor Bond detailing mortgage sums of over 43 thousand dollars and five promissory notes. lawsuits specify York Township tracts and Athena Brick Corporation assets to be sold or mortgaged.
George Kyle lists a farm sale one mile west of Wingett Chapel featuring stock, lumber and other articles. Auctioneer Fred Laughlin will conduct the sale.
Lima resident Mrs G O Dupius former dancer known as Miss Minzie Burke says she will witness Franklin D Roosevelt's inauguration. She performed a tee dance on the Capitol steps 16 years earlier after a wager and was fined 25 dollars for disorderly conduct.
President Hoover signed a bill to provide lifelong relief for Mrs Annie Kopolucci the mother of the first American sailor killed in World War I. Her name and portrait were widely displayed on wartime posters recognizing her loss.
The New York Clearing House member banks announce higher interest rates on certificates of deposit effective March 6. Time deposits at bank and trust companies now carry rates up to 4 1 4 percent, after recent lows near 1 2 percent. The move aims to retain funds in the city and curb outflows to the interior.
New York traders saw broad stock advances as shorts fled and prices jumped, with gains of 1 to over 6 points from early levels. Allied Chemical rose to 70, American Can to 54, American Telephone to 100, and Steel Common climbed to 24 with several leaders advancing, while grain prices also rose before stabilizing.
Prices listed for live poultry including chickens at 10 to 14 cents for various weights and ages, leghorns and old heavy birds, guineas, turkeys with young hens at 19 to 20 cents and gobblers at 16 cents, reflecting a local market listing.
The report lists Butter-Nearby tules with scores and rates such as 92 score extras and 184%c standards, Eegs-Nearby current receipts firsts 12 c, fresh extras 4 c, and nearby hen varieties. It also notes poultry prices for colored hens 12 14c, leghorn springers 80 9c, colored springers 110 1%c, old roosters 7 8c, ducks 10 12c, fresh killed hens 26 We, and turkeys 12918.
Butter packing stock No 2 at 10 cents No 3 at Se. Butter fat 126 bh steady with extra firsts 23 in cases. Seconds 12 cents nearby unsraded Se. Duck eggs Shc goose eggs Soc.
The market shows varied performance with several major names in focus. Prominent gains and losses appear among utilities, oils, steels, and motors sectors as investors weigh corporate results and sector trends.
Hog receipts about 800 with prices around steady to higher 160 to 320 lb ranges quoted near 3.75 to 4.00 per lb. sows down slightly. Cattle receipts 60 with market unchanged to steady. steers and yearlings around 4.95 for medium to good. cows to 2.50. calves 26 receipts with steady to firm tone. Sheep receipts 500 with lambs stronger. best lightweights up to 9.60 per lb-equivalent on rare notes. fat ewes 6 to 10.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma introduced a bill to grant the incoming president authority to issue rules to secure bank deposits during emergency financial conditions. The measure targets banking-crisis conditions and would place the comptroller of the currency under executive direction for the life of the first session of the Seventy Third Congress.
Jean Ryan of Corning suffered head and neck lacerations Friday morning when his car was struck by a truck on the Corning Chauncey route north of Glouster. His wife and two year old baby were uninjured. The car overturned and was damaged. the windshield shattered and fenders crushed.
Ohio Attorney General John Bricker said new deposits under emergency laws are held in safety deposit vaults and cannot be reinvested. He noted these funds are separate from old deposits, with losses possible only on existing balances, not on the new deposits.
Anna Pearl McVay of Athens and Oliw University alumna has been honored as vice president of the American Classical League for organizing Virgil’s two thousandth birthday celebrations. She led wreath laying in Italy and received a commemorative Vergilian Medal from Italy, with a note that royal honors are limited to men.
ER W Patterson and family entertain friends with an 80-piece jig-saw puzzle found in attic original wrappings as a Christmas gift from the early century.
Fragmentary OCR notes list an item labeled Comm 1030 4 with a number sequence 46 mw 751 Dpay. The readable text provides no clear event date or involved entities.
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