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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1926
Page
11
New York March 10. Industrial stocks edge higher while railroad issues stay flat in early trading. A mild rise in Standard and oil shares extends Tuesday's gains. First ten weeks of 1926 show dividend increases surpassing any prior year for the period.
Receipts total about 34,000 head across hogs, cattle, and sheep. Hog prices rise to top $14.25 with varying weights and sow classes. Cattle demand up slightly with beef steer bids from $10.50 to $11.25 and cows/ bulls lower, while veal calves reach $11.50 to $14.50. Sheep steady to slightly lower as lambs and yearlings trade around $8 to $13.50.
Cattle supply light with prices for choice cattle around 9.75 to 9.50 and lower grades down to 6. Heifers and fresh cows listed with varied values. receipts 150, market steady. Sheep and lambs supply 100 with prices showing steady to higher. lambs about 14.75. Hogs receipts 1500 head with active market. prime heavy hogs 12.50 to 12.85, midranges 14.25 to 14.40, light workers 14.40 to 14.50, pigs 14.40, roughs 10 to 11.25.
Cattle receipts 750 head market steady to weak steers good to choice 9710 calves steady good to choice 15 15.50 hogs receipts 4500 head market steady to 25 cents up good to choice stockers and butchers 13.50 13.75 sheep receipts 50 head market steady good to choice 6 8 lambs steady good to choice 14 14.25
Sealed proposals are invited by the Athens City Auditor for bonds totaling 2005.58 dollars to finance Van Vorhes Street improvements from East Mulberry to Race Street. Bonds mature 1927 to 1945 with 6 percent interest, payable semiannually. Bids due April 8 1926 with 2 percent certified check, bids sealed and endorsed for Van Vorhes Street Improvement Bonds. City reserve right to reject.
The city offers bonds totaling 1059.01 dollars dated January 1 1926 with three issue amounts 59.90 58.85 and 58.83 to mature 1927 1927 and 1928 1935. The loans fund Van Vorhes Street and Marietta Avenue improvements under Ohio law and ordinance 460. Bids due April 3 1926 noon with certified check two percent of bid, six percent interest payable semi annually, bids sealed and endorsed. City reserves right to reject any bid.
Readable lines show prices for Cleveland products butter eggs vegetables and potatoes. Listings include butter firsts 44c packing stock 27c 30c, eggs Ohio firsts 26 28c, beets 2.25 bushel, carrots 50c per half bushel, onions 2.25 3.60, Spanish crate 1.65, radishes 0.75 to 1.25 per dozen basket.
Prices listed for hay and wool along with petroleum quotes. No. 1 hay at 1.35, mixed clover 1.30, petroleum at 3.30 to 3.65, wool steady with domestic fleece at 50 to 52 cents and pulled scoured ranges. Reports show varied regional wool pricing and commodity stability.
Chicago receipts total 6,000 with butter prices showing creamery extra 43 cents and standard 42 percent, extra firsts 42 cents per pound, firsts 41 and 41 1/2 cents, packing stock at 28 cents.
Butter in tubs three cents, creamery No 1 packing twenty seven cents, No 2 price. Potatoes five pounds? 85 5.15. Poultry fowls thirty cents, roosters twenty, broilers fifty to sixty cents, ducks thirty-two, geese eighteen. Eggs fresh twenty five cents, firsts two, seconds twenty two, nearby ungraded twenty four.
The Toledo grain report lists Wheat No. 2 red at 1.73 and corn No. 3 yellow at 74.14. Oats No. 2 white 43.14 and No. 3 white 42.49. Rye No. 2 steady, barley No. 2 and cloverseed cash and March at 15.50, Oct. 16.25. Alike cash and March 17, Timothy cash and March 3.60 and Sept. 3.70.
Liberty bond quotations show varied results with 4s trading around 102.17 and 100.28 for different issues. New i 4s reach 107.26 while older issues hover near 100.25 to 100.6 as investors assess demand and returns.
Detroit predicts over 1.5 million cars will be produced in the next four months. Replacement demand will approach two million cars this year. The nation has about twenty million cars in use now. Henry Ford says thirty million cars may exist before saturation.
Central Steel company, a leading alloy steel maker in Massillon Ohio, reports operation near full capacity and plans to expand its coke ovens and by products plants. New blast furnaces are to be heated by May 1.
Portland March 10 Western Pine Association mills report production at about 65 percent of normal with new business at 86 percent. West coast mills in the past week produced 6,369,808 feet, sold 99,621,00 feet and shipped 97,845,616 feet.
Textiles Atlanta reports Good year Tire and Rubber company has purchased the Cedartown Cotton Mill in Cedartown, Georgia, and will raise its capacity from 12 000 to 13 000 spindles daily. The plant will run around the clock on tire material.
Manchester Massachusetts March 10 The J F Mecklwain company which has acquired extra property in Manchester to double its shoe production will require four hundred more employees soon.
Packers report a mixed trade tone in Chicago last week. Fresh pork remained firm on strong demand while beef trade stayed dull with prices edging lower.
Wheat estimates show North Dakota tops all states in spring and total wheat production. Saskatchewan Canada produced more than twice North Dakota and Alberta exceeded every U.S. state except North Dakota in overall wheat.
Samuel M. Vauclain, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, predicted that main railroad lines will be electric someday while switch yards and branch lines will use electric locomotives, in a recent statement.
In Sacramento California a safety deposit box of the late Thomas Redding retired farmer showed an estate worth 55250 in cash and bonds. No will exists and a sister is the sole heir.
Horace Miller a 31 year old chauffeur for a prohibition bureau car was arrested today on charges of driving while intoxicated. He allegedly nearly struck a crowd at Fifth and M streets then abandoned his car a block away and tried to flee from pursuing officers.
March 10 report states the Prince of Wales weighs 187 1 2 pounds and remains on a strict diet since returning from South America. He requests only light meals from guests and aims to improve health while handling a strenuous schedule.
New York March 10 report forecasts 6700 to 7000 miles of rural highways and over 100 million square yards of paving nationwide this year. Cement mills expect high output as construction surges to about two billion dollars since January, with 4.2 million cars projected this year and Detroit employing 271,927 workers, a record.
New Marshfield reports the boys and girls glee clubs will present the annual operetta Gypsy Rover on March 20 at K P Hall directed by Mrs Orpha Dinsmoor. Cast includes Clarice Chesser Eloise Porterfield Shelby Collins Clyde Herron Arthur McDaniel Catherine Wilson Benjamin Beckler Thomas Winning Dorothy Porterfield Melvin Shover Ernest Judy Marion Jackson. Alumni meeting March 17 high school and grade school music programs funded by proceeds from school concerts. Freshman class party March 6 featured green and white decorations with music and games.
Postal service plans in Carmel California will introduce numbered streets to help writers and painters wake from dreams when the postman whistles. The seaside town, known as California’s last art refuge, moves to modernization.
Indianapolis secretary Henry M. Trimpe announced the civil service board had received 1900 applications to take the exams for letter carrier and postal clerk positions at the Indianapolis post office.
Madrid dispatch reports Spanish operations in the Tetuan sector of Morocco have been completely successful, according to an official communique. The statement outlines gains and praises coordination among units.
Henry Rand is found murdered in a Giafton hotel. A woman’s handkerchief and a theater ticket stub link to his son Jimmy who travels to Pittsburgh. The stub matches Thomas Fo Gart y and Olga Maynard, a cabaret singer, who is questioned as Jimmy’s adventures entangle him with Mary Lowell and Samuel Church.
Jimmy Rand confronts Mary Lowell over their past and the man she plans to marry, amid accusations of romance, money, and betrayal. He seeks work to cope with heartbreak while she faces the truth of her engagement to Samuel Church and their tangled history.
Public sale begins at 13 o'clock noon with chattels offered to the highest bidder. Span work mules eight years old and three year old mule, fresh Jersey cows six years old with two more cows fresh soon, one Durham cow, road wagon, double work harness, single buggy harness, hay fork and rope, Oliver breaking plow, cultivator, drag harrow, good range like new and other household goods. Auctioneers W M Stone A M Mooney.
Rheumatism attacks all ages and genders and thrives where damp cold weather exists. Doctors recommend avoiding sweets, dressing warmly, drinking ample water, and using four ounces of Jad Salts daily to neutralize acidity and aid toxin elimination from the blood.
Hamilton F. Biggar a physician long linked to John D. Rockefeller for forty seven years died tonight in Cleveland after recent operation. The 87 year old doctor had practiced medicine in the Rockefeller circle for decades.
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