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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1932
Page
13
The article outlines ways for graduates to celebrate with varied spreads breakfasts and teas following banquets luncheons and picnics. It emphasizes student hosts planning different delicious refreshments focusing on class colors flowers and coordinated decorations.
A mixed page shows menu planning with dishes for breakfast lunch and dinner including fruit cups bouillon toasted wafers olives radishes celery hearts veal birds potato marbles creamed peas and neapolitan ice cream. New York May 14 traders marked time on the stock exchange with prices near close as American Telephone dividend details and industry shares move in a broad trading day.
Louise Rowland of 22 Hudson Street Athens was among six junior women chosen for Cresset, the honorary senior women’s group, at Ohio University’s Senior Day. Selection cites scholarship and activities. she has served as secretary and treasurer of YWCA and secretary of the Commerce Club.
A bipartisan tariff coalition presses to include tariff rates in the tax bill and threatens to push Congress into a summer session. Senate leaders, including Smoot and Harrison, clash over finance committee tax policies as oil and tin tariffs lead, with lumber, copper, and coal tariffs following. Anti prohibition efforts fail as beer revenue is rejected 60 to 24.
Circleville Ohio May 19 Charles Goins former deputy marshal of Hanford Village Nego settlement at Columbus was given 250 of a 400 reward for arrest and conviction of the robbers and slavers of John Kidney Pickaway County farmer last winter. The remainder of the reward went to two Franklin County deputy sheriffs. Six men were apprehended. Four of them three Negroes and a white man have been sentenced to die for the crime and the other two were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Prices for live poultry including chickens hens and broilers at Baltimore markets with current receipts and nearby fresh totals. Chicago produce notes egg market steady with current receipts and extra yields, butter and poultry items listed with regional sources and price ranges.
Butter market remains steady with about 6 per cent extra noted. Poultry markets hold firm with heavy fowls, leghorn fowls and broilers priced locally. ducks and geese listed with regional values. Vegetables and fruits cited from Ohio New York Penn Maine Vermont Idaho with per pound and per hundredweight ranges.
Butter packing stock No 290 Ne lists butter fat 12 14e and prices. Including firsts 12 and seconds 10 nearby markets remain une traded at 12 %. The note mirrors a market brief with limited trade and pricing details.
Live Stock numbers show 4000 head with cattle and calves firm to lower values. Hogs 1500 head with sows steady to lower. 140 to 210 pound hogs around 9.70 to 3.85 per cwt and 230 to 340 pounds at 9.20 to 9.95. Sheep 4400 head with lambs weak to 60 cents more or less. wethers up to 2.75. Cattle receipts total around 10 with medium to good steers at 6.66. heifers 4.26 to 5.80. beef cows 2.75 to 3.60.
Veal market very active with good prices while cattle receipts remain light and finished cattle scarce. Cattle market weak nationwide though hogs and horses show varied prices. hog receipts 273 with 176 to 220 pounds at 3.48 to 3.65 per pound and 220 to 250 pounds 9.45 to 8.68, sows and pigs 20.50 to 30.25. Sheep receipts 120 with ewes and lambs 8 to 23.5, fat sheep 1.60 to 4 per pound, bucks 1.60 each, fat wethers 2.04 to 3.30. Total receipts 563 head for Iowa sale on Saturday May 21st.
Grain track prices report in Toledo with mixed revisions. Wheat No. red around 244 53e, No. 1 red slightly higher, corn yellow 30 to 30s, oats No. 2 white about 23 to 24, clover and al sike values listed, butter at 24, eggs extras 12 to 44, hay per cwt 80 cents.
The Boston daily wool market report notes business largely at a standstill with small lots moving at prices near last week. Prices are uncertain as late bids are too few to determine values amid a sluggish market.
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