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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1931
Page
15
Algeo Motor Sames Inc promotes a Hamstead gas range at 29 dollars. Detroit Jewel gas range priced at 19.59. Florence 75 hot blast listed at 23.50. Florence coal range marked 27.50. Wheaton Hardware Co. carries these heating appliances.
The House of Bargains at McFarland Chevrolet lists Ford 3930 Tudor 340, Ford 1930 Roadster 300, Ford 1929 Coupe, Oldsmobile 1927 sedan 100. Includes Paige 1926 sedan and other bargains from 4th Street, O10.
Miss Ferguson leads a free cooking school with doors at one, sessions start at two, and no reserve seating. Attendees may inspect kitchen equipment and take home dishes or market basket gifts. Merchants donate prizes to be distributed at Friday’s final session. Questions can be left for the instructor to answer.
Mr and Mrs Milo Ford Clapp and their young son Billy travel to Cleveland to visit Mrs Clapp's mother Mrs QO Peoples and other relatives during a family trip.
William F Patton of Nelsonville Athens County Ohio petitions the District Court for a full discharge from all debts provable against his estate under bankruptcy law except those exempt by law. He states he was adjudged bankrupt July 15 and has surrendered property and complied with all acts and court orders. Filed September 17, 1981.
On September 18 1931 the court ordered a hearing on December 11 1981 in Columbus Ohio. Known creditors must be notified by mail and may appear with reasons why the petition should not be granted. Clerk to mail copies of the order to creditors at their residences. Judge B W Hough presides.
Fragment of a probate notice listing M. Johnson as Probate Judge of the county and W. B. Spear as a party. The readable portion suggests official filing or judicial action but lacks full context or dates.
New York trading opened higher as oll prices advanced and wheat strength supported a broad market. Industrials showed resilience with many names advancing, led by American Telephone and General Electric components. Poultry, produce, and oil shares also moved higher amid firmer cash prices and dividend news from Standard Oil.
The document lists numerous companies and sectors including Armour, Coca Cola, Curtiss Wright, General Electric, Union Pacific, Allied Chemical, Am. Home Product, Kroger, J. I. Penny, Westinghouse, and others. It references percentages and valuations, with notes on rail lines, oil, and equipment sectors, and highlights broad industrial activity and interlocks among major firms in the United States.
Butter steady with common stock discounts and graded classes listed. Prices show No 1 2 3 butter per pound and butter fat. eggs higher with extra firsts and seconds ungraded nearby.
Live poultry and eggs with assorted price points for leghorns roosters and turkeys. Fresh receipts include nearby bugs and butter varieties with creamery grades and scores, Maryland and Pennsylvania rolls listed, with all other items unchanged.
Nearby receipts list buttermilk and dairy prices with 92 score extras, 30 cents for standards 29 cents, and 89 score 28 cents. Firsts 24 percent, fresh extras 29 6? 41 nc. Poultry live hens 23 cents, springers 17 cents, colored springers 206 cents, creame 13 cents, ducks 18 cents, geese 10? ec. Fresh killed hens 35 cents.
Livestock prices show hogs around 180 to 270 per hundredweight with gains noted late in the session. Sows were strong, beef cows down modestly, vealers and cutters lower, and sheep around 445 to 460 for lambs with fat ewes easing to 3.50. Overall activity mixed as weights and categories varied.
Hog receipts total 3 0060 with market at 1 50 to 300 head and prices around 4 60 to 5 40 per cwt. Sows to 444 50. cattle receipts 1 000 with steady to slow demand, steers around 8 cents lower on some lots. Calves 600 received, vealers to choice and medium grades 34 00 to 4450. Sheep receipts 2 506 with demand light to fair and prices around 30 40 to 34 0 per cwt.
Reports show strength in foreign Ty wool markets and increased consumption in England. Continental Europe remains steady while domestic prices ease due to limited demand. Boston receipts for the week ending Oct 31 totaled 433,900 pounds with a prior week at 366,100 pounds.
Knapp & Co reports September quarter net of 1 422 801 after taxes and charges up from 1 407 840 last year. Westvaco declares 40 cent quarterly dividend and raises annual rate to 1 40. Armour reducing capital stock. Pierce Petroleum shows nine months net income 271 086 and September quarter loss 8 474. National Electric Power posts nine months net 9 024 495. East Texar eyeing martial law probe in oil acreage. Van Sweringen posts nine months net loss 1 289 390. New York reporting per share figures for nine months.
Reported gains in year balance sheets for 1931 show mixed results across sectors. United States Steel notes steady demand while textile firms and retailers face weather-related slowdowns. Atlantic & Tea raises dividends, Bucyrus Monighan reports earnings per share in three classes, reflecting varied economic momentum.
Los Angeles officials report the Owens Valley water aqueduct was dynamited near Mojave today. Sheriff’s office notified of the act disrupting the Los Angeles water supply.
Three youthful inmates who escaped from the Ohio Reformatory at Apple Creek were recaptured after a car collision. Police reported the trio had fled Saturday night and were taken into custody following the crash today.
Eight persons were arrested by agents in a round-up aimed at dispersing a liquor ring operating in Scioto and Lawrence Counties near Portsmouth.
Madison Trimble, 26, reportedly experimented with an old pistol found in a closet. He pulled the trigger, the weapon misfired, and a pellet struck the child in the heart, authorities said.
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