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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1928
Page
13
Classified note listing used cars with Ford 1924 Touring price 6875 and day and night service in exchange for milk cow. Also seeks modern furnished room or house for rent in Athens with P Box 158 and phone 554 for contact.
A 1924 Ford touring car is described as motor thoroughly rebuilt and good. A 1923 Nash touring is noted for an unusually good motor with a Durant coupe offering value. Fulton Nash Sales at the Automotive Building promotes these used cars and rebuilt motors.
Auction style listing shows multiple used autos with model years from 1923 to 1934 and prices from 65 to 325 dollars. Brands include Ford Nash Willys Knight Dodge and Hudson Essex with notes of touring sedans roadsters coupes landaus and a Mazda lamps in the new house line. Several cheaper cars offered with open and closed body styles.
Public notice states Kharn Ackley filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for an interstate certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate a 27 passenger motor transport service from Columbus Ohio to the Ohio West Virginia state line with final destination Parkersburg West Virginia via Route 31 through Canal Winchester Lancaster Logan Athens Amesville and Marietta. It plans two daily round trips. Hearings time and place information available from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in Columbus. Signed Ezra Ackley 30 Torrence Road Columbus Ohio. lu- 29-Sotw.
Markets report butter prices up with creamery tablets at 47 to 49 cents, pack stock values firm to lower. Pittsburgh livestock totals show hogs down 15 to 25 cents with assorted weights. cattle receipts 1,500, calves 600, beef steers and vealers varied. fat lambs and ewes noted with mixed prices across categories.
Livestock receipts: cattle 3,850. calves 400. sheep 350. market steady to 25 cents lower. Beef steers and yearlings mixed. packers and dealers noted lower. Top lambs reached $13. bulk fat lambs $11.50 to $11.78. cull lambs $8 to $11. Prices shown for various weight groups and classes across the session.
Arraigned November 10 on a charge of intoxication, William Kirkendale of Alexander pleaded guilty and was fined 10 dollars and costs in Justice of the Peace Carl H. Porter’s court. A second assault and battery charge by his wife was withdrawn. costs paid. Columbus: Otto Nusbaum, 88, Civil War veteran and former City Council member, dies after long illness. helped establish the municipal light and power plant as vice president of the council.
Reverend Billy Sunday, fierce evangelist against vice, is pictured leaving the White House after a visit with President Coolidge. The photographer requested a photo and received an enthusiastic response.
Notice announces an application by H W Collins and The Cooper Bus Company to transfer certificate No 729 for motor transportation between Chillicothe and Athens. Hearing set for 10 a m Friday November 30 1028 at the Public Utilities Commission hearing room in Columbus Ohio. Signed by H W Collins Chillicothe Ohio and The Cooper Bus Company Illicothe Ohio.
Classified notices advertise Narcissus bulbs three for 25 cents at Cable Hardware Co. and a girl sought for care and assisting an invalid at five dollars weekly. Nelsonville firm seeks a young lady for bookkeeping with typing ability. Also listings for live stock prices and poultry market, with contact numbers and addresses in Nelsonville Ohio.
Probate court in Athens County Ohio suspends hearing on numerous estate accounts to December 3 1928 at 9 a m. Names include Eva Jourden administratrix Catherine Jourden Lulu Benedum executrix Joseph Moffatt Ralph Parker Wm Ruston George Shoonover Henrietta Male rides Schloss Fernando Connor Florence Shaner Evans Rees Albert Coates Bee Price Denver coraets Armstro ng Fern Sewell Henry Saylor Har ey Soyt Clyde Hasna John Coe Mobier Letha Ladd Elmer Ladd John Herrold Nannie Mace Agnes Garrett Lori McClain Lois Brown Sarah Ann McBee Donald Powell Howard Davidson Elizabeth Graham Earl Kincade and others.
Notice that on November 12 1928 the Christian Science Society of Athens Ohio an Ohio corporation filed its petition in the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County for legal action.
Ohio case 14093 asks the court to empower the Trustees to execute a Declaration of Trust and encumber real estate on the west side of South Congress Street in Athens Ohio part of Inlet 52 to secure 4100 dollars. Hearing in court on December 12.Attorney J W Bolin represents the society. Dec 11 1940.
The missing tire cover from P. M. Ricketts Ford roadster was found in the garage doorway Sunday afternoon after thefts last Tuesday night on West Union Street. Neighbors recall two boys in an old roadster stopping near the Ricketts home around eight in the evening.
Five years after a woman and her son were allowed to ride a Fort Worth Dallas Interurban, a Santa Monica diarist sent 26 cents in stamps to cover the long overdue fare. The Northern Texas Traction Company received the note and payment last week, ending the overdue debt.
Jack Sharkey, who weighed 116 pounds in his 1919 bout with my Wilde, has bulked up to 166 pounds. This note highlights his substantial weight gain and future boxing prospects.
The report notes a heavyweight fighter, once near a million world status, now weighing 156 pounds ahead of a 1919 clash with Jimmy Wilde. The shifting weight signals a move toward lighter class competition.
The two teams planned to meet for their inaugural clash this season after agreeing to arrange the contest.
William O Connor aged 54 an agent with the Internal Revenue Department died Sunday in Columbus after a month long illness He came to Columbus from New York two years ago
In Lynn Massachusetts a factory blast at the Preble Box Toe facility killed nine family members and injured two others. Five siblings, including Harry Blaney, and their mother died as four others survived the disaster.
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