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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1926
Page
7
Cincinnati hogs receipts 3,700 heldover 181 as prices hover around 12 to 13 dollars. Cattle and vealers show mixed gains with beef steers 6.00 to 9.00 per hundredweight and vealers at 14.50 to 15.00. Pittsburgh hogs receipts 5,000 market up 15 to 25 higher with top fat lambs around 13.00 and bulk fat lambs 13.25 to 15.50, sheep and beef cattle mixed across grades.
Port Huron observes a unique service of tolerance under American Legion auspices with a flag pole donated by Jacob Goldman a Port Huron Jew. Monsignor Dunnigan praised the event as a burial of bigotry while Ku Klux Klan participation funded the flag gift to Dr. Russell H. Bready. Archibald S. Wagner a World War veteran raised the pennant after Civil War veteran George W. Howe carried it from the parish house.
Business and industrial experts report no near term disruption as the economy stays on schedule. Buick reports a strong year with 224,541 cars in ten months, while Packard pays bonuses to longtime workers. Steel and nonferrous metals show mixed demand, building contracts lag slightly but remain ahead of 1926 levels, and cotton and sugar payments boost farm incomes across several states.
A noon snapshot shows American Car and Foundry American Sugar and Kennecott Copper among key listed stocks. Notable mentions include General Motors, International Paper and Westinghouse with varied quotable levels. The page features a dense exchange of ticker names and percent figures from multiple sectors.
Hogs receipts 35,000 with market mixed up to 10 to 15 cents higher. top at 11.05. Bulk bids 11.25 to 11.75, feeders and sows steady to firm. Slaughter cattle and calves mixed by class with steers and heifers largely steady to firm. cows and bulls varied. vealers and feeders also listed. Sheep receipts 21,000 slow market. lambs and yearlings mostly steady to easier. ewes and western types uneven.
Cleveland Ohio nov 15 poultry prices for leghorns heavy spring e era McGretee leghorn 20c ducks geese extra 60e heavy firsts 52e ordinary 36c pullet 22c refrigerator firsts 40c dairy. Cheese brick 20c Swiss imports 433 domestic limburger 34. Potatoes round white Michigan 4.25 Petoskeys 4.35 784.50 per 150 lb sacks New York 4.235 Gainesville Wisconsin 4.50 120 lb packs New York 4.235. New York Produce steady receipts 4050 creamery extras 50 special market average. Kees receipts 5720 nearby white fancy 79c, mixed whites 17c, western whites 40c, fresh firsts 46c.
Butter receipts total 5 669. Cream exports 48 percent. Spaniards 654 cents. Firsts 40 087 GE. Stocks SUgC export LoGAM AC. Kegs receipts 6 220. Ordinnary’s 40e. Firsts Ae 50e. Seconds 47 cents. Exports Wigei2e.
The wool market in Boston remains steady with dealers confident before price changes. Fine and fine medium wool fetches between 1.12 and 1.15 dollars, Buenos Aires No 4, 30 to 31 and Australian movement in fair quantities range from 1.00 to 1.08 dollars per lot.
Catherine Di Mino, 16, arraigned on charges of killing Luigi Fino, a man she says betrayed her and later tried to extort money by revealing the secret to her husband. She traveled from Chicago, waited in Fino’s usual haunts, and shot him. She said she was assaulted at 12, later married, and moved to Sivanston, Illinois, before returning east for revenge.
In Calcutta on November 15 the Indian cloth trade warns that the fall in American cotton prices has unsettled merchants. Ahmedabad mill owners testified before the tariff board, saying the industry mood is souring as prices remain depressed.
Edwin J. Brown 66 former state superintendent of the industrial schools of Ohio and Michigan and for 25 years superintendent of the Miami Children’s Home died by suicide, shooting himself through the heart after a period of illness.
A special council meeting is set for tonight to approve transferring enough money from the general fund to the safety fund. The move aims to reinstate the discharged firemen and policemen.
Rev. Rufus W. Hufford, 70, a nationally prominent Lutheran church figure and writer for Sunday school publications, died at his home in Reading, Pennsylvania, on November 15.
Washington November 15 Optimistic tidings on America's business outlook came from two sources the Federal Reserve Board and the National Industrial Conference Board New York The Reserve board reported industrial production in the first nine months higher than in the same period during the last two years with September and October at new highs Textile mill activity cotton consumption iron and steel trade coal mining auto industry and general wholesale and retail trade rose Bank failures in September were 37 a low level since September 1925 The New York board said current conditions are sound and will continue with satisfactory momentum
Rev. C. M. Coulter preached that the Catholic Church is stronger now than at any time since the Reformation. He traced growth from Vatican influence during wartime to a powerful global bloc, citing the Eucharistic congress in Chicago as proof of papal influence and urging fair use of the church as an instrument.
Weiss school in Canaan township hosted a pie social and program on Friday evening. Students performed songs recitations and dialogues while parents and neighbors donated cakes pies and candy for the social. Proceeds totaled 16.30 for the school. The Weiss school posted perfect attendance for the first month and 78 percent for the second month with no tardies, marking it as a leading Athens county school.
Austin Hill, patient at Franklin County Infirmary, died from injuries when a horse, driven by Raymond Rohr delivering newspapers, trod on him as Rohr returned home. The incident occurred within the county infirmary vicinity and is under investigation by local authorities.
Hilda Krueger, 24, died when the automobile crashed near Newark. Three girl companions were injured. Sheriff Frederick Vogelmeier and Assistant County Auditor William Wolfhoop, rushing to the scene, skidded off the road, their car overturning. The sheriff suffered seven broken ribs and internal injuries.
Daily departures from Athens include No 1 at 7 01 am northbound and No 5 at 2 28 pm. Southbound No 2 leaves at 12 26 pm and No 4 at 5 35 pm. Arrivals No 30 at 11 08 am and No 34 at 4 52 pm.Additional services show No 3 and No 4 24 am and 1 14 pm, with multiple through lines and numbers referenced.
Dr EB B Bryan president of Ohio University told students in the Fine Arts building that the greatest event in life is the conception of God. He spoke at the start of International Week of Prayer, to continue through the week with observances by students from forty countries. The event is sponsored by the world's student Christian association, with local YMCA and YWCA members.
Mrs. Catherine Borchett, who administered poison to her four children, died here after taking poison herself. Two of the children are not expected to live.
The Board of Directors calls a stockholders meeting for October 1 1926 at 3 p m in the Lawrence Building Athens Ohio to consider closing out affairs and surrender corporate authority and to conduct related business. Ha Weber, secretary.
Notice from Canaan Township School District Athens County Ohio inviting sealed bids for serial bonds dated August 21 1926 maturity five years issue details bonds numbered one to five with varying amounts bids due December 10 1926 at noon at the office of Lucy H Sutton Clerk. Bonds bear 6 percent interest payable semiannually April 1 and October 1 beginning 1927. Bids to be for par plus accrued interest with certificate of bid and check of at least one fifth of bid payable to the district. Premium and interest at delivery to be considered in bid.
W W Coe and B G Chapman of Athens and Guysville Ohio have been named executors of the estate of S A Wilson late of Banon County Ohio. The appointment appears in a November district filing.
McKinley notices that Clara Lock has filed for divorce in Pleasant County. The case rest in Cones Pleasant for hearing after December. Wooll andowe attorneys represent the plaintiff Malatiat in this action.
Judith confronts Myra over Eric’s jail ordeal and the Vague scandal that could ruin him. Myra insists Judith’s carelessness harmed Eric and his family bears pride over forgiveness. Judith recalls a door bruise and hints at a hidden question Dr. Dorn wishes to ask.
Judith Marten, a Pendleton University teacher, distances herself from faculty, while Eric Waters, her student, and Dr. Dorn stir rumors. Mira Aldrich envies Eric, and Mrs. Brown reveals a hidden past as Kitty Shea stalks Judith during Christmas. A threatening confrontation ends with Shea dead, and Eric is arrested over a letter found on Shea. Mrs. Brown urges Judith to help save Eric.
Judith Martin and Mrs. Brown flee to the campus after a tense confrontation on the Stedway steps. They plot to shield Eric Waters from a blackmail scheme tied to a sealed hotel register note while avoiding disclosure to the dean. A police dog and Dr. Dorn cross their path as they seek a discreet, cautious path forward.
A bolt of lightning struck a flock of 63 sheep gathered in a storm near here, killing them all. Local authorities reported the incident as a tragic weather-related animal loss with no further injuries recorded in the area.
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