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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1928
Page
13
The Athens Messenger lists standard classified rates per line for consecutive insertions with three and six day options and cash payments within six days. Ads are grouped by alphabetical classifications and edited to fit the paper style. no ad is accepted for less than three lines.
Classified notes from Athens area listing auctions and sales. Includes horses, cattle, pigs, farm stock, poultry, a Shorthorn bull, two yearling cows to sell, and a sow with 10 pigs. Also references auto parts, used radios, batteries, and repair services, plus real estate and miscellaneous items for sale or trade.
Local ads list services from Pomeroy Undertaking Co Rutland and Farber Iron Co promoting guaranteed 18 month battery trade ins and radiator anti leak checks. Also radio reception installed by Service Electric Co and real estate rental notices appear for three six room houses.
Obituary style remembrance for AM Hahn detailing birth November 18 in Shawnee, family moves, marriage to Bonnie Bolie, children Harley Lee predeceased, Howard, William, survivors across multiple states, death after work accident in Springfield 1928. Card of Thanks and local notices follow with classifieds about livestock, missing items, land use, and a theft report at Wheaton Hardware Co.
Classified brief lists several vintage vehicles with prices: a 1927 Chevrolet ton truck and a 1925 roadster both around 195. a 1927 Ford touring like new at 225. a 1926 Ford ton truck steel dump at 150. a 1925 roadster ex Os 300. a 1925 touring at 125. Artsed in brief form.
The fragment lists prices for barley and butter, cash equivalents around 17.45 to 18.75, and butter receipts including cases and grades. It cites percentages and a table of prices such as 38 to 53 cents for butter and 24 to 28 cents for seconds and extras, with 2,887 cases noted.
Cattle receipts 700, calves 325, market steady vealers 50 lower. Beef steers 8.50 to 13.50, light yearlings and heifers 14, beef cows 9 to 10, low cutters 33. Vealers 13, bulk stock and feed er 525. Fat lambs 11.50 to 13, fat ewes 4.
A fragment listing assorted company names and percentages, showing acquisitions in progress and market performance. Entries include General Motors 67 percent, Rock Island R.R. 133 percent, Steel Corporation 170 percent, and Radio Corporation 283 percent, among others.
Hogs receipts 4,000. Market steady for 250 to 350 lbs at 9.25 to 9.55. 160 to 190 lbs 9.35 to 9.60, 130 to 160 lbs 8.75 to 9.50, 90 to 6136 lbs 6.25 to 9.75. Sows 6 dollars. Cattle receipts 50, market steady. Calves 100 strong. Beef steers 11.13, light veal and heifers 9.50, beef cows 8 to 10.50, low cutters 5 to 7.50, vealers 13.18. Sheep receipts 2,500, market weak to 25 cents lower. Top fat lambs 13.28, bulk fat lambs 11.50 to 13.25, bulk cull lambs 8.
An advertisement offers odorless gas heaters and ornamental heating stoves in six sizes from $12, plus gas ranges starting at $608. Also promoted are a tube radio charger and galvanized coal hods at 45 cents each, with Carpenter's as the seller.
Short notice classified ad announces long distance hauling by a hobbyist offering phone contact numbers Logan 51 or 3853 and a separate phone for messenger submissions to Clinton Webb Logan 6024.
Cleveland markets show butter priced per tablet with extras and firsts, eggs with multiple grades, and diverse poultry quotes including heavy fowls and Leghorns. Toledo grain reports November cash closes for Wheat No. 2 at $1 and Corn No. 3 at 95 cents with additional No. 3 entries at 81 1/2 cents.
The Athens City Schools Superintendent A F Hixson and Mrs Milo Kimball addressed the Father’s Night PTA gathering in the Central School Building. Hixson urged progress in health education leisure activities and citizenship while stressing parental understanding to reach educational objectives. The Southeast District PTA chairwoman outlined parental education as a major project and proposed study groups for each Ohio community. The program included music recitals and a reading with refreshments served afterward.
The man pleaded not guilty when arraigned yesterday in the court of Justice of the Peace 8. FE. Hedges and was bound over to the grand jury under a $400 bond. The arrest was made by Constable Kenneth Austock.
Broadway plans a star studded benefit at the Colony Theater for Michael J. O Loughlin chief wireless operator who stayed at his post and perished with the Vestris Proceeds go to his Irish parents Carl Laemmle has given the Colony Theater and WOR Newark plans to broadcast the event from the stage Actors and survivors from the ship will attend the program slated for Saturday night
President-Elect Hoover is encouraged by Washington reports that Congress may pass farm relief measures at the short winter session. He centers his program on stabilisation corporations, tariff increases on ag products, and aids to cooperative marketing, with inland waterways development as long term support. If the bill passes, no extra session will be called.
Roy Savage of Deanville pleaded guilty in the Athens area court to a charge of threatening and menacing behavior filed by his wife Clio Savage. He received a $25 fine plus costs, suspended, with arrangements to pay costs on November 25. arrest by Constable Harry Dalton. Accused in a separate case, Victor Linberger of Rockland faced questions over paternity of Lydia Starkey’s illegitimate child from Carthage Township.
The Congressional Campaign Funds Investigating Committee will open hearings in Hidalgo County on November 26. The session will be in McAllen rather than Edinburgh, the county seat, after citizens requested the inquiry into primary and general elections.
A Relelen Sargent, 23, known for prison reform advocacy, was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge George H. Gessner to one to three years in the Ohio reformatory for women at Marysville for passing worthless checks. She clashed with Youngstown newspapers during the proceedings.
Opening day of rabbit season in Columbus ended in tragedy as five hunters died from gunshot or heart failure and about a score were injured. Names include Edgar Sprinkle 17 of North Lima shot by his father Fred D Meister 45 of Marietta killed by buckshot from a companion Dr George W Woods 64 of Columbus Ezra Niday 45 of Gallipolis and John F Graf 35 of Hamilton County. Injured among the crowd was Russell Merker former Wilmington High School athlete shot in the hand.
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Newberry Sill 90 widow of poet Edward Rowland Sill will be held Monday in Akron. She died yesterday at Cuyahoga Falls and burial will be at Cuyahoga Falls.
Rail timetable details list northbound and southbound trains from Athens with departure and arrival times. The faded text notes trains Hocking Valley and Ballimore lines, including daily services and Sunday restrictions, in a fragmented historic schedule.
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