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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1919
Page
9
Market rounds show eggs and poultry steady to mixed with gains in calves and lambs. Cattle receipts at Cincinnati and Chicago indicate steady to slow demand. hogs tighten with varied prices. Liberty bonds quoted. Toledo grain closes with corn at 1.52 and oats around 75 to 76 cents.
Sergeant Wester C. Johnson at the local army recruiting station announces War Department authorization for one year enlists for engineers serving in France and Germany. Eligible are dispatchers roundhouse foremen engineers locomotive firemen conductors brakemen yardmasters station agents and telegraph operators.
Detroit November 19 5000 delegates at the opening session of the 40th triennial Y M C A of North America pledge to combat Bolshevism and study postwar integration of soldiers and civilians. The gathering draws Americans Canadians and overseas delegates with aims including camp hut models and possible use of women Y M C A secretaries after the war.
New York dispatch reports the Rodesian government in Africa has decreed a tax on all wives after the first, set so high that few dusky warriors can afford more than one mate, according to the inter-church world movement of North America.
Ohio river stages show Point Bridge 5.4 feet and falling Davis Island 8.5 feet and falling Beaver Dam 8.4 feet and stationary Parkersburg 11.1 feet and rising Point Pleasant 7.9 feet and rising as of November 19.
In Nashville on November 19 a black man allegedly sold a suitcase filled with rocks to Vanderbilt University students for 85 dollars. He claimed the case would aid a football victory, but the item proved useless.
Legals show a civil action filed by L A Koo attorney for the plaintiff. Case details include docket number placeholder and court timing noted as 0 29 6 or ct within the entry.
In Athens Ohio on October 23 1919 an attachment order was issued by Justice Pearl Helwig in the action of J K Coleman plaintiff against H T Brashear defendant for the sum of two hundred dollars. November 18 1919 11 19 30tw
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