Local Motor Car Listings Include Overland Models
Classified notice lists Overland 91 Coupe and Overland 1 Sedan among merchandise offerings. Six coach items are mentioned alongside sale notes, indicating a mixed car and coach catalog in the period.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1927
Page
12
Classified notice lists Overland 91 Coupe and Overland 1 Sedan among merchandise offerings. Six coach items are mentioned alongside sale notes, indicating a mixed car and coach catalog in the period.
A lengthy local gift catalog lists numerous items for Christmas in Athens including perfumes, atomizers, radios, umbrellas, gloves, watches, cedar chests, toilet sets, dolls, cameras, toys, and clothing. Stores involved include The Cline Pharmacy, McHenry & Sisler, Cornwell's, The Home Furnishing Co, Jacobs' Jewelry Store, Summers Store, The Hatch Library, and The Fairsex Shop, with prices ranging from 25c to $800 and delivery options noted for several items.
Classified notices detail used cars including FORD 1926 truck and CHEVROLET 1924 coupe for 200 to 275 dollars. Also listed are bookcases, radios, bibles, cedar trees, glass, cleaning services, and poultry pricing from Middleport and Nelsonville area merchants.
A mixed ad page lists electric percolators toasters irons wash ers and other holiday gifts. It highlights prices from 6 cents to 129 dollars, with storename mentions including Southern Ohio Electric Co Bell Auto Sales Vance The Jeweler and Ohlinger Wolfe. Also notes real estate, cars, and hardware items with local Nelsonville Athens area vendors.
Holiday themed ad urges readers to place orders now for fruit cake and related decorations at Mundew's Bakery offering Christmas candies and hardware goods for seasonal provisions.
Liberty bond notes opened with Liberty 1st 44s at 103.9 down 3 points and 3rd 4 1/2s at 100.26 unchanged, 4th 4 1/2s up 2, Treasury 48 at 110 up 2, 3s at 102.2 unchanged.
Col umbus reports slow post holiday trade with prices held steady for fruits and vegetables. Tangerines show a wide box range of 8 to 14 dollars, up to 25 cents higher and lower on the prior range. Supplies are moderately heavy but no overstock noted. Price changes include Tangerines box from 3.00 to 4.00.
Hogs receipts 4 500 held over 419 market 10 to 35 higher with various weights listed from 90 to 250 pounds. Cattle receipts 1 100 calves 600 steady with beef steers 9 00 to 14 00, cows 6 00 to 8 25, vealers 10 00 to 14 00, stocker feeders 8 00 to 9 50. Sheep receipts 400 market steady top fat lambs 14 00, bulk fat lambs 10 00 to 13 50, cull lambs 7 49 to 9 00, fat ewes 4 00 to 6 00.
Poultry prices list heavy fowls 22 to 24 cents per pound and other fowl and duck rates. Leghorns, springers, cocks and turkeys priced with variations by weight and type. Potatoes include Maine branded 3.75, Plain 3.40, Idaho bake 2.90 to 3.00 per 120 lb bag, home grown whites 1.25 to 1.35 per 50 lb sack. Butter and eggs show tablet and grade prices with extras 57 to 54 cents and firsts 54 to 47 cents respectively.
Domestic wool values may soon rise above foreign parity as broader inquiries show Boston trends. Fine staple territory wools sell around 1.12 to 1.15 dollars, three eighths blood at 94 cents, quarter blood at 85 cents, and Ohio Delaines greasy at 47 cents.
Vergeneeen livestock receipts show mixed prices with higher bids for several classes. Cattle and calf numbers are about 60 each with steady mars, beef steers valued around 10.75 to 13.00. Sheep receipts reach about 1,000 with top fat lambs at 14.25 and fat lambs 12.50 to 14.25. fat ewes 7.00 to 9.50.
Butter steady with receipts 7,323 and creamery extras Sic to 52c. Eggs steady at 63c to 65c for Pacific coast, 67c to 68c for nearby towns, with varieties including white fancy, mixed whites, fresh firsts, and western whites.
Butter steady at 43 to 45 cents with creamery tablets. Common stock discounted 2 to 4 cents. No. 2 packing stock 22 to 24 cents. Butter fat 49.60 to 50.0. Eggs lower with fresh gathered extra firsts 58 cents, firsts 52 cents, seconds 37 cents. Nearby one graded 52 cents.
The George Cradlebaugh residence, a one story bungalow with six rooms and a modern basement, will be ready for occupancy early next week. It features a Holland furnace, bath, electric lights, and is finished with stained shingles and ivory paint. Bardin brothers are the contractors.
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