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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1921
Page
9
Toledo market notes list cash and futures for corn oats rye barley and clover seed with values for various months and grades. Also shown are prices for timothy alfalfa butter eggs hay and other farm commodities with monthly figures for January February and March.
A terse Chicago market snippet lists dairy and poultry prices including creamery 45 47, firsts 88 44, eggs 48 50, cheese, and poultry items such as ducks and turkeys with small cent figures, reflecting a terse daily price roundup.
Butter eggs and poultry unchanged. Potatoes sell at 2.85 to 3.05 per 156 pound sack while Early Ohio varieties fetch about 2.75 per two bushel sack. Market notes from Cleveland dated November 29.
In Cincinnati Wisconsin the live stock market shows receipts of 630 cattle 6500 hogs 650 sheep and 50 lambs. Cattle good to choice steer prices range from 6.50 to 8.50 per hundredweight with market 25 cents higher. Hogs steady to 30 cents lower with 2 to 9 weights around 7.20 for packers and butchers. Sheep steady with good to choice 3.43 to 5.50, lambs 8. or 10.50 resulting in a mixed market tone.
CATTLE receipts high and market steady with prime at 8.3 to 7.75, veal 11.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS light receipts and steady with prime wethers 4.75 to 5, yearling lambs 14.10 to 14.50. HOGS receipts 20 loads with market lower. prime heavy 7.25, mediums 7.90 to 8, light yorkers 8 to 8.10, pigs 8 to 8.10, roughs 5 to 6, stags 4.50 to 4.50.
At Union Stock Yards Illinois on November 29 hog receipts reach 0 and market trends lower with top at 7.10 and bulk sales around 6.79 to 7.19. packing sows range 6.00 to 6.89. Cattle receipts total 17 000 with prices from 2.50 to 11.50 for various classes including butcher, cows, veal calves, and steers. Sheep and lambs show limited data with only scattered figures.
The body of a young girl believed to be Stella Ostroska who vanished on October 26 on her way home from school was discovered near Johnsonburg New Jersey.
Midwestern Republicans have organized a drive to secure about 60 million dollars from Congress during recess. The river improvement project is roughly eighty percent complete and would allow barge traffic from Pittsburg to Cairo, Illinois once finished.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church in Marietta praised Miss Helen Bowles of Dexter for her lyric soprano, offering her a prominent choir role. Despite the tempting offer, her duties as a senior at Ohio University limit her time. Her Marietta ovation highlighted her popularity in Athens music circles before she performed pieces from The Holy City and the Messiah.
Fulton Mississippi reports fourteen men killed and several injured in a saw mill bailer incident at Eastman with details still incomplete.
A Brooke lyn theatre under construction collapsed at noon today in New York burying about 36 men on site. Four men were pulled from debris to hospital while only ten workers were accounted for.
New Haven Conn Nov 29 The death toll from the Rialto Theatre fire rose to seven with the deaths of Victor Corneler and Everett Cage, both of New Haven.
County commissioners offer a $100 reward for those responsible after weeks of terror along the road near Sedalia. Reported incidents include threats and harassment of passing autoists in various sections.
Ten persons were injured in a collision of trains on the New York City elevated subway structure today.
Columbus officials set the annual pay for Robert R. Roberts at 4200 dollars as director of compensation. Interest rates on Ohio adjusted station bonds were fixed at four and a quarter percent by the sinking fund commission, with bond issue amount still undecided.
Huntington expected a near crest at forty five feet on the flood Wednesday. Forecast cautions that the city narrowly misses a real flood level as rivers rise in the ongoing event.
San Francisco reports more than twenty witnesses ready to testify as Roscoe Patty Arbuckle faces his big day in court as District Attorney Matthew Brady leads the case.
At the White House today officials stated that the association of nations is not meant to rival the league of nations nor to undermine the existing league. The remark clarifies U S policy amid ongoing international discussions.
Residents vote 16 884 to frame a trolley franchise granting an eight cent fare and concessions including elimination of two car lines and street access improvements. Street car owners drew up the franchise.
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