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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1926
Page
11
Special in rubber case tire service for $15, now $1 with old battery allowance at Service Tire Co Glouster Ohio. The Bryson Lumber Co Trimble Ohio advertises sheetrock in large sheets 4 feet wide and 6 7 9 and 10 feet long at 4.50 per 100 square feet.
Barron Collier, a major Florida landholder and former NYPD safety head, says the hurricane clears bad speculation and stabilizes values. He argues Florida’s public utilities and transportation improved, investors should proceed, and honest real estate values are those at which property will still sell. He notes sturdier buildings withstood the storm and that legitimate projects will continue despite the setback.
A fragmented excerpt from The Messenger features Jimp Sims and Pearl Handle in a risqué melodrama. Plot threads include Jimp's rise to wealth, an unhappy marriage, a farcical theater episode, and a violent nightclub confrontation ending with a gunfight and a cliffhanger.
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge will attend the wedding this afternoon in Washington. The groom is William Harriss manager of the Washington baseball club and the bride is Miss Elizabeth Sutherland daughter of Howard Sutherland the Alien Property Custodian.
In Youngstown on October 1 the grand jury's refusal to indict gamblers does not halt efforts to recover funds Harold Williams, the confessed embezzler, claims he lost. Andrew M. Henderson, attorney for American Surety, will pursue civil actions for recovery.
Daily trains depart northbound and southbound from Athens with times for Nos 1 5 2 6 and more. Valley line northbound departures include 6 45 am and 12 10 pm with southbound arrivals around 11 08 am and 4 32 pm. Baltimore and Ohio routes show early morning and evening services west and eastbound with multiple departures.
Cattle receipts 3,000 with steady trade. yearlings 1,000 to 1,100 pounds 10.00 to 11.38. heifers and feeders steady. Sheep receipts 14,000 with fat lambs firm. natives 15.00 to 15.25. feeder lambs higher. Hogs receipts 12,000. top 13.00. weights 160 to 350 pounds with varied price ranges. Slaughter cattle and calves quoted steady to higher across weight classes.
Public notice states The Central Ohio Transit Company filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to substitute two 12 passenger cars for two 8 passenger cars. In Bankruptcy Court Chas D Giauque seeks full discharge of debts. hearing set Dec 10 1926 in Columbus Ohio with creditors invited to attend.
Cleveland Ohio October market notes show butter at 48 to 64 cents per pound for extras and firsts, assorted poultry prices including heavy fowls at 27 to 28 cents, leghorns and broilers around 20 cents, eggs and potatoes unchanged, various butter receipts totaling 16,502 and creamery extras 45 to 46 cents, with white varieties and Pacific Coast prices also listed.
Boston reports ongoing wool market activity with good demand for three eighths blood territory wool at 2c and 9 5 8e clean basis. Quarter blood wool ranges from 9 1 2e to 9 3 4e amid firm foreign markets.
The Toledo market report lists wheat and corn prices, oats and barley values, and cash and futures figures for several grains. It also shows a long list of industrials and company names in trading context, reflecting items on the market map.
The report notes trimmed pelts turned into tailored coats for early winter wear and features Elinore Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, arriving from Europe in a top fashion model. It also mentions Carlo the wolf hound with a smooth clipped coat. Alan Cobham, Britain's leading civilian aviator, returns to Britain from a 28 000 mile Melbourne flight ending at 9 46 p m after a journey started June 30.
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to order Secretary of State Brown to remove the direct primary amendment from the ballot. Campaigns will be driven by two factions with the Primary Defense League led by J F P Burke opposing the amendment and supporters led by Harry Davis and C L Knight backing it. The court ruled on Burke's suit after Brown rejected action on a protest alleging forged signatures.
Colonel Alexander S. Williams U S Marine Corps, tied to the General Butler cocktail case, drowned when his car plunged from the Embarcadero into San Francisco bay. His body was recovered after hours of effort. Williams had left home for a dinner and had faced prior drunkenness charges related to Gen. Smedley Butler.
Great Britain agreed to cooperate with U S prohibition authorities to check rum running from the Bahama Islands and other British ports. Officials stressed the agreement is not a treaty and follows suggestions from the London conference on administrative cooperation to curb illicit liquor trade.
Lorgnettes adopted by the engineer corps as standard equipment become practical gear. British aircraft radio mapping tracks commercial flights from Croydon. Navy secretary says Pensacola lacks planes for Florida hurricane searches but may commission Atlantic coast assets. Fire prevention on farms urged after heavy losses. forest fire season sentinel metrics cited. Visual signaling fades as telegraph and radio rise. semaphore use discontinued. The Caterpillar Club notes aviators who survive emergency jumps.
Detective Gumshoe and allies spy on Pearl and Jimp in the Pennsyltucky Hotel suite where Mr Handle tries to shoot Jimp. The author abruptly ends the chapter as Handle is hurled from a window. Pearl and Jimp, now rich, bicker over table manners while dinner continues with the cook and helper joining them.
A new women’s hygiene product named Kotex promises scientific, delicate protection, replacing old-fashioned sanitary pads. Marketed to eight in ten better-class women, it claims five times absorbency, no laundry, no embarrassment, deodorizes, and costs a few cents for a 12 pack sold in drug or department stores.
Shanghai reports anxiety for five hundred foreign missionaries in Sichuan's upper Yangtze region as protests rise. Chungking evacuations noted. Chungking hosts the West China Union University run by American Presbyterians and Canadian Methodists. Chenetu is described as the university seat. The city lies about eighteen hundred miles from Shanghai, a twenty five day voyage.
A historical radio listing compiles Eastern and Central time slots for numerous U S stations. It notes programs including Anglo-Persians at 10:30 PM on WJZ New York and other musical acts, concerts, and news across cities like Atlanta Baltimore Chicago and Detroit with multiple orchestras and dance bands.
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