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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1931
Page
11
A scanned page lists lost items and trades including a red bicycle, a cordovan bag with passes and papers, a 1929 car for sale, various motorized and farming equipment, radios and musical gear, rent ads for rooms, and a campus romance notice about Bernice Claire and Frank W. Nagel. The ad section highlights local merchants, used cars, and house listings with prices and contact details.
Lydia Lindgren, opera singer, loses a $600 000 damage suit against banker Otto H. Kahn after the New York court finds she failed to prove he promised to pay her $160 000. Lindgren’s attorneys consider an appeal.
New York trading showed rail shares led gains with Atchison up over 1 point while industrials rallied wiping out yesterday's losses. Major blue chips Coca Cola, American Mills, and General Motors advanced several points as Pennsylvnia and Chesapeake & Ohio posted solid increases. livestock prices moved mixed with hogs steady and calves firm at Moncline.
Prices for live poultry moved in Baltimore markets with young colored chickens and leghorns listed. Receipts showed 24 to 27 percent changes. roosters priced at 12 to 15 cents and other heavy stock at 18 to 20 cents per unit. older stock largely unchanged.
Chicago produce firm reports receipts totaling 3 708 cases with extra firsts 24.4 and 23 4, current receipts 18 31 percent and seconds 12 17 percent. Buttery Firm shows 8 070 shipments with extras 33, extra firsts 30 3114, firsts 26 25, seconds 24 2514 and standards 22 percent.
A brief market note lists butter and poultry prices with extras and firsts, including nearby and fresh killed hens, ducks, and various fowl grades. Potatoes are recorded by region with per sack prices for Maine, Idaho, and Long Island varieties.
In Cincinnati the weekly butter fat market stabilizes with reported counts and prices. Scattered stock entries show mixed quality with ungraded lots and activity focused on fat content and yield across several lots.
General Foods reports September quarter net profit near zero per share, lifting year to date to around for the first three quarters. East Texas crude output and proration affect rail and oil sectors, while American Smelting and DuPont trade, and Douglas Aircraft reports August results with unfilled orders and reserves.
World copper talks advance with representatives in New York aiming to resolve the copper equation by October. Bond markets show a fall in yields on foreign issues, while United Light & Power reports earnings of 6.59 million after depreciation. Eastern rail mergers face minority opposition yet authorities remain hopeful, and bond market tone improves as some securities rally.
A damaged OCR shows partial timetable for northbound trains to Athens with departures around 10:46 and 9:30 and partial notes on train numbers 2 4 33 31. Some words are garbled but indicate a rail schedule listing origins and times.
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