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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1930
Page
13
The notice outlines ad submission timing misprints allowances and three day claim windows. It also lists the Messenger policy on unacceptable ads and a long catalog of classified sections including Automotive Business Services Financial Livestock Merchandise Rooms Real Estate For Rent and For Sale categories with numerous subsections.
Very good mechanical condition offers a Ford around $100. Angeo Motor Universal Floor Mat fits all cars and services wreck work body tender top glass. Phillips Motor Sales Athens promises skilled mechanics and guaranteed work. Vulcanizing services and tire repairs offered by PF Webb. Parker's Garage provides car repair for all makes including brakes.
Our Great New Customer Sale begins Thursday October 16 and ends Monday October 20. Includes discounted items such as women's chiffon hosiery parlor stove sets and assorted hardware. Gadbury's Electric Shop and Carpenter Hardware Co present one day specials with window displays and diverse brands.
New York trading extended two days of advances with fractions gained across many shares. U S Steel opened up and rose to 140 1/2. major leaders such as Bethlehem Steel, DuPont and Sinclair Oil posted fractional gains while several industrials and rubbers showed modest improvements amid a listless broader tape.
To place tenant ads for houses or apartments in The Messenger contact numbers 0243 Athens Nelsonville 824 J or Logan 272 for classified placement.
Prices listed for furnished and unfurnished Dor Rent on Chestnut Street. Duplex style half of a double with four rooms and bath, in-house water, contact J Gadbury Realty via phone 661.
Bids are invited for the brick work on a new Grange Hall at Oak Grove with wood work separate. The Executive Committee may reject any or all bids. Interested bidders may obtain details from Karl White Route 2 Nelsonville Homer Warehime Route 1 Nelsonville or L E Buell Nelsonville. Bids due by Oct 25 1050. Signed A M Ward Master Oct 1681.
IL M Williams filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for a certificate of public convenience to operate a motor transportation business over an irregular Ohio route from Athens. The proposal specifies one 114 ton truck and requests hearing details from the commission in Columbus Ohio. Obtain information by contacting the PUC.
Notice that a proposition to levy up to three mills for five years beyond the fifteen mill limit will go to voters in the Waterloo Consolidated School District on November 4, 1930. Polls open 6:50 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Clerk D. Root notes continuation of a 3 mill levy to secure state aid.
Hog offerings total about 3 500 head with 1 710 direct and 900 holdovers up to 18 cents higher for 200 lb hogs. ranges show bulk trade around 40 to 40.80 per cwt with lighter weights uneven. Cattle calves slow and mostly steady with some lower grades. beef cow prices soft, good and choice 11.00 to 12.50 while common and cutters range 2.50 to 5.50. Sheep and lambs mostly steady with better lambs at 7.00 to 17.50 and heavy weights down to 6.50 amid some strength in certain lots.
A fragmented price list shows butter and eggs with extras and standards, poultry categories including heavy fowls and leghorn offerings with varied prices, ducks, old cocks, and geese. Potatoes list Ohio Cobblers, Maine Green Mountain, Idaho Russett with per sack weights and prices in dollars per hundred or per Sack.
Grain values listed include Wheat No 2 red at 84 8846 cents, Corn No 2 yellow at 91820, Oats No 3 white at Wy440, Rye No 2 tied at Clovers and hay prices shown with new and old rates. Butter creamery prices noted alongside country run sage and timothy hay at varying cents per pound or per unit.
Fragmented market brief lists poultry prices and assorted farm stock. Mentions geese and roosters with scattered figures, references to spring arrivals and fresh stock amid unclear OCR.
Fragmentary note records a Cincinnati based product scoring 84 370 with references to creamery packing and butter cases. Missing context or complete details hinder full interpretation.
Market page reports mixed readings with odd figures and scattered extras. Prices listed include 8 to 9 cents and 2 cents for certain items, alongside steady totals and atypical percentages.
Prices for hogs and calves mixed as receipts vary. Hog demand up with higher bids while steer and heifer receipts appear modest, calves steady with moderate demand. Mixed market tones persist across grades and regions.
Rabindranath Tagore, famed Indian poet and philosopher, arrives in New York from Europe. He criticizes subjugation in India and advocates mass education inspired by Soviet Russia to enlighten his homeland.
Colleen Moore travels with a retinue of trunks secretaries a maid and many pets as she rehearses in New York for a Broadway play likely titled On the Loose or Flame. This marks her first photo since arriving on Broadway for the comeback venture produced by Arch SelwynWilma Banky Rod LaRoque and possibly Mary Pickford.
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