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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1930
Page
15
Classified note shows special monthly and yearly pricing on used cars. Details list varying discounts and financing options. Includes selection of models with promotional rates and terms for buyers during the sale period.
Mrs. Fred Ellis of near Athens advertised in The Messenger classified section selling her chickens as fast as they could be bought. The ad urged readers to use timely ads to move poultry and produce, providing contact numbers for Athens Nelsonville and Logan.
USED RADIOS and record players advertised at 10 to 25 dollars. Radiola semi portable six tubes ten dollars. Kolster six tubes and speaker twenty dollars. Victrola with records ten dollars. Radio in good condition twenty five dollars. Dial 20233.
An itemized ad from Carpenter Hardware Co in Nelsonville promotes stove furniture decor plates cups and trays at $1 each, plus live poultry and varying market prices. The page also lists stock market figures, an Oct market snapshot, and one day sale details for the Nelsonville store.
Local lot lists 1929 Chevrolet models priced at 450 dollars for a sedan and a coach, 1928 roadster at 225 dollars, plus a 1929 Whippet coach and other used cars. Includes Mac Chevrolet option.
Prices listed for nearby current receipts including candied fruits butter and creamery extras with weights scores and packers stock. Live poultry prices cover chickens young leghorns old heavy medium roosters guinea fowl ducks and muscovy with per pound and per unit figures.
Train notices show northbound and southbound arrivals at Athens with times for No. 8 No. 2 No. 6 and other Chesapeake and Ohio lines. East and westbound trains listed with daily or Sunday exceptions and arrivals at Athens measurements.
The 1930 public reading of delinquent personal property taxes in Athens County will occur October 20 at 2 30 PM in the Board of Commissioners office. Clerk Robert P. Tompkins notes the notice under Ohio law Section 5696.
The first livestock entry from Ohio for the 1930 International Livestock Exposition to be held in Chicago from November 29 to December 6 is Harry T. Lewis of Roseland Farm Foster Warren County Ohio.
Partial OCR text reports pricing for poultry and produce items in Cleveland with references to heavy meat, leghern leghorn, broilers, potatoes, onions, and sacks with old price figures such as 14 cents per item and per 100 pounds. Mentions Maine origin and retail terms, but many words are garbled.
A terse market note from Cincinnati shows butter prices with various grades and terms. The report lists creamery items, fat content, case inclusion, and graded versus ungraded lots around 290 in the local unit, indicating a steady market mood amid conditional discounts.
The report shows varied cattle prices with steady to lower trends across classes. Slower demand affects weighty steers and cows while vealers, sheep, and lambs show mixed movement with some price declines and others holding steady.
Pittsburgh livestock market shows hogs at 170 to 260 lbs ready to tender at 10.96 per cwt and 140 to 160 lbs at 10.96. Desirable pigs bid 9.60 to 10.78. packing sows steady. Cattle slow. calves steady. veal mostly top. Sheep around 1,000 head slow. lambs 100. The cutter grades yield 496.80.
Toledo market notes list several grain prices and futures quoted for wheat, oats, rye, and clover with various grades and primes. Butter and hay values are shown including timothy hay per cwt with quoted prices.
Advertisement notes tickets for a music course available to male readers. The page four item highlights dates, pricing, and contact details for enrollment.
Old Man Winter threatens Athens as fuel dealers report strong early demand with residents stocking cellars for a hard season. Prices are marginally lower than last year but may rise. run of mine coal listed at 8.50, regular Sunday Creek 4.00, West Virginia 8.90, Smoketens 7.59.
Revival services are held nightly at Wesleyan Methodist Church in Redtown starting 7 30 p m. Pastor M J Kimmey of Athene and class leader C H Morrison lead after services at 9 o clock. Regular preaching occurs every other Sunday at 7 30 p m. Sunday School meets at the Glouster Wesleyan Mission with J Jewitt at 4 40 p m. Gospel services every Sunday night at 7 30 o'clock.
Chinese Nationalists plan an expedition from Cheng-Chew to rescue Bert Nelson an American attached to the UK Lutheran Mission after he was seized by bandits in Honan Province He Ying Ching head of Chiang Kai Shek staff telegraphed the American Legation announcing the rescue effort and ransom demand details remain unclear
The $4,000,000 Riverside Church in New York opened as the nation’s costliest religious edifice. Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick led the opening service while John D. Rockefeller Jr., its chief patron, was in Europe. The new building features trimmed red timber.
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