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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1930
Page
13
Nelsonville firm offers sprays wreaths crosses and banked greenery for cemetery use with short notice. Local dealers advertise funeral arrangements and sprays. Also classified ads for car listings mention open and closed models from all makes.
Market blips show poultry prices at 28 cents for fowl and 14 cents for turkeys while steel and mining shares drift. Several large manufacturers and utilities appear in the listings, including International Harvester, General Electric, Montgomery Ward, and Union Carbide, with price markers signaling broader market movement.
Hogs at 1,000 head with holdovers 189. 18 to 35 cents lower. Cattle 240 with steady to slow demand, cutter and common cattle around 4.60 to 7.43, low cutters and cows 2. Calves 50684 35, 456 mostly steady as dealers show active demand for better grades. Sheep 2,900 with fat lambs steady and bulk 8 to down, sheep unchanged.
Livestock receipts total 1 800 hogs 440 sows steady cattle and calves steady vealers good to choice 10 40 to 13 00 medium 8 75 to 9 10 sheep receipts 800 market steady fat lambs to 10 00 other lambs down to 8 50 hogs 11 80 to 11 25 per cwt noted buyers active at market levels.
Classified notices offer tomatoes beans corn and fruits for cash via Messenger Ads. Farm listings call for dairy farms on shares with stock and equipment and farmers willing to supply references. Real estate listings include suburban home on 20 acres near Athens and several houses for sale with easy terms in Ohio and West Virginia.
Cleveland produce prices list items such as butter eggs and poultry with varying rates. Includes fowls medium leghorn heavy beetlers ducks old cocks geese and a price per half bushel basket. Idaho sack prices noted at 3.40 per 100 lb.
Receipts tally 6 605 cases with extra charges 27 1 2 cents and 24 dentures. Ordinary items 16 239c and seconds 18 cents. Market steady with receipts 58 595 tubs and various extras. Firsts 90 96 cents and seconds 32 34 cents. Standards set at 7 dollars.
Local notices list a homecoming shirt sale with various sizes and patterns, Nevestock items and Philco radios with new features, razor and beauty products, confectionery specials, and a farm for rent near Nelsonville offering 200 acres, a heated poultry house and capacity for 12 laying hens with contact details for A N Ward.
Fogs listing 6 241 cattle and 1 900 sheep outlines varied results with direct bids, steady to higher prices for some grades. Cattle mostly steady, calves and steers showing selective gains, cows and bulls mixed, sheep prices softening for lower grades and throwouts.
Auction notes show Hutter steady creamery tubs with price 36439 cents per hundredweight. Pack details include No 2 260 No 3 LSe butterfat and grade notes with firsts 26c seconds 2éc. Nearby ungraded 266 listed. cases included and extra firsts tide.
The New York market faced a technical pullback with broad resistance to a strong decline. Prices fell 1 to 2 points around noon, with gains seen in a few issues such as Foster Wheeler and Habn stores while United States Steel eased then steadied.
The page shows a dense OCR listing of railway lines and industrials with percent figures and scattered company names like Pennsylvania Rock Island Union Pacific Allied Chemical American Telegraph and American B and T. It reads like a market page with various tickers and percentages rather than a narrative report.
The State of Ohio Athens County Common Pleas Court Case No 14402 involves The Nelsonville Home and Savings Association as plaintiff in a sheriff's sale of real estate.
Probate Court of Athens County Ohio lists filed accounts with hearing suspended by publication and exceptions. Publication notice indicates interested parties may timely file objections or exceptions to the accounts.
The notice lists multiple executors administrators and guardians with their respective first and final accounts filed between Aug and Sept 1930 and related dates, including Maude L. Woodworth, Alla E. Stanley, Mac V. Bethel, M D Hughes, Herb Parker, Andrew Secerva, Stella FE. Rockhold, John Keating, George Merwin Mansfield, Carl B. E. Wharton, Roger J. Jones, B. Bartels, Edward C. Dugan, John Kasler, Pearl G. Pavey, Laura Kennedy, Eva T. Davis, Amy Leon Rinaldo, and others, under the jurisdiction of the Probate Judge.
Harold E. Barstow plaintiff files attachment in Athens County Ohio before Justice C H Porter for $276.29 against F E Sweeny and Son defendants. The order dates to August 1 1930 with date stated as August 2 1930.
Hazel M. Cooper has filed for divorce custody and maintenance against Dale Cooper of 640 East Arch Avenue Akron Ohio in Case No 14092 of the Common Pleas Court of Athens County Ohio with a hearing set on or after October 6 1930 Attorney W Finsterwald represents Hazel M Cooper and Akron address appears in the filing
Joseph Ruseckas, 12, lay in Worcester City Hospital in a 26 hour coma after crying during a recital at Lemartine Street School. He sobbed intermittently in class yesterday, then lost consciousness and was rushed to hospital as doctors feared for his life.
Samuel Long of Sulphur Springs faces common pleas court on an assault and battery charge related to an August 18 attempt to kidnap his 14 year old daughter Lola from Attica Ohio. The indictment, filed by Mrs. Floyd Etchie, alleges Long struck her when she intervened.
Wyle Frisby and George Carlin tested future accelerators and suffered cuts after a car they rode in failed to slow. The vehicle, speeding in a tent area near Ben Beckler’s home, had a stuck accelerator and plunged over an embankment on a curve. They crawled out and called for help.
Adoption of a substitute resolution to invite President Hoover to dedicate the Harding Tomb on October 2 was deferred by a special committee. Senator Simeon Fess said prior engagements prevent the President from attending the October 3 Marion service.
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