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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1930
Page
13
Classified notice lists job categories including Help Wanted female and male, general help, solicitors canvassers agents, and situations wanted for both genders. The brief appears to outline classified sections for employment listings in an automotive context.
Mr. Gilbert Shannon of 80 W State Street used a single classified ad in The Messenger to sell two Spitz and Fox terrier pups. The notice urged readers to place ads in Dogs Cats and other Pets and gave Athens Logan and Nelsonville numbers to call for an ad taker.
Agricultural lime products including washed lime stone meal at 2.50 per ton and Eversweet fine lime at 2.90 per ton with Columbus brand kiln dried 80 lb paper. Also furnished rooms for students or workers and garage space at Stewart St 49 R. Dial 21903. Messenger Classified Ad rate stated as 1.26 for a three line 18 word ad for one week, dial 643.
A dense classified page lists carburetor service including adjustment cleaning and repairs for cars and trucks, tire prices and brands, used cars with prices like a 1928 Chevrolet sedan and a Ford with a new owner, and several room rentals and employment notices. Also features hardware, electrical goods, and household items for sale with phone numbers and locations in Nelsonville, Lancaster Street, and nearby streets.
The Cleveland markets show mixed activity with grains and poultry prices varying. Notable moves include russet potatoes at 8225 per 100 pounds and poultry quotes for whites and colored springers, while steel and automative shares edge up or hold steady in lighter trading as traders reassess gains and losses from the session.
Cattle receipts show market decline while calves steady to lower. Desirable sows bring around $808 to $84 per head with better grades hitting $888.50. medium grades down about seven dollars. Sheep and hogs reflect softer demand amid general market softness.
Slow bidding on cattle and hogs with light weights weak. Slower trade for steers and heifers with lower grades taking most of the activity. Sows quoted around eight fifty to four dollars, while lighter hogs average near nine to ten dollars per hundredweight.
Livestock buyers seen steady to uneven as traders handle light weight steers and heifers. Prices quoted include various weights and grades with futures showing small gains on standout lots. Prices for sheep and lambs varied, with better lots moving higher while mediums held firm.
Market notes show Hutter steady creamery in tub tots at 36 3% with butter fat 4c. Bara packing stock $60 No 32h No 3 ite. Raga steady with casea Included. Extra firsts 28sec, firsts and seconds 24c. nearby ungraded values.
Market steady as receipts show 96 24 4 cents for firsts and 82 for seconds. Output lists include 4.406 tube, extras SA'c, firsts 84'.4e56%e, seconds 39540 and standards 38'4¢.
In New York on Sept 17 the stock market moved narrowly amid mixed trading. Near Broomsfield Mrs Albert Shimsp, 40, suffered fatal injuries after a fall over a broom handle, believed to have struck her chin and broken her back.
Samuel Goldwyn, later famed movie producer, started as an apprentice in a Gloversville New York glove business and rose quickly to run a factory of 09 workers at age seventeen.
A dense inventory of major listed firms and industrials appears, listing names across sectors from steel to utilities. Prominent entities include Allied Chemical, American Telephone, Columbia Gas and Electric, General Electric, Standard Oil peers, and railroad and motor manufacturers reflected in a broad stock and curb compilation.
Mrs. Lottie Cannon of Greens Run Trimble Township says she is pleased with the accident insurance policy she carries with The Athens Messenger. While visiting Detroit she was injured in an automobile accident and benefited from the Messenger policy and a satisfactory check.
John L. Clifton of the Ohio Department of Education announced the Ohio School of the Air will resume broadcasts on WLW starting September 22 from 2 p m to 3 p m.
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