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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1919
Page
9
Market reports show light receipts and steady to firm trends. Cattle in Pittsburg range from primes at 14.50 to 16.50 and veal calves 21.00 to 22.00, while Cincinnati notes 200 cattle and 2500 hogs with steady pricing. Chicago delivers butter prices and produce figures across standard and firsts categories.
Hogs receipts 3000 with market strong. Butchers 16.50 to 18.25, packing 16.00 to 16.50, light 16.00 to 17.75, pigs 15.00 to 16.50, roughs 15.25. Cattle receipts 6000, market steady. Beeves 8.25 to 17.65, butcher stock 6.50 to 14.75, canners 6.75 to 8.25, stockers 6.00 to 16.00, cows 8.25 to 18.50, calves 20.25 to 21.50. Sheep receipts 2500, market lower. Wool lambs 7.00 to 14.75, ewes 2.00 to 7.50.
In Toledo Ohio on September 20 the closing quotes show corn No 2 yellow at 1.61 dollars, oats No 2 white near 73 to 74 cents, barley No 2 at 1.39, rye No 2 at 1.43, and various clover and timothy seed futures. Department notes include Alsike, different contract months, and historical 1917 1918 1919 seed prices.
The item lists fresh eggs with various quality grades and prices per dozen, and live poultry prices by weight and type. Firsts and seconds for eggs range from 42 to 65 cents a dozen, while fowls, roosters, broilers, and fryers show per pound rates in cents or dollars.
Youngstown Ohio September 20 steel companies issued statements to employees denying walkouts and pledging open shop operation next Monday. J E B McCadden denied workers would strike without conference with national commission organizers. Police report strike breakers brought in but no prep for mill shutdown. firearms sale forbidden if strike takes effect.
Miss Thelma Bingman picked up a terrapin on her grandfather's Troy township farm that had been carved with her father Elmer Bingman's name twenty four years ago. The turtle was found in the same field where he had found it long ago, suggesting some turtles travel less than the hare in Aesop's fable.
Samuel T. Ansell former brigadier general and acting judge advocate general urged rapid radical changes to the court martial system saying two thirds of the 388000 cases tried before the armistice were illegally tried by standard tests and criticizing the concentration of power in a single judge. Anomalous ad copy follows about agents making 200 weekly with dubious Vermulae Broadway address.
Rebecca Everett has qualified as administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of Lewis Everett, late of Athens County, Bent deceased, this 12th day of unknown month.
A sale offers numerous household furniture and assorted items with terms for purchase disclosed on the sale day.
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