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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1932
Page
9
A fragmented OCR styled page shows sections for announcements religion and social events, lost ads, automotive, real estate for sale and rent, merchandise, employment and services. It lists categories with numbers and examples like automobiles for sale building materials seeds plants and rooms for rent.
In Germantown Wisconsin Mae Bruns 12 and Pauline Dunst 18 Cedarburg Wisconsin eluded authorities for days after a two week spending spree. Police traced thousands in tips paid to taxi drivers leading to a fashionable St. Louis apartment. They admitted spending 856 on clothes candy travel and hotel stays.
In Wooster on September, the Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by a large majority, approved socialized control of the country's meteor and industrial systems, condemning capitalism as wanting. It passed resolutions on sterilization of feeble minded persons, unemployment insurance, and state control of Ohio coal mines, reaffirming support for the Eighteenth Amendment.
Three states voted today in primaries before the presidential election with Wisconsin shaping the progressive La Follette organization and New York featuring prohibition in House and state legislative nominations. Massachusetts also held contests though details are less emphasized in the report.
President Hoover declares in a brief statement that the German armament controversy is solely a European question. He notes the United States is not a party to the Versailles Treaty and would not join the discussion, while expressing hope Germany will continue to participate in the armaments conference.
A threshing machine separator burst into flames inside a barn near Lancaster injuring Enno Raab a 39 year old farmer who died from burns. The blaze consumed two barns and much grain.
Four men robbed Ruth and Hilda Flegner as they carried weekend receipts from the Jacoby Brothers Grocery Company's eight stores to a bank in Lorain. The heist involved a $1500 loss.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announces a five day working week in its general office departments. The 40 hour week takes effect from Oct. 1 to Feb. 1 with a graduated salary adjustment scale from nothing in lower brackets to 10 percent for higher salaried executives.
Lord David Burghley, famed English athlete and Olympic star, boasts England’s largest art collection aside from the National Gallery, including 35 Rembrandt works.
The American consul at Chefoo reported to the State Department that eight Baptist missionary staff members at Saichow China were advised to withdraw due to danger from civil war in Shantung Province.
Ivan W. Carter age 47 was found shot to death in the woods and identified by his widow at the county morgue. Marshal Carl Freun reported the death as an accidental shooting with his own shotgun during a hunting trip.
New York stocks steady after a morning rally with modest gains across several majors. Utilities, airlines, and steel-related shares showed modest moves while produce and poultry markets remained steady amid mixed commodity pricing.
Exggs nearby fresh 18 20e Butter Creamery extra 92 score 219 Jitie standards 90 score 20 2bc packing stock 914 ibe. Live poultry chickens young colored M4 isc Jeghorns 12 ite roosters 8 ld.
Butter packing stock No 2 priced 12c and No 3 éc butterfat 14 to 16c. Eggs show steady demand with extra firsts 23c, seconds 16c, nearby ungraded 2c.
Cleveland market prices show butter steady at 194 per dozen with extras 194c, standards 20 cents, eggs market steady with extras 24 cents and extra firsts 20 cents, current receipts 19 cents.
Mrs W H Martin died at her Detroit home. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 30 p m at the home of Mrs John T Hope Sr on West Union Street. The funeral party will arrive in Athens Thursday morning.
Mr and Mrs Floyd N Wolfe announce the birth of a daughter on Sunday September 14 The gender and full name are implied by the announcement already made by Mr and Mrs Fred N Wolfe
Readable fragments show poultry prices and items, including roosters ducks and geese, with references to West Virginia Kentucky and Crete' markets. Details include 69 price, 88 store, 29 91e, and 4100 units billed.
Hogs 4200 head with 983 direct and through. moderate activity and steady to $0.66 lower on light offerings. Cattle supplies uneven with mixed declines. cows and bulls mostly steady to down. vealers steady to firm with higher weights up to 6.25. lambs mostly steady to strong with some higher prices.
Receipts 1,600 head cattle and 100 calves. Cattle steady to lower with common cows around 4.00 and good to choice steers easing near 4.60 to 4.90. Veal and bulls show slight declines while lambs range near 8.50 to 7.80 with throwouts around 20. Buck lambs fall and wethers up to 2.76.
The report lists cattle receipts at 400 with good to common quality prices ranging from 60.60 to 19.70 per hundredweight and provides figures for heifers fat cows canners and crushers veal and hogs. Sheep and lambs show values from 4.40 to 9.00 for good to medium stock and notes stock hogs treated before leaving the yards with sale starts around 12:60.
Track prices show wheat at No. 2 yellow 28 percent and No. 9 white 17. Oats No. 2 white 17 and No. 9 white 16. Barley No. 2 at 34. Toledo seed close lists alfalfa at $6.50 to $6.79 and other seeds around $5.50.
The fragment lists assorted legal and financial abbreviations and numbers such as Treas and 3%, with dates like March and June, plus references to 100.14 100.18 and 169.18. It reads as a garbled ledger or citation trace from a historic financial table.
Boston Wool Prices notes a quiet market with limited movement and steady early prices. Receipts at Boston during the week ending September 17 reached 17,646,200 pounds, up from 4,126,600 pounds the prior week, as grading and delivery focus remained the norm.
United Aircraft & Transport Corp. announced contracts valued over 1.6 million dollars with Brazil and India governments for planes and propellers. Missouri Pacific Railroad reports record freight traffic for the week. Great Western Sugar Co plans full operation of 21 factories with payroll rise to 6 thousand, Pittsburgh’s National Steel Co. increases output, Indiana Pipe Line declares an extra 8 cent dividend.
Timetable notes daily departures from Athens for multiple west and southbound trains with numbers 3 9 30 31 32 and 37 and the Chesapeake and Ohio schedule. Times listed include 11 38 am 7 44 pm 11 20 am 6 24 pm and 7 50 pm with southbound and northbound arrivals at 11 02 pm and 7 40 pm on Sundays and other days.
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