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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1936
Page
10
The listing compiles classified categories including help wanted real estate rooms for rent and merchandise. It shows sections for employment opportunities livestock vehicles and pets building materials and business services with various subcategories and ad codes. The page functions as a directory guiding readers to search multiple classified sections and hot topics.
Hog prices generally 10c lower with top 1090 for 160 to 225 lbs and 225 to 300 lbs at 10.15. Calves 400 and 600 head shown, steers scarce with matures around 7.50, butcher steers and heifers 6.75. Fat cows 5.25 to 6, sows weak to 25c lower at 850. Vealers 50c below Tuesday, lambs steady to 10.50 for better grades, ewes weak to 3.5.
Hog prices mixed with 1 000 head including 700 directs. 150 lb down to 160 220 lb at 11.10 to 11.50 per cwt. Cattle 350 head including directs. steers 7.75 8.75, heifers 8.25 down, cutters 3.50 bull price 7. Calves 230 head. vealers 10.50 standard 11.50. Sheep 300 head. lambs brisk, bulk 8.50 9.25, ewes steady to higher.
The Richland Ave M P Church Ladies Aid Society will hold an all day meeting Thursday in their church room. A noon pot luck dinner will be served. Members should attend and help prepare for the bazaar set for April 8 and 9 at the American Express Co office. The Arrangements Committee meets Thursday at 7 pm to wrap packages. Bazaar items include fancy work Friday and Saturday and baked goods Saturday.
The Woman's Legion Auxiliary plans a weekly benefit bingo at the Legion in Nelsonville at 8 o'clock. The event will be in the basement and attendees are asked to bring old tickets.
New York AP reports early stock trading showing gains for firms including American Telephone Case Allied Chemical Western Union U S Steel New York Central Standard Oil of New Jersey Montgomery Ward Chrysler Anaconda General Motors and American Can. Iron Age notes steel output at 62 percent of capacity with 137000 tons daily. French franc strengthens slightly and sterling edges up.
The page lists a long array of stock names and percentages including Am. Can, American Oil, Goodyear, General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, and Union Carbide among many others. It discusses Treasury prices and yields and notes easing in Boston fleece wool markets with midwestern shorn clips around 38 cents in grease delivered east. It ends with a factual aside about Julius Caesar wearing a laurel crown due to baldness concerns.
Grain on track prices show wheat No. 2 red at 95 9 sixteenths, No. 3 red at 93 95. Corn No. 2 yellow 61, No. 3 yellow 59 61. Oats No. 2 white 28 31, No. 3 white 24 30. Grain in store transit billing attached. Wheat 5c above track, corn 4 4.25c above, oats 1 4c above. Hay unchanged.
Market notes show butter and eggs holding firm. Live poultry values keep steady on broilers. Potatoes quoted at 2.10 per 100 pounds for a sack and 2.25 per 60 bushel for new stock.
The notice lists dairy and egg products with grades and container counts including creamery butter, eggs by case and grade numbers, goose eggs No 1 and No 2, duck eggs, and loose eggs with specified quantities. It reads like a market or inventory snippet from a period publication.
The market shows butter mild and nearby tubs at 92 with 30 percent extras. Eggs unsettled with 17s current receipts and 18 9 for extra firsts. cheese unchanged. Poultry steady with heavy hens 22 24, leghorn hens 18 20, broilers 24 26, turkeys young 23 25, old toms 18 47 20, fresh killed full dressed hens 34, hog dressed 30.
Butter 6118 unsettled prices unchanged Eggs 29435 steady extra firsts local 1844 cars 18 percent fresh graded firsts local 18 percent current receipts 1744 storage packed extras 20 storage packed firsts 19 percent.
Unsettled egg prices with commissions noted. Current receipts for nearby and southern eggs around 18 cents with whites at 19 20 cents. Exchange shows no sales. nearby receipts offered 18. Whites 57 pounds listed with bids at 19 and offers at 21 cents. Butter 949 tubs and eggs 1,753 cases reported.
The treasury report shows March 30 receipts of 12 million 215 843 dollars and expenditures of 46 million 517 922 dollars leaving net balance 2 million 868 960 51547. Customs monthly receipts total 34 077 924 dollars. Fiscal year receipts since July 1 total 3 090 789 805 19 with expenditures 5 323 730 087 70 including 2 412 781 656 60 emergency. Excess of expenditures 2 232 931 182 51, gross debt 31 460 254 715 88, down 16 853 800 25 from prior day. Gold assets 10 180 685 503 90.
The piece argues regulation is a governmental function while directing business is a specialized economic activity. It warns government attempts to direct private enterprise are hazardous, comparing such actions to a destructive quack who ignores complex market dynamics. It stresses the need to distinguish between trained regulators and economic directors.
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