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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1938
Page
8
A dense OCR-like listing of newspaper classified sections including Tax Transfer Announcements Auto services employment wanted business changes real estate and miscellaneous items. It reads like a catalog of categories and brief captions rather than a narrative story with readable personal names.
Wall Street edged higher with fractional gains after an irregular opening. Atchison fell 3 percent on news of deferred interest, then rebounded. Westinghouse gained to 77. Pont rose 2 percent to 106. Other rails and steels firmed, Montgomery Ward led with gains, and General Motors held modestly higher as oils stayed firm.
Toledo markets show wheat, corn and oats price quotes with mixed red, yellow and white grain varieties. Cincinnati and Cleveland reports list eggs, butter, poultry and geese pricing, plus hogs, cattle, calves and sheep quotes from several markets.
In a terse family exchange a father asks his son to help with the final two payments on a perambulator. The son replies he cannot afford it and suggests selling the buggy via a Messenger advertisement.
The Berkeley residence of Weston G. Frome and daughter Nada McMakin held only memories of Mrs Frome and another daughter Nancy aged 23, found murdered in southwestern Texas. The slayer is at large.
The lunar transits forecast excellent opportunity for attainment and prosperity in big business and major projects. Influential figures may endorse meritorious propositions and those born today face a year of promising prospects with support from employers and power circles. A child born today could rise quickly with help from influential allies. A new dispute arises as independent unions challenge Republic Steel Corp. bargaining rights amid plant tensions.
A 767 pound sturgeon, one of the Fraser river’s largest, was landed at New Westminster by six fishermen after a three hour battle beside their boat.
Ottawa reports Canada's wheat exports totaled 96,008,341 bushels in 1937, about half of 1936, with a value of 124,439,579 dollars, down by 102,474,154 dollars from the previous year.
Adelaide Moffett will preside over the Winchester Virginia apple blossom festival on April 28 as Queen Shenandoah XV. She is the daughter of James A. Moffett former Federal Housing Administrator and widow of David Brooks with an inheritance from Standard Oil.
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