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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1939
Page
8
The notice lists several time cards for daily services and non daily patterns, with specific hours for May 4. It also states charter air service is available for special trips to any city with an airport during daylight hours.
Coolville and Troy Notes detail the Penrose Reunion at Pennsville Park with guests from Westerville to Darling ton and Xenia. Numerous family visits, travels to Hawk’s Nest and New York World's Fair, plus illness notes and a local Bingman family reunion at Zaleski.
Zaleski society notes report visits by Mr and Mrs Donald A McKibben of Roanoke and other relatives. Miss Crist dies in Bainbridge after long illness. funeral in Ferneau home. A sheriff sale in partition action lists three parcels of land in Waterloo Township to be sold August 1 1939 at public auction, Athens County Ohio, at 1 30 PM.
A page lists numerous industrials, oils, steels, and motors, with values for 1945 and various percentages. It includes Penn government notes, Pacific regions, and major corporations such as General Electric, Procter and Gamble, Exxon, and Bethlehem Steel, along with utility stocks and special issues.
Grain and produce prices listed include Wheat No 1 red 70 1 27 1 No 2 red 69 2 70, Corn No 2 yellow 45 1 24 46, No 3 yellow 44 5 20 45, Oats No 2 white 31 4 32, No 3 white 29 3 31.
Eggs steady with whites extras 25 and standards 19, current receipts 15. Poultry prices ease with heavy hens 17 to 18 pounds and up, leghorn hens 11 to 13, roosters 12 to 13, springers 15 to 19, turkeys 18 to 20. Live poultry weak. hens 16 to 17, leghorns 12 to 13, springers 15 to 16 for under 4 pounds, heavies 17 to 18 for 4 pounds and up.
The report lists egg and butter prices with grade breakdowns and receipts. Butter No 1 and No 2 values are given with up to 25 26 cents. Egg receipts total 6 245 cases with steady market and graded firsts around 151 percent for current receipts and 16 4 percent storage packed firsts.
Livestock listings show hogs mainly steady with weights 160 to 350 pounds ranging 4.50 to 6.85 dollars per cwt and top hogs at 6.85. Cattle calves and yearlings large loads priced from 6 to 10.25 with varied grades. Sheep and lambs slow with choice lambs at 8.50 to 8.50 per cwt and ewes and wethers lower. calves steady with good to choice at 11 to 13.
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