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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
14
A historical classifieds snippet lists categories such as Business Services, Beauty Parlors, Cleaning Pressing, Sewing and Dressmaking, Heating Roofing, Moving Storage, Painting Papering, Repairing, Store Office Equipment, Printing, Corsetiere, and Professional Services. It also shows Help Wanted sections for Female and Male, plus mixed gender listings and Situations Wanted for Female and Male applicants.
New York trading edges toward recovery with many stocks showing small gains while caution grows ahead of Labor Day and a shorten session. Traders await war developments, tax bill action, and selective service measures as incentives to move. Financials slip from volatility with mixed signals from Treasury data and Dun and Bradstreet briefings.
Market notes show salable hogs range 100 to 290 pounds with various price tiers and hogs top at 7.55 for 200 to 250 pounds. Cattle steady with steers 11.50 to 12.00, cows 5.50 to 7.25, bulls 6.75 to 8.50. Grain prices list corn No 2 yellow 65 to 66, soybeans No 2 yellow 72 to 73. Eggs and poultry prices given for multiple sizes and weights.
The report details butter and eggs market figures with firm receipts and grade scores. Butter shows 1,044,184 receipts with scores ranging 27 to 28 percent, while eggs receipts total 8,632 with extra firsts and local firsts at 17 to 18 percent.
Furnished by the Cleveland Butter and Egg Board the report shows extras 57¢ per lb and up candied light yolk clear 22 extra firsts 46 lb 19 current receipts 55 lb 16. Live poultry prices list colored fowls heavy 17 medium fowls 18 leghorn fowls 13 14 leghorn broilers 4 lb 21 small rocks 19 broilers cooked 3% lb 20 leghorn broilers under 2 lb 15.
Fine western wools sold with steady demand in Boston. Graded fine territory wools fetched 89 to 1 cents and 83 to 88 cents per pound on a scoured basis for staple combing and French combing lengths. Staple combing half blood territory wools brought 83 to 85 cents. Graded combing bright fleece wools traded at 39 940 cents in grease for quarter blood and 40 to 42 cents for low quarter blood.
The Spaniards garrisoned what is now Old Tubac, Santa Cruz County, Ariz., in 1752. Old Tubac became Arizona's first Mormon settlement in 1852, the state's most important settlement in 1858, and virtually was abandoned in 1861 due to Indian depredations.
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