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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1932
Page
9
In Dallas a three day runoff count shows Miriam A. Ferguson ahead of Ross Sterling by 404 votes with hundreds of ballots uncounted. Complete totals reach Ferguson 473,000 and Sterling 472,686 across 220 counties while 34 counties report incomplete figures.
Relief bonds of Athens County approved by the Ohio Tax Commission and the Ohio Relief Commission will be offered by county commissioners for sale in a few days. Bonds dated Sept 1 1082 retire by March 1 1034, with principal and interest funded by a new public utilities tax.
Local market list shows wheat No 2 red S444 Sa No 1 ved le premium 5 corn No 8 price 2 443a Ne yellow Bt 52 water No Willie 12 Hibe No 3 white 17 19e No 2 barley 3262 Ta jedo Produce Butter 38¢ eggs 18gP1BMe hay hog per ewt.
Gloria Stuart wears a pink dahlia named in her honor as entrants prep for the Los Angeles dahlia show. The caption notes the flower and the actress’s engagement with the event.
Merchandising issues led the surge with Montgomery Ward, Haha Department Stores and Haha preferred hitting new yearly highs. United Cigar- Stereo, Radio Corporation, Westinghouse Electric and General Electric showed active gains while American Telephone rose to 114 percent from prior levels. Utilities stayed steady as Allied Chemical and Rathonda regained fractional gains amid a broad market upturn.
The Athens City Schools will save 15 760 in expenses as the Board of Education approves the 1933 budget announced by Supt. Harper C. Pendry. Total estimated expenses drop to 145 801.25 from 161 551.25, with the largest cut in teachers' salaries and reductions across administration capital outlay and operating costs.
The Canaan Grangers plan a box supper Tuesday night August 30 at the Canaan Grange Hall. The Grange meeting and literary program will precede the supper with lunch boxes provided by the Jagies and Jycus Grangers.
Fresh eggs and creamery items listed with quality scores and stock levels. Includes fresh eggs at 14 and 99 score for HutterCreamery products with varied metrics such as packing stock at 94 and poultry section noting live chickens in young slaughtered category and rest unchanged.
The item lists dozens of poultry products with mixed illegible pricing and weights. Entries mention hens, broilers, roosters, ducks, geese and other fowl with varied marks such as 10¢ to 19, and references to regional receipts and markets in West Virginia Kentucky and nearby areas.
Corners of the CINCINNATE market show butterfat at 148 per unit with steady demand. Butterfat and stock prices appear alongside listed items including 20¢ fire sale and seconds prices in nearby trade notes.
Trade notes show Nage Market and Huiter Market holding steady with receipts around 12 440 and 11 184 units. Extra firats and firstes fluctuate with minor gains and declines, while overall market activity remains subdued with daily changes listed in small percentage shifts.
Cleveland and Ohio markets report Butter-Marcet and Mege-Market steady with assorted extras and 19 percent, poultry prices show heavy colored fowls and leghorn broilers at varied rates, ducks and old cocks noted. Potatoes in Ohio and New York sacks fetch around 80 to 406 per hundredweight with partial grading and No. 2 classifications.
Hog receipts near 3 000 with slow trade. Prices range from 4.00 to 4.60 for various weights and pigs to 4.55. Cattle receipts about 900 with steady to slight gains. grass steers around 5.50 to 6.60, cows 7.15 to 7.60, bulls 2.75 to 3.76. Calves receipts 600 with vealers at 6.50 to 7.50. Sheep receipts 5 000 with top lambs 4.38 and good wethers 2.75.
Hog prices show 4000 head with 77 direct and three holdovers. demand mostly steady to weaker, with better grades $160 to $250 and quotes around $4.60 to $4.65. Cattle and calves: steers and heifers mostly 25¢ lower, some bids off more. yearlings steady to 28¢ lower. good fed heifers and steers sold at $17.25 and $7. cows steady with grassy beef at $2.50 to $3.95. Vealers steady to higher end, but lower grades down. sheep 3400 head steady with better lambs around $6.50 to $6.78. fat ewes $1 to $1.50.
Train schedule for Athens lists departures No 8 at 11 38 p m No 3 at 11 36 am No 4 at 6 34 pm daily except Sunday and No 33 near northbound at 7 45 daily Trelo No 9 6 30 pm Southbound No 30 arrival 11 03 pm No 34 6 38 pm Westbound Baltimore and Ohio lines appear with uncertain entries and a few misread annotations OCR noise present.
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