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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1936
Page
12
The text signals a highly active day with major planets in favorable positions, urging reaching high goals with support from influential figures. Travel may be needed to achieve aims, and those with birthdays face a prosperous year. A child born today may be ambitious noble and popular.
A 5 by 10 foot chunk of coal from Carbon county weighs 20 900 pounds at the state capitol. Geologists attribute the mass to pressure on ancient vegetation. Planters grant extra bonuses in Hawaii for wartime service and employee ideas.
New York stock movement shows Boeing rising about 1 percent to a 1936 high after announcing a new super bombing plane. Wright Aero climbs 2 percent to 120, other aircraft issues gain fractionally, steel issues stay firm, rails inch up, and Baldwin Locomotive slips about 15 cents to 9.
A dense listing of numerous named companies across industries with percentage figures and partial stock values. It reads like a market page segment detailing INDUSTRIALS, OILS, STEELS, MOTORS, and Coppers and Mines curb stocks with mixed percentages and incomplete entries. The piece emphasizes market movements and equity figures without narrative context.
Local residents and visitors fill a weekend with trips to and from Langsville and nearby towns. The report lists numerous families traveling to see relatives, with several instances of cross town and out of state visits. A daughter was born dead to Mr and Mrs Lewie McWilliams with burial at Green Lawn Cemetery.
Grid of grain prices for wheat corn and oats in Toledo, Cincinnati and Chicago. Includes No 1 red wheat at 122 123, corn No 2 yellow 10414 105%, eggs in Cincinnati at 40 for firsts and 34 for seconds, various fowl prices, and Chicago eyes butter and milk prices with receipts and grade figures.
Eggs and live poultry prices pull from a single market update. Current receipts list eggs at various grades from extra firsts to firsts and white eggs, with pullet eggs at 28. Poultry values show steadiness for fowl and high birds, with heavy hens near 18 and up, leghorns around 12 to 14, and turkeys and ducks priced across multiple options. Overall market tones indicate weak live poultry and a steady egg market with several grade distinctions.
Livestock receipts include hogs, cattle, calves, sheep with varied rising hogs and steadier cattle. Pigs 200 to 275 lbs largely 10.15 to 10.25. sows mostly 8.5 to 9.0. Cattle and calves show steady demand with several price points for steers heifers and bulls. sheep steady to weak with lambs and ewes trading around 8 to 9.
Hog prices show 1800s direct steady with averages 10.50 for 180 to 230 lb and heavies 9.50 to 10.25. A load at 164 lb averages 10.15 and 100 to 140 lb cattle bring 8.50 to 9.50. Calves top dealers 11.50. Sheep begin slow with lambs 9.00 to 9.50 bid, throwing outs 7.25 down. overall sheep market steady to weak with few sales to 4.50.
Dr W H Hyde of Nelsonville was elected president of the Athens County Medical Society at the annual business meeting at The Colonial in Athens. Elected officers include Blaine R Goldsberry vice president T A Copeland secretary treasurer C S McDougall delegate to state convention A L Pritchard alternate delegate. Dr Goldsberry spoke on Angina and Coronary Occlusion. The next meeting will be in Nelsonville on Wednesday Jan 6.
The document lists New York Central and Chesapeake and Ohio train arrivals and departures daily with variations for Sundays and directions. It also notes Baltimore and Ohio West and East bound services and timetable codes. Athens Municipal Airport provides sunrise to sunset air taxi service with connections to WA and AA airlines and specific flight times for West North and East directions.
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