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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1933
Page
13
A fragmented classified snippet shows lost and found notes and ad policies. It mentions delays and misprints with phrases about charges, timely receipt, and offer details. Also listed are gift items from Kerr's Hardware Store such as men’s dress gloves and a lunch kit, priced in the dollars.
A collage of holiday gift ideas from area stores. Glasses, knits, handwoven items, compact cigarette cases, overnight cases, permanent waves, radios, box candy, electro manicures, bath sets, blankets, dresses, kitchen mixers, Whiteman candies, gift tables, pianos, toasters and more with store names and prices noted.
An advertisement promotes Maytag Washers for Mrs Stephen Thomas Carpenter and mentions TRY OUR Choice cuts of mest steaks and sausage offered by Union Grocery with a simple phone call.
In Athens transients sleep nightly at the City Jail with hundreds housed since March. Ohio boosts county quotas in CWA to 189 395 workers, adding 20 000 emergency positions and expanding selections from federal and state employment bureaus.
Canton and Northeastern Ohio brewers and distributors voted Tuesday to keep a minimum beer price of 15 per barrel until a brewing industry code is drafted and approved. Thousands of bus drivers struck in Canton today, paralyzing city passenger service.
Mr and Mrs Lowell Christman of Florence Tribe Crookaville announce the birth of a daughter to Ron on Tuesday November 28. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Frank Tribe Albany and Mrs C S Christavas of Creeksville.
New York December 6 Stocks opened higher but soon turned quiet and uneven. Rails rose while National Distillers fell over a point. Mail order stocks gained and leading industrials barely moved. Mining shares weakened as the RF C gold price held at 34.01 dollars. Commodities were slightly easier.
CINCINNATI December 6 Hon Ory led the South in the first title at the seventh annual American Bridge League tournament. Mrs Humphrey Wagar of Albania Georgia and Fred Levy of Montgomery Alabama won the mixed pair event.
Cleveland salesman C D Souders lost a half mile race beyond the Children’s Home to Patrolman Dwight Robinson after being arrested for speeding on East State Street. Mayor Robert S Wood fined Souders five dollars for the haste.
Athens County Petroleum Committee surveys 310 filling stations and bulk plants that sold 4999.45 gallons of gasoline last year to motor vehicle owners. Ten two man teams check price posting pay premiums and hours of work to ensure code compliance. A report will be issued later this week to the Ohio State Petroleum Committee.
Butter and eggs hold firm. Live poultry unchanged except guinea fowl young two pounds up 39 to 40 cents, turkeys young gobblers twelve pounds. over nineteen to twenty cents.
Butter packing stock No 3 sixc butter fat 1c eggs steady cases included extra firsts 25c seconds 2c nearby ungraded 28c butter market weak extras 26 percent standards 34 cents per pound in tubs eggs market steady extra whites 2c extra browns 2c extra firsts 23c current receipts 2c fresh pullets Me.
Steady meat market receipts total 1062 with extras 240 and fresh graded firsts 22 cents. Butter market unsettled with receipt 5190 and storage standards at 174 90. Various percentages and numbers indicate mixed current receipts and price signals across category lines.
A historical market listing shows current receipts and prices for poultry and related meats in Southern Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. It includes hens, springers, leghorns, roosters, geese, turkeys, and hog dressed meat with various weights and price points such as 14c for small hens, 18 16c for young turkeys, and 230 for fresh killed full dressed hens, reflecting regional market activity.
Receipts total 2900 hogs and 800 sheep with prices mixed. Hogs top at 3.75 or 30 cents under, bulk 170 to 360 pounds at 3.75, 250 to 3200 pounds at 3.50 to 3.78, 110 pound pigs at 3.25. Cattle and calves show 245 cattle receipts with top 5.40 for Monday, calves around 7 dollars with culls to 4.50, sheep strong with fat lambs around 7.25 and odd lots at 3.25.
Hogs receipts 3500 with 87 head through. holdover 360. Active, steady to strong. top and bulk 160 to 225. Prices: $3.50, mont 225 to 259, $340, 280 to 900 lb. $3.25, 190 to 150 lb. $2.75 to 3.15. Pigs mostly $250 down. sows $2.25 to 4.25. Cattle receipts 600, calves 400. mostly steady, lower on lows, best yearlings strong. Steers and heifers $3.26 to 4.75. fed cattle $5.96 to 6.25. Beef calves $2.25 to 3.00. Cutters low $1.25 to 2.25. Bulls $2.25 to 3.25. calves steady. Sheep receipts 300. lambs $6.50 to 7.00, few 7.25, culls down to 3, fat ewes to 2.
The page lists grain bids for Wheat No 2 Red and No 1 Red with various percentages, corn No 2 Yellow, oats No 2 White, and soy-like listings. also shows seed clover and cash equivalents. Liberty bonds and Treasury securities are quoted with ongoing noon price values across multiple issues and maturities.
Demand for wool in the Boston Market remained fair overall though weaker than recent weeks. Prices held firm with higher bids seen on better grades as buyers showed strength in the high end of the price range for fine and fine medium wools.
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