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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1932
Page
9
A dense mix of Christmas gift listings and shop promos from The Athens Messenger. Ads highlight clocks, gift sets, canaries, blankets, subscriptions, hay, feeds, and children’s toys with prices and store names across Nelsonville and surrounding areas.
A noisy OCR page lists home gifts and holiday items with prices. It mentions radios from CHELSEA or similar brands, holiday foods from Rauch Bakery and Cullen Growers, plus turkey, chicken, fancy groceries, and candied treats available through local merchants on W Union Street.
New York reports a solid week for stocks amid war debt concerns for France and Belgium. Utilities show strength on earnings, while copper and oil face volatility. Fed notes slight money supply decline and a $17,000 monetary adjustment. Major Industrials like Allied Chemicals, DuPont, and United States Steel index movement as investors weigh demand and production signals.
Special Xmas offers from Ary garment cleaner 5¢ and Al Christmas Cash and Carry. Weisens Press Shop features. Pomeroy Auto Accessories promotes practical gifts. We carry full line of auto supplies including White Tire and Battery Shop in Pom troy.
New York reports a week of rising bond activity with government issues reaching new highs for the year. Foreign markets show strength in German bonds while domestic issues trend upward, led by top grade and strictly investment type bonds. Industrial, railroad, and public utility groups show little price movement with a net gain. Some dividend issues attract minor interest.
The piece suggests making greeting cards at home with a leaflet for guidance and buying envelopes from an art store or stationer. It notes choosing odd sizes and possibly lined envelopes with festive colors like gold silver red or green. It also mentions using leftover envelopes from past stationery boxes.
A vintage guide details making parchment Christmas cards using skin, Epsom salts, waterproof ink, and wax. It covers letting skins dry flat, cutting to envelope size, embossing with tacks, and optional color tinting with cold water dye. It suggests inexpensive keepsake ideas like plaster or terracotta mini cards and patched fabric cards, plus a photomontage card concept with a DIY finish.
Market reports indicate weakness in price levels and bearish sentiment on the Cure Exchange during the past week. Indiana shares slid over one point in a single session while Cities Service remained a weak spot as prices fluctuated.
Prices moved irregularly on the stock exchange with most issues closing near previous levels. Aviation Corporation rose to a new year high while United Aircraft edged higher. General Motors and Chrysler posted small gains or were flat amid weaker overall demand.
A sparse stock docket shows Allegheny Corp. and rail sector plays in focus with uneven moves. Traders monitor early gains and declines amid shifting market sentiment and ongoing industry headlines.
Market tone steady for live poultry with varied receipts. Leghorns, old heavies, and mediums listed with prices. geese and ducks noted alongside young turkeys and old toms. Nearby hocks, hens, and roosters priced. regional receipts from Crete, West Virginia, Kentucky and beyond.
Chillicothe livestock receipts show hogs 4 700 head with varied weights and prices around 3.40 to 3.95 per cwt, cattle receipts 300 with calves nominal, sheep 400 and lambs 93 with mixed top quotes. Heavier hogs and sows dominate value, with cattle steers and heifers trading at around 6.50 and 2.60 respectively.
Cattle receipts around 100 with market unchanged. Medium to good steers yearlings quoted 425 85.75, common to medium heavers 2 05064.25, beef cows 2 253.29, bulls 6293.25. Calves receipts 18 market steady, Choice wearers 6966.50. Sheep receipts 300 market steady to higher, choice lambs 6.35 down.
A. & D. Ale x reports a quiet week in Boston wool trading with firming on 18s fleeces. Demand concentrated on 64s and finer combing western wools and Les Geeces receipts, while Texas wools remained steady amid some irregularity and restraint in broader markets.
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