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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1938
Page
10
Hogs total 700 head with 600 in direct shipments priced around $8.75. Cattle 50 head with 25 direct offerings, steady to nominal. Best steers yesterday at $10. Calves 50 head near $12 to $13 for good and choice, some $13. Sheep 100 head. Lambs 10 cents higher with top $10.25. good and choice $9.75 to $10.25. culls $8 and lower. other classes nominal.
W F Deem resumes Sunday School duties after illness. Grace and Ella Wagner visit brother J H Wagner in Gallipolis for Christmas. Residents travel to Ironton to see Mrs James Burton. A W Pullins host dinner with John Freer Chester Freer Mazie Freer and Albert Spencer family from Columbus visit. Various locals and travelers return home for holidays including Lizzie Adams Kenneth Raike and W H Comstock.
The Stars Say For Wednesday December 28 by Genevieve Kemble notes the Christmas spirit remains strong with social domestic and romantic activity driven by benefice planetary influences. It warns of secret intrigue and potential malice while a child born this day may favor culture mysticism and altruism over practical concerns.
Markets opened with modest gains in aircraft shares and oils while most sections slipped. U S Steel rose to 66 and Chrysler edged to 81 1/2, GM fell to 49 1/4 as rails showed small declines.
A scan of New York stocks shows railroads and industrials mixed with several firms listing notable gains such as American Tobacco and Procter and Gamble, while utilities and oils show varying advances. Key names include Am. Sugar, Bethlehem Steel, U S Steel, General Motors, and Anaconda, with percentage changes scattered around the mid teens to low double digits.
Grain and produce prices list Wheat and corn quotes for No. 1 and No. 2 red, No. 2 yellow, No. 3 yellow. Butter and eggs state market levels and receipts. Live poultry prices cover fowls, leghorns, roosters, capons, ducks, geese, and turkeys with dressed and drawn meat values.
Two theater tickets win awards for Athena go to Jack Sams of 24 Elliott St Athens. Majestic tickets awarded to Malvern Wilson of 106 Adams St Nelsonville Ohio.
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