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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1935
Page
9
Washington University students built a dark room in the physics building and, unable to extract a 12 foot ladder through a small door, tore down a wall section to remove it. George M. Coffey directed the work and quipped that learning is the goal of school.
New York stocks opened with mixed results as Consolidated Gas Bethlehem Steel and Commercial Solvents posted fractional gains while United States Steel American Smelting and other majors showed little change. News on steel supply and a lower scrap index added caution, with some analysts noting potential for refinanced capital due to a revised securities prospectus.
Public notice lists James E. Newman seeking to modify equipment on Certificate No. 574 with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Also reported are insurance commission updates for COMMER PANY ALLY INSURANCE and NORTH-UTUALIRE ASSOCIATION with asset, liability, and surplus figures.
A fragment reports steady egg and butter trading with street sales nearby. It lists hen eggs mostly large and medium sizes with receipts around 30 and bids near 29, plus 15 tubs of butter and 1 007 cases of eggs.
A fragmented price sheet lists eggs, butter, potatoes, greens and poultry with varied weights and regional prices. Items include Michigan round whites eggs, Maine Green Mountains butter, Idaho Russet Burbanks, Florida Triquipia stock, and assorted broilers and fryers with inconsistent quantities and units.
Grain prices listed for Wheat No 2 red No 1 red and Corn Oats with Northern market quotes. Track quotations show May unchanged and grain in store with transit billing attached. Wheat above track, corn four and three quarters percent above, oats three or four cents above.
The note lists creamery extras in tubs at 40 and standards at 46. It also records Kags-Migher fresh extras at 30 and current receipts at 28, noting price or quantity references in a condensed pricing/stock ledger.
Local market notes show weaker nearby produce with current receipts, including 26027 and 28099. Fresh extra items and hene mery white extras appear in the listings with codes 39032.
Fragmentary OCR text shows butter prices and creamery references with scattered figures. Mentions 4 777, 99 score, 92, 3¢, 90091, 35, 36 percent, firete and standards notes, fresh graded items, current receipts 37, and no egg sales.
Hogs sold 2.89 per unit with trims up to 46 higher for lighter weights and sows up to 46 higher. top 180 to 210 pounds at 88.40. Cattle 1,325 head and calves 400 with early butcher yearlings barely steady to lower. fat cows 496 with some at 6.90. Sheep 200 head, salesmen say steady or up to 9.40 for choice lightweights.
Market listings show hogs, cattle and sheep with price ranges and declines noted across weight classes. Treasury figures for February 1 include receipts of 10.5 million and expenditures of 34.85 million, with a year total of 92.65 million receipts and 49.92 million expenditures.
Demand for territory wools eased from the prior week as Boston buyers concentrated on original keg lines of bulk average French combing 64 8 and finer wools at 67 70 cents scoured. No interest shown in medium and low grade territory wools. Ohio Delaine sold in fair quantities at 27 28 cents grease, while combing 56s 1/2 blood Ohio wools moved at 28 29 28 cents.
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