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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1936
Page
10
A scanned classified listing offers varied services and items from cleaning and moving to painting and office equipment. It includes household goods jewelry machinery musical merchandise clothing and room and board notices.
Hogs total 3400 with 880 direct, generally steady to $1 higher for 160 to 225 lb hogs. Cattle 550 and calves 400 with demand indifferent for steers and heifers. bulk in first hands. Cows and bulls steady. fat cows mostly 546.25. top sausage balls 7.50. Sheep 200 steady, opening sales 10.50 to 10.75, with some up to 11 for best weights.
Hogs 170 to 250 lbs steady to ten cents higher at 119.11 to 119.10 with 250 lbs up. 130 lbs down to 107.10 to 105. Calves 209 slow to steady. weaners 12.50 to 13. selections 13.50. Sows steady at 9 down. Cattle 75 including 50 directs nominal. steers 8.25 to 9.11 with best loads 9.50. heifers 8 down. cows 44 to 76.50. top bulls 7. lambs 15 cents higher, 19.50 to 11. throwouts 9.50 down. sheep steady.
The fragment lists numerous numbers and abbreviations such as 4'4s 47-52 115 and 3'qs 43-45 106.5, suggesting a page of sports stats or financial figures. It mentions items like Fed Farm Morty 3s 49 101.4 and Home Own Loan entries with percentages and scores, but lacks coherent context or full sentences.
Trade was slow in the Boston wool market with limited demand and firm asking prices for available supplies. Small lots of average to short French combing 64s and finer territory wools sold in original bags at prices around 85 to 87 cents.
Trading opens with broad activity and small price moves. A block of 7,000 California shares rose over a point while Bethlehem Steel American Can Goodyear National Cash Register and Consolidated Gas gained fractions. Edison Electric Institute notes higher power output. automobile demand remains weak due to severe weather.
The list shows prices for heavy hens 18720 colored broiler 23425 colored springers 23425 leghorn 20 22 old roosters 14415 ducky geese 18720 turkeys young hens 23725 old toms B20 y turkeys 17 fresh killed fully 35.
Fragmentary lines mention exchange sales nearby receipts and items like butter and eggs with quantities and case counts. The text is incomplete and lacks clear names or dates to form a full news item.
A jumbled set of basketball scores lists Marietta, Georgetown, Mt. St. Marys and others with varied results. Also mentions Reds holding op ties, Mid-Atlantic baseball league, and possible Ohio city sites for a team with Daily noting May start. some names appear garbled.
Boxers from Oklahoma City St Louis Tacoma and Seattle fought in recent bouts with outpoints and points decisions reported. A London House debate referenced rearmament details while other notes mention a proposed Akron case and a Columbus service highway incident involving a convicted killer.
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