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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1924
Page
7
Toledo O Reb 25 shows cash wheat at 1.15 with 1.15 percent. corn 81 1/2 to 82 cents. oats 62 1/2 to 53 1/2. rye 72. barley 72 1/2. Clover cash old 13.25 new 11.50 February 11.50 March 11.50 October 11.25. Alsike cash 8.35 February 6.95 March 8.40 bid. Timothy cash 3.65 February 3.65 March 3.70 asked.
Local markets report LGGS fresh goods with firsts at 20 cents and seconds at 27 cents while neargrades offer 29 cents and ordinary estates list 28 cents in a busy price roundup.
Chicago markets report butter receipts 15 936 tubs at breamery with extras 49c and firsts 47 47%c. Packing stock 29 30c. Eggs receipts 35 158 cases with miscellaneous 26 27c ordinary rests 25 26c firsts 2714 28 checks 28 24c dirtles 24 25c.
Poultry and fowl prices range 16 to 30 cents per pound with turkeys at 28 cents. Apples and strawberries show dollars per basket, dried navy beans at 61⁄4 cents per pound, potatoes at 2.30 a sack, white potatoes at 2.75 per peck, tomatoes at 6 dollars per crate, onions at 2.65 to 2.75 per bushel.
Livestock prices and receipts from Chicago show hogs at 60,000 head with prices up to 7.30, cattle steady to strong with choicest at 10.50 to 11.75, heifers at 5 to 106, bulls to 7, veal calves 11 to 14, feeder steers 5.75 to 8.00, sheep and lambs rising with fat lambs 15 to 16 dollars and yearlings around 12.50. Products list assorted dairy and poultry prices including butter tablets and potatoes among market notes.
H. J. Brown superintendent of the F. C. Stedman plant at 73 North Congress Street faced a serious eye injury after a stick caught in a hog-hoist sent a wood splinter into his eye. Doctors at Sheltering Arms Hospital reported grave doubts about saving any vision in the right eye.
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