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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1936
Page
12
A condensed index of classified categories including employment openings for women and men, agents and helpers, financial solicitations like loans and business opportunities, livestock and pets for sale, merchandise listings, office equipment and farming supplies, meals and beverages, housing options such as rooms for rent and farms, and real estate listings for sale or rent.
Readable fragments show an apparent local item with names and places obscured by OCR errors. The brief hints at a notice or event listing without clear actions dates or outcomes.
Grain on track 24 1 2 cent rate basis nominal. Wheat and oats unchanged. Corn No 2 yellow 61 46 1 64. No 3 yellow 9 s 60 2. Grain in store transit billing attached. Corn 444 above track quotation. Hay unchanged.
New stock arrivals show Idaho Russet burlap bags priced around two dollars with some higher bids. Colorado McClures and Nebraska Triumphs hover near one to two dollars. Minnesota North Dakota cobbers and Ohio outputs fetch around one to one fifty. Florida Bliss Triumphs command about two dollars and thirty five cents per bushel.
A list of unit prices shows eggs in various grades and weights with firsts and seconds. Poultry items include rock springers and leghorn springers with weight classes and prices. Butter creamery and butterfat quotes are provided for No 1 and No 2 grades, along with packing stock prices.
The listing shows fees unsettled receipts for 21 22 and extras for 23 24 with white ex tras 27. Poultry steady with heavy hens 20 22 and leg horn hens 16418. Heavy springers 4 lbs ald over 20%22. under 4 lbs 189720. Leg horn springers 16 18. old roosters 13 14. Gucks 20022 geese 18420 turkeys young toms and hens 23925 old toms 18420. No. 2 turkeys 18 fresh killed full dressed hens 35 hog dressed 20.
Butter shows unsettled trading at 7.971 with prices unchanged. Eggs or related products list unsettled with early grade figures including extra firsts 22 and fresh graded first cars 2141, local 21, current receipts 20, refrigerator standards 16 percent, firsts 16 percent.
Nearby current receipts show a bid of 22 as 24425 in exchange listings. Butter stocks total 610 tubs with eggs at 841 cases and current animal products details.
The notice lists standards for butter and creamery products and current receipts with percentages, then details weights and grades for poultry including heavy fowls, springers, leghorn varieties, ducks, turkeys, geese, and capons. It also notes local fresh dressed poultry prices and a Potavors 162.35 per 100 pound sack.
Cincinnati market notes show cattle and calves active with strong butcher demand and prices around $8 to $12 for weight classes. Hog prices rise up to around $10.60, with buyers bidding above $10 for heavy hogs. Sheep and lambs offer limited good stock with steady to lower quotes, top lambs near $10.85. Pittsburgh listings show hogs up to $10.60, cattle steady with steers around $7 to $8.50, cows $4.40 to $7, and lambs about $10.75 to $10.85, with overall cautious buyers and varied weights.
Prices for government bonds and farm loans appear briefly amid market chatter with western trade terms. A minor obituary-like paragraph mentions Lee Logan and Mrs Francis visiting relatives, plus a note on Dr. Fram's graduate study in Illinois and retirement in Haydenville.
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