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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 19, 1940

Page

10

Classified Ad Rates and Section Listings Glimpse

The text outlines cash rates with for-pay timing and six day pay option plus possible monthly or yearly special rates. It lists ad categories such as Automotives Business Services Help Wanted Livestock For Sale Bargain Counter and Real Estate with numbered subsections and examples of notices including Memorials and Lost and Found. It notes adjustments for material errors and a three day window for claims. Public sale category is shown.

Grain and Produce Prices for Wheat Corn and Oats

Grain prices show No 1 red wheat at 105 to 106 and No 2 red at 104 to 108. Corn No 2 yellow 59 to 59 and No 3 yellow 58 to 58. Oats No 2 white 42 to 43 and No 3 white 40 to 42.

Produce Market Reports From Cincinnati Chicago and Cleveland

Cincinnati Eggs market and poultry prices show higher extra firsts at 24 and near 23 for ungraded eggs with colored fowls roosters and capons listed. Chicago Butter receipts large at 503000 pounds with a steady market and eggs prices around 21 to 31 percent across score levels. Cleveland eggs firm with extra grade clean at 22 and live poultry ranges for hens leghorn and stags.

Old Roosters Rock Springers Red Springers Leghorn Springers Stags Cincinnati White Rocks Plymouth Rocks Chicago Cleveland

Livestock Prices at Pittsburgh Cattle and Hogs Sale

The markets show a wide range with cattle from common to choice and cows, canners, and bulls listed. Hogs run mixed weights with prices from about 4 to 6.15, calves steady to 13, and overall activity described as fairly active with some weight-based gains.

Pittsburgh

Stock and Bond Trading Mixed in Quiet Session

Irregular activity marked a quiet day on Wall Street with U S Steel dipping then recovering, Bethlehem Steel rebounding above 72, and utilities holding steady. Major and minor movers included Du Pont Philip Morris Westinghouse and Sears Roebuck with several declines noted among airlines and rail but gains in chemicals and autos.

New York U. S. Steel Bethlehem du Pont Philip Morris International, Harvester Sunshine Mining Loft General Electric Sears Roebuck Pennsylvania Railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Westinghouse Elec Itric

Postmen find empty billfolds in mailboxes amid theft trend

Postal authorities say a pocketbook theft method involves removing money and leaving identification cards in mailboxes. The practice is described as a professional touch by pickpockets observed in St. Louis.

ST. Louis

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