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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1940
Page
14
A dense catalog listing job types and classified categories appears, enumerating help wanted, business chances, educational classes, livestock for sale, farm supplies, building materials, and real estate sections. It frames a historic newspaper classifieds page with itemized sections and numbers.
Pittsburgh livestock market shows active cattle and hog trading with varied grades. Cattle with good to choice dry fed priced up to 10.25 to 11.25 per cwt, cows and bulls strong, calves steady. hogs with light supply higher on some weights and sows steady, top reported at 6.00 for good quality 180 to 200 lb. groups. Sheep show good lambs around 9.60 and wethers about 5.70.
Pretoria announces L. F. W. Trollope is appointed magistrate and native commissioner of the eastern Caprivi Zipfel. He and an assistant will administer the territory using native institutions to combat witchcraft and aid native uplift under guidance from the South African government. The area was German prewar territory.
Clemson South Carolina D W Watkins director of the South Carolina Extension Service urges southern farmers to expand poultry farming. He says thousands of farm families have no poultry and lack fresh or stored meat, affecting health and worker efficiency. He argues better cared for poultry stocks would improve the situation.
In New York stocks fluctuated in moderate volume with notable gains for Hazel Atlas Glass and American Airlines while several big names slipped. The bond market firmed and specific issues like Bethlehem Steel and J I Case showed declines, with transportation and oil shares showing varied moves. A sheriff sale notice from Athens County Ohio precedes details of real estate action in a separate public notice.
Market notes from Toledo and Pittsburgh list grain and butter prices with ranges for wheat corn oats and eggs. Live poultry and butter receive steady demand while domestic wools in Boston show very slow activity with scattered sales and price shifts in scoured and delivered grease markets.
Sandusky Bay Bridge was closed to traffic today due to heavy snow. Manager Gerald Griswold said he could not estimate when the bridge would reopen.
Iola Wisconsin. Postmaster H G Hanson reports 19 used mailboxes disappeared one night from two rural routes leaving mystery and concern over mail service disruption.
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