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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1939
Page
12
A dense list of classified categories from a newspaper section. It outlines announcements for auctions and various classifieds including automotive, real estate, services, and personal notices, reflecting catalog-style listings and numerous niche categories.
Stocks opened trading here and on Wall Street lower with rail shares weighing on the market. Union Pacific and Atlantic Coast Line led the decline while Norfolk & Western rose 2 points to 170, and United States Steel slipped to 55%.
A scrambled New York Stocks section lists rail, oil, steel and motor stocks with various figures. Notable names include Allied Chemical Am. Tobacco Alaska Juneau Mead Corp Procter and Gamble U. S. Steel Bethlehem Crucible General Motors Goodyear American Rolling Mills and Kennecott. Prices show mixed gains and declines across commodities and industrials.
A dense snapshot of Midwest and East market activity with grain bids for Wheat No 1 red 73 and No 2 red 72, Corn No 2 yellow 51, Oats 31, plus Houston style butter and egg quotes. Regional cattle hog and lamb prices across Cincinnati Pittsburgh Athens and Cleveland markets show steady to varied shifts, with receipts and top figures noted for multiple weights and grades. Government bonds and wool demand are also reported, detailing price ranges and recent trading activity.
In Wheeling, two companies and three officials pleaded guilty to shipping interstate commerce goods labeled improperly as prison made. They were fined a total of 9480 dollars, the first indictments in West Virginia under the federal labeling law for prison-made products.
James J. Hines, Tammany leader, faces a new trial for allegedly selling political protection to the Dutch Schultz lottery mob. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey leads the blue ribbon jury as proceedings begin.
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