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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1936
Page
10
A scanned index of multiple classifieds items includes occupations like cleaning, sewing, driving, insurance, laundering, and upholstery. employment ads for females and males. a note on business opportunities and loans. plus rooms, houses, farms, and land for rent or sale. Connections to services include printing, moving, painting, and hardware.
Hogs total 5,100 with holdovers near 350. Prices mostly 10 to 60 cents lower than Friday for 160 lb to 250 lb categories. best butcher weights around 10.65. Cattle and calves 1,700 offering with limited action. fat cows around 5.06 to 5.25, good slaughter weights 12.50 to 13.00. Sheep 100 head open steady with Friday. lambs scarce, bids from 10.75 downward, common stock 7 to 10, ewes 3.50 to 4.50.
Hogs 3 150 head with 1 650 direct down 25 to 35 cents. top at 10 75. sows steady. Cattle 600 head steady to lower for steers bulls and heifers. cows stronger. best heifers 7 40. bulk cows 4 6. Calves 300 up 1. good and choice dealers 137714.
Mary E. Dague offers practical veggie ideas bridging winter and spring. Recipes include Sauted Brussels Sprouts with egg batter and bread crumbs, Stewed Potatoes a la Southern with onion and pimento, and Rice Roulettes served with fowl or game.
In New York today buyers led the early stock market with fractional gains scattered across a wide range. Livelier shares included Douglas, Armour, Goodyear, Boeing, Westinghouse, United Aircraft, Standard Oil of New Jersey, N Y Central, Consolidated Gas and Bethlehem. Mining issues lagged while analysts watched inflation signs and potential soldiers bonus effects.
A fragmented list enumerates multiple stocks and percent figures such as Am Power and Light, Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, General Foods, Johns Manville, Penn, Union Carbide, Westinghouse and others. The garbled OCR reads like a stock market ledger with firm names and percentages, including aviation, tobacco, oil and utilities, scattered with partial traes of ticker-like sequences.
Strong prices prevailed in the moderate Boston wool trade with 1 to 2 cent grease increases on combing 56s and 48s plus blood Ohio fleeces. Fine Ohio Delaine combing 64s and finer sold at 349 to 435 cents grease. Bulk French combing 64s and finer moved at 84 to 86 cents scoured as demand for foreign wools remained active.
The listing outlines potato prices by region and brand, noting 100‑pound bags and Russets from Idaho, cobblers from Minnesota, and local varieties from Florida. Prices range from about 1.40 to 2.35 per unit, with several entries around 1.55 to 2.35 and crates or bags specified.
The fragment lists meals including orange cereal and various dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A confusing line mentions Great Salt Lake settling of the earths and depths, but the data is garbled with missing measurements and units.
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