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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1927
Page
7
Classified ads urge readers to invest effort now for future gains. A brief notice highlights practical tips and hints, suggesting opportunities and financial benefits through careful planning and timely decisions.
Fragmented OCR style crossword teaser asks about wines tournament at Oakmont and Greek myth, with scattered clues on legal terms, currencies, verbs, and ancient history. It presents a garbled list of questions and partial phrases likely from a printed puzzle page.
Hogs receipts about 500 with various weights selling from 9.25 to 10.00 per cwt and midrange prices around 9.50 to 10.30. Cattle receipts 800 with beef steers 10.50 to 12.75, heifers 8.50 to 9.00, cows 8.00, cutters 3.0. Calves and sheep volumes noted with lambs around 15.50 and fat lambs near 8.00. Market described steady to strong overall.
New York Produce butter firm receipts 6,494 with creamery quotes for 4i to 4lc. Special market shows firm receipts 7,901 with white onions and mixed whites at 24 to 25 cents. Nearby whites 40 to 6c, Pacific coast 28 to 31c, nearby ows 28 and 38c.
Hogs receipts 4 000 held over 810 market strong to 5 higher. Prices range 8.40 to 10.15 per 100 pounds across weights. Cattle receipts 2 000 calves 800, markets strong to 50 up. Beef steers 9.00 to 12.25, heifers 8.75 to 11.00, beef cows 7.15 to 11. Half of stock and feeder steers indicated. Sheep receipts 1 700 with fat lambs about 15.50, fat lambs 15.50, cull lambs 8.00 to 10.00, fat ewes 4.50 to 6.00.
Liberty Bonds prices listed for New York show Liberty Bonds at 28 with Treasury 4 percent at 108.7 and Treasury 3 percent at 105.7 reflecting current market values and yields.
In Boston on July 11 wool prices remained steady with a brighter tone in the raw wool market. Broad demand pushed prices in sellers' favor last week and today a fair volume moved, with fine staple territory wool at 1.08 to 1.10, Ontario Delaines around 45 cents, Buenos Aires fours 29 to 30 cents, Montevideo 4s 30 to 31 cents, Australian 64 x 70s 98 cents to 1.02, and double A pulled wools 1.10 to 1.12.
Prices show butter steady with tablets at 36 to 38 cents. stock numbers 29 to 16c for different grades. Eggs quoted at 58 to 26 cents for assorted grades, with nearby graded 24c.
Market notes show butter receipts in Chicago totaling 20 721 with an increase of about 38 percent. Quotations cite varying standards and firsts at 39 cents, 36 to 31 cents, with second grades around 35 cents and other values near 34 to 22 cents.
A distressed OCR page shows a Bank of Athens N B A condition report with blurred line items. It lists reserves loans overdrafts and U S government securities plus deposits, certificates of deposit, and various funds and liabilities. The legible figures include 18,800 in U S government securities and 1,253,545 in total time deposits subject to reserve.
Mrs. Fanny Streater, a grandmother aged 81, hikes from Blacksburg Virginia to Applegate Oregon to visit her daughter. She says she feels like a flapper and believes health would improve if flappers quit cigarettes and used a pipe instead.
A brief public forum item notes a discussion referencing an event on the 23rd and urges a clearer stated position from officials. The fragment hints at a focus on procedural wording and public explanation.
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