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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1942
Page
7
Nice cool sleeping room in a quiet home for a business man or woman. Mrs J B Allen contact Dial 26902. Nice clean sleeping rooms with inner spring mattresses and cooking privileges, $2. Call after 5 pm. 41 Mill Bt.
Multiple listings for rooms and apartments including furnished and unfurnished units with rents from $20 to $45 per month. Properties span Sunnyside Drive 43-5, Mound Street 19, Maplewood 31, Court St., Washington Street 132, Race Street 30 near the university, and Poster Place. Contact numbers provided.
Prices mostly eased with losses for U. S. Steel Anaconda Union Carbide General Electric Paramount International Nickel and National Distillers. Advancing were Electric Auto-Lite and Goodrich as analysts weigh a Steel magazine survey on scrap threats to mills and a nascent national scrap drive.
A fragmented OCR piece shows numerous company names and stock references such as Am. Roll Mills, Am. Smelt, Chrysler Corp, General Motors, Goodyear, International Harvester, Sears and Roebuck, Westinghouse and others. It ends with a figure 100,600 suggesting a share or volume count. The text lacks full sentences or clear events.
Grain and produce prices including butter creamery premium 35 regular 33 with extras. Poultry weights and fees listed for powls, leghorn, Orpington, Mediterranean, fryers and broilers by weight. Hogs cattle calves sheep and lambs priced with ranges and steady markets. Butter eggs live poultry receipts and government graded sizes noted.
Perry County shows 635 school age children this year down from 687. Census figures filed by Nina M. Hol den, county recorder, cover deeds leases real estate and mortgage activity plus 8 insurance licenses and 3 vendor permits. Jail records note 122 confined year to date, and several civil actions including labor suits against Wood and Post Coal Co. families face divorces and probate notices across Athens Nelsonville and surrounding townships.
Cattle and calves show uneven gains with steers and heifers higher by small margins. Cows and bulls trade steady to firm, hogs and spring lambs mixed with declines on some classes. totals show moderate((*)) volume across cattle, sheep, and hogs with varied loads and prices.
Navy will launch the USS Essex the first carrier built since entering the war at Newport News Shipbuilding next Friday. Also reported Greece will receive 15 000 tons of Canadian wheat monthly amid war shortages. Market prices listed for hogs cattle and veal appear in the same column.
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