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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1936
Page
12
A compact listing of public notice categories including employment, financial, merchandise, pets, livestock, rooms for rent, apartments for rent, houses for sale, real estate for exchange, and boats for sale. Reflects typical 1920s newspaper classifieds with numerous subcategories and numeric codes.
New York markets opened with a steady undertone as Auburn and American Can edged up about a point. Goodyear Montgomery Ward Western Union and Pennsylvania rose slightly while United States Steel and Chrysler eased. Investors note February’s market value rise of 1.037 billion dollars and lower borrowings on March 1. Detroit reports warmer weather lifting auto sales.
A fragmented OCR style stock listing shows various company names and percent figures such as American Can 221.04.4, Am. Power and Light 9s, Am. Rolling Mills 31%, Arch. T. and 8. Bw' 79%, Baldwin Locomotive 24, Bendix Aviation 25%, Chrysler 99s, Col. Gas and Elec 18%, Cont. Motors 3s, Curtiss Wright 38%, Procter and Gamble 24%, Sears Roebuck 0S, Shell Union 0S among many others with scattered percent notations implying market movement or share values. The text resembles a late 19th or early 20th century machinery and industrial stock ledger with numerous incomplete entries.
Fragmentary betting style lines show numerical pairs and percentage marks interspersed with month names. The readable items include references to scores or values such as 43-45 107.8 and 49-48 Jun 108.30, but without full context exact events or entities remain ambiguous.
Film actress Dean Bennett describes her kiss as heart in throat and thoroughly mastered by the men who play opposite her. She says the effect makes the girl look overwhelmed and half dizzy.
The operetta Sunbonnet Sue will be staged by Waterloo High School at New Marshfield in the K of P Hall tonight and Friday at 8 o clock. A large cast of young performers headlines the program with an amateur hour between acts featuring district talent.
Florence H. Huron has filed for divorce against Huron in Common Pleas Court of Athens County Ohio case No 14362. The hearing is set for on or after March 21 1938 with T O Neill as her attorney.
Grain prices show wheat and oats edging higher on the track basis with a 5 cent rise for Wheat No 2 red and 24 to 4 cent rise for oats. Corn and hay hold steady as grain in store and transit billing notes are attached.
In Cincinnati prices list eggs and assorted poultry weights and varieties including colored fowls leghorns Plymouth Rock springers and weight ranges from 1 to 4 pounds. The notice enumerates several age and size categories for sale.
Fege, easy, nearby current receipts and extras list varying poultry and livestock figures. Heavy hens, leghorn hens, broilers, springers, stags, old roosters, ducks, geese, turkeys and dressed hogs appear with multiple price readings and descriptors.
Fragmentary dataset notes butter and eggs rates with multiple scores and percentages. Mentions creamery specials with 93 score and 32 percent, extras and firsts across several lines. References local car lots and fresh graded items with varied percentages and current receipts amid disjoint figures.
Market notes show unsettled prices with commission included. Nearby receipts list goods by region 25026 28429 and 27. Whites 57 lbs 28 percent rise. Butter 873 tubs eggs 1 132 cases indicate trading activity in soft goods and perishables.
Hogs number 2 850 with 530 directs and no holdovers. Prices about 15 cents lower with 160 to 225 pound hogs around 10.75, best butcher 1090. Cattle calves 300 350 steady with slaughter steers and heifers 5 7 4 7 part load butcher heifers 7 75 bulk cows 50 75 low cutters 7 4 75 sausage bulls 7 top veal 10. Sheep 200 in modest supply and demand steady at 3 50 to 4 50.
Hog prices show 1 000 head with 599 direct steady and 180 to 230 lb cattle. Sows listed at 9 down. Cattle 100 head including 50 directs steady with good steers and yearlings around 82 9.50. Calves 75 steady to stronger at 10 10.50 with some 11. Veal and lambs scarce with good lambs quoted up to 9 75. Sheep market nominal.
The market shows strong activity across cattle hogs veal and sheep with higher demand for common to medium cattle and better items. Receipts include cattle 150 veal 135 hogs 195 sheep and lambs 90 with quantities assigned to grades and prices including medium and common cattle and various veal hog and sheep values. The sale is scheduled for March 7 at noon featuring 59 to 79 heat horses beginning at 12 noon.
Langsville gossip reports Frank Deih critically ill at his daughter's home Mrs J L FE Thomas. Nathan Kennedy improves and returns home after weeks with daughter Mrs Smith. Beecher I ens funeral and a week-end visit by Fra Taylor and Bella. Local moves include Desh V KE Nelson family returning to Rutland and W A Compton buying a truck for a poultry farm. Ralph Shirk and Lillian Wilhelm obtain a marriage license in Athens Route 2.
Saturday sale begins at 1 o clock featuring 30 head of brown horses. Jones, auctioneer, lists Albany stock sale details in the calendar.
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