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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1938
Page
10
A dense classified list shows various sections for jobs livestock real estate and goods for sale. Entries mention opportunities loans wanted to borrow and rental properties across multiple categories and pages.
New York stocks edged lower as trading remained light. Steel shares led losses with United States Steel down sharply, while rails and chemicals also fell. a few issues including Homestake Mining and Dow Chemical advanced. Several major names tumbled across industries, signaling broad market weakness.
Grain prices for wheat corn and oats listed for Toledo with No 2 and No 3 grades. Cincinnati produce prices show eggs goose duck and live poultry values with multiple weight and grade distinctions and caps on capons and slips.
Pittsburgh produce listings show steady butter with near 92 score tubs and 89 88 scores in the 29–30% ranges. Poultry is firm with heavy hens at 22 23, leg horn hens 19 21, roosters 13 14, ducks 20 22, geese 20 22, turkeys 26 28, and dressed hens 31.
Butter market steady with extra 3414 and standards 3342. Eggs show steady demand with extra grade clean 19 and extra firsts 17 percent receipts 17. Live poultry weak with hens heavy 19 medium 22 leghorns heavy 20 leghorn light 17 broilers etc. Catch-all prices cover roosters ducks and stags with weights and breeds listed.
The U S Agriculture Department reports minimal activity in the Boston wool market on Tuesday with neither buyers nor sellers advancing. Buyers show no appetite for large lots and holders refrain from offering. The market remains quiet and characterized by a waiting stance.
A humorous notice urges readers to avoid family quarrels during housecleaning and to sell unused furniture via a Want Ad at the Dial 0242. The snippet captures a playful domestic moment and a local marketplace cue.
Hogs and cattle largely steady with gains on lighter hogs and light to medium weight butchers. Hogs sold 10 cents higher with 160 to 275 pound ranges topping $9.80 to $9.60, sows weaker. cattle and calves steady to weak with good steers near $8.50 to $9, calves $11.00 to $11.50, and sheep mostly steady with top lambs around $9.75 and ewes under $4.50.
Government bond listings show prices and yields for multiple series. Entries include 3%S 41 at 107.19 with 34 88 47-43, 3%s 45-43 at 108.10, 4s 54-44 at 113.5, and 2%8 51-48 at 102.21 among others.
Market update shows steady eggs and butter with receipts totaling 18 228 cases and 655 697 pounds respectively. Graded categories include fresh firsts, extras, dirties, storage packed goods, and checks with varying percentages and scores noted for quality. Centralized lots and high scores in butter indicate robust grading figures amid stable prices.
Uniontown police said David Harris was absolved by Judge W Russell Carr of cruelty to an infant charges for keeping his granddaughter, six, in a dark attic most of her life because she was deemed the second sin child of his daughter. The judge found no willful neglect or refusal to provide food after the Commonwealth failed to prove the key element.
In Columbus the Sales Tax Division launched a state wide enforcement drive after a 30 percent drop in January and February revenues. Twenty inspectors went to Cincinnati Tuesday and filed charges against 21 merchants. Fines range from 25 to 100 dollars. merchants were to answer the charges today.
Pittsburgh U P reports Wheeling Steel Corporation, employing about 20,000 workers in West Virginia and Ohio plants, has extended indefinitely its collective bargaining contract with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
Farm sale calendar listing two auctions near Athens. On March 19 at noon, 3 miles from Athens behind Clarks Chapel Church, selling cows farm implements and household articles, executrix Mrs Geo M Hawk and auditor J W West. On April 9 at 2 p m at Richland Ave new school building in Mechanicsburg selling two room Mechanicsburg School and other rooms with Clerk G R Shafer.
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