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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1933
Page
7
REDS TO PLAY SOX TODAY SEE CABLE'S FOR BULK GARDEN SEEDS. ALSO ONION SETS.
Stocks drifted lower with utilities posting the heaviest losses while rails and farm equipment holdings showed relative resilience. American Telephone fell to the 98 area, General Motors eased, and Chrysler hit a new low amid broad weakness and price reductions in rubbers.
The New York stock market shows a broad decline with notable fall among rail, industrial, oil and steel issues. Prominent losers include General Electric, Procter Gamble, Allied Chemicals, Curtiss Wright, and U S Steel, while utilities and transports show mixed results amid volume shifts across key names like Texaco, Union Pacific, Westinghouse, and Reynolds.
Pittsburgh reports March pricing for crude oil from Bradford and Allegheny as Tide Water 1.47, Pennsylvanian grades in various National Transit lines and Buckeye, with yields ranging from 9c to 76c and regional grades such as Somerset 45 and Western Kentucky 1c. Indiana 40c. Princeton 62c.
Local market listings show prices for live poultry including chickens leghorns guineas and turkeys. Heavy birds and gobblers priced, with older toms listed, at various cents per pound.
Nearby butter and eggs price entries show varied rates including butter 92 score extras 18 cents and 89 score 19 88, with eggs firsts 12 13 cents and whites 154 14e. Leghorns and colored hens listed with 12 3c and 10 1c, turkeys toms 10 to 13, and fresh killed hens 26 cents in a regional poultry receipt column.
Market notes show steady butter and eggs with current receipts at 11 4. Poultry prices hold across heavy fowls and leghorns with figures for heavy springers and broilers. Potatoes from Ohio New York and Pennsylvania traded in 100 lb sacks with cobblers and round whites partly graded at varied prices.
The notice lists butter at 13 cents for No 7 and 12 cents for extra firsts, with 10 cents for seconds. Butter fat and eggs show steady to upgraded values including duck eggs and goose eggs at 6 1/2 to 15 cents, plus bulk shipping orders noted.
Eggs market held firm with receipts 18 504 cases. Extra firsts 124 13 4c and firsts 1h le. Butter market steady with receipts 9 734 pounds and specials 19 percent. Extras 16 percent, extra firsts 1 uc, firsts 17 percent, standards 18 percent.
Hog receipts 2809 with active trading and gains up to 25 cents for sows. Prices: 180 to 250 lb hogs 4.20. 260-300 lb hogs 4.20. 160-180 lb 4.40 to 4.10. 130-150 lb 3.50 to 3.75. underweights 2.50 to 3.35. Cattle receipts 250, calves 290. general strength with steers and heifers mainly 405.25. Fat cows 2.75 to 3.25, cutters 1.50 to 2.50, bulls 2.75 to 3.60. Early vegier trade higher. later market up about 50 cents.
March 21 reports from Sarasota to San Antonio show managers surveying prospects and lineups. Boston Red Sox rest day before facing the Reds in an exhibition while Cleveland Indians praise Forest Twogood as a top left hand prospect. Washington Senators' Joe Cronin backs his pitching staff after trio debuts against Cleveland. St. Louis Browns president Ball frames Ferrell salary talks, and Reds and Red Sox prepare for two games in Tampa. Chamberlain vanishes in Pasadena as Cubs and Giants set for West Coast exchanges. Pirates drop a 12 to 7 loss to Beavers in San Jose exhibition with Suler homer fueling Portland. Tigers postpone Yannagan game to give pitchers more work.
The market shows steady quotable values with better grade lambs around 3.50 to 3.60 per unit and shorn types slightly lower. Aged fat animals bring about 191.50, lightweights up to 2, while mixed grades reflect small shifts in demand.
Hog receipts at 1000 weigh 170 to 210 pounds bringing 4.45 to 4.55 per cwt with 220 to 250 pounds at 4.15 to 4.40 and 100 to 140 pounds at 3.75 to 4.15 while packing sows move downward. Cattle receipts at 15 reflect unchanged market with medium to good heifers around 4 to 5 and medium to good cows 2.65 to 3.31. Delves receipts 30 indicate a steady market with dealers up to 6.55. Sheep receipts 400 show steady to unchanged demand with lambs at 4.46 to 5.25 for food to choice shorn, 6.46 to 6.25 for wool lambs, and good to choice spring lambs at 6.79 to 7.94.
Bill McKechnie takes the Boston Braves into spring practice as he four-year contract man aims for a return to the top division. He recalls past injuries that hampered last season and focuses on strengthening pitching while keeping Worthington, Knothe, Hargrave and Hogan in the lineup.
Parkersburg livestock sale on March 18 reports tight receipts due to high water. Prices rise for cattle and hogs with veals weaker. cattle mostly 3.90 to 4.60, cows 1.25 to 3.25, bulls 2 to 3.25, milk cows 15 to 50. veals 6.30 to 2.50. hogs 4 to 4.20, shoats 3.60 to 4, pigs 1.50 to 3. lambs 5.50, clipped 3.59 to 5.25. old sheep 1 to 3.50. horses 90 to 109.
Three days of calm follow a weekend that saw new leaders in every event and a third perfect 300 in A B C history. Army private Jack Karstens of Fort Sheridan rolled 12 strikes for 300, the latest high single in Ohio alleys.
Biff Jones, former Army mentor, outlines three coaching fundamentals for LSU: academics first, injury avoidance, and keeping workouts engaging. He praises the team spirit after a co championship season and notes plans to emphasize fundamentals before game scrimmage and strategic deception ideas.
Rookie Fabian Lorenz Kowalik, 24, signed with the Chicago White Sox after two seasons with the San Antonio Bears. He posted a 13 16 record last year and appeared in a game during a brief 1932 stint with the Sox. Kowalik, right handed, 5 11, 182 pounds, bats both sides.
Boxers Frankie Petrone and Eddie Greb scored wins in New York and Los Angeles respectively. Franklin Knauer and Jackie Sharkey recorded decisions in Minneapolis and St Paul. Other bouts across Terre Haute Pittsburgh Buffalo and New Haven featured knockouts draws and stoppages among listed fighters.
Jim Browning of Verona Mo retained New York state's world heavyweight wrestling championship by throwing Ed Strangler Lewis of Kentucky in 50 58 of their scheduled finish bout at Madison Square Garden. Seven thousand fans witnessed Browning use a leg scissors and quick turnover to hold Lewis for the victory.
Hy United Press reports exhibition results with St Louis and Boston games halted by rain. Key pitchers Hallahan Walker O Farrell Seibold Mangan Hogan Spoh, and New York Newark, Philadelphia and others noted delays and scattered runs. A mix of rain called games and late scoring headlines appear in the recap.
A bill in Missouri grants each county authority to authorize horse race tracks within its borders. The measure enables local governments to decide whether to allow track operations and related gaming activities.
Spectators at the Chicago World's Fair may see light harness racing as the Trotting Horse Club of America secures a mile track in the Windy City. Report notes bouts with several boxers and matchups including Kid of New Haven and Miki Geib of Hungary and Tony Shucco in Boston defeating Al Gainer. Herman Reiger battles Sid Wheeler in New York as part of the event coverage.
The text lists various bond types Lib and Treas with percentages and numbers resembling yields, dates, and identifiers like 47 103.8 and 100.19. It appears as a damaged financial snippet showing coupon rates or prices with scattered month codes and old style notations.
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