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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1936
Page
12
A historical newspaper listing shows sections for employment categories including female and male help wanted, agents wanted, and employment wanted. It also catalogs financial ads, business opportunities, loans, and many real estate promotions such as rooms for rent, houses for sale, farms for rent, lots for sale, and real estate exchanges.
New York markets opened with fractional gains led by Chrysler General Motors Westinghouse Phillips Petro leum and Goodyear as investors awaited the impact of a flat 55 percent margin rule. Industry shares moved forward while food sales rose and foreign exchange prices shifted with the French Franc and sterling moving in quiet ranges.
A fragmented market report shows varied results with industrials such as American Tobacco and Bethlehem Steel among quoted movers, while wool futures fall after flood damages. Livestock prices hold steady with hogs and cattle trading at established ranges and veal values steady.
Grain prices in Toledo show No. 2 red wheat at 97 98 and No. 2 yellow corn at 58 59 with slight premia for grain in store and transit billing. Oats hold at 28 31, hay and butter steady, eggs steady, and poultry prices mixed with fowls and pullets at 31 and broilers at 34 cents per pound, potatoes at 2.65 a bushel.
Butter unchanged. Eggs prices listed by grade and size with 80 for No 1, 50 for No 2 and goose eggs. Poultry white Plymouth Rock springers 1 lb and over 25 cents, colored springers 1 lb and over 25, 1s 2 lbs and over 26. New Florida basket crate potatoes Bliss Triumphs U S No 2 $2.25 and U S S No 2 $2.15.
Butter firm with nearby tubs 92 score ex tras and standards 3214 89 score 32 88 score 31. Eggs easy with nearby current receipts 13 18s white extras 21. Cheese and Poultry show no market.
Chicago market report shows butter 7 905 steady with unchanged prices eggs 28 618 easy extra firsts local 18 percent cars 19 fresh graded firsts local 18 cars 1812 current receipts 1744 storage packed extras 20 storage packed firsts 19 percent.
Prices and receipts for eggs and butter in nearby markets. Whites large 20 cents, medium 18.5 to 19. Whites offered 20.125 with bid 19.19. Butter 1,218 tubs, eggs 2,705 cases. Exchange sales none. Nearby current receipts cited with 18 and 19 bids and offers, weights noted.
Hogs total 2900 with 400 directs holdovers, market not established but steady with Wednesday or 11.19 for 160 to 225 lbs and 11.10 for best butcher weights. Cattle calves 700 slow to steady with steers and heifers. cows strong while bulls weak. Steers and heifers mostly 6.50 to 7.80. fat cows 5.50 to 6.50. low cutters 3.50 to 3.95. vealers 60 to 110 higher, good to choice handyweight 9.50 to 10.50. Sheep 50, steady to strong. 35-lb lambs 10.50, common to medium 7.50 to 9.50, few fat ewes 4.50 down.
The postwar era drove farmers into higher debt as land prices and speculation surged, then collapsed with the slump. Government interventions during Hoover and Roosevelt failed to stabilize prices, boosting unemployment and deficits. The Supreme Court later struck down the measures, revealing flaws in the policy approach.
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