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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1938
Page
12
A compact listing of apartment rooms houses and farms for sale or rent. Includes sections for rooms for rent housekeeping rooms rooms and board apartments and real estate for sale with various property types and utilities.
New York stocks fell sharply with many pivotal issues led by U S Steel slipping below 41 and DuPont dipping under 100. Westinghouse, Union Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio, Atchison, and Chrysler endured sizable declines while mining shares weakened and other sectors saw multistate losses.
The page lists numerous big-name companies across industries including railroads, dairies, consumer goods, and utilities. Key players appear under categories such as Industrials, Oils, STEELS, Motors and Rubbers, Copper and Mines, and CURB STOCKS with percentages hinting at stock performance or market interest. Notable names include Westinghouse Electric, Procter and Gamble, General Motors, Goodyear, Kennecott, Bethlehem Steel, and Union Carbide among others.
Grain and livestock prices from Toledo and Cincinnati show wheat No 2 red around 86 1 2 to 87 1, corn No 2 yellow about 59 to 60 3, oats No 2 white 33 12, eggs at Cincinnati steady with extra firsts 17 and nearby ungraded 16 4, butter 25 to 31 cents per lb, and live poultry prices varying by breed. Hogs at Cincinnati 180 to 250 lbs 8.90, 250 to 275 lbs 8.70, 275 to 300 lbs 8.50, cattle and calves mixed with several price points, sheep around 8.50 to 9 for good ewes and wethers, lighter weights and culls down to 2 to 3.50.
The report lists butter and eggs with varying scores and percentages for unsteady and steady items and details many poultry categories. It outlines numbers for heavy hens, leg horn hens, roosters, ducks, geese, turkeys, old toms, stags, and dressed hens with different weights and processing notes.
The report shows unsettled Butter Market with Standards at 31 percent and extra grade clean 18 percent plus extra firsts 1649. Eggs list unsettled prices with current receipts 16. Live poultry markets are steady with various weight classes and breeds priced. Potatoes across states list Rural Russets 1.25 to 1.30 per 100 lb, New York Katahdin 1.60 to 1.65, Idaho 1.75 to 1.80, Maine Green Mountain 1.65, Katahdin 1.65 to 1.75, Florida No. 1 1.85 to 2.00.
Chicago produce market shows steady tone with 25 111 cases received across fresh graded firsts and extras, while butter market remains unsettled with 858 765 gross lbs reported and varied scores for extra firsts and specials. Storage packed goods show mixed performance as receipts and quality scores fluctuate.
The House Rules Committee reported favorably the Senate approved resolution for a joint congressional probe of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The plan calls for a 10 member committee, five senators and five representatives, to examine all aspects of TVA and its three member board led by the ousted chairman Dr. Arthur E. Morgan.
Hogs 750 head active mostly 25 cents lower with good and choice 170 to 220 pounds at 9.50. heavies 8.75 down 100 to 140 pounds at 8.25 to 8.65. sows steady to weak at 7.75. Cattle 50 head top steers yesterday 9.15, two loads at 9.00, others 8.75 down. Calves 150 head steady with good and choice vealers 10.50 to 11, top 11.50. Sheep 450 wool lambs 8.90, none sold today. shorn lambs steady to strong, top 8.25. clipped sheep around 4.50 down.
Market summaries show cattle receipts 90 with best on sale 7.40 to 7.95, milk cows 25 to 60, veal receipts 115 with good 10.85 to 11.40, hog receipts 175 with good 8.50 to 8.79, sheep and lamb receipts 195 with good 6.50 to 8, horse receipts 35 slow sale 25. On Saturday April 2nd 100 head of good yearling steers will be offered. Government bonds quoted: various 3s 41-48 range, 4s 52-47, 2s 51-48, 3s 55-51, 2s 60-55 with several price points.
Gallipolis social notices list visits and greetings from Mrs. Earl McCormick and Mrs. Herman Cartt to Mrs. McCormick's home. John Carnes resumes medical studies at Ohio State University after a family vacation. Several locals host or visit relatives in Ravenswood West Virginia, Columbus, Logan, and Washington, D C.
Harry Williams and Dean Maxwell of Athens Road were fined five dollars and costs each after pleading guilty before Mayor C C Cornell to intoxication charges. They were arrested by night police.
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