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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1936
Page
10
The notice lists ad rates and payment terms, deadlines, and acceptable classifications for a local newspaper. It outlines schedules for Sunday insertions, error adjustments, and three day claim windows. Various categories cover announcements automotive employment financial livestock merchandise room and board and real estate.
Cattle sale saw 1250 calves with 300 calves listed. Steers at 900 pounds weak to lower, bidding mostly $8.50 down. butcher yearlings $7 to $8.25. fat cows $5.25 to $6.50. cutters $3.50 to $4.75. vealers unchanged. top $10.50. Sheep offerings small, trades not fully tested. spring lambs around $15, fat ewes $3.50 to $5.00, activity steady with Friday.
Hog receipts 1 750 head with 1 250 direct. hogs 10 cents lower than Saturday, top 11 15 for 160 to 225 pounds. cattle 1 550 head with 150 direct. yearling steers and heifers up 25 cents, heavy steers steady, top load 8 90. calves and bulls mixed, vealers 11 50, other calves 10 50 to 11. sheep 1 000 head, wool lambs scarce, best 10 to 10 75, shorn lambs 25 higher, yearlings 7 25, clip sheep 5.
The Owlet mimeographed by Athens Senior High School is issued under Miss Bertha Albert with five class papers including Jot It Down the Porthole The Scribbiers and the Sopho Independent. Staffers swap every six weeks and all members contribute at least one article per issue.
Second grade at East Side School creates poetry books under Miss Mildred Giesecke. Pupils hectograph poems and drawings into looseleaf notebooks and decorate covers with varied designs. They memorize poems and earn gold stars for each piece learned and begin writing their own poems.
The record notes that the U S Army Air Service has no Negro units and no African Americans in naval aviation, reflecting pervasive racial segregation in military branches during the period.
Stocks opened moderately higher as a broad list of gainers led by Santa Fe Anaconda Chrysler General Motors N Y Central Pennsylvania Westinghouse Montgomery Ward Union Pacific Auburn and Case. Despite a unclear foreign scene traders noted domestic steel revival after flood disruptions and the French franc and sterling firmed slightly.
Athens City Schools will hold Arbor Day services at all schools during the week of April 17. Every student will receive a seedling to plant, provided by Supt. Harper Co. Pendry. Program announcements will follow.
Grain quotes show Wheat No 2 red at 97.498? No 3 red at 199.97. Corn No 2 yellow 60.61 No 3 58.60. Oats No 2 white 74.31 No 3 white 70.24. In-store transit bills list Wheat 4 2 above track, Oats 1 4 above, Hay unchanged.
The Cleveland butter and egg board lists steady prices for butter creamery extras in tubs and eggs in 100 case lots. Live poultry and local dressed poultry prices vary by weight and class, with leghorn and broiler categories shown, plus government egg price quotes and potato and sweet potato prices per sack or bushel.
Creamery butter tublets priced with a 2 percent discount and per inch measurements for fat quality. Egg cases listed as extra firsts seconds and nearby ungraded tens with No 1 and No 2 qualifiers. Duck eggs offered loose and priced per unit.
Butter weak at 92 score and 89 to 34 ranges with 31 2 30 percent. Eggs easy with 174 17 percent receipts and white extra 20. Poultry steady with heavy hens 22024 and leg horns 18 to 20, colored broilers 24 26, leghorn springer 17718 20, ducks 22424 and geese 18, turkeys young toms and hens 23 and old toms 18 20.
Butter shows 9 607 with steady demand at creamery. Eggs 32 699 steady with extras and local firsts. Reports include rate figures for firsts, standards and storage packed items, with percentage allocations and regional notes.
The market shows weak egg prices with nearby and southern receipts cited. Whites large and medium sizes quoted around 19 and 18 cents, with bids near 18. Butter market notes include 1,500 tubs and 1,448 cases of eggs among exchange sales and cure rent receipts with bids at 18.
The position of the treasury shows March receipts at 55,139,178.53 and expenditures at 61,033,720.30 leaving a balance of 2,908,441 884. Customs receipts for the month amount to 31,018,038.74. For the fiscal year since July 1 receipts total 3,071,172,906.68 while expenditures reach 5,284,440,678.76 including 2,387,200,940.24 in emergency spending, yielding a excess of expenditures of 2,213,267,772.08. Gross debt stands at 31,479,329,165.88, up 42,668,278 from the previous day. Gold assets are 0,179,379,686.61.
A waiting attitude prevailed in the Boston wool market with small, infrequent purchases to top up stocks. Prices were near the low end of recent ranges, with nominal quotes for Ohio and combing fleeces steady at 34 to 36 cents, grease for 64s and finer at 36¾ to 37½ cents, and 56s and 48s ½ blood grades at around 40 to 40½ cents.
Describes a pretty printed cotton and silk dress pattern with scalloped trim and slimming effect. Notes fabrics like linens and novelty sports cottons as alternatives. Style No. 2647 fits sizes 14 to 40 bust, requires yardage, and pattern price is 15 cents with order details for Athens Pattern Dept. in New York.
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