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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1938
Page
18
A garbled OCR fragment shows navigation for a newspaper classified section with many categories. It lists help wanted real estate for rent and sale business services and a long menu of ads and notices lacking readable names, places, or dates.
A compact classified teaser promotes used golf and camping gear ads. It urges readers to place a want ad by dialing 0242, highlighting an NEA Service 1998 item featuring Claude’s vow as a humorous hook.
New York stocks slid toward new lows for the era as trading expanded on declines. U S Steel hit another low at 392, Westinghouse 654, International Nickel 41, Chrysler slipped after a small gain, and American Telephone fell to 111 as early gains faded. Stop loss orders intensified the decline.
Equity listings show varied moves with industrials and rails led by Elit Chemicals and Am. Home Products while Coca Cola and Sears Roebuck posted gains. Utility and metal shares fluctuated as investors weighed earnings and inflation concerns across blue chip fare.
Livestock and grain prices listed include Wheat No 2 red 87 88, Corn No 2 yellow 59 60.5, Oats No 2 white 33 34 1/2, Eggs weak with extra firsts 16 42 17, and various live poultry prices for fowls ducks geese and springers across multiple grades and weights.
Market notes list Butter unsettled with nearby tubs 92 score extras 30 percent and 89 88 scores. Eggs steady with receipts 1644 and various extras. Poultry heavy with hens leghorn roosters ducks geese turkeys old toms scalded dressed hens and broilers with multiple weight codes and counts.
Butter and Eggs markets show unsettled movement with extra grades and receipts noted. Live poultry and ducks listed with varied weights and classes, while potato prices in Ohio Pennsylvania New York Michigan Idaho Maine and Florida are reported for Rural Russets Katahdin and fresh No 1s with price ranges.
Market reports show unsettled eggs with receipts totaling 29 616 cases and varied grades including fresh firsts 172 cars and extra firsts 18 cars. Dirties 14 percent, storage extras 184 percent, and firsts 19 percent. Butter receipts reach 603 263 thousand pounds with varied scores for extra firsts and seconds and centralized scores around 88 91.
The Ohio Tax Commission estimated 1938 sales and use tax collections at 40 million dollars a drop of about 10.9 million from 1937. The estimate aims to inform local tax bodies of the share available for spending in the current year.
Hogs show active to steady trade with varying weights from 100 to 350 pounds. Prices range from 7.25 to 8.90 per cwt for different weight classes and sows around 6.75 to 7.50. Cattle and calves 300 to 400 head plus loads and shorts reflect steady to uneven gains for steers and heifers with cows and bulls softer to steady. Top steer prices around 8.75, heifers near 8.75, and plain grades down to 4.25 for cutters. Dealers remain steady to weak, top bulls around 6.75 with most sales 9.50 or less.
Hog values rise with most hogs about 10 cents higher and direct 1600 head including 1200. Heavies and sows steady. Good and choice 170 to 220 lbs fetch 9.25 to 9.35. Cattle 150 including 100 direct, good steers 8.25 to 9.15. Bologna cows 4.04. Calves 300 including 200 direct, steady, dealers scarce 10.50 to 11.50. light weights 5.50 to 5.75.
A tornado hit Columbus injuring many and destroying about 40 houses. Hospitals reported heavy injuries while the business district escaped major damage. The Highland School roof was ripped off injuring several children.
A remarkably young student, 12 year old Sue Allyn Stripling, is described as a college freshman at Trinity University in Waxahachie Texas. She is active in campus life and achieving top grades, while also noted as a dancer actress golfer and ventriloquist.
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