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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1936
Page
10
The Athens Messenger provides a directory style listing for the Pomeroy and Middleport branch office sections including contact lines, office hours, and categorized notices such as political announcements, memorials, and services. It details segments for automobiles, services, personals, and society notices within the local area.
U S Treasury reports May 1 receipts of 32 million dollars against 52 million in expenditures, leaving a balance of about 2.53 billion. Fiscal year so far shows 3.36 billion receipts and 6.02 billion outlays, with emergency spending totaling 2.78 billion and gross debt at 31.42 billion. Gold assets stand at 10.23 billion.
The Cincinnati market shows varied animal categories with hogs and cattle fluctuating. Hogs across lots range from 9 to 11 dollars per hundredweight depending on weight, with steady to higher tones on specific cuts, while cattle and calves hold mostly steady with moderate volumes and diverse prices. Sheep listings show steady demand for spring lambs and good quality fat lambs at premium levels.
A partial OCR list shows entries like 4s 47-52 117.24 and 3%s 41-43 March 108.26, including Home Own Loan lines and Fed FArm Morty 8s 64 104.8. The readable portion records various numbers, ratios, and coded shorthand for bids, loans, and financial items.
Quoted prices in the Boston domestic wool market held mostly steady or slipped slightly from the prior week. Trading volume was light, hindering a fully established market. Sentiment toward the outlook was mixed with Ohio fleeces mainly priced at 32 to 36 cents per pound grease for various grades, and only limited business reported at the lower end of the range.
The Cincinnati produce price list shows corn and oats with mixed notes on quality and storage, No 2 white and yellow corn, oats and wheat quotations, and 5 cent adjustments. Butter and eggs are listed with creamery scores, discounts, and assorted packaging terms.
Butter prices show unsettled trading with a 9g extra and 27 percent. overall standard at 37 289 and 88 score 26 percent. Eggs remain steady with near term quotes around 19 2 to 21 and white 21s. cheese includes New York Whole cream 24 and sharp 26. Poultry markets steady with heavy hens at 9 and leghorn entries at 18420. broilers 20 29. stags 20. old roosters 1416. geese 16 17. fresh killed hens 33. hog dressed 29.
The fragment lists butter and eggs with varied percentages and firsts standards, mentions extras and storage terms, but no coherent event or source details. Names, dates, or locations are absent, making interpretation uncertain.
Southern market data shows Whites at large fines 22, medium 21, with 21 percent offered for exchange current receipts. Receipts Butter lists 443 tubs in cases.
J. W., 45, imprisoned for a check without funds from Washington County, died early today at the Ohio Penitentiary of an infection. He had been admitted February 18 and was serving a one to three year sentence.
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