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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1933
Page
9
Train No 30 arrives in Athens at 11 02 a m daily except Sunday. Baltimore and Ohio line operates the schedule and provides service through Athens. The notice indicates regular daily southbound service with a weekly exception.
The Guaranty Trust Company notes a broad upturn with strongest gains in heavy industry and security markets. Employment and wages rise nationwide while manufacturing, utilities, and rail freight show momentum. concerns linger over monetary policy and potential currency tinkering.
Noon prices show Liberty 3s at 102.16 and Liberty 4s at 102.14 with monthly variation. Treasury notes and bonds appear with 3s at 104.8 and 4s at 105.26, plus June 161.30 for Treas. 3s and 2 4s at 99.31 and 3s at 98.29 indicating varied yields and maturities.
Oil stocks climb to fresh 1933 highs with Texas Corporation Standard of California and Atlantic Refining among leaders while utilities and rails lag. U.S. Steel and General Motors drop, and Dun & Bradstreet notes daily commodity index at 0.96 with 1933 high set May 28.
Fresh eggs at 11 to 12 cents per dozen for nearby, with butter creameries at 92 score 23 to 24 cents and standards 90 score 20 to 23 cents. Firsts 8B8 score 21 to 22 cents. Live poultry includes chickens various ages 14 to 17 cents, white leghorns 14 cents, white ducks and pekins 11 to 12 cents, mystery and puddle 10 to 12 cents. All other items unchanged.
Butter packing stock No 2 at 14 cents and No 8 at 13 cents. Butter fat delivered at 21 cents per pound. Fegs steady bases with extra firsts ten cents per pound. Seconds nine cents, nearby ungraded ten cents.
Eyes market unsettled with receipts 51,197 cases including extra firsts 12 percent and current receipts 10 percent. Arista 11 to 12 percent. dirties 9 percent. Butter market unsettled with prices moving from lower to higher. receipts 16,867 pounds with specials 21 22 and extras 21. extra firsts 20s to 20 percent. firsts 20 percent. seconds 19 percent. standards 21s.
Nearby tubs and extras for butter show 92 score items with 23 cents, standards at 22 percent, 89 score and 22 percent, 88 score and 21 percent. Egas receipts list 11 percent, fresh extras 13 percent, hbennery white extras 13 14, Southern Ohio West Virginia Kentucky current receipts 11. Poultry items list colored hens 12 13, leghorns 10 11, colored springers 13 14, leghorn springers 10 11, colored broilers 17 20, leg horn broilers 14 15, old roosters 7 8, stags 8 10, ducks 10 12, geese 8 10, turkeys old toms 7 8, young toms 10 12, young hens 13 15, fresh killed full dressed hens 24 26, hog dressed 20 2.
Butter market steady with extras 18 and sten dards 25 percent. Eggs market steady with extras 13 and current receipts 10 percent. Poultry market steady with heavy fowl 18 to 14, medium fowl 13 to 14, leghorn fowl 11, heavy brfoilers 20 to 22, leghorn broilers 16 to 17, No 2 chickens 8, ducks 9 to 11, geese 10, turkeys 18, old roosters 0. Potatoes Michigan Ohio New York and Pennsylvania sacks a bushel, U B No 1 partly graded mostly 0 to 40.
Columbus area price list details beans lettuce mustard onions potatoes radishes rhubarb spinach strawberries with grade based pricing. Listed items include Green beans $2.75 per hamper Lima beans $64.38 per hamper head lettuce $0.99 to $1.00 per 10 lb basket and other greens and berries priced by size grade and condition.
Receipts hogs 6599 head with weights 170 and up down 10 to 20 cents from Saturday and under Friday. Top good to choice 170 to 300 pounds at 4.90. most 150 to 470 pounds 4.50 to 4.65. 130 to 160 pounds 4.10 to 4.35. sows 3.75 to 4. Calves receipts 259 head. steers and heifers mostly 5.26 to 6.00 with yearlings up to 6.50. Beef cows 3.25 to 3.75. Sheep 1900 head. lambs 7.75 to 8.25 on better grades. plainer 6.25 to 7.23. yearlings 5.00 to 5.25. old crop lambs termed yearlings.
Brainey Partlow age 21 of Nelsonville son of Mr and Mrs John L Partlow and Ruth E Stratton age 22 of Nelsonville daughter of Mr and Mrs I J Stratton apply for a marriage license.
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