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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1940
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR shows a time card line mentioning 5:35 p.m. South 12:09 p.m. 6:38 p.m. North and a dash 11:06 a.m. to 7:34 p.m. with ATRWAYS and TWA referenced. The readable bits imply a routing or schedule note without full context.
Social items from New Straitsville list visits and gatherings of local families and surrounding towns. The Cheerio Club hosts a turkey dinner with a Book of Job quiz at 7 PM, and the Pythian Sisters host a euchre party. Others note births, marriages, church events, fund drives, rehearsals, and upcoming festivals.
New York stocks opened lower as boardroom discussions focused on progress of the defense program. October foreign trade futures show a sharp export rebound driven by manufactured goods, with farm markets rising due to wartime effects. Major industrials such as Bethlehem Steel and General Electric edge lower while others like Johns Manville show modest gains.
Hogs salable 2 800 steady to 115¢ up top $6.30 for 200 to 250 lb. Calves 250 steers and heifers active, some to $825 9.25 with bulls to $11.50. Salable hogs 500 steady. Cattle salable 350, calves 250, sheep 300 steady with lambs $9.50–$10, wethers 3.50–4.75. Toledo grain: Wheat No 2 red 90–91%, corn No 2 yellow 66–66%, No 3 yellow 63.5–66%, oats No 2 white 40. Butter and eggs firm with varied scores. poultry prices listed for several weights and breeds.
Ivan Whitfield, 25, joined the navy after admitting to officers he never had hugged or kissed a girl or spoken with a girl on the telephone. He also said he never smoked, ordered in a restaurant, watched a prize fight, or sent a letter to a girl. He noted he might change on a few things.
Mrs Mary Catherine Trautman age 48 wife of George M Trautman president of the American Association of Professional Baseball Clubs died today in Columbus She was a native of Jackson Ohio.
President Roosevelt telegraphed Chairman Dies cautioning that premature disclosure of facts or suppositions could severely handicap executive plans to combat subversive activity. He warned that hasty seizure of evidence or early immunities to witnesses might hinder Department investigations amid Dies Committee plans for a Red Paper on alleged Communist operations.
Prices including government graded white eggs unchanged. Eggs firm with figures 30 for figs, white standards at 32, hennery white extras at 35.
Prices paid by the Cleveland Butter and Egg Board for butter extras and firm eggs in 100 case lots. Extras 57 lb and up candied light yolks clear 33, cure rent receipts 55 lb and up 25, medium 26. Live poultry varied by type with prices for fowls, springers, broilers, ducks, turkeys, and geese across weight classes.
In Boston today domestic wools showed little price change with most sales small in volume. French combing lengths sold around 1.03 to 1.05 dollars scoured, short to average at 1.00 to 1.02, combing three eighths blood quoted 0.87 to 0.90, and 83 to 85 cents for combing one quarter blood. Legal notices follow. Esther Lambert seeks divorce from James Lambert in Athens County Ohio Court.
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