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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1936
Page
14
The speaker criticizes the AAA and related measures, arguing they caused unemployment and farm layoffs while limiting imports. He notes subsequent bills like Bankhead Cotton Control and Potato Control were repealed after the president’s recommendations. He cites a New York headline on consolidation of departments and claims presidential power existed since 1933.
Nelsonville Union Furnace and New Plymouth churches hold the annual district meeting of Presbyterian Missionary Societies on Monday October 12 at Union Furnace. Rev. Arthur Bussdicker of Persia will speak after a noon luncheon. transportation calls to local members.
A. L. Hamilton, ex superintendent, answers a critic of McGuffey Reader noting each generation seems to rise about 25 percent in appearance but actually advances only 1 percent. He argues progress is steady and incremental across generations.
A fragment lists New York Central South and North trains with daily or Sunday exceptions and times such as 11:32 a.m. 6:44 p.m. Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio westbound services show daily or Diplomat and National Limited designations with times like 3:30 a.m. and 6:24 p.m. The text is a partial timetable snapshot with garbled portions.
Athens Municipal Airport offers air taxi service from sunrise to sunset with connections to scheduled flights via I and W and AA at nearby main airports. Departures listed for WEST and NORTH routes include times such as 10:46 a.m. and 6:05 a.m. with multiple daily options.
The article notes that medieval families used collapsible metal chairs and tables they moved between homes, reflecting portable furniture practices of the era.
Oils led the New York stock market gains with a 16 percent rise after an opening block of 24 000 Socony Vacuum shares. Standard Oil of New Jersey Texas Pure Oil and Plymouth rose fractionally while Bethlehem and U S Steel posted new highs earlier before easing. Steel trading remained quiet.
Wheat No 1 red 1134 114s. No red 112 113s. Corn No 2 yellow 1034s 104s. No 9 yellow 102 103. Oats No 1 white 45 46. No 2 white 44 46.
Egg rates show 33 firsts with 31 firsts and 25 seconds and 30 ungraded eggs. Butter trading includes No 2 stock at 22 and No 1 at 28, No 2 at 26, with butterfat details noted.
Butter steady with 92 score extras and standards around 32 percent and 89 to 88 scores near 31 percent. Eggs steady with current receivi and extra firsts and white extras, pullet eggs listed with small figures. Poultry steady showing heavy hens, leghorn hens, old roosters and various springers plus fresh killed and hog dressed items.
Eggs market reports current receipts 2514 with 4 319 cases and graded firsts 26 percent extra firsts 27 percent and dirties 22 percent. Butter market remains steady with receipts 7083 tubs and various quality scores including extra firsts 90 91 percent and 92 percent, standards around 31 percent and centralized scores near 30 percent.
Eggs steady with extra grade 35 and receipts at 22. Live poultry market weak with hens heavy and medium, legs horn, No 2, old roosters color and leghorn classes listed. Ducks, broilers rock and colored categories shown with varying prices.
Hogs receipts 4250 with top at 10.35 for 200 to 250 lb and 10.25 to 10.35 for 256 to 278 lb. sows steady around 8.25 to 8.75. Cattle receipts 600, calves 300. demand soft for grain-fed and trading slow. five head 12 lb steers at 10, mixed yearlings to 9.25, heifers to 8, steers and heifers 7 to low 7s, fat cows 4.25 to 5.50, cutters 2.75 to 4. Sheep receipts 700. demand narrow, better ewes and wethers from 8.50, grain-fed up to 8.98, lambs 5 to 9.75, slaughter ewes 1.3 or weight as condition dictates.
Heiress Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, once at the center of a custody battle, now a young girl seen studying a program at a society horse show near New York as she grows into a prominent child of high society.
Rear doors not closed tight before starting have caused many auto accidents as doors swing open while vehicles travel on the highway.
Hogs steady to 10 cents higher with varied weights from 100 to 230 pounds trading around 9 to 11 dollars. Cattle mostly lacking strictly good steers with best around 8 dollars and calves trading 10 to 10.50 for direct buyers. Sheep and lambs slow but steady with better fat lambs at roughly 9 to 9.25 and lighter weights down.
Very active cattle market with ample packer buyers. Receipts total 753 head including hogs 320 with various weight classes and prices, cattle 253 with steer and heifer ranges, veal calves 45 with tops, and sheep 135 with top lambs.
The readable lines show numeric codes and abbreviations such as 4e 44-54 and 114.6 with headings like Bas and Bes plus 3s entries and percent values. No clear event, teams, or dates are evident, yielding a partial, unclear segment of a scoreboard or statistical table.
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