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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1936
Page
9
Local ads advertise fancy prunes with price breaks and sizes as well as used cars from multiple dealers and a radio program listing. Includes sales notices for potatoes and real estate listings, plus muffler shop and tire promotions.
The Gazette offers Travel and Pedestrian Accident insurance at 3c a week with hospital benefits and up to 5000 dollars for loss of life and 1000 in auto accidents. Contact Insurance Representative at phone 252. Also mentions bad accounts ads and collection service in Portland Maine. Cumberland County tax status notes 1935 bond payoff and treasury cash.
Live Stock figures show hogs 3100 head with 2100 direct. 140 lb hogs up 10-15 cents. sows steady. Cattle 800 head with 300 direct. steer prices 8.25 to 9.85. heifers down. calves 12 to 12.50. Sheep 600 with lambs 25-35 cents higher. best fat lambs around 11 dollars. sheep top near 7.23.
Chicago grain notes a dull session with May wheat largely unchanged to lower, corn off up to a cent, oats steady. Cash prices unchanged as traders show indifference in a stagnant market.
In today’s Foto-Fowler image a cross section of an apple is shown top down to the core. The black areas are cod chambers and the enlarged macrophotography makes recognition difficult.
A dense listing shows various food items and farm products including honey, eggs, butter, potatoes, nuts, cider, sausage, navy beans, sorghum, corn, wheat, rye, hay, and clover. The grain market section notes Wheat No 2 at 95 cents and Wheat No 3 at 22 cents, with Timothy and Clover hay quotes.
Market list from Columbus Livestock Columbus Ohio shows corrected prices for eggs creamery products and poultry. Egg grades U S standard and seconds listed with cents per dozen, while poultry categories cover broilers hens roosters ducks geese and turkeys with dressed and live prices.
Pittsburgh produce and livestock prices dated January 20 show butter at 92 for nearby tubes extras 33 3-4, eggs steady with early lots 22 to 27 1-2, poultry ranges for heavy hens 20-22 and turkeys 23-25 with fresh killed hens at 35 and hog dressed at 30, plus leghorn and other fowl price bands.
In Columbus on January 20 receipts of hogs were estimated at 400 head with weights ranging from 140 to 260 pounds. Prices varied from 9.90 to 10.30 per hundredweight, with some higher values for heavier or lighter lots as indicated by the market notes.
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