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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1936
Page
2
A dense page of car dealers offers used cars, trucks, sedans, and sport coupes with prices and trades. Listings include Bauman Bros Most Packers, Lancaster Auto Wrecking, Beasley Motor Sales, and George Kitsmiller. Local services advertise auto glass, mufflers, tires, and repair shops along with radio service and insurance ads.
Prices for honey and eggs shown as "corrected daily" by Wacker's Grocery. Butter at 25 to 33 cents, potatoes各0.55 to 0.75 per bushel, hickory nuts and butternuts noted, dried fruit prices listed, cotton and wine tax payments referenced. Poultry and grain markets updated by J N Short and Graham Milling Co with no firm quotes for some items.
Collated market notes from Columbus Ohio and Pittsburgh dated January 23 detailing buying and jobbing prices for butter eggs poultry and dressed meat. Includes farm receipts hogs cattle calves and local retail grades with several price ranges and standard items.
Prices from Pittsburg stock market show cattle and calves steady to good with direct market activity. Hogs average around 11 dollars with weights not fully represented. sheep and lambs note steady to good demand, with prime ewes around five dollars and lambs near ten dollars. Bulls and cows show modest declines in spots.
Bulls and bears battled on the Board of Trade with wheat rising 1-4 to 3-8 cents, corn advancing 1-8 to 1-4 cents, and oats steadier to 1-8 cent higher. Local buyers and a firm cash market supported a cautious, uneventful session.
Classified display lists farming tools and some stock including sheep and cattle. Auction at Rush Medill farm four miles northwest of Lancaster on Plantville Pike, or two and a half miles south of Pleasantville Pike. Sale starts January 29 at 12 30 with L. Sims as auctioneer.
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