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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1936
Page
9
A dense classified listing features farm and stock farm properties near Lan caster and Amanda, plus numerous used cars from several Lancaster dealers with prices and contact info. Also included are auto parts services, hatching and poultry notes, and local realty firms McLaughlin and Dough ty Realty.
A dense list of radio program times and titles runs across the page. Included are named performers such as Jack Armstrong Bob Newhall Lilac Time Amos n Andy and many orchestras. The shuffled lines read like a station timetable with hours from early evening to after midnight and closing sign offs. The piece ends with a cryptic tag JUST THE USUAL INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE.
Miss Sarah B. Watson, a native of South Carolina and Columbia University graduate, has been awarded the Legion of Honor red ribbon for eighteen years of service in support of American and French girls. She went to France in 1918 to operate billets for U S Army attached girls and now directs the Foyer International des Etudiantes in Paris.
Daily Lancaster market listing from Wacker's Grocery corrected by J N Short shows prices on honey comb and strained honey five pounds, butter, cooking potatoes various sizes, Hickory nuts, black walnuts, dried sweet corn, bacon shoulders and sweet potatoes. Poultry market lists heavy springers, hens, leghorn hens, broilers, stags, ducks with prices and notes.
Grain and livestock market notes from Columbus show receipts of hogs 480 with prices 10.65 to 10.78 for 160-240 lbs and 10.15 to 10.35 for 260-300 lbs. Cattle receipts 150 with few steady cows, calves light but steady to strong up to 12.50, sheep and lambs receipts steady to weak with yard lambs around 11 and truck lambs 10.50, culls down to 5.00 and older sheep 1.00 to 6.00. wethers and yearlings described with mixed trends.
Price list from Columbus Produce Market showing buying and retail rates for eggs and poultry. Eggs graded central Ohio firsts and seconds with various shell sizes. butter and creamery items. live and dressed poultry including broilers Leghorn hens roosters ducks geese and turkeys with jobbing and buying prices.
Chicago January 24 Wheat held near prior close with minor dips during the second hour of trading. Corn edged 1-8 cent lower while oats stayed mostly unchanged. Commission houses sold corn but local buying cushioned the decline. cash prices eased 1-4 cent for wheat and oats.
Pittsburgh January 26 produce prices show butter values at 92 score nearby and 343-4 for standards, eggs steady with various grades listed, poultry steady with heavy hens, leghorn hens, springers, old roosters, ducks, geese, turkeys and dressed hens prices provided, omitting unclear figures.
Pittsburgh livestock report from January 24 lists hogs at top and bulk $11 for mixed weights, sows $395, cattle steady with good steers $9.50 to $11, heifers $7 to above, cows $4.75 to $6.25, calves up about $1, lambs $10.25 and sheep around $7.00 for the day. Top dealers paid $14 for select hogs.
Classified display lists farming tools, some stock of sheep and cattle, household goods. Sale at Charles Rush Medill farm, miles northeast of Lancaster on Plantville Pike, or 2 12 miles south of Pleasantville Pike. Sale starts January 29 at 12 30, C L Sims auctioneer.
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