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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1900
Page
20
Weakness spreads through the stock market with Brooklyn Rapid Transit among the few offerings causing price pressure. Gains in St Louis Southwestern earnings fail to support shares as banks and treasury adjustments temper optimism amid irregular, day-to-day trading and a cautious outlook.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous railroads and common companies with the label do preferred scattered among varied names such as Great Northern Hocking Valley Central Iowa Pacific Ocean and Union Pacific. It reads as a catalog of securities and preferred stock designations rather than a narrative.
The New York Financier reports that cash holdings this week rose due to sub treasury receipts and interior bank remittances. Disbursements by clearing banks reached 5.56 million dollars while interior bank receipts exceeded shipments by about 2 million, signaling ample liquidity in the Southwest and West. The paper notes exports of gold are winding down and may not resume until September, barring inducements from England.
A Philadelphia audience was cold at first but grew restless as they remembered paying good money to see the show. The review notes a shift toward irritation before the crowd softened.
Porter waits at a dreary station as the 9 30 train fails to depart on time and there is no later service tonight with a looming sense of delay.
Classified ad items include a Milwaukee clinic promising ten days treatment for weak men and a marriage/solicitations notice from Chicago. Separate notices advertise a free two live goldfish with a facial powder and a sealed matrimonial request from Galveston.
Pinanecial Cablegram from New York reports Aug 3 that markets were listless and featureless with no clear direction. The bank bought 5000 pounds worth of gold in bars according to the financial cablegram.
Bradford & Co of Cincinnati announces district managers to appoint agents for an automatic clothes washer that cleans without rubbing. Salary offered is 75 dollars per month plus expenses. MISSG. LA EMPLOYMENT OFFICE at 121 Higins Ave run by Mrs. Mary Reynolds, proprietor.
Washington report details treasury balances in the general fund excluding the $150,000,000 gold reserve. Available cash balance is $157,229, Sh. gold stands at $67,652,061.
Help wanted ad seeking traveling salesman of ability with references bond and full time commitment. Commission earnings range from 18 to 6 per sale. Apply P. O. Box 8 Detroit Mico. Also seeking first-class hustling salesman for state with dry goods and general store trade experience. Address X Standard.
Business chances for sale rooming and boarding house with 29 rooms in fine brick building in the city rent 125 dollars monthly steady boarders and roomers can yield about 204 dollars per month location touted as the biggest swap in town prospective buyer urged to inspect. 8 M Wade 36 N Main Hutte. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN store millinery goods and nation goods established trade will teach the business Mrs Young 406 EF Park St Anaconda. FOR SALE BEST PAYING 2 CHAIR barber shop in Idaho Apply to TLA Bergh Nampa Idaho.
The weekly report from New York shows surplus reserve up by 2,018,700 and deposits increasing by 7,058,000. Banks hold 24.5 million in excess of the 2 percent reserve requirement, with circulation at 4,008 and legal tenders rising.
Chicago markets show light liquidation as wheat opens steady then bears gain ground amid bearish Northwest trends and Minneapolis weakness. Corn and oats stay dull with minor price slips while provisions ease on wheat weakness and outside buying for January.
Butte merchants list services from MCCLURE BROS Reliable Assay Office and M K Mayer Assayer to THOS BUGGY Assayer, with contacts at 316 N Navist 40 N Main and Park Street. Include Peoples Employment Bureau and Dr Grigg OCULIST, plus National Undertaking Co at 17 E Quartz.
Public notice from Studebaker Gas Lighting Co Kansas City Mo seeking agents nationwide to sell incandescent vapor gas lamps with candle power and latest designs. Commission offered and business opportunity emphasized for sales representatives.
Cash quotations show steady flour while wheat and corn demand shifts. Prices listed include No 2 red wheat 1.10 to 1.20, corn around 0.65 to 0.75, oats 0.35, barley near 0.60, flaxseed 1.41, and hogs at 5.15 to 5.55 with steer and sheep values varying by grade. Receipts for cattle and hogs remain steady with buyers active on typical grades.
Wise readers urged to seek bargains and contact Hogue at 251 Mast Park Butte for buying or selling. Free trial treatment for catarrh offered at 4 Silver Bow block Butte with daily office hours 2 to 3 and 7 to 9 pm.
Oribi MARKETS notes New York imports for the week include 811,551 in gold and 44.2 in silver with exports of 45.27 in silver bars and coin and 1,155.87 in gold. Dry goods and merchandise imports are valued at 9,779,901.
A brief weather or market note from Ban Francisco dated August 2 reports spring wools in Nevada and Eastern Oregon under an unclear heading. The fragment appears to describe regional wool futures or movement with limited readable details.
City listings include a North side four houses two lots 60 by 100 for 5400 with rents 92 monthly a brick double tenement with rear frame dwelling renting 102 monthly Dudley Kenyon Curtis Majors promote cheap lots and home building on installments Other sales include a 10 room Summit street house 40 rent a belt Montana 27 room hotel furniture 80 buys a saloon and property in good location Lady boarding house lodging house for sale a lady saddle horse and outfit Belgian hares furst block lodging house Condensed misc ads cover rental rooms and various real estate opportunities in Butte and nearby towns.
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