Wall Street Stocks Hit By Union Pacific Selloff
New York December 11 Union Pacific led a broad stock selloff as buyers vanished and prices tumbled. Early gains faded after a noon surge, with Union Pacific dropping from 162 1 2 to 150 1 4 and other major issues like Reading, Steel, Amalgamated Copper, and Lehigh Valley showing declines. Trading remained feverish, spills accompanied by rumors about the Harriman merger and Southern Pacific activity, while money rates softened and the bond market weakened.
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New York
Union Pacific
Reading and Steel
Amalgamated Copper
Lehigh Valley
Stock Exchange
Harriman
Southern Pacific
Sub-Treasury
United States
Creamery Receipts and Cheese Varieties Report
Chicago market notes show receipts of 2 005 cases with fresh current receipts at 7c and firsts at 1% cents. Cheese varieties include irregulars and refrigerator stocks with twine packaging and 164 16g items. Local buyers eye steady dairy supplies from Young Americas and Longhorns brands.
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Chicago
Cattle and Sheep Receipts Report From Portland Market
Portland market update shows receipts and price ranges for cattle and sheep. Choice and good steers and cows sold in varying ranges from about 4 to 9 dollars, calves at around 7 to 9 dollars, heavy calves and bulls near 5 to 6 dollars. Sheep yearlings and wethers traded around 4 to 9 dollars, with ewes near 1 to 4 dollars.
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Portland
Amalgamated Copper and Broad Stock Listings
Amalgamated Copper and related trusts dominate a broad list of American industrial names. A dense catalog shows American Beet Sugar, American Car and Foundry, American Smelting and Refining, American Sugar Refining, American Telephone and American Tobacco, and many rail, mining, and steel stocks with preferred and coupon notes, alongside bonds and government securities. The fragmentary OCR outlines a period market summary with percentages, preferences, and coupon statuses across extensive corporate line items, including U S government issues and railroad holdings.
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Amalgamated Copper
American Agricultural
SOMGO
American Car and Foundry
American Cotton OM
American Tee Securities
Denver & Rio Grande
Do Preferred
Ceccees Distillers’ Securities
Togo
Aneuesees Wee
Money Markets and Bond Activity in New York
New York reports a strong sterling exchange with 60 day bills at 480.50 and demand bills at 484.80. Commercial bills at 4.25 while government bonds hold steady and railroad bonds taste weakness. Call money remains strong at 4.5 percent with a 4 to 5 percent closing spread. Time deposits show weaker demand with 60 days at 6 6 percent, 9 days at 6 percent, and 6 months at 54 6 percent.
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New York
Sterling Exchange
Copper and lead prices steady in New York and London markets
New York copper prices hold steady with bids for December at 17.7 cents and January February around 16.87 to 17.12 cents, electrolytic 17.62 to 17.87, lake 17.62 to 17.81, casting 17.4 to 17.0 cents. Arrivals total 1,555 tons with exports this month at 8,676 tons. London copper steady spot at £75 10s and futures at £76 10s. Lead quiet at 4.26 to 4.40, London lead £18 1s 3d. Spelter quiet at 7.20 to 7.40, London spelter £26 10s.
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New York
Lfc
London
C. London
Wheat and grain prices in Minneapolis market report
Minneapolis price list from December 11 shows December wheat at 79 1/8 to 79 1/2 cents, May at 84 to 85 1/2 cents, July at 85 1/2 cents. Cash wheat quotes include No. 1 hard 82 1/2 cents, No. 2 northern 80 1/2 to 81 1/2 cents, No. 2 northern 78 1/2 to 79 1/4 cents, No. 2 hard Montana 8 1/8 cents, No. 3 wheat 76 1/2 cents. Bran at 18 1/8 to 18 1/2 dollars per 100 pounds. Flax at 1.24 to 1.25 dollars. Barley 40 dollars per 100 pounds.
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Minneapolis
Montana
Wool prices steady in mid grades and fining ranges
In St. Louis on December 11 wool markets remained steady with medium grades at 25 to 26 cents, light fine 19 to 19 and a half cents, heavy fine 13 to 18 cents, and tub washed wool quoted at 27 to 36 cents.
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St. Louis
Notable Growth in Copper Industry Since 1845
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports US Geological Survey data showing copper output rising from 224000 pounds in 1845 to 1 097252749 pounds in 1911. The United States supplied about 56 percent of world production of 1911, with major districts in Arizona California Montana Michigan Nevada New Mexico Tennessee and Utah led by Butte Montana and the Lake Superior district in Michigan.
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Washington
United States
United States Geological Survey
Arizona
California
Montana
Michigan
Nevada
New Mexico
Tennessee
Utah
Butte
Lake Superior
Prisoner at Miles City Wanted on Murder Charge
Special dispatch from Miles City reports a prisoner released from Custer county jail after a four month sentence was arrested soon after for being a fugitive from justice. The event occurred December 11 with authorities pursuing the murder charge. A brief notice confirms the arrest and ongoing pursuit.
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Miles City
The
Standard
Custer County
Baroness Seeks Recovery From Flynn Over Mining Deal
Mystery surrounds the Baroness de Pallandt's action against Charles B Flynn, wealthy mining engineer with McIntyre Porcupine Mines in Canada. She seeks $20,260 claiming a Paris advance in 1908 for his mining ventures. The Chicago socialite, once Miss May Dugus, was separated from her husband in 1901 and met Flynn in Paris in 1903 where he promoted mining properties.
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Baroness de Pallandt
Charles B. Flynn
McIntyre Porcupine
Canada
Mr. Flynn
Paris
Chicago
May Dugus
John PD. Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick
Europe
Martinique
Classified Drug Ads Reach Branch Offices
Ads left at branch agencies will be treated as if sent to the Standard office in Butte or Anaconda with the same rate of one cent per word. Advertisements are telephoned to the Standard office for prompt publication. Listings include Henry's Pharmacy in Butte, Runzler Drug Co, O'Leary's Drug Store in Butte, South Butte Pharmacies, Family Drug Store, Wilson's Drug Store, Walkerville Drug Co, Centerville Drug Co with respective street addresses.
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Butte
Anaconda
Standard Office
West Side
Henry's
Granite
Alabama
Runzler Drug Co
West Park Street
O'Leary's
Talbot Avenue
South Butte
Daly Street
Centerville
Centerville Drug Co
North Main Street
Bellevue Addition
Butte Land and Investment Co
West
Granite Street
Employment notices pull in workers and suspects in Arizona case
A 1911 style help wanted page lists jobs from skilled tailor to farm help and a bake shop post while also detailing a murder arrest warrant. The report notes a prisoner claiming another name in a Graham county case and a murder charge tied to Con JD Sullivan in Arizona.
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Graham County
Artz
Robert Wiliams
Dave Roberts
Williams
Arizona
Con JD. Sullivan
Taft Re-elected President of the Red Cross
President Taft was re-elected today as president of the American Red Cross at the eighth annual meeting. New officers named include Robert W. De Forest as vice president and Charles L. Magee as secretary, with Sherman Allen as associate secretary of the treasury and William Bullitt as solicitor. The president credited the Titanic relief effort with proving the Red Cross’s trusted role in emergencies.
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Washington
Taft
The
American Red Cross
Cers
Robert W. de Forest
New York
Charles L. Magee
Sherman Allen
the Treasury
William Bullitt
Department of Justice
Red Cross
Chicago Markets on Wall Street Blues Drag Wheat Lower
Chicago markets report a downbeat session with wheat closing about four and a half cents lower amid stock market weakness. Cereal futures opened mixed as rain in Argentina and light receipts shaded sentiment. corn and oats also slipped while hog arrivals pressured pork and lard prices. Spot rye, barley, timothy and other cash grains posted varied bids in quiet trading.
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Chicago
Wall Street
Argentina
Timothy
Regains Napoleons compass at Malmaison museum
The Malmaison museum has recovered Napoleon's ivory and silver compass after a chain of chances. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild owned it, and a luncheon bet with Grand Duke Nicholas Michaelovitch led to its transfer, with the grand duke later gifting it back to the museum in 1898 after Rothschild's death.
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New York Sun
Malmaison
Napoleon
Nicholas Michaelovitch
Lazard
Sultan Mahomet
National Gallery
Nathaniel de Rothschild
Vienna
Grand Duke
Cannes
Baron Rothschild
Chicago Cattle Receipts Slip As Market Slows
Chicago Dec 11 cattle receipts 28 000 market slow and ten lower Reeves five fifty to twenty seven fifty five twenty five Texas steers four fifty to five eighty five western steers five forty to nine fifteen stockers and feed-
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Chicago
Reeves
Texas
Property listings and land notes in Walkerville Illinois
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott president general of the national society D A R one of the first land owners in Illinois sends 45 of her tenants each year at her own expense to the agricultural college at Champaign Illinois. Several small frame and brick properties across Walkerville are listed with prices ranging from 109 to 1860 dollars including modern frame and brick veneer options and a large lot.
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Walkerville
Matthew T. Scott
The
National Society
Illinois
Agricultural College
Champaign
London Fogs Not Modern From The New York Sun
London fogs, called the London particular, were not a new nuisance. Tacitus notes their bad reputation, while Pepys is silent. John Evelyn records two terrible fogs when lights failed to deter highway robberies, and his pamphlet Fumifugium denounces the clouds.
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London
Tacitus
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