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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
20
Union Pacific traded wildly early losing to 150% then climbing to 156% as shorts covered. The broader market steadied with heavy Reading selling and strong steel activity. Bonds followed stocks with convertible issues posting gains as overall volume reached par value $2,507,000.
New York December 12 close shows prima mercantile paper at 6 percent. Sterling exchange steady with bankers bills at 481 for 6 day bills and 4 for demand. Commercial bills at 1.50. Bar silver 3?4c. Mexican dollars 4c. Government and railroad bonds steady. Money on call easier at 4 to 6 percent. ruling rate 4 percent. closing bid 4 and offered at 0 percent. Time loans easier 60 days 6 to 6 1/2 percent. 90 days 6 to 6 1/2 percent. 6 months 5 1/2 to 6 percent.
New York copper quiet with Standard and spot prices shown. Dec 16 c Wid, Jan Feb Mar 17.10e electrolytic 17.60 17.9e. Copper arrivals 850 tons, exports this month 8,676 tons. London copper dull. spot £74 ls 64, futures £75 128 6d. Lead easy at 4.25 4.35e. London lead £18 1s M4. Spelter easy at 7.20077. 0. London spelter £26 10s.
Minneapolis grain market notes wheat futures for December and March at various prices. Cash wheat reports No 1 hard and northern values, along with No 2 and Montana wheat figures. Bran and flax values listed with barley pricing and sack packaging details.
In St Louis on December 12 wool markets showed steady levels across standard grades. Medium combing and clothing wools ranged around 19 to 21 cents for fine lines, with heavy fine at about 15 to 16 cents and tub washed wool fetching roughly 26 to 27 cents per pound.
Chicago markets report wheat strength tracking stock market and Argentina bullish news. Corn gains with wheat while oats soften on December selling by a large cash house. Prices inch up across wheat corn oats pork lard rye barley timothy and clover cash quotes vary, with December wheat at 81 1 2 to 84 1 2 cents and December corn near 47 cents.
Chicago reports cattle receipts 7.00 with markets slow and weak. Beves and estockers steady to strong with varying prices. Hogs receipts 26,000 market steady to lower. mixed and heavy lines around 7.37 to 7.40. Sheep receipts 18,000 market strong with native and western lambs and yearlings showing higher bids.
Butter steady with creamaries at 28 to 35 percent. Eggs steady with receipts at 1,972 cases. Fresh current receipts 18 to 22 cents, refrigerator firsts 18 cents and firsts 0.1 cents. Cheese steady with Daisies 16 17 cents, twins 16 to 16 1/2 cents. Young Americas and long horns 16 to 17 cents.
The Bulgarians show united resolve as women at home match male zeal in the war. Mothers urge sons to front with words about fathers who fell, while trainloads of wounded are met by women bearing food and flowers. Flower adornment marks peasant life. girls gift blossoms when fetching water, shaping courtship customs.
Advertisements placed at branch agencies receive the same 11 cent per word rate as the main office in Butte or Ana ceonda. Ads are telephoned to the Standard office for prompt publication with listings in Butte and Walkerville and Centerville drug stores noted.
A concise guidance fragment emphasizes plain display in classifieds. It discourages decorative fonts and heavy display types for ada related entries and repeats the preference for simple per item line formatting by month daily and Sundays.
A jumble of employment ads from Butte and Spokane lists courses in automobile repair, engineering, and sales with guarantees of positions and free catalogues. It also includes farm help requests and job offers for tailors and bakery workers, interwoven with a long narrative on Bulgarian wartime censorship and Sofia life describing women, soldiers, and prisoners.
The article notes Ecuador bans explosive imports without government permits and identifies principal dynamite users in the region. It mentions the South American Development Company at Zaruma and the Guayaquil and Quito Railway Company as permit holders for their own use, with restrictions on supplying others.
A chaotic ad list from Butte and Anaconda includes multiple sale notices for vehicles, ambulances, a horse, a boiler, hay, and real estate. Also requests for waitresses and a dining room girl, inquiries about modern brick flats, and wanted purchasing offers. A dynamite import note from 1919 contrasts with 1911 Ecuador powder imports and a Pekin Noodle Parlor listing. A stray estray horse, lost gold chain, and job-seeking notes appear among miscellaneous notices.
The article notes a 400 ton train moving at 75 miles per hour carries energy nearly twice that of a 2000 pound shell from a 100 ton Armstrong gun. It emphasizes the immense destructive potential of fast heavy trains when striking a stationary object or another train.
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