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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1914
Page
12
Markets opened substantially weaker with downward tendency as the Interstate Commerce Commission issued a rate decision. Some eastern railroads won a percentage increase, others a compromise. Analysts expect a reaction after year-end statements and a potential rise in railroad rates could follow.
Markets rallied and fell as the Interstate Commerce Commission granted a 5 percent freight rate advance to eastern railroads. Bulls and bears reversed as buying returned, erasing early losses and nudging averages higher by day’s end. Bond prices held, money rates eased to 4 percent, while wool prices strengthened amid strong mill demand.
A list of convertible bonds including Tel and Tel, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Southern Pacific and Bay Consolidated is offered as an attractive investment. The notice invites clients, including those outside the city, to request the list by mail to receive data and particulars.
A former Montana visitor plans a tour of the mine after completing a 61 day trip. He intends sailing from New York in January and may visit old friends in Arizona before returning to England.
Chicago December 18 heavy stock taking on futures talk of peace and tampering exports wiped out today and mightily unsettled wheat and corn with modest gains and declines. Ongoing hog and cattle activity weighed on prices as traders watched exports and weather while prices for December wheat and corn fluctuated within narrow ranges on a light trading day.
An old time price sheet compares values and urges shoppers to spend where they get the most for their money. It touts cheaper mutton pork beef and lard options, highlighting savings on cuts like loin and rib roast, bacon, ham, eggs butter flour and staples with suggested prices and bulk deals. It ends by claiming rising demand for "Luis orders" and urging customers to buy for future savings.
Minneapolis, Dec. 18 Wheat prices quoted for December and May contracts. No. 1 hard wheat at 1.21, No. 1 northern 1.17, No. 2 northern 1.18. Cash and bid figures listed by Yankee Paine Webber & Co. Continental Oil Manard and others.
The organization plans its annual meeting in June at the capital. The chairmen of subcommittees are to name members and start work on the convention program. The general convention committee includes M. L. Babb as chairman and Miss Ettle Strand as secretary.
Holiday Standard comes out tomorrow with price listed per copy. Postage is three cents to US, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii and the Philippines. Copies available at Standard offices in Butte and Anaconda, with out-of-town orders to Anaconda and postage required.
Bruce Kremer, national committee man for the Democratic Party in Montana, has accepted an invitation to preside over the Democratic banquet in Helena on January 2. The banquet, to be held in the native Tow-wow, will follow no caucuses by the members. Covers are paid for 360 guests.
A disrupted dispatch notes Tord beneath the title and reports cutbacks on the Northern Pacific passenger service. The plan would reduce daily trains on the Hatton and Vueville branch, except Sundays, beginning soon.
The Cantagnan club will stage its second Hard Times dance of the season in Sacred Heart hall starting at 9 pm. Accommodations will be made for a large crowd.
Sapulpa Oklahoma December 1 Kate Nurvell a telephone operator at Mound seven miles south of here sat at the switchboard early today The annunciator of 418 fell She answered a call Don t tell you where it is A man later assaulted Mrs Fred Allen a hardware dealer s wife in her home when she refused to disclose where valuables were kept During the struggle she knocked the receiver off the wall notifying the office and bringing police. In New York appellate division upheld convictions of Bart Dunn Tamany leader and Joseph Fogarty for highway graft with ten months penitentiary on Blackwell Island.
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