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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1907
Page
16
The New York market shows stock prices rising with uneven volume as bears buy to support year end balance sheets. Currency premium fell, signaling easing demand. London gold purchases and German rate trends buoyed sentiment. December treasury deficits persist, while savings withdrawals stabilize after notice periods.
A garbled OCR list shows Amalgamated Copper and many other major issuers such as American Car and Foundry, American Cotton Oil, American Express, American Locomotive, American Smelting & Refining, American Sugar Refining, Anaconda Mining, Atlantic Coast Line, Baltimore & Ohio, Canadian Pacific, Central Leather, Chicago Great Western, Illinois Central, New York Central, Pennsylvania, United States Steel, Westinghouse Electric, and Western Union among others. The fragmentary text implies a securities table with preferred and common listings, percentages, and percent change references, including various railroads, oil and mining firms.
An opaque OCR fragment mentions individuals and locations in a disrupted sequence. The legible terms include names and an organization, with references to a tunnel and numbers, but the overall event is not recoverable.
A college figure left amid a sympathy display with a mock funeral. A long procession of hansoms and a band escorted him to the station. The cortege featured mourning attire and crape, with cabmen in rosettes. Within a week Cambridge saw a repeat. An Oxford student was rusticated.
In New York Dee 27 money on call quoted 10 to 18 percent with ruling rate at 11 percent and close offers at 15 percent. Time loans quiet but firm for 60 days 12 to 1 percent, 90 days 10 to 12 percent, six months 8 percent. Prime mercantile paper 7 1 2 to 8 percent. Sterling exchange steady with bank bills at 484.55 for demand and 479 for 60 days. Government and railroad bonds steady.
In New York on December 27 copper held at 6s higher with spot £60 15s and futures £61 15s. Local markets showed no change. Lake electrolytic quoted 13.374c, casting 18?13, 124¢cc. Lead dipped 1s in London to £14, locally steady at 3.50 3. Spelter unchanged at £19 Ds in London, locally firmer at 4.20 4.25.
Washington date line reports the general fund statement of balances with an available cash balance of 267,988,862 dollars, gold coin and bullion totaling 53,465,400 dollars, and gold certificates at 61,868,760 dollars, reflecting the day’s treasury status.
Chicago market news shows wheat weak for the day with a brief early rise on India acreage reports. Argentine weather and rising local receipts weighed, settling May wheat at about 1.06. Corn and oats mirrored the trend with slight gains in early trading and late declines. Provisions opened firm on hog price gains but fell as hog receipts expected rise. May pork finished down 4 to 6 cents, lard up slightly, ribs down about a quarter.
Chicago cattle receipts about 8 500 with market steady and animal classes priced. Hogs receipts near 22 000 with market about five higher across light to heavy classes and bulk sales near 4 40 to 4 55. Sheep receipts around 11 000 with market details cut off in readable text.
In the Standard each insertion uses the word ad. No ad is taken for less than fifteen cents. Six ordinary words form one line. Ten lines fit an inch. Advertisers may have replies addressed care of the Standard and will receive a card to present at the Standard office to obtain replies. Light-faced display type appears on the Want Page at regular rates.
Classified notices advertise sales work with flexible hours at the Standard office in Butte, urging youths to apply early morning. Also seeks agents with a guaranteed daily salary, and lists contact details for T. W. Hayes in Anaconda. Additional items note telegraphy lessons, medical specialists, private home confinement services, and livestock market figures.
Multiple small notices include sale items like engines boilers pumps and rails from Butte Machinery Co and a partly furnished four room flat for rent in Helena plus a pardons board order in Montana setting January 8 1908 for hearing on John Caddick pardon involving a second degree murder conviction and publishing dates in Anaconda Standard with additional rent notice for housekeeping rooms at 320 West Broadway Butte.
Wool steady in St Louis with medium combing and clothing grades at 21 to 24 cents. Light fine runs 19 to 20 cents, heavy fine 15 to 16 1/2 cents, tub washed 26 38 to 28 cents.
Portland news reports Mayor Harry K Lane told the First National Guard association that Japanese government agents had obtained accurate maps of Portland routes and pipelines. He said the altered spies produced superior plans, and he notified Washington with details of their operations.
The article traces dentistry from ancient times, noting Aesculapius and Hippocrates, Etruscan and Phoenician roots, and Roman practices. It cites 5,000 to 6,000 years old artificial teeth, lead extractors, bone and horn dentures, and Martials references, ending with later medieval decline and revival by French surgeons.
The Wall Street Journal notes a split view on depressions length. A well informed group expects a lively business season from New Year to spring, based on rising consumption excluding luxuries and the belief purchasing power remains intact. They foresee no rapid price drops, unless banks shift to cash footing.
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