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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1914
Page
15
The year ended with a calm, uneventful session on the New York stock exchange as traders drifted through small price changes amid holiday sentiment. Reading rose a point while most leading issues eased, bonds steadied, and overall yearly activity declined, with executives noting a cautious market and muted demand.
A year end market summary notes continued dullness with slight fractional advances and a generally firm undertone. The Paine letter from Boston and multiple sources forecast better times next year with higher prices anticipated. Officials discuss shifts in policy, investor demand, and notable corporate activity including Amalgamated and steel trusts amid broader economic readjustments.
Output figures show Boston-Ohio Copper producing 796000 pounds in November versus 720800 in October. New York and Miami discuss annual copper from ore, noting 32750000 pounds expected from 1 050 000 tons, compared with 32812600 pounds from 1 040 744 tons in 1913.
Chicago market notes show a notable advance in wheat and corn prices as late-delivery shorts were squeezed. Bulls failed to unload tonnage, while May wheat opened higher and closed near day’s peak. Oats, oats prices, and pork, lard, and rye cash quotes listed, with December corn and May oats moving gains.
Chicago markets show receipts and price levels for hogs cattle and sheep. Receipts listed with bulk light mixed heavy and rough values. cattle stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves. sheep receipts with native and western categories and lamb prices. New York money on call steady and mercantile rates noted along with sterling exchange and government bonds. Portland livestock figures show hogs sheep market conditions, and grain prices for wheat and barley with wage data.
Washington report on the 1912 mortality statistics notes tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death with 90,360 deaths. Total deaths reached 1,651, disagreeing areas show low infant mortality, and typhoid fever dropped to 847 deaths while heart and kidney diseases follow.
Mile Trentini headlines the Broadway return of The Firefly in a single performance on March 3. The operetta, written by Otto Hauerbach and Rudolf Friml, previously ran 25 weeks at the Casino New York and features a notable supporting company including Melville Stewart and Katherine Stewart. Arthur Hammerstein promoted Friml after discovering his European works and arranging their Broadway engagement. Friml, born in Prague in 1880, studied at the Prague Conservatory and later moved to the United States, performing with Jan Kubelik and premiering his piano concerto with the New York Symphony in 1906.
A fragment from a Chronicle discusses smoking lavender and a smoker’s worry about rising tobacco costs. It notes England’s tobacco increases and a Madrid professor asking what Romans smoked. Spanish digs show pipes with lavender imagery but no tobacco or opium traces, while a 1216 writer praised lavender’s vigor, yet Romans never wrote of it.
Authorities keep schools open during cholera outbreaks in the Philippines to serve as centers of hygienic information and prevention, rather than closing them to halt contagion. The measure emphasizes education and community guidance over suppression of public spaces.
Notice from Butte Workingmen's union No 21 approved by Silver Bow Trades and Labor council on Nov 2 1913. Beginning Jan 1 1914 wages for all men under the union jurisdiction to be not less than 4 per day. W F Barnaman president and J P Johnson secretary pro tem.
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