Wall Street Slumps Amid Strike and Credit Uncertainties
New York stock market ends dull with a weak tone as anxiety over the anthracite miners strike and tight money conditions weighs on trading. Coal stocks firm slightly on strike news, while United States Steel faces selling after protest at the stockholders meeting. Bond and foreign exchange activity remains subdued as lenders retreat and investors await crop outcomes and credit signals.
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Pittsburg
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United States
Classified Wants Ads and Market Prices Digest
Lettered responses to want ads list items for sale and market quotes. Seeds flour grains and livestock products feature prices per unit and per barrel, with figures for flaxseed timothy seed lard and various meat cuts, alongside shipments and receipts data for commodities like wheat corn oats rye and barley.
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Chicago Cattle Receipts and Prices Report
Chicago cattle receipts reach 2 000 with varied quotes for steers cows and calves. Opened steady to a shade lower then higher, with butchers and heavy meats in ranges around eight dollars and above. Sheep and lambs show strength with good to choice wethers and native lambs listed among regional lots.
South Omaha cattle and sheep receipts report
May 19 market report shows cattle receipts at 16, market slow with ranges for cows and heifers 2.85 to 6.75, western steers around 4.59 to 5.75, Texas steers about 4.20 to 7.59, canners 1.75 to 2.75, stockers and feeders 2.75 to 4.44, calves up to 5.75, pigs 5.75 to 6.75, heavy hogs 7.10 to 7.30, mixed 7.07 to 7.16. Sheep receipts 6 with higher prices for fed muttons 5.50 to 6. dollars, westerns 4.40 to 5.25, ewes 4.25 to 5.25, stockers 3.25 to 3.75, lambs 5.50 to 7.10.
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London markets close as New York metal prices hold steady
New York metal markets show copper up 4 cents at 124. The market also notes steady to firm moves in lead and tin with minor changes in gas and aluminum prices. Iron remains steady at prior levels and pig iron warrants are listed in multiple ranges. Bar silver quoted at 51 1 2 cents.
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Southern Foundry
Cattle and Hog Market Results From Kansas City Brief
Kansas City market report shows cattle receipts at 2.00 per hundred with 8 Texans among natives and varied prices for steers cows and calves. Hog receipts at 4,000 with steady market. bulk sale range 7.50 to 7.47 with packers around 7.16 to 7.20. Sheep receipts 2,000 with strong market. ewes and lambs priced from 4.75 to 6.05 seasonally.
Money on call and rates in New York market May 19
Money on call easier at 2to6 percent with 3 percent offered. Prime mercantile bills quoted around 44e65 percent. Sterling exchange firm with bankers' bills at 4.875 for demand and 4.545 for 60 days. Posted rates 4.85 and 4.58. Commercial bills 4.84 to 4.85. Mexican dollars 41.4 cents. Government bonds steady. state bonds inactive. railroad bonds heavy.
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Grain supplies in New York on May 17
The May 17 visible grain supply reported by the New York produce exchange shows Wheat 38,575,000 bushels down 1,725,000. Corn 4,870,000 down 827,000. Oats 3,924,000 up 97,000. Rye 1,130,000 down 211,000. Barley 663,000 down 150,000.
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Treasury cash and gold holdings report
Washington on May 19 reports an available cash balance of 189,021,202 dollars and gold holdings totaling 95,944,698 dollars as shown in today's treasury statement.
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Making of a Heroine from the Milwaukee Sentinel
A South Dakota visitor in Milwaukee collapses on a streetcar, drinks brandy given by a druggist, and returns to a relative’s home where she becomes wildly unruly and disoriented. Two elderly and two young women witness her alarming behavior before she is helped to recover.
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Chicago Markets: Wheat and Corn Slip on Holidays and Weather
The Chicago wheat pit showed general apathy as outside interest stayed out and English markets closed for holidays. Bears pressed amid good rains across the winter wheat belt and warm growing weather, while late spring seeding remained aided by improving conditions. July wheat drifted around 74 to 75 cents, corn and oats softened, and July pork and rib provisions fell on lighter demand.
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Grain price quotes from local market report
Cash quotations were listed for several grains including No 3 spring wheat at 72 2a 74 c No 2 red at 80 lef 82 lec No 2 oats at 1844 4846 c No 2 white at 4$84042 c No 3 white at 484 444 c No 2 rye at d9e 60 c with notes on fair to good quality making a bar
Wanted male help and labor positions in 1900s classifieds
Multiple early 20th century want ads seek male laborers, printers, barbers, and tradesmen. urgent notes call for loggers, ski idlers with teams, brick yard workers, bushelmen, and stand ard carpentry tasks. Also offers free lessons and employment bureaus with locations in Butte and Bozeman, Montana and national listings in New York and Philadelphia.
Martinique Horror and World Disasters Promoted for Book Sales
A garbled advertisement touts a sensational account of Martinique’s supposed volcanic destruction and other disasters. It markets a best selling volume, offers free outfits to agents, and lists Chicago and Philadelphia publishers seeking sales agents and distribution opportunities.
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Fifth Ave
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Dearborn
Globe Bible Publishing Co
Philadelphia
Local Heroine Emerges After Drug Store Incident
A young woman fell into a drug store mishap, babbled for an hour, slept, and woke with a severe headache. The incident sparked blame toward the drug store man, and the woman has since been hailed as a heroine.
The Slick Beggar: Pedigreed Beggar Demands Daisies
An old man in front of a Forty second Street flower stand admires daisies with a pensive air. He proclaims the daisy was the first flower he saw on American soil and, despite poverty, declines a bouquet but accepts a silver half dollar from a generous bystander. The dealer quips he is the slickest beggar ever seen.
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Local Business Notices Skim of Butte Advertisements
Short classified items list services in Butte including fur storage and repair Rauh & Richter 36 N Main Dr Keen Tan dentist moved to Goldberg rooms 208 209 reliable scavenger William George Co 401 E Mer tury Montana Abstract & Title Insurance 504 Hennessy Butte carpet cleaning by George B Shale Montana and Porphyry services with contact numbers.
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Butte
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Furnished Rooms for Rent Across Several Montana Cities
Multiple classified ads list furnished rooms for rent in Butte Missoula Anaconda and Park Street locations with options including steam heat electric lights baths and dining. several rooms noted as house keeping single rooms and a six room house. also a palmistry consultation and cemetery water orders announced by trustees.
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Quartz ST
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Barnard Dik
Granite, Butte
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Butte
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For Rent Listings From Butte And Anaconda
Classified rental notices show rooms flats houses and a lodge hall for rent in Butte and Anaconda. Properties include modern flats with bath furnace gas range and janitor service and a 5 room upper flat at Excelsior with reduced rent and a 1 room road house furnished at Bally Mink. Also sale of household goods at 16 W Broadway Butte.
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Luerte St
S. Jackson
Reynolds & McDowell Blk
F. Broadway
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W. O. Speer
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Apply
Eagle Pharmacy
Main
Excelsior, Butte
Bally & Mink
Tab Avenue
Rouse
East Third Ste
Anaconda
Schoolboy Repartee With Principal Prentis Timely Quip
Hodgen school principal H W Prentis tells a self mocking joke during an exam. He asks a bright pupil to solve an algebra sum. the student retorts that George Washington was a surveyor at Prentis age, and Prentis was president at Washington’s age.
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Hodgen School
United States
Second hand furniture buyers and sellers advertise locally
An assortment of ads promotes secondhand ranges stoves folding beds and furniture with several firms offering cash for goods and listings of contact phones and addresses in Butte and nearby towns. Notices mention antique items and a distant estate executor with patent service offers.
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Butte
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T. More
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