Motor Stocks Rise On brisk New York Trading
In New York on January 4 motor stocks climbed in early trading as brisk buying lifted General Motors and Chrysler to 218 from last week’s 195 and pushed Hudson higher. Other gains appeared across Overland, Mack, Studebaker, Fisher Body, White, and more, amid a lingering money-market strain.
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New York
Nual Motor Show
Newark
General Motors
Chrysler
Lasteek
Hudson
Lys Overland Common
Macruck
Studebaker
Fisher Bouy
Edge
White
Liberty Bond Quotations Daily Update
Liberty bond market shows several issues with current bids and yields. Notable quotes include 8 90.19 for second 4s, 8 100.27 for third 8, 4s at 101.30, 4is at 106.13, and new 48 at 102.30.
Police Heroes Save Tenement Dwellers From Brooklyn Fire
In Brooklyn a four story frame tenement was set ablaze by a youth with a bundle of oil soaked newspapers. One officer battled flames with a raincoat while another guided seventeen residents to safety as reserves were called. No injuries. fire checked with limited damage.
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New York
Brooklyn
Alleged Stabber Sought. Victim Severely Wounded
Cecil Smith of Redtown remains at large after a stabbing of Walter Wisecup. Police believe he may hide in the hills near Redtown or be in Columbus. Wisecup, at Sheltering Arms hospital in Athens, suffers multiple abdominal wounds.
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Cecil Smith
Redtown
Walter Wisecup
Athens County
Smith
Columbus
Wisecup
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
President Coolidge asks funds for Geneva disarmament conference
January 4 President Coolidge sent a special message to Congress requesting 50000 dollars to defer the expenses of American delegates to the international conference at Geneva on February 15 seeking to discuss possibilities of staging a disarmament conference under the League of Nations auspices. The message automatically sought congressional sanction.
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Awashington
Shunters Noted in Record Year by Common Pleas Clerk
The report shows a large number of shunters last year with 1170 hunting licenses issued by Thurman L. Morgas of the Common Pleas Clerk's office. The fragmentary data suggests broad activity in hunting permits and related shunter records.
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Thurman L. Morgas
Livestock Receipts and Prices Mixed Across Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Hog receipts 64 000 with steady bulk prices. top 12 dollars, mediums around 11.75, lights 11.00, heavy sows 9 75. Calves receipts 3 500. beef steers mixed, goods and choice 10 50 to 12 58, butcher cattle and cows down to 4 50. Sheep and lambs receipts 25 000. fat lambs around 15 0, yearlings 11 13, ewes around 6 5, feeder lambs 15 16 5. Market described as strong for hogs and lower for lambs.
Pittsburgh Livestock Market Report Recap
Cattle supply about 1100 head with market ranging from 8.75 to 10.75 for various grades and veal calves around 16.00. Sheep and lamb supply 4000 with good 10.50 and lambs about 16. Hogs receipts 7500 with active but irregular prices from 12 to 13 for prime heavy, mediums 12.50 12.75, lighter hogs 12.75 13, and stags 66.7 to 67.
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Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Livestock Market Report
Cattle receipts 2400 head with lower market. Steers and cows from good to choice priced between 4.75 and 10.50. Calves steady at 14 to 14. Hogs receipts 4000 head market steady for good to choice stockers and butchers 11.75 to 12.25. Sheep 100 head steady 6 to 8 for good to choice with lambs slow and steady.
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Cincinnati
Cleveland Produce Butter and Eggs Prices Listed
Prices for butter in Cleveland show extra Sic ize firsts at 48c 49c and eggs at 48c fresh in northern Ohio extra firsts 44c Ohio firsts 41c west ern firsts 40c. Poultry meats list fowls 30c 3hc roosters 16c 18c springers 30c 32c ducks 30c 33c geese 22c 2hc turkeys 50c s52c Apples Ohio Baldwins priced at 5.75 per barrel potatoes Ohio 2.60 2.75 per bushel cabbage Ohio Danish 50 per ton tomatoes hothouse 2.50 2.75 per 10 lb basket onions Ohio Saxoline 2.50 2.75 per cwt.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Ohio Baldwins
Chicago Produce Butter Receipts and Prices
Chicago creamery receipts show butter at 45c for extra, 44 15c for extra firsts, 41c for firsts. packing stock 35c. Overall receipts total 12,808 units.
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Chicago
Grain and seed price report from Toledo
Grain quotes include Wheat No 2 red at 1.96 1.97, Corn No 3 yellow 82 cents, Oats No 2 white 47 48 cents, Rye 85, Barley No 2 5 cents, Cloverseed cash 14.85 with futures listed, Timothy 3.80 cash and December with March activity. Market notes show several forward prices and upcoming contract months.
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Toledo
Timothy
1925 licensing numbers show steady issuance
Morgan reports that by this morning seventy licenses have been issued in 1925, a little under the 1924 total but a fair average for the year.
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Morgan
Bills of sale rush hits clerk as license rush grows
In compliance with a new law auto owners obtain bills of sale from Common Pleas clerk Thurman L. Morgan and file them after licenses. The office has processed over 1,000 bills since Christmas and expects more as the limit day nears. No licenses issued without a bill of sale.
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Clerk of Common Pleas Court
Thurman L. Morgan
Common Pleas Clerk
Mr. Morgan
Would-Be Bandits Sought After Theatre Robberies
Cincinnati police hunt several bandits following theater thefts and foiled attempts. Two thugs escaped with theater receipts of unknown sum while three would-be robbers tried Cox theater and locked a porter in a closet.
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Cincinnati
Palace Theater
Cox Theater
Athletes to Face Court for Intoxication in Tampa
Jim Thorpe and C. Weidlerquist, Minnesota football star, were to face a police court in Tampa today on intoxication charges. They were removed from an exclusive hotel after disturbing guests. Both played for the Tampa Cardinals in a loss to Red Grange’s Chicago Bears on New Year’s Day.
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Tampa
Fla
Jim ‘Thorpe
C. Weidlerquist
Minnesota
Tampa Cardinals
Cardinals
Red”Grange
Chicago Bears
Gaye
Philadelphia Taxi Takeover Postponed Pending Council Approval
Officials of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company delay the takeover of the yellow taxi service until City Council approves the issue of preferred stock to finance the acquisition. The review is expected within ten days to two weeks.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Philadelphia City Council
Confectionery Firms Eye Postholiday Demand in Philadelphia
Confectionery manufacturers in Philadelphia shift focus after the holidays. Candies priced from 50 cents to 1 dollar per pound meet steady demand as shops adjust to consumer needs.
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Confectionary
Philadelphia
Midland Steel Receives Major Freight Car Door Order
Midland Steel Products, a large maker of automobile frames, has just received an order for 12,000 patented steel freight car doors. The Milwaukee area firm is expanding its steel division and production capacity.
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Cleveland
Midland Steel Products Company
Midland
Massachusetts Extension Committee Seeks Tobacco Acreage Reduction
The extension service committee of Massachusetts Agricultural College recommends abandoning much tobacco acreage in the Connecticut valley. The proposal favors growing a higher grade tobacco and using the land for corn hay alfalfa beans or cabbage.
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Boston
Extension Service Committee
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Connecticut Valley
L. S. Donaldson to Use Horses for City Deliveries
In Minneapolis on January 4, the L. S. Donaldson company plans to shift a large share of deliveries to horse drawn wagons in dense blocks while retaining trucks for outlying areas. The move aims to boost efficiency in crowded districts.
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Minneapolis
L. S. Donaldson Company
Minnesota
Pine industry reports sharp drop in orders and shipments
Southern Pine Association mills show orders down 21.8 percent to 40,400,000 feet last week. Shipments fall 15 percent to 47,300,000 and production declines 23 percent to 43,700,000. Unfilled orders total 219,300,000 feet.
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New Orleans
Southern Pine Association Mills
Gasoline Prices Rise in North Texas Markets
Gasoline prices stiffened in North Texas and northern resale markets handling midcontinent gasoline, despite holiday shipment checks and cold weather effects.
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Oil FT. Worth
Texas
Winter Wheat Sown In Illinois Falls Short Of Plan
Illinois winter wheat planting for the fall is 22.5 percent below plan, about 500000 acres short, and 11 percent under last year. Growth was late on average and crop outcome remains uncertain.
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Chicago
Squirrels Swim Mississippi River Migration Headed West
Thousands of squirrels observed crossing the Mississippi River this fall show a broad westward migration from Illinois and Wisconsin. Wildlife experts note the unusual movement across the river system as autumn gathers.
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Great
Mississippi River
Illinois
Wisconsin
Continental Baking Corp Denies Monopoly Claim
The Continental Baking Corporation filed a categorical denial with the Federal Trade Commission asserting it has no monopoly in any product. It states it operates bakeries across many states and that competition remains possible due to abundant raw materials and numerous producing and consumer entities.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Continental Baking Corporation
New England
Pacific Coast
Commission
United States
New York's Holiday Sanity Sparks Wet Dry Clash
New York reports a Christmas and New Year without deaths from poisoned liquor. Drys blame caution urged by U S Attorney Buckner while wets cite New York’s low death tally as proof that broad bans failed to deter consumption.
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New York
United States
Buckner
New York Record
Year 1926 begins with tentative business activity
J C Royle notes slow start to 1926 with holiday winddown in mills and factories. Steel, oil, and building markets show mixed activity, while auto and radio sectors predict gradual recovery. Coal talks not yet shaping the coal market. shipments and meat exports remain strong.
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New York
Detroit
United States
South America
Louisiana
Lumbe
West
Cuba
Mary D Kelley 75 Dies. Rites Set At First Methodist
Mrs. Mary D Kelley 75 died at home on 31 Second Street. Funeral 2 PM Tuesday at First Methodist Church with Rev Dr Daniel McGurk officiating. Burial in West Union Street Cemetery. Born November 22 1852 in Lodi Township she married Levi Kelley July 15 1875. children Lewis W Harry G and Alma Hudson at her bedside. Martzolff class to attend in body.
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Mary D. Kelley
Second Street
Kelley
Lodi Township
Greater
Levi Kelley
Lewis W
Harry G
Alma Hudson
Athens
Martzolff
Killer admits part in murder of Louis Romini
Police said Edward Bresnahan confessed to taking part in the slaying of Louis Romini, a French war veteran, after his wife identified him. Authorities expect admissions from Matthew Lusk, hospitalized with a police bullet wound. Romini was shot during a robbery attempt when he restrained the trio. St. Paul reports a quarter ounce electric motor mounted on a finger ring.
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Chicago
Louis Romini
Edward Bresnahan
Matthew Lusk
Romini
St. Paul Minn
First 1926 Baby in Athens County
Athens records its first 1926 baby a girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hailey at 81 Central Avenue. She arrived January 3 after no births on January 1 or 2, with the unnamed infant aiming to start the new year right and prove the year’s birth statistics will rise.
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Athens
Leo Hailey
Central
Avenue
Teo Harly
Barbara Hawley Takes Her First Step Into Newspaper Life
Barbara Hawley, 25, quits teaching to join the Messenger staff after breaking with fiancé Bruce Reynolds. She embraces life in a smoky newsroom, values ambition over romance, and heads to work at seven thirty as her mother watches with wary pride.
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Barbara Hawley
Iife
Bruce Reynolds
the Messenger
Andrew McDermott
Barbara
Bruce
Wilma Collins
To & Ie
Oldest living Rebel dies at 103 in Tennessee
Judge Washington Brown, the oldest living ex Confederate, died at 103 in Lenoir City Tennessee. He was captured in the Civil War and confined at Camp Martin Indianapolis where guards hung him by the thumbs for three hours after he killed and ate a dog to quell hunger. He survived with his second wife and seventeen children born after he turned eighty.
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Lenoir City
Tenn
Judge Washington Brown
Judge Brown
Camp Martin
Indianapolis
Army Search Expanded For Lost Lieutenants In Mexico
Two more planes were sent from Brooksfield to aid the hunt for Lieut C 8 Thorpe and Lieut Marion T Pharr who were reported lost in the uninhabited mountains of Northern Mexico. They went into Mexico on a hunting trip with Lieuts Fred Hamilton and Daniel Buckland. Buckland and Hamilton said Pharr and Thorpe got lost Thursday morning.
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San Antonio
Brooksfield
Thrope
Marion T. Pharr
Ft. McIntosh
Mexico
Fred Hamilton
Daniel P. Buckland
Buckland
Hamilton
Pharr
Thorpe
Witwer Sues Harold Lloyd Over The Freshman Theft Claim
New York humorist H. C. Witwer filed a $25,000 damages suit in Los Angeles alleging that Harold Lloyd stole the storyline of his film The Freshman about college life. Witwer says the source material was published earlier by him.
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Los Angeles
Calif
H. C. Witwer
New York
Today
Harold Lloyd
Witwee
Banker Perkins Dead in West Delta Colorado
Herbert Sk Perkins a prominent Western Colorado political leader banker farmer and sheepman died. He was born in Mechanics Falls Maine and lived in West Delta Colorado where his career spanned finance agriculture and public service.
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West Delta
Colo
Herbert Sk. Perkins
Colorado
Mr. Perkins
Mechanics Falls
Guardian Convicted Of Stealing From War Brother
William Raduszis, guardian for his mentally ill brother John a World War II veteran with the 166th Infantry, embezzled 11372 while the men were in Ohio. He received a three to ten year sentence in Cuyahoga County penitentiary.
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Cleveland
William Raduszis
Criminal Court
Cuyahoga County
Raduszis
John
166Th Infantry
Chillicothe
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