Rail gains fade as stocks rally in industrials
Confused price movements marked the day on the New York stock market with short covering driving sharp rallies in several industrials, notably the motor group, while rails eased on profit taking. Total volume neared 2,000,000 shares as easier money rates and dividend news supported a broad recovery in industrials.
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New York
Motor Group
United States Steel Common
Crucible
Chrysler
Hudson
Mack Truck
Stewart-Warner
General Motors
Fisher Body
Murray Body
Dupont
Nash
Pierce-Arrow
Spicer Manufacturing
Strombers
Pennsylvania
Southern Railway
Lahigh Valley
Wabash
Lackana
Chicago
Pastorn
Illinois
Atchison
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio
Rock Island
Great Northern
Reading
Burns Brothers
Columbia Carbon
Continental Insurance
Mathieson Alkali
Webernbroner
Oll
Associated
Bond Market Averages Hold Steady Amid Rail Demand
Undiminished buying of locomotive liens buoyed the bond market as rail and utility issues rose. The New York Federal Reserve rediscount rate stayed at 3 percent while railroad shares lagged but high grade carrier bonds remained in demand, with some profit taking in Chesapeake and Ohio and Seaboard.
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New York
New York Federal Reserve
Seues
Chesapeake and Ohio
Seaboard
Erie
St. Paul
New York Stock Prices and Company Listings
A list of company names with percentages appears, showing stock or price figures for firms such as American Can, American Car and Foundry, American Locomotive, American Smelting and Refining, American Sugar, American Tobacco, American Woolen, Anaconda Copper, Armour, Baldwin Locomotive, Baltimore and Ohio, California Petroleum, Canadian Pacific, Central Leather, Cerro de Pasco, Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, electric power and light products, Union Pacific, United Cigar Stores, United States Cast Iron Pipe, and United States Industrial. The text reads like a roll of stock prices or price-change indicators with varied percentages.
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New York
Mas American
American Car and ‘Foundry
Atlantic Coast Line
Atchison Y
Baldwin
Baltimore and Ono
Chicago
Paris Bond Market Slim as European Trade Falters
In Paris and across Europe trading was light. New issues include National Distillers' Products Corporation ten year notes for 3.5 million dollars at 99 with interest yielding about 6.65 percent.
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Paris
Wropean
National
Distillers’ Products Corporation
Government Bonds Prices in New York Market
United States bonds closed with Liberty 3s at 99.22 and various 4s quoted across series. Notable levels include Liberty second 4s at 100, first 4s at 101.28, second 4s at 100.23, third 4s at 101.27, fourth 4s at 102, and 4s at 102.30 along with Treasury 4a at 106.10.
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New York
United States
Liberty
Ieee
Treasury
Call Money Rates Mixed. Time Loans Steady in New York
Call money easier with high and low at 44, ruling rate 4 percent, closing bid 4 percent, offered at 5, last loan 4 percent. Call loans against acceptances 4 percent. Time loans steady. Mixed collateral for 60 to 90 days and 4 to 6 months at 4 percent. Prime mercantile paper also at 4 percent.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Foreign exchanges steady in major markets
New York December 17 foreign exchanges show steady activity with quotes across Europe and beyond. Britain demand 4.544, cables 4.85. France 1.63 demand, 3.65 cables. Argentina 41.30, Shanghai 77 percent, Montreal 99 51/32.
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New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Switzerland
Spain
Greece
Poland
Czecho- Slovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Austria
Rumania
Argentina
Brazil
Toklo
Shanghai
Montreal
Grain futures slide as Chicago markets close unsettled
Persistent selling driven by Winnipeg quotations drags wheat down in Chicago. December closes at 1.73 to 1.74, May at 1.68 to 1.69, with corn and oats down and provisions largely unchanged to lower.
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Chicago
Winnipeg
Seed and grain price roundup from Toledo market
Market note lists seed and grain prices in Toledo on December 1. Wheat No 2 red at 1,834.84 per unit. Clover domestic at 18.75 asked with December and January 14.60 asked. vereery 14.60 asked. March 14.65. December 16.00. Timothy cash and December 3.50 with March 3.65.
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Toledo
Poultry Prices Mixed In New York Market
Live poultry irregular. Chickens by freight 24 27c per pound. Chickens by express 25 28c. Broilers by freight 5c. Ducks by freight 28 30c. Dressed poultry firm. Turkeys southern 46 46c per pound.
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New York
Express
Turkeys
Southern
Williamson gateway to the Billion Dollar Coal Field
The Wall Street Office notes Bluefield Telegraph as a key reader base and signals growing interest in Siamson real estate. Edw. R. Jehling and Wm. F. Toney sign off, indicating the office’s speculative stance on local opportunities.
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Williamson
Wall Street
Bluefield Telegraph
United States
Siamson Real Estate
R. Jehling
Wm. F. Toney
Livestock Market Report Chicago Dec 17
Cattle receipts 16 000 with feeders and steers easing, top price 13 50 for strictly choice 1404 and 1223 lb averages. Hog receipts 44 000 slow start then steady with 200 lb butchers at 10 65 to 11 35 and sows 8 60 to 9 00. Sheep receipts 14 000 fat lambs up 26 percent with city butcher decks at 16 25 to 16 75 and yearlings 12 25 to 13 25.
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Chicago
Butter Market Steady as Trading Remains Quiet
Butter prices hold steady in Chicago on December 17 with dull trading. Buyers show little interest while sellers refrain from concessions, and the centralized market remains steady with ample offerings to meet demand.
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Chicago
Cotton goods market steady amid slow demand in New York
Dry goods review from New York on December 17 notes quiet activity in the gray division with some sales of print cloths at unchanged prices. Mills report slack demand for drills and sheetings and finished cotton goods.
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New York
Textile markets drift lower amid varied global shifts
Prices for fall shipments fell as tonnage orders were placed at reduced rates. Wool markets cooled with weaker showing in several lines. Jobbers and cutters purchased small lots of lightweight dress goods while silk eased at Yokohama and remained steady locally. Burlaps softened in Calcutta tracking ongoing jute declines.
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Yokohama
Calcutta
Sugar Market Moves on New York Trade Report
Raw sugar offerings rose with 10 000 bags Cuban prompt at 4.12 duty paid and 14 000 bags Philippines February shipment at 4.20 delivered. Market trend shows toned levels around 2 38 downward and futures near 2 29 to 2 60 for various months. Refined sugar quiet with granulated prices spanning 6.00 to 6.50.
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New York
Philippines
Flour News From New York Declares Steady Market
The New York flour market shows steady prices as of December 17 with no major shifts in supply or demand reported. Traders anticipate minor fluctuations pending export activity and seasonal milling demand.
Babcock and Wilcox Buys Fuller Lehigh and Bailey Meter Firms
The Babcock and Wilcox Company announced it purchased the Fuller Lehigh Company with its subsidiaries, makers of pulverized fuel and cement mill equipment, and also acquired the Bailey Meter Company, producers of meters recorders and combustion control equipment.
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New York
Babcock and Wilcox Company Today
Fuller-Lehigh Company
Bailey Meter Company
Hallgarten & Company to absorb Boissevain on New Year
Verized fuel feeders and water cooled furnace walls mark a manufacturing note as Boissevain & Company consolidates with Permagnetomed? and Company to form Hallgarten & Company on January 1. Dodge Brothers predicts demand surge in 1926 with $10 million more in capacity.
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Pergnatomed & Company
World Co
Boissevain & Company
Hallgarten & Company
Robert C. Graham
Dodge Brothers, Inc
Dodge
Real estate transfers filed in county records
Real estate transfers listed include H. C. Ellett trustee to First National Bank of Princeton for lot 4 section 14 east Princeton at 175. W. B. McNutt to W. B. Grady et al for lot 4 in Carland Development Co tract at 400. R. H. Miller et al to Sidney Jot 10 Bluefield at 10. A. B. Bivens trustee to Ww. B. McNutt for lot 4 block J Carland Development Co tract at 260. J. A. Thomas and wife to Fred M.
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H. C. Ellett
First National Bank of Princeton
East Princeton
W. B. McNutt
W. B. Grady
Jon J. Carland Development Co
R. H. Miller
Bluefield
A. B. Bivens
Ww. B. McNutt
Block J
Dr Leonhardt's Hem-Roid Offers Internal Piles Cure
A newspaper advertisement claims Dr Leonhardt identified the piles cause and developed a remedy Hem-Roid for internal piles. Goodykoontz Drug Co and all druggists sell it with a guarantee of results or money back, urging sufferers to obtain a package today.
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Dr. Leonhardt
Senate debates world court fight amid tax bill progress
The world court fight moved to the senate while the house pushed the tax bill quickly. Colonel Mitchell was found fit for duty with a penalty set at years suspension. Rural mail delivery extension was approved, and Lina asked for an investigation of embassy liquor use.
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Senate
House
Mitchell
Lina
Deed Transfers Bluefield Properties in Two Transactions
Glen C. Deaton sells multiple Bluefield parcels to Cally C. Ross including lots 18 19 30 in section 61 and lot 15 in section 83 with consideration $5. Details show Sutherland lot 1 section 61 Bluefield for $3 303.70.
Colored Folk American Legion Post 38 Meeting on Friday
The Roy Scott Post No. 38 American Legion will meet on Jones Street Friday evening, December 18, with important business. Members and ex-soldiers are urged to attend. Adjutant c. RE. The ladies auxiliary meets at Mrs. M. D. Lewis's home.
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American Legion
Roy Scott Post
Jones Street
Charity program at Bland Street meeting
On Bland street this evening at 7 30 p m all members should attend a short business meeting to finish up the year. The program includes reading and a topic for the evening "Charity" led by Mrs C H Pearis president with Mrs Winston Cheatham secretary and committee members Mrs M D Lewis Mrs Mozell Finney and Mrs Effie Scott. The program also features "His Brother's Keeper" as a presentation.
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Bland Street
C. H. Pearis
Winston Cheatham
M.D. Lewis
Mozell Finney
Effie Scott
The Ghost Walks London and New York Meet
Sir Walter Raleigh recounts a strange encounter in the United States when a New York reception misfired. A man awaiting someone replied with Christopher Columbus as Raleigh claimed his identity, prompting surprised reactions.
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London
Sir Walter Raleigh
Oxford
United States
Sir Walter
New York
Americas
Christopher Columbus
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