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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1923
Page
9
Short covering operations triggered a late rally as the market reversed a broadly reactionary day. Trading closed with mixed results and several leaders posting small gains while many issues, including fifty stocks and oils, hit new lows for the year amid lackluster news and insider reluctance.
Listings detail multiple properties and terms from small cottages to large homes on New Hope, East River, and Princeton roads with prices from 2 750 to 10 500 and monthly payments. Several offer car or real estate notes as down payments, with balances due every few months and occasional $1000 plus cash. Additional lots in Sunset Addition priced 300 to 700 with $10 down and $10 monthly.
Market listing from Bluefield West Virginia shows bids and prices for coal companies and related firms including Appalachian Power and Pocahontas Fuel Co. with figures like 100.00 93.00 and 190.00 noted alongside several Coal Co. names and vehicle, refinery, and hardware firms.
Four room cottages on Preston Street priced at 4000 with small cash down and easy monthly payments. Six room house on Talbot Street offered on easy terms. Two story five room with bath on Carolina Avenue priced at 5250 with 750 cash and 40 monthly. Essex Street six room with bath priced 5000 with cash and balance like rent. Frederick Street seven room residence with hot water heat and basement requires 1000 to 2500 cash and 75 to 100 monthly. Wayne Street nine room close in with hot water heat. 2600 cash and rent potential noted. owner renting four furnished rooms for 75 monthly.
Easley-Wilson Co advertises a brand new five room house on a 60 by 200 foot lot with oak floors full basement hot water heat and street improvements. Price 5000 with 500 to 1000 cash and 35 to 50 monthly payments. Also Carolina Avenue listing a five room two story house with pipeless furnace priced at 5250 with 750 cash and 40 monthly. Talbit Street offers a six room house with bath at 4000 with easy terms.
New York observers note live poultry prices for broilers by freight at 40 to 45 cents, by express at 34 to 50 cents, fowls at 25 to 45 cents, roosters 13 to 17 cents. Dressed poultry shows chicken prices 25 to 45 cents, fowls 20 to 30 cents, old roosters 12 to 17 cents, turkeys 26 to 30 cents.
Real estate listing offers two stucco houses with 3 to 5 acres near a park, exchange possible for city property. Also two Balsam street lots, a Hale Addition 7-room house, Juniper street lots, an Elm street 8-room bungalow, and an 8-room house with three lots at Carolina Ave and Alder St. Contact H. J. Linkous, Bluefield Development Co., Union Bank Building, Tazewell Street, Phone 247.
Pigs sold at 5.50 to 6.25 per pound with an estimated holdover of 11,000. Sheep receipts reached 10,000 with activity fairly steady to strong. Native springers lead the bulk with prices firm for quality offerings.
In a brief report the city butcher deal shows Otis delivering strong weights to trim down the field while few others remain competitive in the contest.
New York dispatch notes June sentiment shows buying waning in primary channels but intact retail distribution. Observers expect no drastic change in overall conditions after summer with cautious ordering and reduced merchandise buildup amid easing price pressures. Bank clearings reach 6,419,830.00.
Real estate transfers filed yesterday in the county court clerk's office include J. H. Hammack and wife transferring to Bessie 8.
Public records show multiple property transfers including Porterfield to Cox three Clay street lots Bluefield for 4000 dollars Richards Easley as special commissioner conveys lot on Carroll street Bluefield for 1550 dollars Victoria Moyers to A T Buchanan two Bluefield lots for 3600 dollars H L Phiegar to C H Gibson two Bluefield lots for 500 dollars Carrie Dell White to Annie B Bingham Carland near Glenwood lot 1 block B for 1900 dollars M J Ferrell to L M Ringham Carland near Glenwood lot 2 for 1950 dollars Grover L Walker to Joseph Auer 89 acres Camp Creek for 900 dollars and other adjacent transfers with varied considerations.
In Richmond England the ancient Landing of Pie ritual from Henry VIII's reign was revived at Eel Pie Island. The pie was rowed around the island and carried ashore by the crew in full regalia.
Large black horsehair hats frame the standard charm while suggesting coolness through summer flower trimmings. The first "doctor of medicine" was Guglielmo Gordonio, awarded by the College of Aosti in Italy in 1920.
Moses Hyman advertises stocks and bonds for sale covering miners and farmers from Honaker Virginia to Bluefield West Virginia. Listings include banks such as Bank of Princeton and First National Bank Matoaka, coal firms like Saeger, C&O, and Crystal Block, hardware firms, realty outfits, and several energy and mining interests across the Pocahontas and Elkhorn regions with associated financial entities and brokers.
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