Market Notes Show Dull Session With Firm Tone
Financial editors report a dull market with overall gains in the industrials early, then mixed to higher close. Rails and copper movements are modest. U S Steel January tonnage loss expected around 600,000 tons, with six months of orders on hand. Guaranty Trust and National City to offer 40 million dollars in notes to back copper export sales. Sugar short sellers cover after cash dividend. Crucible also attracted short interest. France’s official wholesale prices index drops to lowest since 1919, with December at 502. Harvard’s Professor Ripley submits Eastern railroad consolidation plan to Commerce Commission, plans for Western and Southern groupings to follow later.
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United States Steel Corporation
Statistique General de la France
France
Bankers Trust Co. of
New York
Ripley
Harvard University
The
Commerce Commission
Money Market Briefs and Exchange Rates
Money market notes show brokers' loans and deposits at 7 to 8 percent. Individual customer intentions indicate a 74 to 8 per cent range. Commercial loans run around 7 percent, with year money also near 7 to 8 percent. Foreign exchange rates are listed.
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Areposits
Wholesale Produce Prices in New York and Michigan Markets
A long list of produce and commodity prices across markets citing berries, beans, corn, eggs, flour, dairy, meats, and vegetables. Includes per hundredweight and per ton rates for apples, citrus, stone fruits, grains, poultry, and fats, with regional notes for New York, Michigan, California, and Canada.
U S Steel to Keep Prices and Wages Steady
Albert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, told newspaper men in New York today that existing prices and wage scales will continue. He noted some independents offered lower prices, but US Steel plans no change in selling prices or wage reductions for its 265000 employees.
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U. S
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Albert H. Gary
Three year sentence for Father Dominic
Father Dominic, chaplain for Lord Mayor Mac Swiney of Cork, was convicted of seditious activities by a Dublin court martial. He has been sentenced to three years in Parkhurst prison, Newport, Isle of Wight, and was brought from Dublin to London on February 1.
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London
Dominic
MacSwiney
Cork
Dublin
Parkhurst
Newport
Isle of Wight
Bond Market Slips Amid Mixed Trade and Utilities Notes
The bond market shows a mixed session with varied quotes across sectors. Prices noted include 86.50 for certain issues and 97 for others while utilities and rail stocks appear in the tape with interlined yields and sporadic movements. Several issues from L&N, Penn, and Mont Power are cited with various problem notes and issue statuses.
Daylight Saving Hearings Adjourned Prompting Massachusetts Opposition
An abrupt adjournment of the hearings on daylight saving was taken yesterday afternoon, giving the Boston Chamber of Commerce and industrial organizations through out Massachusetts an opportunity to mobilize their forces in opposition to a measure seeking repeal of this law. Farmers and housewives had again stormed the State House, describing their hardships and financial losses under the daylight saving law.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
Massachusetts
State House
Senator Wright
Rockland
Wright
Brockton
Bethlehem Steel Company
Fore River
Lem
R. T. Wilbur
Springfield
Edward G. Stacy
Massachusetts State Chamber of Commerce
New Bedford
Massachusetts daylight saving repeal hearings extend to Feb
The legislative committee on legal affairs continued daylight saving hearings after presenting new opposition evidence from four witnesses. Massachusetts business groups including the Boston Chamber of Commerce push to oppose repeal, claiming industrial and worker impacts and potential for a coordinated regional rule.
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Chamber of Commerce
Silas Reed
Legislative Committee On
Claude L. Allen
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Gompers Opposes Coal Bill Provisions on Labor Powers
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor testifies before a Senate panel on the Calder coal regulation bill. He warns that price fixing powers could curb workers’ collective action and notes courts have limited worker rights, signaling labor apprehension about the proposed measure. He cites judicial history and promises to continue his remarks.
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Washington
Calder
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Senate
Gompers
Daylight Saving Drive Formed in New York for Eastern States
In New York on February 9 representatives of 57 commercial bodies across New York New England New Jersey Delaware Pennsylvania Maryland and West Virginia formed the Eastern Time Daylight Saving Association. They aim to urge Congress to enact daylight saving laws applicable to the Eastern time zone. FE A Filene chaired the meeting with remarks by Secretary Mead and Marcus M Marks. The plan calls for a 19 member board with three directors from each state.
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New York
New Lngland
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Merchants’ Association
C. L. Bardo
New Haven Railroad
Marcus M. Marks
National Daylight Saving Association
Mead
Anuric Tablets Helped Mrs Fadlee with Kidney Pain
Advertisement from Jamestown New York features Mrs Frank Fadlee praising Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets for congested inactive kidneys backache and bladder weakness. She reports improvement after use and encourages others to try it, noting a trial package offer for ten cents from Dr Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo.
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N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Frank Fadlee
Allen St
Railroads back nationwide daylight saving plan says local opposition uncertain
Opposition to local option daylight saving due to travel confusion. railroads would not oppose a nationwide plan. Mr Marks urges united action to overcome railroad objections and believes Congress could pass a national law if the East demands it.
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United Action
Marks
Congress
Retreat Opens at Cathedral in Boston
Several hundred members of the Particular Council St. Vincent de Paul Society from metropolitan Boston attended the opening services of their retreat at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross last night. The program included the rosary sermon and benediction. Rev. George P. O Conor, assistant director of the Catholic Charitable Bureau, conducted the retreat and preached on salvation of the soul as life’s real business.
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St. Vincent de Paul Society
St. Vincent de Paul
Boston
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
George P. O'Conor
Catholic Charitable Bureau
May Jones Takes the Air in 1921 Satire Poem
May Jones of Filbert Street walks into town amid a satirical chant echoing world leaders and gems. The poem, read at the Children's Health Exposition, targets gender beauty ideals and public adulation as nations march and crowds roar. References to Nicholas Hohenzollern and Caesar frame a provocative 1921 cultural commentary.
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Jase
May Jones
Filbert Street
Czar
Nicholas
Bill Hohenzollern
Caesar
Gaul
David King
Jones of
May Jones of
Roy Helton
Henry I. Bowditch
Dallas Love Sharpe
Dr. Bowditch
Vaccination Push Against Diphtheria Headlines Health Exposition
Dr Edwin H Place urges vaccination as the only sure defense against diphtheria at the Children's Health Exposition in Mechanics Building under City Federation of Women's Clubs. Lectures covered maternal care, prenatal rules, and the influence of dress on health.
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Edwin H. Place
Boston City Hospital
Mechanics’ Buildings
City Federation of Women’s Clubs
Lily O. Burbank
Place
James Lincoln Huntington
Boston
Colby to committee over Morris Kidehara pact details
Secretary Colby said he would send a letter to the Senate foreign relations committee in response to a request for a copy of the agreement reached by Ambassador Morris and Baron Kidehara in the recent negotiations. The contents were not disclosed and the letter’s arrival was uncertain as Senator Lodge left the Capitol. State Department officials would not confirm whether Colby would comply. The committee had requested the report for public interest considerations.
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Colby
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Morris
Kidehara
Senate
Senator Lodge
State Department
Tne Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
California
Baron Shidehaia
Climbing feat yields 20 percent aged 44 or more
New York report on a severe mountain climbing test notes that one fifth of finishers are 44 years old or older. The piece also mentions athletes and combat sports figures adopting coarse foods to boost blood iron, while noting the vast 30 trillion red blood cells in every person.
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New York
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