American Can stock dividends in doubt amid debts
Answer notes that American Can’s 1918 common stock balance trails prior years due to heavy munition profits not yet included and a large floating debt. Banks and inventories rose, with short term notes and $25 million in bank loans earlier. Dividend resumption awaits debt relief and 1919 report details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Gross, Hyde & Shipman
Hartford
Fitchburg
Mass
Anaconda
St. Paul
Winslow
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Road
Milwaukee & St. Paul
United States Steel
Market Review and Outlook Faces Mixed Signals
Last week prices rose across most equities with a point net gain in industrials but the trend remains uncertain. Analysts see divergent views on business and credit risk, while speculation about a postwar boom, inflation, and inventory adjustments shapes market psychology.
Balkan Recognition Demands Grow From Yugoslav Meeting
A Yugoslav group in New York calls for a Balkan Monroe Doctrine at the peace conference. They urge applying Wilson’s self determination to Dalmatia Istria and other areas claimed by Italy. The move warns that outside powers threaten Balkan stability.
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New York
Balkans
Balkan
Italy
Wilson
Dalmatia
Adriatic
Istria
Trieste
Gorizza
Carniola
Girl Tells Of 16000 Theft From Father’s Safe
Miss Bessie Endner an 18 year old Brooklyn daughter of shipbuilder Alfred Endner and two Brooklyn youths were arrested in Poughkeepsie for burglary and theft of 16000 from the Endner family safe. She confessed opening the safe with a known combination after entering the plant through a fence and window on Feb 4. The trio traveled through New York and New Jersey, buying a car at Oneonta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bessie” Endner
Alfred Endner
Brooklyn
Poughkeepsie
William Johnson
William Sutton
New Jersey
Oneonta
Hoover urges return of dairy herds in north France and Belgium
Paris February 16 Herbert Hoover American food administrator and relief head denounces German looting of cattle in northern France and Belgium. He says the recovery will take years and calls for restoring entire dairy herds as the primary reparation, praising relief work but warning of ongoing German cruelty and the slow healing of occupied populations.
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Paris
France
Belgium
Circle Volney
Herbert Hoover
United States
Inter-Allied Relief Organization
Berlin
Charleville
League of Nations
Niobe
Relief Commission
Condemning Slaughter House Inspections in Massachusetts
Francis H. Rowley of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals denounces local slaughter house inspections as ineffective and corrupt. He cites unsanitary conditions, inadequate oversight, and inspectors paid by butchers, arguing federal supervision is safer and that state boards fail to enforce proper health standards.
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Sir
Massachusetts
Worcester
Commonwealth
State Board of Health
Brighton
Somerville
Haverhill
Springfield
Boards of Health
State Board
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention
Essex County
Berkshire County
Springfeld
Francis H. Rowley
Reconstruction Challenge in the North Faces Long Term Needs
The text discusses the north population needing both physical aid and moral leadership for gradual recovery. It emphasizes the daunting task of care and reconstruction, noting plans, financing, and material must be assembled over time. It credits the French with thoroughness in carrying out enduring reconstruction.
Locked in with booze at Tomfohrde's cafe
A drunken night in Tomfohrde's cafe left a soldier locked inside until morning. An alarm failure, doors rattled and police, soldiers, and civilians rushed the scene as the man complained of lack of air and freedom. He had slept in the basement and woke to find the place sealed and the exit blocked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomfohrde
After War Social Plans Proposed by City Club
A New York program for postwar social readjustment urged by the City Club to Governor Smith, the Legislature, and the Reconstruction Commission calls for social insurance laws for workmen, higher workmen compensation limits, universal health insurance, public works to curb unemployment, a permanent public employment service, State housing aid, a living wage bureau for women and children, democratic shop management, soldier settlements study, and replacing personal property tax with a state income tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
City Club
Crew of burned steamer arrives in New York
The captain and 17 men of the coal carrying steamship Flirt arrived on the Clyde line steamer Iroquois after abandoning ship off Turks Island as fire consumed the vessel. The first mate and remaining crew were rescued by City of Savannah, and the Iroquois also brought Captain Moore and two crew from the schooner Dilla, lost at sea near Porto Rico and Pensacola.
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New York
Flirt
Clyde Line
Iroquois
Norfolk
Porto Rico
Turks Island
City
Savannah
Moore
Pensacola
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Fiellwerck Chocolate Co
Stollwerck Chocolate Company
Stollwerck Bros., Inc
Stamford
Conn
Messrs. Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery
Preferred Stock Protective & Sinking Fund
State Street
Boston
Broad Street
Parkinson & Burr
Wall Street
James J. Benelisha & Co
Boston Curb Exchange
Deane Street
Texcaloran Oil & Gas
Mid-Continent
California
G. Galbo & CO. Standard and Independent Oil Share
State St
Richmond
Inter-Ocean Corp
F. A. Newman & Co
W. J. Finrod & Co. Securities Securities
Broad St
Reotor St
BAY State Film
WII
Winslow, Woodfords, Me
Century Steel
Century Steel Company of America, Inc
Earnest E. Smith
Uary
Boston Post
New England
Post
The
Inquirer
Financial
E. M. Melrose
International
Libby
Swift & Company
G. F. Redmond & CO
Swift
A. F. Dow & CO
League
U.S
Jmbilee
St. Louis
Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Hoover
Hans
Taayes
Chicago
Canadian Pacific
Wisconsin Central Railway Company
National City Company
Fort Hill
Stanton Oil CO
Security Transfer & Register Co
Broadway
New York City
N. Y. City Club
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