Market Dull as Liberty Bond Sale Looms in Boston
Financial notices from Boston show small shifts in local securities while a major Liberty Bond sale approaches. Traders discuss irregular activity as markets await steel industry updates and Roosevelt memorial prices.
Market Report Notes Dull Trading and Oil Declines
Yesterday’s trading was dull with irregular price changes. Mexican Petroleum fell about 13 points to 184, Steel dipped to 925-8 then recovered to close unchanged. Navy detail mentions President Vail’s plea for permanent government wire control and rail private ownership under government oversight.
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Vail
American Telephone
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Wilson
France
Italy
Copper market and Liberty Bond sale surge after armistice
The report notes Calumet & Hecla considering consolidating subsidiaries by buying minority stocks. A first post armistice copper sale of 1,000,000 pounds at 21 cents is listed with varied bids from small sellers 20 cents to producers 23 cents. Utah Copper sets a 1918 production high at 198,233,000 pounds. Miami posts 58,500,000 pounds while Winona struggles for labor and tests oil flotation next spring. Also covered are a large Boston Fourth Liberty Loan sale of 200,000 at 95.58 with Lee, Higginson & Co. as buyers and R. L. Day & Co. as sellers, plus stock-exchange closings in Roosevelt’s memory and a price anomaly between Royal Dutch on the curb and NYSE.
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Calumet & Hecla
Utah
China
Bay
Nevada
Miami
Winona
Boston Stock Exchange
R. L. Day & Co
Lee, Higginson & Co
Boston
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
Chae
Car & F
H&l
Essa E Ese
Ine Corp
Sumatra
T & Tel
Atchison Pf
Coas
GéWl Bene
Barrett Co
Beth Steel
Beth
MK & T
Ches & Ohio
Montana
Pwr
M & St P
CM & St
West
U's
Canada
Col Gas & Elee
Col Fuel & I
Hupp Motors
City of Bord Chet Cans
Binet Ee
Crucible Steel
Iyo
On & O Ovss
Marconi
del & Hu
Ly Maxim Munitions
City of Ee
C & Alton
Penn
North Amer P&p
TZ Standard Ee
City of Paris
Pierce Oil
United
Tokyo
Fed M&s
United Profit Sharing
Gorton
Steamship Seas
M & St
Cosden & Co
CM & St P
Elk Basin Pete
Sumas
Stl & SF Inc
Pete Z
Gt Britic
RL & P
Midwest Oil
Sonene
Kelly- Pring. Maecott
Midwest Refining
Okla Oil
Lig & M Ve
Okla Oil of
Lig & M
Kia Louis & Wei Bs
Okmulgee
al Om
Virginia
Col & Son
Pacific San
Midvale
Southern Ry
Bis Os
Sinclair Gulf
NY Cc
Erie
Stanton Oe
Victoria
Y Central
Apex Renee
Ohio Cities Gas
Aea T
Togs Dottt
Ohio Fuel Peeearee
Calumet & Jerome Ertene
Amoi Co Intho-Met
UN Pacific Ie
Pierce-Arpf Wees
Balt & Orig
Pierce Oil Referees
Pitts Coal
Ee Howe Ound
Balt & Ow
Tts & W
Butler
Pub
Balt & O Gold
Lehigh Val A
Wabash 2d
Sea
Eee Iman Co
R¢ Kerr
Balt& OT & C
I & Mb West Maryld
Lone Star
Peer
Magma Copper
Lorillard Co
West Pacific
Rep
As & Bi
Mason Valley
Se Steel Rig
L & N Unified
Rep I & Stl Beeen
Lz McIntyre
Royal Dutch
Vage Arms Shee
McKinley Darra
Aie We
Wien & Co
St L&s F
Erger Oeseee Oe
Mi ‘O
Amer Beeen
Sinclair Oil
Ener
Pacific
Railway
Studebaker
New Cornelia
Tenn Cop & C
Ohio Copper Nipissing
United Fruit
Aif
West Hudsons
Uni Verde
Inspiration Island Oil
Glenrock Oil
N. Y
Uncertainty Grips New York Stock Market Trading
A dull open gives way to late price hardening with uneven activity across sectors. Mexican Petroleum leads gains then stalls, oils rise and retreat, tobaccos and motors retreat, utilities like Interborough and Brooklyn Transit rally on proposed plans. Sales reach 385000 shares as call loans ease to 3 4 percent and Liberty bonds hit recent highs.
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New ,York
Stock Exchange
Mexican Petroleum
California
Petroleum
Interborough Consolidated
Brooklyn Transit
Liberty
United States
New York Stocks Dentists Scene Noted in Odd Audio
An unusual audio clip from a New York scene features a dentist guiding a patient through a gag and restraint routine with shouted dialogue about opening wider. The fragment plays with anxious patient sounds and casual chatter about family.
Market Rates Stable at Six Percent Across Sectors
Current prices show brokers' customers loans, outside brokers' call loans, customers' commercial loans, individual customers' collateral, commercial paper, and year money all at 6 percent. The uniform rate indicates steady borrowing costs across financial instruments.
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E. H. Rollins & Sons
Devonshire Street
Steel
Island Oil
Ing
Utah Copper
Distillers
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Barrett Company
Gulf and
Isle Royale
Anaconda
Texcaloean Oil & Gas Company
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texcalokan Oil & Gas Company Treasury
John BR. McVey
Mass
Philip D. C. Ball
St. Louis Ice & Cold Storage Machinery Manufacturing Co
St. Louis American Baseball Club
F. L
Sawyer
Independence
Forey
John W. Stanford
Houston
Tex
Sinclair Gulf Corporation
Citizens’ First National Bank
T. J. Booth
Kansas Savings & Trust Co
J. A. Rowland
Wichita
North End Savings Bank
H. H. Galbraith
John J. Fallon
Old South Trust Company
Mase
Charles Crawford
Boston Sanitary Development Company
Wilbert
Bartlett
Metropolitan Trust Company
William H. Young
Seamen's Savings Bank
Provincetown
Massa
C.g.galbo & CO
Standard and Independent Oil Share
State Street
Richmond
United States Steel Corporation
Roosevelt
Tix
Cleveland
Edward VII
McKinley
Sherman
J. P. Morgan
New York Market
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Devonshire St
Wall Street
Investment Securities
Foreign Exchange Letters of Credit
Baring Brothers & Co., Ltd
London
Boston Stocks
Woolen Pf
Arizona
Bost & Alban
Bost
Maine
Cal & Arizona Ss
Cal & Hectare
Cen Steel
Cent Steel
Neene
Chino Copper
Port Cem
Teaser
Davis Daly
East Butte
Fairbanks
Gorton-Pewsaeee
Hancock
Steee
Seers
New Haven
Nipissing
North Butte
North Lake
Pond Creek
Punta Alegre
Reece Fach
Seneca
Shannon
Stewart Ees Eeeecae
Sup & Boston
Swift & Co
United Drug
Union
Utah Apex
Evn Ee
Utah Metal
Ventura
West Eind
West Union
Oteie
Heer
Ewer Benene
Bay State Gas
Black Hawk
Boston Ely
Majestic Te Beeweres
Maxim Munitions
Chicago Grain Market
Money Markets
Western Utah
MacVichie Engineering
Western Utah Copper Company
Frank G. Rowley & Co., Inc
E. M. Fuller & Co
Broad Street, New York
Commercial Credit Company Cash Capital
Baltimore
Congress St
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Commercial Acceptance Trust
Cash Capital
S. la Salle St
Chicago
Albert Sutcliffe & Co
State St
Denbigh
Crystal
Temple H. Fay & Co. Stock Exchange
City
Gulfport
A. E. Roberts & CO
Telephone Main
Simely Investment
Holland © & Company G2
Broadway
Oklahoma Producing & Refining Co
Lyman D. Smith & Co
Pine St
Petro
Okla. PA
Houston Oil
Keystone Tire U. S
G.F. Redmond & CO
Fort Hill
Exchange Place
Chelsa Field
Okla
Broken Arrow
HUB
Wyoming Oil Co
Century Bldg
Denver
Colo
Ranier
John W.wilson
Ranier Mines Corporation
United Fruit Company
John W. Damon
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
G. DB. Milne
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