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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
28
Prices listed show corn oats pork and lard with figures like 1.36 1.40 1.22 and 1.2274 and 1.20 1.21. The data also includes a series of multipliers and large numbers such as 44 708 7044 and percentages 125 and 6.25 with various per unit values.
Current prices show brokers' customers' loans at 6 percent and outside brokers' call loans at 6 percent. Brokers' commercial loans and individual customers' collateral loans also at 6 percent. Commercial paper ranges from 5 1/4 to 6 percent.
The market opened strong with broad gains as steel led, U S Steel active at 186,300 shares in New York and 73,000 in Boston. Bethlehem, Crucible, American Locomotive and Baldwin rose, while rail stocks softened. total daily volume exceeded 1.5 million shares.
The American Locomotive Company halves output to under 60 percent capacity with orders only enough to last past year end. Belgium shows demand with a large order expected to go to ALCO, and managers anticipate a rebound when railroads return to private ownership.
The piece notes high call money rates and abnormally high prices in about fifteen active specialties, with turnover in ten issues near 70 million dollars and New York board activity reaching hundreds of millions daily. It discusses Endicott-Johnson profits around 35 dollars a share after dividends, shoe output expansion, and cautions about scalping and bucket shops based on a banker’s dinner anecdote.
Trading expanded with large turnover as standard industrials and steels led gains. Steels and copper prices rose 2 to 4 points while motors and equipment improved on steel stabilization hopes. sales reached 1.5 million shares and call money fell from 9 to 6 percent.
A compiled list shows multiple savings banks and trust companies with key deposit date entries. Institutions include Andover Savings Bank Boston Five Cents Savings Bank Melrose Savings Bank Boston Columbus Savings Bank Home Savings Bank Uyde Park Savings Medford Salem Suffolk Waltham Sees Trust Companies and National Banks such as Boylston National Bank and Union Market National Bank, with various November October January dates.
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