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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
2
The report shows totals from firms and public storage across frozen beef cured beef frozen pork dry salt pork sweet pickled pork lard and frozen lamb and mutton. It notes missing responses and year over year changes with sizable increases in most categories. Strong entities include firms stock totals and percent changes.
A. Sherwood of Easton, a Democratic town official, was among six men brought before Associate Judge Edwin C. Dickenson in Hartford police court for failing to file statements of receipts and expenditures from the election campaign. The case was continued. Sherwood pleaded he had received no blank forms.
Daily quotations from the New York and Boston exchanges list prices for hundreds of issues led by rail and steel names. Key figures include Am. Car and Fdy 69, U S Steel 174, In terborough Cons 17, Consolidated Gas 133, and Kennecott Copper 51 with many others. private-wire repots note activity at 1:30 p m in New York and 1:50 p m in Boston.
New York December 14 opening gains favor specialties like Central Leather American Zinc China Copper and Colorado Fuel with small advances in machinery oils United States Steel and allied industrials while Industrial Alcohol Lackawanna Crucible Steels and motors slide as rails weaken under selling pressure.
Substantial gains in noon trading as Washington received Germanys peace proposal. Losses spread from 2 to 7 points with Industrial Alcohol leading declines across munitions, motors, marines and United States Steel. Rails rebounded early before a broader midday selloff pulled the market below earlier levels. Bonds remained firm. Census data show November cotton output of 584082 running bales up from 514743 last year with four month total 2227375 bales versus 1978635 prior year.
Samuel Freedman alleges his partner Harry Messer swindled him of cash from a restaurant till. Freedman says Messer lured him from New York to Bridgeport with promises of prosperity and later took control of the business and assets, including a $400 car, leaving Freedman owner of neither auto nor store.
Charles Clarence Linthicum longtime Northwestern University patent law professor in Chicago is dead. The body of a man believed to be Jeremiah Healy of New York was found floating in the North River near Dyckman Street.
An advertisement cites $270 in tire stocks growing to $22,062 and $100 in Goodyear to $12,900 while $70 in Firestone shows value of 48. The offer from Dillingham Spindler & Co at 5S Liberty Street New York invites immediate purchase of Post Tire & Rubber Corp. shares with acceptance and possible share limitation.
Read about a chance for men and women to join a modern tire and rubber goods factory as partners. The pitch claims original rubber tire investors built immense fortunes and urges careful investigation before acting on the investment proposition.
They work together with ground up knowledge and harmony to build the biggest and best in their lines. Enthusiasm and vision drive them as thousands of small investors look to them to deliver value and "make good."
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