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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1916
Page
2
Experts argue America may soon lead global finance though evidence is recent and not conclusive. The piece notes heavy foreign loan activity by American investors, including a $500 million Britain-France bond issue of wartime significance, cited from Thomas W. Lamont in Harper’s Magazine.
Quotation notes from Z L Watson & Co Bridgeport and T L Watson & Co Boston list prices for Am Can Am Locomotive and others. Shows percentages for Allis Chalmers Am Beets Am Tobacco and more with figures for Union Pacific U S Steel and copper stocks among others. Includes ad line for Farmer.
New York July 1 opening signals a weak start to the week end session as Mexican tension weighs on sentiment. Texas Company and Canadian Pacific hold firm while Baldwin Loco, Crucible Steel, Studebaker, Industrial Alcohol, Mexican Petroleum, and American Smelting retreat. U S Steel and Bethlehem step back, rail shares resist with Penn Central and Canadian Pacific rising. overall close shows further declines, bonds down.
The mid Pacific Ocean trio Ocean, Fanning, and Washington Islands are assigned to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony by the British Government. The Gilbert and Ellice protectorates, since 1892, were annexed to British dominions in November, making these islands part of the colony. Ocean Islands yields phosphate rock, while Fanning Island hosts a relay station for the Canadian Australian New Zealand cable.
Building commissioners granted permits totaling 44 655 for numerous projects. Dwellings on Eaton street and Arctic street plus multiple two family houses on Wilson Anthony Savoy Prince and Short streets. Additions and alterations include a brick one family house on Boston avenue and a store remodel on Wall street. Ongoing work includes Samuel Wheeler’s Myrtle avenue house, T J McNamara factory addition, W H Reiger concrete block house on East Main, and W M Terry estate alterations in Congress Street for street widening.
Fairfield July 1 Special report The Eunice Donnie Burr chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will hold its regular patriotic exercises on the Fairfield Town Green at 10 o clock Tuesday morning July 4. The Declaration of Independence will be read with the Red Men s band, men's chorus and Camp Fire girls and Boy Scouts taking part. Gifts will be given to Sherman school pupils for best spelling history and writing.
Stockholm July 1 The war makes Stockholm a cosmopolitan capital and the American Bar secures a place among the city’s institutions. The hat of American drinks includes cocktails and curios such as Prince of Wales Prince of Monaco Gibson Girl Prairie Oyster Corpse Reviver Hot Locomotive and American Grogg. Temperance drinks with ice cream soda are priced at one krona, about 31 cents in U.S. money.
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