Rail freight cars debate framed in lumber trade papers
World of Finance notes ARE RAI Lumber trade papers discuss chances of wood framed freight cars returning. Great Northern officers claim wooden cars with distributed metal parts could cut coal use and wear costs. Ralph Budd contrasts steel cars’ rise with drawbacks of excessive weight and argues cars should match loads and cargoes.
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Great Northern Railroad
Ralph Budd
Homer
Grea Northern Railroad
Lpeco
Market Opens With Mixed Gains in Industrials and Rails
Stock market activity at the open centers on industrials and specialties with gains in New York Airbrake International Paper Bag and Paper and Studebaker. Rail issues lead early, with Lehigh Valley Denver and Rio Grande favored and unions pa cific peaking at 140 percent. Bethlehem Steel shows fractional loss while bonds stay firm.
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New York
New York Airbrake
International Paper Bag and Paper
American Linseed Common
Studebaker
Inion
Southern Pacifics
Lehigh Valley
Denver
Rio Grande
Bethlehem Steel
Reading
Central Leather
Norfolk & Western
Union
Paific
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Illinois Central
Allis Chalmers
Car & Fdy
Can
Hide & Lea. Pfd
Locomotive
Gulf & W. Indies
Smelt, & Re. Co
Sug. Refg. Co
Tel. & Tele
Alaska
Atch, T. & S. Fe
Baldwin Loco
Baltimore & Ohio
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Butte & Superior
Canadian Pacific
Calif. Petroleum
Cen. Leather Co
Chi. M. & St. Paul
Chi. & Great Western
Chi. & G. West,Pfd
Chi., R. Island & Pacific
Chile Copper
Chino
Chesapeake & Ohio
Consolidated Gas
Col. Fuel & Iron
Crucible Steel
Del
Hudson
Erie
General Electric
Goodrich Co
Inspiration
International Nickél
Interborough
Inter. Mer. Marine
Inter. Mer. Marine, Ptd
International Paper
Kansas City Sou
Kennecott Cop
Lackawanna Steelee Louis & Nashville
Maxwell Motors
Mex. Petroleum
Missouri Pacific
Miami Copper
Montana Power
Nevada
National Lead Co
Northern Pacific
N. Y. Central
N. Y
Ont. & West
Ray Cons
Repub. Iron & Steel
Ry. Steel Springs
Sloss
Sheffield& Iron
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Southern Railw. Pf
Studebaker Corpn
Third Avenue
Tenn
Union Pacific
U. S. Rubber
Steel
Utah
Virginia Cara Chem
Wabash
Wabash Pfd
Stock Quotations and Building Permits Noted in Bridgeport Listing
Quotations reported for many stocks from the New York Stock Exchange via T L Watson & Co Bridgeport Conn dated Oct 4 1916. Listed are numerous issues with percentages and prices followed by a tally of Seventeen building permits totaling 56850 dollars for private garages residences frame and remodeling work in Bridgeport and surrounding streets including Main Sterling Place North Avenue Park Avenue Whitney Avenue Clinton Avenue and Copper Range Broad Street among others.
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T. L. Watson & Co
Bankers and Brokers
Corner Main
John Sta
Bridgeport
Conn
New York Stock Exchange
Lding
Searview Avenue
William Kennah
Sterling Place
Mary DeForest
Pam
Broke Street
Julia E. Blake
Petre Street
H. Neal
Capitol Avenue
David Cotter
Main Street
Frank Higgins
Polish Falcon Association
North Avenue
Bridgeport Land and ‘Vide Company
Whitney Avenue
Henry J. Neal
Clinton, Avenue
C. B. ‘Wheeler
John J. Gratrix
Arizona
Park Avenue
J. M. Curley
Am. Zinc
Allouez
Fannie McMahon
C.l
Hecla
Pembroke Street
Ann Sinetane
Cxptean Aes
Evening Farmer
Connecticut
F. Tucker
Bridgeport, Conn
Bridgeport Conn
the Farmer Publishing Co
M. E. Stiles
Brooklawn Place
H. F
Tucker
H. M. Booth
Stratford
Henry C. Knight
Washington Avenue
John W. Rose
SEAL
Hanover Merchants Plan Postwar Exclusion of Women Workers
The Hanover Mercantile Association and other Hanover groups agree to replace women workers with men after the war. No job traditionally held by a man will be offered to a woman, and women will not be informed of openings. The pact also bars advertising lower wage positions to any applicant. The city sets a new minimum wage scale for under 18 at 900 marks, 1,030 for 18-20, and 1,200 marks for all others.
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Hanover
Germany
Hanover Mercantile Association
Man Held Under Observation After Threatening Own Life
Charles Prukner, 35, of 1463 Pembroke Street, who wife had arrested after he threatened to kill her with a loaded revolver, was sent to Hillside Home for observation. He said he planned to kill himself over displeasure with his wife's cooking and housekeeping. Twenty eight new infantile paralysis cases reported across New Jersey.
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Charles Prukner
Pembroke Street
Prukner
New Jersey
Olney Attacks Hughes and Praises Wilson Foreign Policy
Former attorney general Richard Olney endorses Wilson for steadfast neutrality and restraint in foreign affairs. He rebuts Hughes and the eight hour bill critics, praising Wilson for steady diplomacy, antiwar stance, and fair Mexican policy while warning voters against shifting course.
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Richard Olney
Olney
New York World
Hughes
Senate
Washington
Wilson
United States Supreme Court
Wilson Administration
Wilson Foreign Policy As Stated,by Mr. Olney
Church of England Bishop Attends General Convention in St Louis
The right reverend Dr Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs and Bishop Montgomery travel to St Louis to represent the Church of England at the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church on Oct 11. Yeatman-Biggs is widowed with two sons in military service. One son is an army officer and the other a navy lieutenant with a machine gun brigade sent to the Russians on the eastern front.
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Worchester
England
Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs
Montgomery
Church of
Question of Interest Sparks Party Debate
A Republican and Democrat exchange views on farmer interest with sharp quips about rates. Thirteen torpedo boat destroyers departed Newport R I for maneuvers in Gardener's Bay and Buzzards Bay, set to continue through the month.
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Newport
R. L
Gardener's Bay
Buzzards Bay
Border Sickness On the Decrease
War department reports for the week ended Sept. 20 show militia illness at 2.25 percent with seven deaths, down from 2.88 percent and six deaths the prior week. Regulars stand at 3.42 percent with five deaths, compared with 2.63 percent and seven deaths the previous week.
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Washington
War Department
JITNEY FIGHTER FINED IN DISTURBANCE CASE
Arthur Smith of 428 Seaview Avenue and Amy Bee West of Lee Avenue were fined in court this morning after a disturbance on a jitney bus. They allegedly punched the operator Barney Mluver in the jaw when he remonstrated.
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Barney Mluver
Arthur Smith
Seaview Avenue
Amy Bee West
Lee Avenue
Obituaries and death notices from Danbury Stamford area
Notices list deaths in late September and early October across Danbury Noroton Brookfield Stamford and surrounding towns. Individuals named include William H Greeley Jane Cousins Charles David Fox Deacon Alfred Somers Cornelia A Lomas Mary A Magner Annie Larkin Catherine Kane Thomas Hickey Daniel Nolan Teran Miller and others with ages and locations.
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Greeley
Noroton
William H. Greeley
Cousins
Danbury
Jane Cousins
Fox
Charles David Fox
Somers
Brookfield Center
Deacon Alfred Somers
Griffin
Cornelius Griffin
Lomas
Cornelia A
William B. Lomas
Magner
Mary A
John J. Magner
Larkin
Stamford
Annie
Patrick Larkin
Kane
Catherine
Patrick Kane
Hickey
Thomas Hickey
Nolan
Stamifore
Daniel Nolan
Miller
Teran Miller
M Westen
Miss Thaeln Raya
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