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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1923
Page
18
Mixed items including dining suites furniture and a variety of real estate listings. Ads mention factory store shipments, room rentals, farms for sale or wanted, and boarding rooms with prices and locations across Clinton, Fairfield, Newtown, and nearby towns. Names and specific addresses appear in fragmented form.
A long list of realty deeds records multiple transfers on North, Park, Normal and Melkinley avenues, Millworth street, and nearby streets. Names include Frank Anderson, Henrietta Peterson, Minnie Cederholm, Bertha Rapoport, Michael Linwie, Abraham Sehnes, and Benjamin Todfeld among others, with banks acting as grantees or payees and prices ranging from $1,500 to $8,000. The Bridgeport realty market shows diverse transfers involving The Mechanics and Farmers Savings Bank, The Bridgeport Savings Bank, and The Newtown Savings Bank, reflecting varied property holdings and neighborhood activity.
A jumble of rental, household, and service ads mixed with a public notice about spiritualist meetings, a Chicago grain report, and scattered want ads. Entries include painting services by John Clark, rental inquiries for cottages and furnished houses, summer resort listings, and a weekly grain market snapshot noting wheat and corn price movements and supply trends.
Bond markets weaken with declines in Austrian and Dutch issues while U S loans show steadiness. Gains appear in select foreign issues led by Chinese and Brazilian bonds. US government bonds hold near limits. Losses widen in railroad and large industrials amid broad price drops. sugar and chemical stocks show notable falls.
New York July 31 indictments were returned against Louis Montgomery Kardoe formerly head of Kardge and Burke, a stock brokerage that failed last year. The note hints at looming war and economic trouble reflected in the Liberty Bonds discussion.
Quotations from Wes Bureau of Agricultural Economics show wheat prices easing early, with Liverpool declines and Dakota rust talk influencing markets. Corn rose on favorable rainfall, while millfeeds stayed firm but not sharply higher. Specific futures and tonnage costs for oats, corn, bran, middlings, gluten feeds, and cottonseed meals are listed, alongside local hay trends and forthcoming farm economics talks at the Agricultural College.
A fragment notes commodity price quotations for wheat corn oats and other staples with dates and markets, followed by a long aside about silkie shedding season. The piece includes a warning about increased bites from venomous creatures during the shedding period and urges caution.
A tumbling stock market saw prices slip to new lows as speculative selling increased and large blocks of shares were offered. Industrials led losses with sugar and rail stocks also dropping, while some major names like Pan American and Houston declined. Steel and rail shares were hit as earnings data were released after hours.
METAL MARKET NEW YORK reports July 3 with Copner noting spot and futures activity across tin and zinc. Tin prices ease while nearby futures hold around 38.75, with steady movements in lead and zinc markets. East Slau trade details and delivery mentions appear, but are unclear due to fragmented OCR.
The Agriculture Department reports that prices at farm gate for 10 principal crops rose from May to July, boosting the farmer’s purchasing power. Wheat prices fell yet overall the farm dollar buys more now than 12 months ago as higher crop prices offset rising supplies and manufactured goods.
Washington duty data show leaf tobacco stocks over 100,000 pounds higher than the previous year for the period. Total stocks reached a large figure with most of the increase in snuff and export tied products. Cigar type imports are noted, reflecting shifts in composition of the stock mix.
Fragmented OCR text mentions money and loans with scattered references to numbers and names. lacks coherent events or identifiable entities to form a clear, factual summary.
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