Wall Street News Notes Aug. 9 1927 market roundup
France shows no urgent need of foreign capital and will not borrow heavily in New York as thrift boosts postwar savings, while Europe eyes the International market for credits. American Electric omits quarterly dividend. Best Aid declares initial dividend. Pacific Coast profits slump. Timken Detroit Axle reports mixed results. Peerless Motor Car and Mexican railways post gains. American Basic Business Shares launches as a fixed stock trust. Central Cities Telephone finances expansion with $2.4 million financing. Western Power Light consolidates with Public Utility Investment holdings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
France
Bank of America
Lost and Found notes and scattered items listing
A jumble of damaged notes describes lost items and mislaid belongings including keys, a wallet, pearls, and miscellaneous objects. It mentions return attempts, partial addresses, and several personal identifiers, with scattered street names and cryptic lines. The fragmentary text implies a public notice seeking owners or returns.
Local Produce and Livestock Price List
A long list of farm market prices for fruits vegetables poultry dairy and livestock items. Includes apples oranges lemons cantaloupe watermelons peaches plums grapes lettuce peppers beans onions corn and eggs with varied prices per box basket or 100 units and per hundredweight. Also lists hay wheat corn and feed ingredients with dealer door prices per 100 pounds and ton equivalents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nts
New York Produce Prices Aug 9 Potatoes Cabbage Butter Eggs Cheese
Potatoes steady with Long Island No 1 cobblers at 2.75 to 3.25 per 150 lbs and parrel 3.50 to 3.75. Cabbages steady with Long Island white 75 c to 1.25 per parrel, red 1.50 to 2.00, Savoy 1.00 to 1.25. Butter steady to firm, receipts 19 455. Creamery higher than extras, 41 1/4 to 41 3/4. Eggs firm, receipts 45 639. Fresh fathered extra firsts 20 4, firsts 26 to 28, various grades and regions listed. Cheese steady, receipts 173,32.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Long Island
Ldn
Henenery
Pullets
Hennery
Pacific Coast
Rubber New York Prices Close Firm in Sept Dec
Market report notes rubber prices firmed in September with August closing at 60.60, December at 36.10, and May around 66. The brief item records price levels and futures terms from a New York press filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tnt
Righber
Maite
Liberty Bonds Quote Snippet Through Treasury Prices
Reads like a clipped securities listing with bond series Liberty and Treasury prices. Mentions closing liberties, various lot sizes, and quoted prices such as 100.30 for first series and 119.18 for Treasury. No clear event or narrative beyond a market quote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Liberties
Liberty
Treasury
Your Money Problem by Harland G B Allen
A discussion on reading statistics critically. The author argues that figures can mislead and urges readers to analyze data themselves, noting statistics are essential in industry and finance for investors who understand them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harland GB
Allen
Tine
Sn Oy
Receiver to Run Bilton Business in Temporary Appointment
The Bilton Machine Company faces a limited period under a temporary receiver after an agreement among factions in a dispute. Harry H. Pinney of Cleveland seeks court action with support from Clarence E. Bilton to curb alleged mismanagement and protect assets amid pending litigation. Judge Edwin T. Thomas of Norwalk had been expected to name a receiver, with a public announcement to follow, as of yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bilton Machine ‘Cool Company
U.S. District Court
Edwin & Thomas
Norwalk
Harry H. Pinney
Cleveland
Ohio
Remington Ams Company
Bilton Company
Thomas
Qu Yoting ‘Trust
Pin~ney
Clarence E. Bilton
Trol
Judge Thomas
New Haven
New Gasoline May Sell For Ten Cents
Walter C. Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, says a deal with the German Dye trust for fuel is closed and that synthetic gasoline may be produced from pulverized low grade coal. If further tests succeed, production costs at ten cents a gallon could sustain profitable operation even when coal prices are low, aimed at easing feared fuel famine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil
Trust
New York
Aug
Ron
Walter C. Teagle
Standard Oi Company of
New Jerse
Dye Trust
Miem Wallerte Trent
Sane Enginee
Mgr. Trent
Cotton prices surge on short supply fears on New York market
Cotton futures climbed sharply as traders faced a looming 6 percent normal crop amid adverse weather across the belt and fears of food shortages. Prices jumped to around 2.50 dollars per pound at peak trading before profit-taking trimmed gains, with orders totaling about 100000 bales outstanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
New York Cotton Exchange
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Cotuon Belt
English Cotton Trading Halts in Manchester Market
Manchester stock cotton exchange paused as prices surged on U.S. crop outlook. The Master Cotton Spinners section backed closing all mills using American cotton for a week, while a federation ballot failed to secure the necessary majority to extend the stoppage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
England
Associated Press
Manchester Cotton Exchange
United States
Ek Lions
Federation
Moi
Frenzied Alexandria Cotton Buying Reported
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Cairo says Alexandria cotton trading was frenzied after the Crepe estimate. Prices advanced more than five dollars per hundredweight during the morning as buyers rushed to cover and merchants warned of tight supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ay. D—iBy Associated Press
Exchange
Cairo
Alexandria
Building Permits Granted by Board of Building Commissioners
The Board of Building Commissioners yesterday approved permits totaling 834,719 for multiple projects including frame dwellings at 1996 North Avenue and Grovers Avenues corner Seaside Avenue, a three car frame garage at 481 Gordon Street, garage additions at 76 Ellsworth Street and 308 Lindley Street, and various alterations and additions such as a brick store at 76 Cedar Street and a corner block addition to a garage at 114 Arcit Street. Other permits cover a bakery at 37-18 Main Street, a two car frame garage at 39 Thorme Street, a four party frame house at 124 Bradley Street, and a frame stairs at 129 Clarence Street among others.
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Board of Building Commissioners
W. Anderson
North Avenue
A. Anderson
Grovers Avenues
Seaside Avenue
HB. Schine
L. Silverstone
Gordon Street
J. Lomnitzer
Ellsworth Street
G. Kish
Maplewood Avenue
F. J. McNamara
Coleman Street
N. Fanotsi
Main Street
Co. M. Smith
Lindley Street
TD. Moulton
Thorme Street
G. Colangelo
Cedar Street
Beardeworth
Norland Street
Bridget Ward
Mary Corrigan
Arcit Street
Andro Nagy
Sage Avenue
Lews Silver
Fiarfield
John Duck
Bradley Street
Joseph Carvsone
Clarence Street
Missing Gabrielle Carre Plans Elopement With Cousin
Gabrielle Carre, 15, reported missing by her brother Samuel, left home Monday for work and did not return. Family appeals for her return. a message suggested she and her cousin Arthur Avithlet, 32, may have gone to Philadelphia to marry. She was last seen in a cream coat, dress, black stockings, pumps, and a grey hat.
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Fifteeneyer
Gabrielle Carre
Samuel Carre
Stratford Avenue
Philadelphia
Char Avithlet
Carce
Nhe
Lelephons
J. J. Castanquay
Hew Street
Arithelet
la Philadelphia
German Boast Still Legible In Crown Prince's Old Hut
Remnants near Apremont France preserve German messages from World War I. The 308th Infantry, trapped in the Lost Battalion during the Argonne offensive, once faced fierce assaults two miles from the hut. Crown Prince Wilhelm followed early battle stages at the site. wall markings declare Germany's pre-war military prowess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
Wilhelm
Germany
Argonne
British steel town police force dubbed Beau Brummels
In Sheffield England the police force is humorously described as Beau Brummels with chiefs urging tidy gazes and disciplined behavior. A steam press at the central station enforces pressed trousers before duty as officers, many young bachelors, attract attention as society ponders marriages to officers amid a surplus of women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Steel Manufacturing
Beau Brummels
Sheffield
Eng
Associated Press
Bea Brummel
Evgland
Polieceman
Tion
Cent Hine
Bena Brummel
England
Bodies from Danbury crash reveal fourth occupant and river recovery
Police traced four men and Miss Alice O Connell to a Southbury dance hall night of the collision. Franklin Babyak identified by undertaker Lynch. Szabo and Kolesar confessed knowledge of a fourth man and the recovered body. Wreckage from White Street incident ends with Franklin's body found 30 feet from shore as the car plunged into the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Szabo
Kolescar
Bebyak
White Street
Alice O'Connell
Franklin
Sermeant Carroll
Hhovese
Prenklin
Frederick W. Weber
Mics O'Connell
Carroll Keenyers Tsosky
Carrel
Carroll
Babynick
Kolessay
Babyak
Iney
Stanley Dance Hall
Southbury
Danbury
Jim
Ail
Ponce Mall
Svabo
Kotestar
Woodbury
Laby
Lynch
Frankin
Ric \ Landay
Ella Babyay
Philip Wily
Wallkill
N.Y
Natal
Dan
Willig
Bridgeport
Bernard Plunkett
Hadson Street
Harry Henley
Fairview Avenue
John Drew
William
Dimitri Alexandra Ptovshenks
Eurene Ushakoff
Plunkett
Wallig
Japan Sends Goldfish as Gift to America
Two hundred fancy goldfish and carp, a friendly gift from the Japanese government, have been received by the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington and distributed among aquaria nationwide. The fish, bred for beauty, are patterned in red, gold, and silver with plumelike fins, and were sent in return for US shipments of white fish to Japan.
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Washington
iBy Associated Press
Bureau of Fisheries
Japan
Jong
Obituary for Mrs Armaah Dolly and related notices
Funeral services were held yesterday for Mrs Armaah Dolly of 1413 Main Street who died Monday night. Services were at Boucher Ward and Rely at 6:30 p.m. and her body shipped to Limestone Maine. Geof Williams of 680 Newfield Avenue was arrested last night for operating a car without a license by Patrolman Witham Shack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiunnah
Armaah Dolly
Main Street
Boucher, Ward and Rely
Washington Avenue
State of Maine
Maine
Geof Willams
Newfield Avenue
Wee
Witham Shack
Waterbury eyes Kaplan Flowers boxing headliner
Waterbury promoter George Mullin seeks a return boxing bout headlining the Garden program likely on August 25 featuring Kid Kaplan against Flowers. Kaplan, who last fought June 29, trains in New London amid negotiations with Flowers camp and Billy Gibson.
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Waterbury
George Mullin
Louis
Kid) Kaplan
Bruce Flowers
Milligan
Billy Gibson
Kaplan
Flowers
Queensboro Stadium
Long Island City
Sid Terris
Sammy Mandell
Kaplans
Meriden Terror
New London
Andrew Wierceler
Ebbets Field
Kaplan-Petrolle
Petrolle
Realty and Mortgage Deeds and Transfers Noted
Realty records list John Nikodem to Andrew Danian at Violet and King streets and David Brod to Anthony Agonis in Floral Park. Mortgage recorded Henry J. Neal to Bridgeport People’s Realty on Taft Avenue for 7600 dollars. Quitclaim from Leypoloido Gambardella to Helen M. Moffitt. Frank T. Stupies to First National Bank of Bridgeport as trustee. Bridgeport Land and Title Company to Russell C. Wilmott as trustee. Park Holding Company to Henry J. Neal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Nikodem
Andrew Danian
Reity
Violet and
King Streets
David Brod
Anthony Agonis
Eyux
Tenity
Floral Park
Henry J. Neal
Bridgeport Peoples Realty
Taft, Avenue
Chim
Leypoloido Gambardella
Helen M. Moffitt
Frank T Stupies
First
Natiomal Bank of Bridgeport
Bridgeport Land and Title Company
Russell C. Wilmot
The
Park Holding Company
Henry 3. Neal
Distinctive District Court Notice From Prolite Couch Case
A terse notice in the districts court lists August terms and a probate style action regarding Nor land and property. The document names parties and dates for filing and scheduling related to estate matters and anticipated hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prolite
Tate
Bridges
Instriet
Anant
Ataltha Court
Istriet
Mtest
Obituaries list from city deaths in early August 1927
Death notices for Merton A. Benham James McGrath Catherine McHugh Anna Moran Rosalie Shackett Mary Johancsik William Hopkins and Elizabeth Vegas record ages addresses funeral times and interment venues across local churches and cemeteries with service details and burial instructions for August 1927. Interments occur at Mountain Grove Lakeview St Michael's and other local cemeteries.
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Merton A. Benham
William Street
Baker
Stratford Avenue
Mountain Grove
Hopkins
Monessay
William Hopkins
Main Street
Charles B. Dennis
Gan
Fairield Avenue
Lakeview Cemetery
Jomancsik
Mary
Joseph Johancsik
Box
Cut Spring Road
Stratford
St. Stephen's Church
McGrath
James McGrath
Steuben Street
St. Mary's Church
St. Micheels Cemetery
Waterbury
Miiagen
Catherine McHugh
North Avenue
St. Michael's
Moran
Tuckador
Anna B. Moran
Yeass
August G. Baker
Shackett
Rosalie Latour
Charles Stackett
James H. Kelly
Carroll Avenue
St. Anthony's Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
Vegas
Shelton
Conn
Elizabeth
Rose Vegas
van Gilbert Street
Wilmot & West Tuc
Lafayette Street
Mountain Grove Cemetery
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J. Ww, Roberts
Union Square
Petia Ai Ameddl Ta Psu
Sika
ORME
Talline
Canaan
Aliy
Iwik
Bud Rugl
Iortion
Rliokt Gant
Gail Amit
St. Dicertiy
TATA
Newsrarer Hac Hye
Wall Street News
American Electric Corporation
Best Aid Company
Pacific Coast Company
Timken Detroit Axle Company
Bankers Trust Company
Peerless Motor Car Company
National Railways of
Mexico
Americ Basic Business Shares Corporation
Central Cities Telephone Company
Connersville
Int
Fairfield
Newton
Town
Hamileton and Company
Western Pew Light and Telephone Company
Solin
Kas
Public Utility Investment Company of
Sailan
A. B. Leach and Company
Porter Fox Company
Chicazo
Panian
P.O
Balpalde Burk
Toni
Syienry
I. D
Arend
Musical_ Instruments
Pitia
Prine
Ave. Ray
Mineals
Kerman Umolae
TN Commission
Iseand
Rochelbie
York
Sauiganett
East
Washington Ave
TTR
Examtvera
Baty Forte
fFuenihea
Ft Agriculture
State of
Connecticut
N. Y
Bilton Business
Argonne Forest
Szibo
Mitchell Wieff
West 16Th Street
New York City
Eugene Ushakoff
Dimitri Alexandra Proushenko
Ilya Tolstoi
Count Talstai
Leo Tolstoi
Wusilieff
Proushenko
Secbo
John T. Monzant
Wateron
Ridgefield Arate
Kolesar
Sanbo
Mongans
America
George Mulligan
Graham's
Grahams
Fairfield Ave
C.L. Dennis & Son Undertaker Funeral Home
Fairfield Ave. Barnom
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