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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1925
Page
11
A help wanted notice from Suncrest Lumber Company in Haywood County North Carolina seeks workers for logging. Positions include maintainance of way sawmill and yard crews. Apply to Suncrest Lumber Company for employment opportunities.
A dense, fragmented 1917 listing shows wage scales, miner qualifications, and multiple help wanted notices. It mentions married men, good health, and local mine employers in West Virginia and nearby areas, plus scattered requests for general labor, store jobs, clerical roles, and a few women’s positions.
A fragmented collage of ads and notices including salesmen Wanted Wallets and asbestos references, reward offers, stray animals, and ad hints. Names and addresses are interspersed with garbled text, suggesting a busy classifieds section with job ads, rewards, and notices from Pittsburgh and nearby areas.
Schedule notices from the Midland Trail Transit Co announce May 26 2926 effective times for Charleston Huntington and intermediate points. Buses depart Charleston hourly from 6 am to 7 pm with special services for work routes and connections to the Gauley Bridge line. Additional evening service is listed including a Saturday night run and various connections via Ber dourmyse, Virgin and Aldernoy directs, and CeDar Grove. Contact numbers Capitol 3005 and 317 for Charleston Huntington.
Legal advertisement and railroad schedule details describe a trustees sale for property in Kanawha County West Virginia and listed rail connections from Washington to Richmond and Cincinnati with multiple destinations, times, and fares, alongside court actions and public notices from Charleston. The text includes a sale date, parcel description, and terms, plus references to an election for county bonds and a public notice from the North American Life Assurance Society.
New York August 2 Constructive forces buoyed stocks in a session led by high priced Industrials. Major gains were posted by International Telephone and Sears Roebuck while General Motors and other slogans contributed to a broad advance amid steadier trading and reports of possible corporate deals.
Legal advertisement from Mutual Savings Bank and Trust Company announcing sale of mining property and associated lands in Boone and Wayne Counties West Virginia under a deed of trust for payment defaults. Sale to the highest bidder for cash at public auction near Altsean, with listed parcels and adjoining tracts, including Little Hewitt and Pinnacle areas, tied to Mohlar Lumber Company lease and subsequent chain of title. Sale date set for 1 PM on the specified day, with full description of property and equipment to be transferred.
Legal advertisement from the West Virginia State Bond Commission inviting sealed proposals for bridge reconstruction projects including Slate Rowdy Madison Bridge No. 54 and multiple Kanawha County concrete and steel substructures and superstructures. Proposals due August 18 1825 with certified checks and bid requirements noted. auction to be conducted at the Kanawha County Courthouse Charleston WV.
Call money firmer with bids at 4 1/4 percent and 4 percent on wet loans while time loans show mixed collateral. Market notes mention rising demand and firmer sentiment amid unsettled rates as investors weigh short and longer term debt.
Storage Buocery Great Western Sugar International Harvester May Department stores Public Service of New Jersey Savage Arms Texas quult Solghur WW B. Mast Iron Pipe Weatinghouse Air Brake posted modest gains in a broad advance while Certain-feed Products hit a fresh high on a semi annual earnings report near 7.50 a share. New York Canners rose to a new high while Nag Motors jumped and War Independent Oil and Gas slipped back as others recorded small gains or losses amid a fluctuating trading day.
New York August bond prices rose unevenly in quiet trading. First grade rails and public utilities led gains while government issues fell on higher estate concerns. Public offerings worth 84 million three year 6 percent Tokyo Electric Light bonds priced at 98 1/2 with about 0.10 percent yield noted. several utilities and rails showed mixed moves.
Chicago grain and provisions report notes sensational crop damage from Canada and an expected U S wheat yield just above domestic needs. Prices show a fresh upward jump with September at 1.58 and December at 1.57 plus weak to strong shifts in related commodities. Wheat cash quotes around 165 bid. December 14.85 for clover seed and other grain figures appear.
Pittsburgh market shows bids for apples onions potatoes with various regional lots and prices. New York dairy and poultry markets note steady butter and irregular live poultry as of Aug 2 emerges in the market diary.
Sugar market shows little change with modest demand for Airbans, Perto Rican, and Philippine raws and near terms around 4.27 duty paid while refined withdrawals offset old contracts. Cotton and wool trades quiet with shoppers shifting to fall goods and African Calcutta price gains noted. Boston wool firms eye small value adjustments amid steady silk and textile demand.
Cyrus Kaien of United Light and Power Corp confirmed talks to acquire all Ohio Utilities common and preferred stock. The Ohio firm owns electric utility and power companies across several towns in Ohio. headquarters to be in Columbus.
Cattle receipts around 20,000 in Chicago with steady to mixed demand for grain steers and weaker lower grades. Hogs 23,000 with higher openings and varied hog prices. sheep and lambs 22,000 with softer fat lambs and mixed native bids. Also reports from East Buffalo and Pittsburgh noting active cattle and hog trade with firm or steady prices across multiple grades.
Foreign exchanges steady with quotations for Great Britain at 4.86 percent in demand and 4.8511 26 on cables. France 6.73 percent, Italy 3.65, Belgium 4.80, Germany 23.40, Holland 40.13, Norway 18.20, Sweden 26.84, Denmark 22.60, Switzerland 7.941, Spain 14.46, Austria 14.45, Argentina 40.27, Tokyo 415 16, Montreal 3.32.
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