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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1925
Page
15
The readable text hints at a historical newspaper fragment mentioning mergers, companies, and individuals such as Dupont and Kanawha Banking. It presents a collage of names, places, and corporate references without coherent events or dates.
A dense legal advertisement outlines a sale of collate property and related trust actions. It lists guardians, trustees, and involved parties, with references to Bets Fite Virginia and several streets and locations, indicating a sale date and authority by Central Treee Company and associated trusts.
Market observers report heavy buying of railroad shares amid fluctuating trade. Traders note gains in early sessions as investors react to sector news and broader market conditions.
Dense timetable fragment lists Midland Trail Transit Co routes with interurban connections. Mentioned are Charleston, Beckley, Huntington, Alder, and Charlenton corridors with hourly service during daytime and evening rush hours. Ticketing and schedule notes reference reductions and local contact info.
A fragmented OCR readout lists railway, steel, chemical, and finance references. It mentions Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, West Virginia, New York, St Louis, and various firms like United Airlines and Western Union in a garbled mix of names and locations. The piece appears to sketch a market or investment-oriented listing without coherent narrative.
New York stocks report notes firmer call money with high net lows and closing bids. It mentions 60 to 90 day and six month maturities, prime commercial paper, and call loans against acceptances in a terse market briefing.
Fragmentary OCR shows a Liberty Bond payment notice with misread names and numbers. The readable bits indicate a payee and dates but many characters unreadable, suggesting a default or corrupted government bond payment record.
Grain and provisions trading showed unsettled prices in Chicago with wheat bids around 23 cents and December contracts at 1.673% as corn futures fluctuated. Lumbering notes mention May and delivery weeks with May prices cited and various price ranges across grains and staples.
Bond prices rose as demand fueled more than 60 million dollars in new offerings. Railroad and utility issues gained with several merger related bonds jumping to new high levels for the year. Industrial and utility groups showed activity, while overall price moves remained mixed amid cautious trading.
Raw sugar prices rose 1 to 2 points in New York trading on December 14 with a basis of 4.05 duties paid. A sale of 21 000 bags of Philippine sugar was noted while futures showed gains and near months closed higher. Refined sugar trading remained limited with unchanged refined granulated at 5.09 cents per pound.
Top grades of butter fell while the market tone stayed steady but unsettled. Supplies were ample for light demand and central markets showed steady prices on some grades with fair demand others slow. 88 and 80 scores struggled as buyers stayed uninterested.
Negotiations for a merger among five large silk companies including Beiding Bros and Hemingway Silk are reported as advancing with an early announcement of the combination. General Hainnay Signal Co receives orders for automatic train control equipment on the Baltimore and Ohio between Baltimore and Washington and on the Delaware and Hudson between Whitehall and Rouses Point. Ovington’s sale of about one million dollars in securities to Throckmorton & Co funds a new Chicago store. Rickenbacker Motor Co reports net profits of 247 558 for the ten months ended Oct 31 1925, earnings 26 cents per share on 83 424 no par value common. Curtis Publishing Co publicly offers 5000 shares at 104 a share through Halgarten and Co and J A Sisto & Co. Three stock does not represent any new issue.
Chicago livestock market reports large receipts: cattle steady to mixed with heavies up to 318.00, hogs opened lower but ended active with prices around 10.60 to 14.00 for various weights, sheep and lambs showing a mixed day with fat lambs mostly below prior levels and prices ranging near 13.00 for yearlings and 8.00 for ewes.
Irregular quotations in Britain and various foreign currencies are reported alongside New York dry goods price notes. The report lists exchange rates for Belgium Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Austria and other regions with several percent figures and commodity price shifts including flaxen flannelettes silks burlaps and worsteds amid cautious buying trends. Credit balance figures for clearings in Pa are also given.
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