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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1931
Page
12
The New York market shows muted activity as investors focus on government financing and quarterly tax payments. Bethlehem Steel and several rail and utility stocks drift while broader indices dip. turnover nears several billion dollars as investors weigh profits and dividends amid general market softness.
Fragmentary OCR lists various securities and firms including Harris Upham and Company, New York Stock Exchange members. Mentions include gas, Canadian and American companies, Detroit Aircraft Electric, Ford, Prudential, and United entities among scattered names and odd spellings.
Yesterday cartoon explanation sparks fanatical opposition from Mohem-1 Sidi Bon Kassim Hermie of Tuni median inhabitants of Sint. Father Kassim vows to keep his clothes on since 1881 during the French seizure in Kat ale. Auction sales across Gharan and Beningen markets involve Mizalette sect precepts and strict city-wide participation.
A composite legal advertisement announces bids for Cabin Creek Kanawha County WV school construction plans by Walter F. Mart Architect and the West Virginia Tom Thumb Golf Go. Inc. dissolution resolutions, stockholder meetings, debt payments, and public trustee sales. Other items include a trust sale, divorce order, and road project condemnation notices with referenced parcels and dates.
Classified advertising details restrict content to proper categories and require editors to edit or reject ads. The Gazette notes reporting errors promptly and limits liability to a single incorrect insertion, with a four word gap rule and indented copy. Advertising hours run daily 10 am to 3 pm, with next day insertion for ads placed between 6 am and 9 pm except Sundays. Sunday copy due by 7:30 pm Saturday. Rates per line: One time 10.09, three times 08 07, seven times 06 05.
Local notice lists advertising rates and terms for yearly insertions. It states rates are available upon request and requires a minimum two linen space for each ad.
The Charlceton banks yesterday cleared 402,132.32 through the local clearing house, as reported by Secretary W. L. Motjey.
Investment quotations related to Knopp Two Company and several energy and utility firms appear in this note. It references Worth American Trust Shares and Cumulative Trust Sharer alongside Electric Light and Power and Associated Gas. Names and affiliations indicate a market brief on holdings and corporate trust activity.
The bond market rose unevenly with advances by German losses and American growth while government obligations stayed steady. Trading was dull with activity focused on second grade bonds, and industrials utilities showed mixed results as convertibles featured prominently in the session.
The Toledo market reports cash grain and provisions with bids for wheat No 1 red 16 1 2 to 16 1 2 percent up No 2 red 16 to 18 1 2 percent The corn No 2 yellow 56 to 68 No 9 yellow 64 to 68 percent The oats No 2 white 28 to 28 percent No 8 white 26 to 27 percent Prices for clover contracts for domestic old and new crop show 13 75 cash 14 00 for old and new 14 00 with futures 24 00 cash.
Trustees of St Andrew's Mission in the Diocese of West Virginia plan to sell a 25 by 135 feet land strip on Davis Creek in Loudon District Kanawha County as part of a 1925 deed. The parcel is described with metes and bounds and conveyed from William H. Beans and Madeline Means to John Howe Peyton and J. D. Roller.
A string of real estate notices presents multiple properties including a bungalow near South Bitons Avenue with electric, hardwood finish, a garage, paved alley and 26 Columbia Boulevard listing. Also a six room brick house at 506 Thompson Street with attractive terms offered by Fred W. Smith Co. Real Estate Insurance at 720 Kenawhe at Coplitel.
Multiple sale notices advertise former residence of BE A Barnes at 1216 Virginia Street with four rooms two baths vapor heat large garden lot and rear cottage plus garage. Various farm land and land sales listed under court decree private sale at Davis Creek Bridge and other local properties with terms and inquiries directed to local stores and officials.
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