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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1925
Page
11
A dense list of job notices across coal mines and related trades in Western Virginia and surrounding areas. Workers sought include coal loaders, barbers, cooks, cleaners, drivers, housekeepers, and sales staff. Entries emphasize steady work, wages, and immediate start, with multiple companies and towns named.
Classified help wanted notices show multiple applicants seeking office roles. A veteran clerk requests a job with good references and fair pay, listing past foreman and payroll experience, while other entries seek stenographers, practical nurses, and sales positions with phone contacts and location hints.
An array of short advertisements seeks experienced wholesale and general sale staff, car buyers, and other help. Items include a professional sales position at The Lipppingtott Co Cincinnati and Ohio, a personal offer to take vehicles, a necklace find reward, a gentleman’s wristwatch reward, a lost black pony reward, a white bull dog reward, and stock transfer notices. Also notices of a missing red disc rim and a horse related to James L. Smith.
Legal notices announce sealed bids for an electric room brick and tile building in Cabin Creek West Virginia. Plans and specs cost 325 cash with a 600.60 certified check due by June 25 1928. Board reserves right to reject all bids and bids evaluated by secretary and president.
New York stocks fell as investors weighed the Chinese situation and money rates amid hopes for tax cuts. Rail shares weakened while some blue chips such as American Can and General Motors showed gains or held near highs, with earnings previews and dividend hopes shaping trades.
Fragmented OCR notes list Liberty Bonds and Treasury securities with figures for bonds totals and average shipments. Mentions Dana & Co and New York, with references to credits, oil city balance, and shipment averages.
Special Commissioner to hear testimony in the chancery case Losh versus Losh filed in the Court of Common Pleas Kanawha County West Virginia. Proceedings to begin July 1 1926 at 10 AM in Charleston Kanawha Valley Bank Building to determine alimony and divorce terms.
Foreign exchanges in New York on June 23 show demand and cabin quotations for Britain at 4.45 IT-10 with 4.40% cabins and a 4.81% city bill. France at 4.6845 demand with 14.09 cabin, Thal at 1.7242, cables 372, and Belgium 4441. Other quotes include Germany 2h M1, Holland 40.1, Norway 17.17, Sweden 20.73, Denmark 19.98, Switzerland 19.41, Spain 74.41, Poland 1944, Czechs/Slovaks 2.96, Jugoslavia 1.78, Austria 14% Roumania 48, Argentina 40.25, and Shanghai nominal Montreal 100.
A financial note details New York railroad bond activity with closing bids and offers at 4 percent and 4 percent margins, mixed collateral terms, and a brief mention of commercial paper rates. It also includes an unrelated statistic about New Zealand's per capita purchasing power compared to China.
Widespread demand for wood wool and related textiles continued in Boston with prices firming and an upward drift. Better grades quoted around the higher end, some producers waiting for still higher levels. New York reports buyers securing staples and fabrics while cotton dresses and underwear see brisk business and mill orders soften.
In New York sugar trading June 1 an easier undertone emerged as large offerings appeared. About 60,000 bags Cuban and 6,900 bags Porta Rican for June and early July shipment sold around 4.44, with Porta Rican and St. Croix nearby at 4.397 and not taken. July futures saw heavy liquidation and roll into later delivery with stop-loss orders on declines, then partial rallies as prices slipped two to four points. Market activity was aided by increased spot supply and favorable crop prospects. July closed at 2.81, September 2.77, December 2.50, March 2.52. Refined sugar withdrawals remained liberal with granulated at 6.56 to 6.79.
New York reports a mixed bond market with buying of long term United States government issues contrasting with selling of railroads and industrials. Intermediates reach new highs as July reinvestment and large semi annual interest payments attract buyers, while some railroad and copper issues decline under profit taking and mild selling pressure.
Cattle receipts about 6 000 with mixed grades and uneven demand and higher prices for fat cattle. hogs 22 000 with buyers selective as packers slow. sheep 10 000 with lambs and natives firm to higher. Slaughter weights up to 1 889 pounds for cattle and weights around 226 pounds for hogs lead the activity. total holdover about 17 000.
New York and Chicago markets report steady butter demand with limited purchases and quiet trading. Chicago butter prices hold near steady as shorts seek June futures, while New York poultry markets show irregular live bird prices and firm dressed poultry amid steady, constrained supplies.
Chicago June wheat prices show limited changes as rust reports spread from Canada to Ontario. Prices for July and September contracts fluctuate around 1.55 and 1.60, with corn and oats mostly steady and provisions little changed amid market uncertainty.
Washington June 23 An appeal to the supreme court in the International Harvester case has been authorized by Attorney General Sargent The government contends the 1912 suit alleging a restraint of trade by the International Harvester company and its Chicago district court ruling from May 13 should be reconsidered under the 1918 consent decree The government views the decision as unresolved in light of prior actions
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