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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1924
Page
15
Stocks decline to stall as investors shift focus to high priced issues. Oil shares show limited pressure with overall market rally continuing. New York trading features strong activity in preventing broader weakness, with several rail and utility names advancing.
Fragmented OCR describes a 1954 case in Kanawha County involving Ab Rillde Dold and the Clark's Cuties at the Haunt Court. The foreign gownts bonds, Virginal travel company, and various firms are named as parties in a complex suit to obtain damages and settlements. Details are unclear due to garbled text.
A public notice from Kanawha County West Virginia describes a property sale linked to a trust and debt settlement with the Kanawha National Bank of Charleston. The sale date is June 38, 1934, at a specified location, with details of the property and ownership, including Middleton and Mary Ve Came, among others, in the deed of trust and mortgage records.
New York June 25 curious currents in the market show inventories and prices fluctuating as trading widens the gap between speculative demand and cautious buying. Steel equities rose to near year highs while Atlantic refinery notes sold, and cotton foods demand edged up with upcoming shipments affecting wholesale apparel and fabric prices.
Miscellaneous bond listings show Liberty Bonds furnished by Hardy Dana Co and Burds Dana Co, brokers on the New York Stock Exchange. The content includes a jumble of names and invalid text but references 4 percent bonds and bond offerings linked to brokerage houses in New York.
Readable excerpts show fruit and vegetable prices from New York and California, including apples barrels and potatoes in various lots with prices. Butter markets in Chicago report prices steady, trading quiet, and a note on a bamboo pipe organ in Philadelphia in wood order.
Chicago and Pittsburgh livestock prices show cattle mostly steady to higher with varied weights and grades. Hogs and sheep receipts, with mixed demand, report slower or uneven movement. top prices listed for lightweight calves and feeder steers, while buyers seek desirable grades for fat lambs and yearlings.
Grain and provisions prices move in Chicago with corn and wheat futures climbing and other grains showing varied advances. The report notes July and September corn and wheat contracts, price quotes for lard and ribs, and nearby cash bids amid a busy futures session with several named traders and grade notes.
New York June 2 market report shows raw sugar futures higher on covering and unsettled demand while refined sugar prices hold steady. Cuban refined imports listed. May export trends cited. Refined futures quoted nominal. call money and commercial paper rates noted.
Washington June 25 Congress will face a packed short session starting in December with key battles over the Musel Shoals issue the nitrate plant and power plan the Ford offered operations and various international questions including the world court treaty and a new commercial accord with Germany. The session will also tackle railroad regulation defense naval needs and domestic budget items as President Coolidge prepares to address Congress.
Bremerhaven, Germany, June 23. Bremerhaven's Yank Town dissolved as 300 to 600 American beach combers, mostly sailors and stewards, were sent home with funds from the American government after inflation era holdings priced under a cent.
London society hails Ishbel Mac Lionald premier's daughter for grace in royal ceremonies and hospitalities. Comments call her a simple, demure beauty blending Scottish charm with modern polish.
The trial of H C Peterson for the murder of Bernard Hale began yesterday in the Intermediate Court and may continue all day before a verdict. Hale was killed when struck by a car driven by Peterson on the St Albans road last March, sustaining injuries that proved fatal. Peterson appeared before Lquire C E Jarrett and the case was submitted to the grand jury.
Elkins West Virginia June 25 Judge W J Baker US district court dismissed three liquor charges against Thomas Waldo of Clarksburg after ruling search warrants could not be used to prove illicit sale, and the defendant will be tried on remaining charges later in the term. The court also heard evidence in the Rast dry law case near IlLions.
In Rayford West Virginia on June 25 Fred Sizemore collapsed after a head injury from a rock fall during a moonshine raid. State police arrested William Thacker and Richard Stewart on operating a still charge as they destroyed mash and barrels nearby. Sizemore died from the wound while officers investigated the wooded site near Ross Triple for moonshine activity.
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