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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1925
Page
14
A dense block of 20th century classified notices and job listings appears with varied ads for cleaning, moving, barbering, housework, sewing, nursing, machine work, sales, and employment opportunities. Names, addresses, and contact methods are interwoven with offers and requests across multiple trades and locations.
Employment ad seeks agents to sell guaranteed shirts with big commissions. Mentions Curtin Shirt Co and address 509 So Wells, Chinxwo. Includes scattered notices about lost items and public notices with stray details and garbled locations.
Unrest over the money market blamed for broad stock selling in New York trading. Brokers’ loans, reserve deficits, and government financing concerns weighed on prices with several industrials and rails fading, while some leaders like American Safety Razor and Laclede Gas showed strength amid the decline. Public notices and legal ads appear in the same issue.
A garbled transportation schedule hints at routes to Milton and Huntington with mentions of Charleston and nearby towns. The piece also covers a fluctuating stock market with declines in Atlantic Gulf and West Indies and other rail and chemical shares, plus a brief note on National Emaneling and related corporate movements.
The grain markets closed nervous with slight gains in wheat and mixed moves in corn oats and provisions. Chicago figures show May wheat at 1.92 and July at 3.63, while Toledo and cash wheat quotes appear alongside various seed prices and futures. Clearing house data for Charleston records sizable daily activity and balances across multiple banks and shipments.
March foreign exchange quotations show demand and cables for major currencies. Britain 4.76 percent, France 6.10, Germany 23.30, Holland 28.89, Norway 16.23, Sweden 26.92, Denmark 17.88, Switzerland 19.24, Spain 14.18, Greece 1.52, Poland 19, Austria 0.14, Romania 69, Argentina 30.49, Brazil 1.12, Tokyo 40. Montreal 94 27-82.
Market summaries from Chicago and New York report mixed grain pricing and a firm to advancing butter market. Wheat and corn show varied No 2 and No 3 futures while butter prices rise with creamery and fancy grades. milk and egg cases note steady to up-trending tones with premiums for higher quality.
Pittsburgh and East Buffalo report mixed cattle hogs and sheep activity. Cattle receipts rise in Pittsburgh to about 1,000 with varied classes. hogs and calves show weaknesses and strengths across regions. Chicago shows broader cattle and hog trends with steady to uneven demand, pricing differing by class and weight, packers active but margins tight. Sheep and lambs show strong demand in some markets with fat lambs and yearlings steering prices.
Market notes from Pittsburgh Marcy listing dairy items and produce with prices. Barrels and sacks of potatoes onions and apples, creamery products, cheese and poultry prices, plus a line on demand for automobiles in Brazil affecting supply.
Call money in New York rose with bids at 5 percent and offers around 3 and 4 percent. Short term loans remained firm though some rates fluctuated, while commercial paper held at low single digits as carriers expand routes to the Caucasus and beyond.
Reflecting a firmer money market, bond prices fell under broad selling across railroads public utilities and industrials. Total bond sales neared 1.9 million, the smallest full five hour session of the year, while earnings and reorganizations influenced some issues amid limited buying support.
Sugar market notes from New York report no bid activity in spot or futures at 84 while refiners pay higher prices for April shipments. Sales include 150000 bags of Cuban origin to local relief groups, 15000 to another buyer for March and early April, and 25000 to export buyer for late April. Refined sugar prices steady. Cotton goods and silk markets show mixed activity with improved yarn demand and laundry of retailers trimming smaller lots.
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