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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1925
Page
11
Fragmentary OCR shows a coal company using a unique service plan labeled quality and presence in a City address Box 23g. The readable text hints at a program or offer with terms like service meld and opportunity described in terse phrases. No clear date or named individuals present.
A flood of brief ads seeks coal loaders, maids, cooks, wait staff, secretaries, stenographers, nurses, office clerks, salesmen, and domestic workers across Kanawha and surrounding towns. Listings request experience, reliability, and local residence with contact details or box numbers for employers including Weavers, private firms, and mining outfits. Public notices also call for bids and bankruptcy actions with locations in Charleston and nearby.
New York prices swing throughout the day as investors react to uncertain wanes situation and large bank renewals. Headlines note volatile trading with notable rallies in victor baking and mercantile shares while bankers report substantial bank funds and rate shifts.
Transportation timetables show hourly coaches from Charleston to Huntington from 1 am to 7 pm with last return to Charleston, special services for certain connections, and multiple interurban routes. Additional schedules cover Charleston Gauley Bridge Beckley and Charleston Beckley routes with several daily trips and reduced round trip tickets. Information lists interurban stations, connection points, and control numbers for inquiries.
Daily rail schedule notes subject to change without notice. Eastsound morning and afternoon connections include Washington and Richmond service, New York routes with exceptions on Sundays, Cincinnati, Louisville, Huntington, Pittsburgh, and other cities. No coaches listed for specific trains. multiple daily departures and joint itineraries mentioned.
Traders watched mixed action across markets with steel shares rising on optimistic signals and General Banking led gains while livestock futures showed uneven strength. U S steel and related firms advanced as trading closed, while cattle and hog markets reported varied results with prices fluctuating and turnover steady.
A scrambled OCR style report notes foreign government bonds and related trading activity. It mentions buyers, merchant houses, and prices in various currencies, with references to Argentina, Canada, Chile, Norway, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The text references yields, demand shifts, and market observations, with several garbled itemized lines claiming exchanges and agents.
The New York bond market faced tight conditions with little appetite among buyers. Predictions of early rate rises faded as prices moved, while issuer activity remained high and new issues eyed by major underwriters amid wary credit conditions.
Local architects Wesonge and Charleton prepare hotel plans amid approval efforts. The design envisions an eleven story hotel on Thirteenth Street near Winehowter Avenue with adjacent park space and integrated ventilation features. Work progresses toward construction as plans detail facade and site layout alongside nearby buildings.
In New York on September 28 sugar and refined sugar markets showed mixed moves. Trade noted slow movement of refined sugar and offers from Cuban connections while futures and calls were discussed with several price points cited for December through July contracts.
Indianapolis plans depict a busy national crossroads at Meridian and Washington streets. The National Old Trail and the Tinie Mighwas highways will intersect here, linking routes from the west to the east and north to south. Hoosier State Union officials, led by J. Wo Steinhart, promote Indianapolis as the central hub for cross country travel.
Grain and provisions quotes show wheat and flour prices steady in New York with receipts and futures mixed. Butter and dairy markets firm in Chicago while foreign exchange rates drift with various currencies quoted.
A garbled stock exchange note shows Waray Dana & Co members on the New York Stock Exchange open. It lists percentages and figures such as 190 percent, 4.06, 9823, and 125,091 in a chaotic entry, with references to shipments and balances.
Report states Harkershurs independent letpiet bonds with a face value of 40 were sold yesterday by Muck and Company in Chicago. Officials believed the sale a good measure despite a weak stock market.
Trick Biller and Geritin Whod elds of Charlesteay were held to the federal grand jury after appearing before United States Commissioner Ay Vv. Ditzwater on a charge of hostess machine Whickes. Bond set at $1000 each. Marcuson also charged and held for hearing. other arrests listed including Geel Meltwn Brown Haynes Stet and McNult. Earings not yet filed.
An Edna Miners association in Brady Mosongalia county was incorporated to unite employers and workers in a check off system similar to the United Mine Workers. Incorporators include Joseph See West Joseph W Folly J B Garius Maurice B Kincett and Mike Pascoe all of Brady. Charter granted to Pond Fork Oil and Gun company of Chuelenton with works at Madison and capital of 50000 dollars. incorporators E E White Ira H Motteness Siegal Workman N Kenna and Emory Kirby of Charleston Wheel ing.
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