Dictionary of Wall Street Terms and Abbreviations
A compact glossary of stock market terms including absorption, account, accrued interest, accumulate, arbitrage, bid price, bear market, block of stock, board lot, bond, books close, books open, and related concepts. It defines market actions, pricing, and ownership mechanics with era style financial language and examples. The excerpt highlights how brokers, investors, and markets define and handle trading, dividends, and transparency in early Wall Street practice.
Market Terms and Definitions From Stock Exchange Glossary
A compact glossary entry listing terms such as bear bull market call corner dividend and delivery with concise definitions. Includes broker obligations, options and payments, and descriptions of stock classifications and market actions.
German Farmers Association Demands Full Personal Liberty
The German Farmers' association issues a proclamation calling for a congress of farmers' councils to defend agricultural interests with equal rights to workers and soldiers. It demands full personal liberty, security for private property and inheritances, the empire's obligations to the people, the war loan, and repeal of land prerogatives.
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Copenhagen
German Farmers’ Association
Congress of
Housewives Trade Ideas Through Newspapers
Winter competition in El Paso county Texas pits housewives from different communities to supply county with helpful ideas. The county paper runs a farm home department directed by the home demonstration agent with state college and county agents, featuring weekly columns from varying communities. Bridget's Corner appears as another feature with cookery lessons led by the agent.
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el Paso
Tex
Farm Home Department
Department of Agriculture
State Agricultural College
Artclea
Arsenical Spray Boosts Berry Crop Protection
Entomology bureau reports arsenical spraying controls leaf rollers damaging strawberry, blackberry, raspberry and related roses. Savings of at least 60 percent observed in Iowa and Kansas. A single application destroyed about two-thirds of pests.
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Bureau of Entomology
Lowa
Hansas
Posta
Seven Americans Awarded British Gallantry Medals
The seven American soldiers honored receive British decorations for gallantry along the Vologda railway front. Lt. G. B. Reese earns the Military Cross for reconnoitering enemy positions on Oct. 14. Sgt. H. G. Mayden gets the Distinguished Conduct Medal for Oct. 11 reconnaissance. Privates C. E. Garrett, L. L. Hopkins, J. P. Wagoner, G. Hinman, and Corp. W. Shaughnessy receive the Military Medal for various acts under fire including aiding the wounded and carrying telegraph wires.
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Archangel
Nova
Associated Press
Vologda
G. B. Reese
Milford
N. H
Reese
H. G. Mayden
Athens
C. E. Garrett
Kalamazoo
Mich
Garrett
I. W. Rickman
Rickman
L. L. Hopkins
Mutt, Ky
Corpora W. Shaughnessy
Beaufort Ave
Detroit
J. P. Wagoner
John Street
G. Hinman
Linwood
Trapnest Records Boost Egg Yields in Nebraska Study
University of Nebraska extension service notes variation among hens despite identical care and feed. Some flocks lay as few as fifty eggs yearly while others exceed two hundred, suggesting trapnest data can identify more profitable hens.
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University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Waldorf Waitress Finds Christmas Money Roll
A Waldorf Astoria maid discovers a $294 roll of banknotes under a bed sheet. Miss Kathryn Brophy, a Rose Room waitress saved the money over five weeks and claims it as her Christmas fund, thanking the maid before resuming her shift.
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Waldorf
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
William McCupher
Pittsburgh
Kathryn Brophy
the Waldorf
Associations Ship Live Stock In La Salle County
La Salle county Illinois now has five live stock shipping associations in business. One has operated 12 months and shipped 74 carloads. The manager weighs marks loads and delivers consignments to Chicago stockyards where each owner receives proceeds minus shipping costs. The system supports economical marketing and is a popular farm burden relief effort.
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la Salle County
Chicago
Foley medicines mail order slip advertisement
A clipped advance notice urges sending a cut out slip with name and address to Foley & Co in Chicago to receive a return mail package. It promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets for coughs colds back pain and digestive relief. Sold everywhere.
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Foley & @o
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Rial
Foley
Toley
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E. S. Johnston Grocery Company
Cheyenne
U. S. Food Administration
Skims Valley
Big Y Grimes
Rome
Jones
Brookfield
California
Florida
Polibe
Johnston
Wisconsin
Dictionary of Wall Street
Strictly Fresh Ranch Ie
Olsen's Grocery
23Rd and
Evans Streets
New York Stock Exchange
Great Britain
Credit
Ite
Repforce
the & Stock Market
Kelley Mercantile Co
Walbridge
Warren
O'Neill
W. Hot
Call Apt
Grand Market and Grocery
West 17Th Street
Porterhouse
Fancy Mae
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