Bear Market Deadlock Strikes Trading Slump in May
The week featured a full offset between bull and bear arguments leading to record small daily turnover. Traders expect no liquidation and note that easy money has shifted to a higher rate environment while call money nears 6 percent. May foreign trade surprised on exports, while world finance faces instability as Britain’s gold moves and labor strikes weaken.
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Stock Exchange
Wiseacres
Europe
Echoes of Old Barbary Coast Days in San Francisco
At the Democratic National Convention in Golden Gate City visitors glimpse San Francisco history. The article recalls barrooms and clubs once bustling on the Barbary Coast, including Cork-checking millionaires, Bottle Koenig and Meyers, the Montana Dance Hall, and the old Cliff House. Portsmouth Square and the Vigilantes era are noted, with lingering coffeehouse culture in the Latin Quarter.
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San Francisco
Sierras
Mother Lode
California
Koenig
Meyers
Hall of Justice
Montana
Coast
John Barleycorn
Dupont Street
Frank Norris
Portsmouth Square
Dennis Kearney
Addison and
Steele
Duncan Nichol
Cliff House
United States
Waverly Place
Old Siberian Club
Changes in San Francisco From Old Docks to New Frontiers
The article recalls a transformed San Francisco where dingy docks from China Basin to the Presidio were replaced by grand ocean liner berths. It notes the removal of shanghai practices and illegal bars, the decline of the lime juicer trade, and the faded Mission Dolores ruins amid a modernizing cityscape.
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China Basin
Presidio
Mission of Sorrows
Mission Dolores
San Francisco
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Channer &Lawyer
America
Department of Commerce
Washington
New York
Bank of England
England
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Shanghai
South American
Atlas National Bank
Walnut Street
Postoffice
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Ohio
Telephone Company
Public Utilities Commission of
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Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Co
Clark's
N. T
Miller's
Race Street
Colgate
Williams
Babcock
HICH
CRADE
NAVY
Georgette Voiles
Pam
B. V. D. Union
EATLY
Reseda
Wistaria
Etoile de Nord
Mka
Copenhagen
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Amoskeag A. C. A. “A
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Elorsea
Fall River
Pepperell
St. & Yara
Miller’s
Ildren
SECO
Seling
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