Market Ends Year With Weak Close On Low Trading
The stock market closed weak after five hours of dull trading with prices at the lowest in the final hour. Big declines hit Westinghouse and several industrials while overall volume ran about 1.65 million shares as investors await January reinvestment demand.
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Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
New York
Westinghouse
Tiled Chemical
Western Union
Vanadium
Baltimore & Ohio
American Can
Bethlehem Steel
American Telephone North American
Consolidated Gas
S. Steel
General Electric
R. H. Macy
Case
Auburn Auto
Macy
Sears Roebuck
Woolworth
Best & Coy
Associated Dry Goods
Gillette
Southern Pacific
Coca Cola
U. S. Steel
American
Telephone
Liggett and Myers B
New York Central
North American
Paramount
Eastman
Anaconda
New Orleans Cotton Market Opens Quiet and Steady
The New Orleans cotton market starts quiet but steady amid holiday influence as Liverpool remains closed. January trades around 9.77, March 10.05, with later declines to 9.73, 9.98, and 10.23 as selling pressures rise and weekly statistics weigh on sentiment. Notices for January deliveries reach 6,400 bales locally and 16,400 in New York.
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Liverpool
Liverpool Po Megie
N. O
New Orleans
New York
Cotton opens steady as January advances in New York
Cotton prices opened steady with a 3 to 5 point advance driven by covering and commission house buying. Traders expected fewer January notices and a quick halt to the gains as New January rose to 9.79 and May to 10.34, then faced selling pressure.
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New York
New York Stock Quotations Today at 2 P.M.
The New York Stock Exchange openings show varied activity with many issues recording gains and losses. Highs and lows are listed for the day as traders react to market developments and closing numbers at 2 o'clock.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Livestock Prices At Chicago Show Complex
Chicago market report shows hogs 42 000 head with 17 000 direct packing sows steady top 8 50 slaughter pigs 7 75 to 8 50. Cattle calves slaughter cattle vealers steers 10 75 to 14 75 heifers 8 25 to 12 00 cows 5 25 to 7 50. Sheep 13 000 fat lambs fairly active ewes 2 00 to 3 75 cull and choice 6 75 to 7 50.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
U. S. Dept. Agri
New Orleans Spot Cotton Closes Steady Down Nine Points
Spot cotton in New Orleans finished steady nine points lower. Sales reached 767 bales with low middling at 7.90 and middling at 9.40 while good middling stood at 9.90. Receipts totaled 183 and stock was 764,692 bales.
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New Orleans
Grain prices in St Louis market report
St Louis cash grain prices dated December 26 show No 2 red winter wheat at 82 1 2 cents, No 2 hard wheat at 76 1 2, No 2 yellow corn at 63 1 2 to 64 1 2, No 3 white corn 64 to 68, and No 2 white oats at 34 cents.
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ST. Louis Grain
ST. Louis
Grain Prices in Chicago Market on December 26
Wheat values range from No. 1 hard 78 3 4 to 79 and No. 1 northern spring 78 1 4 3 4. Corn mixed 62 1 4 to 67 1 2 for various grades while oats list No. 1 white 32, No. 2 white 32 1 4. Barley 35 65 and Timothy seed 86 75 to 9.00. Clover seed 15 00 to 22 75. large hog cuts like larf 9 62 ribs 10 87 bellies 10 87. Rye had no sales.
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Chicago
Call Money Rates Shift Quietly in New York Market
Call money in New York on December 26 shows firm high at 2 1/2, low 2, ruling 2 1/2. Time loans hold steady with 30 to 90 days at 2 1/2 to 3, 4 to 6 months 2 3/4. Prime commercial paper 2 3/4, bankers acceptances unchanged.
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Call Money
New York
Call Money Firm High
Ae Bankers
Chicago Produce Report the Day After Christmas
U S Dept of Agriculture notes potatoes firm trading just fair with 114 on track and 229 total shipments. McClures steady while other stock stays about steady. Wisconsin round whites priced 1.40 to 1.60 per cat.
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Chicago
U. S
Death Mars Yuletide In Many Homes
A jumble of late December briefs reports violent incidents and deaths across several states. A Birmingham man Henry Batterton dies in Palo Alto in an auto crash. A Greensboro child Evelyn Anderson is gravely wounded by a bullet. investigation stalls. Paul Hall 12 kills his father in Belen with a shotgun. Five die from poison liquor in New York on Christmas Day. Seven men perish in a rooming house fire at Whiting Indiana.
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Evelyn Anderson
J. T. Anderson
Greensboro
isHale County
Belen
Miss
Paul Hall
Quitman County
H. L. Hall
Plantaton
Paul
Charleston
New York
Faileneus
Charles Norris
John Cochrane
Patrick A. Breen
Andrew Reichert
Lena Gorman
West 17Th Street
Whiting
Ind
Joseph Lucie
Ohn Lucie
Max Stephie
Oseph Bebec
Victor Mechevec
Thomas Kusevich
Nick Flemick
Plemick
South Has No Choice Must Cut Acreages
The article argues the South must reduce cotton acreage due to economic conditions. It predicts lower prices will curb production, boost demand for cotton and cotton goods, and lead to price recovery by next summer with higher prices than currently.
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South
Christmas Day Fires See No Loss At City Fire HQ
No loss sustained after three Christmas Day fires across the city as firefighters attacked blazes reported by Fire Headquarters. The brief note in the Classified section references holiday incidents and reassures residents.
Garden Club Christmas Decoration Winners Named
Prize winners in the Garden club Christmas decoration contest were announced today. Best interior residence went to Mrs Will Wyker while best exterior residence went to Mrs Williamson. George Lum and Lyons Hotel tied for best business house with Kiwanis also noted. the George Lum was found equally attractive. After deliberation the club offered two prizes, with leading contestants each receiving one.
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Garden Club
Will Wyker
Williamson
George
George Lum
Lyons Hotel
Kiwanis Cide
Young Solon 5 Gone From Home
Franklin Tennessee December 26 Frank Gray Sr says he is worried about his son Frank Gray Jr Williamson county representative elect and prospective speaker of the house missing for three days. The 22 year old Cumberland University law school graduate is described as unmarried.
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Franklin
Tenn
Frank Gray
Williamson County
House of Representatives
Reptative
Gray
Cumberland Uni-T Law School
Murphy's Gin in Total Loss at Woodland Mills
Fire of undetermined origin Thursday night destroyed the cotton gin of R. L. Murphy at Woodland Mills causing several thousand dollars in damage. Deputies investigated with Sheriff B. E. Davis noting prior burglaries at Murphy's store with loot taken. four men were arrested but released after questioning.
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R. L. Murphy
Woodland Mills
B. E. Davis
Six Prisoners Escape From Florence Jail
Lauderdale county sheriff W. L. Stutts faced a Christmas shock as six inmates escaped from the Florence jail on Wednesday night. Watchman John Weaver spotted the seventh prisoner peering through a broken window, signaling a wider breakout and prompting immediate repairs and a statewide search.
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Florence
Ala
W. L. Stutts
Lauderdale County
Stutts
John Weaver
Weaver
Voice of the People from Baptist Church notice
The Daily is thanked for its support of church work in the year. The letter from D. D. Gibson chairman of the public committee asks blessings for the staff and wishes a busy new year.
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the Daily
Baptist Church
D. D. Gibson
Pubgomumittee
Notice of Sales and Meetings in Morgan County
Notice lists a mortgage sale in Morgan County Alabama under a 1930 decree with January 1931 sale in Decatur area. It includes annual stockholders meetings for Decatur Box and Basket Co. and Decatur Ice and Coal Co. Also bidders invited for Federal Aid Project 8% in Morgan County with a January 14 1931 bid deadline and notes about guardianship litigation for Mary Banner.
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Fred V. Bite
Circuit Court
Morgan County
County
Alabama
Court House
M Tur
L. W. Morten
J. M. Surveyor
Morgan Bama
Decatur Box and Basket Co
di Box and Basket Co. Inc
B Tce and Coal Company
Rfbama
Highway Commission of
Alabamm
Montgomery
Cedar Creek
Selle
Onbama
Ovid
State of
Oecuit Court
Lens
Mary
Deere
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We Mae
First Ave
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Bank St
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Athens Lumber Co
4Th Ave
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Hartselle Motor Co
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Albert
Bud) Davis
Foundry and Machine Works
Ferry St
Decatur, Ala
Cedar Mill
Market Street
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Rainey
Move’s Beauty Parlor
Smith Equipment Co
6Th St. So
Sollier
Ave
Leeds
Studebaker
Hudson-Essex Service
North Ala. Auto Co
Bird Brown's
Decatur Storage Garage
W. Church St
Decatur,Ala
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Firat
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