Market swings with mixed early action on Wall Street
Bears expected a correction but bulls regained the lead by afternoon. Volume ran about 1.7 million shares as Dow components like U S Steel American Telephone and General Electric softened while iron and steel reports hinted at optimistic demand. Call money rose to 2½ percent and freight and coal data suggested seasonal upturns despite dividend cuts from Kennecott and Nevada Consolidated.
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Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
New York
Bears
Iron Age
Bethlehem Steel
U. S. Steel
American Telephone
Radio
General Electric
American Can
Case
Standard Gas and Electric
Columbian
W. T. Grant
Butter and egg prices steady in Chicago market
Butter listed at 183 923 and steady. Eggs at 13 610 with firm quotes for extra firsts to firsts and current receipts, 25-26 and 16-22 for ordinary current receipts.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Potatoes Market Mixed as Shipments Move
Potatoes at Chicago on Sept 3 show 28 on track 242 and total U S shipments 562 with a weaker market on triumphs and steadier on other stock. Wisconsin Irish cobblers sell 2.00 to 2.10 a sack, Minnesota 1.70 to 1.85, Ohios 1.65 to 1.70, Colorado Triumphs around 2.00, Idaho Triumphs 1.50 to 1.80 in fair to ordinary quality.
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Chicago
Chicago Live Stock Prices Reported By Market Dealers
Chicago markets show hogs 180 to 210 pounds 10 to 25 cents lower on average. Pigs to 11.10 with good to choice 180 to 240 pound lots at 10.90 to 11.05. Cattle and calves active with light steer trade up, heavy numbers steady to lower. Slaughter lambs 90 pounds down to 8.00 to 9.10 with mediums 6.50 to 8.00.
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Chicago
Dept. of Agriculture
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Grades Report
Liverpool cotton market shows moderate activity with steady prices. American grade values listed include strict good middling 7.32 and middling 6.42, with low grades 5.57 and 4.87 for strict good ordinary.
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Liverpool
New Orleans Cotton Opener Shows Irregular Start
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened irregular with early losses and gains as traders weighed hurricane fears and a 12 932 000 bale crop estimate. The market rallied into the session on weather concerns and then eased, closing steady with notable gains for March and December contracts and 22 755 bales exported.
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New York
Liverpool
International Cotton Federation
New Orleans
West Indies
Foreign exchange rates in New York on Sept 3
The market shows easy conditions with Great Britain at 4.8678 on demand and 4.8658 on cables. France quotes 3.931-4 and 3.935-16 on cables, while Italy stands at 5.233-3 and 5.234-? for cables with 60 day bills 4.84 3-8.
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Foreign Exchange
New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Cotton seed futures steady as bids listed in Memphis report
Cotton seed futures closed steady with September at 31.00 and April at 33.00. Sales were nil for seed futures while cottonseed meal futures show bids from 31.50 to 32.50 and 4 400 tons sold.
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Memphis
Spot cotton closes steady with gains and steady receipts
Spot cotton finished 11 points higher with sales of 8 098 bales. Prices ranged from low middling 9.39 to good middling 11.39. Receipts totaled 4 630, stock at 311 590.
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N. O
New Orleans
W. C. T. U. President Dies in Birmingham
Mrs. W. H. Jeffries, head of the Women's Christian Temperance Union for 12 years, died at a Birmingham hospital after a weeks long relapse following an earlier operation in North Carolina. She had previously shown improvement before the setback.
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Birmingham
Ala
W. H. Jeffries
Presma Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Andree Expedition Body Finds Reveal Hidden Journals
Experts report the Andree and Strindberg remains are skeletons with clothing torn by animals. Two books found tucked inside Andree’s undershirt include a blank geograph notebook and a day book chronicling the ill fated over ice journey, key to the fate story.
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Andree
Hedren
Lithberg
Strindberg
Tromsoe
Bratvaag
White Island
Salomon August Andree
Nils Strindberg
Chemists Body Found in Barrel at Baltimore Shop
Baltimore police say H. G. Wetters was murdered with his throat cut and body stuffed in a barrel in his chemist shop. A former employee forged Wetters' name, leading to the discovery. Kennard Thompson, 16, admitted forging a $597 check to buy an auto and stealing from the safe, with four other youths arrested.
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Baltimore
H. G. Wetters
Wetters
Kennard Thompson
Wetter
Thompson
Escort Is Killed as Girl Tied at Summit Lake
Don Brock of Ode'l Ore was arrested for the slaying of Fred Dunbar a Klamath Falls insurer shot at Summit Lake while Miss Doris Bacon was with him. Brock confessed claiming he mistook Dunbar for a bear and then bound the girl, who walked nine miles to Crescent Lake to report the crime.
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Klamath Falls
Ore
Don Brock
Ode'l
Fred Dunbar
Doris Bacon
Summit Lake
Brock
Dunbar
Miss Bacon
Crescent Lake
Decatur Daily Receives Congratulatory Wire
Julian Blackwell of the Decatur Tron and Steel Company sends a dated September 1 1930 letter praising the Decatur Daily for obtaining a full leased AP wire stating the paper is a big town paper and wishes more power and success.
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Julian Blackwell
Decatur Tron and Steel Company
Decatur
Ala
Decatur Daily
A. P. Wire
Daily
Health Work Is Bringing Results
A State Board of Health pamphlet presents charts showing malaria deaths dropping from 25.5 to 8.2 per 100000 since 1917 and typhoid fever falling from 41.4 to 12.4 per 100000, reflecting sanitation and an educational campaign.
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State Board of Health
Duluth Airport Totals 1656 Landing Fields
Minnesota hospitals report about 1800 inmates in state mental facilities, up 256 in two years.
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Duluth
United States
Minnesota
Hospitals For the
Skippy the Whole Show rises with new act
An offbeat event titled Skippy the Whole Show features a performer named Adam We with a running total of 5.66, drawing local audience interest and casual press coverage.
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Spencer Kellogg
Federal Reserve
Chicago Livestock
Wepnann
Mibt Ocerare
Voyage
Morgan County Motor Co
Lee Street
South America
Connecticut
Hartford
Conn
Lookmont
Lookmont Tire Co
Decatur Storage Garage
W. Church
Carrell Furniture OO
Bank St
Mason & Hamlin
E. Pounds
Credit Department
3Rd Ave
Experi Auto
Sherman-Walker Bros
Materia
Athens Lumber Co
Auto Tops
R. Jacks
Oak St
Baker Auto Body Works
ALL Makes
Glass Bros
Hunter Furniture CO
Jersey
W. E. Steed & Son
Hill Bros. Garage
E. Moulton
J. Fowler
Southern Sheet Metal Works, Inc
Second Ave
Smith Equipment CO
Mullen
Whiteside
Decatur Mill & Cabinet Works
Bank
Business Guide
Z. H. Beadle
6Th St
Tennessee Valley Printing CO
H. & H. Machine Works
W. Moulton
Piper Goal
ABC
Coke Smith Goal Co, Inc
Phare
Brown’'S Variety Store
Blue Ribbon Shoe Shop
J. M. Clark & Sons
Chevrolet
Ford
Timberlake
Jes
6Th Ave
Pirtéand
Oak Street
Grant St
D. C
Memorial Drive
E. Church
Ballas
Hartselle
Decatur Highway
C. W. Orr
B. Gy
Bailey
A. Z. Bailey Grace. Co
Gold Lion Grill
Frank Gudenrait
Butteville
Morgan
Limestone
Thomas Realty & Ins. Co
State of
Alabama
D. W. Swafford
Elizabeth
Swafford
G. G
Morgan Alabama
From &. B. Polytinsky
Pat
New
Morgan County Building Association
Morgan County
Geo. C. Johnson
Mortgagee
Hill Chevrolet Coo
Lee & Line Sts
Decatur, Ala
OSO
Taker
Comez Collier's
Decatur Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
R. T. Liston
Sullivan
Marcelling
MOVE
Chrysler
Rogers Bros
Green Bank St
Suspect
Bear
Majestic
E. E. Forbes & Sons Piano Co, B. H. Britton, Mgr
Second
Skippy
Percy L. Crosby
O.S
Wiere
Adam We
Tae
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Rena
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