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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1973
Page
3
A dense OCR of a late New York Stock Exchange list shows numerous stock tickers, prices, and percentages across diverse issues from Allis Chalmers to Coca Cola and General Electric. The fragmentary data include figures like Alcoa at 1.94, Chrysler-related lines, and various brokered notes, but the page lacks coherent narrative or dates.
A reader credits psychiatric treatment with overcoming alcoholism mental illness obesity and loss of two children and rebuts critics of psychiatry. Ann Landers notes therapy has mixed success and emphasizes finding the right therapist. A third letter debunks an urban legend about funeral home body switching describing it as a ghoul yarn and confirming families may observe burials.
Decatur markets quote prices for cottonseed at 40 dollars per ton and milk products with Grade A at 6.55 dollars per hundred. Commodities include wood at varied prices, pulpwood, soybeans at 5.91 per bushel, white corn 3.15, oats undated, milling wheat 2.70, barley and shelled corn 2.20, and miscellaneous ratios noted for milk products.
Representative interdealer prices as of around 10 a.m. show market activity with various bids and asks. Prices exclude retail markup, markdown, or commissions. Listed securities include Alabama Bancorporation, Tenn. Natl Gas, Central Bank shares, Liberty, Protective Life, Southern Airways, and Vulcan Life insurers with small percentage spreads and par values where shown.
AP reports on New York and American Stock Exchange listings with top gainers and decliners by percent change. High winners include AmFinSy pf and Plan Reside with double digit increases while Maratha Mf and Am Exp ind MM show notable declines.
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