Stock Market Reels With Apathy As Bulls Falter
New York stock trading showed a wan, listless session with the bull run fading. U S Steel rose to新 highs as a few favorites rose, while broad activity stayed weak and brokers remained largely idle amid drought fears and uncertain crop prospects.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Central West
Wall Street
France
Macy
Woolworth
Kresge
Sears Roebuck
Simmons
Advance
New Jersey
California
American Tobacco
Eastman Kodak
Johns Manville
Electric Power and Light Mack Truck
Hudson
Loews
Vanadium
Warner Bros
General Motors
American Can
American Telephone
Chicago Live Stock Market Averages Shown For Aug
Chicago markets show hogs at 15 000 with direct 4 500 active lightweights up 5 to 10 cents and top signals around 10.00. Cattle 6 500 with steers 9.25 to 11.00 for 600 to 1500 pounds and vealers 10.00 to 12.50. Sheep 10 000 with lambs strong and native ewes 9.25 to 9.50. best westerns unsold. feeding lambs 6.25 to 6.75.
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Chicago
Swimming Popular Among Girls At Y M C A
Girls at the Y M C A enjoy swimming as a regular Tuesday activity. Over a hundred participated last Tuesday to exercise and cool off. The facility operates 10 to 12, 3 to 5, and 7 to 10 with health certificates, teachers, and lifeguards on duty.
Scout leaders tour camps of Spartanburg and Piedmont councils
B. W. Hackney Jr. and J. H. Christopher left yesterday to visit and inspect the Spartanburg council camp in Spartanburg and the Piedmont council camp in Gastonia. Hackney is to return Wednesday afternoon.
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B. W. Hackney, Jr
Spartanburg
J. H. Christopher
Uwharrie Council
Piedmont Council
Gastonia
Hackney
Brigham Young Publishes Celestial Marriage Doctrine
Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon Church, publishes the doctrine of celestial marriage in 1858, outlining ideals for eternal unions and polygamous practice within the faith.
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Brigham Young
New York Cotton Opens Steady After Early Decline
New York cotton prices opened steady with a 4 to 10 point drop amid mixed signals from Liverpool and rainfall rumors. Early rallies faded as weather news and a Wichita Falls rain report weighed, with October and March futures sliding to 12.85 and 13.10 as midday prices drifted lower despite later covering.
New Orleans Cotton Opens Easy on Lower Liverpool Cables
New Orleans cotton opened easy as Liverpool cables fell. October rose to 12.94 and December 13.15 before rain and cloud burst reports in Nebraska and Texas cooled futures. Prices eased to 12.72 for October and 12.91 for December, ending the hour steady but 23 points below the opening.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Nebraska
Ft. Worth
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Corn soars on Hoover relief talk in Chicago market
Chicago grain prices surged as corn hit new highs amid President Hoover relief remarks for drought areas. Buying waves limited selling and sent corn to near the day’s top, with wheat up 2 to 3 cents and oats 4 to 14 cents higher. Provisions rose 7 cents to the upside.
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Chicago
Hoover
Duke Power Company Representative Heard By Assessment Board
The North Carolina state board of assessments met in Raleigh to hear Duke Power company representatives present figures on the proper value of the corporation excess assessment. The session adjourned without action and an executive session was planned to continue the matter. No corporation excess valuation has been made, as the board reviews the ongoing investigation into the appropriate valuation.
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Raleigh
State Board of Assessments
Duke Power Company
4-H Health Champ Saves Girl From Drowning
Wilma Brown of Beaufort county the northeastern district 4-H health champion saved Evelyn Cutler a non swimmer at Riverside during a 4-H outing. The rescue occurred as Miss Cutler went under while wading and was aided by Miss Brown whose fitness aided the lifesaving effort.
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Raleigh
Wilma Brown
Beaufort County
Evelyn Cutler
State College Club
Pauline Smith
Riverside
Charlotte Church Seeks Rain Through Mass Prayer
In Charlotte on August 5 a mass meeting of church members was called by Rev. W. L. Griggs to pray for rain. The gathering will run for three hours beginning Sunday as part of a community effort to bring precipitation.
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Charlotte
Mill Reopens in Charlotte After 14 Week Closure
Atherton mill resumes operations in Charlotte on a three day week schedule after a 14 week closing period.
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Charlotte
Atherton
German Pilots Begin Ocean Run From Iceland to Chicago
German aviators Oscar Weller and Wolfram Hirth travel stages from Germany toward North America. They land in Iceland after a V-hour flight for the Orkney Islands and plan to continue via Iceland Greenland and Labrador to Chicago.
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Atlantic
Germany
Oscar Weller
Wolfram Hirth
Chicago
Iceland
Orkney Islands
North America
Greenland
Labrador
Largest cucumber on display in High Point
A newly shown cucumber at the Happy Feed store on Wrenn street measures 1449 inches long and weighs 4% pounds with an 18% girth. Grown by Mrs. W. F. Woodall of High Point Route 38, it is described as the largest displayed to date.
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Wrenn .Street
W. F. Woodall
High Point
Route 38
Anti-Smith Leader Urges Arkansans to Skip Primary
Dr. A. C. Millar, chairman of the Arkansas anti-Smith executive committee, issues an open letter urging anti-Smith Democrats in the 1928 campaign to refrain from voting in the August 12 Democratic primary and to stay ready for independent action if unfit candidates are nominated.
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Little Rock
Ark
A. C. Millar
Arkansas
Train derailment injures several near Liberty Indiana
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No. 48 bound from Cincinnati to Indianapolis derailed two miles south of Liberty Indiana. Six cars toppled into a ditch. Authorities attribute the accident to a broken axle. Physicians provided first aid. none required hospitalization.
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Liberty
Ind
Baltimore & Ohio
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Here
Textile workers stone peers in Halluin Menin clash injuring twelve
In Halluin Menin, striking textile workers stoned others at work injuring twelve. Gendarmes restored order and escorted workers to their factories the next day. In Stockholm, the American freighter Chickasaw collided with the Swedish freighter Membern, cutting her in two with four men missing.
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Rubaix
France
Halluin- Menin
Stockholm
Moore McCormack Company
Firefighters Battle Forest Blazes in North Country
Fire crews, aided by rain, had already subdued one forest fire in Prince Albert area and were fighting two more sections of the north country on August 5.
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Prince Albert, Sask
Wagner Burial Planned Beside Liszt in Bayreuth
The body of Siegfried Wagner, son of composer Richard Wagner, will be buried in Bayreuth on Friday beside his grandfather Franz Liszt, the funeral announced from Wagner funeral services.
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Bayreuth
Germany
Seigfried Wagner
Richard Wagner
Franz Liszt
King George sails in first yacht race since illness
In Cove Isle of Wight on August o King George participated in his racing cutter Britannia in his first yacht race since illness with a calm sea backdrop.
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Isle OF Wight
Aug
King George
Kansas Governors Race Draws Spotlight in Primaries
In Topeka on August 5 the Kansas biennial primaries centered on the Republican government contest. Gov Clyde Reed sought a full term while opponents included Frank Haucke and Henry J Allen. Ralph Snyder and others contested farm relief and revenue plans. Senator Arthur Capper and Jonathan Davis faced no opposition. Officials predicted about 309 600 votes.
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Kas
Kansas
Clyde M. Reed
Interstate Commerce Commission
Frank
Haucke
The
American Legion
Cornell
Henry J. Allen
Reed
Summerall Praised at Gastonia Memorial Ceremony
General Summerall arrived to a 17 gun salute by the Gastonia Howitzer company as about two thousand citizens gathered for the memorial dedication. The speaker urged pride in American spirit and warned against neglecting national unity and security.
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America
Gastonia Howitzer Company
Summerall
Memorial
Gastonia American Legion
Fields Victory Tops Kentucky Primary Upset
Louisville Aug 5 A Kentucky primary produced one clear upset while ten of eleven current congressmen and several former rivals were headed for November races. The sole upset came in the ninth district where Fred M Vinson defeated former Governor William F Fields about three to one in the Democratic primary. Republican incumbent E R Kendall ran unopposed and most incumbents won or were unopposed for November nominations.
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Kentucky
House of Representatives
Wm. F. Fields
Fred M. Vinson
E. R
Jackson and O Brine Near Endurance Flight Record
Jackson and O Brine approach a new world refueling endurance record with under 200 hours remaining. They had logged 361 hours in the monoplane Greater St Louis and planned to stay aloft a month, with this to be O Brine’s final endurance flight.
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Dale Jackson
Forest O’brine
Chicago
Hunter Brothers
Jackson
O’brine
Greater St. Louis
O' Brine
Ben H Fuller Named To Succeed Neville
President Hoover appoints Brigadier General Ben H Fuller commandant of the Marine Corps to succeed the late General Wendell C Neville in Washington.
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Ben H. Fuller
Neville
Washington
Hoover
Marine Corps
Wendell C. Neville
Francis Scott Key Buried in Frederick Maryland
Francis Scott Key, author of The Star Spangled Banner, is buried in Frederick Maryland. The note records his grave site and confirms his final resting place in the city.
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Francis Scott Key
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