Irregular Tone in Stock Prices
Market shows varied swings as speculative forces clash. Utilities chemicals and tobaccos reach year highs while steel motor and railroad shares slump. Lamont predicts business rebound in two months and banks note below last year’s levels. Warner Quinlan halves dividend. AT&T tops 1929 earnings list with broad gains across several stocks.
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Stanley W. Prenosil
Associated Press
New York
Mar
Lamont
Warner- Quinlan Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Warner Bros
Brooklyn Union Gas
New York Cotton Opens Steady as Wheat Nervousness Hangs Over Market
The New York cotton market opened steady with a 1 point gain to an 8 point loss. May contracts fell to 15 417 and old October to 15 52 as active positions posted 8 to 14 point declines in the first half hour. Liverpool cables noted selling in continental and Bombay markets absorbed by covering and buying for a reaction, while order lists and cotton cloths demand lagged.
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New York
Liverpool
Continental
Bombay
Legion Members To Meet Tuesday Night
Members of the Andrew Jackson Post of the American Legion will meet tomorrow night at 8 o clock in the hall at 110 West Washington street. Officials say the gathering is one of the most important in some time and urge all members to attend.
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Andrew Jackson Post
The
American Legion
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Washington Street
Negro candidate named for Naval Academy in Congress list
In New York on March 3, Congressman Joseph A. Gavagan lists William Chisholm a Black man among four candidates for admission to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. A Black man also appears among the four alternates.
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New York
William Chisholm
Joseph A. Gavagan
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
New York Stocks Mixed Across Major Firms And Commodities
A noisy list of stock quotes shows diverse changes across industries with readings from Am Can to Western Union. Notable movements include Am Sugar rising about 61 percent, significant gains for Canadian Pacific and Texaco style listings, and declines for several others amid a broad trading day.
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Cannon Mille W
Cscee
Canadian Pac
Ches
Ohio
Ccesserses
Coca Cola
elGl
Consol Cigar Ss
Consol
Liggett and Myers B
Wtecke
PIBOM
Studebaker
Eoecsss
Cop & Chem
Texas
Tim Roll Bear
Union Pacific
Seti
Atlantic
Ea Eesee
Beth Steel
Scweve Coves
Davidson Chem
Sesees
Drige Inc
Cs Vetsrese
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Ssrec
Eric KH
Hipsaw
Evevtve
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Hudson Mtrs
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Abu Ne
Baynee
Gehics
Esa
Liggett and Myers
Norfolk and West
Moete
Reynolds
Schulte
Leenee
Ease BR Simmons Co
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Raowey
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Stan Oil Califoes
Egreeee
United Cigar Stars
Bisa
OHOM
Ccostocensi
Ward Peeing
Westinghouse Elec
Western Union
Willys Overland
Seccsree
Wreolsworth
Fe Aes
Meloy
PVE Og Fae Saeco Bom
Stock Quotations Sparse and Fragmented
Contoil and Vick Finance listings appear with scattered figures. The fragmentary data include percentages and odd abbreviations, offering little coherent market context or complete quotations.
New Orleans Cotton Opens Largely Steady After Early Decline
The New Orleans cotton market opened unchanged to 2 points down as wheat fell, with May at 14.99, July 15.24, and October 15.40 amid liquidation by buyers. Prices drifted lower to midmorning before a slight rally, then eased again on a bearish fertilizer report, closing mostly lower by 14 to 16 points with May to October finishing near 14 to 16 points off.
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New Orleans
Mar
Liverpool
Hester
Carolina News Briefs Car Crash Kills Child In Kings Mountain
AP terse notes report Harvey Jackson 10 of Kings Mountain killed instantly when attempting to seize the steering wheel in a wreck. Other brief items cite two street car collisions injuring four women in Asheville and a Raleigh woman injured in a bridge abutment crash.
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Sheville, N
Bessie Sams
Raleigh
Catawba River Bridge
Here
Stise
Cess N. CC
Riots kill six in Argentina elections unrest
Six people were killed and twenty injured in riots tied to national congressional elections. Disturbances hit Entre Rios, Cordoba, Buenos Aires and Santa Fe provinces amid the protests.
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Ulnos Aires
Mar
Entre Rioy
Cordoba
Buenos Aires
Santa Fe
Sleighing Wedding Party Drowned in Polish Lake
A wedding party of 80 people including the bride and groom was drowned in Lake Narogzna near Wilmo district after ice gave way during a sleighing excursion. The party had celebrated at Schencany village church and attempted a shortcut across the frozen lake. Rescue efforts failed as the ice cracked and sank beneath them.
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Warsaw
Poland
Narogzna
Wilmo
Schencany
Interstate Commerce Commission curbs North Carolina freight rates
Raleigh reports the Interstate Commerce Commission orders revised interstate rates on classified shipments. Tar Heel shippers face potential annual losses in the hundreds of thousands, with possible costs reaching up to a million dollars if the order broadens. The case originated in 1925 from a Virginia complaint and was revisited in 1929.
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F. J. Sizemore
Virginia State Corporation Commission
Raleigh
Mar
North Carolina
Estate Corporation Commission
J. M. Bailey
Virginia
Virginia Commission
State Corporation Commission
Bailey
Ends Tomorrow in Prohibition Trial Hearings
Washington reports Chairman Graham of the house judiciary committee says a verdict to end the wet side case presentation is definite for tomorrow. Prohibition opponents had their testimony extended as more witnesses wished to speak. A Methodist Episcopal Church board urged anti prohibitionists to use the time granted to supporters of the law.
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Washington
Mar
Graham
House Judiciary Committee
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Methodist Episcopal Church
Davis declines to discuss Pennsylvania candidacy
Secretary of labor James J. Davis, returning to Florida, refused to comment on reports he might run for governor or senator in the Pennsylvania Republican primaries. Observers noted his Hoover cabinet appointment was for a year, though some expect him to remain in his post.
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Washington
Mar
James J. Davis
Labor
Florida
Pennsylvania
Davis
Hoover
California Town Back To Normal After Six Day Quake Siege
Brawley California and Imperial Valley residents began returning to normal after a six day earthquake siege. Major shocks on Saturday caused $100000 in damage including a wrecked two story building. One woman injured when brick fell on her leg. Several towns reported tremors and aftershocks with debris cleanup under way.
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Salton Sea
Calexico
el Centro
Holtville
Imperial
Westmoreland
Brawley
J.C. Park
FE. C. Durham
Trustees to Meet on UNC Presidency Selection
The University of North Carolina will meet in Raleigh tomorrow at Gov. Gardner's office to decide on a successor to President Harry W. Chase who resigned after ten years. Possible nominees include R. D. W. Connor Herman Bally B R Lacy William E Dodd W P Stacy Willis J Brogden and others.
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University of North Carolina
O. Max Gardner
Harry W. Chase
R. D. W. Connor
Herman Glenn Bally
B. R. Lacy
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
William E. Dodd
University of Chicago
W. P. Stacy
Willis J. Brogden
Chase
University of Illinois
D. H. Lawrence Claimed By Death In France
D. H. Lawrence, noted British novelist, died in Nice on March 3 after a lengthy illness. David Herbert Lawrence was regarded as a leading novelist of the prewar era, whose career included works like The Rainbow and later novels, poems, plays, and essays on sex.
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Nice
France
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence
Road transport firms tied to English railways
Many road transport companies in England are controlled or partly owned by railway companies, reflecting deep cross holdings in the transport sector and shared infrastructure strategies.
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England
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