Market decline widens losses across U S Steel and peers
New York trading sees renewed selling pressure amid rising member loans, pushing U S Steel and many industrial, utility, and railroad stocks to new lows. Falls run 2 to 10 points with some names down sharply. loans surge sparks unease over security borrowings.
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New York
Stock Exchange
U. S. Steel
American Bankers Association
Sears Roebuck
Baldwin Locomotive
U. S. Steel Common
General Motors
General Electric
A. M. Byers
Burroughs
American and Foreign Power
American Water Works
Johns Manville
Montgomery Ward
New York Central
Allied Chemical and
Air Reduction
Atchison
Canadian Pacific
American Telephone
Westinghouse Electric
DuPont
American Can
Columbian Carbon
Texas & Pacific
Warren Bros
Augusta Holds Flood At Bay As River Rises
Augusta flood fight subsides as Savannah river nears 44.8 feet. State and federal crews reinforced the levee with sandbags, 500 civil workers aiding 1,500, while three city crevasses remained. A railroad bridge span and freight cars were washed away and power dams in Horse Valley were destroyed or dynamited to protect Graniteville South Carolina.
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Augusta
Savannah
Weather Bureau
Horse Valley
Savannah River
Graniteville
S. C
Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago livestock receipts reach 19 000 with 4 000 direct. Cattle and calves slow with varied prices across categories. Sheep and lamb markets remain active. natives steady with top feeding lambs near 12.85. Top cattle prices include 16.40 for good and choice steers. hogs show gains of around 25 cents.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
USDA
Raw sugar market steady as prices hold at 4.08 duty paid
New York reports the raw sugar market unchanged with nearby sugars at 4.08 and shipment grades at 4.11. Yesterday's Porto Rican and Cubas contracts, 20,000 bags each for November, were included in today’s figures but not newly reported. Refined sugar remains at 5.50 for fine granulated while activity centers on withdrawals against old contracts.
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New York
Potatoes Market Tells Mixed Shipping Bloc in Chicago
Chicago Oct 3. Potatoes receipts 135 cars on track 346 and total shipments 1,160. Trading slow and market weak. Wisconsin sacked round whites Hollandale 2.25 to 2.53, others 2.00 to 2.20. Minnesota North Dakota Red River Ohio Idaho russets mostly 2.50 to 2.75.
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Chicago
U. S
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Red River
Ohio
Idaho
New Orleans Cotton Futures Open Steady
New Orleans Oct 3. Cotton futures opened steady with January at 18.78, March 19.038, May 19.18 ask, July 19.12 ask, October 18.55, December 18.71.
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New Orleans
New York Butter Prices Hold Firm on steady receipts
New York reports butter prices steadier as receipts total 10 556 in creamery with shipments 88 to 91 score 421 2 and 45 1 2. Cheese remains steady with receipts at 134 220 while dressed poultry holds firm.
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At&t
Armour
Omee
Seth Steel
Cannon Mills
Paca
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Davison Che
Drugs Inc
Dupont
Erie
Elec
Tiet Gen Motors
Som
Advene
Gillette
Gt West Lug
Houston Oil
Hudson Motors
Hary
IT &T
Liggett and
Liggett
Rillard
MK & T
Monty Ward
Mo Pac
Omy
Nash
Owe
Nynh&h Ee
N& W
Nor Pac
Pan Am
Lasky Penn
Phillip Morris
Phillips
Pullman New Adio
Sears Roebuck
Simmons Co
Sinclair Con Oil
Dairies
St Oil Calea
Texas Corp
Timken
U S Ind al
U S Rubber
U S Steel
U S Tobae
Vvick
Va Car Chem
Ward Baking Beee
West Elec
Eau Willys
West UN
Woolworth
Yellow Truck
New York
Wheat falls after firm start at Chicago market
Chicago traders priced wheat lower after opening firm as frost reports from Argentina seemed minor. Argentine November wheat reportedly sold at 8 cents a bushel under December in Liverpool. Corn and provisions showed early firmness but moved higher then retraced.
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Chicago
Argentina
Liverpool
New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady After Early Gains
The New Orleans cotton market opened steady as Liver pool cables rose but New York strength failed to follow. First trades gained 5 to 6 points before prices eased with the northern center, December slipping to 1863 and January to 1873. By mid hour, a steadier tone returned with prices just above the lows. Private estimates put yields at 14,692,000 to 14,833,000 bales and condition at 62.8 to 64.8 percent of normal.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
New York
Man Seeks Divorce After Matrimonial Agency Match
Indiana man Straud D. Abrogast, 45, laments an ill fated marriage found through a matrimonial service. He requested a divorce but was refused and faced losses from gambling as the consequence of his expectations.
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Indianapolis
Straud D. Abrogast
Lucy
Southern Will Run Special Train To Durham for Game
The Southern Railway will operate a special Charlotte to Durham train Saturday to view the Duke Pitt football game. It includes day coaches and Pullman cars, passes High Point at 9 40 a m, reaches Durham at noon, departs 5 30 p m, returns to High Point about 8 p m. Fare is 2 80 round trip.
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The
Southern Railway Company
Charlotte
Durham
High Point
Southern
Cotton Market Opens Up Steady
New York October 3 cotton opened steady with a small gain then slipped, trading on steady cables and private crop prospects. December eased to 18.82 and March to 19.14, later steadying with covering and trade buying after early gains. Two private crop reports showed yields near 14.7 to 14.8 million bales. Liverpool noted hedging absorption. By midday December was around 18.90 with active months up 3 to 5 points.
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New York
Liverpool
Friends Endeavorers To Elect Officers
The Senior Christian Endeavor society of Central Friends church will meet at the church annex tomorrow night at 7 30 for the nominating committee report and election of new officers. Full attendance is urged.
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Christian Endeavor Society of Central Friends Church
Young trio to greet British statesman at White House visit
Three officials under 36 will accompany the visiting British statesman. Captain Eugene A. Regnier serves as military attache to Stimson when he led the Philippines. James Clement Dunn heads the division of international conferences in the State Department. Michael Wright is a third secretary at the British embassy. Dunn will act in official capacity while Regnier and Wright form the informal welcome group.
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Eugene A. Regnier
Stimson
Philippines
James Clement Dunn
State Department
Michael Wright
Dunn
White House
Muscles Record Sounds in Cambridge Sleep Study
In Cambridge England Prof E D Adrian recorded muscle movement using a needle attached to a loud speaker. The sounds resembled a machine gun and were measured to study the effects of sleeping sickness.
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Cambridge
England
E. D. Adrian
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