Motors Weak As Stock List Issues Climb
General Motors remained the sole weak issue among active stocks as trading opened irregularly but soon advanced. Postum rose to 70, Sears Roebuck hit 137, Union Carbide reached 170, and St Louis Southwestern climbed to 101. Canadian Pacific advanced to 211/4 while banks lent heavily and call money rose to 7 percent.
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United Press
New York
General Motors
Postum
National Power and Light
Sears- Roebuck
Union Carbide
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
St. Louis Southwestern
Canadian Pacific
North American
Public Service of New Jersey
Standard Gas
United States Steel
Central Alley
Chrysler
Wall Street Journal
Financial Review Today
Sears Roebuck
Carbide
Schulte Retail
Arthur Cutten
Steel
Montgomery, Ward
American Can
Bank Clearings and Exchange Rates Report Across Cities
Indianapolis and New York bank clearings shown for Aug 21 with totals and balances. Chicago also reports clearings and clearing house balance. Treasury net balance and customs receipts for Aug 18 to Aug 18 summarized. Foreign exchange rates in New York list demand sterling and other currencies with quotes.
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New York
New
Clearing House
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
United Press
Treasury
Washington
Weak market tone amid money stringency mid month
The stock market shows unexpected strength despite tight money conditions. Traders expect continued liquidity strain toward month end, with a cautious, middle of the road policy advised as the best stance for now.
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Thomson & McKinnon
New York
German Girls Caddy at Wannsee Golf Club
German golf clubs report girls make better caddies than boys at Wannsee near Berlin. They are well dressed, polite, attentive, and grateful for tips, and they do not mock golfers’ bad shots.
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United Press
Berlin
Wannsee
New York Stocks Railroads Report August 21
The New York stock market shows railroad shares active on August 21 as investors monitor freight volumes and service updates. Major rail lines move with mixed results amid shifting demand and seasonal traffic patterns.
Porkers Jump 10 to 25 Cents at Local Yard Sale
Hogs rose 10 to 25 cents at the Union Stock yards with about 4,000 hogs received and 274 holdovers. Cattle and sheep markets showed mixed moves while Chicago bids mirrored a slow, mostly steady start. receipts totaled around 17,000 hogs and 8,000 cattle across several yards and regions.
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Union
Chicago
United Press
Wayne
Ind
Evangelist Named Leader of Theft Gang in Confession
Rush Moore evangelist was identified as the gang leader in a confession by five youths. Prosecutor Lyle Miller said forty robberies are solved. The youths admitted stealing chickens corn and young pigs from local farms to sell to Moore, who is the father of seven and recently held a revival in Terre Haute. Moore was arrested and lived on a farm near Oaktown.
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United Press
Vincennes
Ind
Rush Moore
Moore
Lyle Miller
Terre Haute
Oaktown
Cotton Market By Thomson and McKinnon Aug 21
Easy cables this morning show a mixed market after Monday's gains. Weevils are widespread but damage is spotty, mainly near woods, with advice to stay open minded for the week. Futures open lower with October 18.52 down .10 and other contracts down varying amounts.
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Thomson & McKinnon
New York
Market Retail Prices for Fruits and Vegetables
The list shows wholesale and crate prices for a wide range of produce including apples from Duchess Wealthy and Cal Malaga, lemons from California, oranges Valencias, melons Honey Dew from California, strawberries Virginia, and peaches etc. Also includes vegetables such as corn home grown, beets cabbage carrots cauliflower celery and other items with unit prices per dozen bushel crate or per pound. Also notes miscellaneous items like cider garlic and mangoes with respective prices.
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Duchess
California
Virginia
Jamaica
Elbertas
Californie
Florida
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Indiana
Nancy
Tennessee
Zere
Inca
Crate
York
Mrs Robinson Faces National Spotlight on Vice Presidential Nomination
Mrs Joseph T Robinson wife of Al Smiths running mate travels to Albany for notification ceremonies. She downplays politics saying she is not a society woman or a politician while highlighting her role in managing Senator Robinsons home and comfort. She says she expected the nomination with candor.
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United Press
New York
Joseph T. Robinson
al Smith
Albany
Robinson
Senator Robinson
Produce prices across markets feature varied dairy and poultry quotes
United Press reports August 21 price lists from Cleveland Chicago and New York show butter at 28% to 46% per pound depending on grade, cheese at 23 to 49 cents, poultry fowls 26 to 31 cents, ducks 16 to 19 cents, geese 10 to 17 cents, and potatoes varying by region including Virginia cloth top stave barrels and Irish cobblers priced per ton or bag.
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Wisconsin
New York
Indianapolis
Bu United Press
Cleveland
Virginia
United Areas
Chicago
Kansas
Missouri
Wiconsin
U. S
United Press
Midwest
Rio
Santos
Young Americas
Long Island
Jersey
Southern
Sweet Southern
Sinclair Oil Six Months Earnings Drop from 1927
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation and subsidiaries report six months ending June 30 earning a net income for surplus and reserves before taxes of 9,452,955, down from 13,539,049 a year earlier. Gross earnings were 81,698,961 versus 82,188,444 in the first half of 1927.
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United Press New York
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation
French Writer Henri Barbusse Hospitalized in Novgorod
In Novgorod Russia on August 21 Henri Barbusse the noted French communist writer was admitted to a hospital. The report notes local conditions for wagon wheat and grain elevators and mentions other grain grades on their merits.
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Nizhnie ‘Novgorod
Russia
Henri Barbusse
Christ Temple Convention Opens August Twenty Fourth
Large crowds are expected for the nineteenth annual Christ Temple convention and Bible conference at Christ Temple from August 24 to September 2. The Rev. G. T. Haywood leads the church with daily Bible sessions at 1 30 p m and night evangelistic services. Delegates are anticipated from across the United States and Canada with meals provided at the church.
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Christ Temple
G. T. Haywood
America
Canada
Ministers’ Convention of Pentecost of the World
Ministers’ Convention
City in Brief highlights diverse fall season events
The Indianapolis area reports a winter meeting for the American Society for Steel Treating at 6:30 p.m. Sept 10 in the Chamber of Commerce with monthly second-Monday sessions. Elsewhere Dr Henry L Stubblefield discusses bacteria in cheese at the Columbia Club. Also noted are political ballot plans, car theft arrests, a Daughters of Union Veterans luncheon, a coroner’s attribution of a death to heart disease, a bicycle-mugging incident, a Y M C A history talk, a grocery burglary with loot valued at 43.45, and Republican rally plans after the state fair.
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Indianapolis
American Society For Steel Treating
Chamber of Commerce
Burglars Steal Poultry and Odd Items From Homes
Police list thefts from the last 24 hours include chickens from a coop at Ed Hudson's home and a piano bench scarf along with a Navajo rug and silk underwear from Herbert W. Taylor's residence at 4025 Washington Blvd. A 250 pounds of bacon was taken from Bell Packing Company. Scott Frazier saw a man in the Taylor home and an employee hinted a drunk thief. Total loot valued around $65.
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Herbert W. Taylor
Washington Blvd
Wisconsin
Taylor
Scott Frazier
W. G. Wheelock
N. Delaware Sr
Bell Packing Company
W. Ray St
Ed Hudson
Lawton St
Forest Fire Rush Reserves to Cajon Pass Area
Additional forest fire fighters were rushed to the Cajon Pass district to combat a blaze burning for four days. The fire has burned over 7,000 acres and threatened Cable Canyon and Devil Canyon where a Government experiment station and water system nurseries are located in San Bernardino.
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Bay United Press
San Bernardino
Cal
Cajon Pass
Cable Canyon
Devil Canyon
Fire Threatens Cascade Locks After Major Blaze
A Monday night fire in Cascade Locks Oregon destroyed about a score of homes and Wind River Lumber mill property. Firefighters from Portland and Hood River saved the town, but losses top $79 000 and a wind shift could endanger hundreds more buildings.
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United Press
Cascade Locks
Ore
Portland
Hood River
Wind River
Jewett In Crash Near Washington Street
Charles W. Jewett former mayor escaped injury when his car hit a concrete safety zone marker and crashed into a westbound street car at 2 20 a m on Washington Street He blamed steering gear trouble Two others were injured in a separate crash at New York and Noble streets when George Payne Jones Saunder and Edith Payne Evelyn Schill were involved Miss Payne taken home and Sellman to city hospital
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Charles W. Jewett
Washington St
Senate Ave
Jewett
George Payne
Layman Ave
James Saunders
S. Noble St
New York
Noble St
Edith Payne
Charles Sellman
Hendricks Pl
Evelyn Schill
N. Gray St
Payne
Sellman
City Hospital
Lashes Planned for Husband in Ontario Court
Al phonse Mattins of Chatham Ont will be flogged next week by court order for beating his wife during a money argument. He was sentenced to ten lashes and sixty days in jail after pleading guilty. Mattins will receive five lashes next week and five more during his last week in jail. A Scottish Dictionary Projected in Glasgow aims to include every known Scottish word and may take ten years to complete.
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United Press Chatham
Ont
Alphonse Mattins
Mattins
United Press
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Walker convention delegates to dine at YWCA tea room
House staff on vacation Marcus Stewart of the Indianapolis Recorder returned from a trip to New York City Mrs Della McCann secretary of the Flame House Settlement is on vacation Open house will be observed all week in the YWCA parlor and tea room in honor of attending delegates Delegates are invited to dine in the tea room each day officials announced
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U. S
C. J. Walker
United States
Walker Building
Jesse Binga
Chicago
J. Finley Wilson
Negro Elks
R. R. Moton
Booker T. Washington
Knights Templar
State
Royal Arch Masons
Jones Tabernacle
Trinity Hall
John W. Burden
Marion
The
Masons
Fred D
Bethesda Baptist Church
George L. Lillard
J. T. Martin
Charles W. Lewis
William Patterson
J. D. Johnson
S. B. Butler
Lula Hall Alexander
Columbus
Ohio
Mme. Walker Company
Bethel A. M. E
Alexander
S. A. Auter
Boulevard Pl
Bailey
James H. Kennedy
Preston H. Roney
Tuskegee
Col. J
Corinthian Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
North Indianapolis
Jones
Mme. C. J. Walker
Fred Roper
Flanner
Marcus Stewart
Indianapolis Recorder
New York City
Della McCann
Flame House Settlement
Mrs Wheatcraft to Speak in Four States
Vivian Tracy Wheatcraft former Indiana GOP woman chairman and attorney in the alien property custody office will campaign in four states Maine North Carolina New Mexico and Utah starting next week in a national sweep excluding Indiana. She gained fame in 1926 for organizing whispering women squads in each county.
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Vivian Tracy Wheatcraft
Indiana
Washington
Times
Wheatcraft
National Capital
State House
Maine
North Carolina
New Mexico
Utah
GOP Opens Marion County Headquarters in Key Building
Marion County Republican group opened headquarters Monday in the K of P Building on Massachusetts Ave and Pennsylvania St with Wayne Emmelman in charge. The drive targets 10 000 Republicans to aid the November campaign, with advisory committees to be named by Omer Hawkins. Mrs Arthur R Robinson wife of the junior senator leading the women’s headquarters at the same site.
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Marion County
K. of P. Bldg
Massachusetts Ave
Pennsylvania St
Wayne Emmelman
Emmelman
Omer Hawkins
Arthur R. Robinson
Business Veteran J. D. Trietsch Dies at 64
Funeral services were held today for J. D. Trietsch a longtime business man in Argadea Indiana who died Sunday at age 64.
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Argadea. Ind
J. D. Trietsch
Good Harvest Reports Send Wheat Down
Bearish statistics and strong harvest updates from Canada pushed wheat lower on the Board of Trade. Commercial wheat stocks rose 10 million bushels last week as export carryover rises to about 270 million. Oats and corn showed small declines or little change while September corn trading remained stubbornly firm in the deferreds.
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United Press
Chicago
Canada
Board of Trade
Births Reported From Local Homes and Hospitals
A long, partial list notes numerous births with parent names and addresses across local homes and institutions including Coleman Hospital and Methodist facilities. Entries mention families such as Mercer, White, McLean, Liddle, Smith, Holmes, DeWitte, Drake, Hines, Goldswiz, Bunting, Owen, Cusseu, Froderman, Parker, Boyd, and Bell among others.
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Roy
Stella Mercer
N. Traub
Walter
Golda White
Cottageen
Madalene McLean
Ber' Freeman
Laeilla Liddle
Richard
Homer
Marie Lutz
N. Wallace
Harold
Pearl Smith
Brookside
Ernest
Esther Holmes
John
Minnie DeWitte
Coleman Hospital
Jegoert
Ruth Drake
Coleman Hosal
P' Bernard
Helen Hines
Enne
Bessie Lawson
Coleman Jervin
Dorothy Montgomery
Wet
Elizabeth Teeter
Methodist
Osal
John and
Sarah Goldswiz
Harle
Alta Bunting
Methodist Hospital
Clement
Mary Owen
Ie Wilcox
Luther
Audrey Bolin
Benny
Irene Cusseu
Coleman
Jee
Minnie Froderman
Coleman Jann
Helen Goldthwaite
Sait
Beatrice Parker
Colemannoi
Esther Boyd
Mary O'Banion
Obituary notices of multiple individuals with medical causes
A list of death notices including Frances S Garrison 81 at Methodist Hospital due to unspecified cause, Danors ne C Malaney 807, Sarah F Willans 78 arteriosclerosis at 520 E Vermont, Margaret Clark 90 chronic ischemic heart disease, Agnes Shepherd 22 peritonitis at Methodist Hospital, Edward Baynes 62 antinoma at Long Hospital, May Trobaneh 58 Tacoma death, Hat Beles 57 myopathy at 2433 Kenwood, and Myames Jarvey Bee 1 accidental at Methodist Hospital.
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Frances S Garrison
Methodist Hospital
Cere
C. Malaney
Iuth Bennett Bartley
Sarah F. Willans
Margaret Clark
Vermont
Agnes Shepherd
Jeormyn Moews
N. Arsenal
Edward Baynes
Long Hospital
N. Tacoma
Raemo Age Poeta of Trade
Bulidwlan
Girl Hikers End Trip Across the Continent
Two Indiana secretary of State office employees Miss Georgia Poe and Miss Leora Harrod left Indianapolis Saturday and arrived in Washington arriving today little the worse for their hitch-hike across half the continent.
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Washington, D. C
Indiana
McKinney Becomes Marion County Finance Director
E Kirk McKinney, manager of real estate at State Savings and Trust, has been named director of finance in Marion County. The move, aimed at backing Governor Alfred E. Smith’s presidential bid, comes from William J. Mooney with county Democratic leaders approving Keach and Rinehart’s recommendations.
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E. Kirk McKinney
State Savings and Trust Company
Marion County
William J. Mooney
Alfred E. Smith
Mooney
Leroy J. Keach
Mark V. Rinehart
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Ed Berity
Pletcher Ave
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Wilkins St
Berdie Duty
S. Senate Ave
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Daughters of Union Veterans
Frances Dilyeu
New Jersey St
C. H. Keever
John C. Anderson
Brookside Pkwy
Harry Waters
Avondale Pl
E. Tenth St
Waters
Lloyd D. Claycombe
Bible Investigation Club
a_ Standard grocery
E. Twenty- Fifth St
Irvinton
Republican Club
James L. Kingsbury
Firman C. Sims
Harry Jones
Charles H. Anderson
Joseph A. Risbon
N. Denny St
Pendleton Pike
Government Station
Mrs. Wheatcraft
G. O. P. Woman's Leader
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Chicago Grain Table
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New York Stock Exchange
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Fletcher American Bank
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