Industrials Strengthen as Week-End Trade News Lifts Market
Wall Street Journal reports stronger opening with steel stock buying from Pittsburgh operations at 40 million ton annual capacity. Motore leaders like Studebaker and American Locomotive gain fractionally while rails show irregular movement amid year end dividend expectations and January reinvestment vigor.
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United Financial New York
Wall Street Journal Today
Pittsburgh
Baldwin
American Locomotive
Studebaker
American Real Corn Products
Indus
Motors
Foreign exchange opens irregular in New York markets
Foreign exchange opened uneven with the pound at 34.62 for cash and 34.52 for cable, the franc around 6.9944 with cables at 7.00, and lire near 4.974 with cables at 4.08. Other currencies quoted include Belgian franc about .494 with cables at 6.5, marks around .014 with cables at .0396, and Greek drachma near 1.41 with cables at 1.43.
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United Financial New York
Gundere
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Grain Prices Fall on Chicago Market Open
Chicago grain prices opened sharply lower with wheat shipments down to 13,120,000 from 14,636,000 last week and 10,?9,000 last year. Large world shipments and ample supply afloat to Europe pressured prices while rains in Argentina provided some steadiness. Corn, oats, and other grains followed the trend amid big receipts and hog demand.
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United Financial Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Liverpool
Europe
Local hay market and wagon wheat price list
Loose hay priced at 17 to 18 dollars per bale with Timothy and mixed varieties offered. Timothy hay bales 5 and 18.59. Mixed hay 14 to 15.50. Cora l jew and oats priced per unit. No. 2 wagon wheat listed at 1.15.
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Timothy
Coral Jew
Bond Market Opens With Broad Gains Across Classes
New York December 4 The listed bond market started the week strong with gains across all classes and speculative issues rising. Atchison 4s advanced to 90 from lower levels, rail bonds like Katy 5s Seaboard 6s and St Paul funding 4s posted fractional increases, while Central Indiana Power Co sold 248 000 of first mortgage 6 per cent gold bonds due 1947 to a syndicate led by Halsey Stuart & Co with Paine Webber and others. Price bonds offered at 95 yielding about 6.40 per cent.
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United Financial New York
Itt
Atchison 4S
Katy
Seaboard
St. Paul
Central Indiana Power Company
Halsey, Stuart & Co
A.B. Leach, Paine, Webber & Co
Stone & Oster
Spencer, Trask & Co
Cleveland Market Prices Report December Produce Rates
Cleveland market update lists Butter Extra in tubs at 60 61 cents with prints 61 percent firsts BR 58c. Bees Fresh gathered northern extras 5c extra firsts Sic Ohios Western firsts new cases 49c refriger extras 30 32c refrigerator firsts 44 45e. Potatoes at $1.50 per 2 pounds.
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United Financial
Cleveland
Curb Market Opens Firm as Standard Oil Loses a Point
New York December 4 The curb market opened firm with fractional gains but leaders mostly steadied in early trading. Standard Oil of Indiana fell a full point from its opening, while other Standard Oil stocks held gains. Durant Motors entered at 63 1/2 and stayed around that level amid good trading volume.
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United Financial New York
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Standard Oil
Simms Petroleum
Mutual
Mercer Motors
Campbell Soup
American Telephone and Telegraph
New Jersey Zinc
Prairie Pipe
Durant Motors
Hogs Prices Dip Amid Mixed Livestock Market
Hogs fell off 10 1K at the local stockyards as Chicago reports weighed in. Heavy and medium hogs sold around 8.23 to 8.40 while lights reached 8.35 to 8.40, with a top load at 8.50. Cattle and sheep activity showed steadier to slight declines, receipts near 1,000 hogs and 550 cattle.
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Chicago
Live Stock Prices Mixed as Hogs and Sheep Slide
United Financial reports Chicago market activity on December 4 with hog receipts 64 000 and cattle 25 000. Hog top at 8.15, bulk 7.85 to 8.10. heavy packing sows 7.40 to 7.75. pigs 8.15. Cattle varied from 4.25 to 13.00, veal calves 9.75. stocker and feeder values listed. Sheep receipts 28 000 with lambs 13.25 to 15.35 and yearlings 9.75 to 13.50. ewes 4.79 to 7.75.
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United Financial
Chicago
Fresh eggs and poultry price listing
Fresh eggs candied. Poultry pricing includes leghorn fowl under 4% for baits and poultry weights. Mentioned items: young turkeys eight pounds and tom turkeys, ducks four pounds and up, geese ten pounds and up, squabs eleven pounds and total per dozen prices. Overall listing shows per dozen and per pound rates.
Dressed Beef Prices Decline in Wholesale Markets
Wholesale beef prices for swift No 2 and No 3 cuts show declines as markets adjust. Traders note price movements reflect shifts in demand and packing efficiency across major centers.
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Swift
Window Wedges Debut as Winter Gift Shop Trinkets
Indianapolis dealers price tur pentine at $169 per gallon in barrel lots. New window wedges feature decorative birds and butterflies as a seasonal gift shop novelty.
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Indianapolis
Names on Fifth Ave bus conductors badges surprise riders
New York dispatch notes green and gold name badges on Fifth Ave bus conductors. Conductors report passengers use names with Mr., aiding pleasant exchanges and grievances and encouraging recognition as familiarity grows.
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New York
Fifth Ave
Mr. Jones
Jones
Wife Half Negro He Says In Out
New York report says insurance broker John Stevall seeks to annul his marriage to Mrs. Stovall alleging she concealed her Negro blood. They wed last year at St Ann's Bronx and lived apart due to her secrecy about race. She claims no concealment and says they married without color concerns.
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New York
John Stevall
Stevalls
St. Ann's Church
Bronx
Stevall
Congressional Debates On Railroads And Rights
Excerpts from speeches in Congress criticizing railroad advances and discussing public land policy and woman suffrage. Remarks reference professors, governors, and senators from North Dakota South Dakota Utah Louisiana Georgia and Georgia senator elect.
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Treasury
Senator Ladd
Republican
North Dakota
Klondike Baby Foundling Comes to California Student
Twenty five years after a fur trapper found a newborn Klondike baby among four dead bodies near Chilkoot Pass, David Schmidt enters UC Berkeley um engineering student. The tale of sacrifice and survival follows his journey from the Alaskan wilderness to campus life while he works several jobs to support himself and draws attention for potential football inclusion.
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Chicago
Chilkoot Pass
Alaska
David Schmidt
Klondike
University of California At Berkeley
Dawson
Schmidt
Berkeley
Engineering Department
University of California
Dave
San Francisco
Perkeley
Egyptian inspired corsage fashion shocks long-waist bodices
The corsage worn at the back acts as a relief variation to the plain long-waisted bodice. The style is claimed to originate with Egyptian fashion.
Corns Cheaper Fuel Debate Sparks Farmer Comment
Senator elect Brookhart argued farmers may burn corn for fuel this winter rather than sell it. He cited corn as cheaper than coal, reflecting the push for grain use as an energy source.
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Washington
Brookhart
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