Sears Robuck Stocks Jump as Market Hits New Highs
New York December 18 The stock market opened strong with concurrent new highs in both the fall and industrial averages confirming a broad advance. Sears Robuck surged about five points to 150 while American Can reached 154. Profit-taking hit Woolworth but failed to curb overall vigor. Western Maryland rose as Chase banking buyers were reported. Cast Iron Pipe climbed to 163 up 3.5 points from its low.
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United Prose
New York
Sears
American
Woolworth
Chase Banking
Maryland
Belgium external loan 6 per cent bonds over subscribed
The 354 060 000 Belgium external loan 6 per cent bonds were oversubscribed and the subscription books closed shortly after 14 a.m., announced by J. P. Morgan Co. in New York.
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Belgium
United Press
NEW York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Retail Fish Prices From Local Market Listing
A garbled price list shows various seafood items with prices per pound or item. Entries include haddock, pompano, mackerel, frogs legs, live lobsters, shrimp, crab meat, and lake river varieties. Some entries mention cherrystone clams and black bass with unit prices.
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Haddock
Maine Finan Haddie
Fresh Market Prices Across Poultry and Produce
Market notes list for fresh or selected items with prices: turkeys 12 to 30 cents, ducks and geese by weight, rabbits 33 dozen, butter delivered in Indianapolis around 41 cents, creamery butter receipts and cheese markets in Chicago, potatoes and fish prices, and poultry receipts including fowls and springs.
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Tom Turk
Indianapolia
Indianapols
Chicago
Der
Minnesota
Wisconetu
Fruit and Produce Prices Listed for Commission Market
A detailed price list for fruit vegetables and staples shows assorted apples peaches grapes and melons with per bushel or crate costs. California and Atlantic region produce including cranberries grapes pears apples and potatoes are priced alongside onions lettuce celery and squash with varied grades and crate sizes.
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California
Florida
S. Y
Golden Heart
Ieberg
Rine Ray
Indiana
Rutabacas
Weather shift brings rain to snow and colder night
Shippers forecast rain turning to snow and much colder tonight. By Friday night, West North and Northwest expected zero to 10 above, while South and Southeast range 10 to 15 above.
Sluggish Hog and Cattle Prices Drag Through Markets
Hog prices rose briefly with day by day gains noted as buyers hesitated and packers held firm. Heavies 10.15 to 10.38, mediums 9.75 to 10.05, pigs 5.50 to 8.25, sows around 8.75 to 9.0. receipts 16,000. Cattle markets steady with limited good stock. light steer bids around 5.5 to 6.0, but few top-quality offerings. Veals down to 12.0s. sheep and lambs scarce with nominal quotes. Feed and hog herd activity mixed amid uneven demand.
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B.ag
Commons
Tho
Chicago Livestock Market Recounts Mixed Receipts
Cattle receipts 13 000 slow at Chicago with lower grades steady to weak and yearlings around 12.50 per 100 pounds. veal steady. hogs mixed with higher prices for heavy weights and pork cuts. Sheep and lambs receipts about 153 000 with fat lambs and natives steady to higher. various regional quotes shown for Buffalo Cincinnati Toledo Cleveland Pittsburgh markets.
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Chicago
Fed
Eteera
Lambe
Sisa
Mnechtligh Satair
East Buffalo
Cincinnati
Hisher
Toledo
Fer
Michel
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Wheat Advances With Liverpool On Strong Board Trade
Chicago December 18 Wheat and corn rose sharply on the Board of Trade as unfavorable weather and brisk buying pushed futures higher. Wheat led the advance on late strength from Liverpool, aided by snow in the Southwest. Corn followed wheat, while oats held steady and provisions were steady on steady cables.
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United Press
Chicago
Board of Trade
Board of Trade Today
Liverpool
Qate
Chicago Grain Table Mae 18 Wheat and Corn Prices
Chicago grain table shows open high low and daily changes for Wheat Corn Oats and Rye. July and May futures move with prices listed across futures columns as traders note rising and falling values in a volatile session.
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Chicago Grain Table Mae
Nsw
Atte
Chicago
Gasoline Prices and Tank Wagon Rates Amid Tax Confusion
The notice outlines tank wagon pricing for gasoline excluding state tax and lists several vendors and price points. Prices shown include 470 per gallon and 1 gallon standards, with references to Bright List Perfection and Enercon Cleanera among others and totals around 18.40.
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Avia
Coal Prices Listed by Type and State
Prices shown for coal types by state and origin with amounts per ton. West Virginia lump 897.25 dollars, Kentucky lump 8.75, Pocahontas lump 850.15, Indiana lump 427. ioateos eng 5.35, Indiana mine run 4.50, Wheeling price extra per ton.
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West Virginia
Kentucky
Pocahontas
Indiana
Ioateos
Indiana Mine Run
Wheeling
London Magistrate Hosts Thousand Year Old Man
A London police magistrate encountered a man claiming to be a thousand years old after arrest for intoxication. Several pleaded for mercy, citing extreme age and the man’s claim of inventing a life extending medicine.
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London
Tha Hiindu
Berlin Enacts Monthly Building Scrubbing Ordinance
Berlin voters adopt a city law requiring monthly scrubbing of buildings to keep walls clean. Proponents say it beautifies the city and improves public health while reducing smoke-stained facades.
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Berlin
Wheat Control Myth Discredited by British Expert
Sir Herbert T. Robinson testified before Sir Auckland Geddes' royal commission that a six-man conspiracy to control world wheat supply is impossible. He warned against government moves to restrict England's meat or raise prices, noting past U S and Canadian actions aimed at higher wheat prices and heavy losses for North American growers in 1923.
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Lieved
Herbert T. Robinson
Auckland Geddes
Royal Commission
Philip Snowden
Herbert
England
America
Leiter
Sir Herbert
United States
Canada
Lexington maid returns home with London servant stories
Rich Servant Martha Prewitt, daughter of a Kentucky family, worked as a maid in a London house to study the servant problem. Now she is back in Lexington regaling friends with tales of Jones the odd man and Wisabelle the head housemaid.
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London
England
Niwe
Lexington
Jones
H’oddoman
Wisabelle
Ead
Ousemald
Silk and Lady Delightful Weeping Chorus
London reviewers hail the new show The Silk en Lady with a signature piece called the weeping chorus where east stage girls sing and cry as painted animals shed tears on the backdrop creating a striking climax.
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London
Dev
Anil
Miniature Town Burned to Demonstrate Fire Spread
A London theater staged a model town of 150 buildings arranged by a fire insurance company to illustrate how flames can engulf an entire community. The display ended with the town being burned to show the scale of destruction possible.
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London
HITS ROLLED STOCKINGS Warning from Illinois Pedic Association
Chicago reports new charges against women who roll stockings into a tight wad below the knee claiming it harms blood circulation and nerves in the feet. The association cites nerve trouble from feet and urges dancing and walking as beneficial exercises for overall health.
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Timea
Chicago
Illinois Pedic Association
Mortimer described as having bad reputation in Washington
In Chicago on December 18 Elias H Mortimer the Governments key witness in the Forbes Thompson fraud trial is said to have a bad reputation in Washington He allegedly showed off large sums of money at a Washington hotel and faced possible ejectment for extraordinary drunkenness as defense witnesses cast doubt on his credibility The hotel manager and a detective testified Mortimer boasted of connections with senators and cabinet members and that he habitually angered hotel staff with drunken behavior
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Timer
Washington
Mortimer
Col
Charles R. Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
John W. Thompson
St. Louis
Forbes
Elmer Dyer
Dyer
Loribe
Forbes Suit Details Alleged Fast Track to Hospital Contracts
Witness Sydney Houston of Stars and Stripes describes Forbes as treating him well while urging rapid hospital construction. The defense argues Forbes gave Thompson's firm high priced contracts because they could deliver faster building of veterans hospitals.
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Sydney Houston
Stars and Stripes
Forbes
Thompson
Auto Drivers Fined in City Speed Court
Seventy five drivers appeared in speed court with fifty one fined by Judge Pro Tem Russell Duncan. Fifteen continued, two dismissed, two discharged, two withheld, three arrested again. Fines ranged five to fifty dollars plus costs. List includes Martin Guedelhoefer Nick Debrota Forest Moist Gordon Clark James Brundage Ralph Rivers D H Bulack Edward Bell John Malone Albert Hall Herbert Bartholomew William Dunbar Wesley Thompson. Also notes nine drivers slated for Wednesday night. Also a line on crude rubber imports in 1924.
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Russell Duncan
Martin Guedelhoefer
Meridian St
Nick Debrota
Kentucky Ave
Forest Moist
Oliver Ave
Gordon Clark
N.laware St
James Brundage
English Ave
Ralph Rivers
N. Oxford St
D. H. Bulack
E. Washington St
Edward H. Bell
de Quincy St
John Malone
N. Senate Ave
Albert Hall
R. R. L. Box
Herbert Bartholomew
Central Ave
William H. Dunbar
Tallman Ave
Wesley Thompson
E. Thirtieth St
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Peco
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Asgqite
Werae
Etandart
Fezs
York
Commission Market
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Red River
Shippers
Thomson & McKinnon
Motors
M. Close
Atchison
Ms Am Bosch
Chandler M Az
Mack
Grip
Max M
del & Lak
Erie Se Oust
My Studebaker
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Stewart-W
BEF Bey
Bas
Timken
Mis Pac Pd
Lehigh Val
Willys-0
Aoe
N Y Cent
Mae
Nor Pac
Penn
Kennecott
Adobe
U S
Cosden
Stl. & Pa
Houston
Tnion Pac
ST S&s
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One
Bas Am Pete
HM Ty Ag Fos P
Rly Rubbers— Pacific
Goodyear
Ap Pure Ou
Sinclair
Texas Co
Baldwich
Ogg
RI & Stes
Asphalt Bate
Inter Paper
Constas
Snr Lian Plain
Bulletin
United Prasa
Martha Prewitt
Burn Miniature Town
Central Indiana Power Company
Investment Department
Merchants Heat & Light Co
Wabash Valley Electric Co
Northern Indiana Power Co
Indiana Electric Corporation
Attica Electric Co
India
Takari
Pedic Association
Say
Elias H. Mor
Harry J. Dougherty
Kingdom of
Kingdom of Belgium
New York City
Guaranty Trust Company of
P. Morgan & CO. and
Guaranty Trust Company OF New York
M. Georges Theunis
J. P. Morgan & Co. and Guaranty Company of New York
J. P. Morgan & Co. Guaranty Company
First National Bank
National City Company
Bankers Trust Company
National Bank of Commerce
Mechanics & Metals National Bank
the Equitable Trust Co
Harris Trust & Savings Bank
Lee, Higginson & Co
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Dillon, Read & Co
Halsey, Stuart & Co
First Trust & Savings Bank
Illinois Merchants Trust Co
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank
Onicaco
Central Trust Company of Illinois
the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh
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