Stock opens weak as losses shrink later on modest market retreats
The market opened weak with tight money expectations dulling enthusiasm. Prices moved in a narrow range with small gains for American Can and some late recoveries, while Erie Greene Cananea Chrysler Hudson and General Electric slipped. Radios fell and rails declined modestly before later losses were pared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer C. Walzer
United Press
New York
American Can
Erie
Greene Cananea
Chrysler
Hudson
General Electric
General Motors
Motors
Bank clearings and balances across major cities
Indianapolis clearings today were 3 947 000 with 7 798 000 debits. New York state statement reports 1 423 000 000 in clearings and 179 000 000 house balance with 120 000 000 Fed credit balance. Chicago Dec 27 balances 6 900 000 from 111 700 000 clearings. Treasury Washington December 22 net balance 294 147 766.66 with receipts this month to the 22nd at 35 170 625.94.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
New York
United Press
House
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Treasury
Washington
Atchison
Atl Coast Lin
Ealt & Ohio
Chesa & Ohio
I& Nest
del & Hudson
del & Ace
Seaee
Erie
Ill Central
Lehigh Valley
Kane City
Nor Pacific Tees
Norfolk
Eegnayivanis - Ace
Southern Ry
Southern Pac
St Paul
Union Spasific
Maryland
Ee Tee
Ajax Csecceecves
Fisee
Goodrich
Godyear
Kelly-Spg
United Stra
Am Steel Wee
Westingh Air
Westingh
Bethlehem
Colorado
Go's
Vanadium ‘Corp
Motors
Am Bosch Mag
Chandler Sone
Chrysler Corp
Contl Motors
Graham Paige
General Motors
Hudson
Studebaker Cor
Am Smit & Rfg
Cerro de Pasco
Chile
Inspiration
Kennecott
Magma
Texas Gulf
Atlantic
Barnsdall A
Freeport-Texas
Dee
Houston Oil
Indo Oil & Ga
Marland
Pet
Sit Phill
Ase
Towae - Eee
Union of Cal
Sinclair Oi
Allis Chalmers
Allied Chemical
Armour A
OeWws Pene
Montgome Ward
Pittsburgh
Owens Lottle
Keith
Rem Rand
Sears Roebuck
Interboro
Am Co
Natl
Cal Edison
Gas & E
Utilities
West Union Tel
Eee
Ape
Ing
Atl Gulf
United Fruit
Oods
Kroger
California
Fleischman Raft
Stock Market Sees Hidden Reserve Power Backing Rise
In New York on December 27 observers note strong reserve force beneath the stock market. Despite high debt high rates and low yields the market advances with vigor and momentum. A year end general rise is anticipated with buying spurred by year start distributions, focusing on quality stocks with real backing rather than mere listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson & McKinnon
New York
Various Markets Report Wholesale Butter Eggs Poultry and Cheese Prices
Chicago market notes list wholesale butter prices 51 to 53 3 4 cents per pound and 53 cents for butterfat, cheese prices for American loaves and pimentos, and egg buying prices at Indianapolis. Poultry prices show hens leghorns ducks geese turkeys with multiple weight brackets. Chicago receipts include eggs butter poultry and cheese with grade ranges. Potatoes and regional sacked russets and round whites are listed with price ranges and freight notes.
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Wisconsin
New York
Indianapolis
United Press
Chicago
Minnesota
North Dakota
Idaho
Russets
Fancy Idaho
Plague Adds to Suffering of Famine Victims in China
Reports to the American National Committee for China Famine Relief say bubonic plague compounds famine in northern China. The committee warns twelve million people face starvation as conditions worsen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
China
American National Committee For China
Youth Rescues Dog From Death Chamber in Tuckahoe
Patsy Salvatre faced a canine death sentence after authorities found the dog without a muzzle or license. He pulled the dog free from the execution area by the tail and was allowed to keep the pet on his mother’s promise to obtain the required muzzle and license.
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United Press
Tuckahoe
N. Y
Patsy Salvatre
Patsy
Kitten Returns From the Dead In Gardiner Folklore
A Gardiner Maine kitten owned by Mrs. George Folk was found dead from gas fumes but revived before burial. The cat then returned to the Folk home at the door begging food to preserve its remaining eight lives.
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United Press
Gardiner
George Folk
Folk
Kitty
Cotton Market Outlook Hoarded by Supplies Shortage
In New York on December 27 the cotton market whispers of a next summer shortage. Bulls hesitate to admit 20 cents as the price likely answer. The market shows little excitement and traders remain non bullish about cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bynot
Local grain elevators pay spot for wheat at $1.25 and $1.08
In Wagon, grain elevators quote No. 2 red wheat at 1.25 and No. 2 hard at 1.08 a bushel. Separately, in Hiawatha Kansas, Mrs. W S Hobbs reports finding a gold nugget in a chicken gizzard while others hint at possible gold in fowl gizzards as a local tale.
Sharp Rally in Calves as Hog Receipts Hold Steady
Hog prices fall a quarter at Union Stockyards with 130 to 300 pound hogs at 9 dollars. Chicago and other markets show mixed cattle and sheep trends with beef steers 10.50 to 16, veals 16.50 to 18, fat lambs up to 15.50, and assorted cows and stocks trading steady to higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United Press
Pittsburgh
Ussville
United Pro Press
Faso
Cincinnati
Nee Sane Ateee
A. Wee
College Students Have Fat Lean Days
Adison Wisconsin December 27 There are lean days and fat days for the college student. Prof P G Fox of the University of Wisconsin finds Thursdays and Fridays leanest for restaurant owners as the week ends. Saturdays and Sundays are peak days due to football games and other events drawing crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Adison
Wis
P. G. Fox
University of Wisconsin
Fox
Wholesale Produce Prices and Varieties Listed in Regional Trade Ledger
The document catalogs a broad range of fruits vegetables and related goods with assorted price points. Entries include grapefruits lemons oranges pears persimmons and apples along with vegetables such as artichokes cauliflower stringless beans peas radishes cabbage kale lettuce onions and tomatoes. Many items note origin states like California Wisconsin Virginia and Indiana with weights and packaging forms such as crates baskets and bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Wisconsin
Ptery
Baracki Sweet Poto
Indiana
Virgina
Tennessee
Nancy Halls
Tariff for All Industry Urged by Tilson
Representative Tilson of Connecticut urged a uniform protective tariff for all industries in America. He said protection must be a national policy and proposed industry representatives attend tariff hearings starting January 7 to provide accurate information for a new act. He expected President-Elect Hoover to call a special session for tariff revision and farm relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Hartford
Conn
America
Tilson
Connecticut
Republican House
Chamber of Commerce
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Hoover
Births Report From Local Hospitals And Homes
Birth notices list boys and girls named Thomas Meta Sloam George Ruby Mency Ella Jorio Earl Blanch Clauser Arthur Lucille Leister Walker Fern Carll Alice Boyer Joseph Clara Davey Dwight Jeanne Curnick Coleman Lee Dorothy Gardner Marie Henry Parrison Elnor White Clarence Ada Greenaugh Chester Nettie Fowler Helen Stiles Paul Pauline Robert Kathryn Pierce Elma Hannah Edward Bowles Dorothy Moore Walter Willie Durett and other households including Methodist and Coleman hospital affiliations. The item catalogs names and addresses with no further context or details.
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Thomas
Meta Sloam
Boulevard Gackt
George
Ruby Mency
Northan
Zona Bell
West Fourteenth
Pees
Ella Jorio
Hos- Earl
Blanch Clauser
Methodist Hospital
Arth
Lucille Leister
Walker
Fern Carll
Methodist
Hosme
Alice Boyer
Joseph
Clara Davey
East
Kenseph
Marie Henry
Coleman
Parrison
Elnor White
Coleman Hospital
Clarence
Ada Greenaugh
Broadway
Chester
Nettie Fowler
Northemenese
Helen Stiles
Paul and
Pauline Robert
Sph
Kathryn Pierce
Elma Hannah
Graceland
Edward Sar
Dorothy Bowles
Villa
Robert and
Mary Moore
Coleman Hos- Pi Walter
Willie Durett
West Twenty-sixth
List of Deaths and Causes From Local Hospitals
The notice lists numerous individuals with ages and causes of death including pneumonia bronchitis myocarditis influenza and cerebral hemorrhage. Names include Samuel Richard Newhouse Julia Thompson Thomas Yerbrough H K Wright Robert Linnaman Patricia Baker Mary Ann Mathis Bernice Roller Marion Crim George Ameter Bernard Kelly Caroline Talbot Oi Yee S McGee Fannie Leek Rebecca Wood Melody Deleff Emma Jane Nelson Belle Showalter Spannette Case Uiegas Fortune Joseph Davis Martha Letcher Ida B Naar Frank Curry William Lynam Eunice Lough Noblitt Albert Wheels Louis Eicke Elizabeth Morgan Florence Wright Elsey Shadday Jane Turley Marcia Farr Clara Day Nina Wilhite Minnie Bowles and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Richard Newhouse
Methodist Hospital
Julia Thompson
Talbott
Thomas Yerbrough
Lexington
H. K. Wright
North Emerson
Robert Linnaman
Fletcher
Patricia Louise Baker
Mary Ann Mathis
South Randolph
Bernice Roller
East Thirtieth
Marion Crim
Kenwood
George W. Ameter
Reisner
Bernard Kelly
East New York
Caroline Talbot
Oi Yee S. McGee
City Hospital
Fannie Leek
Christian Hospital
Rebecca Wood
East Thirtyfourth
Melody G. Deleff
Emma Jane Nelson
Congress
Belle Conrad Showalter
South Gladstone
Spannette Case
North Beville
Uiegas Fortune
City
Noblitt
East
Vermont
Albert Wheels
Louis Eicke
Columbia
Elizabeth Morgan
East Raymond
Florence Wright
South Cincinnati
Shadday
Christian
Transit panel defends 7 cent subway fare in supreme court
The New York state transit commission filed a 201 page substitute brief in the U S Supreme Court today to uphold its opposition to the 7 cent Inter borough Rapid Transit subway fare order. The filing follows a 232 page brief ten days earlier after a federal court ordered reargument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
New York State Transit Commission
United States Supreme Court
Commission
Wheat and corn trade mixed on Chicago Board of Trade
December wheat dipped as futures weakness persisted while corn held firm and oats tracked the gain in corn. Wheat rose in Liverpool on short covering for December delivery amid tight U S grain supplies and heavy world consumption. Demand for cash corn remains strong with light receipts and export needs shaping the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Board of Trade
Liverpool
U S Radio Wave Aimed At Calcutta From Schenectady
The General Electric short wave station W2XAF in Schenectady sent a direct message to Calcutta India for about thirty-two minutes from 6:30 to 7:02 a m local time. Speaker Mrs Sarojini M rose former president of the India National Congress and former mayor of Bombay delivered the principal address. Senators Copeland Bickel and Walsh contributed brief messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady
N. Y
United States
Calcutta
India
General Electric Company
W2xaf
National Congress
Sarojimi Mardu
The
India National Congress
Bombay
Royal 8. Copeland
Karl A. Bickel
David R. Walsh
Massachusetts
Six Injured in Truck and Automobile Crash in Columbus
Six people were injured near Columbus Indiana when an automobile and a truck sideswiped at a culvert. The car plunged into a six foot ditch overturned with occupants trapped. The truck overturned and caught fire. Driver Howard Callahan suffered serious burns. Emily McMahon sustained a possible skull fracture. Others were hospitalized in non critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ind
Here
Howard Callahan
Emily McMahon
Croat Leader Plans Boycott Over Match Monopoly
Belgrade reports M. Matches, president of the Croat Peasant party, calls for a boycott of matches in protest against a government grant of a match monopoly to a Swedish firm. The party aims to switch to flint and steel, promising to put a check on matches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Belgrade
Jugo-Slavia
M. Matches
Croat Peasant Party
M. Matchek
Half a Bed for Rent in Budapest Ad
A Budapest want ad offers half a bed for rent with moderate terms. Madam Andrassy at 42 Sandor St invites inspection. The bed is available 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. with a night worker using the opposite twelve hours.
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United Press
Budapest
Focal
Madam Andrassy
Sandor St
City in Brief Friday events and incidents across Indianapolis
American historical convention and multiple luncheons gather at venues including Claypool and Lincoln with groups such as Phi Delta Theta and Lambda Chi Alpha. A fire at 453 West Thirteenth Street caused about 1800 dollars in damage. Police investigated a possible gun battle near Forty-second and Broadway with no injuries found. A Christmas luncheon and a farewell dinner mark community activities and updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Historical Convention
Claypool
Indiana Christian Ministerial Associa
Burglar Nabbed After Dropped Ring Leads Police
In Kulpmont near Mt. Carmel, a burglar tried to rob Dr. R. B. Bast and fled with 105 dollars. He dropped his key ring, revealing his name and address, leading to his arrest and recovery of the cash. France Fights Against Rats. France campaigns against a new rat menace with a black eyed white bodied brown eared and tailed rat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Mt, Carmel
R. B. Bast
Kulpmont
Here
Paris
France
Queer British Legacy Left by John Rudge in England
London reports on John Rudge of Trusull Staffordshire who endowed five dollars a year to assist a poor man to walk around the church during sermons and to provide two sleepers and eject stray dogs, a peculiar bequest reflecting historic charitable practices.
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London
Great Britain
John Rudge
Trusull
Staffordshire
Becky Thatcher burial ends era in Hannibal
Mrs Laura Frazer of Hannibal aged 91, long identified as Becky Thatcher from Mark Twain's novels, was buried in Big Creek cemetery near Hannibal after dying Wednesday. She inspired Twain’s Becky and grew up with him in the river town, near the school he once attended.
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Presa Hannibal, Mo
Mark Twain
Becky Thatcher
Laura Frazer
Hannibal
Mississippi River Hills
Becky
Tom Sawyer
Twain
Co ed rewarded three hundred for aiding murder capture
Marian Jay 20 year old former May queen at Rockford college receives 300 dollars for providing evidence that helped capture David Shanks, the black murderer sentenced to die. She found a ribbon from a wrist watch torn from Miss Jennie Constance's body, a clue Northwestern University later used in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marian Jay
United Press Craicago
Rockford College
David Shanks
Evanston
Jennie Constance
Northwestern University
Miss Jay
Northwestern
Grand Duke Nicholas Improves After Illness
It was reported in Cannes that Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia has improved greatly from a serious illness and can sit up. Because of his improved condition no medical bulletins will be issued for the present.
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United Press
Cannes
France
Grand Duke
Nicholas of
Russia
Matrimonial Notice Puzzles German Husband
A German man in a humorous ad asks readers to “keep” his wife who has departed, confessing his puzzling feelings and inviting the finder to take her. The quip plays on marriage troubles as a lighthearted newspaper gag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Finder
U S Overseas Trade Set for Record Growth in 1929
Dr. Julius Klein predicts 1929 will be a record year for American overseas trade with total volume and value surpassing all prior records. Growth spans South America and Asia, with exports rising in automobiles machinery textiles and office appliances as demand broadens nationwide.
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Scripps-Howard
Washington
Julius Klein
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Dr. Klein
South
Central America
Australia
New Zealand
China
India
Asia
Klein
Bureau For Foreign Trade
Boston
Baltimore
Birmingham
North Carolina
Chile
Wichita Falls
Tex
America
Seek Convention Here by Indianapolis Delegation in Nashville
Henry T. Davis of the Indianapolis convention bureau led a forty member Phi Delta Theta alumni group in Nashville to win the 1930 national convention for Indianapolis. About 600 members are expected, with Indiana University's Alpha chapter founded in 1849 noted as the oldest continuously active chapter. The Indianapolis Alumni Club dates to 1871. In Cambridge, Mrs. Margaret McDonald reported a $36 handbag theft including her marriage license.
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Henry T. Davis
Indianapolis
Phi Delta Theta
Nashville
Tenn
Indiana University Alpha
United Press
Cambridge
Mass
Margaret McDonald
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Chesapeake and Ohio
Victor
Warner Brothers Pictures
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Gizzard
Rich
Hiawatha
Kas
W.S. Hobbs
NEW York Coffee Barge & Ww
Close
Eid
Wayne
Bulk
Eeeraion Jonathan
Bajonathan
Jamaica
Valencia
Florida
Virginia
U. S
Fights
New York State Commission
Chicago Grain Table
Speciat
AIM
Schenectady Company
Dn United Preas
Jugo-Slavs
Beau Brummel
Grover Whalen
James J. Walker
Joseph Warren
Whalen
West Thirteenth Street
Kiwanis Club
Eli Schloss
Athenaeum
Indianapolis Safety Council
Indiana National Guard Armory
State Department of Conservation
Woodlands
H. H. Evans
Newcastle
State House of Representatives
Forty-second and
Mystic Tie Lodge No
Masonic Temple
North
Illinois Streets
Walter Harmeson
West Twenty-ninth Street
Harold and
Glen Harmeson
Purdue
Anderson
Minnie Kidd
St. Vincent's Hospital
Illinois
M. C. Hyatt
Park Avenue
Hyatt
Columbia Club
James A. Collins
William H. Remy
Judson L. Stark
Paul Rhoadarmer
W. H. Manifold
William Sheaffer
John L. Niblack
Donald D. Hoover
Ralph Brooks
Charles Carll
Catherine Méerrillent
Daughters of Union Veterans
Leona Welling
Tacoma Avenue
Will
Old Cemetery
Slayer
U.S
Hoosier Petroleum
Hoosier Petroleum Co
New York Stock Exchange
Pennsylvania St
Terre Haute
Crawford
Muncle
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