Special Issues Feature Slow Stock Market
Stocks showed limited movement with narrow changes in general shares while certain special issues rose. Case Threshing and Johns Manville led gains to new highs. Public Service of New Jersey United Gas Improvement and American Radiator hit 1929 highs amid heavy volume. Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck rallied on wheat-price gains and related buying power. Rails faced profit taking though some firms showed buoyance. Oil stocks firm with Pan American leadership and copper benefited from strong Anaconda buying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer C. Walzer
United Press
New York
Stock Exchange
Pivotal
Steel
General Motors
American Can
Pennsylvania
International Telephone and Telegraph
Case Threshing Machine
Johns Manville
Public Service of New Jersey
United Gas Improvement
American Radiator
Standard Sanitary
Montgomery Ward
Sears Roebuck
Delaware
Lackawanna & Western
Kansas City Southern
St. Louis Southwestern
New York Central
Atchison
Graham Paige sets quarterly and half year car production records
Graham Paige reports a quarterly production high of 29 214 cars for Q2 and a six month total of 54 498 cars in 1929, with overseas shipments rising 17 percent over 1928, and Canada six month exports reaching 3 611. The 50 000th 1929 model was built June 7, and exports lift Graham Paige from twelfth to seventh in total all makes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ber Times
Detroit
Graham- Paige
Graham-Paige
Canada
Bank clearings and balances across major cities July 17
Indianapolis reports clearings of 4,454,000 with debits of 9,795,009. New York shows clearings of 1,570,090,900 and federal reserve credit balances of 170,000,000. Chicago records clearings of 124,800,009 with balances of 9,900. Treasury reports net balance of 228,813,157.88 and receipts totaling 24,515,812.32.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
New York
Clearing House
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
United Press
Treasury
Washington
Steel Shares Favorable, Sinking Fund Abolished Boosts Earnings
In New York July 17 stock notes predict stronger steel earnings for the year with elimination of bonded indebtedness negating sinking fund needs. The report highlights rising operations, potential higher dividends, and a better market stance for rails like Southern Pacific with over 13 dollars per share projected for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson & McKinnon
New York
Steel Corporation
Southern Pacific
Births Reported From St. Vincent's Hospital
The notice lists numerous newborn girls with parents and home addresses across several streets and avenues in the city, centered on St. Vincent'sHospital. Names include George and Eunice Garvin, Anna Hoefling, Jane Riesis, Hazel Baum, Lenora Stevens, Mark Insko, Cora Thornhill, Fiora Mahone, Jewel Cox, Wilmina Baker, Doroth Kenyon, Edward Adams, Georgia Kennedy, Florence Harmon, Mildred Pierson, Edna Gilley, and Callie Williams among others. Locations span North Gerald Street, Leer Pace, West Twenty-sixth, West New York, and St. Vincent's area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Eunice Garvin
North Gerald
Anna Hoefling
Leer- Pparece
Jane Riesis
St. Vincent's Iam
Hazel Baum
St. Vincent's Eodore
Lenora Stevens
Ken Walter
Malissa Craig
Mark
Mary Insko
Kappes Wallace
Cora Thornhill
Hanfaxie
Fiora Mahone
Cornell
Jewel Cox
North Ilinois
Charles
Wilmina Baker
West
New York
Bors Ermond
Doroth Kenyon
Vincent’s Hospital
Edward and
Ann Adams
St. Vincent's
Robert
Georgia Kennedy
St. Vinent’s
Georgia Scott
LA Besar
Wes Flovence Chambers
Fruit prices listed by market and region
A long list of produce with varied prices by origin and type. Apples from Sarre and California graphed with per crate or bushel costs. strawberries cantaloupes and citrus values span several states. Watermelons from Florida priced at 75 cents each. United Press Chicago report notes apples 82 cents to 2.50 per barrel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarre
California
Argentina
Jamaica
Valencia
Michigan
Indiana
Goa
Texas
Idaho
Louisiana
Florida
United Presse
Chicago
Butter and poultry prices from Chicago and New York markets
Market reports show Butter wholesale quotes at 44 46c and 47 48c per pound, Cheese wholesale prices for various American and Wisconsin brands, Eggs and poultry buying prices by class, with fowls and leghorns around 18 28c and turkeys 22 38c, Chicago receipts and New York firm tone for flour pork lard and potatoes with mixed regional price levels.
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Wisconsin
New York
Adanapolis
United Press Chicago
Americas
Kansas
Missouri
Trish
Kentucky
East Shore
Virginia
United Preas
Middle West
Southern
Maine
Jersey
Long Island
Rio
Santos
Wheat Prices Jump to Year High in Feverish Trading
Chicago reports show wheat futures reaching the year's peak as traders bet on further gains. Corn and oats also rose while provisions edged higher. Canadian drought prospects and a potential 400 million bushel cut in spring wheat with weak northwest yields drove the rally. Receipts varied with trading being volatile.
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United Price
Chicago
Northwest
Winnipeg
American Northwest
City in Briefs and Thursday Events Across Indianapolis
The City in Brief summarizes clubs and luncheons at Columbia Club and Indianapolis venues with multiple organizations listed. A five mile pushmobile race at Forty-ninth street and Arsenal avenue is noted with nine drivers, plus theft of 2000 safety razor blades at C W Friedman drug store. Other items include a real estate board luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce and a prize treasure hunt in Monument Circle. Seymour Madison gains West Point admission and John Irwin files for voluntary bankruptcy in Noblesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Club
Lebanon
Advertising Club of
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Engineering Society
Board of Ade
American Business Club
Real Estate Board
Chamber of Commerce
Sigma Nu
Lincoln
Speedway
Forty-ninth Street
Arsenal Avenue
Burke and Birch
East Side
Real Estate Boards of the
United States
Boston
Indianapolis Real Estate Board
Emerson W. Chaille
Frank E. Gates
William Low Rice
J. F. Cantwell
Donald E. Rider
Kokomo Kiwanis to Host Woman's Program Speaker
Kokomo Kiwanis club members plan a woman's program at Howard Township School on Wednesday July 24. Dusty Thurman Miller publisher of the Wilmington News Journal will be the speakers.
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Bi Times
Kokomo
Ind
Kokomo Kiwanis Club
Howard Township
Dusty” Thurman Miller
The
Wilmington, (O
Death notices list numerous local residents by cause
The obituary list includes Robert Ester age 29 at 457 Blake with acute military tuberculosis, William Smith 64 at city hospital with acute myosocarditis, William Van Buckirk 72 at city hospital with pulmonary tuberculosis, Elis Hatchett 75 of 747 Prospect with chronic myocarditis, Infant Scott 1 day at city hospital from premature birth, Greenberry Bennett 75 at city hospital with carcinoma, Dorothy Evelyn Phillips 23 of 422 North Goodlet with acute dilatation of heart, James E. McCorkle 55 at 1015 St Peters with encephalitis, Lena Blanche Tate 33 at 1420 Newman with acute myocarditis, Mary Hill 40 at Central Indiana hospital, Nelle eith 50 at Long hospital with septicaemia, William C. Neal 66 at 2857 North Capitol with influenza.
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Robert Ester
Blake
William Smith
City Hospital
William van Buckirk
Elis Hatchett
Prospect
Scott
Greenberry Bennett
Dorothy Evelyn Phillips
North Goodlet
James E. McCorkle
St. Peter
Lena Blanche Tate
Newman
Mary Hill
Central Indiana Hospital
Nelle Eith
Long Hospital
William C. Neal
North Capitol
Four Die in Regina Maria Theater Collapse in Bucharest
Daily Telegraph report from Bucharest notes four workers killed and twelve seriously injured as the Regina Maria Theater under construction collapses in London dated dispatches.
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United Piece
London
Daily Telegraph
Bucharest
Regina Maria
Porkers Drop 19 10 20 Cents in City Yards
Hog prices fall as open auction in city yards shows 150-280 lb hogs at 11.80 to 12.35. Receipts total 6,000 with 1,585 holdovers. cattle steady with beef steers 15.25 to 15.85. light heifers 14.50. sheep and lambs open strong with best lambs 14 to 15 and throws 9.50 to 13. fat ewes 4.50 to 6.50. Chicago hog market opens slow at about 25 cents below Tuesday. Prices by weight ranges listed. cattle and sheep receipts given with fragmented ranges.
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Chicago
Best
United Press
Pit
Louisville
Chicago hog and cattle market report for July with varied prices
Chicago and Louisville markets show hog receipts around 25 090 with prices mostly down. top hogs at 12.15 with many grades around 11.75 to 12.10. Cattle turnout 8 000 receipts with steer prices 14.50 to 16.50 and cow values 7.75 to 12. Sheep and calves also detailed with steady to higher bids and specific weight ranges.
Wheat bids at Wagon City elevators
Local grain dealers post bids for old crop No. 2 red wheat at 1.21 a bushel and No. 2 hard at 1.16. Strong discounts apply to high moisture grain.
Demurrer Upheld in Edinburg Canning Damages Suit
Federal Judge Robert Baltzell sustains the demurrer to the amended complaint by Edinburg Canning Company seeking 75000 damages from American Can Company for alleged discrimination in tin can prices. The court found Edinburg Canning was not a existent corporation under the contract and not damaged. The company may file a new amendment or appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburg Canning Company
American Can Company
Robert ©. Baltzell
Edinburgh
van Camp Packing Company
Ing
Aircraft activity linked to Hoosier airport plans
A wave of air travel notes links St Louis to Wayne Michigan and Cleveland to St Louis via Embry-Riddle and related firms. Passengers include R H White and John Stewart en route between Indianapolis Chicago Cincinnati and Moline. Connersville considers a 50000 bond for a municipal airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosier
Roderick Wright
Stinson
St. Louis
Wayne
Mich
Curtiss
Plane Factory Planned at Connersville by Corman Aircraft Corp
Articles of incorporation filed for Corman Aircraft Corporation of Indiana Connersville to manufacture buy sell import and deal in airplanes dirigibles balloons and hydroplanes with 500 shares of 100 value. Incorporators include BE L. Cord president of the Auburn Automobile Company Auburn Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connersville
Corman Aircraft Corporation of
Indiana
BE. L. Cord
Auburn Automobile Company
Auburn
Rains Revive Crop Hopes Across Southern Canada
In a Times Special from Winnipeg, El Nino rains across western regions improve some crops though relief remains uncertain. Northern Manitoba shows promise with rye and wheat headed in areas like Swan River, Togo, and Preeceville. Alberta and Saskatchewan face ongoing drought and mixed outcomes with hail damage noted in Denholm and Langruth.
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Times
Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
Manitoba
Swan River Valley
Togo and
Preeceville
Kenville
Langruth
Saskatchewan
Yorkton
Asquith
Touchwood
Rossland
Porter
Tisdale
Melfort
Prince Albert
Territories
Denholm
Langham
Gravelbourg
Riverhurst
Glenboro
Alberta
New Douglass 02H Biplane Delivered to Indiana Guard
A Douglass 02H biplane was delivered to the One Hundred Thirteenth squadron of the Indiana National Guard on Tuesday. Lieutenant Dayton D. Watson and Private Ellis brought the plane from the Douglass factory in Santa Monica California. The delivery brings the guard to three 02H biplanes with a fourth planned, plus two Consolidated PT 1 biplanes and two Consolidated O 17 planes.
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One Hundred Thirteenth Squadron
Indiana National Guard
Douglass
Santa Monica
Cal
Dayton D. Watson
Ellis
Guard
Graf Zeppelin to test new motors then begin world trip
Friedrichshafen Germany July 17 The Zeppelin works announced a several days test of the Graf Zeppelin motors has been successfully completed and the motors are being installed. A trial flight over Germany will occur before the airship sails to Lakehurst New Jersey and returns to prepare for an around the world voyage starting mid August.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Zeppelin Works
Graf Zeppelin
Lakehurst
N. J
Big Plane Output Planned at Buffalo Plant
More than 550 planes will be built at the General Airplanes Corporation plant in Buffalo over the next eighteen months. Thirty of them will be mail planes. The sales value of the output is estimated above five million dollars, announced by president C. S. Reiman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Buffalo
General Airplanes Corporation
C. S. Reiman
Curtiss Flying Instructors School Returnees In Indiana
Charles E. Cox Jr. assistant general manager of Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana has just returned from Grosse Ile Michigan where he attended a two weeks school for Curtiss flying instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Cox Jr
Curtiss Flying Service of
Indiana
Grosse Tle, Mich
Curtiss
Blindfold Drive by The Great Pasha Planned Downtown
The Great Pasha will pilot an automobile through the business district starting at 2 30 p m from The Times building at 214 220 West Maryland street. The hour long tour is staged under the auspices of Broad Ripple amusement park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Pasha
Times
Maryland Street
Broad Ripple Amusement Park
Building Permits List Shows Numerous Local Projects
A compiled roll of permit activity lists multiple addresses and owners in Minnesota and nearby streets. Projects include reroofs additions garages repairs and remodels with values from 80 to 5 500 dollars. Notable entries include Emanuel Evangelical Luthern church Laurel and Orange addition and several Paschall dwellings.
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Steve- D. Logan
St. Peter
Aant H. Mateson
Central
M. Gray
North Elder
K. Moorman
New York
A. E. Wrentmore
South Ritter
D. Kipper
Langley
Emanuel Evangelical Luthern Church
Laurel and Orange
Niel B. Grover
South Ilinois
Embry-Riddle to Sponsor Indiana State Air Tour
Embry-Riddle Aviation Corp will sponsor an Indiana air tour visiting 31 landing fields from July 18 to 20 and July 25 to 27. Two Monocoupe planes will be flown by John Stewart and Wright Vermilya Jr. with several associates aboard. Pilots must fly 1,000 feet above minimum over populated areas as Curtiss aims to cut noise. A separate Arctic test flight by Captain Ross G. Hoyt seeks Nome Alaska return in an Army Air Corps pursuit plane.
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Indiana
Embry-Riddle Aviation Corporation
Cincinnati
Hoosier State Automobile Association
Mono Aircraft Corporation
Moline
Til
John Stewart
Embry- Riddle
Wright Vermilya Jr
R. W. Bruene
Auto Association
Cc. G. Brodhecker
Brownstown Weekly
Indianapolis
Richmond
Shelbyville
Seymour
Bloomington
Bedford
West Baden
Princeton
Evansville
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Terre Haute
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Crawfordsville
Lebanon
Lafayette
Wolcottville
Shelby
Gary
Michigan City
Elkhart
South Bend
Auburn
Ft. Wayne
Wabash
Kokomo
Muncie
Anderson
Union City
Curtiss
H. Weir Cook
E. H. Brainard
New York City
Brainard
Eet Frec
New York
Ross G. Hoyt
Arctic
Army Air Corps
Mitchelfield
L. I
Nome
Alaska
Monoplane San Francisco Forced Down On Prolonged Flight
The monoplane San Francisco carrying Bartlett Stephens and Fred McKinley was forced to land after about thirty six hours aloft due to motor trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
San Francisco
Bartlett Stephens
Fred McKinley
Weather report from Indianapolis airport nine thirty a.m.
At Indianapolis airport at 9 30 a m the wind is south at seven mph the temperature 82 degrees F the sea level pressure 29 98 inches and the ceiling and visibility are unlimited. Field conditions are good.
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Indianapolis
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