This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1966
Page
6
A dense list of mutual funds and related instruments displays bid and ask lines for numerous funds and trusts. Abbreviations indicate fund families such as Keystone, Franklin, Putnam, Dreyfus, and Scudder, with varied price movements across buckets like growth and income.
A dense list of stock tickers with prices and percentages appears, showing numerous company abbreviations such as Beckmi Beech Bendix DuPont DowChem EastAir Kodak Eaton Xerox Zenith Woolworth and more, alongside varied price points and daily percentage figures. The fragment reads as a financial ledger extract, capturing trades, bid sums, and percentage shifts across multiple firms.
New York reports a weak stock day as the United Press International index falls 0.92 on 7,412 issues, with 873 losers and 292 gainers. Dow Jones average drops to 804.62, the market citing high credit costs and tight liquidity as near term drags while bargain hunting lingers.
UPI reports a Dow Jones closing range with the 30 Industrials, 20 Rail, and 1 Utilities averages showing declines. Trading activity totaled about 904,500 shares with mixed intraday highs and lows across industries and bonds reflecting a cautious market mood.
UPI reports metal price quotes in New York with copper delivered prices around 35.82 cents per pound, lake copper at 36.00 cents, quicksilver $440 to $460 per flask, tin for prompt delivery about 1.55 to 1.56 cents per pound, tungsten powder 98.8 percent at $2.75 per pound, zinc prime western around $15.00 per pound and East St. Louis at 14.50 cents per pound.
Don and Bradstreet's daily weighted price index for 30 commodities shows 1960s level readings with a 778.20 figure yesterday and a 273.66 low noted in the same cycle. The report cites UPI archives and references 1968 historical baselines for weekly and monthly comparisons.
A humorous collage blends medieval knight lore with 1960s Clark County culture. It references Sir Lamb and a St Bernard in a lost campaign tale, a comical election nod, billiards at Cue Club, and local business plugs from Raven and Elizabeth's Coiffures, all in a playful, rambling tone.
Bobby Colvin hosts quick “Swinger” swap with Irene mixing in as crowds return to the Shack. Georgie Abdo known as Rodney dies at 64 after a stroke earlier this year. Terri Ackerman of Vegas studios shares dance wisdom from tots to teens and promotes classes with the Twisting cue.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.