Cotton market steadies after liquidation ahead of government report
In New Orleans Aug 6 light selling pushed cotton prices lower as traders awaited Thursday's government report. Early gains from solid cables and drought concerns in Texas faded into a quiet late session with October gold at 18.75 and December at 15.05. Exports for the day reached 8 148 bales and futures closed modestly higher around key support levels.
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Associated Frese
New Orleans
Texas
Cotton futures mix with small gains in late trading
In New York today the cotton market showed modest activity as supplies remained limited. Early advances faded into narrow fluctuations with mid afternoon prices steady, closing with small net gains across several near term contracts and a mixed opening.
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Associated Press
New York
Browcht
Cotton Market Falls Short of Direction in Evening Up
New Orleans reports trading in cotton as mostly an evening up affair with shorts lifting prices slightly on strong cables and weak Texas Oklahoma data. No interior rain, high Texas Oklahoma Arkansas heat, cooler drouth regions likely in 48 hours, forecast showers in central eastern belt, condition figures 68.8 to 72 with beliefs prices may hold steady unless weather shifts.
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New Orleans
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Drouth
Northwest
Belt
Cottonseed Oil Prices Report From New Orleans
New Orleans August market notes show dull values for cotton seed oil with primes in summer yellow and crude listed alongside futures for nearby months. Prices range from 762 1-2 to 875 across dates including February through December.
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New Orleans
Associated Press
Chicago live animal market report notes varied hogs and cattle
Hogs receipts 16 000 light to medium prices mostly lower. Butchers 250 300 lbs 10.40 21.40, 130 160 lbs 10.90 12.10. Cattle 6 590 receipts calves 2 000 generally steady to strong. Slaughter steers 1300 1500 lbs 14.06 17.00, 950 1100 lbs 13.59 16.90. Sheep 18 000 active, 10 25 lower. range lambs 12.50 13.65. feeding lambs steady. lambs 92 lbs down 13.00 13.85.
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Chicago
Wall Street Rebound After Morning Decline Amid Rate Shifts
Easing call money rates limited a sharp intraday slide in U S stocks with many active issues still down 1 to 8 points early. Some favorites recovered led by American Telephone and General Electric while utilities and copper shares gained as investors awaited Bank of England moves.
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New York
Chicago Stock Exchange
Bank of England
Wall Street
Chicago
Detroit Edison
American Telephone
New York Central
General Electric
Chesapeake & Ohio
Allis Chalmers
Standard Gas and Electric
Pacific Telephone
Auburn Auto
North American
Consolidated Gas
Union Pacific
American Can
United Aircraft
Allied Chemical
A. M
American Water Works
Westinghouse Electric First
May Department Stores
Worthington Pump
Mack Trucks
Newport Co
Federal Light and
Markets at a Glance from Associated Press
Stocks swing with Detroit Edison down 25 points and Insull stocks under pressure. Bonds ease with mixed convertibles. Foreign exchanges soften as the yen climbs to a 1929 high. Cotton and sugar soften on weather and demand, coffee sees more Brazilian offerings. Chicago wheat weak on receipts, corn forecast rain, cattle steady to strong, hogs lower.
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New York
Detroit Edison
Wheat and corn rise as grain markets firm in Chicago
Chicago grain markets posted gains with wheat recovering after an early sag and corn turning higher after opening at 4-8 cents up. Oats tracked corn and provisions also advanced as trading stabilized through the day.
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Chicago
Sugar futures drift lower amid Washington uncertainty
New York sugar prices remained nominally unchanged at 3.89 for spots duty paid as futures opened down and eased through the forenoon. Market activity stayed light with liquidation dominating and refiners quoting 5.50 for fine granulated. futures closed easy with September at 2.10 and July at 2.38 after about 28,100 tons sold.
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New York
Washington
Reinew
Foreign exchange rates in early August across major currencies
AP reports varied currency values in dollars for Great Britain and cents for others. Listed rates include Great Britain 4.84 eight eight, France 3.91 and a quarter, Italy 6.22 and two thirds, Belgium 13.89, Germany 23.80, Norway 26.63 and a half, Spain 14.61 and a half, Greece 1.29 and a quarter, Brazil 11.88, Tokyo 26.80, Shanghai 528.00, Montreal 99.75.
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New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Norway
Spain
Greece
Brazil
Tokyo
Shanghai
Montreal
Call money, loans ease amid firmer rates in early market
By Associates Press. New York reports call money easier with high 12 and low 12, ruling rate 12. Time loans firmer at 30 days 8 4 9, 60-90 days 3-4-9, 4-6 months 8 3-4-9. Prime commercial paper 6-6 1-4. Bankers accepts unchanged.
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Associates Press
New York
Weekly city building permits total twenty one thousand three hundred seventy
The mayor's office reports twenty one thousand three hundred seventy dollars in permits issued last week. Largest project is a one story brick building on Alexandria street by Dr. B J Young of 2913 South Grand Street. Other permits include frame buildings on Gramneront and Marx Streets, a frame garage on Jackson Street, and remodeling on North Sixth Street.
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B. J. Young
South Grand Street
Peyton Perkins
Gramneront Street
Blanks and Breard
Marx Street
Dave Garrett
Jackson Street
C. H. Washington
Frank Marlem
North Sixth Street
Cotton prices and futures slip in Liverpool market
Liverpool reports quiet cotton trading with American grades steady to lower. Prices listed for various ensures from strict good middling to low middling with sales at 2,000 bales, including 1,700 American. Futures closed quiet with October to July contracts ranging from 1005 to 1014.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
Potatoes Market Mixed As Receipts Rise
Chicago August 6 potatoes receipts 66 cars on track 260 trading fair market slightly stronger Kansas and Missouri sacked Irish cobblers 210 to 265.
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Chicago
Kansas
Missouri
Butter and Eggs News Out of Chicago Market
Butter prices fell slightly in Chicago trading with 16,062 tubs received. Creamery extras 41 1 2, standards 42 1 4, extra firsts 41 2, firsts 39 40, seconds 87 to 81 2. Eggs held steady with 17,957 cases received.
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Chicago
Morton recounts Northwest journey by Louisiana Special
C B Morton guest of honor at a Lion Club luncheon shared impressions from the Louisiana Special train tour visiting 14 states including a 24 hour stop in Vancouver Canada He praised Tulsa growth from 7000 in 1905 to 170000 today and highlighted St Josephs recreation and Grand Forks four product mills and plants The trip showcased southern hospitality and US vastness Prof Francis Wheeler and Leon Hammond joined for club singing with Dr S A Collins W D Hall W L Love Henry Mayo and C Bynum Jr as guests.
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Lion Club
Louisiana
Great Northwest
Vancouver
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Canada
Tulsa
Okla
Morton
St. Joseph
Grand Forks
N. D
South
United States
Francis Wheeler
Centenary College
Shreveport
Leon Hammond
Lions
S. A. Collins
W. D. Hall
W. L. Love
Henry Mayo
Three Ouachita youths granted bond by Pearce
Oscar Rove Marvin Gaskin and Minor Smith three white residents of Ouachita parish charged with cattle stealing in Union parish were granted $1000 bonds after a preliminary hearing in Farmerville Judge S S D Pearce ruled the evidence justified bail The hearing drew a large crowd of local farmers and witnesses testified largely circumstantial evidence included blood spots on a ferry boat crossing and recovered butcher gear and a cow heart in the car
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Oscar Rove
Marvin Gaskin
Minor Smith
Ouachita Parish
Union Parish
SS. D. Pearce
West Monroe
Heef
Pearce
8. L. Digby
Monroe
W. J. Hammons
Zonesboro
H. G. Fields
T. C. Bergeron
Plans Ready for Six Room Addition at Lida Benton School
J. W. Smith and Associates completed six room expansion plans for Lida Benton School on Lee Avenue and repair plans for the city school. Mayor Arnold Bernstein will review these after returning from New York, with contracts to be let soon if approved.
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J. W. Smith and Associates
Lee Avenue
Arnold Bernstein
New York
Legion Pushes Junior Team Protest Over Eligibility
The American Legion post in Shreveport moves to press its protest over the eligibility of Shreveport and New Orleans junior league teams after B W Hardcastle's report from New Orleans. The post urges Monroe to be named state champions and warns it may escalate to national director Dan Sowers if needed.
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American Legion
New Orleans
Shreveport
Charles E. McKenzie
Roland Cocreham
C. C. Bell
Dan Sowers
Indianapolis
Ind
Dc. E. McKenzie
Jimmy Snee
Monroe
McKenzie
Roland Go¢ereham
Louisiana
Cocreham
Hardcastle
Chas
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Mitten Ready To Help In N C Trolley Strike
Thomas E. Mitten, head of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit, offers to go to New Orleans to arbitrate the street car strike if employers accept his plan. Secretary Davis would serve as arbitrator, following a Union telegram endorsing the Mitten Plan. The plan creates a joint employers and employees committee with final decisions, already used in Buffalo and Philadelphia.
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Associated Press
Washington
Thomas E. Mitten
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Cotton stalk bears 80 bolls near Lake Charles
A cotton stalk eight inches tall with 80 large bolls and many small ones was grown east of Lake Charles by Frank Volman a Black farmer.
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Lake Charles
Frank Volman
Woman Struck by Train Killed in Center Texas
Shreveport dispatch reports Mrs G W Green, a prominent East Texas citizen, was killed attempting to cross the Southern Pacific track at Bobo's switch in Center Texas while boarding a southbound train to Timpson. Her husband crossed safely ahead. her body was sent to Biglands Louisiana for burial.
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Shreveport
Southern Pacific
Bobo
Timpson
Texas
G. W. Green
East Texas
Journal Today
Center
Green
Five Suspects Named in KC Drugstore Explosion
Durwood M. Dailey named five men in a possible arson plot after a drugstore blast that killed three firemen and injured eleven. Three suspects are in custody, including Dailey and John L. Crowe. two others, led by a figure Dailey called the plot leader, are sought. Police report evidence tied to an arson scheme and insurance motives.
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Kansas City
Durwood M. Dailey
Dailey
John L
Pat’ Crowe
D. L. Piggott
Piggott
Warren McBride
Donald Beaumont
Texas glass firm buys Bastrop plant from Frost-Whited
The Three Rivers Glass company purchases the Frost-Whited Investment glass plant at Bastrop Texas and plans to resume operations soon. Headquarters will move from Three Rivers to Dallas. The Bastrop plant reopening will provide local employment and expand the company’s annual capacity to about 40 to 50 million bottles and jars for the Southwest market.
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Frost- Whited Investment Company
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Dallas Journal
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Frost-Whited Investment Company
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Alabama
Mississippi
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Arizona
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Colorado
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First Lady Wright rice cut in southwest Louisiana
A sample of the season s first Lady Wright rice was brought to Lake Charles by George Harlan on land owned by Mrs Joanna Hurlbut four miles north of Iowa along the Louisiana canal in Jeff Davis parish. L Z Lorraine began cutting early Prolific near Hayes several days earlier.
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Associatm! Press
Lake Charles
Wright Rice
Louisiana
George Harlan
Joanna Hurlbut
Iowa
Louisiana Canal
Jeff Davis Parish
L. Z. Lorraine
Hayes
Dies in Belhaven yacht explosion in Suffolk man's death
FE. C. Pitt of Suffolk Virginia died from burns after the sixty foot yacht Vivian exploded and burned at Belhaven while en route to a fishing trip to Ocra coke. Several companions were lightly injured. The blast is believed to have started by a match in the engine room igniting engine bilge gases.
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Associated Press
Washington, N. C
Striking Romanian Miners Clash with Troops in Lupeny
In the Lupeny coal district near Bucharest, about four thousand miners clashed with military forces over a wage dispute. The fighting left dozens dead and hundreds wounded as power was cut and mines were halted, with the riot act read before soldiers fired. Local authorities said the strike was local in origin, not communist influenced.
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Associated Press
Bucharest
Romania
Lupeny
Impeachment Report Urges Charge Against Knox
A Mississippi House committee filed a report urging impeachment of Attorney General Rush H. Knox for alleged high crimes and malfeasance. The eight to one decision directs the creation of articles of impeachment after an eight month probe into fees tied to cases from 1924 to 1928.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Rush H. Knox
House of Representatives
House
Standing Committee
State Tax Commission
Cecil Inman
Poultry Receipts Reported By Chicago Market
Poultry alive firm receipts total 3 cars with fowls 29 springs 29 broilers 26 roosters 21 turkeys 20 30 ducks 18 20 geese 15 spring geese 20.
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Chicago
Poultry Alive
Two Injured As Car And Bus Collide Near Edwards
Two persons were seriously injured and a number of others cut and bruised when a bus carrying travelers from Selma Alabama collided with a Meridian car driven by W G Culpepper near Edwards Mississippi early today. Culpepper suffered bad cuts and M S Watson fractured shoulder blade. The bus was returning from a Texas tour when it swerved to avoid a parked cart changing a tire.
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Jackson
Miss
Edwards
Hos
Meridian
Culpepper
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers offer replacement for pet goat
The Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers association telegrammed sympathy to Secretary of State H. L. Stimson for the loss of his goat Captain Bones and offered to replace the pet with a registered Angora.
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San Angelo
Tex
H. L. Stimson
Captain Bones
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers
Ouachita Sheriff Sale Notices From Monroe Listings
Public sale notices outline two properties in Ouachita Parish Louisiana. Alan F Sugar and West Monroe cases list Lots 2 and 3 in Block 6 Maryland’s Addition and Lot 14 of Square 2 in Flournoy’s First Addition West Monroe, with sale dates in September 1929 and associated court actions.
Ouachita Bank Foreclosures in Ouachita Parish Court
Writs issued in Ouachita Parish Fourth District Court lead to public sheriff sale at the Monroe courthouse. On August 17 1929 the bank seeks the right title and interest of J R Massey in a judgment of 398 06 with interest and costs. A second sale on September 7 1929 lists the South Half Northeast Quarter and Southeast Quarter Northwest Quarter of section eighteen in township sixteen north range four east as seized property to satisfy a writ.
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Alan F. Sugar
F. EB. Smedley
State of Louisiana
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Ouachita
Fourth District
Fourth Dedictat
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Monroe
Louisiana
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Ouachita Parish
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West Monroe
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Flournoy
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Ouachita National Bank
Massey
Parish of Ouachita
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Ilsa
Fourth Judicial District Court
J. R. Massesah
Cleve’s
J.-B. Thibodeaux
Ouachita National Bank of Monroe
H. P. Marks
Fourth Judical District Court
Parish
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