Steel stocks rally as industry shows renewed activity
Steel shares advance amid reports of returning mills and higher demand. United States Steel, Bethlehem, Lackawanna and other producers resume or expand operations, with revised inventories and improved trade cues. Analysts note improved orders, steady to rising production, and cautious optimism about postpanic recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harp
United States
E. H. Opti W. Gates
Mary
John
Europe
United States Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Lackawanna Green Company
Iron Trade Review
Goldsboro Men Arraigned In Seizure Case
Alert W Bailey Henry H Meyers and Captain Sir Oxley co owner consignee and master were arraigned before Commissioner Alexander on piracy to defraud and perjury charges. Bail set at 3900 for Oxley and Meyers Bailey held in jail. Examination set for July 12. Lieutenant Beery described Bailey’s Honduras escape and noted no collusion aboard the steamer Utstein. The vessel and cargo valued at about 100000 will be brought here for custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alert W. Bailey
Henry H. Meyers
Sir Oxley
Consignee
Regetivay
Goldsboro
Honduras
Alexande
Beery
Central America
Suicuie
Galley
Meyers
Oxley
Al@anier
James W. Ostome
Camtin Oxley
Bailey
Frans G. Bailey
Export Shiptz Company
New Orleans
Utstein
Jarrassa
Berry
Tela
Gold cargo tale of the Goldsboro ship and land deals
Mobile reports detail a British steamer named Goldsboro carrying over 200000 in gold linked to the Baileys of New York. Engineer Akman arrives in New York to discuss claims with the British consul as crew members say land purchases were made in their names for vast holdings on Ceiba and Porto Cortez.
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Mobile
Pep
Honduras
Baileys
New York
Goldsboro
Pero Cortez
Mis
Neu Akman
Ak- MM
P Hay
Hat& Aid Akman
New — “Ware
Ballers
Altman
Celba
Porto Cortez
Ceiba
Cortez
Akman
Pope Manufacturing Company Dividends Proposed in Court
Jeeeter Howell of Newark seeks permission from a New Jersey court to pay dividends to holders of allowed claims from the Pope Manufacturing Company. Louisa A. Unzicker of Chicago and other creditors are involved as receivers in Connecticut with funds needed for ongoing rent and claims. The matter concerns funds for the full term and future court actions remain pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeeeter Howell
Newark
Superioe Manufacturing Company
Mage
Connecticut
New Jersey
Cras
Louisa A. Unzicker
Chicago
Pope Manufacturing Company Meer
Condition of Crops Shows Good Wheat and Corn Prospects
Washington reports July 1 crop conditions with spring wheat at 89.4 percent of normal and winter wheat at 80.6 percent. Corn is estimated at 2.737 billion bushels, suggesting a near record harvest. oats, barley, rye, flax, and tobacco show varied but generally healthy conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agricultural Department
Commission rules against sweeping rate cuts in petroleum case
The Interstate Commerce Commission said it will not issue a broad order lowering thousands of rates without a specific complaint. In the National Petroleum Association v Ann Arbor Railroad and others case, the commission found no clear defendants to target and no proof that the challenged classifications were unduly discriminatory. The complaint was dismissed without prejudice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Petroleum Association
Ann Arbor Railroad Company
Financial figures and officers list from unidentified document
The text presents monetary amounts and a list of officers including Levi P. Morton as President Cecil P. Landale as 2d Vice-President and Walter Meacham as Assistant Secretary. It also shows a large numeric figure and a decimal value, likely part of a ledger or corporate record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi P. Morton
Cecil PD. Landale
Walter Meacham
Great Lumber Merger Joins Timber Players Under New Holding Plan
A conference of yellow pine lumbermen in St Louis named a permanent committee chaired by F E Weyerhauser to organize a 200 million dollar holding company for timber owners and manufacturers. Pine stumpage value set at 3 dollars per thousand feet. Hundreds of acres of pine lands across Arkansas Texas Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama join the merger. Other committee members were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
St. Louis
Yellow Pine
F. E. Weyerhauser
Frederick E. Weyerhauser
St. Paul
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Permanent Organization Committee
Hartford Receivers Named for United Boxboard and Paper
Edward C Frisbie of Hartford and Sidney Mitchell of Chicago were appointed receivers for United Boxboard and Paper Company by Judge Platt in US court. The NYNJ company plans a $1 million cash reorganization with stock assessments of 7 per share on preferred and 140 per share on common. A plan to reduce capital by issuing new stock could drop total capital from 28.97 million to 14.31 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford, Conn
Edward C. Frisbie
Sidney Mitchell
Chicago
Platt
United States
United Boxboard and Paper Company
New Jersey
EEE
New York County
Guardian Trust Company of
New York
Mogollon Mountains Investment Company
Exchange Sales Room
Vesey Street
Borough of
Manhattan
Joseph P. Day
Little Fannie Mining Company
Mineral Creek Milling Company
Silver Creek Mining Company
Roy M. Robinson
Grattan Colvin
USA
Maritime place names list from distant ports
A compilation of world ports and ships and their origins or destinations including Flushing Aurora Puerto Cabello La Guayra Maraval Grenada Trinidad Bloemfontein Yokohama Fort une Island Port-au-Prince Alliance Cristobal Aros Castle Cape Town Algoa Bay Proteus New Orleans San Marcos Galveston El Dia Monroe Norfolk Newport News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flushing
Aurora
Nor
Puerto Cabello
la Guayra
Maraval
Grenada
Trinidad
Bloemfontein
Yokohama
Malta
Prinz Eltel Friedrich
Ger
Fortune Island
Port-au-Prince
Alliance
Cristobal
Aros Castle
Cape Town
Algoa Bay
Proteus
New Orleans
San Marcos
Galveston
el Dia
Monroe
Norfolk
Newport News
Steamers at Foreign Ports Arrived and Passed
A listing of ships arriving at and sailing from various foreign ports with dates in July. Vessels include Campania Oceanic Patricia Hellig Olav Barbarossa Mereddio Harburg Jersey City Kabinga Majestic Kaiser Wilhelm II Carmania Louisiana Inveresk Trinidad Argenfels Dunblare Carolina Ayalo Buffalo and others bound for or from New York, Liverpool, Cherbourg, Plymouth, Colombo, Singapore, Manila, and Shanghai with routes via Queenstown, Cherbourg, Plymouth, and more.
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Liverpool
Campania
New York
Queenstown
Southampton
Oceanic
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Patricia
Ger
Hamburg
Copenhagen
Hellig Olav
Dan
Christiansand
Bremen
Barbarossa
Lisbon
Mereddio
Norfolk
Brisbane
Harburg
Fremantle
Melbourne
Bristol
Jersey City
Yokohama
Majestic
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Carmania
Dunkirk
Louisiana
Fiume
Carolina
Hailo
Inveresk
Bermuda
Trinidad
Colombo
Argenfels
Philadelphia
New
Deport 90 Chinese to Orient From El Paso Jail Charge
Ninety Chinamen, the largest deportation at once from El Paso, were sent west today to be repatriated to the Orient. Government costs total $18,000 for the operation. About as many more remain in jail on the border awaiting deportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
el Paso
Tex
Orient
Telegraphic Business Notes from July 8
A stockholder in the old Cleveland Electric Railway sues to annul the transfer to Municipal Traction on a three cent fare system, alleging directors acted without two thirds stockholder consent. Also, AT&T opens the Kansas City to Denver line, bridging the gap. McKeen resigns to join Harriman in Omaha with a $1,000,000 venture. Westinghouse and others win machinery contracts for Pittsburg Buffalo Coal plant at Mariana, planning a new mining town of about 15,000 with $3,000,000 spending. Judge Lurton refuses a rehearing in a distillery branding case against the Internal Revenue Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Frank H. Smith
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Common Pleas
Municipal Traction Company
Pittsburg
Pittsburg- Buffalo Coal Company
Mariana
Washington County
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Cincinnati
Lurton
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Eac Ie
Marine Intelligence Miniature Almanac Snapshot
Maritime section reports sun and moon times with high water marks and wireless updates on ships Umbria Cedric Adriatic. Umbria expected to dock around 7:30 am, Cedric about 11 am tomorrow, Adriatic around 1:30 pm. Routes listed include Australia New Zealand Samoan Islands Fiji New Caledonia via Vancouver and Victoria.
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Moon
High Water
A. M
Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Umbria
New York
Australia
New Zealand
Samoan Islands
Fiji Islands
New Caledonia
Vancouver
Victoria
Marama Hawaii
Japan
Corea
Nit
Pine Islands
San Francisco
Sevecses
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
Maripoga
Livestock Prices in New York Market July 8, 1908
Receipts totaled 74 cars of cattle and 58 milch cows with 3,013 calves and 22% cars of sheep and lambs. Steers and heifers sold weak with most grades down. native beef at 430 to 50 per 109 lb. oxen and stags 3 5 to 5. dressed beef dull. Calves 4 50 to 7 18 per 100 lb. veals active with higher prices. Hogs weak to 19 cents lower. sheep and lambs steady to 15 cents higher. lambs 4 7 to 5 37 15 per 100 lbs. Exports to Liverpool noted for beef.
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New York
Jersey City
60Th Street
Liverpool
London
Morris Beef Company
Nee
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Fragmentary stock list hints at 1920s market items
A snippet shows various securities and preferred stock notes including American Can, National Biscuit, Quaker Oats, Commonwealth Edison, Chicago Title, Diamond Match and others with percentage figures and brief identifiers, suggesting a ledger-style market page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
jKan
Ry & L
National Biscuit
National Carbon
Streets Stable C
Central
oTy Commonwealth Edison
Subway
Chicago
Swift
Central of Georgia Railroad Earnings Report
A compiled earnings summary for multiple railroads including Central of Georgia, Illinois Central, Yazoo & Mississippi Valley, Rock Island System, and others. It presents gross earnings, operating expenses, and net earnings for periods such as the fourth week in June and the year to date July 1 to June 30, with totals across all companies. Includes figures for St Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, and Evansville and Terre Haute among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Central
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Rock Island
ST. Louis
San Francisco
Minneapolis
ST. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
Atlanta
Birmingham
Atlantic
Chicago
Eastern
Illinois
Evansville
Terre Haute
Bvanaville
Indianapolis
Crom Eetoings
Shipping News from Atlantic Ports Report July Sailings
A coastal shipping ledger lists steamer movements and arrivals at the Bar with cargoes, passengers, and routes. Vessels include Ogeechee, President Lincoln, Gunther, Finance, Olinda, Apache, Alice, Pawnee, Massachusetts, Konig Albert, Hamilton, Nicholas Cuneo, and others with ports like Brunswick Hamburg Rio de Janeiro and Genoa. Weather at Sandy Hook notes northwest breeze and clear conditions as ships sail and pass Quarantine.
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Ogeechee
Fickett
Brunswick
Brunswick Sino
President Lincoln
Ger
Hahn
Hamburg
Boulogne
Plymouth
Hamburg American Line
Bar
Gunther Ger
Suxdorf
Santos
Rio de Janeiro
Barbados
Finch
Munson
Moise
Apache
Staples
Jacksonville
Charleston
Clyde Ss Co
Mudse
Alice
Pedersen
Baracoa
Atlantic Fruit Co
Pawnee
Rich
Philadelphia
Clyde 8S Co
Sandy Hook
Massachusetts
Holmes
Boston
New England Ss Co
Konig Albert
Feyen
Genoa
Naples
Gibraltar
Oelrichs & Co
Hamilton
Boaz
Newport News
Norfolk
Domnion Ss Co
Nicholas Cuneo
Nor
Jensen
Port Antonio
Cuneo Importing Co
Wnd
Local Improvements Assessments Listed for Bronx and Queens
City records call attention to July 8 22 1908 advertisement by the Bronx 24th Ward Grand Avenue and related works from Fordham Road to St James Street including regulating grading curb and sidewalks and fence building Also Queens wards Willow Street 6th Street 2nd Ward Grove Street and 3rd Ward Madison Avenue lists of grading paving curbing and flagging and notices from Surrogates for Matilda Elder estate with August 12 deadline. Proposals for Panama Railway ballast cars also announced with July 17 and August 8 1908 deadlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Assessors
Bronx
24Th Ward
Grand Avenue
Fordham Road
St. James Street
Borough OF
Queens
Ward
Willow Street
Main Street
Hoyt Avenue
Sth Avenue
Priell Street
Broadway
Gam Avenue
6Th Street
Vernon Avenue
Jackson Avenue
2Nd Ward
Grove Street
Onderdonk Avenue
Woodward Avenue
3Rd Ward
Madison Avenue
Boe Um Avenue
Murray Street
Herman A. Metz
Panama Rail Road Company
York
State Street of
F. C. Nordse
Ordeier
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Mldsboro
Pope Company
Henry Heinzer
New York Produce Exchange
Heinzer
Commerce Commission
Fifth Avenue Trust Company
Fifth Avenue
Forty-third Street
New York City
WM. D. Sloane
James M. Pratt
Great Lumber
Federal Court
Peti
Tion
Port Natal
Dunblare (Br
Shanghai
Bowery Savings Bank
Bowery
Morey
Henry A. Schenck
William E. Knox
Joseph G. Liddle
Irving Astronas
Chambers St
W. H. B. Totten
George B. Dunning
Ele Tener,jr
Board of Trustees
Thomas M. Mulry
John J. Pulleyn
Telegraphic Business Notes
Kansas City
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Denver
Omaha
W. R. McKeen
Union Pacific Railroad Company
E. H. Harriman
McKeen Motor Car Shops
Marine Intelligence
Transpacific
Lusitania
Adriatic
Pamma Thomas
Oes Quebec
Orinocingston
Cunard Floride Havre
Rosalind Halifax
Red Cross
Cedric
Oseese
White Star
Merida
la Touraine
Havre
French
Haltic
Monterey
Havana
War
Christiania
Lutzow
Lloyd Yee —O
Moltke
Algonquin
Clyde
Ur Ene
Hyades
Argentina
Houston
Osuesescus
American
Caronia
Cunard
Saratoga
Sarnia Inagua
Orinoco
Jamaica
Rms
Queer Eanor
Bahia
Brazil
Minayoke
Londo
Mallory
Comanche
Savannah
the Franklin Savings Bank
8Th Avenue
42D Street
J. Halcock Waring
Manhattan Savings Institution
Joseph Bird
Frank G. Stiles
Constant M. Bird
East River Savings Bank
Dick S. Ramsay
Chas. A. Whitney
Central OF Georgia
Shipping News
Port of New York
Lucania
Teutonic
Nieuw Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Boulogne Aura
Patras
Bennett
Longships
Prometheus
Iushing
Deutschland
Tank
Ferry Companies
Bia
Jackson Gas
Kan City
Bait
Lafay Gas
Los
L & W Va
Bingham G
Mad
Buffalo Gas
Mutual Do
Y & ER
Pg&c
Ohio & Ind
Paterson & P G
Dh P
Pitts Con
Denver Gas
Do Ss
St J
Fort W
Aioe Ing
Syra Lt & P Ds
Brooklyn
Union Ferry
Bts
Nyg&er
Jaeetes
Empire City Savings Bank
West 125Th St
Isaac A. Hopper
Arthur T. Timpson
City of
Abner C. Thomas
County of
Matilda A. Elder
Duer, Strong & Whitehead
Wall Street
Annie E. Munn
Adaline M. E. Peters
Borough of Manhank
State Street
F. C. Nordsier
Fort Wood
U. S
G. C. Burnell
Consig
Park Plac
H. F. Hutchinson
L. A. Stuart
NEW York Savings Bank
N. W. Cor
14Th St
Sh Avenue
William Fellinger
James L. Wandling
Archibald M. Pentz
IRGS
Lexington Ave
R. Ebert
Greenwich Savings Pank
E. Cor
6Th Ave. L
Shus
James Quinlan
Eae
Charles M. Dutcher
Treas
Francis M. Bacon, Jr
North River Savings Bank
34Th St. Bet
Sth & 6Th Aves
Samuel D. Styles
Frederick N. Cheshire
Charles FP. Turton
Yellowstone
Mond & Whit
Alaska
Rockies
New England
Canada
Raymond & Whitcomb Co
Fifth Ave
Bet
Lake Hopatcong
Liberty ST
Mauch Chunk Glen
Hudson
West Point
Newburgh
Poughkeepsie
Palace
Rick Hudson
Mary Powell
Desbrosses St
129Th St
Albany
West Shore
N. S
Str
Block Island
24Th St
Nostrand Ave
East New York
Montauk
Shinnecock
Long Island R
Prince of Wales
Thos. Cook. & Son
Rockaway Beach
N. Y
East 34Th St. Sta
Long R. R
Flatbash Ave
Sta
Newburg
F. Romer
Franklin St
Sing
Homer Ramsdell
Hattan
Leavee Foot
22Nd St
Gramercy
Red Bank
Battery Sam Highlands
Red
Berilitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Harlem
Lenox Ave
Court St
Asbury Park
Starkey Seminary
Seneca Lake
Watkins Sept
M. Summerbell
Lakemonth
Taconic School For
Ceautiful
Berkshire Hilla
Atr
Lilian Dixon
Wellesley
Bryn Mawr
Bertha Bailey
Lakeville
Sethlenes
Max Hark
D. D
Prin
Belizece
M. J. Young-Fulton
Union Square
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