Stock Markets See Saturday Slump Amid Apathy On Wall Street
On August 18 AP reports extreme apathy dragging prices downward in a dull session. Volume at 164,000 shares was the smallest since August, with many issues barely changed and losses from fractions to over a point. Grains rose early while cotton fell, bonds were steady, and the dollar strengthened. Several major stocks sagged with notable gains for Bigelow-Sanford Carpet, Bethlehem Steel, Howe Sound, and California Packing.
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Wall Street i
New York
Wwere
U. S. Steel
Amer‘ah Telephone
General Motors
Isler
Case
Auburn
U. S. Industri] Alcohol
Great Western Sugar
Wilson A. Santa Fe
Union Pacific
American
Bigelow-Sanford
Bethlehem, Steel
Howe Sound
California
New York Stock Close Amid Broad Activity on Aug 18
The New York Stock Exchange ended a busy session with wide swings as numerous issues posted gains and declines. Major averages showed mixed movement while industry leaders like US Steel, General Electric, and Texaco reflected uneven strength.
Grain prices in Chicago August grain market report
Chicago grain quotes show Wheat with September and December figures near 1.04 for old and new contracts. Corn ranges in the mid to upper 70s, oats around 49 to 51, rye steady in the mid eighty cents, barley listed only for September and December. Lard and bellies close with September lard near 8.50 and bellies around 12.12 to 12.35.
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Chicago
Market Report Kansas City Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Hogs steady with 21 lb weights at 6.25 top. Cattle week as a whole mixed with native fed steers and yearlings 15 25 lower, fed heifers steady, stockers and feeders strong, week top 8.00 on 1 002 lb and 1143 lb steers. Grass stockers 2.50 to 4.25, sheep week down 65 to 1.00, natives top 6.50, yearlings 50 to 60 lower, fat ewes 2.75 and down.
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Kansas City
Ap-Us
Western grown wools show modest weekly uptick
Western grown wools moved slightly higher over the past week with few large outlets. Some buyers purchased moderate quantities, improving on the small lots seen in the prior month. Short combing fine original bag and a half blood strictly combing graded territory wools sold in fair quantities. fleeces remained quiet with unchanged quotations.
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Bogeton
Ap-Us
New York Bond Market Ledger Aug 18 Update
AP list of stock and bond quotes with prices for Liberty bonds Treasuries Home Owners, Federal Farm Mortgage and Fed tax notes. Notable entries include Amn G & E 21.125 and Humble Oil 48.125, alongside U S S bonds and various mining and industrial issues.
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U. S&s Bonds
New York
Liberty Bonds
Treas
Home Owners Loan
Fed Farm Mtg
Fed Pa
Cotton Market Dips on Liquidation. Futures Steady
New York August 18 AP The cotton market moved lower amid liquidation and scattered selling from the south. Futures closed steady with declines of 13 to 10 points. October 13.06 to 13.07, December 13.21 to 13.23, January 13.26, May 13.40 to 13.41, May 13.47, July 13.51. Spot middling 13.16.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
AdamExp
Alaska
T&t
Kencott
Am P&l
Krog Groc AmRdSt
Lambert
Amrdm
LigMyrs
AmStiFd
LorTob
Amt&t
Melnpor
Amtobb
MieLelian
Midcpet
Jam Wuin
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NatDary
Armouret
NatDis
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Kef
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AubAuto
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Avia-Cor
Nor Amr
al Loco
Nor Pac
B&o Rail
Ohio Oil
Sarnsdl
Packard
Beatric
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Celujasrhic
Park U
Avin
SoCal
Com&Seou
Stdo NJ
CongeNa
Ste
Con Gas
St&Wbstr
Studbkr
TexCorp
ContOilp
TexGul
Corn Pro
Texpltr
Coty
TransAm
Scurt
Bien
Air
Doug Air
Unit Corp
du Pont
Elec R&l
GenElec
Gen Mill
Ussupf
Gil Raz
Gimbelb
Uth Pac& Glidden
Vanadum
Zvidust
Warn Pix GtNorPf
West UN
GwWsner
WestAir Holland
Wste&m
Howe Snd
Woolwr
South
New Orleans Cotton Prices Steady as Sales Reach 174
Spot cotton in New Orleans on August 18 held steady, down 17 points, with 174 bales sold. Middling grade priced at 13.06.
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New Orleans
Hagerman News Roundup Highlights Local Movements
Hagerman notes busy week with visits and trips. Mason and Betty returned from Albuquerque with a Ruth Hanna McCormack Sims visit praised. Key family to Portales for a reunion. Lowell Andrews recovering from knee infection surgery at St Mary’s. Several families and youths attend Christian Culture School events in Carlsbad. E G Tatum visits from Monahans. Eva May Bible visits Dexter. Curry family returns from Nebraska and Illinois with relatives. Girl Scouts sessions update with Gra ham and Utterback. Weaver and Southworth plan Catalina Islands trip. Vinton Curry improves after illness. Missionary Society meets at Mrs Atwood’s on rural life topics.
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C. G. Mason
Betty
Albuquerque
Ruth Hanna McCormack Sims
A. S. Key
Portales
Key
Lowell Andrews
Tom Andrews
St. Mary’s Hospital
E. S. Stroud
P. E. Kipers
W. L. Heitman
Hagerman
Christian Culture School
Carlsbad
Thelma Robinson
Anna and
Roy Slade
Mabel Dollahan
Frank Christianson
Gladys Menefee
Joyce Whatford
Jack Sweatt
Ruidoso
E. G. Tatum
Monahans
Texas
Tatum
Mrs. Sweatt
Eva May Bible
Dexter
Dorothy Sue Devenport
C. W. Curry
Helen Curry
Nebraska
Illinois
Mr. Curry
Knox County
J. E. Wimberly
Harrison McKinstry
Elizabeth Wilson
Elizabeth McKinstry
Elizabeth
Miss Wilson
John Wilson
Roswell
Buck Boyce
Miss Graham
Miss Utterback
Greenfield
Methodist Church
Miss Key
Hearn
George Weaver
Southworth
Ethel Weaver
Catalina Islands
Vinton Curry
Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Cotton Prices in Galveston Market on Aug 18
In Galveston on August 18 spot cotton held steady with a 15 point decline. Middling cotton priced at 13.05 with total sales of 116 bales reported by AP reporters.
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Galveston
Martin Leaves for Training at Ft Bliss
Major Charles M. Martin, candidate for County School Superintendent, departs Sunday for fourteen days of active military training at Ft. Bliss El Paso Texas. He is a major in the Organized Reserve Corps and active in Reserve affairs for fourteen years. He plans to return by September and will campaign among voters afterward.
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Charles M. Martin
Ft. Bliss
el Paso
Texas
Martin
Organized Reserve Corps
Examinations for New Mexico History and Civics Scheduled
Notice to teachers in New Mexico states examinations will be held in the office of the county school superintendent at ten o clock Saturday morning August 25 those wishing to take the examination should sign up at once by leaving their names at the mentioned office Thelma Mc Cully county school superintendent Adv
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New Mexico
Thelma McCully
Falcon Electrical Service Ad Teases Quick Radio Fix
An old classified ad promotes Falcon Electrical Service at 125 W Second offering quick radio repairs with affordable costs. Phone 289 appears in the brief notice aimed at avoiding financial woes.
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Falcon Electrical Service
Adti
Summer cabins fill Ruidoso with visiting families
Ruidoso News lists locals and guests at Alta Vista and Sky land cabins. J W Greathouse Vernon Texas A W Bainbridge El Paso Mrs R H Pennell El Paso at Paul Mayer cabins. Nelson Perdue Harold Brashear Plainview and James cabin. R D Stewart Canutillo Howe cabin. Meldrum Gray Ohio Roswell Olds cabin upper Ruidoso. Davidson Roswell Ottstott Phoenix guests of Fairbank. Fairbank family returning to Roswell. Plainview visitors include Bennett and Harry. McAfee Lubbock returns. Patton El Paso at Mayer cabins. Parks Pine Place hosts many from Lubbock Houston San Angelo El Paso Roswell Clovis Levelland and more. Jack of Diamonds bridge tea hosted by Luckett El Paso with many guests. Camp fire birthday surprise for Loraine Kienle hosted by W J Schafer El Paso.
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Nelson Perdue
Harold Brashear
Plainview Texas
James Cabin
R. D. Stewart
Canutillo
Howe Cabin
Meldrum Gray Sr
Meldrum Jr
William
Pffie Olds
Charlotte
Edward Nichols
Columbus
Ohio
Rosawell
Olds Cabin
Upper Ruidoso
S. L. Davidson
Roswell
Homer Ottstott
Phoenix
H. F. Fairbank
Lawrence Fairbank
Mmes
George Bennett
C. P. Harry
Plainview
Texas
Alta Vista
Guy McAfee
Lubbock
J. D. Patton
el Paso
Mayer
Parks Pine Place
J. M. Gordon
H. A. Harrell
Houston
Lottie Ross
Loftis Bell
Clovis
Jack Leslie
W. S. Thrash
T. F. Spurgeon and Son
Fredericks
Okla
J. Knox Bynum
Shawnee
W. J. Crume
James Crume
Jesse Freeman
Elida
N. M
Sylvia Southard
Ft. Sumner
Ceccil Gwinns
Herbert Braun
Abernathy
Frank Rodgers
Amherst
Geo. Owen
W. P. Bolding
Martha Jean
Carrie Friday
Wichita Falls
P. M. Youngberg
Santa Barbara
Calif
P.H. Luckett
Jack of Diamonds
Grover Pickrell
R. J. Williams
S. S. Paker
R. B. Alves
C. J. Neel
H. B. Bonnell
Glen
Mary
W. J. Schafer
Loraine Kienle
Roy
Joy McCloud
Milburt Wahlen
J. Dollarhoe
Hondo
Ontario Tax Debate Over Intangible Property Law
U S Bateman questions 1933 tax policy as a special session discusses how to collect taxes on intangible property. He argues that 1933 law may have deceived homeowners and aids lenders, urging examination of laws from 38 states and demanding clarity on 1933 tax collection.
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Reader
First Woman Indian Superintendent Named for Nevada and Stewart
Alicia Bowler of Los Angeles named to organize Nevada Indians under the Wheeler Howard act and serve as superintendent of the Carson Indian school at Stewart New. The legislature is to hear her committee's report by February 1936. The inquiry into vice and corruption proceeded with strong party notes and a wary Senate. Governor Allen expressed quiet support.
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Alicia Bowler
Los Angeles
Nevada
Carson
Long
Assembly
Seabury
Walker
New York
O‘fice
House
Senate
Senator Long
Gov
Allen
Long plans new legislative probe into New Orleans regime
Senator Long readied a rapid offensive against Mayor Walmsley led city government by invoking a legislative investigation. The probe targets the Walmsley faction and recent civil court rulings, to be conducted by a 4 senator and 5 representative committee with powers of a court.
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Long
New Orleans
T. Semmes ‘Walmsley
Bateman Sets Out Tax Claims and Exemption Idea
The speaker details tax sums claiming 6.4 million from taxes and 1.6 million from money plus estimates up to fifty million in notes and bonds and 2 million from tangibles, totaling about 10 million in annual taxes from intangibles, proposing homes be exempt and noting praise for Chapter 27 of the special session laws. The text ends mid thought.
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St Oi Ind
Swift & Co
News of
M. Martin
Southwestern Public Service Company
Ruidoso News
J. W. Greathouse
Vernon
Dr. Dunn
A. W. Bainbridge
R. H. Pennell
Mary Janet and
Raymond
Paul Mayer
Skyland
Ontario
U. S. Bateman
John S. Labatt
London
Ont
Sarnia
Labatt
Indian Post
T. Dostolik
Ruido
Frank Klohs
Winston Smith
Navajo Lodge
Dick Gentry
Ruicoso
June Joyce
Katherine Burns
W. P. Boldings
George Smoot
Pine Lodge
Alida
Bateman
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North Main Street
Freddy Fair
LOG Cabin
Merchants Credit Association
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