Wall Street Mixed but Mostly Steady Amid Quiet Selloff
Wall Street on York reports a quiet selling day with modestly lower bids across most categories. Total volume reached 434,200 shares as mining issues led declines and steel and grains offered little support. New unification moves lifted traction shares Interboro and BMT to new yearly highs while the dollar strengthened against European gold exchanges.
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American Iron & Steel Institute
New York Traction
Interboro
B-M-T
U.S
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Dome
Alaska
Juneau
Howe Sound
New York stocks show gains in late August trading
The August 27 market report from Standard Statistics Co notes stock averages mixed with gains in industrials and rails. Indices rose on moderate volume as investors weighed industrials and utilities, while daily highs and lows marked a cautious session across divisions.
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Standard Statistics Co
Lost plane found safe in New Mexico after 20 hours missing
Ear Fleet of Kansas City reported motor trouble forcing a single motor mail and express plane to land at La Questa New Mexico 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas. The pilot left Amarillo Sunday and had been missing since 11 44 am. Two planes searched but found nothing on their first flights. Arrangements planned to bring the plane into Albuquerque after emergency repairs.
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N. M
Kansas City
Transcontinental Western Air, Inc
la Questa
Las Vegas
Fleet
Chappelle
Amarillo
Chicago Grain Prices Close Mixed on Aug 27
Chicago market closes with Sept corn at .775/8, Dec corn at .791/8, May at .82. Old and new quotes mixed across oats rye barley and bellies with several months unquoted or unchanged. Prices for distant months show varied shifts and numeric details across grains.
Market notes and prices from Kansas City and New York
Kansas City livestock data show hogs at 180 to 270 pounds up 15 to 25, sows 5.65 to 6.85, cattle and calves with steers to 8.65, stockers 3.00 to 4.50, calves 3.00 to 6.00, and sheep with lambs steady to strong. New York cotton futures closed steady with slight declines, Oct at 13.08 to 13.09, Dec 13.24, May 13.44 with spot 13.19 middling.
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Kansas ‘City
Dept
Cattie
Utah
Galveston Spot Cotton Prices Slip in Late August
Galveston August cargo market shows spot cotton steady at 10 under middling with middling around 13.20 cents per pound. Sales unclear due to missing data. Market observers noted limited demand and steady price tone as traders waited on further cues.
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Galveston
Cotton market steadies as crop reports loom
New York on August 27 reports cotton futures close steady with modest losses in the range of 10 to 14 points. Traders await late August crop data, textile strike developments, and possible government loan impacts on South marketing policies. Oct futures at 13.09 11, Dec 13.25 26, Jan 13.29, May 13.44 46, July 13.51. Spot middling 13.25.
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New York
Jly
Bond market closes with varied Liberty and treasury notes
New York reports Liberty bonds closing at 4 1/4s 33-38 103.27 and treas 4 1/46 at 112.5 plus other securities: Fed farm mtg 3 1/4s at 100.13 and 98.8 on 49, Home owners loan 48-51 at 98.16.
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Home Owners Loan
Lordsburg Family Narrow Escape In House Fire
Maj. C. Paul Austin and his wife narrowly escaped suffocation when a fire gutted their Lordsburg New Mexico home. The interior and contents were destroyed. Dr. Austin is president of the Lordsburg Hospital Association and heads the county FERA employment bureau.
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C. Paul Austin
Austin
Dexter Missionary Society Meeting at Mrs Becks
A Methodist Church Missionary Society gathering was held Thursday afternoon from 3 to 5 with Mrs. Charles Beck as hostess. Mrs. J. W. Sharp presided over the meeting.
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Texas Mob Hunt For Kidnapper Under Arrest
Tyler Texas Aug 27 An alleged 19 year old kidnapper identified as J D Willis was held in an undisclosed city after threats of mob violence. Victims Mr and Mrs Maxwell Herring identified him as their attacker and the stolen car was found in Palestine. Willis an ex convict from Louisiana denied the assault saying he has a wife and two sons in Chandler Texas.
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J. D. Willis
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Pistol Point
Herring
Miss Queen of the West Visits Roswell Today
Ruth Lee Jones a 19 year old from Clo vis, winner of Miss Queen of the West at the recent bathing beauty contest in Albuquerque, visited Roswell today.
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Ruth Lee Jones
Clovis
Albuquerque
Roswell
Parked Car Rolls Down Hill Injures Man in New Mexico
Las Cruces New Mexico Aug 27 Patricio Medina 50 cf berino suffered severe injuries after a neighbor’s car rolled down a hillside and crushed him beneath an arbor Sunday afternoon. The brakes likely failed and the car parked on a slope caused the accident. Others in the arbor escaped minor injuries.
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el Paso
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Meaina
Miss Jones to Travel by Bus to World’s Fair and Back
Miss Jones will leave Roswell for Chicago next Sunday on a free trip to the World’s Fair and return to Clovis September 17. She prefers bus travel as it suits her visits to relatives and is more convenient.
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