Market Closes Higher As Stocks Rally Across Sectors
New York trading saw a buoyant broad advance with investors shifting interest between groups as prices hit fresh highs. Prairie Oil and Gas dividend shift sparked early gains, while radio shares surged on demand for new offerings. Coal stocks strengthened and utilities remained active as major names like Tennessee Electric and Lehigh Valley Meats posted advances.
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San Antonio
New York
Hich
Prairie Oil_and Gas
Prairie
Reyzi
Mom ‘Tana
Glen Alden
Lehigh Valley
Ford Motor
Tennessee Electric Peer
Stock Exchange and
Cuba Company
United States and World Market Highlights From Dec 16
Chicago hog price trends and market activity report a strong to higher finish with trade tightness in hogs and cattle, led by steady to higher steer demand and brisk butchers trading. Cotton futures in New Orleans show early gains on strong spot demand, later stabilizing. New York cotton goods markets report steadier activity. London silver prices, London money rates, and U.S. military travel orders rounded out the market and defense notes.
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San Antonio Light
Chicago
Todey
Levy
New Orleans
Liverpool
Wehson
United States
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Red River Onow
Wales
Pio Depo
Russate
Market Prices Quoted by Smiths Produce Tuesday Morning
Prices to producers and retailers from the Snyder Produce Company and Grasso Seed Company list a wide range of fruits, vegetables, and staples with per unit and per case rates. Items include beets, carrots, lettuce, celery, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, citrus, apples, oranges, bananas, and poultry, along with seeds and dried goods.
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Tos
Coramine
Jlettuce
California
Porto Rico
Synder Produce Company
Grasso Seed Company
Milo
Cora
Charters Granted Across Texas and Oklahoma Markets
Charters approved include Fannitt Street Realty of Beaumont with 106000 stock and J F. Josey among incorporators. Proughon Practical Business College of Corpus Christi lists 10000 stock with J W Draughon and J L Farpsworth as incorporators. American Teq Company expands Texas capital from 75000 to 504000. The Branch Middlekauff Investment Company of Wichita Kan gains Texas permit with Amarillo as headquarters. Oklahoma City reports cattle receipts of 1600 and 2300 for hogs and steers with mixed prices, while prime cottonseed and byproducts market data appear for Houston and surrounding areas.
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Austin
Tex
Fannitt Street’ Realty Company
Beaumont
J.-F. Josey
FC. Miller
Gordon
Proughon Practical Business College
Corpus Christi
J. W. Draughon
J. 1
Farpsworth
P. TR. Reavis
American Teq Company
Dallas
Texas
Middlekauff Investment Company
Wichita
Kan
Amarilla
H. H. Taylor
Snow worms found in glaciers across Washington Alaska
Seattle reports discovery of snow worms in the Casesole mountains and on glaciers in Alaska. Professor Trevor Kincaid of the University of Washington identifies the creature as an ice worm with a brownish hue and a heat generating pigment. It reaches about one inch in length and feeds on debris in the ice.
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Seattle
Tec
Casesole
Washington
Alaska
Trevor Kincaid
University of Washington
Two Radio Programs Captivate San Antonio Listeners
San Antonio fans heard two notable programs Monday night. Harry Snodgrass of WOS Jefferson City Missouri provided a moving tale and piano performance while the new General Electric KOA station in the Midwest began broadcasts at 1 am San Antonio time with strong reception nationwide.
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San Antonio
Harry Snodgrass
WOS
Watch Our State
Jefferson City
Missouri
Snodgrass
General Electric Broadcasting
Veaver
KOA
General
Middle West
United States
Weather roundup for San Antonio and regions
The bulletin reports cloudy skies Tuesday night and Wednesday across San Antonio and nearby areas with probable rain and a cooler trend. Winds shift from southerly to northerly by Wednesday night and temperatures range from 6 to 20 degrees in East and West Texas regions with cold waves and livestock warnings in northern zones.
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San Antonio
East Texas
West Texas
Wall Street Features AMERICAN WOOLEN and Allis Chalmers Notes
Persistent buying of American Woolen lifts stock to a new top for the movement amid speculation of special developments. Allis Chalmers stock rises on rumors of a large electrical equipment deal possibly tying in General Electric and Worthington Pump. Kansas City area poultry and other produce prices show slight to modest changes.
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American Woole
San Antonio
Allis Chalmers
Ajlix Chalmers Manufacturing Company
General Electric Company
Allis Chatmere
Worthington Pump
Tick eradication plan sparks East West Texas clash
Fort Worth, Dec 16. Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association executive committee met with H L Kokernot presiding to discuss tick eradication and oppose the San Antonio zoning plan. About 40 members attended as leaders from Marfa San Angelo Fort Stockton Kingsville Victoria and other cities prepared to push legislation offsetting the Ferguson plan generating an East West Texas legislative battle.
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Fort Worth
H. L. Ropernot
San Antonio
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association
James 8. Ferguson
Colorado River
H. UL. Kokernot
L.C. Brite
Marfa
Ralph H. Harris
San Angel
F. Os
West
Texas
East Texas
Commodity News Notes Dry Goods Trade Improves
New Orleans reports jabbers and manufactureport dry goods trade has strengthened for December with a 20 percent rise over November. Cold weather slowed activity but interior orders are rising for future requirements. Chicago notes butter storage down 83 million pounds in November, cheese holdings down 10 million, frozen poultry up 30 million pounds versus November. Candy firm Page and Shaw increases output to 28 thousand pounds daily in Cambridge with sales likely to beat 1923 record.
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New Orleans
Chicago
Candy Company
Boston
Shaw
Cambridge
Various State Markets Report Surplus and Growth Dec 16
Delaware poultry stocks depleted as dealers buy up flocks amid embargo impacts. Georgia Peach Bank to operate to advance cooperative peach growers. Apple blotch slows Missouri fruit. Boston mills resume full output. Arkansas corn crop valued around 9 million. Magnolia Gas reports 16 inch line completed. Akron rubber output steady with spring expansion expected. Seattle wool buyers seek 1924 crop at 45–48 cents. San Antonio reports strong holiday retail in Texas. Sickey’s Old Redgate Eye Water ad promotes product.
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Seattle
Oregon
Washington
Hoy
Fugitive Garcia Safe in Mexico City and Seventeenth Adventist Spat
Enrique Garcia, an alleged thief who escaped from Jourdanton jail, reports being healthy in Mexico City and sent a letter to Detective Joe Ruhnke. He is wanted for robberies in Jourdanton Pleasanton Charlotte and Lemon and a prior drugstore theft. Ruhnke plans to return him for trial. Also, Seventh Day Adventists dispute claims by Henry Arndt that the world ends February 6 1925, stating no date is set for Christ's second coming.
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Enrique Garcia
Jourdanton
Mexico City
Joe Ruhnke
Garcia
Gaying
Ruhnke Beeves
Jourdenton
Pleasanton
Charlotte and
Lemon
Ruhnke
Bill Carver
Jourdanion
South Texas
Holy Land
San Diego
Seventh Ray Adventists
Christ
Jesus Christ
Victoria Criminal Docket Cleared With multiple burglaries sentenced
In Victoria Tex Pat Gradington 30 was found guilty on two burglary counts and received two years in the penitentiary for each. He had burglarized in Taez after escaping LaGrange where he was sentenced to eight years. The term ends with civil suits and other cases continuing. Roosevelt Hagen’s burglary charges were moved to juvenile court as he was under 17.
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Victoria
Tex. Dee
Pat Gradington
Promnins Sud
Gradington
Taez
LaGrange
Sugarland
Wist
R. TL. Vaniel
al A. Jones
Williame Davis
Henry
Haver
Holland
State Reformatory
Florence
S.C
Louis O. Hudler
South Carolina
Harris
Roosevelt Hagen
Professor David Neumark Dies at 58 in Cincinnati
Professor David Neumark world renowned scholar of Jewish philosophy and history died after an appendicitis operation in Cincinnati He was 58 and had taught philosophy at Hebrew Union College for sixteen years The death occurred last night and was reported from Cincinnati on December 16.
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Cincinnati
David Neumark
Hebrew Union College
Joseph E Fin ds dies in California
Joseph E Finds aged 73 dies in Pasadena California described as lifelong friend of Mark Twain Thomas A Edison and Chauncey M Depew and organizer of several printing and lithographing firms in New York and Cincinnati. The story also includes Kansas City cattle receipts and mixed market reports with prices and top values across calves steers cows and hogs, plus an advertisement for a cotton based remedy.
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Pasadena
Joseph E. Finds
Mark Pwain
Thomas A. Edison
Chauncey M. Depew
New York
Cincinnati
Man Faces Bigamy and Abandonment Charges Over Letters
William Carter is haled into court on bigamy and abandonment charges amid claims a misleading letter from his first wife led him to believe he was free to remarry. The document says he married a second woman while still married to wife No 1, and later faced abandonment counts for two children. He cites the letter as his defense, his bond set at 500 dollars after waiving an examining trial.
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William Carter
Bigant
Carter
Bexar County
Zelmy Carter
William Tr
Virginia
Fleming Carter
Bonaxaen
Justice of the Peace
Neil Campbell
Mattie Sue Davis
Cher
Ibanez mocks Madrid summons as Spain eyes reforms
Vicento Blasco Ibanez, the author known for pamphlets against the king and military authorities, laughed at Madrid's edict summoning him to a military court. He vowed not to respond and said he will stay in France while agitating for Spain's regeneration. An inspection of Station Hospital Fort Sam Houston followed, led by Col. Edwin P. Wolfe.
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Associated Press
Paris
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Suanieh Iuidor
Spain
Madrid
France
Fort Sam Houston
Edwin P. Wolfe
Medical Corps
Washington
Mercury Falls 84 Degrees in 12 Hours in Montana
Great Falls Montana December 16 A dramatic temperature swing from 68 above to 21 below in 12 hours marks the largest drop yet recorded by the United States reclamation service at Fairfield Sun river project director George Sanford says. Blizzard warnings issued for Shelby Sunburst with deep snows and near five inches north of Conrad.
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Great Falls
Mont
Fairfield
United States Reclamation ‘Service
George Sanford
Sun River Project
Sanford
Shelby
Sunburst
Conrad
Changes in Mexican Consulate Staff Move Forward
Tuesday arrival of Serando Barrera Guerra as new consul accelerates transfer plans. Renato Canta Lara to take a one month vacation after promotion, Alessniro Lubbert to be replaced by Leandro Garza Leal in about twenty days. Consuls Lara and Duthbert receive congratulatory calls as they prepare to depart.
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San Francisco
Guerra
Dallas
Teal
Lubbert
Valparaiso
Chile
San Antonio
Lara
St. Louis
Rio Grande
McAllen
Galveston
Ealing
State treasury reports August balance and deficits
The Texas State Treasury shows on August 31 a total of 40,440,806 with 10,212,566 cash and 30,198,240 in bonds. Available funds include 12,804,142 for the permanent school fund and 547,874 for the permanent university fund plus several others. The report notes a last fiscal year expenditure of 75,014,680 and a general revenue deficit of over 2,600,000 expected to be cleared by February 4 through strict legislative economy.
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Austin
Sehent
Deaf and Dumb
Lundtie Fund
Orphans’ Home Fund
General Revenue
State Highway Department
University Building
United States
Sheriff Aids Search For Missing Youth In Memphis
Four grieving mothers in Memphis appeal to Sheriff Kim Stevens for help locating Howard Conrad who vanished from his home ten weeks ago. A $100 reward is offered for his safe return as authorities mobilize in the case but details remain unclear.
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Kim Stevens
Memphis
Tenn
Howard Conrad
Conrad
Stever
San Antonio
Crossword puzzles aid patient morale at asylum study
Officials at the Southwestern Insane Asylum in Warren discuss cross word puzzles as a potential therapeutic tool. They note patients enjoy puzzles as well as card games, chess and checkers, with occupational therapy weaving, painting and reading also used to engage residents.
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Southwestern Insane Asylum
Warren
Pahava
Southwestern Asylum
Pluennicke
Texas guard camp urged for Palacios site
Adjutant General Thomas J Barton recommends a permanent Texas National Guard camp for the Thirty-fifth Division at Palacios Texas with Colonel Paul W Wolf in charge of National Guard affairs The plan awaits Congress funding and War Department approval Palacios residents offered the site and will provide ground for maneuvers and support facilities for a fifteen day summer training for all division units.
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Texas National Guard
Palacios
War Department
Thomas J. Barton
Plang
Paul W. Wolf
National Guard
Eighth Corps
Fort Sam Houston
Iust
Congress
Brooks Flier Sets Air Speed Record on Kelly to Muskogee Flight
Second Lieutenant Lauw rence C. Craigie of Brooks Field flew a DH 4B airway ship from Kelly Field to Muskogee in about five hours despite fog delays. The 480 mile trip averaged 120 miles per hour. He carried Private Murray of the Sixty eighth Squadron en route to Chanute Field for the Air Service Technical School.
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Kelly Field
Muskogee
Lauwrence C. Craigie
Brooks Field
Por
Craigie
Murray
Chanute Field
Air Service Technical
First Sergeant Duties Trigger Pronunciation Challenge
At the armed post recruits arrive from the East bringing names that baffle pronunciation. Listed among the newcomers are Piellinno Ficello Chartle Stracsilski Charles Pisciotta Tame Sangiacomo Maryjan Maltyktin Michael Pracaukowski John Boryszewski Varataras Durgerian Edward Chemielewski Gustave Yanocsik and many other hard to spell names.
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Sam Bouston
Piellinno Ficello
Chartle Stracsilski
Colonel Coppeck Visits His Her? Amid Leave in San Antonio
Lieutenant Colonel Edward R Coppeck Cavalry stationed Tulsa Okla with 469th Field Artillery Organized Reserves is spending a month leave in San Antonio. He previously served at Port Sam Houston headquartering the Non divisional Group Organized Reserves Eighth Army. He attended the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill and has been at Tulsa since completing training.
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Edward R. Copeck
Cavalry
Tulsa
Oklo
San Antonio
Conpeck
Port Sam Houston
Eserves
Arex
Field Artille School
Fort Sill
Tioners
Tulse
Leonras
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Loxvon Money
London
Lwirg E. Booth
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First Cavalry Division
B. H. Brown
el Paso
Vernon L. Nash
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F. 5
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Robert C. Beckett
Iigh Pereamery
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Suesday Morning
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Jonathan
Oklahoma
City Livestock
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Wall Street
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I H. L. Kokernot
Commodity News Notes
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Enére
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Ansners
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Federal Farm Loan Board
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Textile Mills
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Magnolia Gas Company
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Ohio
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