Wall Street reacts to baking stock merger rumors
New York traders sent shares of General Building, Ward Baking, Cushman’s Sons, and United Bakeries higher as merger speculation and a fresh financial plan spurred demand. Goodyear Rubber and Goodyear-related issues rose, while Pomerican Light and Traction and Gillette Safety Razor saw notable activity. Jib Consolidated led active movement among low priced mining issues amid broader market optimism.
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San Antonio
New York
Curbange
Prihy
Cushmar
Ward
United Bakeries
Mondor
Goodyear
Rudger Company
WHS dc Ely
General Ward
Pomerican Light and Traction
Con“Spicious
Gillette Safety Ranger
Jib Consolidated
San Antonio Markets 5 price quotes for produces and feeds
The Pruitt Com mission Company quoted Tuesday morning prices for produce including beets 68 cents per dozen ounces carrots 60 cents per dozen bunches green corn 20 to 25 cents per dozen lettuce California 6.00 to 6.50 a box radishes 69 cents per dozen potatoes Idaho 2.50 per cwt yams 3.50 per cwt peppers 2.75 per bushel, peppers 3. cents per gourd and many other items. The Snyder Pro ure Company and Gransa Sera Company quoted further prices for weeds feeds and fruits to producers and buyers.
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Pruitt Com“mission Company
California
En- Gail Valley
Porto Rico
Sabah
Colorado
Texas
Gransa Sera Company
Athe
Miorn
New Mexico
Basel
Hshel
Idaho
Fewer Paupers In U S Now Reports Show
Washington reports a record decline in paupers per 100 000 population with 79 090 simshouses residents as of January last year down from 84 198 in 1910. The male paupers greatly outnumbered females, with native white 45 019 and foreign born white 23 537 among the totals.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Census Bureau
Livestock Markets Report Reports Heavy Runs and Uneven Hogs
Chicago and other markets show heavy cattle runs with strong hog values for select lots. Cattle totals for the week rise. light yearlings and grass cattle mixed in demand. Prime natives and westerns sold well while confines on grass cattle linger. hogs unevenly higher with top at 10.50 and choice packing stock around 9.00 to 10.00. Canners and feeders steady, lambs weaker. Houston cotton prospects noted with Texas output forecast.
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San Antonio
Chicago
Kansas City
West Sens
Oklahoma
Bond Market Firm as Funds Rise in Six Month Loans
In a firmer money market response, six month loan funds increased contrary to expectations. Liberty bond list opened higher with gains led by high grade issues around 6 percent yield. New issues included Minneapolis Gas Light notes due 1920 at par and City of Los Angeles school district serials yielding 4.35 to 6.30 percent, with several public service bonds advancing while some railroad issues weakened.
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San Antonio
New York
Rock Island
Southern Pacific
Gngs
Missouri Pacific
St. Paul
Minneapolis
LL Grains Close Lower Provision Mart Scores Rise
Deficient buying and selling pressure pulled grain futures lower while provisions rose. The Earnest market saw fresh crop reports from Winnipes Prep Press suggesting western yield gains, boosting some trade on oats and lard while corn and wheat weakened. Local cash receipts showed substantial wheat and corn quantities with export demand noted.
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San Antonio
Ghigago
Winnipes
Somerset
Tow
Seaboard
First Pipeline Ties Reagan County Oil Fields to Gulf
Fort Worth officials announce immediate construction of the first pipeline linking Reagan County oil fields with Gulf of Mexico supplies and Fort Worth refineries. Poultry holdings in Willamette Valley up about 10 percent. Central Oregon up 5 percent. Douglas County down. California prune demand strong as Eastern and Midwest markets expect to absorb holdovers before harvest. California prune crop projected at 24 and 20 to 25 percent of last year. Europe demand for hay doubled.
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Fort Worth
Reagan County
Gulf of Mexico
Jrort Worth
Trans- Continental Oil Company
Bendum and Trees of
Pittsburgh
Vortland
Ore
Willamette Valley
Oregon
Douglas County
SAN_ JOSE
Mid West
California
A. M. Morten- Bou
California Trine
Wall Street Inches Higher on Cuban Dominican Sugar
New York reports rising sugar prices driven by expected hotter market shows. Trading highlighted by White Motor dividend talk and Loore Wiles biscuit strength amid a broader food stock rally. Wall Street notes Mexico Seaboard weakness, Paris and London commodity moves, and copper and zinc price updates.
Lives of hundreds saved by flagman on derailed train
Syracuse dispatch reports flagmen at Palatine Bridge 25 miles west of Schenectady saved hundreds of passengers aboard the Lake Shore Limited. The train slowed from 50 miles an hour to avoid a collision with a derailed freight at the bridge crossing. Brakes were applied and the disaster narrowly averted.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Lake Shore
Palatine Bridge
Sehencetads
Mohawk
Calk
Lake Shora
Babe Seeks Early Bird Before Dawn
In Philadelphia on September 16 James Monroe Sullivan age 2 rose at dawn and left home seeking the proverb’s worm. He was found by Sergeant John Sarsgaard in Garfield Park half an hour later.
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Philadelphia
James Monroe Sullivan
Dows
John Sarsgaard
Robins
Garfield Park
2000 Canadian Miles Mapped by Airman
Debbs, a World War flyer and Victoria Beach station member on Lake Winnipeg, returned from a 3700 mile northern trip taking 3700 photographs of unexplored land. The flight, ordered by the Department of the Interior, aimed to gather material for reliable maps.
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Winnipeg
Akarn
X. Debbs
Victoria Beach
Lake Winnipeg
Department of the Interior
Prisoner Escapes With Borrowed Car From Newark Jail
Newark report states Schuy Ter Vanness, who planned to promote a Klan buttons sale in the southwest and stole 240 dollars in rings from two Newark jewelers, escaped from the county prison using a newly borrowed car.
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Newark
N. J
Schuy- Ter Vanness
Mows wrong lot to pay fine for weed duty
A Williamsport resident faced police court for failing to mow weeds on an undeveloped vacant lot as required by sanitary ordinance. He claimed four hours in heat cutting weeds on adjacent property justified noncompliance and demanded an officer verify the action. He was fined for the weed violation.
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Wilt Tamsport
Williamsport
Jin
Texas Ad Men Meet Next Sunday in Galveston
The tenth district convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World will open in Galveston on Sunday September 21. Attendees register at the Galvez Hotel at 9 a.m. The program includes sermons, ship tours, open air meetings, speeches by Marie Wathen and others, and multiple sessions through Tuesday with discussions on selling, merchandising, and building stores.
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Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Galveston
Tex
Galvez Hotel
Galveston Island
Galveston Commercial Association
Cords
Cinic
Murdock
Crystal Palace
George W. Truett
Menard Park
Mavie’ Wathen
San Antonio
T. W. Darlington
San Antonio Express
William Brockhausen
Rabb Henry Cohen
Bayless Eb, Harriss
A. Re
A. I. Vermillion
Homer J. Buckley
Buckley, Noment & C Many
Chicago
Ames Wright Brown
New York City
Frank Crittenden
Associated Advertising Clubs
Shurton
Fort Worth
Star-Telegram
Galveston Advertising Club
Sessior
Marie Wathen
San Antonio Advertising Club
All. Shuman
Dees
Morlern Merchandising
Tack Dionne
Gulf Coast Lumberman
Houseton
Robert I. Cohen
Robert I. Cohen Company
Ruth
Leity
Suditorum
Goa
Carl Williams
Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman
Ok- Ishman
Tee Fleming
Fort Smith Garment
Comparet Smith
Ark
Sunset System
San Antonios
Hix ‘Smith
Dallas
F.C. Brinkley
Sherman Tow
Dranlay
Ets
Reisting
Houston
Will S. Wood
Xereon
Ties Simpson
F.K. Bane
Onston
J. J. Walden
Orl Worth
Teeasure Hunt
Gal
Husband Outraces Store But Is Fined in Portland
Walter S. White won a race with a fleet of cars while bringing his wife to a hospital from the suburbs. In court he was fined $10 for reckless driving. At the hospital the first message announced a baby girl weighing over nine pounds.
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Portland
Walter S. White
White
Settler Mauled by Full Grown Lion in Kenya Colony
NATROBS Kenya Colony Sept 16 P C Forrester endured a terrifying embrace from a full grown lion and was bitten after a party of Kenyan settlers faced a lion troop at Gilsil losing cattle earlier. Forrester and fellow farmer Mr Allison tracked the lions and wounded one. the animal then charged but the men escaped. Forrester is in hospital recovering.
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Natrobs
Keyna Colony
P. C. Forrester
Kenya
Gilsil
Forrester
Allison
Mr. Allison
42 Day Fast Fatal to Draft Suspect in Missoula
Tyrvainen dies at Fort Missoula after a 42 day self imposed fast. Arrested at Titty Taxi Spring as a draft evader, he allegedly sought to avoid World War I by two registrations, once under an air about thing. The report notes a hanger at Mike soon after his arrival.
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Missoula
Mont
Tyrvainen
Fort Missoula
Titty
Veteran Bergeron returns to Florida home after WWI ordeal
Menasha, September 18 reports Urban Bergeron a World War I veteran declared dead and buried on a battlefield. He returned home three times seeking recognition, was not recognized, and later found in New Orleans ill from war wounds. Doctors say recovery depends on family sympathy and care.
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Menasha
Wis
Ciuatteau
Thierry
Urban Bergeron
Oskhill
Bergeron
Menathats Collier
France
Jas
New Orleans
Teachers Forced to Combat Homes
Washington D C Sept 16 Mrs Margarette Reeve national president of the Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teacher Associations closed the George Washington summer school urging better parent teacher cooperation She said it takes a teacher six months to correct mischief done at home in the child s first six years and urged parents to acquaint themselves with the school system and work with teachers in the child s education
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Washington
D. C
Margaretta Reeve
Congress of Mothers and
Parent- Teacher Associations
George Washington Summer School
Weather Summary for San Antonio and Regions 1924
San Antonio and vicinity report partly cloudy conditions Tuesday night and Wednesday with a maximum around 80s. East Texas expects cloudy with possible showers, West Texas, Chicago and other cities show varied temperatures and light to moderate winds in the east.
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San Antonio
Texas
Cloudburst Hits Camp Scouts Swim for Lives
Astoria Ore Sept 16 A cloudburst drenched a 52 boy Scout summer camp at Arch Cape near Cannon Beach flooding the site with four feet of water. In the darkness several scouts were swept into deep water and forced to swim for their lives but all escaped safely as water roared through while every boy slept.
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Astoria
Ore
Sammer
New Chemical Wave S We Tested Ithaca Fall ACS Meet
Scientists from the United States Canada and Europe gather at Cornell for the fall American Chemical Society meeting. More than 1000 delegates from universities and industry will hear hundreds of papers detailing postwar chemical progress and allied fields. International visitors include Sir Robert Robertson and Sir Mar Muspratt from England. Professor Edward C Franklin of Stanford will lead the Pacific Coast delegation with California and Southern California sections sending officers and delegates. Industries of the Pacific Coast are expected to play a major role in discussions.
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Ithaca
United States
Canad
Europe
Cornell, University
American Chemical Society
Archy State
Atlantic
England
Robert Robertson
the Faraday Society
Mar | Muspratt
Great Britain
Toronto
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Edward C. Franklin
Stanford University
Willl
Pacific Coast
California
L. H. Duschak
Tamalpais Road
Berkeley
Calif
Southern California
Mark Walker
Third Avenue
Los Anegles
Sacramento
J. H. Norton
Pacific
Tombstone Theft Prompts Night Watch at Cemetery
Boston police set a night watchman at St Marys Cemetery after a granite tombstone was stolen. Joseph Tabak reported the disappearance from his lot. he found the monument missing on returning days later.
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Boston
St. Mary's Cemetery
Ware
Joseph Tabak
Divorce Ends Bout After Twenty Years in Edenboro
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on January 16, Homer and Tania Whetzel of Edenboro testified in court that their 20 year marriage was plagued by daily quarrels. He called her a cross eyed devil and she accused him of bow legs as their divorce proceedings were aired before Judge Reppert.
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Uniontown
Homer
Tania Whetzel
Edenboro
Here
Tudge E. H. Reppert
Whetzel
Defendant Wins Six Cents In Slander Suit
In Trenton New Jersey on Sent. 16 Bessie Wirkland and her mother Sadie Kirkland won six cents each in a slander suit against Louis Wolf a roofer who posted a board on South Broad Street alleging they owed him 32 dollars for work on their home Wolf also won a counter judgment for the bill amount directing the plaintiffs to pay the roofercourt records show the mixed result with each side securing a small sum.
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Trenton
N. J
Bessie Wirkland
Sadie Kirkland
Louis Wolf
South Broad Street
Wolf
Sunken city lies off Helgoland off the North Sea coast
Reports from Berlin describe fragments of ancient trees washing ashore near Husum, suggesting a sunken forest possibly forming a sunken city. Legends speak of a distant South Strand near Aelzoland, dating before written history. Kansas officials project a record grain year with corn at 148,121,000 bushels and strong yields for winter wheat, oats, and barley.
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Berlin
North Sea
Germany
Atlantis
Husum
Aelzoland
Kansas
Topeka
Tye
Finger Prints Back Claims For Bonus
Washington reports a War Department Bureau of Identification in a temporary building to process soldier bonus applications. Finger prints and photographs will accompany every claim to prevent fraud, with officials claiming near certainty that no two prints are alike. The piece notes cases of fingerprint use in verifying identities after floods and shipwrecks, and cites large pools of Army, Navy, and Marine prints managed for identification.
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Washington
Court of Last Appeal
Courts of Law
Bureau of Identification of
The
War Department
Bure
Uncle Sam
Walter
Kaye
Washigton
Ra Baye
United Press
Ivo Hnger
Anomer
Judge Advocate Davis
Bonus
Oml Thompson
Thompson
Chicago
Roscoe TV
Bruce
Kaya d
Ecard
Brace
Bureau
Fred Aldrich
Tefffetzen Barracks
United States
Tpas
Cania
Ireland
India
Navy Department
Marine Corns
Old Trick Works In Copenhagen Too
In Copenhagen a man from a bakery scheme asked for twelve dozen tea cakes at 3 pm and paid a suit dealer to bring an apprentice to fetch them. The ruse, involving promises of crowns and a later payment, led to the apprentice protesting that the bakery could not supply the dozen dozen.
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Copenhagen
Sakery
Lin
Prentice
Pauls Grove Team Keeps Playing After Win Over Highland Park
The Pauls Grove team plans to continue play as long as opponents and weather permit. Sunday, the Grovers defeated the Highland Park Figh landers 1 0 with Oscar Steubing Ditching a two hit game. Scoring occurred in the second and seventh innings, with Bil Conway Fitz Mossman Ler Conway Arnold Mossman and Henry Bomrzeda among the scorers. Batteries Steubing and Mossman. Frey and Freeman. The prior Sunday the Grayers beat Van Raab in seven innings. Also noted: Prairie Oil and Gas seeks permission to build a refinery and line from Craig, Colorado to Parco, Wyoming.
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Paul’s Grove
Grovers
Fighlanders
Highland Park
Oscar Steubing
Gus Mossman
Paul
Gmve
Bil Conway
Fitz Mossman
Ler Conway
Arnold Mossman
Henry Bomrzeda
QC. Steubing
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Missouri
Extel
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Berghum
Holland
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Igs’ Mweden
Denmark
Ewitnerland
Ek Keain
Denana
Poland
wAvairias
Famanias
Iy Dem. Ag
Pervanday
Weal
U. S
Lexus
Kansas City Livestock
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Tom
Dee
Belllen
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White Motor
Mexican Seaboard
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Liverpool
Gillet
Wales
NEW York Day
San Antonis
Alothe Wera
STGAT
Jas Doria
Flagman
Babe
Texas AD
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Givens
J. M. Kirvin
Alveston
Galvester Advertising Club
Jon
Galves Hotel
EAD
Fla
Kannsas City
Tess Han
St. Touls
Cotton Regio
Parana
Abilene
Amarillo
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Corpus Christi
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Taylor
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Ballinger
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Dlowsy
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Longview
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Mexia
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Pay - Mhr
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Sherman
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Detten Regi
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Helgoland
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Prairin OW and Gas Company
Public Nulities Commission
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Parco
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