Attempts to Secure Profits Brought Reactions
New York trading opened with investors taking profits amid a weak early market. A favorable bank statement and robust rail earnings helped prices rally later, while readings on Midwest crop prospects and corn futures influenced sentiment. The week saw renewed speculative activity led by large capitalists and professional traders, with mixed results across readings of iron demand, coal stocks, and bond issues.
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Pennania
Reading
Hocking Valley
Western Union
Fuller Construction
Wall Street
Chicago
Wall-street
Indianapolis
Coal Road
United States Steel
Tate
United States
Financial notes show bank balances and global rates
International money markets report varied rates and clearings across cities. New York call money eased at 3 percent, with sterling exchange steady, and weekly bank statements show loans down, deposits down, but reserves up, placing surplus reserve at approximately 15.7 million against a year earlier 21.0 million.
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Indianapolis
New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Chicago
New York Exchange
Philadelphia
TBS
ST. Louis
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Economic Outlook of Cash Gains and Treasury Balance
The report suggests further gains in cash and surplus reserves may be expected. It notes that outward crop money movements will likely be offset by the sub treasury's payments over receipts. Last week's bank clearings averaged 3,253,000 daily, down from 225,000,000 the prior week.
London market closes firm after strong open
Private wire advices note fractional London declines with small gains in New York names like N. & W. and Southern Pacific. General list weakens from early strength as profits-taking spreads, though Pennsylvania leads a late market rally. Reading, C. & O slide, Hocking Valley rises. Pennsylvan ia shows leadership as People's Gas gains on dividend appeal. Local tr actions rise as market ends near best levels.
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Meier & Kiser
Telegram
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London
Southern Pacific
Fuller Construction Company
Pennsylvania
Reading Common
Hocking Valley
Market promise of higher prices on Monday gains across rails
New York July 19 There is decided promise of higher prices on Monday especially in Missouri Pacific Southern Pacific Pennsylvania and Metropolitan Street railway. Among the cheaper stocks Alton and Kansas City Southern are likely to work upwards together.
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Atchison
Baltimore & Ohio
Pacific
Canada Southern
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Alton
Chicago, Ind
Fouloos
Juhnois
Great Western
Chicago
Chicago & Northwestern
Ter
Erado Southern
Iowa Central
Kansas City
Lake Erie & Western
Lake Erie
Louisville
Central
Granger Farwell & Co
New York
Missouri Pacific
Southern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Metropolitan Street Railway
Alton
Kansas City Southern
A Born Hoosier Explains Indiana Literary Rise
Albany correspondence surveys Indiana literary identity tracing Eastern misconceptions to The New Purchase. It praises Hoosier genuineness, clean journalism, and notable authors like Riley, Major, Nicholson, Moody, and Tarkington while noting cautious state enthusiasm and measured praise.
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Albany
New York
Indiana
West
Middle West
Brooklyn
Princeton
Baynard R. Hall
Young
Bloomington University
Messrs. Appleton
New Purchase
East
Hall
Boston
St.uis
Cincinnati
James Whitcomb Riley
Maurice Thompson
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Meredith Nicholson
William Vaughn Moody
Evaleen Stein
Poultney Bigelow
Booth Tarkington
Tarkington
Eliza
Todgers
Martin Chuzzlewit
Perfume powers and a butter price talk in columns
A New York Tribune note questions why perfumes lack scientific study and suggests rose and other scent therapies as possible medical cures. Leslie’s Weekly notes a possible butter price rise and references a recent oleomargarine law amid market changes.
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Leslie’s Weekly
Speak with patience for oleomargarine tax debate argues for fairness
The piece asserts that oleomargarine is a palatable cheap food, not a fraud, and should not face prohibitive taxation. It argues against banning the product, noting buyers and sellers are satisfied and that focus should be on fraud and adulteration rather than the staple itself.
Remarkable pecans win praise from Miss Stuart and a Paris medal
The article extols pecan producer Miss Uena Stuart of Ocean Springs Mississippi as she expands her nursery and ships trees worldwide. Her century pecans impressed at a Washington dinner party with unusually large, thin-shelled nuts. The French government awarded a Paris exposition medal for her work and a photograph shows the honor.
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Washington Post
New Orleans
Michigan
Chicago
James K. Hackett
Uena Stuart
Ocean Springs
Missinsippi
Australia
New Zealand
Washington
Connecticut
Stuart
Department of Agriculture
Paris
Why It Is that We Send Missionaries Abroad
A Hartford Courant discussion argues that religious impact should be judged by fruit, praising Christianity for social progress while criticizing Confucianism for not advancing humanity. It claims Christian mission brings practical improvements and social reform, and contrasts bread as life with modern dietary shifts.
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Father Thurston
Society of Arts
Rosenkranz
Thurston
China
Cuba
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