Stock Prices Rise as Market Broadens in Confident Trade
New York August 15 report notes a strong broad upward move in stocks with higher volume and widespread gains led by steel and coalers while profits-taking and suspected manipulation draw caution. London buyers and faith in prosperous crops underpin optimism. rails and trunk lines show activity amid mixed bond and currency scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Far East
Serius Teyernes
St. Paul
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
Metropoltan Traction
Adviante
Interborough Transit
United States
Jssm
Barther
New York Stock Market Report and Cotton Prices
The market opened weak and drifted slightly lower through the afternoon with modest decline. Private crop news remained favorable, Houston receipts reached 2,289 bales of new crop, port receipts over 2,200 bales with 1,400 new crop, including two at Mobile and Savannah, and tomorrow’s Houston estimate ranged 4,400 to 2,700 sales versus 163 last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonmve Iittle
Busine Ter Tong
Abe
Houston
Mobile
Savannah
Wheat market driven by crop damage reports at Chicago
Wheat rose from near the day’s lows as fresh crop damage news from districts in Ontario Minnesota and the Dakotas buoyed prices. September futures advanced amid drought fears while corn led gains in new crop deliveries with December higher by about one third of a cent. Provisions closed modestly higher as traders weighed rust and drought impacts on the harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Hibbs & Co
F Street
New York Stock Exchange
Washington Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Ontario
Minnesota
Dakotas
Washington Stock Exchange snapshot of August trading
New York August 15 summary notes diverse bond and stock quotes led by Atchison lines and Washington Railway and Electric. Markets closed strong for corn and wheat amid heavy buying from Southwestern commission houses as traders weighed drought and crop prospects against steady demand and profit taking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Hibbs &Co
Dankers and Brokers
F Street
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Washington Stock Exchanges
New York grain market reports mixed futures action
New York grain notes at Aug 15 with barley nominal feeding at 46¢, No 2 red wheat near 102% to 104% afloat, No 1 Northern Duluth 122% to 125% afloat, and No 1 hard Manitoba 108% afloat. Wheat weak on favorable news then rose on outside buying before slipping on Southwest receipts, closing higher by 2 to 3 cents. Corn receipts 103,009 bushels, No 2 at 69 to 68¢, yellow 62 to 62½¢, option market up over 2¢ on hot wind concerns, closing 58–69¢. Date receipts 63,000 bushels with oats at 40–46¢ for various grades and option market nominal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Atchison General Ds
Atchison Adjustment
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore and Ohio
Central of Georgia
Central of Georgia Ist Inc
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chicago and Alton
Chicago
Burlington and Quincy
Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Chicago and Northwestern
R. I
Pacific RR
St. Louis
Consolidated Tobacco
Colorado Fuel
Colorado and Southern
Denver and
Rio Grande
Erie Nnfar
Erie General
Fort Worth
Denver
Hocking Valley
Louisville
Nashville
Manhattan
Congo
Mexican Central
Minneapolis
St Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Kareas
National Railroad of Mexico
New York Central General
New Jersey Central
Northern Pacific
Ban Sted Marthern Pacific
Norfolk and Western Consul
Oregon Short Line
Partic Pennsylvania
Reading General
Iron Mountain Consul
San Francisco
Sts
Seaboard Air Line
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway Bs
Texas and
Paccific
Toledo
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Duluth
Commission Houses
Oata
Larga Pachera
Liberal Commission House
So Inlard
Manitoba
Snowag
Bertember
New York Produce Prices and Market Reports Aug 15
New York market notes list butter receipts at 9,907 pounds with varied creamery prices, cheese receipts 2,610, eggs receipts 9,819 with state and nearby daily pricing, poultry live and dressed values, flour, rye flour, cornmeal, hay, hops, hides, leather, wool, coal, beef, pork, lard, and edible oils with steady to firm trends. Copper, tin, lead, spelter, iron, and other metals show London and local price movements, while a patent medicine ad concludes.
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New York
Recolpta
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
South America
Long Island
Jeresey and Southern
Southern
Jersey
Liverpool
London
Glasg
Middlesboro
Northern
Foundry Northern
Foundry Southern
Southern Goft
Washington Stock Market Quiet Yet Active Session
Yesterday's Washington stock session showed steady trade with small lots moving. Total business was light at 700 shares and 26 dollars in bonds. Washington Railway and Electric led gains with bonds rising and several issues showing modest shifts, while construction contracts tied to Knoxville announced for Oliver and H H Trasher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Railway and Electric
Columbia Railway
Washington Gag
Washington Railway and Electric Preferred
Metropolitan National Bank
Riggs Fire Insurance Company
Washington Gas
Mergenthaler Lirotype
Metropolitan Railroad
Columbia Railroad
City and Suburban Railroad
Anacostia and Potomac
Tne
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Washington Gas Company
Geserlee
Washington Qa
United States Electric Light
United States Eleetric Light
Chesapeake and Potomac ‘Telephone
Washington Market Company
Safe Deposit and Trust
National Safe Deposit and Trust
Washington Loan and Trust
American Security and Trust
Union ‘Trust and Storage
Ashington Pavinga Bank
Capital Traction Company
The
National Bank
Bank of Washington
Metropolitan
Central
Farmers and Mechanics
Second
Citizens
Columbia
Capital
American
Traders
Vinceln
Riggs
Franklin
Corcoran
Potomac
Areington
National Union
Higgs
Peoples
Commercial
Colonel
Washington
Washington Railway and Electric 4S
Capital Traction
Mergenthaler Linotype
Lanston
Oliver and
H. H Trasher
Great Falls and
Old Dominion
Gas Suit Settled in Boston Merger Case
A compromise settles the Pepper receivership suit to halt the sale of Boston gas companies under a merger plan. The Massachusetts Gas Company is granted possession and title to the Boston gas utilities, while related suits against Lawson Addicks Rogers continue. The appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court will be withdrawn when legal details permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
George W. Pepper
Bay State Gas Company
Delaware
Massachusetts Supreme Court
H. Rogers
Thomas W. Lawson
J. Edward Addicks
Massachusetts Gas Company
Boston Gas
Barker
Pepper
Mercantile Trust Company
New York
Kidder, Peabody, & Co
Control of Manila Railway Passes to New York Firm
London Aug 15 The Manila Railway reports a provisional agreement with Speyer Brothers of New York to take up 42,000,000 in two and one half year notes and 5,000 deferred shares with special voting powers to finance extensions. If shareholders approve, control will pass to Speyer Brothers.
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New York
London
Manila Railway
Speyer Brothers
Speyer Rathers
Live Stock Markets Across NY and Chicago
New York stock quotes Aug 15 show cattle receipts 38 124 head with steers firm to higher and fat cows steady. Veals 3124 head. sheep and lambs 14534 head. hogs 9783 head, steady to higher. Chicago reports cattle receipts 24,000 head, market strong. hogs 17,000 head, 10 cent rise. sheep 18,000 head, market steady with good to choice lambs strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cailvs
Yeale
Ta Ic
State
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Baltimore Markets and Wall Street Reports Aug 15
Port market notes show firmer grains with mixed spot and futures prices across flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, and hay. Receipts include 7,712 bushels of flour and 67,006 bushels of wheat. steamer and southern white corn figures cited with various grades. Stock market news reports Haplo Brothers’ suspension on the New York Stock Exchange, then Standard Oil declares a $5 per share dividend, totaling 28 percent this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Western
Uptown
Liverpool
New York
Hahlo Brothers
The
Stock Exchange
Henry G
Hugo H
Julius H. Hehlo
Standard Oil
Standard On Company
Equity and Circuit Court actions in DC Supreme Court
Legal notices follow Barnard as judge in Equity and Circuit Courts. Cases include Clark v Clark seeking sale ratification and reference to Special Auditor, Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad vs Baltimore Trust directed to turn over bonds, Cannolly v Connolly with seizure order, Brandenburg v Rees extended deadlines, Williams and Crampbell with seventy third rate judgment, probate orders appointing collectors and executors for Ryder Baldwin Rittenhouse Schaudner estates with bonds and attorneys listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Equity Court
Justice Barnard
Clark
Hamilton & Colbert
Edmund Brody
Totemas Tompkins
J. J. Darlington
Cannolly Va Connolly
Charles G Wilson
J. E Laskey
Brandenburg
Brandenburg & Branfenberge
W Mosbey Williams
Hayden Johnson
Mellinger
Crampbell
L. A. Bailey
O H Budlorg
Benjamin F Rittenhouse
James Shafter
Bond
Mimmack
John Schaudner
Mackall & Maedel
Real Estate Transfers in Barry Farm and Nearby Areas
Real estate transfers across multiple DC neighborhoods list numerous lot transfers in Barry Farm Pleasant Hills Trinidad Metropolis View and surrounding blocks. Transactions involve names such as Matilda Wheeler Thom as H Wheeler Mary A Wheeler Eu lalia W Thomas Esther A Goldney and Giuseppe A Pessagno among others with lot numbers square blocks and prices including 10 and 1800 dollars. Several trusts mortgages and security arrangements noted with banks and building associations.
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Barry
Matilda A Wheeler
Thomas H Wheeler
Barry Farm
Mary A. Wheeler
Eulalia W. Thomas
Thomas H. Wheeler
Matida A. Wheeler
Pleasant Hills
Samuel E. Redfern
Mary E Redfern
John Shugrue
Guiseppe A Pessagno
Margaret L. Sands
Margaret C. Sands
Square
Morgan Avenue
Percy H. Russell
Charlee J Butler
Halmead Manor
Seventh Street
Northfast
Matilda W Payne
Robert A Payne
Trinidad
Esther A. Goldney
Mary FB. Goldney
Metropolis
William G Denison
Maud B O'Donnell
Eighth Street
Florence Donohoe
Emma Donohoe
Magdalena Krogen
Josephine W. Hester
George C Gertman
Edward F. Hall
Mount Pleasant
Shelby J. Davidson
Thomas W Stubblefield
Garfield
Stubbiefeld Banking and Trust Company
Guiseppe A. Pessagne
Michael J Colbert
Wharton E. Lester
Robert Hinckley
George E Righter
Adam A. Weschler
Samuel M Marks
James Hurny
Columbia Heights
Alvin C Belletex
Robert Lee O’brien
Charles B. Fonda
Francia A. Diundon
William Moore
James F Shea
Leo P Harlow
William P Normoyte
West Eurington
Nellie Ernst
Charles
Charles F Benjamin
Roger T. Mitchell
Perpetual Building Association
Minnie M Odor ta oula R_ Peak
William E Edmonston
Charles Marsh
Emanuel Jackson
Tobacco plants to be sold in nine days sale ordered
New Jersey Vice Chancellor Stevenson received a petition from Attorney General Robert H. McCarter for the sale of Universal Tobacco Company's assets within nine days. Trustees appointed by the court seek dissolution plan following a suit by E. A. McAlpin and others for receivers. The sale, to be in separate lots and absolute, covers assets in New York and Richmond, Virginia, with Commonwealth Tobacco Company tied to the Universal unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert H. McCarter
New Jersey
Universal Tobacco Company
Stevenson
Jersey City
Carter
E. A. McAlpin
James B. Vredenberg
McAlpin
Commonwealth Tobacco Company
Commonwealth Company
Universal Company
Richmond
Lands Opened in Oregon Forest Reserve Areas
Acting Interior official restores to public domain 319 500 acres in Blue Mountains and 17 000 acres in Wallowa Forest Reserve areas. Lands lie along reserve boundaries in Umatilla Union Grant Baker Crook Malheur and in Wallowa Union counties. Restorations cite lands as undesirable for forest reserve purposes.
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Ryan
General Land Office
Blue Mountains
Oregon
Wallowa
Strawberry Mountains
Umatilla
Union
Grant
Baker
Crook
Malheur
Powder River
Wallowa River
End of Silverware Fraud Spurs Hallmark Ban
The Treasury reports Parliament forbids English hallmarks on American silverware in England. American manufacturers sent wares to England for hallmarks to imply English origin, allowing duty-free reimportation. UK act now blocks marking as not qualifying under tariff provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parliament
Treasury
England
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of State
Minister counters rumors of Porto Rican executions in Santo Domingo
Mail reports from T C Dawson the Santo Domingo minister to the State Department deny rumors that Gen Morales ordered executions of Porto Ricans. Dawson with Admiral Sigsbee on the Newark says the tour should strengthen U S Santo Domingo relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santo Domingo
T. C. Dawson
Real estate moves include Union Transfer site and Connecticut Ave buys
The Union Transfer Company plans a 100 by 100 plus foot lot on Massachusetts avenue near the new depot. Dr B L Hardin bought a 25 foot frontage lot on the east side of Connecticut avenue just north of N street for about 10000 dollars. The last unimproved building site on Connecticut avenue between N street and Dupont Circle changed hands for about 926000 with Westcott Story and Thomas J Wishers Co coordinating the sale from J B Briggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Transfer Company
Massachusetts Avenue
Second
Third Streets
Union Depot
L. Hardin
Connecticut Avenue
N Street
Dupont Circle
Westcott & Story
Thomas J. Wisher & Co
Sulibing Ruffin
Gasch
J. B. Briggs
Modern Freight House Plan for Baltimore and Ohio
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company completes a new freight house at New York and Florida avenues and opens August 22. It features up to date loading facilities, a continuous door system for simultaneous wagon loading and unloading, and improved car loading. Ample space is provided for car delivery and loading via nearby team tracks adjacent to the freight house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
New York and
Florida Avenues
Suit Against DC Over Piney Branch Pollution
Julia A Hall, by Hayden Johnson, sues the District of Columbia for 5000 damages claiming servants entered Hall's quarry at Fourteenth Street and Piney Branch Road and redirected sewer effluent into Piney Branch, polluting waters and lowering property value. Also lists fourth class postmaster appointments in NH NJ NY MA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia AG Hall
District of Columbia
Hayden Johnson
Hien Point Furniture Company
William H. Redmond
Thomas J Kemp
Samuel E. Powell
Birney & Woodard
Piney Branch
Julia A. Hall
District
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NEW York Stock Market
Adams Express
American Express
American Car and Foundry
Amerte Amur and Foundry
Amerian
Amercian
Atuhesia
Snl
St P
Colorado
Ce Tolorado Southern
Colorado Souther
Iowa Central
Kansas City Southern
Ated Louisvitle
Mackville
Manhattan L
Sec
M. St Po
Ontario and Western
Pacific Mass
Pitts
TIM Republic Steel
Republic Steel
Rock Island Co
St. L
St. Louis Southwestern
St. Louis Southwest
Southern Railway
Cloning
Tennessee Coal
Iro
Texan and Pacific
United States Rubber
United States Steel
United States Steel P
Wella Fargo Sane Western Union Weatinghouse
Wheeling and Lake Eriad
Wincorain Centra
Wisconsin Central
U S
U. As
Chicago Grain
Buile
Bears
W. B. Hibbs & Co. Bankers and Brokers
South
New Orleans
Wall Street
Thia Fevel
Manchester
Galveston
Norfolk
Wilmington
Philadelphia
Charleston
Great Britain
France
Japan
Mexico
NEW York Grain
Sh. Agnew
P. & Affleck
Kieczewski
Columbia Railways
Bank of America
SHO Calkins Company
Robert Partner and
Capital Construction Company
Lester & Price
Blue Mountain
Real Estate Transactions
New Hampshire
Percy
Elizabeth M O'Connor
Tarnsboro
Uiijah T Crowley
Kelney
James H. Alexander
Pleasantville
Henry Baker
Massachusetts
Whately
Rylan C. Howes
Jennifer
7Th End
DO Sta.nw
Barnard & Mark
Ferry Commission Co
Ferry Commsion Company
Chesley & Spenge
Phony
Haights Freesec
Malin
Broadway, N
St. N. W
Washington, D. C
Street N. W
OF Exchange
Transre
General Banking
Lewis Johnson & GO
Sebese,sen Building
Messrs Moore
Washington Loan &Trust Co
F Sts
Real Estate Department
John Joy Edson
JOHN A_ SWOPE
DL Spfar
Andrew Parher Proaaucer
Harry G Mgem
Thomas Lradley
National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company
15Th ST
New York Ave
Renta
É&C
B. H. Warner CO
F Street Nw
Congressional and
Mexican Gold, Silver
District of Cosampiat
Corralitos and
Candelaria
Chihaunua Mexico
Salte Gt
Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
Richard A McCurdy
Vfe
Addreen Thomas P. Morgan
F St Nn
Traders National Bank
10Th ST. and
PA. Ave
Francis H. Smith
Alvin M. Lothrop
Quincy Smith
John B. Bleman
Fulton Harris
Jackson H Ralston
Kimball
Gs Bank
York Avenue
F Saul
Anthony Gaegler
Alexis Clarke
Francia Miller
Howard Moran
Asst Treas
Home Savings Bank
7Th
Maas
Association
Ed- Vantag
Equitable Co-Operative
Equitable Building
F St
Owe John Joy Edson
Ellis Spear
Gbo
W Castlear
Frak Preeside
Riggs National Bank
Stree N
U. S
W.b.hibbs & Co., Bankers and Brokers
Chiesago Board of Trade
National Metropolitan Bank Washington
DOL
United States Depository
Investmenta
S. B
Bates Public Accountant
Washington Loan and Tract
F Ste Nw
District of
Columba
Hluiskell & McCleran
Warder Blix
Joan
Metropolitan Loan and Trust Go
E Street
N. W
Planos &c
Potomag Guarantee Loan Co
F Street N. Ww
Atlantic
Building and Loan Association
National Mortgage Loan’ Company
62S
Fst
Kanawa
Rational Loan and Investment Co
Kecor
Opp
Money Money
Washington Mortgage Loan Co
Giof Street
West Place
Capital Loan Co
Tolman
Corcoran Bidz
16Th St
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