Stocks Gain Strength Amid Freight Rate Ruling Hints
Private advices signal an early decision by the Commerce Commission on freight rates. Dealers largely expect a rise in Reich marks due to selling of American securities by German investors. New York reports a resumed restricted trading Saturday with firmer tone across stocks and signs of broader market confidence.
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Commerce Commission
Berlin
Eechunga
Marks
Gertin
Abieesrom
Washington
Comnon
The Metal Market Overview and Prices
New York reports complex metal pricing with deep tin and copper figures, noting changes and futures for London and Mercantile paper. Credit balances and shipments data accompany the market snapshot, including currency and bullion indicators from New York and London.
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New York
Leiden
London
Spelter
Wteale
Final Stock Prices and Treasury Totals 1914
Closing prices from New York stocks report list Amalgamated Copper ores at 49 and American Can at 25 with other major issues. The document also records December 8, 1914 revenue receipts, disbursements, and total cash assets across the general fund, silver and gold reserves, and bank note redemptions.
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New York
The
Stock Exchange Committee
Amalgamated Copper
American Smelting
American Tel
eatTy Atchison
Bethlehem Steel
Brooklyn Tranalt
Paulstee
Centrel Leather
Chicago & Great Western
St. Paul
Colorado Fuel
Denver
Sue
Erle
Hixceas
United States
Seasm
Treasury
Om & Co
Terasury Philippines
Gentcoin. Ee
Treas- Liby
Gs Abn Ph
Stock firm suspends after failed obligations
New York December 8. A Ht. Combs & Co, one of the oldest stock exchange firms, announced today its inability to meet outstanding obligations. No statement of assets and liabilities was issued, but it is believed they will be small. The firm organized in 1880 and specialized in Gould and Flower stocks. It had no branches. Its membership consists of A H. and H. F. Combs and Homer A. Lat lin.
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New York
Uec
Stock Exchange
Ht. Combs & Co
H. F. Combs
Homer A. Latlin
New York Cotton Market After Census Ginning Report
Cotton trading in New York stayed quiet after the census showed 13,005,105 bales ginned to December 1, possibly a record. Opening prices were steady to slightly higher but soon eased as local selling and covering interactions moved prices. Weather in the South and shifting yields prompted mixed sentiment, with January at high 23 and 22 for March, amid overall subdued activity.
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New York
Colton
Igh
Local Produce Market Prices Report
Wholesale prices for poultry eggs cheese and vegetables listed with various units and regional origins. Items include spring chickens turkeys cheese butter eggs potatoes peppers carrots beets beans eggplant tomatoes cabbage lettuce celery romaine kale and fruits like oranges grapefruits pineapples apples pears and grapes with prices per sack basket crate barrel and per box or basket.
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New York State
Elgin
Virginia
Gagie
Jsgess
Florida
Oninas
Tqumsa
Ana
Local bond market quiet with little urgency on exchange
The local bond market showed no notable activity yesterday with brokers on the floor keeping bids and asks steady. A lone $500 Washington Railway and Electric 4% bond sale at 2 drew attention while Capital Traction 3% attracted demand after a bid rose to 103 1/4. Exchange executives said there is no plan to open Saturday trading for stocks until the monthly meeting Monday, with possible delays in normal resumption if New York markets prove satisfactory.
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Washington Railway and Electric 4
New. York Brook
New York
Focal Exchange
Record Cotton Ginning Surpasses Prior Dec 1 Benchmark
Census data show 13,066,105 bales ginned by December 1, a new high for the year and 249,298 more than 1911. From November 14 to December 1, 4,394,895 bales were ginned, below the same period in three prior years but higher than 1903 and 1910. November exports rise to 760,349 bales, total for three months at 1,404,517, with imports at 24,574.
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Census Bureau
Florida
Oklahoma
Washington market report mixed prices for cattle and grain
Market notes show cattle and hogs steady to firm with varied quotes. Eggs, poultry, sugar, flour, and buckwheat flour listed with fluctuating prices. corn, rye flour, and port notes indicate general steady to firm trends across commodities and grains in the regional market.
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New York
Hutter
Pennsylvania
New York Grain Market Report December Wheat and Corn Prices
New York grain notes steady spot values for wheat with No. red at 124 and No. 2 hard at 1.254, futures steady in December and May sliding. Corn is steady with No. 2 yellow around 73 1/4, oats and hay quiet while hides and leather remain firm.
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New York
Northern
Duluth
Manitoba
Buffalo
Argentina
Chicago Grain markets ease on sparse rain in Kansas
Chicago traded grain amid weak wheat influenced by lower value readings and thin rain in central and western Kansas. Prices showed unsettled shifts while corn and oats pulled back, with mixed hog and cattle quotes and ongoing futures activity through the day.
Philadelphia Markets Report Declines and Stabilizes
Philadelphia markets show eggs firm and cheese steady while wheat and corn oats hold. No. 2 red export price at 1.18 per bushel and No. 4 Northern Duluth export at 1.25 per bushel.
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Philadelphia
Duluth
Portland elects William M. Ingraham mayor in decisive vote
Portland Democrat William M. Ingraham won the mayoralty on December 8 with 6,554 votes against Republican Frank M. Lew who received 5,318. Democrats also captured a majority of aldermen and 13 of 27 councilmen, yielding a tied joint ballot with the mayor holding the casting vote.
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Portland
William M. Ingraham
Frank M. Lew
Holland: Recall Trials of Past Currency Troubles Under New System
The piece argues that the United States Federal Reserve System will make money panics largely impossible while not entirely preventing business downturns from overexpansion. It cites Hamlin’s remarks to the Chamber of Commerce, notes the benefits of including state-chartered banks, and discusses historical panics in 1893 1907 and 1902 as context for the new central banking structure.
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Hamlin
New York
Dec
Federal Reser
Federal Reserve
Treasury Department
United States
United States Steel Corporation
Aittle
Federal Reserve System
Charles &. Jamlin
Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Hamm
Hamix
Financial District
Hamiln
Federal Reserve Systems
Congress
Ito
Central Reserve Bank
Holland
Bills to show consumer meter readings in new district regs
The public utilities commission will hold a December 22 hearing on proposed regulations governing electric service in the District. John P. Schrodt, Inspector of electric meters, prepared the draft. Key provisions require bills to show meter readings, units, dates, and price per unit, with clear disclosure of other factors when not a per unit charge. The rule emphasizes meter testing. The commission also notified Washington and Old Dominion Railway about crowded cars and unsatisfactory service, asking for corrective steps.
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Public Utilities Commission
John P. Schrodt
Commission
Washington and Old Dominion Railway
Supreme Court legal records and calendar of December 1914
The document lists cases before the United States Supreme Court and Court of Appeals in Washington DC on a December term day. It records admitted practitioners, case numbers, names of plaintiffs and defendants, counsel, and noted schedules, with calendars for trial and hearings across multiple courts and divisions.
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Edward J. Campbell
Charles I. Howry
Fenton W. Booth
Samuel 3. Bammay
George W. Atkinson
H .C. Sherkels
D C
John Haum
Plbt Cox
V. D Bawarda
M. J. Brown
George K. Barendamen Lewis
Helra
United States Court of Customs Appeals
Fresent
Montgomery
Smith
Farber
de Vries
Martin
Tuska Et al Va
Apprlice
U. S. Ova
Tearon
Bert Hanson
Thomas M. Lane
Petry Va
U. 8
U. B
Thomas M. Pellanta
Appellee
Lane
Selignac
U. S
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Real estate transfers across DC areas listed
A series of property transfers shows Nellie Lynch to Margaret Lynch for lot 178 square 1029 at $10, Middaugh and Shannon to John M. and Clara B. Dressler for lot 87 book 72 at $19, and multiple other deeds including Edwin G. Butler to George S. King for lots 123 124 147 148 at $1,100. Various transfers cover Cho Chevy Chase, Mount Pleasant, Randle Highlands, West Woodridge and Southeast districts with prices ranging from ten to several hundred dollars.
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Northpeast
Nellie Lynch
Margaret Lynch
Taylor Strudt
Fifth
Seventh
Anacostia
Edwin G. Butler
George S. King
Peabody Street
Elisabeth Thomas
Thom Cox
Woodward's
Chevy
Chane Trrerace
David N. Trust, Jr
David Derzavitz
Tackett
Deeds of Trust Notices With Multiple Secured Loans
OCR reveals several deeds of trust listing lenders and borrowers, securing funds ranging from $860 to $2,500 with terms from two to nine years. Interest rates vary, some at 6 or 54 percent, with semiannual or monthly payments. Properties cited include lots in Patworth and Washington Heights, plus Fourteenth Street Heights Land Company parcels.
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Equard
Theodore F. McCauley
Edward A. Tripp
William G. Greenwell
Eva L. King
Patworth
John M. Treasler
Francis Seel
Wiliam Clabaugh
J. Wriley Jacobs
William E. Shannon
Charien M. Wallingsforl
Middaugh & Slausen
Lillie V. MacCullum
H. B. M. Watkins
G.’ Gilmer Easley
Fourteenth Street Heights Land Company
Washington Heights Inlet
M. William
Charles I. Liebermann
Phelan
Hewn
William T. McCloaky
Juba
Leary Ef Ux
Joseph
Durton
Ftork
Coumra
Amom
Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co
Fifteenth Street
N. W
A. C. Moses Co., Inc
Thomas L. Hume Broker Seeks Buy and Sell Orders
WII SELL 3 000 Wash Hwy and Electric 47% bonds at S014 82 000 Pvt Elec Consideration 5 at 1 3 000 Cap Traction 5 at 10514 50 Cap Traction stock at MH 40 Wash Rwy ptd 50 Wash Gas at 7414 50 Mergenothuier at 197 ex div 1h Lanston at BAY 25 Mumsey Trust at Dy 10 Nov Wah Steamboat 15S Wash Southern Hank 0 10 Franklin Nat Rank 10 District Nat Hank 140 100 Natni Union Ins at I WILL BUY 50 Wash Gas stock at a 10 Mergenthaler at 1wx dix 3 000 Wash Warkers 8 40% at D4 25 Laneston at Kt Subject previous acceptance or cancelation All executions for Buying and selling orders on all Tis va stocks and bonds solieit X will also accept orders to buy any well standard ralis and Industrials on New Street Market New York Deliver lest for cash at your own bank THOMAS L. HUME Broker 1410 G St Rooms 9 11 Tel M 1345 SO
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Hwy. & Electric
Elec
Rwy
Lanston
Bay
Mumsey .Trust
Wah
Southern Hank
Franklin Nat
Hank
Natni
Union Ins
Laneston
Tis Va
Solieit
New York
Thomas L. Hume
Ledger of multiple secured loans and trust deeds listed
Weller and Carry secure 4000 for Schwartz for one year with semiannual payments. SQUARES Ltd arranges 5 percent semiannuals to George Lancaster and others for 1 to 4 year terms totaling 4000 plus. Emma Tackett secures 2350 with monthly payments at 4 percent against George Walker and Breuning er. Patrick Drury et al to Keane and Eschner for 5000 at 6 percent quarterly. Various trusts and building associations noted across several properties and borrowers.
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Weller
Charlea
Charles Shafer
Secre
Northern Liberty German American Building Association
Whitecrdet
Anthony Lohr
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Lawrence Roenigsberger
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Frown Va
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Circuit Court No. 3
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Gerber Ve. Probey
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Meya Donglay
Rona & Obear
W. J. Lambert
C. F. Diggs
B. Drawer. Groff
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George
Gerimao
John Kidout
McKenny
Flannery de Hits
Perry
MLW
Hendry
St. J. Whiteford
Gittinga & Chamberlin
Miller Vs. Vorite
K.P. Aday
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Moore
Cheasapeake Beach
Leckie
Cox & Kratz
McKenney
Flannery
Johnston
Colombia
AL Torrers
Grifth
Jeffords
Whiteford
Criminal Court NO. 2
Mr. Justice Anderson
Susan Hutchina
Justice Metoy
Lewis Johnson & Co
E. BE. Fegtolo
Raph D. Quinter
A. T. Mowson
Charles M. Hiond
Charles J. Bein
Theodore Cox
Clephane
Neil Currie
Attomo
H. P. Blair
Amelia N. Johnson
Margaret Bergmann
W_E Lester
Clara Thortina
HL Lichleter
Marguerits
Westinghouse
McLanahan, Burton & Cutherteon
Elizabeth A. Clarkson
Gordon & Gordon
Parnaller Etherington
Revanna Winter
Union Truttee
George EB. Hamilton
Marguerite & W. Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr
MiTanshan, Dutton & Culbertson
W. O. Lester
Edward C. Rupp
W. Halderston
Eminion
Fagiole
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Mo Brown
Ax Detroit Heating Co
Jamin Weinstein
Detfendant
National Electrical Supply Ce
Mistrict of Columbia
Fred G. Rhodes
Paul B. Cromelin
Divsive Corporation
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Thomas W. Smith
Andrew
Cora Day
Jidenwnt
W. Ti, Marlow
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Fannie B. Norman Ve
Sarah Lewin
John Ridont
Ron C. Gow
W. Carr
Laurence Koenigsberger
Washington. Gas Light Company
Washington, D. C
Public Utilities Commission of the
Washington Gas Light Company
Howard S.reeside
Munsey Trust CO
Munsey Bldg
Morse. Teest
Iequore Ten Oh Seas
Frank A. Munsey
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L. L. Perkins
Equitabie Surety Co. Heme M. Gild
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Joan Joy Emson
Mapoleon
Sapoleon
Sau
Arthur Cowsill
Hulider
Gong
Hibbs
J. Thilman
Hendrick Hendrick Building
15Th St
Washington Stock Exchange
Second Trust
American Sugar Refining
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Central Leather Co
Clarence Cone & CO
Broadway, New York
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