Prices Slip as Gold Imports Rise and Dividend Pause Seen
Market observers note a slight price drop with heavy foreign purchases of American securities amid a pause on the Atlas Portland Cement dividend. Brokers report a feeble reaction after weeks of decline, while foreign buyers and a stronger sterling lift demand for cheap stocks. The day features mixed trading, with nervous tension easing and some sectors asserting resilience despite the broader weakness.
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Enign
Portland
Sloas LoMely Company
Vait Stork
Moreyort
Peirce
Treasury Report Highlights and Bank Clearings
The document details Treasury receipts and outlays, including Customs and postal figures, gold and silver movements, and reserve funds. It notes bank note movements, gold certificates, silver certificates, and outstanding issues, with totals for trust funds and general balance, ending with bank clearings and related financial metrics.
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Wile Totowech
Roadom Association
Ines
Stteartion
Moe
Gold Movement
United States
Treasury
National’ Banka
Philippine
New York Stock Market and Commodities Report
New York markets show mixed futures and arrivals, with exports totaling ZLAIT tons so far this month. Iron prices steady in Northern and Southern regions. copper and lime shipments listed for Toledo and Cleveland areas. Currency balances and shipments totals are noted with regional variations and unsettled prices.
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Cleveland
London
Neo
Maryland Casualty gets federal bond business license
Local market wrap reports mixed activity with Capital Tractions share sale from 115 to 1141 2, but overall week shows strength. Maryland Casualty Company awarded government bonding license after Treasury inspectors review its history since March 1, 1898, becoming the first bonding and surety firm examined by Treasury officials.
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Commercial National
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Maryland Casualty Company
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Post Classifieds Free Advertising Flourishes
Daily cotton market note states that want ads are free in The Post classifieds. No charge for advertising and readers are urged to use the column to secure results.
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Rain and steel recover in July trade, Dun & Co notes
Dun and Co weekly review flags improved business mood despite prior slumps. Steel production steady, iron and steel trade improving. dry goods demand firmer, shoes still cautious as buyers wait crop results. Fall River and Chicago activity rise with overall better tone and higher earnings forecasts.
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United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburg
Fall River
Chicago
Bradstreet
United States
New York Money Market and Cotton Market Report
New York money market shows rates mostly steady with calls near 2 percent and commercial paper around 5 to 6 percent. Cotton prices moved volatilely on July contracts amid drought weather reports and mixed ginners’ association data, with July dipping to 15.60 and August firming before closing near 15.50 to 15.60 depending on contract month.
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Shane Dull
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Sterling Exchange
Hig Southern
National Ginners’ Association
Texas
Wall Street Gasps Over Pearson-Farquhar Collapse
Special to the Washington Post from New York on July 29 outlines a renewed Wall Street reaction to speculative collapses. It notes the Pearson-Farquhar syndicate failure as part of a broader downturn sparked by prior Steel common speculation, detailing ownership stakes, dividend changes, and a thin earnings margin amid a fluctuating market.
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Pearson-Farquhar Syndicate
Steelcommon
Pearson-Farquhar
New York and Philadelphia Bankers Form Currency Associations
The National Currency Association of New York was organized at the clearing house with 27 national banks. A B Hepburn was named president, Frank A Vanderup vice president, and Alexander Gilbert secretary. An executive committee includes Snyder Hine Delafield Porter and Woodward. In Philadelphia, banks formed an emergency currency association under the Aldrich Vreeland act after New York’s move, with most national banks participating.
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Philadelphia
New York
Organize For Rate Battle With Railroads Next May
Chicago July 28 An important step in organizing a national push against freight-rate hikes was taken by the national industrial committee and the rate congress committee. Twenty three men from fifteen cities and major industries in the north Mississippi valley attended. The body declared unanimous, aiming to present the shippers case before the Interstate Commerce Commission with West and East teams handling respective regions. Cities represented include Minneapolis Saint Louis St Joseph Kansas City Chicago Cincinnati Rockford Columbus Indianapolis Pittsburg Baltimore Dayton. The speakers urged no unnecessary railroading of earnings but argued for justified rate increases across lines.
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National Industrial Committee
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Omaha
J. C. Lincoln
E. B. Williamson
Cincinnati
H. ©. Barlow
W. P. Trickett
Minneapoli
H. G. Wilson
Kansas City
Trickett
McVann
Wilson
Lincoln
Williamson
New York Produce Price Summary July Report
New York market notes show butter receipts 549 pkgs with mixed specials, cheese steady at 1982 boxes, eggs 10 980 boxes, poultry quieter with Western broilers and fowls at 174 to 180, turkeys 16, lard comments, tallow steady, cottonseed oil firm, raw and refined sugar steady, coffee steady, potatoes Jersey 1.20 per barrel, Southern 1.00 to 1.62, cabbages Baltimore 60 to 75 per crate, peanuts unchanged.
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Baltimore Markets and Injury Suit Targeting Railways
In Baltimore on July one, market notes show dull corn and oats with firmer bids for No 2 white oats. William A. Fiddler, through attorneys Arthur Peter and Preston B. Ray, sues Brightwood Railway Co and Washington Woodside and Forest Glen Railway and Power Co for $10,000 claiming a June 10 derailment caused him injuries.
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Auction sale of unfinished hotel building Asheville NC 1910
On Wednesday August 20 1910 in Asheville Buncombe County North Carolina a sale will be held of the unfinished concrete hotel building and the land it sits on at the corner of North Main and College streets between noon and 1 pm The property has about ninety thousand dollars already spent on it Terms require one third cash with balance in one and two years The sale takes place under a decree in the case B A Smith v C H Miller pend wife and others For more information contact W R Whitron Attorney Asheville NC document dated June 6 1910
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Proposals for Depot Forage and Straw Furnishing 1810s
Public call for sealed proposals from the General Depot of the Quartermaster's Department Washington and the District of Columbia Commissioners. Includes dates July 1819 and July 1930 with deadlines to August 1 and August 12 respectively for supplying forage, straw, and wiring and lab renovations at Western High School. Entities include H Pettus Captain and Quartermaster U S A and Cuno Rudolph John Johnston Mark Ham acting commissioners.
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Walter Reederal Hospital
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