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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
3
The Washington Post reports a broad market retreat as bond prices slide and irregularities spread. Analysts cite no action by the Federal Reserve to curb speculation, while rails and industrials face pressure amid foreign demand for American products and ongoing regulatory concerns.
New York July 30 reports show moderate refined copper purchases for German firms with shipments already starting and expected to grow. Additional sales to England France and several Scandinavian centers are noted with prospects of further exports to Japan. The notice also lists varied live poultry and dairy market receipts and prices across states, including Pennsylvania and nearby regions, with eggs and lard steady and other commodities fluctuating.
Lanston Monotype featured a slow market with 10 shares changing hands mostly at 69, several at 70, and others at 69 percent and 69½. Capital Traction and Washington Railway and Electric Company preferred saw limited activity, with minor price movements. Numerous public utilities, banks, and trust companies listed mixed bids and asks, while miscellaneous items include Grapho, Paper Manufacturing, and other industrials, reflecting a subdued trading day with varied quotes.
Baltimore market report lists butter prints and blocks with varied bids and offers across Maryland Pennsylvania Ohio and nearby states. Eggs and firsts prices for Maryland Pennsylvania West Virginia and the South appear, with oats wheat corn and red winter notes and per bushel figures.
The Washington Railway and Electric Company executives convene to decide on withholding half yearly interest totaling 43 750 on City and Suburban bonds while continuing to pay the Metropolitan road first mortgage interest due tomorrow amid merger talks and bank movements including Todd Ashby leaving for Lima Peru.
The Equitable Trust Company New York Hassey Stuart Co and William R Compton Co offer 5 million dollars of joint stock land bank 5 per cent bonds at 102 plus interest yielding about 4.53 per cent to optional maturity and 5 per cent thereafter. Bonds dated May 1 1919 due May 1 1939 optional May 1 1924. Booklet titled Joint Stock Land Bank Bonds available to investors on application.
London financial news reports a welcome rebound in national war bonds with large purchases, strong support for oil shares including Shell and Burmah, and price highs. Argentine Railway stocks rise slightly after gains. French loans steadier. The Prince of Wales visits the stock exchange as money markets see high turnover and keen loan demand despite end-week liquidity. In New York, corn prices fall amid showers, oats slip, and grain futures edge lower while cottonseed oil markets show nominal prices.
Four 17 knot ships will be turned back to the Shipping Board and freed for South American passenger and freight service out of New York after overhaul. Semimonthly sailings will be made with calls at several Atlantic coast ports. Names not announced but believed to be former German liners. War Department says it turned back freight tonnage to 1,220,000 tons in July, boosting capacity for troop and cargo space for July and August. Plans to return 1,749,000 tons the last week of July and 167,000 tons in August.
Dispatches from Russian sources report Petrograd shrinking from over 2.3 million to around 100000 as disease, deportations, and executions mount. Bolshevik actions relocate hostages to Murmansk, camps stockpile supplies, shipments vanish, industry slows, and coal mining drops sharply while rail operation barely suffices in Ukraine.
Gov Stephens of Nebraska welcomed the transcontinental motor transport corps train at Fremont at noon. A large roads meeting was held with Lieut Col Melure and Dr Johnson of the Lincoln Jughnaways Association addressing attendees. The convoy arrived in Columbus ahead of schedule and was entertained by War Community Service workers. At Fort Omaha West conducted a school for motor mechanics of the balloon service, asking to examine convoy vehicles and motors. Officers and Fort Omaha personnel were entertained at the Omaha Athletic Club last night.
Richmond Virginia marks the 300th anniversary of the Virginia House of Burgesses with a mid afternoon gathering at the colonial hall. The event is hosted by the Virginia branch of the Colonial Dames of America with Dr Douglas S Freeman as orator and Bishop William Cabell Brown delivering the invitation. William Stanard of the Virginia Historical Society introduced the speaker. Additional commemorations are scheduled for August 15 with Dr Thomas Nelson Page to be the orator.
Brit ish victory loan subscriptions total 3 839 000 000 dollars announced in the British House of Commons by Chancellor J Austen Chamberlain. The figure exceeds the previous total by 289 000 000 dollars. In Baltimore William Wind er Edmondson a 78 year old wholesale grocer and pioneer merchant died after long health. Col Wilfred Thedger named British consul general at New York. An Ash ington Post swap column to run August 3 invites readers to trade items hidden in attics cellars or behind clocks, with an 18 cent insertion fee.
Paul Rector of Benning DC sues Lewis F Shoemaker & Co for 29000 claiming a foot injury from an iron beam fall July 28 1918 while employed on the Potomac Electric Power Company extension project. Attorney Edward & Duvall of Norfolk VA represents him. July 30.
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