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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Mar 20, 1913

Page

2

New Haven Shares Rally After Severe Market Break

Stock market drifted lower with bearish sentiment and scattered losses. New Haven rebounded slightly after a sharp break while government actions against American Smelting Co. loomed, triggering metal stock declines and wide selling across the list. Treasuries were steady as call money touched 5 percent ahead of a long holiday period.

New York Union Pacific Sears-Roebuck Underwood New Haven Berlin Lin Unds United States

New York Money Market and Grain Prices Report

New York money market shows faster call at 3.1445 percent, ruling rate 4.44, with time loans steady for 60 day at 5 percent. Commercial bills 4.32 percent. bar silver 56. government bonds steady, railroad bonds weak. Wheat futures steady on covering, May at 95.5, July 96, September 95, with bonded wheat May and July at 96.7. Corn spot firm, oats spot quiet No 4 35 58, barley steady at 32.

New York Prime Mercantile Sterling Exchange Bankers’ Hills Mar Duluth Kansas Chicago Norther Boyne Larda Wisconsin Pennsylvenia Middle West Muscovado Rio Santos Cordova Mey Liverpool N.S El.r Na IL

Wall Street Gossip Shares in Big Firms Widen Ownership

New York reports show growing dispersion of stock ownership among big firms. Pennsylvania Railroad lists 76,492 holders with an average 120 shares while American Telephone counts 50,297 holders with lower average stakes. Many holders own tiny blocks, with 9,450 at 5 shares or less and 31,953 at 2 shares or less. Women hold a notable share in American Telephone despite large blocs held by individuals. Industrials dip as market slides. Reading shows resilience amid shifting funds from Pennsylvania. Dividend outlooks and yields remain a focal point for market watchers.

New York Pennsylvania Railroad American Telephone American Sugar Pennsylvania New Haven New York Central The

Washington Gas 6s and Railroads Trade in Noon Market

Washington Stock Exchange reports regular sales with Washington Gas 6s at 109 for 1,000 and 109 for 1,000, Capital Traction and Metropolitan Railroads at 58 and 5s 104% respectively, Potomac Electric Light 5s at 105, and assorted small lots and yields. grain and produce prices largely firmer including wheat, corn, and poultry. dairy and eggs prices listed. copper and other metals quoted in New York. bonds and warrants steady.

Washington Gas Capital Traction Railroad Cong Metropolitan Railroad Potomac Electric Light Capital Traction Washington Railway and Electric Preferred Mergenthaler Linotype Union Trust Citizens Savings Bank Washington Railway and Electric Potomac Electric Consolidated New York Steck Galveston— Washington Railway and Electric New Orleans Mobile Georgetown Gas Cert Ind Retown Savannah Biredy Columbia Ilway Metropolitan Bready Potomac Electric Power Texas Amer. Tel Tet Potomac Tel. Ia.com Jacksonvil Brunswick Caleaner Arateas Paes San Francisco Rines Realty One Tacoma St. Louis Washington Georgetown Stock Mergenthaler Pinatyres Consolidated Ain France Continent Greene-Cantabses Great Britain National B. Bank Japan Mexico Ital Shea Farmers and Mechanics American Security and Trust National Savings Sand ‘Trust Crisie Jist Col. Ican Grap

Washington Stock Exchange Shows Strength Despite Dull Tuesday

The Washington Stock Exchange session featured solid volume and strength in prominent issues. Washington Railway and Electric preferred rose a couple of points, with bonds active at $22,000 total. Capital Traction weak, Washington Gas softened, Mergenthaler steady, Lanston bid, Eastern Light and Fuel and Union Trust trades noted, and a North Western Bottling bankruptcy filing for C. & Hutchinson.

Washington Stock Exchange Washington Railway and Electric Preferred Capital Traction Washington Gas Mergenthaler Lanston Eastern Light and Fuel Union Trust Washington Metropolitan Railway Washington Railway and Electric Potomac Electric Consolidated

New York Cotton and Markets Report March 19

New York shows steady mixed receipts for butter cheese eggs and lard with varied prices. Cotton futures edged down then up amid holiday closures and expectations from the census report, closing narrowly lower.

Philadelphia Market News Dairy and Grain Report

Philadelphia markets report dairy unchanged and wheat steady with No 2 mixed in export elevator. Corn firmer at 54 1/4 to 54 1/2 cents, oats unchanged. Poultry prices mixed with fowls weaker, dressed poultry unchanged.

Philadelphia Axport

Holland comments on Morgan's million loan with no security

New York reports the Pujo committee testimony has sparked nationwide interest in finance reform. Morgan's remark about lending a million to a man with no money is discussed as illustrating character as security. Readers ask who the man might be, and why such loans occur, with Harper & Bros cited as a famous related case.

New York Mar United States Pujo Wilson Congress Washington Mr. Morgan Morgan Finance Holland

House of Death destroyed in Chicago fire

A blaze at 2359 Wentworth Avenue destroyed the so called house of death. Three residents Mia Pas tella and her daughters aged 3 and 6 perished. The long history of fatalities at the site is recounted alongside a wholesale market update for fruits vegetables and meats with varied prices.

Chicago Wentworth Avenue Mia Frank Pastella Jacob Werner Werner

Livestock Market Report From New York and Chicago

Livestock markets show receipts and price ranges for beeves calves sheep and hogs. New York prices list steers bulls cows and dressed beef with varied demand. Chicago reports hogs and cattle with national figures and typical ranges.

New York Maryland Chicago Texas

Washington cattle market report shows varied demand

Fall lambs in demand around seven and a half to eight dollars per hundredweight. Spring lambs slow near twelve to fifteen dollars. Hogs priced per pound at around one to nine tenths. Sheep per pound about four to five cents. Veal calves quoted at eleven cents for choice and ten to eleven cents for medium. Veal market active with hogs near eleven to eleven and a half cents.

Toledo and surrounding regions report mixed figures in March data

Toledo area figures list North Lima at 1.37, South Laima 1.22, Indiana 1.52, Wooster 1.65 with city credit balances at 2.56. Totals show runs 62,064 and average 106,057, shipments 30,789 with average 113,694.

Toledo Ohio North Lima South Laima Indiana Wooster City

Huge Profit on Coins Store of Treasure Grows

George E. Roberts director of the mint reports 1912 gains of the Treasury and national banks from 1900 to 1912 totaled 825,705,000 with gold production not expected to rise much in the next decade. He notes the federal government earned nearly 6,417,000 from coinage profits for pennies to halves and 4,668,000 from subsidiary silver coins in 1912.

Treasury United States National Bank Banke National Banke Philippine Treasury M. S Eee George E. Roberts Mint Roberta Director Roberts U. S Roberts National Banks

Cash in Office and Bank Collateralized Loans Secured

Loan portfolio notes cash in office and cash in bank with collateralized loans. Stocks and bonds listed by market value. Premiums uncollected by aft agents but not overdue. Interest and rents due on all other issuers.

Storka Workmen's Compensation Reinsurance Inspection Bureau Penonsylvania Casualty Go District of Golan Bia Aft

Auto bandits go to prison in Chicago case

Robert Webb and Thomas Burke leaders of the mobile bandits pleaded guilty to burglary and were ordered imprisoned under the Indeterminate sentence law with a minimum of one year and up to 21 years. Webb may face murder charges in the Hart case. James Perry goes to trial for highway robbery amid five other bandits to be tried in rotation. Governor Baldwin vetoed the Connecticut free pass bill for legislators, attempt to override veto failed.

Chicago Mar Robert Webb Thomas Burke Webb Hart Burke James Perry Hartford Conn Baldwin

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