Exchange Opens Soon For Limited Bond Trading
New York dates indicate major banks favor resumption of bond trading with safeguards. Private market activity remains steady with high-grade issues near record levels. Chicago stock action drew attention as dealers traded at July levels amid cautious, selective dealings. Foreign exchange showed no major developments, London rates higher and monetary concerns persist. Western rail traffic activity remains modest, with receipts above prior week.
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New York
Eanka
Wall Street
Amercan Benda
Chicago
London
Vattar
Aionev
Wesmers
Thello Alorrespondenta
Broker Crump Adjudged Bankrupt in Court Filing
Edward Crump, a real estate broker, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the District Supreme Court yesterday through attorney Percy Metzger. His assets and liabilities show debts of $3,220.66, and Judge McCoy adjudged him bankrupt, referring the case to Referee Quinter for bankruptcy proceedings.
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Wara
Dlstrict Supreme Court
Edward Crump
Percy Metzger
Junsie McCoy
Quinter
Fi Bank
Treasury Financials November 20 1814 Revenue and disbursements
United States Treasury reports revenue receipts of 61,472,048 this day and ordinary disbursements of 2,676,484.34 with excess disbursements of 4,204,485.18. Monthly revenue totals reach 28,823,418.64, with year to date figures and various fund assets and liabilities listed.
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General
Treasury
Steadard Aliver Iellars
United States
National Bank
Tn Treseury
Philppines
Tuba In Peace
Eec
Gould
Totel
Asneta
Nets
New York Produce Prices Reported On Nov 28
New York prices for primers, receipts, and various commodities show steady to firm trends. Butter, eggs, beef, poultry, sugar, rye flour, buckwheat, and lard are listed with ranges and special mentions such as Western roasting chickens, fancy turkeys, and specific grade designations.
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New York
Astra Fine
Pennagivaria
Amt
Ararhy Hennery
Do. Hennery
Stridy
South America
Grain and market notes from New York and Buffalo
Grain market items from New York and Buffalo note spot prices, futures, exports, and bids. Mentioned are No 2 yellow, No 2 white, rye, malting barley, and Argentine deliveries with steady spot levels and various price figures and terms. The text references futures activity, export sales, and shipping terms without cohesive narrative.
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Serthera Doleth Lena
F. Buffalo
FAY
RW Shipping
Tso
Camimente Chace
Cheroh Pocheromat
Antena
Bermlock
Eavte
Fais Pahley
Ferilog
Wes Ff
Buffs
New York cotton market droughts and exports rise
The New York cotton market showed unsettled, fluctuating activity with prices near unchanged to slightly higher on strong export demands. Liverpool reported higher prices and spinners buying, while local brokers held back due to ample supply. Exports today reached the war high of 1,102,077 bales, with futures closing around 1.28 for December.
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New York
Rivate
Eiverpool
Saturstay
Liverpool
Tes
Maturlay
Helland
Italy
Oil Quotations See Slippage in City Market
Oil quotations for city market show mixed results with credit balances around 145 and average 35.5 for equipment items. The report notes totals of 38,058 and references NYC style figures, reflecting fluctuating demand and pricing in the period.
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Tak City
Washington Cattle Market Prices Brief
Market listings show hogs at 3% to V. Th per pound, sheep at 3 to 4, veal calves at 12. to 12%4, spring lambs at 8.0, drained hogs at 10 to 11 cents per pound.
Holland says life insurer grows big on small capital
New York November 2 The life insurance giant led by president John R Hegeman controls about 500 million in resources and a 40 million net surplus with capital of 2 million. Plans to mutualize the company by passing management to policy holders are announced as stockholders prepare for a potential transition amid a long near century of stable leadership.
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New York
United States
Ife Insurance Company
John R. Hegeman
Europe
Concern
Rensons
Stewart L. Woodford
Silas Dutcher
Thomas J. James
Supreme Court
Morgan J.brien
AML
Life Insurance Companies of
Charles E. Hughes
Washington
Hegeman
Hfe
Equitable Assurance Society
The
Equitable
Corporation
T Io
Wfe
Holland
Philadelphia Markets Report From Nov 28
Market notes show butter at 35 cents per pound for extra grade from West Mountain Creamery, eggs from nearby prints with free cases and receipts, and mixed quality in other dairy lines. Wheat remains steady with northern port quotes and corn and oats prices fluctuate. grain trade appears light with regional price activity and several garbled entries.
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Philadelphia
tWestmmn Creamery
New York
Chicago Market Opens With Gains as Trading Resumes
Chicago November 23 local securities rise from July 30 quotes with Booth Fish preferred up 15 points Commonwealth Edison 10 points and Peoples Gas 13 points. Opening restrictions bar sales below July 30 prices while eager buyers and few large sellers mark the first broad official market restart since August 14.
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Chicago
Chicago Stock Exchange
Booth Fish Preferred
Commonwealth Edison
Peoples Gas
Exchange
Chicago Exchange
Holdere
Carlyle's 1876 Epithet Recalled Unspeakable Turk
A reprint recalls Thomas Carlyle's 1876 letter denouncing the Turks and coining the phrase unspeakable Turk. It notes Cyril The Times publication and the ensuing British debate on Eastern Question policy with Gladstone, Disraeli, and Russia.
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Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
London
John Carlyle
Dumfries
Disraeli
Bulgaria
St. James’ Hall
Fontanet Courts Sold to Investor Davis for 385000
John H. Davis purchased Fontanet Courts at Fifteenth and Fairmont for 385000 from Harry Wardman. The five story brick and limestone fireproof building covers 145 by 220 feet with 64 apartments and 250 rooms, including two elevators and a first floor lobby area with a restaurant. Completed about a year ago, the structure was designed by Wardman and built by Wardman.
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Fontanet Courts
Fairmont Streets
John H. Davis
Harry Wardman
Davis
Fontanet Courts Apartments
Food dealers deny combine in Sherman act case
Two Washington produce dealers who pleaded not guilty to grand jury indictments alleging a conspiracy to fix prices during the European war era withdrew pleas and filed demurrers. They argue the indictments lack legal offense, fail to show a restraint of trade, and do not prove market control or the means of forming a price-fixing combination. Attorneys named include Ligover, Carr, Peyiser, Kingsbury, Douglas, Carter, Futon, and Johnston.
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Washington
United States
Nto
George P. Ligover
Charles W. Carr
Julius I. Pey~iser
Lawrence Kingsbury
Charleg A. Douglas
J. B. Carter
Creed M. Futton,and
W. A. Johnston
Petition for Transfers Between Washington Rail Lines
A petition to the public utilities commission requests reciprocal transfers between the heroic Ine and the E and Fourteenth streets line of the Washington Railway and Electric Company at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The document lists about 260 signers, including Treasury Department staff such as Bureau of Printing and Engravings employees, who rely on the old bureau building daily and ride the berdle line.
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Fourteenth Streets
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Public Utilities Commission
Il. Curties
Treasury Department
Curtiss
Bureau of Printing and Engravings
Bureau
Berdle
Local Produce Market Wholesale Prices List
Wholesale New York cheese factory large 164 percent and butter 26G2T. Poultry alive: Boring chickens 156216 hens 1R A4 turkeys 1TQTR. Vegetables include potatoes 1.50 to 1.60 per sack lettuce 5424 per basket peppers 40p 60 per crate and cucumbers 00 per basket. Fruits California oranges 3.60 to 4.00 per box grapefruit 2.00 to 2.50 pineapples Florida 2.00 to 3.50 per crate. Various other items listed with scattered prices and misspelled names.
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New York
Virginia
West Virginia
Northeast Virginia
California
Florida
Concord
Niagara
Baltimore Markets Wheat and poultry prices November note
Baltimore market report lists prices for wheat including No. red at 1.14 1/4 and No. 2 red Western at 2.17 1/4, various egg and butter quotes, and poultry figures for chickens ducks and geese. Regional ranges shown for Baltimore Western and Southern markets plus dairy products and eggs with multiple grade distinctions.
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Baltimore
Ern
Turkeyr
Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Livestock market quotes from Chicago and New York
Chicago and New York markets show mixed cattle hogs and sheep figures with receipts around 16 000 hogs 10 000 cattle and 21 008 sheep in Chicago while New York reports steadier to lower beeves and calf prices heavy hogs at 4 25 to 3 50 and rougher classes up to 7 50. Calves and yearlings trade strong with varied demand across regions and stock classes.
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Chicago
Digher
Wight
New York
Trasmere
New York Money Market Report Nov 23
Mercantile paper steady at near zero rate. Starting exchange seen for 0 day bills at 4.8500, cables 4.8975, demand 4.8025. Bar silver at 45. Silver balances and exchanges total 205,398,447 dollars with balances of 11,048,271 dollars.
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New York
Mercantile Paper
Sterting Exchange
The Metal Market Briefing in New York
New York metal market report dated November 23 notes tin firm with Betson lots, electrolytic copper at 12.25, iron and steel bids in North and South variants, London spot copper at 265 65, futures at 55 la, tin spot at £139 108 and futures at £128.
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New York
Fiveston Iota
BSS Rss
Beton
London
Europe Floods U S Markets With Foreign Orders
New York reports that European conflicts drive a flood of textile orders to the United States. French agents and Scandinavian loans boost exports, especially in cotton duck, blankets, and knit goods, with New England leading the boom. Ambassador Naón of Argentina urges U S manufacturers to seize a $100,000,000 market and outlines steps: more ships, smaller cargos, and US credit trade ties.
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New York
New England
National City Bank
United States
Vermont Cartridge Plant Wins $2.5 Million Contract
Swanton Vt Nov 3 The Robin Weal Ammunition Company has secured a contract valued at 2.5 million dollars for cartridges destined for a belligerent nation. The country is unnamed but shipments will go from New York to South America then onward. The order is the largest Vermont firm has ever received and will require about a year to complete with rush orders for machinery and a larger workforce.
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Swanton
Robin Weal Ammunition Company
New York
South America
Vermont
Robin Hood Company
Japan Buys Texas Cotton Above Market Price
Four hundred bales of cotton for delivery in Japan were purchased on the floor of the Little Treck board of trade by a Klube agent. The price was not disclosed but said to be above market. The agent plans a Texas buying campaign after a prior 150,000 bale purchase at Kiabe. Shipments will move from Galveston via the Panama Canal.
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Little Treck
Ark
Japan
Board of Trade
Klube
Arkansas
Texas
Kiabe
Galveston
Panama
2000 Idle Steelworkers Back to Labor in Chicago
Chicago November 23 two thousand men idle since spring returned to work at the South Chicago plant of the Illinois Steel Company as the railroad and structural mills reopened. Arthur H Young superintendent of Jabers Mills said mills would run to capacity within a few weeks.
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Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
Arthur H. Young
Jaber St the Mills
Cotton for Bremen Is Purchased at High Rate
New Orleans reports freight brokers say the American steamer Greenbrier will ship cotton direct to Bremen. About 6,000 bales capacity, sold at a high rate. The Greenbrier was chartered from United Fruit Company by Incal interests to be fitted for horses to Europe.
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New Orleans
Greenbrier
Bremen
United Fruit Company
Incal
Europe
Britain frees wheat cargo from Miramichi seizure
A British naval prize court ordered release of a wheat cargo consigned to Stat terdam by Muir & Co of New York, seized on the British steamship Miramichi in the Mersey after hostilities began. The court said the cargo left an American port before war and remained the property of American claimants, not liable to seizure, though a British ship carrying enemy cargo is liable to seizure anywhere in wartime.
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Jaondoan
Statterdam
Muir & Co
New York
British wartime orders from Europe total over 15 million
Freder ick S. Fish of South Bend Ind just returned from England reporting British orders for vehicles wagons harness and equipment totaling more than 3550000. England also contracts for 500 automodite trucks from a Kenosha Wis firm and the French government orders worth over 1 million in autome tollies from a Jackson Mich factory. Another war time order announced today is a British order for 5 million one pound tins of corned beef.
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Frederick S. Fish
South Bend
Ind
England
Kenosha
Wis
Jackson, Mich
Texas packing concerns feel prosperity’s effects
Fort Worth packing plants report European war orders boosting activity, especially in canning. Last week large shipments of fresh meats were sent to New York for export and chilled meat was delivered there, though destination beyond New York is not known.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Canning
New York
Huge Exports of Wheat Reach Across United States
Chicago reports export sales exceeding 1,000,000 bushels of wheat with total exports approaching 2,000,000 bushels as St. Louis and Omaha each log about 186,000 bushels. Demand aims at Kansas City and seaboard points while rail shipments from Milwaukee move 120,160 bushels to the coast. local exporters also move 400,000 bushels of corn and 56,400 bushels of oats.
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Chicago
Europe
United States
St. Louis
Omahs
Kansasity
Seaboard
Milwaukee
Food shortages spur relief drive for war sufferers
Mrs Mary Losan Tucker of the Belgian relief committee urged Washington readers to send food and clothing for war victims. She cited pitiful food donations, requested beans and flour, and noted a $60 cash receipt and a large shipment of woolen shirts. A new drive forms committees citywide, with boxes piling up at 425 Eleventh Street NW as organizers plan canvassing.
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Mary Losan Tucker
Washington
Elia Hoover Thacher
Mra Tucker
Lone Prospecta
Hevy Chageffreles
Edwin Rosengarten
George Minvegerode
Moga Prescott Gatley Ak
Funeral of Mrs Virani R. Hoxie at John’s Episcopal Church
The funeral of Mrs Virani Ream Hoxie sculptress and wife of Brig Gen. Richard L. Hoxie U.S. retired was held yesterday at SS John's Episcopal Church at 10th and H streets NW with Rev. Dr. Roland Cotton Smith presiding. Cremation followed at London Park Cemetery near Baltimore before burial at General Hoxie’s plot in Arlington Cemetery. Attendees included F A Richardson Brig Gen John M. Wilgon U.S. Army retired Brig Gen M. M Macomb Theodora Noyes WH Holmen George J Zolny Dr. John A. Brashear and Dr. Henry Krogerad. Gen Home and family escorted the remains to the crematory near Baltimore. Mrs. Hoxie died Friday at her home 1632 H Street NW.
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Virani Ream Hoxie
Richard L. Hoxie
U.S
SS John’s Episcopal Church
Trenth
H Streets
Roland Cotton Smith
London Park Cemetery
Baltimore
U. S A
M. M Macomb
Theodora Noyes
WH Holmen
George J Zolny
John A. Brashear
Henry Krogerad
Mrs Ford Estate Proceeds Placed in Trust
The will on Mira Mary Ford’s estate directs most assets to be placed in trust for her daughter Lora Berd, naming Berd as executor. Real estate along Saint Central to Honor Mileage Books is involved, with the plan showing allocations for furnishings and property as specified in the will. The document notes a prior plan for annual distributions and mentions related regulatory actions and a withdrawn Interstate Commerce Commission regulation.
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Ford
Mira Mary FO
Bos
Interstate Conmere Commission
Cane Trust
Rat Road
Commission
Beaton Fieri Peckham Split Sparks Tense Exchange
A fragmentary note describes a strained domestic scene with Beaton Fieri Peckham and his wife. The speaker claims his partner falls often and must listen more to avoid relationship strain. The text reads as a terse personal grievance amid unclear context.
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Beaton
Fieri Peckham
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National Cemetery
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10Th St
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Hth
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National Metropolitas Bank
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Patriot of Columbia
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Munsey Trust
Frank A. Munsey
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Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co
Fifteenth Street
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15Th St. N. W
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