Steel shares slip as government suit looms over United Steel
On Oct 26 New York trading centered on the steel group after news of a government suit for dissolution against United States Steel emerged post close. Steel fell to 58 3/4 while rails and other majors showed mixed moves. London bought about 10,000 shares, banks strengthened, and bonds were irregular.
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New York
Steel ‘Group
United Steel Corporation
Wall Street
Stee
United States Steel Directors
United States Steel
Great Northern
Ahrest
Republic Steel
Colorado
National
Underwood Typewriter
London
Bank of England
Bank of France
Ita
Third Avenue 49
Eamerican Steel Foundry És
American Steel Foundry Ab
Adams Express
American Tobacco
Breden
Braden
Butte Coalition
Chicago
Giroux Cone
Cy Greene-Canane
Inspiration Ae
Intercon
Kerr
Nevada
Utah
Oregon
Washington
Southern Bell
West
Pacific
Aves
Yukon
Treasury Report of Wholesale Market Quotations
The United States Treasury releases Washington stock exchange wholesale quotations for fruits vegetables eggs butter cheese poultry and vegetables. Prices span apples chestnuts eggs Virginia West Virginia Tennessee potatoes cucumbers onions lima beans cabbage eggplant celery squash lettuce peppers beets tomatoes okra and more with varied per unit and per basket measures.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Southwost Virginia
Tennessee
California
Niagara
Wall Street Gossip in Last Hour of Trading
Special to The Washington Feet reports a dull close with speculation on an expected brisk opening tomorrow. Steel shares ease while London curb activity tightens, amid reports of resignations and inquiries into the Carnegie Frick era. Baltimore and Ohio earnings show modest gains in three months and year.
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Washington
New York
Athletics
Batemen
Baker's
Giants
National Biscuit Company
Steel Common
Trenton
United States Steel Corporation
Wall Street
London
London Connection
Andrew Car
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Receipt by Hibbs and bankers at NYSE and CBOE
A brief notice records a receipt involving W. B. Hibbs and a group of bankers at the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. The fragment indicates financial activity and institutional involvement without detailing actions or outcomes.
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W. B. Hibbs
Bankers and New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of
The Metal Market Roundup From New York and London
Copper futures and spot values listed for October to January with mixed London prices. Iron trade notes riff with Cleveland warrants and local bass. Livestock prices show veal calves in demand and hogs, sheep, and lambs rates per hundredweight and pound.
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New York
London
Cleveland
Fowndry Northern
Southern
Booth
Washington Railways and Electric stocks mix on exchange day
Washington Railway and Electric common and Potomac Electric consolidated led yesterdays Washington Stock Exchange session with active trading though price moves were light. Options on Railway common were chased, bids reached 40 for 1600 shares and 40 1-4 for 500, but no trades, while regular sales totaled 433 shares at 40.
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Washington Railway and Electric, Common
Potomac Electric
Consolidated
Washington Stock Exchange
Mergenthaler
Call
Washington
Ges
United States Trust
Potomac Electric Consolidated
Washington Gas
New York Produce Market Report and Cotton Freight Update
The New York market notes butter creamery prices and milk products with varied receipts and prices for firsts seconds and thirds. Cotton futures show a late day drop after early gains amid weather worries and demand concerns. Freight rates on bituminous coal were suspended by rail carriers pending further inquiry through May 1912.
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New York
Pacific Coast
Agen
Middle West
Carlova
China
Manchester
Liverpool
Gulf
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
Rail rates set for bituminous coal to Lackawanna region
Baltimore and Washington rail lines propose a 1.10 per ton rate on bituminous coal from Wehmraum Pennsylvania to Lackawanna North Carolina with intermediate points priced up to 1.03. The reduction aims to meet stiff competition at Lackawanna and aid heavy traffic. An extra 7 cents per 100 pounds is offered by Atlantic Coast Line Seaboard Air Line and others to Wadesboro and Monroe, against Cheraw. The Cheraw Board of Trade demands equal rates to rival cities.
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Alle-Chalmers
American Agricultural
Ameran
American Tobacco
Armour & Co
Atchison
Hantte Coast Lins
Baltimore & Ohio
Batimore & Ohio Southwestern
Brooklyn Transtecy
Abe Central Leather
Central of Georgia Sa
Central
Ron Joe
Chenaneake
Onto
Ba. Reese
Renaneake
Onio
Hicage & Alton
Chicago
Y & Qu
Pura
RY & Pacific R. R. & Pacific Railway
Colorane
Southern
Delaware & Hudson cv
Rio Grande
Denver & Rio Grande
Dente Wags Haols
Ray de Texas
Mlaeouc
Kansas & Texas
Hesours Pacific
Mexico
York Central
Fattlord
Nortolix & Western
Western
Neathern Pacific
Western ES Wertinghouse Stecrie
Baltimore and Washington
Wehraum
Laakawanna
N. C
Atlantic Coast Line
Seaboard Air Line
Wadesboro
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Monroe
Cheraw
D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cheraw Board of Trade
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Washington
Stonega Coke and Coal Company
Miltonh. Smith
W. A. Northcutt
B. Compton
LB. Butler
E. L. Locke
M. Bruce
C. H. Blackman
Virginia
Amended petition seeks court order on transit transfer exchange
Arthur L. Shreve receiver for the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company files an amended petition in District Supreme Court to compel exchange of transfers with Capital Traction Company at Fourteenth and Kennedy streets Northwest. He argues refusal clouds the transit company title, citing a similar Chicago Street Railway case, and warns passengers may sue for free rides if the transfer system remains blocked.
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Arthur L. Shreve
Baltimore and Washington Transit Company
Capital Traction Company
Fourteenth
Kennedy Streets
Chicago Street Railway Company
Bisi
United States Supreme Court
Baltimore
Washington ‘Transit Company
Traetes
Capital Traction Company Inc
Transit Company
Santa Fe Increases Capital Stock and Expands Rail Network
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe stockholders and directors voted a one hundred million dollar addition to capital stock and a bond issue, pushing total capitalization to 481,486,000. The plan funds improvements, includes the Garden City to Scott City line purchase, portions of the Southern Pacific between Needles and Mojave, and ratification of leases for Kings River and Luton Western railways. Directors re elected include Charles S. Gleed Topeka H Rieman Duval Thomas P Fowler and Walter D Hines New York City with Hines as chairman.
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Kaus
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Santa Fe
Garden City, Gulf and Northern Railway
New York City
Mr. Hines
Philadelphia and New York Grain and Livestock Markets
Market notes from Philadelphia and New York show wheat steady to mixed, corn firm for local trade, oats quiet, hog and cattle receipts large with mixed shifts in price. Regional price levels reflect steady to firmer tones in wheat and hogs, with cattle and lambs trading unevenly in early October sessions.
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Western Creamery
Axtric Western Creamery
Pennsylvania
F. c
New York
Jersey
Hood
Chicago
Feonla
Lamba
Duluth
Argentina
Timwello
Axport
New York Money Market Rates Waver On Open
New York money markets show call money steady at 2 percent with bids at 3 percent and offers at 2 percent. Time loans ease with 34 3 percent for 6 days and 3 percent for 0 days, six months at 8 percent. Prime mercantile paper quoted at 4 4 percent. Sterling exchange stable in bankers bills at 4.8275 for 60 day bills and 4.87 for demand. Commercial bills around 4.83. Bar silver at 54 percent. Mexican dollars at 45 percent. Government bonds steady. Railroad bonds show slight fr-
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Police Signals a Success at Julian Downey Trial
In Alexandria a motorcyclist Downey faced speeding charges after officers testified a signals system caught violators. Downey was fined and briefly appealed, with bond posted. A separate court order settled loans for several individuals, and local notices invited public memory services and patron day at schools.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Sebtt
Julien Downey
Downey
Corporation Court
Bub
North Alfred Street
Po Uce
Death by Own Action Stuns Cairo and Norfolk Boss Goode
Boston Oct 21 The death by his own action of Lowery W. Goode 66 president of the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad was announced by police today. Long confined to ill health he traveled to Boston last week for medical help and after writing letters to his wife and the medical examiner swallowed morphine. The Cairo and Norfolk was a projected direct line from Cairo to Norfolk with limited section completed.
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Boston
Lowery W. Goode
New York
Cairo and Norfolk Railroad
Goode
Lfe
Cairo and
Norfolk Road
Cairo
Kentucky
Norfolk
Tobacco Subsidiary Sold in New Orleans
New Orleans October 2 announces Hernsheim Company of this city, cigar makers, has been disposed of by the American Tobacco Company. Purchasers are H. W. Cobb, R. B. Rogers, and J. Fuller Malone of Tampa. It marks the severance of a subsidiary from the dissolving great corporation under a Supreme Court order. Hernsheim was capitalized at 225000, Cobb owning one third and the remainder held by the American Tobacco Company.
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New Orleans
Hernsheim Company, Ltd
American Tobacco Company
H. W. Cobb
R. B. Rogers
J. Fuller Malone
Tampa
Great Corporation
Small steaks vanish from Chicago menus
Chicago diners face a shift as the so called small steak disappears from menus. It has been replaced by the single sirloin and other high priced titles, with prices rising by 10 to 25 cents. In cheap eateries the old 15 cent small steak now costs a quarter, while outlets that once sold a 6 cent small steak now price a eagle sirloin at 7 to 9 cents.
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United States Steel
Norfolk and Western
A& Point
Erie, Rock Island and Southern Railway
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rose
Chicago
Baltimore Markets: fluctuating grain and live poultry prices
Baltimore markets show easy spot contracts for wheat and corn yet, with rye firm at No 2 Western. Poultry prices vary by type and weight, including young chickens, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl, with assorted quality terms and per pound rates.
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Baltimore
Guinse
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