Local market items and stocks mixed with cotton prices
A jumble of market notes lists cotton and produce prices for beams, cabbage, onions and corn alongside stock market movements on the New York and Wilmington floors. It notes declines in rails and steel issues, a general market downturn, and commodity quotes including cotton spot and naval stores.
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Whlveaby
Beeb
China
Col. Fuel & Iron
Columbia Gas and Electric
Cuba
Erie
General Motors
Great Northern Pfd
Gulf State Steel
Great Northern Ore Cits
Marine Pfd
Ll. Central By and
Kennecott Copper
Louisville & Nashville
Maxwel Motor Go
Mexican Petroleum
Miami Corner
Midvale Steel
Pacific Nevada Copper
New York Central
Norfolk and Western
Northern Pacific
Ohio Cities Gas
Pennsylvania
Consolidated Copper
Reading
Republic Tron & Steel
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Studebaker Co
Sats
Bay Na
Sloss-Shef, Steel and Tron
Tobaco
Union Pacific
United Fruit
Car. Chem
Rene
Pe We Wabash Ptd. ‘A
Westinghouse Electric
Willys-Overland
Cotton Market Drops as Private Buyers Sell Bales
Orleans December 4 Private buyers on signing to the end bulk 2600 000 bales lifting output for this period.\nDecline of 6.20 points at opening. Good support met the one bid at the end of the first hour. Market closed down 67 points with steadier tone later.
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York
Maton
Janu- Gee
Isfu
Isiit
Orleans
Kien
New Orleans Spots Cotton Prices and Trade Update
Orleans December 4 spot cotton market shows unchanged rates with sales on the local market. Toward delivery 1,900 bales await arrival. middling prices around 29.00 to 29.50 cents, good middling near 29.50. Receipts total 13,230 with stock on hand noted.
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New Orleans
Orleans
Cotton oil market updates with early December quotes
York reports steadystate cotton oil prices with spot and futures. December price 23.25, January 18.95, May 19.00, volume 12.49. Total sales for the period unclear due to garbled text.
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York
Mulet
Chicago Live Stock Receipts Mixed With Strong Lamb Market
Receipts show mixed live stock activity with hogs trading around 17.25 to 17.90 and cows and calves in the 7.25 to 13.75 range. Feeders and western stockers sell strong at 7.00 to 15.50 for cattle assets and lambs bring 12.50 to 12.90. Market remains firm overall with varied bids.
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Chicago
Rotary Glu Will All Toward Fund
Aerial Rotary meeting at the Y M C A sets plan to raise 1800 for the city’s War Chest fund. An executive committee leads the drive with 15 names per member to solicit contributions and a target date of next Tuesday for progress report.
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Rotary C Uusus
Formane
M. C
Army
Mf Meosrs, J. B. Huntington, F. B. ‘Viet, Roger Moore, Louis Shrierll
Feorce Kidder
Iis
Gener
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Io Glen Roger Moore
Lily Johnson
Lident Moore
Iuibers
Rotary
Hvre
Greek Citizen Death Prompt Police Search
Police received a report from the Fayetteville chief last night about a suspected Tookent couple linked to a Greek citizen's death. An officer met the Fayetteville train but found no arrival matching the description and no further developments are known.
Conspiracy Charged In Hat Makers Indictment
An indictment unsealed in New York charges William B. Thom John J Slattery Joseph Ives and Edward Slattery with conspiring to defraud the United States on contracts for over 1 000 000 service hats. The defendants are tied to Thom and Bailey Peekskill Hat Manufacturing and H D Parmelee and Cove firms.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
William B. Thom
John J. Slattery
Joseph Ives
Edward Slattery
Thom and Bailey
Peekskill Hat Manufacturing Company
H. D. Parmelee and Cove
Engineers' Part in Present War at Mechanical Engineers' Meet
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers hosts a war oriented convention in New York to discuss fuel ships rail transport aircraft cantonments agriculture and munition issues. Taft will give a war labor message and General Goeinals will speak as an honorary member. Employers of women discuss training for munitions work and preventing errors in enemy countries. The care of crippled soldiers is also on the agenda.
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United Press
New York
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
William Howard Taft
Goeinals
Quebec Bridge Opens with First Freight Train Crossing
The new Quebec bridge opened today with a formal ceremony. The first freight train of 16 cars plus a van and a private car crossed the span weighing 1 245 tons. Officials from the Quebec bridge and Canadian government railway departments rode the train.
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Quebec Bridge
Associated Press
Quebec
Gorgas Calls for Volunteers for Army Medical Corps
Surgeon General Gorgas appeals to men aged 18 to 40 to enlist in the army medical corps. Applicants must contact a recruiting officer or medical officer at any post or cantonment before December 15.
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Gorgas
Associated Press
Washington
Army Medical Corps
Army
Six Deaths in France reported by Pershing
Six deaths from natural causes among members of the American Expeditionary Forces were reported to the War Department today by General Pershing. Five died from pneumonia or complications and one from alcoholic poisoning. None were from Southern States.
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France
Associated Press
Washington
War Department
General Pershing
Conquers Rheumatism In A Very Few Days
An advertisement touts Rheuma as a quick effective remedy for rheumatism and sciatica. A small daily dose purportedly relieves pain and removes rheumatic poisons with a money back guarantee if not fully effective. R. R. Bellamy and local druggists are named as sellers.
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R. R. Bellamy
Mortgage Sale by North Carolina Home Building Assoc
Public auction to the highest bidder for cash. The 1917 sale of property in Wilmington follows a mortgage deed dated November 23 1915 and recorded in Book 88 page 313. The lot in question is Lot 6 Block 7 on Marstellar Street near Sixth Street with specified dimensions.
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Della RB. Merrick
John Merrick
North Carolina Home Building Association
New Hanover County
Court House
Wilmington
Sixth Treet
Marstelar Street
Marstellar Street
Sixth Street
John D. Bellamy & Son
Early Reduction in Bread Prices
Washington reports immediate price cuts being urged for bread nationwide under a government license system starting December 10. The War Emergency Council and the United States Food Administration push reduced prices, capped materials costs, and standardized loaves amid planned licensing for bakers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dec
War Emergency Council of the
Baking Industry
Food Administration
Henry Stude
Houston
Texas
National Association of Bakers
War Council
Bakers
United States Food Administration
Jury Views Murder Scene in Varney Trial
The jury selected for the Harriet A. Varney murder case was taken to Brookline to view the Keyes home where Mrs. Pauline A. Keyes was found with a bullet wound on June 19. District Attorney Katzmann asked jurors to note the house location and its distance from Dedham center.
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Associated Press
Dedham
Mass
Harriet A. Varney
Pauline A. Keyes
Brookline
Keyes
Millions Pennies Coined Last Month
Washington reports that 77,500,000 one cent pieces were coined to ease penny shortages from war taxes. In anticipation of holiday shopping, 18,700,000 dimes and 11,000,000 hickels were minted.
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Associated Press
Washington
British Take Many Prisoners in November
London reports from the war office show British forces captured 26,869 prisoners and 21 guns in November across all fronts. Western front accounts include 10,454 men and 80 guns, Palestine 4,403 men and three guns, with additional captures in East Africa.
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Associated Press
London
War Office
Palestine
East Africa
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement Claim
There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is a constitutional remedy taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. One hundred dollars reward offered if it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Sold by Druggists. Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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James Louis Beyea
New York Homeopathic Medical Colege
New York Homeopathic Medical College
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Re. Hall
Sleeping Car Line Changes for Beaufort Route
Southern Railway announces the Winston Salem Morehead City Beaufort Sleeping Car line will shorten to Winston Salem Goldsboro with cars handled into and out of Beaufort starting Sunday August 12. For details contact Southern Railway agents or traveling passenger agent J O Jones Raleigh NC.
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Winston-Salem
Morehead City-Beaufort
Betomes -Winston-Salem
Galdsboro
Southern Railway System
Beaufort
Winston-Sele-Morehead City-Beaufort
Winston-Salem-Goldsboro
Southern Lane System
J. O. Jones
Raleigh,n. C
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New* York Homeopathic Medical College
Charles A. Towne
Congress
Minnesota
Ito
Senator Towne
Senator Sullivan
Abadiah Gardner
Maine
Joint International Commission
William V. Sullivan
Mississippi
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Ibe Sulcus
Joseph ‘Suggart
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A. J. Newman
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James Harger
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William R. Kerr
Ferdinand King
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