Market Review and Stocks Edge Higher on Holiday Tone
The New York market reports mixed activity with loans up and down and a firmer cotton outlook on Dec 23. Trading shows gains in cotton futures and steady to higher stocks as Wall Street shorts cover amid West and South demand, while copper and industrials hold firm.
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Brendan Wall
York
Verge
Oywents
West
New York
Wall Street
Jjjen
Wilson
Aminy
United States
Geman Exchange
Chaimers
Seigin
Serian Car and Foundry
Erican
Bill
Nce
Pnae
Ees
Rhison
Tantie Coast Line
Fldwin
Itimore & Ohio
Thlenem Steel
Indian Pacific
Nival Leather
Nesapeake & Ohio
Hicago
Mil
St. Paul
Hicazo, R. I
Pacific Ry
Slorado
Gasha
Meible Steel
Neral Electric
Ile & Nashville
Bia
New Orleans
Midvale
Liverpool Cotton and Wilmington Naval Stores Quotes
The exchange closed today with Wilmington naval stores offering spirits at 51 1 4 cents and rosins at 5.60 and 5.35 dollars per barrel. Tar quotes at 2.60 and 2 1 2, crude at 4.00 4.00 and 3.00 dollars.
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Liverpool
Exchange
Wilmington
Money on call and time rates on Wall Street
New York financial report shows money on call on the New York Stock Exchange ranged from 5 to 2 percent last week. Time money remained in demand with 41-2 percent for 60 to 90 days and for 4 to 6 months. Industrial loans held at 5 to 6 percent across terms. Mercantile paper issued in fair amounts with rates 4 to 4 1/2 percent for top names.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Mercantile
World grain markets locked by war news and supply signals
Chicago dec 23 grain markets closed on world events with political tensions shaping wheat. Bulls and bears jockeyed for position as buyers await peace possibilities and export signals. Corn and oats fall while hog demand from Canada and the East drives shipments and price action.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Great Britain
International Wheat Review
Liverpool
United States
Canada
Germany
Central Empire
Great Belt
Atlanta Seeks Guard Muster Out Headline Lesson
In Atlanta, the Chamber of Commerce pressed the War Department to muster out Atlanta National Guard units, following Savannah’s lead. Officials learned later that the War Department planned to muster out all National Guard troops at home stations unless specific reasons to keep them abroad arose.
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Atlanta
Savannah
War Department
National Guard
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Nash
Gergia
Vienna Press on the Peace Note
The Vienna press opinions on President Wilsons peace note vary from cautious optimism to guarded hope. Newspapers call for calm patience, dignity, and a reasonable basis to end the war. Some papers note the note may advance or delay peace and that neutral voices speak for peace. Austria Hungary and allies view it as a prompt to prepare for negotiations.
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Neue Wiener Tagesblatt
Vienna Zeitung
Wilson
Vienna Reich Post
Arbieter Zeitung
Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung
Austria- Hungary
Christmas Bells Poem Prayer by H. B. Taylor 1916
A Christmas poem urges bells to ring for peace mercy and joy across the world. It calls for ringing out wrongs and sorrow while proclaiming God’s reign and the manger, with a final benediction for living and dead.
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Earth
H. B. Taylor
Training Men Out of Jobs in Atlanta Bureau
Training men out of work to fill suited positions and training students in high schools along scientific vocational lines will be the duty of a new bureau jointly run by the Atlanta public school department and local civic organizations.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Public School Department
Atlanta Civic Organizations
Mr Silas Sheetz Heads to Fayetteville for Holidays
Mr Silas Sheetz departed last night to Fayetteville to spend the holidays with relatives.
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Silas Sheetz
Fayetteville
Ege and Dupuy win six day Madison Square Garden race
Oscar Ege and Marcel Dupuy win the six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden by one lap. They finish with 49 points and cover 2,625 miles. Root and Madden place second with 2,624 miles and 9 laps amid spills and a dramatic late sprint.
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New York
Oscar Ege
Marcel Dupuy
Madison Square Garden
Root
Madden
Spears
McNamara
Kaiser
Cameron
Drobach
Hill
Dabaetes
Walthour
Egg
Dupuy
Harry Kaiser
Mike Dabates
Kyronen Wins 25-Mile Marathon Over Ice Road Course
Willie Kyronen of Millrose A C captured the senior cross country title as he defeated 32 runners in a 25 mile Mercury Athletic Club marathon in Yonkers. Kyronen finished in 2 hours 51 minutes 58.25 seconds with Sidney Hatch of Chicago and James Brooks of Mohawk A C close behind. The course used Empire City track portions and roads to Hartsdale and Woodlawn cemetery.
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New York
Willie Kyronen
Millrose Athletic Association
Mercury Athletic Club
Yonkers
Kyronen
Sidney Hatch
Chicago
James Brooks
Mohawk A. C
Empire City
Hartsdale Corners
Woodlawn Cemetery
Effect of War on English Shipping
In the Fair Play shipping paper Sir Norman Hill reports that from August 1914 to October 1916 British shipping suffered 455 steamers over 1,600 tons lost to war perils, totaling 1,744,000 tons gross. Britain began with 3,600 steamers of 16,900,000 tons gross, a 12 percent loss in vessels or 11 percent in tonnage, with cargo value losses at 0.49 percent of total. He adds a blockade remark: ten shillings in 100 pounds will not starve us.
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London
Fair Play
Norman Hill
Liverpool Steamship Owners’ Association
Great Britain
Sir Norman
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N. C
Florida
Iles
Norfolk
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard Co
Maxwell Motors Mexican Petroleum
National
New York Central
N. Y
N. H. & Hartford
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Ray Consolidated Copper Reading
Rep. Iron & Steel
Seaboard Air Line
Sloss
Shef
Steel & Iron
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Studebaker Corporation
Tennessee Copper
Texas Co
Union Pacific
United Fruit
United States Rubber
U. S. Smelting & Refinil
Merry Christmas
Cape
Joseph F. Pritchard
Fountain Head
Sterchi-Bancroft Co
Vienna
Bethlehem
Dupay
Academy of Music
N. Jacobi
H’dw. Co
Baldwin
Baldwins
Tarragona
Bear Produce Company
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