Market opens hesitantly then firm on steel and rail stocks
Stocks drifted at the open in New York as issues in United States Steel Midvale Baldwin Locomotive Marine and oils and rails firmed. Reading Union Pacific New Haven St Paul shares were active with a dividend news lift for Conspicuous Consolidated. Liberty bonds sank to a new low, while New Orleans cotton rose 66 to 81 points on favorable belt weather and good spot accounts.
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New York
United States Steel
Midvale
Baldwin Locomotive
Marine Preferred
Reading
Union Pacific
New Haven
St. Paul
Terborough Consolidated
Sumatra Tobacco
Liberty
New Orleans
Americanan
American Car & Foundry
American Smelting & Refg
American T. & T
Anaconda Copper Atchison
Atl. Gulf &West Indies
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Baltimore & Ohio
Bethlehem Steel
Canadian Pacific Central Leather
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago
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Erie
General Electric
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Great Northern Prd
Great Northern
Ctis
Illinois Central
Inspiration
Marine Int
Marine Pro
International Paper
Kennecott Copper
Louisville & Nashville
Maxwell Motors
Mexican Petroleum
Miami Copper
Midvale Steel
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Ohio Cities Gas
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Coal
Ray Consolidated
Republic Iron & “Steel
Sinclair Oil & Refining
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Tudebaker Corporation
Seeee
Tennessee Copper Texas
Willys-Overland
American Tobacco
Atlantic Coast Line
Gulf States Steel
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United Fruit
Virginia Carp. Chem
Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago market results show hogs receipts 23 000 with prices 16 40 to 16 85 for light to mixed lots and 15 40 to 16 75 for heavy and rough. Cattle receipts 5 000 with native steers 10 50 to 17 60, stockers 9 25 to 13 65, cows 7 25 to 14 90, calves 8 50 to 15 25. Sheep receipts 8 000 with lambs 13 50 to 17 75, springs 14 25 to 20 00 and sheep 10 00 to 15 25.
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Chicago
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Fragmentary OCR text provides limited readable pieces. No coherent event, names, places, or dates are discernible to form a factual news item or summary.
Post Office Announces Holiday Hours Tomorrow
The post office will observe holiday hours with the stamp window from 10 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 6 p.m. General delivery hours are 11 a.m. to 12 and 7 to 8 p.m. The registry window operates 11 a.m. to noon. Carriers will do one collection and one delivery of mail.
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Post Office
Wilmington Area Weather Forecast May 29 1918
Weather for Wilmington and vicinity fair tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Winds gentle to moderate. Cape Fear river stage 12.2 feet at 8 a.m. yesterday. Sunrise 6 02. sunset 8 17. Weather bureau reports.
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Cape Fear River
Fayetteville
N. C
Bidbar
Weather Bureau
Scattered selling fades as New York cotton turns firm
New York opening saw selling due to easy cables and favorable crop reports but buyers absorbed offerings as futures rallied. July moved from 24.70 to 25.10 and October from 23.55 to 23.90 amid renewed covering and optimistic export outlook. Spot cotton remained steady with middling at 30.10 cents.
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New York
New Orleans Spot Cotton Prices Steady
New Orleans spot cotton remains steady on May 29 with 1,270 bales sold on the spot and arrivals totaling 198. Prices: low middling 26.50, middling 29.00, good middling 30.25. Receipts 3,314. stock 391,686.
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New Orleans
Liverpool cotton market reports steady prices and large American sales
Spot quiet with prices easing. Good middling 21.58, middling 21.05, low middling 20.538, ordinary 19.01. Sales 2 000 bales, including 1 500 Americans. Receipts 3 200 bales, all American. Futures closed quiet. New contracts May 21.60, June 21.06, July 20.36, August 19.47, September 18.83. Old contracts May 20.00, May-June 19.92, June-July 19.84.
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Liverpool
Corn and oats plunge as Chicago grain markets slip
Chicago May 29 grain prices fall to season lows as warmer, fair weather expectations weigh on corn and oats. July corn slides to 1.35 1/8, July oats drop, and cash bids for yellow corn and oats range with no strong gains. Pork and lard hold near prior levels amid covering by shorts.
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Chicago
Two Services Planned At Bladen Street Church
Pastor C Sell of Bladen Street Methodist church will lecture on the Sunday school lesson this evening at 8 oclock. A prayer service is scheduled tomorrow at 6 30 pm per the president's proclamation. Sunday school teachers are urged to attend and the public is invited.
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Bladen Street Church
ER. C. Sell
Bladen Street Methodist Church
Bladen Street
High School Today Class Day Exercises Highlights
The high school auditorium hosted a well attended class day program this morning at 11. Students and families enjoyed acts including America the Beautiful and the class song with words by Helen Don Creasy. Gifts were presented to the Red Cross and a $50 liberty bond was given as the class gift. Commencement Friday features Hon. R. N. Page of Biscoe delivering the address to about 60 graduates.
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Blair
Amos Cumming
Eloise Jones
Helen Don Creasy
Marie Bonitz
Red Cross
Irene Price
Mr. Blair
Wiilbur King
Board of Education
Court House
R. N. Page
Biscoe
Aged Citizen Passes Away at 61 in Local Home
C S Garrell aged 61 died this morning at 4 25 at his home 916 North Fourth street after a long illness. He was a First Baptist Church member and well regarded. Survived by wife and several children Myrtice and Guy Burgaw Frank Mabel Sadie and Vivian. Two sisters Mrs P C Harrison and Mrs Pink Reaves also survive. Funeral tomorrow at 4 from the residence Dr John Jeter Hurt will conduct with burial in the family cemetery near Middle Sound.
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First Baptist Church
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Vivian
Mother of Wilmingtonian dies in Cheraw at 86
Mrs. J. MacRae Pemberton widow of Colonel Pemberton of Fayetteville and mother of Captain W. H. Pemberton died last night in Cheraw South Carolina at the home of her daughter Mrs. T. F. Harrall She was 86 and mother to a large family with many army relatives, some overseas Funeral is expected in Fayetteville tomorrow with interment at the family plot
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Fayetteville
Red Cross Unit at St John’s Mission Meets Tomorrow
The Red Cross unit of St John’s mission will hold a regular session tomorrow afternoon at the mission house. All members are urged to attend and others are invited.
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Mission House
Red Cross
St. John’s Mission
Huntington Placed on Trial After Privilege Ruling
A court session revealed disputes over attorney client privilege with Recorder Harriss and Solicitor Burton testifying about Miss Weyers’s arrest. Justice Furlong ruled communications to the recorder not privileged, affecting potential disclosure and trial procedures. The case will resume Thursday, with possible dismissal or transfer to a higher court.
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Huntington
Burton
Harriss
Miss Weyers
Meares
Peschau
Furlong
Justice of the Peace
Citizens Caustically Criticise City Council
A letter from Wilmington residents criticizes the city government over the April arrest of Miss Jacoba Weyers on alleged vagrancy charges. It accuses police and officials of fraud in affidavits, calls for accountability, and cites Dr Slocumb’s medical finding of innocence. It urges action against police abuse and notes local and state press criticism.
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N. C
P. Q. Moore
W. D. McCaig
L. L. Shephard
J. M. Hal
B. A. Merritt
W. J Bradshaw
Miss Weyers
Police Department
Wilmington Hosiery Mills
Kuck
Calder
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Princess
Chestnut
Princess Street
L. J. Williams
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Third Street
Orange
Front Street
Branch
Mr. Bonham
Gang Lacey
Greensboro Daily News
Raleigh
Iredell Meares
E. H. Freeman
H. Bonham
W. Co. Montgomery
Aeroplane Travel Bids Quick NY Return from Philadelphia
The New York Telegraph notes that as air travel grows common, a passenger may reach New York from Philadelphia without crossing the Jersey marshes, signaling easing routes and travel times.
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Philadelphia
Jersey Marshes
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