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Temperature.
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the
May,
July
Octel'i-
York. Dec. 20. Heavy ' over
cUins orders brought in by the
break of yesterday caused an
mil exciting opening in the cot-
lVi;!rkrt again tnis morning. Tne
a An i
( OS were iu jjuiiils iuwer.
New York,' (Wall Street), Dec. 20.
Normal conditions prevailed at the
opening of today's trading, with many
issues showing a' tendency to recover
lost ground, United States Steel gain
ed a' point and munitions 'and eauin-
prosent crop deliveries beng ments made '"Variable gains. Rails ar
points under last night's clos- gumerited recent advances. Shipp
ing carried the market into ing. issues showed a .weakness. Ma
,, ground for the movement, rine, preferred, lost five noints hpfnt-
Eggs.. .35G
gutter, 1 lb., Country 30e
Spring Chickens, apiece ...25c to 45c
Grown Chickens, apiece . .50c to 60o
Puddle Ducks apiece 46c
Guineas, apiece ..35e Asheville ...
Beef. . . . .. . j . . . .flc to lOo i Atlanta
Sweet Potatojes, bushel.. .. .. ..55c Charleston
Irish Potatoes, sack $4.75 Charlotte ,
N. C. Hams, lb 24c Chicago
2 -
i in
the call. J leavx covering, Jrossuro caused v irregularities
;1S buying by trading interests, United States Steel reacting lost al
:1 very sharp rally right after, most two points
pt cldy
cloudy j
. clear!
. . clearl
cloudy
cloudy
iary soiling at 16.74 and May the end of the first half hoiir trading I N. C. Shoulders and t?ih in Galveston
ana r Oranges, Cal i. $e.0ft Jacksonville ..cloudy
Bananas. 7-8. bunch ... .S1.10 to $1.40 N- Orleans cloudy
ciear
.cloudy
. . ., clear
May selling up to 17.53.
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NEW YORK COTTON.
Open. Close.
i , r .16.05 16.92
v 16.80 16.99
17.04 17.24
.. r .17.25 17.44
17.32 17.49
15.71 15.74
Y.rk Spo; 17.15
ton ootlon .. .. .. Nominal
ion cotton N. D.
ah cotton ..181-4
: cotton 16.75
Alils-Chalihers 27
Lemons, fancy $4.00 tn S4.50 'N., York ..
Florida oraneen ' .S5! 7K3 aR Pittsburg
1 " -"-r - -T T " Ti--t'
j Celery, bunch .S1.00$1.50 ""sn
American Beet Sugar 93 1-2 j Apples, barrel :$3.50 to $5.00 St' Louis snowing
American Can. . 48 5.8 1 Bell Peppers, bush 50c "u;"K.to"
American Car ahd Foundry .. d6 1-S Onions, sack . .$4.50.w ummston
yvmerican LiOCOmotiVo .... 76 aoDage, id . 3CtOSl'2C!
cloudy
clear
32
40 '
44,
36
28
64
50
58
. 30
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32' 40'
44
- 40t
22
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36
26
6
62
44
54
16
18
22
14
16
29
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HEALTH CONDITIONS IMPR O V I N G
I N iTH E,,' SOUTH. -
Life
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
.laiHi.n -a ..ji ...
Maiv'-i-.Vpril
May-.liif1
fnly-AiiKiist,
Opi-n. quiet; close.
Sales. '
Open Close
10.10. 10.13
.. 10.21
. . 10.32
. . 10.28
easier.
10.24
10.34
10.24
Mid
American Cotton Oil 501-2
American Smelting 105 3-4
American Sugar.. no
American Tel. & Tel 125
American Tobacco . . .... . . 216
Anaconda Copper . . .... . . 84
Atchison . . 104
Atlantic Coast Line .. j. 120 1-4
Baldwin Locomotive . J , . . . 63 3-4
Baltimore & Ohio . . 84 1-2
Bethlehem Steel 500
Canadian Pacific . .168 1-21 Texas
Central Leather . .. ... .. 86 Union
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chi,
Chi
Pork, lb 11c to 111-2C
-if -if a- if v5- X-
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Insurance. Companies Recognize
Vast - Improvements.
-' That the South, , North . Carolina, of
course," included, is really getting
somewhere as a result of its health
work .is attested.' to by more than
Health workers- and vital statistics fig
ures. V1 The Insurance Herald-Argus,
of Atlanta, says: i
"For many years life insurance
companies have been inclined to. look
upon the South as a field to be culti
vated lightly, if at all, basing their ac
tion upon the undeniable fact that in
sufficient attention Was given to the
betterment of vital conditions among
the population as a whole. Of late,
however, a new era has set in, and
Corn, per sack $.50
axxuco, U1CCU. . . , .. .. .. jZC
Peanuts, N. C. ,
Peanuts, Spanish ..
SUNRISE AND SUNSET
Peanuts, Va 60c to 70c!
Wool 32c
Beeswax 28 cents.
sun tn 1 m 11
$1.20 to $1.30 ;
Thursday.
Sun rises
Sun Sets .
.5;:07
Studebaker Corporation 113
Tenn. Copper 18
Co. 207
Pacific
65 5-8 i United Fruit 151 1-8
Stage of water in Cape Fear river at
Fayotteville f, N. C. at 8 a. m. yester
day, 4.8 feet.
Mil. & St. Paul .. .. .. 93 1-4 ju- s- Rubber .. 621-i
It. I. & Pac. Ry 37l-4!u- s- Smelting & Refining 61 !
MAY INHERIT $150,000,000.
in "0.
,000; receipts,
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ILMINGTON NAVA LSTORES.
josh: $.".7fl and' $5.45.
Tar Si'.GO and 10 1-2 cents.
, ;!,; Sl.no. $4.00 and $3.00.
r Receipts.
27
Colorado Fuel & Iron . . . . . . ,44 1-2
Consolidated Gas ....122 1-8
Corn Products 23 3-4
Crucible Steel . . . . . . . . 61
Cuba Cane Sugar .... . . 51 1-2
Erie . . 36
General Electric 1681-2
Great Northern Pfd -.117 1-4
Great Northern Ore Ctfs. . . . 371-8
Illinois Central ... 106
! Inspiration- Copper .:. ..... . . , 56 1-2
'int. Merc. Marine Pfd. .. I... 87 3-4
t
i TntnrnnHnnnl M Spiral
' j International Paper 45 1-2
224
12,
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. 2G 3-S
Kennecott Copper 45 3-S
Louisville & Nashville' 132
NNAH NAVAL STORES.
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.- S5.20.
CHICAGO.
$26.75
$1.62 to $1,611-2 N. Y., N.
90 3-8 Norfolk &
! Liggett & Myers 280 1-4
Lorillard Co. B 225
Maxwell Motors 58 5-8
Mexican Petroleum 99 1-8
National Lead 61
New York Central 104 3-4
H. & Hartford 54
Western 134 3-4
,San Francisco,
Nickel the
Cal. Dec. 18.
one-year-old great
U. S. Steel : 105?
TI s stoi nfrt nar.o'Sally
Wpfnr TTninn no oa i b1 aiiuciiiici oi neury inner, snail u
'- vr - f-J U i I
Westinghouso Electri2 54
from being one of the worst sections
wiOf the country, vitally considered, the
veryvbest."
North CarcJ'rla, it will be recalled,
7-14 has the loweu death rate of any state
on. the Atlantic coast, and is second
only to some of the western states.
The Herald-Argus says again:
"During the annual meeting of the
Southern Medical Association held re-1
cently in Atlanta, the fact that health!
conditions in this part of the country ;
have been vastly improved in recent j
If I .
addresses inclinics offered convinc
ing evidence tnat the old order is
med-
profession in the South is having
FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY
OF PRINCE GEORGE.
nibs
51 3-4 to 5-8 Northern Pacific 110
. . 13.67 1-2 Pennsylvania 56 3-S
London, Dec. 20. Prince George,
the fourth son of their majesties en
tered upon his fifteenth year today.
Following in ihe footsteps of his
father, the Prince will be trained for
a naval career. Already he has been
passed by the admiralty as a candi
date for the Royal Naval College.
During his two years' training at that
institution he will fare in exactly the
same way -as other cadets, with the
same hours of study, the same food
and accommodations, and, like the
other boys, with one shilling as pock-
1 " J " mg evidence tnat tne oici ord
alive at the death of the late cattle jchanging and the progress of the
king's three grandchildren she wHlijc., nrofOBoi0n in the South -is h
become the richest woman in caiifor- itg due 6ffcct upon tho vitality Gr the
nia. She will inherit an estate valu- pCOple and the con(lition of their en
ed at $15,000,000. vironment." f
On the other hand, according to the '
will of the late cattle baron, should Burn Faen Pecan Trees
she not survive the three grandchild- j Roanoke-Chowan Times,
ren and should there be no other is- i At this seasc.n of the year many pe
sue, the money will go to California , can twigs fan to the ground, having
schools and charitable Institutions. been nearly gnawed off by a beetle.
i Tne fauen twigs contain the eggs of the
... , . . XT ,T nn m, I culprit; therefore they shjfruld be
West 'Point, N. ., Dec. 20. The I .. , , . .
, 4l tt i 4. . . .promptly gatherd and burned. Mr. xi.
chapel of the United States Acad- T ' w. f ,a
emy was the scene of a brilliant mili- maWng a gpecial gtudy of insects which
iary weuuing iuis aiieruuuu wiien
Miss Vera Mae Kreger, daughter of
Col. E. A. Kreger, who is professor
of law at the academy, became the
bride of Lieut. J. Huntington Hills,
et money and no tuck shop account! U. S. A., son of Mrs. Glade and Cap-
affect the pecan.
allowed.
tain Herman Glade, U. S. A.
So successful was last year s reviv-
15.87 1-2 Ray Consolidated Copper .... 26-2al of boxing at Harvard that the stu-
Reading 106 5-8 dents of the university are making
much more elaborate plans for the
sport during the present college year,
?.e?ton hockey fans are- to be well Rep. Iron & Steel 77 1-4
rrovi.iei with their favorite sport this S. A. L. .17
In addition to the Harvard S. A. L. Pfd 38
Ambassador Willard Returns to Post;.
New York, Dec. 20. Joseph E.
Willard, United States ambassador
to Spain, who has been in this coun-1 stroying the foundation of the disease, giv
try for some weeks on leave of ab
$100 Reward. $100
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in. nil Its staff and th.t is catarrh. '.
tarrh being greatly influcnvfetl by constlta
tirra! conditions requires constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken In
ternally and acts thru the Blood on the
Mucous Surfaces of the System thereby de-
and a championship tournament sim-jsence, is among the passengers
! ilar to that conducted last spring, with . booked to sail for Europe today. Mrs.
;:ntl 7ih teams, the Boston, A. A., the Sloss. Shef. Steel & Iron 62
P.oston Hockey Club and the Arena .Southern Pacific 97 7-8 the possibility of intercollegiate tourn- Willard, who returned home with her
l.'o:kev nub teams will furnish the Southern Railway 33 1-2 aments during the course of the year, husband, is accompanying him back
inj? the patient strength by building up
cue constitution and assisting nature in
iloinff Us work. The proprietors hare so
much faith In the curative powers Of Hall's
Catarrh Cure that they, offer One Hundred
Dollar for any case that It fails to cnr.
Send for list oi testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, m
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REMEMBER HOW WINTER PARK HAS GROWN AND VALUES DOUBLED
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