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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
GROCERIES


Flour-Copitola, ASS. s11.5O; gas. s11:70;
is $1I::95; olympia! ga 4ss' sll-7o; 24s'
Maai-Atlanta Milling company plain
meal, 100 pounds. 1914; 80 pounds. S3.S1;
Mackerel~U -Kno-It, 5K-s ounce 100
count, out; Leader. LOUNGE, 100 count,
$500; Anchor, 9ounce. go count $3.50: IS
count, S7.75; Grown. 915-ounce, 90 count,
s775: IS count, 1925: NoupareiI, l1-oz.,
3. 4 n. fish flakes, "a. small. SLAB; "a.
large, 81. %.
Beans-California bIacteyes. $500: pink.
50 90.
s9gdineS-Key, 4 oils, Conti9e mt: So 90;
mustard, in cartons, Homerun; 1923; key,
y mustard, Imperial, $3.50: key. y mus
tard, i'll cartons Gamccock. $G.25.
Meats-Potted. 52bc: roast beef, $4.40
corned beef. S4.40; tripe. $3.50; B. hash
S1.3o: hamburger. steak and onions. S1.3o;
Minute Tapioca. So. l5c size, s4.O5 per
case.
Minute Gelatine. SO. l5c size, 1918 per
81 .oo; 1880. 1915 per can; Clio. $3.50 per
else.
Alagn syrup, 4s-l1s. $3.50 per can: 24-11s.
crate
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
SHEPARD & CLICKS COTTON LETTER

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 5.-Early strength
in cotton today was due to the bullish ac-
tivity in Liverpool, but the advance here
able fresh short selling. January was the
weakest month in the face of claims of a
good spot demand at higher prices. Recess
sions aren't surprising from time to time,
but it looks like a higher market in the
long run
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

COTTON SEED OIL MARKET
NEW YORK, Joan. 5.-The cotton seed
oil market closed steady; prime summer vel
low, 22.42; January, 2235; February, % 40;
March, 22.88; April, 22.S5; May, 1905;
June, 28.15; July, 1888; August, $3.50;
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET

CHICAGO, Jan. -Butter-Creamery ex-
tras, 81; creamery standards, 60; first, SEQ
90; seconds, 52@55.
Cheese-Twins, 30A @31; Young Americas,
1882.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 24@29; ducks, 80;
geese, &c; springs, Is; turkeys, 40
I POtatoes--Cars, 90; Wisconsin, So. 1904 90:
Minnesota, S3.15M4O0.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
ATLANTA CoTToNsEED PRODUCTS
MARKETS
Corrected by Atlanta Commercial Ex.

Cottonseed oil, prime basis ...... $50 on
Q. s. meal, z per cent ammonia 49,. 1000
.. s. meal, Ga. com. rate point 80. $500
Cottonseed bulls, loose ............... 1900
Cottonseed bulls, sacked .............. 1900
No. l linters, &c; No. 2 linters, Sc.
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LEAD PRICES ADVANCED

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The American
Smelling and Refining company today ad
vanced the price of lead from TO I'd
cents a pound.
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Liberty Bond Market

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Prices of Liberty
bonds, at 2:55 p. M, today were:
31a's, 1896.
, FIRST, As, 1920.
Second, As, 29.3O.
First, AIS. 1884.
Second, AVS, 92.74
Third, ANS, 94Ts.
Fourth, AVS, 92.9R
Victory, 3a4's 99.fs.
Victory, ANS, 99.14.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

Purity oats, ISIS. pound, $2.15; sos, round,
SI.25; IL family size, $3.50: Purity grits,
us, round, $3.iO; los, round, $4.40: regu
ar Postum, large, S2.25; assorted, S2.50
small, S2.7O; Instant Postum, large, $i.5O;
assortedS $500; small. $5.40; Grape Nuts,
ilc size, $3.50: individual size, $500; Post
Toasties, 81 10; individual size, $500; KriD-
kle Corn Flakes, 36s, $40; Roxane Pancake
flour 1Ss, $215: 36s. $3.50.
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: CHICAGO CASH 0UOTATIONS


CHICAGO, Jan. Cash: Corn. No. .
mixed, unquoted; No. mixed, 147; No. 2
yellow, $50.
S5MS7.
Barley, HIGHT.
Timothy seed 90O@13.O0.
Cloverseed 10000 %. 90.
Pork, nominal.
Lard, $3.50.
Ribs, 1S.T5@19.5O
ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. Corn, No. 3, 146;
No. white, 149@150; May. 1851.
Oats, No. 2 white, S7@S71a No. 8 white
S64 Gl371a May, S6M.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK Jan. 5.-Flour, firm and
Pork, quiet; mess, s47.OO@47.5O.
Lard, frmer; middle west spot, $4,000
24.10.
Sugar, raw, unsettled and nominal.
Coffee, Rio, No. T. on spot, 15h @15%c;
Santos As, PAY @25Ae. ..
Hay, firm; No. 1 $1.80@1. S.; No. 8, $1.55
@1.65; clover, $1.40@1.70.
Dressed poultry, quiet; turkeys, 43@52c;
chickens, 27@47c; fowls, 22@35c; ducks
3O@41c.
Live poultry, nominal; geese, 8o@a6c;
nominal; ROSTERS, &c; chickens, broilers.
28@32c.
Cheese, easy; state milk, common to spe-
Gals, 25@33c; skins, common to specials,
Butter, firm; receipts, 6,961; creamery,
extra, coo 6915 ;, do special market, 70@7013;
imitation creamery, firsts, 52@6S; state
dairy, tubs, 52053.
fancy, S1@S2; nearby mixed fancy, 71@76;
fresh firStS 72m76,
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PATENTS

INVENTORS should write for our guide
book, How to Get Your PATENT tells
terms and methods. Send sketch for our
opinion CT patentable nature. Randolph 4
Co. Dept so. Wnshingtnn D @
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

AGENTS-S50 weekly and your spring suit
free. Sell our famous popular priced
made-to-measure suits; big. steady income
guaranteed Complete outfit free. Act
quick. Central Tailors, Dept. II, 219 s..
Dearborn st., Chicago.
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NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH, Ca. Jan. 5.-Turpentine,
shipments nGI q 176; ;'i stock, ID, i22.
Rosin, firm; sales, $40; receipts, $50
shipments, 2,651; stocks, 1902: Quote: B,
1850; D, E. F, 1850; G. 1855; Fl. 1870;
I, 1890; X, 1885; NJ, 1900; N, 20.00
VIC, 20.25; WV, 21.25.
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SITQ MARKET

new crop, centrifugal, 1919; old crop re-
fined steady. Cut loaf, 1880; crushed,
1925; mould A, $50; cubes. 9.75; powder
ed, 9.2O; standard powdered, 9.15; fine
graduated and diamond A, 900; confec-
toners A, $50; No. 1 soft sugar, S.S5.
New crop, fine granulated, 15.20@16.O0;
other GRADES not quoted
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

AGENTS Something new. best house-to-
house article out; dustless India fibre
house brooms: outwears three ordinary
brooms; sells $3.50; cost agent $1.15; get in
line with live one. Jordan. Pittsburg.
made $50 first day; sold three out of every
five calls Write quick to secure agency
for your locality. Territory going fast.
Send money order $1.15 for samples post
paid. Dunn Seabrook Co., Dept. B. Can
der bldg, Atlanta. Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

AGENTs-s1O0 weekly possible introducing
sensational winter automobile fuel
Specially adapted to cold weather. Starts
easy. Adds power, mileage and reduces
operating expense. Endorsed by thousands
Territory going like wildfire. Act quick.
s2S sample outfit free. L. Balwey, Dept
2S., Louisville, Ky.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

WE PAY $50 WEEK and expenses and
give a Ford Auto TO men to introduce
poultry and stock compounds. Imperial Co.,
DS0 Parsons Kan.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

AGENTS-Mason sold IS Sprayers and Auto
washers one Saturday; profits, $3.50 each;
Square Deal; Particulars Free. Rusler Com
pany, Johnstown, Ohio.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

SELL fruit trees. nut trees, ornamentals.
Light work. good profit. Write today.
Smith Bros, Dept. 90. Concord, Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
wANTED-sALEsMEN


SALES8IAN-Side or main line, to sell low
\ priced 5,000-mile guaranteed tires; 30X31 y
nOn-skid sells for $11.95; other sizes in pro-
portion. Good money making proposition for
live wires. Write Consolidated Tire Co., GIG
S. Michigan, Chicago.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

AMERICAL COTTON AND
GRAIN EXCHANGE
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
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MOVING PTCTJREs

MAKE money fast; small capital starts you
with guaranteed professional moving pic
ture machine. Complete outfit on easy pay
ments. No experience needed Catalogue
free. Dept. d, Monarch Theater Supply
Service. 42O Market street ST Innis Mo
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NOVELTY spray and force pump, for ex-
tinguishing fires, washing buggies, autos
windows, spraying trees, lawns. gardens,
hiving bees. disinfecting hen roOsts. Agents
making S25 daily: liberal terms. Phillips
Publishing Co., Atlanta.
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z C. z z m a

And all Skin Diseases can be cured. Send
for GREE Treatise. Write plain. n. F.
Norman, Chemist, 217 Michigan ave-, De-
troit, Mich.-(Ad
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
FOR SALE-PLANTs

CABBAGGE PLANTS-Frost-pro ready
for immediate shipment; varieties, Jersey
and Charleston Wakefield Succession and
Flat Dutch; prices by express, 1000 to A.
coo at 1925 per 1000; 5000 and over
at $500 per 1000; by mail, postpaid 100
for soc; 800 for $1.75; 1000 for $500; or
ders filled promptly; satisfaction guaranteed
or money refunded. II. L. Vickers, Triton,
Georgia
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Atlanta Markets

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. Cotton By wag-
on, tseody, 4O.S0c,
CANDIES if8
Blocks stick candy, barrels, 26c per ID.
Blocks bonbon mixture, 30-lb. pals, 25c;
Block small chocolate drops. Bold. pals,
Bic; Blocks extra superb chocolates, half
pounds, 35c; Blocks Perfected chocolates,
D JunUs,s S3c.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

PROFITS-Make President Wilson plaster
paris ovals Instructions and mould, $500
P II. SDahr, York, Pa.
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WANTED-Agenta.

WE pay $1o0 monthly salary and furnish rig
and expenses to introduce guaranteed poul-
try and stock powders. Bigler Co., X-6G4,
Springfield. III.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

WANTED-Able-bOdied men wanting posi-
tions as fremen, brakemen, motormen.
conductors or colored sleeping car and train
porters, write at once, name, position you
want; inclose stamp for application blank;
irst-class, nearby roads; no strike. Address
Railway Inst. Dept. 26, indianapolis, Ind.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
SPOT COTTON MARKET

Atlanta, steady, 40.S0c.
New sYerk, quiet 3925c.
Mex Orleans, steady, 41c.
Philadelphia, steady, 39.50c: ..
Galveston, steady. 43c. ..
Montgomery, steady, 39.75c. .s;
Boston, steady, 39.25c.
Norfolk, steady, 38.75c.
Savannah, steady. 40.25c.
st. Louis, steady, 4O.5Qc.
Houston, steady. .42c.
Memphis, steady, 40.25c. ...
Augusta, steady, 4025e.
Little Rock, steady. 41c.
Dallas, steady, Assoc.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton :. q. E. E. . 40 SOC
IEeceIplS 1JI04
shipments ..s ......... 80. l,691
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone, steady; sales, 10000; good mid
ding, 32.4Sd.
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BUY new tires at wholesale prices Save
30 per cent Guaranteed 8 600 miles Send
for list. Reliance Tire Co., Kansas City, Mo
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

ARE YOU SATISFIED with your position
and prospects? If not, whatever your oc-
cuDation, investigate your chance in govern
ment service. Just ask for Form N1901
free Earl Hopkins, Washington, D. c.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

MEN, STOP!-Don't look for jobs. Wc'll
teach you barber trade paying positions
guaranteed chain Of shops; make money
while learning; everything $50. Tools free.
Write Jacksonville Barber College, 800 ".
Bay ST, Jacksonville, Fla.
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GRAIN

ing eastward from the Miss ouri river had
a bullish influence today on the corn mar
ct. Opening prices, which ranged from q to
18s higher were followed by "a moderate re-
action, and then by an uptuin higher than
before.
Corn closed firm, 215@3Mc oct higher.
Offerings of oats readily absorbed,
and the market hardened with corn
Provisions reflected the strength of hogs
and corn.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
49, Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close
Jan. .-. 134a4 1.37M 1.34M 1878 1s4H
March e.. 1925 1.34a4 1.31M 1884, 1917
OATS
July =. =, 49, s41a S25s 34as $685.
July 7C% 772s IS 77as 761a
Jan -. :. s7.9o 1890 $3.50 $3.50 s7.4o
May 1890 81 SO 1885 3{s5 a7.4o
Jan. -. 1880 $3.50 1890 $3.50 $3.50
May =. =. 24.75 24.92 PATS 24.S5 24.57
Jan. -. =. 1915 1880 1918 1880 1915
May =, . 20.15 20.40 20.15 20.40 1892
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MISCELLANEOUS

-.,o~.o.. ~ y ~ y ~ = al AOOS .
SAWMILLS, corn mills, single mills water
wheels. engines. DeLoach Co., $40, At
lanta, Ga.
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wANTED-FARMS

1 HAVE cash buyers for salabJe farms.
Will deal with owners only. Give Hca-
ton, description and cash price. James P.
White, New Franklin, Mo-
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PILES,
FREE information about painless pile cure
No knife. Box 11GS, Atlanta. Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

CABBAGE PLANTS-Fulwood' frost proof
cabbage plants, ready for immediate ship
ment. Varieties, Jersey and Charleston
Wakefield. Succession and Flat Dutch.
Prices, by express, 1000 to 4.OGO, at 50. %
per 1000: 5000 and over at $500 per 1000;
by parcel post prepaid, 100 for soc; 500
for S1.75; 1000 for $500; orders filled
promptly; satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. T. D. Fulwood, Triton, Ga.
GENUINE Frost-Proof Cabbage Plants; all
leading varieties; ready now; 500 plants,
$3.50; 1000, $3.50 postpaid. BY express
collect: 500, $1.25; 1000, $500. Write for
prices on large quantities. Victory Piano
Co.. Sumner, Ga.
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ATLANTA spot COTTON

Tone, steady; sales, 10000; good mid
ding 32.4Sd.
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CANCE i aqa 5umoT pov successfully sss 1s3
:'ov"d nr e Boynton. Fitchhurg, Mass.
lAdYt.l
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06

FREE BOOK OF FLORIDA FACTS-Own
your own orange grove in beautiful Fruit
land Park. A few cents day you now
waste will buy it for you. few dollars q
month may provide you with life income.
Schnitzler sold his twenty-acre grove here
for $40, 000-two thousand an acre. He saw
the same opportunity that's offered you and
planted grove. Result-he reaped small
fortune. You have the same chance, but
you must act now. Write TODAY for Free
Book of Actual Photographs, Florida facts
and the interesting story of a Fruitland
Park Farm. Learn of crops that help you
buy it. Address today, Lake County Land
Owners Association, 1927 Sunset Way, Fruit
land Park Fla
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Cured at home; worst cases.
No pain. No cost if it fails.
GOre H. +: +:
West 6Srd St., Chicago.
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FREE

Send Quick for Rogers New
and Improved Trappers
Beautiful four-color cover.
Trapping hints, laws and
supplies. A postcard will
bring if WITH out cost to you.
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MEDIIAI

MEDICAL
PILES can be cured, no cutting, safe, pain
less. 1 will tell you about it free. Write
Box 1865 Atlanta. Ga
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Farm hand, willing worker; a good deal
for right man. F. e. Kehrer, Norcross,
GpOrgia
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Use Tag Below For Rogers
Big Money Checks
Don't leave your trappin2
profits to chance. Protect
yourself-Rogers' Tag will
help you. Clip the ia & now
paste it on cardboard. Sew
it to your bundle and start
it away to Rogers, St. Louis,
for the big prices that are
satisfying thousands of trap
pers all over the country.
Don't put it off. Don't DELAY.
Clip Rogers Tag non.
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Experienced Trappers Say ;.

Experienced Trappers Say
Wallace, Mich.
Dear Sirs-ReceiVed check
for shipment and wish to thank
you for prompt returns. am
so well pleased with your
grading and prompt attention
that in the future you get all
NY III Georgsl 1aMaok.
Hawthorne, N. j.
Dear Sirs--We are making
you another shipment today
We have a lot of price lists
from other fur houses, but you
have treated us fair and
square. We find you are the
best house, and house that
anyone can depend on.
Victor Keys.
Gatesby, Okla.
I Dear Sirs-Received money
for three furs L sent you, and
am well pleased. 1 sent "a of
same kind to , and you
paid me half as much for three
skins as he paid for the lot of
"a. VIII ship again shortly.
c. Retterhome.
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"Whyc here's old Roxy's label" he
said contemptuously. "Nigger paws,
eh? There's a line across her
thumbprint. Now how comes that?''
Pudd'nhead taking the glass from
Toms hand held 1t up to the lamp
The blood sank suddenly out Of his
face. He gazed at the polished sur
face with the CLASSY stare of a
corpse. The mystery was solved.
Toms thumbprint standing clear
ly outlined before him on the glass
and that on the hands of the blood
stained knife were identified!
ITO the ninutest detail,' said the
foreman of the jury, as he returned
a verdict of murder against the I'M
happy lad.
The twins were acquitted, the de-
frauded heir lifted up out of slavery
and restored to his inheritance. and
Tom, forever branded as an impos-
ter, was "sold down the river" for
the benefit of the creditors of the
late Percy Northumberland Driscoll
Which, all things considered, was
not a strange fate, for as P'sddn-
head Wilson himself has said in his
famous calendar, "a cauliflower, aft
er all, is nothing but a cabbage with
college education
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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 5.-Spot cotton
steady; quotations revised middling, 70
points higher; sales on the spot, 2,277; to
arrive, 1887; low middling, 33 so; middling,
400; good middling, 1890; receipts, II,
100: stock. .IO3 800 - =. :
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PERSONAL


FOR SALE-Two hundred-acre farm. about
seventy acres in cultivation, good Outlet
for stock raising, located about five miles
southeast Altha, and six or seven mites
north Blountstown, Fla. Will also sell some
stock cattle and hogs. Investigate quick if
interested. Address E. F. Coxwell, BlOupts
town Fla
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-11
STOCK MARKET HITS
NEW HIGH TERRITORY
Industrlais Furnish Most OF Days
Business. Whilo Rails Provo
Very Active.
By nnoADAN WALL,

~ w N
NEW YORK. March i0.-Rcports OF
gold imports actually on the high seas
resulted ;m,l In a. sharp advance of s,cr.
rates down slightly and. in turn. sent
the stock market into new high ter
dus sry tor .hG nss W ha M
business the rails were also very ac-
tive. Heading was really the leader
pcrs moved upward sharply. tha,
sroup being under the leadership OF
aso h IrS stocks we're higher w ans
al stronger because trade reports
: were cheering.
In spite OF the heavy profit taking
In the afternoon the mnrllct closed at
m11.i the SHs, prizes n ne aay ~i n
sues.
Decision BrinEs Joy.
The stock dividend decision. now
that II is rightly unders TODD, Is hailed
with delight by the financial World:
upset by,it. Commissioner Kopcr say yo
II Will mean reduction of s50o,0oooOo
in Federal taxes for 1919. That is one
inar market r Ri, remis . Of 5000. 100000
is the first break In the upward move
nent of taxes since tho war began
and will relieve tho situation trencn-
dously. In addition to that feature
of the decision, II paves the way Y, 70
without saying. Tho action OF Mag
nolia Refining Company today In in
creaSinE its capitalization from S6o.-
100000 to 100000. 900 TO furnish stock
for dividend purposes shows which
wny b the o WIND S,o% Orgy OF stock ys dv
dends and the market VIII act &C
cordinsiy.
increase UnniIcd Orders.
Announcement that tho steel cor
poration had increased its volume OF
untitled orders only 2l661o tons for
tho month or February was not mat
fnr nf Inn
knows the country needs more steel
than can be produced. The only ques-
tho ability Of the companies 20 got .hc
labor to produce II.
was made in this column that the
Pennsylvania Railroad would buy IN
the minority Panhandle stock that is
outstanding, issuing a per cent bond
for 1t. Official announcement of that
fact was made today.
There WAS some inquiry FOR Con
aoiidatcd Gas stock on the theory that
tho courts would permit ii higher
charge Tor service. The courts are are
days and persons who have their say
inEs invested in great corporations. arc
cheering o nT % Si,Tn.. inward
All the oil stocks had a surge up
ward on announcement that the gov
oil through private bids. would 20 into
tho market and buy in competition
with other consumers. That does not
settle the Mexican question. but 1T does
help tho oil companies. There is al
ready "a shortage Of fuel oil and a big
customer buying in that way is sure
to$rrcatc disturbance.
Wall Street hears from very high
authorities tl,at The Reading and the
l.ackawannu railroad Companies arc
both planning seEregationa OF stoGR
dividends The segregated property in
ctc!, case may we'll he worth 500 a
sl,arc. II will be worth that much In
IG,ckuwann:i ut any rate. Reading IL
more OF a mystery, but now that tho
stock dividend question is settled in
an agreeable manner the scSrcEa-
lion can be proceeded with.
For the first time in months there
was aggressive buying OF copper
stocks. under the leadership or smell
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COTTON MNKht;Ts

new ioRk. March iv.--Thcrc was gen
"a hHSlnS Of cotton TO-DAY ana this mar
hct Was strong March made ncw nigh
Tt'crH ior IN" SchsOp. while other months
Sagef'd tr"sn top marks Tor the movement.
ne demand WIS particularly active for the
carry new tr"p deliveries ana inquiry FOR
IN" Tat" DELIVERIES was Increased ~ ira
i"riEG 81 !ohS commitments from May To
JuIE 10 !1t"r positions. Selling pressure was
re sslr!'t"d. b''iNN" Of nUrnb.r OF bulls n
influences. including big gai:,s ~ foreign
tNchihSc. "d"ircs telling OF continued .lr-
IN: S?u'h and strength in sccurities
weakness At Liverpool! had much "a do
WIN a hr"p OF 20 is points In prices =, [
th', op'n.nE. The decline abroad was due
y" liGuidauon. higher rates for exchange and
,tb"F t-ouhl" IN France. Lkcr;,ool SOLD til"
here. Du: business otherwise huI no .urci,i
sisniicanc" 81 the start although II broad
itcHlizinE attracted hy an ADVANCE of ~ .;
Tor October caused reactions Of 10 or 70
ph!hts. Except Tor profit taking there Vas
no selling pressure however. and the mar
ket wtS quiet. but generally steady during
h9ldinr some II TO IS POINTS above iast
nights closing nSures. Tie market scored
iurthc! gains IN III" afternoon prices AZ
the best showing net advances OF 5000;
roin;s. Fina! prices were Is - - points
SPOT here s,c2dy with m!dd!inE -
POINTS higher at A.. there were no .aic.
Spot ~ Rev Orleans steady with .u.!.
Hing =, points higher at i915c: the sales
kccslpts at the vaylous ports today wer.:
GALVESTON. ..3ia: New Orleans Sisi: Mo-
ton. 60: Augusta. 50; Memphis, 4toi: 81
pf
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all fur,her soverpmen, ereaus to .he allied

countries.
oats showed comparative weakness
result OF cancellations by scaboard exporters.
f. After a -hesitating start. provisions devcl
op"d n good deal of strength in line with
corn and sterling
Leading futures RANGED az follows: