Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-30
The Once Over
IF H McNAMEE ANNOUNCED THE STOCE
MARKET PRICES
BY II. I PHILLIPS

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Hello, folks! This Is Graham McNamee giving YOU
the closing prices on the wonderful Stock Exchange.
I am right here where I can see everything and |
want to tell you it's a magnificent spectacle. The
sun is now sinking over the purple hills and there Is
just a slight tang in the air. It's been what I'd rail-
a perfect day for trading; not too warm and not too
cold. but just ideal.
Allegheny Corporation Is up two points and Is
now 81 No Just O minute / think It's Ale
gheny Corporation. but it is difficult to zee clearly
from here now and some of the boys say It IS Allis-
Chalmers Youu have to wait just a second
Waits It's American Car and Foundry, folks, Ind
It's 81, not 50.
"Wowl Look! -. There goes Anaconda Copper,
up two, three, four, five up six points 10 1851 ...
A beautiful squirt, folks, 4 beautiful squirt! There
have been lots Of good spurts here today, but none
much prettier than that one.
Here comes Armour A now, folks No. it's
Armour B, ] guess Wait a second It's Ar
mour. preferred. / understand But no matter,
there's nothing doing there just now OIL I.
Gosh! Look! Some stock has broken away
and Is clear through the field It's gained five
ten fifteen twelve points / can't quite
make 1t out from here There are long shadows
over the market now. but / am pretty sure 1t Is
American smelling American smelling made 4
smashing gain there No, folks, that stock that
just made that sensational gain was American Tele-
phone and Telegraph I. Phew! I've seen many swell
performances this season but nothing to beat that.
"Yeabo! Sayl There he goesl There
goes a stock right out from the pack It's Beech
nut It's Bethlehem Steel Bethlehem crashed
through to $50, a clean gain OF seven points Waltz
Z. No. they're putting IL hack To lot ONLY a
four point gain there for some reason or other I
don't quite understand that Anyhow Bethlehem
is now 127.
"whoopeel I wish you could see the excitement
here now, folks Hear that yellingP =. Hear that
cheering? Everybody's gone plumb crazy here.
folks A stock has crashed through and made !
gain OF twenty points 4. It's Commercial Solvents
Huh? What? =. Eddie Goopus here tells me
it is Columbia Graphophone Columbia Graphic
phone. a little stock that hasn't been doing much
lately upset the dope and No it's Consolidated
Gas that Just made that marvellous flash.
"Just a minute. folks. There is a lot Of confusion
down there now They're setting all the stocks
back Something has happened The stocks
are falling back I can't quite see what Is going
on down there, but it's something very serious ..
AL the stocks are going back five ten twenty
. forty points IN some cases, iolKs On, ! zee
now the bears have sprung a surprise They
have thrown in the old Secretary Mellon resignation
rumor q. This is an old trick, but it's working. Gee.
but they're all in q heap down there now and a lot
Of people are getting hurt I can't be sure what's
happening till they unscramble." CEtc. ctcJ
Milk is to be manufactured in sheets that will
last for months. Making it possible to carry home a
pint Of rye wrapped up in a quart Of milk.
Mr.. Harry Sinclair wants to get out Of that jail.
He is satisfied there is no oil on the premises.
One hundred and thirty billion cigarettes n year
are smoked In the United States. That must mean
about 345, SIS burns TO every piano.
Indy has started giving Anne lessons In operat-
ing an airplane. Perhaps she had developed into a
back-seat driver and it seems necessary In self-de-