Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-30
The Once Over
If GRAHAM A ANNOUNCED III STOCK
Ey Fl. Z. PHILLIPS
MARKET PRICES

MARKET PRICES
Hello. fclksl This Is Graham McNamee giving you
the closing prices on the wonderful Stock Exchange.
/ am right here where / can see everything and |
want to tell you It's g 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-
q perfect day for trading; not too warm and not too
cold. but just Ideal
Allegheny Corporation Is up two points md Is
now 50 !. No !. Just a minute ! think It's ALLIE
gheny Corporation. but it is difficult to zee clearly
from here now and some OF the boys say Il Is Allis-
Chalmers You'll have to wait just a second
Waltz It's American Car and Foundry, folks, and
it's OF, not 50.
"wowl Lookl N. There Eoes Anaconda Copper,
up two, three, four. five up six points to 1851 .
A beautiful squirt. folks. q beautiful spurtI There
.lave been lots OF good spurts here today. but none
much p%rettier than that one.
Here comes Armour A now, folks No, its
Armour 3, ! guess . Watt a second It's Ar
mour. preferred, I understand But no matter.
there's nothing doing there just now Oil ].
Goshl Look! Some stock has broken away
and Is clear through the field It's gained five
ten fifteen twelve points I 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 i
smashing gain there No, folks, that stock that
Just made that sensational gain was American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Phew! I've seen many swell
performances this season but nothing to beat that.
"Yeabo! Sayl 7. 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
7. NO. they're putting it back to 127 Only q
f~our-point gain there for some reason or other I
don't quite understand that Anyhow Bethlehem
Is now l27.
"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 4
gain Of twenty points It's Commercial Solvents
Huh? What? Eddie Goopus here tells me
1t 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 TheyfA 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 !.
the stocks are going back five ten twenty
forty points In some cases, folks Oh. I zee
now the bears have sprung a surprise They
have thrown in the old Secretary Mellon resignation
rumor This is an old trick, but it's working. Gee.
but they're all In q heap down there now and q lot
OF people are getting hurt I can't be sure what's
happening till they unscramble." CEtc. etcJ
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 ..:5,67s burns TO every piano.
Indy has started giving Anne lessons In pperat-
ing an a~irplane. Perhaps she had developed into 4
back-seat driver and 1t seems necessary in self-de-
Tense.
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