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Thursday, November 4, 1926
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Daily Kennebec JournalAugusta, Me.

Wall Street Briefs

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Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of stock to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share, with holders of record entitled to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock. Hammond, of Hayden, Stone and Company, has bought about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc. from Paul Guenther.

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[The story on the printed page. Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me., November 4, 1926, page 2]

New York, Nov. 3. - (AP) - Contrary to earlier expectations that the unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation for October would show a decrease, it is now believed in well-informed quarters that another increase probably will be reported, owing to large rail contracts placed during the month.

J. P. Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of 392,687 shares of Marland Oil Company stock which is to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share. Holders of record November 15 have the right to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock.

James Hammond of Hayden, Stone and Company has bought from Paul Guenther about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc., out of 160,000 shares outstanding.

Cotton manufacturers comprised more than three fourths of the textile exports of the United States in the first nine months this year, it is shown in data compiled by the Association of Cotton Textile merchants of New York, which estimates that foreign customers have spent almost five times as much for American Cotton goods in 1926 as for other American Textile manufacturers. Exports of cotton manufactures in the nine months were valued at $101,966,245, or 81 per cent of all textile manufactures exported.

Net income of American Water Works and Electric for the year ended September 30, was $3,938,634, equal after preferred dividends to $4.56 a share on the common stock against $3,057,078 or $3.62 a share the year before. Gross revenues gained $4,152,191 to $44,283,033.

Net profit of the Ward Baking Corporation for the 15 weeks ended October 16 amounted to $1,292,183, equal after preferred and class A dividends to 77 cents a share on the class B stock. This compares with $1,183,969 or 58 cents a share on the stock in the same period of 1925.

Its largest month's sales on record is reported by the National Cash Register Company for October with notable gains in both foreign and domestic business. General Motors Corporation could well afford to pay an extra dividend of $5 at the next meeting of directors, said Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President, on his return from abroad today, but emphasized that the corporation should have on hand at least $100,000,000 for the operation of the property. An extensive program involving between fifty and seventy-five million dollars has been outlined, he said, the cost of which would be extended over the next four or five years.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

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Vol. I, no 5 Thursday, November 4, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
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Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Daily Kennebec JournalAugusta, Me.

Wall Street Briefs

Context - explained by ACL:

Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of stock to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share, with holders of record entitled to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock. Hammond, of Hayden, Stone and Company, has bought about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc. from Paul Guenther.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me., November 4, 1926, page 2]

New York, Nov. 3. - (AP) - Contrary to earlier expectations that the unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation for October would show a decrease, it is now believed in well-informed quarters that another increase probably will be reported, owing to large rail contracts placed during the month.

J. P. Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of 392,687 shares of Marland Oil Company stock which is to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share. Holders of record November 15 have the right to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock.

James Hammond of Hayden, Stone and Company has bought from Paul Guenther about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc., out of 160,000 shares outstanding.

Cotton manufacturers comprised more than three fourths of the textile exports of the United States in the first nine months this year, it is shown in data compiled by the Association of Cotton Textile merchants of New York, which estimates that foreign customers have spent almost five times as much for American Cotton goods in 1926 as for other American Textile manufacturers. Exports of cotton manufactures in the nine months were valued at $101,966,245, or 81 per cent of all textile manufactures exported.

Net income of American Water Works and Electric for the year ended September 30, was $3,938,634, equal after preferred dividends to $4.56 a share on the common stock against $3,057,078 or $3.62 a share the year before. Gross revenues gained $4,152,191 to $44,283,033.

Net profit of the Ward Baking Corporation for the 15 weeks ended October 16 amounted to $1,292,183, equal after preferred and class A dividends to 77 cents a share on the class B stock. This compares with $1,183,969 or 58 cents a share on the stock in the same period of 1925.

Its largest month's sales on record is reported by the National Cash Register Company for October with notable gains in both foreign and domestic business. General Motors Corporation could well afford to pay an extra dividend of $5 at the next meeting of directors, said Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President, on his return from abroad today, but emphasized that the corporation should have on hand at least $100,000,000 for the operation of the property. An extensive program involving between fifty and seventy-five million dollars has been outlined, he said, the cost of which would be extended over the next four or five years.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

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November 3, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 5 Thursday, November 4, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Daily Kennebec JournalAugusta, Me.

Wall Street Briefs

Context - explained by ACL:

Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of stock to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share, with holders of record entitled to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock. Hammond, of Hayden, Stone and Company, has bought about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc. from Paul Guenther.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me., November 4, 1926, page 2]

New York, Nov. 3. - (AP) - Contrary to earlier expectations that the unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation for October would show a decrease, it is now believed in well-informed quarters that another increase probably will be reported, owing to large rail contracts placed during the month.

J. P. Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of 392,687 shares of Marland Oil Company stock which is to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share. Holders of record November 15 have the right to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock.

James Hammond of Hayden, Stone and Company has bought from Paul Guenther about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc., out of 160,000 shares outstanding.

Cotton manufacturers comprised more than three fourths of the textile exports of the United States in the first nine months this year, it is shown in data compiled by the Association of Cotton Textile merchants of New York, which estimates that foreign customers have spent almost five times as much for American Cotton goods in 1926 as for other American Textile manufacturers. Exports of cotton manufactures in the nine months were valued at $101,966,245, or 81 per cent of all textile manufactures exported.

Net income of American Water Works and Electric for the year ended September 30, was $3,938,634, equal after preferred dividends to $4.56 a share on the common stock against $3,057,078 or $3.62 a share the year before. Gross revenues gained $4,152,191 to $44,283,033.

Net profit of the Ward Baking Corporation for the 15 weeks ended October 16 amounted to $1,292,183, equal after preferred and class A dividends to 77 cents a share on the class B stock. This compares with $1,183,969 or 58 cents a share on the stock in the same period of 1925.

Its largest month's sales on record is reported by the National Cash Register Company for October with notable gains in both foreign and domestic business. General Motors Corporation could well afford to pay an extra dividend of $5 at the next meeting of directors, said Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President, on his return from abroad today, but emphasized that the corporation should have on hand at least $100,000,000 for the operation of the property. An extensive program involving between fifty and seventy-five million dollars has been outlined, he said, the cost of which would be extended over the next four or five years.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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Today's paper

November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 5 Thursday, November 4, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Daily Kennebec JournalAugusta, Me.

Wall Street Briefs

Context - explained by ACL:

Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of stock to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share, with holders of record entitled to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock. Hammond, of Hayden, Stone and Company, has bought about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc. from Paul Guenther.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me., November 4, 1926, page 2]

New York, Nov. 3. - (AP) - Contrary to earlier expectations that the unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation for October would show a decrease, it is now believed in well-informed quarters that another increase probably will be reported, owing to large rail contracts placed during the month.

J. P. Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of 392,687 shares of Marland Oil Company stock which is to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share. Holders of record November 15 have the right to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock.

James Hammond of Hayden, Stone and Company has bought from Paul Guenther about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc., out of 160,000 shares outstanding.

Cotton manufacturers comprised more than three fourths of the textile exports of the United States in the first nine months this year, it is shown in data compiled by the Association of Cotton Textile merchants of New York, which estimates that foreign customers have spent almost five times as much for American Cotton goods in 1926 as for other American Textile manufacturers. Exports of cotton manufactures in the nine months were valued at $101,966,245, or 81 per cent of all textile manufactures exported.

Net income of American Water Works and Electric for the year ended September 30, was $3,938,634, equal after preferred dividends to $4.56 a share on the common stock against $3,057,078 or $3.62 a share the year before. Gross revenues gained $4,152,191 to $44,283,033.

Net profit of the Ward Baking Corporation for the 15 weeks ended October 16 amounted to $1,292,183, equal after preferred and class A dividends to 77 cents a share on the class B stock. This compares with $1,183,969 or 58 cents a share on the stock in the same period of 1925.

Its largest month's sales on record is reported by the National Cash Register Company for October with notable gains in both foreign and domestic business. General Motors Corporation could well afford to pay an extra dividend of $5 at the next meeting of directors, said Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President, on his return from abroad today, but emphasized that the corporation should have on hand at least $100,000,000 for the operation of the property. An extensive program involving between fifty and seventy-five million dollars has been outlined, he said, the cost of which would be extended over the next four or five years.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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Today's paper

November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 5 Thursday, November 4, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Daily Kennebec JournalAugusta, Me.

Wall Street Briefs

Context - explained by ACL:

Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of stock to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share, with holders of record entitled to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock. Hammond, of Hayden, Stone and Company, has bought about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc. from Paul Guenther.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me., November 4, 1926, page 2]

New York, Nov. 3. - (AP) - Contrary to earlier expectations that the unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation for October would show a decrease, it is now believed in well-informed quarters that another increase probably will be reported, owing to large rail contracts placed during the month.

J. P. Morgan and Company have agreed to underwrite a new issue of 392,687 shares of Marland Oil Company stock which is to be offered to stockholders at $50 a share. Holders of record November 15 have the right to subscribe to twenty per cent additional stock.

James Hammond of Hayden, Stone and Company has bought from Paul Guenther about 125,000 shares of common stock of Onyx Hosiery, Inc., out of 160,000 shares outstanding.

Cotton manufacturers comprised more than three fourths of the textile exports of the United States in the first nine months this year, it is shown in data compiled by the Association of Cotton Textile merchants of New York, which estimates that foreign customers have spent almost five times as much for American Cotton goods in 1926 as for other American Textile manufacturers. Exports of cotton manufactures in the nine months were valued at $101,966,245, or 81 per cent of all textile manufactures exported.

Net income of American Water Works and Electric for the year ended September 30, was $3,938,634, equal after preferred dividends to $4.56 a share on the common stock against $3,057,078 or $3.62 a share the year before. Gross revenues gained $4,152,191 to $44,283,033.

Net profit of the Ward Baking Corporation for the 15 weeks ended October 16 amounted to $1,292,183, equal after preferred and class A dividends to 77 cents a share on the class B stock. This compares with $1,183,969 or 58 cents a share on the stock in the same period of 1925.

Its largest month's sales on record is reported by the National Cash Register Company for October with notable gains in both foreign and domestic business. General Motors Corporation could well afford to pay an extra dividend of $5 at the next meeting of directors, said Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President, on his return from abroad today, but emphasized that the corporation should have on hand at least $100,000,000 for the operation of the property. An extensive program involving between fifty and seventy-five million dollars has been outlined, he said, the cost of which would be extended over the next four or five years.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 4, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.