New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926. STANDARDIZING OF | — ‘ BREAD DISCUSSED FLASHES OF LIFE: PRESIDENT GIVES YOUNG SCOUTS RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS By the Assoclated Pre: New York—How to be happy, by STOCK DEALING IN + 28 AT HIGH MARK jothers wiped out. His will enjoins Bond Sales Also Established | New High Mark During Year | New York, Dec. 29 (P—The broadening of trading actdvities in the New York Curb Market in 1926 overshadowed the year's price fluc-| tuations, which in general followed | the trend of dealings on the New| York Stock Exchange. Total stock sales for the year es tablished a new high record of proximately 125,000,000 shar compared with 113,000,000 for 1925. | Bond sales also were the largest onl record, mounting to $350,000,000 against $275,000,000 last year. | Securities of more than 600 com-| panies were admitted to trading. | The total number of stocks and | bonds listed at the end of the year was about 1,375, compared with 1,- | 100 at the end of 19 The total | par value of stocks now dealt in is | more than $14,000,000 in addition | to 250,000,000 sharc without par| value, | new constitution | containing added provisions in the | the purchaser of curb the most important | change during to President| Listing marginal | hip requirements were | made more stringent. Many issues | of unknown intrinsic value stricken from the trading list. { A tremendous increase in bond trading made it necessary to allot Jarger quarters to that section of the | market, and record-breaking clear- | ances also demanded enlargement of the clearing house facilitie: | Eleven cities in the United States| and Canada were receiving the Curb ticker service at the end of the | year. Buffalo and Toronto were added to the chain in 1 and | plans are under consideration for| extending th ce to Montreal as | well as to several other large cities | in the United States. The mem} ip list of the Curb remained near 530, with several seats changing hands around the| record high price of $37,500, es- Adoption of a securities step taken by the e: and member: | persons representing a. cro: were | | | mac President Coolidge: “We get hap- piness from doing our duty, further happiness from doing a little more than is.necessary and from doing things as near right as we can.” From a New Years' message to Boy and Girl.Scouts. Chicago—Things are getting bet= ter. There have heen only 353 mur- ders here this year. Last year there were 394, New York—An optimist might find consolation in the number of pessimist The Times says that 20 section of the financial community were asked whether they were bulls or bears on 1 and 13 bears. Chicago—Nearly ~ $21,000 ,has been spent in taxicab fares by Mrs. | Ernest H. Kelly, a Cherokee,Indian, it is averred by her husband, also a Cheroke and superintendent of the | Cubs’ park. He wants a divorce, Lut the courts won't let him have it. Instead his wife was advised to sue for separation. Washington—An Indian should be able to cross the boundary be- tween the United States and Canada as frecly as his forefathers, in the opinion of the council of the six na- tions, and it is going to take the matter to Uncle Sam'’s courts in an effort to prevent Quebee Iroquois. Cambridge, 0? asks Prof Marquette University to pray in English, French or Ger- man. The Lord's Pra has 78 syllables, in Fre: man 90, Esperanto 100. . Y.—Short over- coats are to be worn now by our nifty cadets when necessary. Grey inaws are to supplement the long coats. West Point, Trenton, N. J.—In order {o calm a stir created by reports that full soup and fish, even to stove-pipe hats and patent leathers, would be required of men attending a banquet to President €oolidge tonight, the historical society announces that no- | said they were | deportation of a | his children not to use their lega- cies “as margin for the conduct of speculative or other transactions of any kind upon any exchange for dealing in stocks, bonds, securities of any kind, sugar, coffee or any other ‘commodities or property whatso- ever.” Hartford, Conn.—John Coolidge has been invited to attend Governor | Trumbull’s inaugural ball next Wed- {nesday. If he accepts he will have | the privilege of sitting in the gover- | nor's private hox when not dancing with Miss Florence Trumbull or others. New Haven—Members of basket- | ball teams of Holy Cross, Vt., and | Tufts here for Yale tournament are guests at dinner and theater of Yale Athletic association. New Haven—An all day rain and thawing temperature leate Connec- ticut in a bedraggled state, slush covering streets and highways. Stamford—Witnesses at coroner’s hearing say Alexander Stewart, 73, killed by train Saturday, committed suicide. New Haven——Frank Fuccie, clean- ing gun for use in emergency acci- dentally shoots self in thigh. { Colonial Air Transport, Inc., vote to increase preferred stock from $330,- | 000 to $2,000,000 and announce lans of direct passenger | press service from New York to Montreal and from New York to Chicago. Hartford—Some of the waters of | the state have become literally too hot for trout, comb of fisherie: Hartford—Singe contribution of $160 of lone woman for a major state office in last campaig sufficient to pay all the socialist: state organization expenses report reveals. Hartford—Opinions and anecotes relating to Mfe of the war president are given at the annual luncheon of the Wilson league in observance of Hartford—Stockholders of the | and ex- | Sealers of Weights and Measures Meet Today Hartford, Dec. 29 (A—The stand- ardizing of the welght of the loaf of bread was the principal topic of dis-| | cussion at the meeting of the state | association of sealers of weights and | | measures yesterday. It was urged by | Philip T. Pilon, state sealer, and ad vised by his predecessor, Thomas F. iEgan, The matter was referred to a committee of legislation which was | to report at the afternoon s The following oft ed: First vice president, { Maroney, New Haven; second vice | president, Walter Stiles of the| | state pelice departmen | Hurley of the state police is perm [ nent president of the association. The |following were appointed on the | :: The two vice- | | presidents; Hibbard of Middletown; A. Carlson of New | Britain, and Dennis Kelly of Bridge- | lpor', suggested that in addition rdizing the loaf of bre: the legi tablish a standard privilege {of honora Avon Town Official Dies at Hospital Ralph E. Case, {town c surer and former | station agent, died in Hartford hos- pital at 7:15 a. m. | peritonitis following.an operatio as born in Canton July 10, 186 Mr. Case was telegraph operator {in Canton for the old Connecticut | Western and later tel station agent here fo Haven” road. He bought the O. T. Bishop general store d sold it eral years ago to Gre and then became a carpen recent years he had n much at- tention to ra adioli. years ago he was elected town c and treasurer. ~arld please make dad be gure - andopen a — Ghristmas @lub | body respectively dressed will be ex- s tablished in Deccmber, 1925 | cluded. 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