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Show STOCK EXCHANGE TRADES ENTIRELY PROFESSIONAL Standard Oil and Industrial Shares Score Fractional Frac-tional Gains, While a Few Specialties Reach a High Figure. By Internationa News Service. i NEW VORK, Aug. 24,-Price fluctuations fluctua-tions in the Btock mnrket torlav were Hlnillar to those of the previous previ-ous session standard railroad rind .1 o.JJ1 . 1 J1r" scoring fractional fraction-al pains While a few specialties Kyrated to new high flcur.s. k-4.u London was closed, but Initial quotations quota-tions showed fractional advances averaging aver-aging about half a point. Union Pa-'i.ic. Pa-'i.ic. Readlnij, Steel and the copper Bhes were fairly active. Dealings were almost f-ntlrely professional an.l renre-'Sented renre-'Sented short coverlnjs. Specialties again stepped into the llme-llght llme-llght Wtlh very large advances. American 'm wWcn advanced nine points on 'Xnursaay, added seven more points to Its quotation today. Mexican Petroleum, hlch rose 31 points the previous day. had a further advance of one point. Canadian Pacific's heaviness contrasted with the strength shown by other flpo-speclaltles, flpo-speclaltles, but a decline of nearly five points was due to a belief that definite action on its new stock Issue would bo delayed by the Canadian government owing to complaints from the west. Canadian recovered U points of the early hiss hefore the close. |