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Show CHRISTMAS "MELON" FOR CUDAHY PEOPL CHICAGO, Nov, i9.Two million o !-'us of new common stock of the Cuot Packing- company, authorized at a me int- of the directors lost Friday, will, was announced today, be oistributed a ('uristnias "melon'- to hoiders of the I iU.;( common stock." The stock dividend amounts to ab. :a per cent on the old issue. After ' d i s I r i 1 1 u t i on of the n e w stock the ca ta!;zat:on will be r,. 14-J,-V)0 common sU .and 5.S,7.50,.!'0 preferred. The divld' has been charged against the profit i loss surplus, reducing that item from 4 e.'.u.L'TO, as ui October 31 last, to ? 'i.jij.jTO. i |