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Show STOCK LIST MORE BUOYANT; PRICE RALLY 15 GENERAL Trading Influenced Almost Entirely by President Wilson's Address, Considered Favoring Favor-ing Conservatives. NEW TOP.K. Aug. 9. Trading- in stocks today was influenced almost entirely by President Wilson's address, which Wall street interests, conservative as well as speculative, accepted as extremely favorable favor-able to the conservative side. Gains of the preceding sessions were considerably enhanced, especially In equipments, and the wide range of industrials, indus-trials, which are expected to show a further fur-ther prosperity by enormous postwar de- , niands. Rails and food shares, which suffered 1 severely in the 'several recent declines, i also rallied vigorously, a large part of the weelc'e extreme losses being recovered, i In a few noteworthy instances, such as American Car and several of the higher-priced higher-priced specialties, substantial net gains over last week's strong close were made, the market finishing at advances of 2 to 9 points. Sales amounted to 635,000 shares. General news of the day also favored the long account, including the July tonnage ton-nage statement of the United States Steel corporation, which disclosed an increase in unfilled orders of almost 700,000 tons over the preceding month. This marks the second successive increase in-crease of the corporation and brings the total of business on hand up to and beyond be-yond any period since last March. Industrial conditions also improved, as indicated by the return to work of thousands thou-sands of railroad shopmen but mercantile mercan-tile business halted, according to the reviews re-views of trade agencies, by reason of the agitation against the high cost of living. Bonds were irregular, Liberty issues as wtll as internationals. 1 Total sales, par value, aggregated 250,000. Old United States bonds were unchanged on call during the week. |