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Show DULL SENTiriENT RULES STRONGER Decided Advance Along Whole Line in Wall Street Stocks. NEW YORK. Novr 21. Opening prices in the stock market were higher than last night, with notable further advances In aomo of yesterday's strong features. Anaconda Ana-conda wm carried up 11 points. Smelting preferred Sffl, Metropolitan Securities 1 and Smelting, Ontario. Western. St. Paul. Distillers Securities and Tederal Mining Mi-ning about a point, and International Power and Louisville & Nashville large fractions. r - The bull spirit showed little signs of exhaustion ex-haustion despite the rapid pace of the last few days, and there was a further decided de-cided expansion In values of aU the prominent prom-inent attocks. Easier money conditions and confidence that the rise was being furthered bv substantial market operations opera-tions stimulated a more general inquiry for stocks. Railroad stocks made an Improved Im-proved showing in the early dealings, the demand being wider and stocks responding respond-ing more sharply to the general tendency. St. Paul. Delaware Hudson and International Inter-national Power advanced . Locomotive preferred 34 and Des Moines and Fort Dodge 4Vi. Top prices -were not fully maintained, the market running off a good -fraction around 11 o'clock. Metropolitan Metro-politan Street Railway dropped 2 and Metropolitan Securities 1. Anaconda reacted re-acted points. Hocking Valley and. Chicago Chi-cago Great Western preferred declined to a point below yesterday. The reaction reached a point In some of the leading stocks and carried others. Including Reading, a fraction below last night. That stock subsequently advanced ad-vanced aggressively to 143V4. Baltimore A Ohio gained nearly t. Locomotive preferred pre-ferred rose buoyantly, 6. St. Paul preferred pre-ferred rose 3i, Wheeling and Lake Erie first preferred 2. The rally In the general gen-eral list did not carry prices higher than before, and was a recession of a fraction at noon. Bonds were strong at that hour. There was decided reversion of sentiment senti-ment regarding some stocks early advances ad-vances of 1 to i points in Atlantic Coast Line, American Securities and Sloss-Shef-fleld Steel being converted into substantial substan-tial losses. The general market became affected by the heaviness of these stocks, and dropped In spite of the rise In Smelting. Smelt-ing. Smelting rose 3 points, the preferred pre-ferred ui. International Power SVi. and Hide and Leather preferred IS- In toe way of losses St. Paul figured for 1. Atlantic At-lantic Coast Line IVi. and Metropolitan securities S. Very little remained of the early rlje In the railroad section and less volatile specialties when the selling aroused by the liquidation of the Metropolitan stocks was In full swing. The Smelting atocks also yielded, but large orders were filled again for stocks, and they sold about a point higher than their previous best, touching 156 and 136 respectively for the common and preferred. |