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Show I! LARGE GAINS I IN OIL SHARES Public Utilities, Food, Rail and Merchandise Shares in Broad Demand. sH ntow YORK. Oct. 4 Heavy buying Of oil shares caused a further advance in prices In today's stork market. Dec-Hi Dec-Hi laratlon of a 100 per cent stock divi- Idenfl by tho directors to tho LSandard Oil company of California resulted In .-, sensational demand for that stock, .000 shares boinff sold In the flrsi fowl minutes at prlcos rnncln frmn t 3 1 i ( to 133. The, next sale woe 200 shares M" ai IS 4. an extreme ris.' ol 6 points I over Tucdsay night's closing quotation and 1 4 'fc above that of tfondaj Stand- inrd Oil of New Jersey was pushed up two points to a new high md alns of on to one and one-half were me orded by Houston. Associated .i. ;,-neral Bl Asphealt, Psclflc Oil and California 1 Petroleum. Notional Biscuit was (in- other individual feature opening 2 l luts higher and soon extending ltej 1 Rain to 3 'i points to a new htTh re'-! fc -i Coca Cola aiso was in demand, rlsinv 3i points to a now peak price. Sleds were actively bought under the I leadership of Lrfic'.cawanna. Union Pa-. Pa-. Iflc and Rock Island all of which 1m-proved 1m-proved n point or more. American Radiator also sold at 0 new hlph jrV e Bullish operations were aprcsively conducted throughout the morning, cable dispatches stating that an arnils-Mco arnils-Mco virtually had been agreed upon between the allied and Turkish com-BflBl com-BflBl manders In the Near liast contrlhut- Iing to the more cheerful sentiment Trading was langely of a professional character but the volume of business Indicated tho reappearance of an Investment In-vestment demand by small interests. Tho buoyancy of the tSandard- Oil croup exerrised a dominant Influence f' on prices but the resumption of ac tive blddlnp for public utilities, food, merchandising and standard railroad' shares also accelerated the upward I swinu. There were a very few ex-! options to the rising trend. National "Biscuit extended Us c;iin to 12 points inn1 tsandard Oil of New Jersey to six while gains of three to throe and one-half were made by DuPottt, No- tlorral Ixad. Jfexlran Petroleum and i IT. S. Realtv. Call money opened at 4 '4 per cent. |