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Show CLOSING QUOTATIONS OF WORLD S MARKETS OPENING TRADE IN STOCKS IS QUIET New York, April 24. The opening trade in stocks today was quiet and offered no conspicuous feature, and some small gains and lessen were quite equally divided. Reading and American Smelting advanced 3-4. A few stocks wavered slightly before be-fore the list began to move aggressively aggres-sively upward. Reading was a ornlu-ant ornlu-ant factor, rising 1 5-S lo 116 1-1. Wabash Wa-bash preferred and American Smelting Smelt-ing also improved I 1-i and Union Pacific. St. Louis & Saa Fraucisco second preferred, the Reck Island slocks and United States Rubber 1. Westlnghouse Electric and American Beet Sugar was depressed a point. The market closed .strong and active. ac-tive. Prices receded a fraction. buC offerings promptly fell of? and the trading became dull. Hocking Coal lose 2." National Biscuit fell 1 3 S .and Reading second preTeired 2. Late prices were bid up again. American Smelting advancing 1 5-S and United States and Republic Steel preferred aud International Pump 1- |