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Show vester 1. Rock Island prcfrrd broko 2 3-S and Pittsburg, C. C. & Si Louis 1. The market closed dull and wtror.? The market developed a great of buoyancy and moat of the gral: carriers KOt back to the high lef of yesterday before tho crop scarf broke the market. Advices from yesterday's yes-terday's closing reached 2 1-2 In Reading Read-ing and Consolidated Gas 2 1-4 13 Union and Southern PaclMe and 2 13 United States Steel and InterborocJ Metropolitan preferred. WALL STREET CL0SESSTR0NG NEW YORK, Aug 2G Higher prices prevallod at the opening of the stock market with Union Pacific, Reading, Southern Pacific and Intor-borough Intor-borough Metropolitan making gains of a point each. American Smelting, Brooklyn Transit, United States Steel and Chesapeake & Ohio wero 1-2 to 3-4 better. The market wavered waver-ed ' a bitand then went on upward with the buying stimulated by tho passing of the frost scare In tho corn belt Round amouuts of United States Steel nnd some of tho railroad rail-road stocks were bought but the general gen-eral buying fell off and the list became be-came dull. Union Pacific, Consolidated Consoli-dated Gas and Chicago Great Western West-ern rose 1-2. United States Steel , 1 1-4 and Atchison. St Paul. New York Central and International Har- |