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Show Reading. Union Pacific and' United States Steel again absorbed the bulk of the dalins. Agresate sales of all stocks fell to a total of ISO.00,! shares, and when from this Is deducted deduct-ed the 1'G lOi.l shares of the three active ac-tive stocks mentioned, the narrowness narrow-ness of tho general market may bo appreciated. There was a day in July of IS us when the day's sales reached only 73.UU0 shares. The day's total was the smallest for any day since. Bond irregular. Total sales, par value, l,232,0nu. United States bonds were unchanged unchang-ed on call. ILL STREET CLOSES DULL NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Tho month of August came to a dull and uninteresting unin-teresting close iu the stock market today. to-day. The dealings lapsed into idleness idle-ness aud prices drifted listlessly. Tho September dividend payments will aggregate ag-gregate 92,453,000, according to the computatiou of the Journal of Commerce, Com-merce, and details of the estimate show the amount is $l2.0-:.9,000 greater great-er than In September of last year, with $8,549,000 of that amount, on account ac-count of Increased dividend disbursement. disburse-ment. The growth of prosperous conditions con-ditions thus Implied had some effect in maintaining the firm undertone of the almost lit elesB market. The remainder re-mainder of the Increase for interest account is due to the additions to i bond and note issues blnce last year. |