Markets Turn Strong On Sugar Rally Amid Bull Move
Strong markets recover from yesterday while copper stocks steady amid a mixed New York session. Sugar leads gains as traders anticipate favorable bank results. Bermuda rumors circulate about Standard Oil control and refiners cooperation. Boston copper trades rise with Calumet & Hecla and Butte stock rallying alongside others as dividends and mine prospects draw attention.
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London
New York
Havemeyer
Standard Oil
American Sugar Refining Company
Arbuckles
Amalgamated
Boston
Boston & Montana
Calumet & Hecla
Arcadian
Franklin
Butte
Old Dominion
Parrot
Centennial
Mass
Utah
Thomases
Butte & Boston
Sears
Globe Bank
Treasury
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Norfolk & Western
Marquette Mining Journal
Albany & Boston
Cochiti Mining Company
Market Notes on Copper Stocks and Mining Returns
The piece reports copper demand and pricing trends, mine outputs, and railroad earnings. It notes May activity in copper stocks, a 84 percent leaching test result, and new routes for the Copper Range Company. It mentions the Boston & Montana Mining and Leadville mines, plus earnings comparisons for March versus February and January.
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General Electric Company
Boston & Montana Mining Company
Montana Coal and Coke Company
Boston
Navaho Mining Company
Copper Range Company
Houghton
Calumet
Champion
Chicago
People’s Gas Company
Ogden Gas Company
Cosmopolitan Electric
Edison Company
People’s Company
Ennis & Stoppani
Butte
Elm River
New York
Ieaeuss
Hayden, Stone & Co
Spear
Leadville
Leadville Mines Is Simply Marvellous. the Home Mining Company
Treasureserve Fund
Theodore Craig
Little Jenny
British Columbia
York
Mohawk
American Pneumatic Service Co Dividend Notice
Preferred stock holders receive a quarterly dividend of 75 cents per share payable April 20, 1900 by check. Record date is April 1, 1900. Transfer books close the afternoon of April 1 and reopen morning of April 20. Treasurer A B Temple announces.
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American Pneumatic Service CO
Moniloy
Temple
Fenton
Stage
American Bell declares 3 dollar dividend payable April 16
The American Bell Telephone Company will pay a dividend of three dollars per share on Monday April 16 1900 to stockholders of record at the close of business on Saturday March 31 1900. Transfer books will close from April 1 to April 14 inclusive. A J A M Kr. Drivel treasurer Boston January 21 1900.
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American Bell Telephone Company
wlone +t
Ajaam KR. Drivel
Boston
Market Summary: Boston Trading Day Closing Prices
Boston reports today's trading with highest and lowest sales and the closing bid and asked prices. The brief notes market activity and price ranges for the session.
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Boston
Wheat market notes and weekly shipments update
Howard Crosby & Co reports wheat opened strong with May 67 4 over last close. Argentina weekly wheat shipments 1,606,000 bushels, corn 112,000. Danubian shipments 200,000. Argentine total since Jan 1 27,216,000. Illinois wheat condition 88. North West receipts 5883 cars today.
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Howard, Crosby & Co
Liverpool
Ohio
Illinois
Mrs Strongmind Advocates Women Rights Quote
A remark from Brooklyn Life quotes Mrs Strongmind as a warm advocate for women and suggests she would limit men to only the vice-presidency if she had her way. The exchange comments on gender roles and political power.
Exports Boom as Bradstreet Reports Trade Rise
New York April 6 Bradstreets reports favorable features in general trade with spring demand likely to boost distribution at retail. Exports to the port of New York set a monthly record, and March exports nationally may near all records. Civil strikes in Chicago and Pittsburg affect the industrial picture while exports and domestic trade show expansion.
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New York
Bradstreet
Chicago
Pittsburg
Bessemer
Birmingham
Northwest
Pacific Coast
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Alaska
California
Central West
South
New Orleans
Louisiana
Philadelphia
Boston
No Life Without a Wife Forces New Haven Man to Try Suicide
Walter F. Cross, a prominent New Haven upholstery buyer, attempted suicide in a Manhattan boarding house after a period of depression tied to a Ruskin passage. The scene included an open Ruskin book with underlined lines and a portrait of Emma Leary of Lafayette Street New Haven, the woman he was engaged to. Cross, once employed by Gamble & Desmond, was found unconscious as gas leaked from a faulty stove. a poison bottle was nearby but not used. Emma Leary rushed to his bedside after learning of the incident.
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New York
Walter F. Cross
Ruskin
East Twelfth Street
Walter Cross
Cross
Millafis
Emma
Emma Leary
Lafayette Street
New Haven
Gamble & Desmond
Miss Leary
Socrates
Economic halts? US business failures decline while exports rise
First quarter reports show 2697 failures, down 3 percent from 1899 and the smallest since 1832, with liabilities at 29 157 101 dollars and assets ratio at a record low. New England sees 696 failures, wheat and corn exports rise with weekly totals and July 1 season exports up significantly. Canadian trade improves though Ontario and Quebec face road issues.
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Bradstreet’s
Middle States
Northwest
New York City
New England
Ontario
Quebec
Trade failures compared to past decades noted by Dun and Co
R G Dun and Co weekly review of trade says the first quarter of 1900 shows failures smaller than in prior periods, standing as only a shadow of earlier economic distress. The report cites total liabilities of 56,677,065 with 161 from the U S Flour Milling Company and 2,492,482 for sixteen banks.
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R. G. Dun & Co
WU. S. Flour Millin Company
Free to the Raptured Cure for Rupture Claimed by Dr Rice
An elderly retiree from Marion Alabama, Dr Ball, credits a home rupture cure by Dr W S Rice of S Main St Adams NC with ending years of pain. The ad invites readers to request a free trial, promising no pain no operation and a return to health by spring.
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Ball
Marion
Ala
Loks
Dr. Rice
Rice
S. Main St
Adame
Industrial and financial trends in weekly review
Quarterly reviews show higher business volume this year despite stock speculation and consolidations. Defaults in manufacturing remain below earlier peaks, with regional variations. wages rising and prices for wool, leather, and steel products shifting. Weekly failures total 159 in the United States and 29 in Canada, with copper and coke output at strong levels.
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Massachusetts
New England
Southern
Pacific
Chicago
McMurtey
Apollo Works
Hoop
National Steel Works
Carnegie Company
United States
Canada
Brookline Committee Reports On Town Warrant Items
The Brookline citizens committee report on town warrant articles is at the printer and will be ready for distribution before the adjourned town meeting on Wednesday evening, April 11. They propose appropriations totaling 1 151 156 15 dollars and align with the selectmen on most recommendations. The penury interest article is referred to a four member panel. Articles 32 33 36 and 40 about a manual training school a gymnasium and repairs to Pierce grammar are to go to a joint committee of the selectmen and one school committee member.
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Citizens’ Committee
Brookline
Charles A. Williams
James R. Dunbar
Patrick O'Loughlin
B. Frank Carroll
Pierce Grammar School
Paster in Washington Tour Details and Schedule
A personally conducted tour via the Pennsylvania Railroad plans an early May departure. The trip costs $2. SAG Cars tours are set for May 11 with a detailed brochure available from a tourist agent in Boston.
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Pennsyvania
Ieril
Ashi Oe
Boston
Worcester Woman Bequeaths Fortunes to Charity and Education
The will of Mrs. Alice M. Rice filed in Worcester Probate Court discloses public bequests totaling several hundred thousand dollars. Bowdoin College receives 25000 for a memorial fund, Worcester Polytechnic Institute receives a trust sum, and the Temporary Home and Day Nursery Society gets 10000 plus 16000 more in trust. The Church of the Unity is left 10000, with the residue split between WPI and Memorial Hospital in trust. Mrs. Rice, widow of ex Congressman W. W. Rice, and sister of Mrs. Ruth A. Hoar, is survived by an estate likely exceeding half a million.
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Worcester
Alice M. Rice
Bowdoin College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ruth A. Hoar
Memorial Hospital
Mansfield's Plans Extend to 1901 in New York Run
Richard Mansfield outlined his 1900 and 1901 schedule, confirming he will stay in New York for most of next season with only Chicago as an outside stop. During six months in New York he will stage three major works including Tolstoi's historical piece The Poet, Stephen Phillips's play, and Shakespeare's Henry V.
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Cincinnati
Richard Mansfield
New York
Chicago
Mansfield
New York City
Count Tolstoi
Stephen, Phillips
Shakspere
Henry V
Governor Leads Kansas Meeting for Indian Famine Aid
In Toppea Kansas Governor Stanley chaired a mass meeting to launch a drive to raise 1,000,000 bushels of corn for famine victims in India. Reverend Charles M Sheldon spoke pledging 1000 of his profits from the Capital edition. The gathering pledged 1500 dollars and a carload of corn.
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Toppea
Kan
Stanley
India
Charles M. Sheldon
Sheldon
Brockton Veterans at War Rifts Over New Constitution
Appomattox Commandery of the U V A in Brockton faces internal strife over adopting the national order’s new constitution. A recent vote reversed, supporting Deputy Sheriff Wheeler’s bid to preserve order, while prior support for Commander Gould was overturned. Further reversals loom as meetings continue.
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Brockton
Appomattox Commandery
Wheeler
D.S. Gould
Boston Junk Shop Tank Explosion Fatal Injury
Thomas Miles was fatally injured by the explosion of an empty naphtha tank he was breaking up in the junk shop of Connor Bros behind 44 Bilery Street South Boston. His left leg was torn off and his right leg broken. he was admitted to City Hospital on the dangerous list.
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Thomas Miles
Connor Bros
Bilery Street
Boston
City Hospital
Aronson Drops Plans For Boston Theatre Project
Rudolph Aronson, negotiating for the Stevenson estate on Tremont Street, will not construct a theatre in Boston as Aronson and the Stevenson heirs failed to reach terms. The dispute was reportedly under $6000.
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Rudolph Aronson
Stevenson
Tremont Street
Boston
Aronson
Grover Emerson Shoes Add New Boston Store on Dewey Square
R B Grover and Co makers of the Emerson shoe open another Boston shop at Dewey square opposite the Southern Union depot. The four Boston stores and twenty eight in other cities push demand for their fine custom shoes. Manager F A Smith leads the new outlet with Sam Crowther J A Jewell and W H Fletcher on the team.
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R. B. Grover & Co
Emerson
Dewey Square
Southern Union Depot
Boston
Als
F. A. Smith
Baton
Wanted a cure that claims relief from health ills
An advertisement touts a patent medicine promising relief for many ailments. It urges readers to request a sample and testimonials by mailing five cents to the MIPAXS CHEMICAL CO. at 10 Spruce Street New York, promising genuine product and warnings against substitutes.
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Soeianet
Mipaxs Chemical CO
le Spruce St
New Yop
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