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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1909
Page
10
A sunny Easter witnessed a fashion parade with stunning gowns and especially striking hats. Shoppers and churchgoers filled Copley Square and Commonwealth Avenue with white gloves, varied millinery shapes, and names like cavalier and cloche reflecting the season's style.
The past week shows distinct bullish strength with leading stocks reaching post 1907 highs as buyers from London and the U S enter in force. Rail earnings improve as gross figures near 1907 levels signaling strong business revival and a drop in money discount rates boosts optimism for sustained trade growth. Structural material demand drives steel markets with price cuts aiding sales.
Ultra fashionable figures joined the Easter procession along Commonwealth Avenue after church services. Ex-Governor Curtis Guild and numerous social leaders appeared in black, voile, chifton, and hat ensembles with flowers and plumes amid gardenia corsages and rich millinery.
The article notes widespread steel use in Western building and rising orders from the Pacific coast. Railroads are upgrading tracks and bridges with steel, boosting mill activity. Mills operate above 60 percent capacity, though prices rise as demand grows. bonds loom and bankers favor a strong stock market, hoping for a sustained advance despite potential market reaction.
Calendar notes books close for Soo Line common and preferred shares and Northern Pacific ex-dividend. Books open for United Railways of St Louis preferred shares. Meetings listed for Calumet Arizona, New Orleans Railway and Light, Superior and Pittsburg, and Superior and Boston Mining.
Easter observances filled Boston churches with lilies palms and choir music. Tremont Temple hosted three services. ministers from Warren Avenue, Brooklyn and New York preached as congregations overflowed. Episcopal and Baptist churches held high mass and cantatas with notable soloists.
Edward A. Trowbridge of the Republican State committee is out of the hospital after a four weeks’ stay following an operation for acute appendicitis.
Dorchester women at Pilgrim Congregational Church removed their hats during yesterday morning’s service without being asked. About 409 women attended, with only around a dozen keeping hats on. Rev. G L Cady had requested hat removal and thanked the congregation before delivering a sermon on Mary Magdalen.
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