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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1909

Page

10

Stock market reaction shows mixed gains and losses

Total sales in New York reached 754 400 shares and 58 589 in Boston. Reading led activity in New York with 131 300 shares and East Butte topped Boston at 11 077. Top gains and losses included Central of New Jersey up to 261 in New York and Brooklyn Union Gas down to 132. Pullman rose to 187 12 in Boston while Calumet and Hecla fell to 605. Call money stood at 17 8 per cent in New York and 2 to 3 per cent in Boston. Time money ranged 21 2 to 31 2 per cent in New York and 21 2 to 4 per cent in Boston.

New York Boston Reading East Butte Central of New Jersey Brooklyn Union Gas Pullman Calumet & Hecla Amalgamated Copper Amercar & Pountry Amer Amer Hide & Leath Pf Sue Amer Ice Securities Arizona Atlantic G & WI Amer Smelt & Retin Illinois Steel Gol Amer Sugar Refining Ny&nh Anaconda Mining Co United Fruit Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio Brooklyn Rapia Canadian Pacific Boston & Lowell & Maine Central of Central of New Jersey 00 261 Ow 7 22 12 Boston& 148 Chesapeake& Ohio Colorado Fuel & Iron Rutland Union Pacific Colorado & Southern West End Tum Thy Do Consolidated Gas Delaware Udson Denyer Rio Grande oUly Arcadian Arizona Com Ove Distillers’ Securities Atlantic Evie Butte Coalition Onl Cal Do Ast Prof. Se Eee General Electric Great Northern Daly West Illinois Interboro-Met Dominion Coal Franklin International Paper Greene Gananea Kansas City Southern Mexico Michigan Louisville & Nashville Minneapolis & St Louis P & S Ste M Nevada Missouri Pacific Kaw & Texas Old Dominion Aeae New York Central Santa Fe Ont & West Shannon Norfolk & Western North American Superior Northern Pacific Trinity Pennsylvania Utah Yonsol Oe Utah Op CO People’s Gas Victoria Wolverine Rock Island Co Boston Land Wollaston Land St L & San Fran Magren S. Dee Texas & Pacific Laneol Toledo St Louis & W Srgar Union Pacific Oe U S Rubber Bos & No Us Steel Steen Ene Boston & Sub Utah Edison Elee Virginia Carolina Westinghouse Wheeling & Lake Erie Pac Coast P Co Wisconsin Central the Pullman Co Amer Tel & Tel United Shoe M U S Steel Am Ag Chemical SI Atlantic G & Wis L Coal & Oil O

Market Ends Weak After Broad Decline On News From Constantinople

The day’s action in Street Street featured a reactionary downturn with selling pressure across leading issues. Amalgamated fell to 745-8, Reading to 138-8, Union Pacific to 185-8, and Steel Common to 50 1-8, while East Butte and Pullman rose on selective buying. The market closed weak with irregularities, and bank money and exchange rates were reported unchanged.

State Street Constantinople Reading Union Pacific International Harvester Jersey Central Pullman Amalgamated Chesapeake & Ohio Erie National Rock Island Southern Railway Steel Common New York

Calendar for Today Books Close Michigan State Tel

Calendar for today notes books closing and telecommunication details. Mentions Michigan State Telephone, Pacific Coast Company common stock and preferred issues including first and second preferred. Reads like a financial notices fragment listing stock classes and timing.

Michigan State Tel Pacific Coast Company Pacific Coast

Vancouver News Line: Ocean Freight and Passenger Movements

The Bucknall line steamer Clan Maciver arrived from Calcutta and Colombo with 7200 tons valued over $1,000,000. Cargo includes tea, hides, jute, logs, indigo, shellac, and other goods. some freight to New York after discharge at Mystic wharf. Maciver sailed Feb 14 and Colombo Feb 27, weathering head seas and no major damage. Consular passenger E S Doolittle, from Ticonderoga, N Y, previously on the battleship Georgia, was sent home from Colombo. Other reports note weather delays for the Leyland freighter Iberian, the Norwegian fruiter Alabama, and the Michigan sail from Hoosac docks. General Domingo Vaquez travels aboard the Esparta to Port Limon. The wrecking steamer Tasco searches for the barge Albany near Stratford Shoals after the Manhattan collision. White Star’s Laurentic arrives at Liverpool, setup for Canadian service launching April 29. THE LANDSMAN.

Bucknall Line Clan Maciver Calcutta Colombo New York Mystic Wharf Maciver Gibraltar Rock Indian Ocean Malta E. S. Doolittle Ticonderoga N. Y Georgia Doolittle United States Teickerman Manchester England Clyde Street Pier Boston Thomas B. Jago American Importing and Transportation Company Rowe's Wharf Warren Line Michigan Hoosac Docks Charlestown Liverpool Vaquez Scott Wrecking Company of New London Tasco Albany Stratford Shoals Manhattan White Star Line Laurentic Belfast Ire Mesrs Harland & Wolff Iberian Jago St. Leyland & Co., Ltd Crowell Cto Dingley Linscott Portland City of Bangor Brown Bangor City of Gloucester Ober Gloucester Mass Tugs Leader Doane Marblehead Neponset Sears Rockport Sadie Ross Ross

Boston Market Notes and Rail Bond Plans Lead Week

Northampton awards a 75000 loan at 3 percent with premium while New York firms bid with interest to follow. New York, New Haven & Hartford plans a 20 million issue to reorganize Central New England, refund several bonds, and extend a 50 year mortgage inclining the Poughkeepsie bridge. Morgan buys 10 million of Michigan Central debentures. Speyer & Co. liquidate a St. Louis & San Francisco syndicate after a 30 million issue was arranged.

Boston Northampton Mass Loring, Tolman & Tupper National Shawmut Bank Brown Bros Blake Bros. & Co New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company Central New England Poughkeepsie Bridge New York Public Service Commission Central New England Corporation Proper Dutchess County Railroad Poughkeepsie & Fastern Newburg, Dutchess & Connecticut J. P. Morgan & Co Michigan Central Railroad Company Speyer & Co St. Louis San Francisco Speyer Bros London Lazard Speyer Ellissen Frankfort Deutsche Bank Berlin Teixel de Mattois Bros Amsterdam

Boston curb market steadies as values rise to 40 cents

Southwestern Development again leads curb exchange activity in Boston with prices advancing to 40 cents at close. Rawhide Coalition shows notable moves from 36 to 43 cents. Davis-Daly Amalgamated Nevada and National Exploration are among the day’s chief movers, with full curb list fluctuations detailed.

Boston Southwestern Development Rawhide Coalition Davis-Daly Nevada National Exploration

East Boston Land Company 1909 annual report exhibit

The East Boston Land Company presents its annual report for the year ended March 31 1909. The exhibit outlines assets liabilities and other financial details as recorded in the company’s ledger and reflects property holdings and investment activity during the period.

East Boston Land Company

Steamers and tides mark New Orleans harbor activity

Weather and nautical notes chart sun rise and moon rise times, high tides, and steamship movements in a busy port. Vessels Iberian Jago Alabama Gremere Romanic Anglian Artemisia Esparta Margherita Esparta sailings listed with destinations including London Philadelphia New York Boston and Key West. Numerous tugs and loaded schooners prepare for cargo runs and barge towings.

Anglian London Artemisia Ger Hamburg Baltimore Esparta Port Simon C. R Margherita Philadelphia Boston Yarmouth N. B Nermod Newport News Ocean Nor Louisburg C. B Brunswick Ellen Little

Dividends Declared by Several Corporations

Quebec Railway Light and Power Company declares semi annual preferred dividends of 3.5 percent with books closing April 17 and reopening May 1. Gorham Manufacturing quarterly 2.5 percent on preferred and May 10 for common. Silversmiths' Company quarterly 1 percent on May 15. Bergner and Engel Brewing semi annual $4 preferred with books closing April 17 and reopening May 3. Federal Sugar Company quarterly 1.12 percent on preferred with May 8 to stock of record April 20.

Quebec Railway Light and Power Company Gorham Manufacturing Company Silversmiths’ Company Bergner & Engel Brewing Company Federal Sugar Company

Company Balance On Hand At Year End 1908

A financial note reports a year end balance of 192,260 dollars as of December 31, 1908, highlighting the deficit context in comparison to prior figures.

Copper Sales and Stock Drawn From 1907-1909 Output

Copper sales reached $220,428 on December 31, 1907. In 1908 copper sales totaled 2,962,018 pounds at an average price of 13.3888 cents per pound, from a total output of 3,703,421 pounds, leaving 741,403 pounds unsold as of January 1, 1909.

Trade Review Signals Slow Yet Large Volume Improvement

R G Dun & Co notes slow movement in trade but large volume and steady improvement. Bank clearings rise 12 percent from year-earlier levels outside New York, rail earnings up 12.6 percent in early April. Shoe market steady, hides strong, cotton goods shift to export work, lighter weights in demand, print cloth yarns constrained, gingham firm, woolen market awaiting salesmen results.

New York R. G. Dunn & Co Review of Trade China

Bradstreet's Report Signals Mixed Trade Tides in New York

Bradstreet's State of Trade reports slight overall uptick with strength in retail and fall-winter wholesale bookings. Women’s wear leads activity while food supplies stay tight. Copper shows late weakness, iron and steel up but at price costs. Canada sees steadier dress lines and broader orders though country trade slows.

New York Bradstreet Chicago Canada

Also Mentioned on This Page

William E. Soule New York Stock Exchange North Butte Telephone James Dean William A. Read & Co Boston Stock Exchange A. S. Temple American Pneumatic Service Company United State Service & Tube Company Prescott Illinois Central Denver & Rio Grande Chicago Northwestern Burlington Gay & Sturgis Houghton Elm River Superior & Pittsburg TI. M. Taylor & Co Congress Street Walker Butte Miami S. R. Heakes The Kerr Lake Mining Company Inspiration Globe Camp R. M. Howards North Lake Mining Company North Lake Lake Lode National City Bank of Brazil Frederick H. Payne Mechanics’ Itrust Company C. O. L. Dillaway Payne John C. Heyer Massachusetts Banking Department American Trust Company Mechanics’ Trust Company W. E. J. Dillaway Trust Company McClellan James Rascover New York News Bureau Citizens’ Committee Fulton Cobalt Sete Cobalt Central George Napier Towle Towle & Fitzgerald Lakewood, N. J Treasury Eees Seecaeeees Bankers’ Sterling Sa Rewee Reichsmarks Tee Wwe Eee Charles A. Stoneham & Co Fining Curb Brokers State St Broad St U. S Amalgamated Copper Company Broadway A. H. Melin General Domingo Vaquez Honduras Long Wharf Port Limon Costa Rica General Vaquez San Jose Europe France Manuel Vaquez Columbia University Government Railroads James, T. Horne W. Richards Brattleboro I’, Hines R. Stoddard Bethel Leon G. Laprade Washington T Wharf Haddock Peewee Olive Hutchins Seaconnet Seeres Sylvester Acme Consol Arizona Mich Arizpe Barnes King Bay State Gasse Beaver Oe Bingham Mines Giroux Pape Laramie la Rose Majestic Mason Valley Ohio Rawhide Bay Central San Antonio Santa Sofia Superior & Globe Union Copper Bay State Gas Cumberland Ely D-Daly Douglas Giroux Emai Superior & Pitts Yukon Stree Carissa NEW York Bonds Japan Renee Nun Al-Chal T &T Tobacco Mo Pacific Y City At.c L Balt & Ohio No Pacific PRT Ches & Ohio Sas A T Chio & Alton Sea Air Line C, B& Q Jt Seu Pacific Col C. M Do Ist Ril&pe South Railway Tevis Do Gen Soesen Do Rfg C.C C & SL G Do LV Eas Col Indus Do Istand Col Mid U S Rubber Gs S Steel Wy, Dei & Huder Car Chem Sa Wahbash Mikado Ist Distillers Thy West Md RGTS Klee Inter Met East Boston Land CO Owen Close Sheeva! AG Land Department Eeeener Shipping News Romanic Azores Madeira Naples Chattahoochee Savannah Franklin Mining CO Ranklin Mining Company R. G. Dun’s Review Grandad Sunday Post Mr. M. E. Scott Post
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