The Sole of Comfort Shoe Breathes
A historical advert proclaims a shoe that breathes and comforts the foot. The caption emphasizes comfort and fit as a key selling point, suggesting durable construction and everyday wearability for daily use.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1900
Page
8
A historical advert proclaims a shoe that breathes and comforts the foot. The caption emphasizes comfort and fit as a key selling point, suggesting durable construction and everyday wearability for daily use.
Dun says trusts and steel and wire shutdowns shake markets. Iron and products prices fall. slumps in pig iron and finished goods. Leather and shoe industries cut production. textile orders vary. wheat and corn prices mixed. Rail earnings rise. exports and bank clearings show wide movement amid unsettled demand.
Bradstreet's Review notes a mix of regular and irregular trade and price trends, influenced by weather and ongoing lower price efforts in iron and steel. Rail earnings remain strong while bank clearings dip due to holidays and stock speculation. wire mill shut downs reflect oversupply and a bear market shift.
The readable fragments describe a financial or market note with a price of 2.75 and references to a BFP in a pole or relay context. No clear event or persons are established in the text.
London fractional advances contrast with New York gains as professionals push for lower prices. Reports from Lake Erie & Western and Elm River Copper outline strong expansion plans and high surplus earnings, while ore bodies in Cochiti and Winona lode details signal potential copper deposits. Regulators warn against industrial stocks despite bullish railroad interest amid tight market liquidity.
The Cunard liner Altonia sails from East Boston at 2 p m with freight as the Saxonia command debate stirs local seafaring circles. Tugs tow the damaged Californian toward Brooklyn for repairs as other vessels dock, sail, or plan routes along the harbor and New York markets.
William F. Adams faced arraignment in Malden today for allegedly stealing 917 dollars from the gas company. He pleaded guilty and was held in 1500 dollars for the June grand jury, citing an eight dollar weekly salary to support his wife and himself along with rent.
The column relays rumors about stock market predictors and big operators, mentions Western stockholders in a Boston Montana fight, and cites names like Heinze and Daly. It lists broker quotes and mining stock prices, notes directors re-elections, and comments on Bell Telephone and oil stocks amid a volatile market.
There was a weak and lower market for wheat this morning with declines in futures. Foreign houses traded moderately on both sides amid heavy Argentine shipments and favorable home crop news. Argentine shipments and weekly totals show large year over year increases. May wheat in Chicago opened weaker and weather maps indicate ideal growing conditions in the West and Northwest.
The Boston Transit Commission awarded the first section contract for the East Boston tunnel to National Contracting Co at 77 836.60. Other bids opened included S. H. A. Hanscomb & Co 83 797 United Engineering and Contracting 84 404 OC H Eglee & Co 87 869 W H Keyes & Co 84 997 Jones Meehany 97 693.
President Barrows announces that Dr Alice H Luce of Wellesley College has accepted the position of dean at Oberlin University in Oberlin Ohio on April 20.
A packing house at Ajax dynamite mills in Kawkawalin Michigan exploded today killing three men. The victims named are William Weaver Edward Halligan and William Van Vasseler.
At a local Knights of Columbus meeting several prominent members voted to host a complimentary banquet for Rev. John J. Ryan of Cambridge. He served as the Massachusetts state chaplain for the order.
Under the Pennsylvania railroad personally conducted tourist system a Washington tour will depart Boston April 27 and the last trip of the season will be May 11. D. N. Bell is the tourist agent at 20 Washington Street Boston.
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