Steel Common Drives Weekly Market Slowdown
The market for the week was dull and reactionary with prices down about two points from a week earlier. Steel common dominated activity, contributing 25 to 55 percent of daily transactions as the stock closed over 11 points below last fall’s high when on a 4 percent dividend basis. Two market days remain before the directors announce the dividend rate amid the Supreme Court decision in the Standard Oil case.
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Steel Common
Supreme Court
Standard
Market Reaction After Court Decision Shows Mixed Gains
Stocks such as Steel common Amalgamated Union Pacific Southern Pacific Reading and New York Central rose after a court ruling with gains of up to six points in the week. By Saturday Steel closed at 83 5-8 and several other names posted upticks amid a heat of activity, while the political outlook suggested a possible Democratic Congress in the fall.
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Amer Car Foundry
Atchison Eset
Baltimore & Pe
Brooklyn
Canadian Pacific
Chesapeake & Ohio
St Paul
Colorado
Delaware & Hudson
Distillers Securities
Semaa Et Ie
Bom
General Electric Ee Eees
Great Northern Oieeb Ee
Illinois Central Ee
Louisville & Nashvill
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific Ee
Southern
Union Pacific
le Bee
Ae Owe
United States Rubber
United States Steel
Virginia
Carolina Chem
Western Union Sae
Steel Common
Amalgamated
Union. Pacific
Southern Pacific
Reading
Steel
Rochester
N. Y
Foss
Pennsylvania
Curtis Guild Jr Responds to Whitney on Harbor Bill
Curtis Guild Jr answers Henry M. Whitney regarding the Whitney bill and East Boston harbor development. He argues the bill would surrender Commonwealth property to private railroads, questions tax expenditures cited by Whitney, and urges a broader, state coordinated port plan while noting revised positions in Whitney’s latest letter.
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Henry M. Whitney
Sunday Press
Curtis Guild, Jr
Henry M. Whitney, Esq
Congress Street
Boston
Mass
Mr. Whitney
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Fast Boston
City of
East Boston
Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce
Commission On Metropolitan Improvement
Fitzgerald
Tidewater
Boston & Maine Railroad
East
Boston Flats
Boston Harbor
Morgan Railway
Whitney
East Boston Company
South
South Boston
Congress
Navy Department
War Department
Railroad
Draper
Dudley Street Station Redesign at Boston Elevates Transit
Boston correspondent notes Dudley Street Roxbury terminal near completion with expanded platforms and better waiting areas. The piece contrasts media buzz and public criticism with engineering gains, detailing car handling, transfer ease, staff, and the station’s anticipated traffic capacity and impact on city transit efficiency.
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Boston
Fall River Herald
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Eliot
Forest Hills
Harlem
Transportation Company
Rip van Winkle
Washington Street
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Rising tariff influence shifts Senate leadership from New England
The report notes retirement of key tariff advocates, signaling a possible shift of Senate leadership to the middle West and increased radical tariff proposals. It cites easy money conditions due to weak demand, steady exchange near gold export levels, and a strengthened Bank of England stance with little gold shipment likelihood.
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Senate
Middle West
New England
Bank of England
London
Liverpool
New York
Idte
Calendar for Today Dividends Payable
Calendar notes dividends payable for Chicago Pneumatic Tool Du Pont Powder Homestake Mining North Butte Mining Pcc & St L pfd Pcc & St L coms Pittsburg Coal pfd La Rose Mines Nipissing Mines Tamarack Mining Books Open North Butte.
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Chicago Pneumatic Tool
du Pont
Homestake Mining
North Butte Mining
Pittsburg Coal
la Rose
Nipissing
Tamarack Mining
Boy Dies After Drowning During Jersey City Baseball Play
Louis Rose, 10, of Jersey City, attempting to catch a foul in a New York baseball game, fell into a shallow pond and became stuck in mud. He was dead on extraction.
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New York
Louis Rose
Jersey City
Miss Bancroft to Wed English Captain Adlevcron
Boston society circles report Miss Hester Bancroft daughter of Mrs. John Chandler Bancroft will marry Captain R. L. Adlevcron Cameron Highlanders a keen horsewoman and hounds follower who met her during a party from Norfolk England Their Boston home was on Mt. Vernon Street and Mrs Bancroft hosted a dinner dance in 1904 at the Hotel Somerset in honor of her daughters.
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Boston
Hester Bancroft
John Chandler Bancroft
City
Newport
Miss Bancroft
England
Adlerecron
Norfolk
Mrs. Bancroft
Somerset
Bancrofts
Mt. Vernon Street
Aldercron
Tre mont Temple Sermon Attacks TB and Animal Cruelty
The Rev Courtland Myers denounces the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for caring more for animals than children and urges sympathy for suffering humanity to curb tuberculosis. He cites a wealthy American investor promoting English reform and calls for better living conditions and air for the poor in Boston.
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Boston
Courtland Myers
Tremont Temple
Society For the Prevention of
Dr. Myers
America
New York
England
Gang Attacked by Mob on Charlestown Street Corner
Charles McKenna of Bonner Avenue Somerville was beaten by a gang at the Medford and Bunker Hill streets junction Charlestown on a Saturday night. He was returning home with a fellow employee when the attack occurred the assailants kicked him and stripped his clothing. Police at Station 15 face ongoing trouble from the gang.
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Charles McKenna
Bonner Avenue
Somerville
Medford
Bunker Hill
Charlestown
McKenna
Sullivan Square
Medford Street
Bunker Hill Street
Bingville Folks to Show at Dance in Charlestown
Bingville Village will send a large group to the annual barn dance of the Knights of Progress in Roughan's Hall Charlestown on Monday night May 9. The Bingville Bugle characters will appear and Newton Newkirk author of the Bugle may judge the grand march if he is in the city that night.
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Bingville Village
Knights of Progress
Roughan's Hall
Charlestown
Bingville Bugle
The
Post
Newton Newkirk
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Tel. Main
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Allouez
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Arizona
Atlantic
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Butte Coalition
Cal
Cal & Hecla
Kerr Lake
Ake Copper
Ua Salle
Ty Mass Mining
Nevada
North Butte
Shannon
Superior
Pittsburg
Tamarack
Trinity
U & Oll
U S
Utah
Winona Ge Dee
Wolverine
William E. Soule
Carbonic Engine & Power
Colorado Copper
Rawhide Mining
Mines Company of America
Hall & Company
State St
Slater Bldg
Worcester
Shek
Elms & CO
Doane St
Nasca Ming Shay & Co
GO State St
Shay & CO
Guild
Dudley SS
River Herald
Boston Elevated Company
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Joe Cannon
Astruria
Massachusetts Bay
Bedlam
South Terminal
New York City
William A. Bancroft
Boston Elerated Railway Company
Cambridge
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