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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 26, 1900

Page

8

Beautiful Marjorie Lee Costume Mystery in Second Act

The lively Marjorie Lee, a boy in a costume, is popular with the company. She refuses to discuss the suit with her admirer, hinting the case may be settled quietly out of court. She smiles and stays silent when questioned.

Marjorie Lee State Street Columbia Theatre Miss Lee

Charlestown Bridge Adds Steps Aboard Fronts Waterfront Trade

Workmen install a stair flight from Water street to the Charlestown bridge improving access to Dominion Wickeren Furness Wider-Dempster lines at Hoogae Tunnel docks. The port ships lumber, fish and coal, with 259,815 feet of lumber this month and 7,750,758 feet for the year. A new auxiliary fishing schooner arrived in New York. Cunarder Ivernia faced delays delaying shipments to Liverpool. The Commercial tug James Woolley enters harbor towboat class. Grecian sails from Philadelphia under Captain Nickerson.

Charlestown Bridge Water Street Charlestown Dominion Werren Furness South America Haddock Allan Maer Sardinian Mystic Wharf Sampson Betts Bros Aelen Miller Gould New York Umbria McKay Pavonia James Woolley Sylvania Cunard Line Altonia Woolley Dudley Pray Ida M. Dalby Pray Grecian Philadelphia Nickerson THD Landsman

Punishment urged for Myron Johnson in forgery case

Myron Johnson, a youth with prior reform school time, was arrested on a Post Office money order forgery charge after an indorsement for 5.90 dollars. His father, a janitor at 290 Commonwealth Avenue, urged sending him away for five years, calling him a bad boy and noting his prior 17 month term at Concord Reformatory.

Myron Johnson Commonwealth Avenue United States Fiske Myron Post Office Lawrence Leatherman Concord Reformatory

Market News From Boston and New York 1900

The report covers sugar trading movements with short-covering boosts to the market, copper stock activity in Boston and New York, and notes on discoveries and corporate steps. It mentions Thomas Lawson’s letter denying large short positions in Sugar, stock listings and dividends, and railroad and oil market tidbits with various company actions and transfers.

Stockholder notice on Lincoln National Bank dividend and bank liquidation

The notice urges stockholders to consider our show and to send for the liquidation book. It states Lincoln National Bank of Boston will pay a dividend of 10 per share on and after a date, totaling 90 per share to that time with 80 per share already paid in April 1899. Southern Pacific shows weakness tied to long stock liquidation and brokers acting for semi-maiders’ interests dominated selling amid rumors of falling current earnings versus last year.

London New York Shorts Boston Mass Messrs Dow, Jones & Co Thomas W. Lawson Standard Oil Boston & Montana Anaconda Parrott Baltic Boston-South Dakota Gold Mining Company Boston Stock Exchange South Dakota California American Loan and Trust Company Tecumseh Copper Company Francis H. Raymond Paul Faber National City Bank of New York la Touraine England South America West Indies New York Grand Jury Brooklyn Rapid Transit Bears Oneco Mining Oneco Pennsylvania Central Oil Helena Mont Pioneer Santa Ysabel Consolidated Gold Brick Covsce Gam Csereees Fortuna-Republica A &c Adams Nona Navaho Gold Mining Company Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company Isaac van Horn Isaac van Horn & Co West Wyoming Central National Bank of Boston Lincoln National Bank of Boston Southern Pacific

Wheat and Corn Prices Rise on English Cables and Weather

Market notes from Howard Crosby & Co indicate wheat and corn strengthened this morning due to English cables and cold weather. Wheat up 1 to 1.5 pence, corn gains 0.5 to 1 pence with bearish crop bulletins. Northwest receipts and large sea clearances for corn are listed, with 462 000 bushels of wheat traded so far.

Messrs New York Newport News France Paris

Civil Court Notes Lawton First Jury Session

In the civil courts the Superior Court of Suffolk as session before Judge Lawton. Reported as the first jury session with proceedings noted.

Suffolk Lawton, J

Puffer v City of Medford damages verdict 1195.12

In Middlesex Superior Court Cambridge jurists the case Alvin D. Puffer versus the city of Medford yields a verdict for the petitioner for 1195.12 with Gaston Snow Saltonstall representing the petitioner and B F Hayes for the city. The docket lists additional petitions against the city and rail lines over road and grade crease changes with attorneys T J Gargan and W B Slo cum.

Middlesex Cambridge Hardy Alvin D. Puffer City of Medford Gaston, Snow & Saltonstall B. F. Hayes Stephen J. Maskell Jackson Road Laundry Brook T. J. Gargan Slocum Doses Garrity Same Firman Inho Concord O’connor Winchester Holland

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