Market Review and Outlook Signals Improved Investor Confidence
The week’s stock market action shows clear improvement over the prior two months as banks increase cash despite $7.5 million in gold exports. Interior currency receipts reach their strongest since late January, with West and nearby regions contributing most. A $40 million Pennsylvania loan underscores renewed foreign banker support for American rail assets.
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United
Nees
Washington
United States Treasury
General Fund
United States
Pennsylvania
Changes in New York Stocks for the Week and Month
New York stocks showed varying week and month moves as traders absorbed Mar closing data. Market leaders and declines highlighted shifts in major sectors with financials and industrials dragging or lifting indexes.
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New York
Stolen Communion Set Recovered in Cambridge Patrol
Cambridge police captured John Hennessy within three weeks for stealing the First Baptist Church of East Cambridge silver communion service valued at about $100. He confessed to the workman employed at the church. The set was found in a West End pawn shop after the theft was reported when a lease to a moving picture company fell through.
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Cambridge
First Baptist Church
East Cambridge
John Hennessy
Moving Picture
Moving Picture Company
Spencer
West End
Stockholders Urged to Hoard Cash in Bingham Exchange
The Stockholders' Protective Committee advises all stockholders not to exchange their stock for Bingham Mines Company shares nor pay the alleged assessment before an unbiased mine condition report and confidence in management are provided. The committee cites minority protection under Maine law and states it will continue its stance from April 17 1908. Names Thomas J Barry Herbert A Kenny Joseph W Lund sign as officers in Boston.
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Bingham Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Bingham Mines Company
Maine
Thomas J. Barry
P. O. Sq
Boston
Herbert A. Kenny
Cornhill
Joseph W. Lund
State St
Church Split Over Baptism at Lincoln Park Church
In West Newton on April 26, a faction of 30 members and two deacons held a separate prayer meeting over a dispute at Lincoln Park Baptist Church. Pastor E F Snell endorsed affiliated membership allowing entry without immersion, a policy approved by parish vote. The church first in the nation to adopt this approach.
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Lincoln Park Church
Boston Gaelic School Society Keeps Summer Sundays Open
The Boston Gaelic School Society voted to keep the school open every Sunday afternoon during the summer. Four classes operated under P. J. Breen M. Cloherty S. Barret and J. O'Brien. A Scottish Gaelic Society delegation led by chairman J. Martin discussed kinship of Scotch and Irish languages followed by bilingual recitations and admired Oisin poems.
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Boston Gaelic School Society
Washington Street
P. J. Breen
M. Cloherty
S. Barret
J. O'Brien
Scottish Gaelic Society
J. Martin
Oisin
The Same Old Story of Noble Matchs and Gold
A lament on marriages of wealth and titles as American heiresses wed into European nobility. A Yankee bride, Theo dora Shonts, becomes a widow after a dissipation filled marriage to Duc de Chaulnes. Anna Gould and others pursue title with little regard for virtue, while the East holds a grim outcome for the fortune seekers.
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Theodora Shants
Duc de Chaulnes
Theodora Shonts
Anna Gould
Boni Castellano
Heat Wave Drives City Dwellers to Beaches and Parks
A massive exodus from Boston as temperatures climbed sent over a half million people to water fronts, parks, and resorts from Revere to Nahant. Beachgoers crowded L Street and South Boston while crowds filled the Common, Franklin Park, and the Fenway as Salvation Army speakers drew large audiences.
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Revere
Nantasket
Marine Park
Hull
Nahant
L Street
Boston
Franklin Park
Fenway
Chelsea
New England
Chelsea Ward
Labor union notes detail Boston & Maine talks and events
General Superintendent Lee invites arbitration board chairmen for a Wednesday conference at North station over retrenchment and a proposed three month 5 percent wage cut rejected by workers. The report covers union ball nights, initiations, delegates to trade councils, and aid for Chelsea fire victims.
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Lee
Boston & Maine Road
North Station
Tuttle
Electrotypers’ Union 11
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Crowds Enjoy Warm Sunday on the Common
A large summer crowd gathered on the Common drawing families from the tenements to the grassy slopes. Children played and fed birds while adults relaxed with coats off in the heat as the day’s events drew families more than political or religious debate.
Record crowds flood Revere Beach in heat wave
Tenants and visitors totaled about 100 000 as they traveled by car train electric car and carriage to Revere Beach to escape the heat. Beachgoers include summer girls in Merry Widow hats as hundreds of children played in the sand while police report unusually orderly crowds with minimal intervention.
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Revere
West
Metropolitan Park Police
Ex Mayor of Beverly Dead Pioneer of City Government
Former Beverly mayor Freeborn W. Cressy aged 69 was found dead in his Cabot street office. An undertaker with the firm Lee and Cressy he served as Selectman from 1869 to 1895 and was a two term Legislator. He leaves a widow a daughter and two sons.
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Beverly
Freeborn W. Cressy
Lee & Cressy
Cabot Street
Albert Lee
Mr. Cressy
Cressy
John T. Baker
William W Nichols Dies at 88 in Brookline Home
William W. Nichols aged 88 died at his Brookline home on Winthrop Road after a two week illness. He was born in Columbia Missouri and traced Colonial ancestry. Nichols served in the Civil War era navy and later supervised construction at the Charlestown navy yard. In 1868 he served in the Massachusetts Legislature.
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William W. Nichols
Winthrop Road
Brookline
Columbia
Mr. Nichols
Charlestown Navy Yard
Mr. Williams
Massachusetts
Labor union jubilation session in South Boston hall held
A special jubilation session of New York New Haven and Hartford Freight Handlers Assembly 628 and related unions met at St. Omer Hall Broadway South Boston yesterday afternoon. Speakers included Michael O'Meara and John Stephens with Michael White P. J. Flaherty and Joseph Sullivan among others.
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Boston Lodge
Brotherhood of Railroad
New Haven Road
Boylston Place
William J. O’neil
Joseph J. Hunt
New England
John M. Gillespie
Boston Truck Teamsters’ Union
Water Front Federated Trades Council
George W. Briggs
Chicago
P. J. Flannery
John A. McGonagle
East Boston
Peter J. Donahue
Gillespie
Worcester
Clinton
Ber Fecn
John P. Jones
Boston
Elliot Street
Boston Building Laborers’ Union
Chelsea
Commercial Hall
Washington Street
Market and Commission House Teamsters’ Union
Elm Street
Packers’ Protective Union
A. F. of L
Newsboys’ Protective Union 9077
Bessie Jacobs
Boston Cigar Factory Strippers Union
Wells Memorial Building
Metal Polishers, Buffers and Platers’ Union 95
Eliot Street
Daniel Leonard
Thomas H. Keenan
Ben Franklin Assembly
Michael J. Sheehan
Coal Teamsters’ Union 68
International Board of Trustees
Joseph A. Turnbull
Water Workers Employees’ Union
Boston & Maine
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District Assembly 50, Incorporated
Paine Memorial Hall
Central Labor Union Committee
Boston Longshoremen’s Provident Union
New York
New Haven & Hartford
K. of
Original
St. Omer Hall
Broadway
Michael O'Meara
John Stephens
O'Connell Assembly
Michael White
Assembly
Timothy Dolan
Quincy
John W. Conley
Garrity
Boston Bartenders’ Union 77
South Boston
South Erd
Roxbury
Dorchester
Brighton
Master Builders’ Association
Carpenters’ District Council
St Paul Sinks After Collision With Gladiator
Report details the collision between the St Paul and the Gladiator with 28 sailors lost. Crew aided by all aboard to free lifeboats and repair the bow while boats were lowered slowly amid heavy seas. Passengers including Mrs Folsom and J T Hillis reach London port as rescue efforts continue.
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London
St. Paul
A. E. C. Folsom
Boston
J. T. Hillis
Typographical Union Nominates Officers and Delegates
Boston Typographical Union 13 unanimously nominates officers for re election led by Norman E. McPhail and E J DeFreitas. Nominations include newspaper and book and job sections for executive board seats and four delegates to the international convention in Boston in August. Election set for May 20. many names listed for trustees auditors and executive committee positions.
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Norman E. McPhail
E. J. DeFreitas
Thomas P. Curtin
Frank M. Flanagan
George S. Betts
Boston Typographical Union
The
International Union
Boston
Walter Metcalf
William Sullivan
F. xX. Rooney
Bramwood
Carpenters' Council Receives Aid for Chelsea Fire Relief
The Carpenters' District Council of Greater Boston received $1000 from the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners to aid members affected by the Chelsea fire.
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Carpenters’ District Council of
Greater Boston
International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Chelsea
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