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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 15, 1905

Page

8

Rampant Bulls In Control Of Market

Wall Street reports a bullish start to the week with widespread buying pressure and large order activity, while profit taking and mixed demand produce an irregular close. Copper and iron and steel outlook buoy sentiment as confidence grows in corn yields and railroad earnings. money market remains ample with no major unease.

Wall Street Chicago New York Boston Sossassecerta Sears State Street Commission House International Paper and Rubber Common London Baltimore & Ohio Canadian Pacific Lackawanna Great Northern International Paper Missouri Kansas & Texas Missouri Pacific Northern Pacific Pullman Rock Island Southern Pacific Texas Pacific Union Pacific United States Rubber Wabash Wisconsin Central Standard Oil Company Amalgamated Standard Oil William Rockefeller Copper Range Greene Consolidated Utah Michigan Montana Whiting

Boston Market Bonds and Rights Details

A market notice reports akx dividend, 02d installment paid, cEx rights. Total listed stocks and bonds amount to 27,218 shares and $26,900, with unlisted stocks at 7727 shares and rights at 15,736.

Market Gossip Signals Mixed Trading on Steel and Utilities

A mixed market shows gains in Edison Electric Illuminating Pullman American Woolen United Fruit and Massachusetts Gas while copper shares drift amid Range controversy. Salt Lake area reports rough ore shipments, a new smelter project grows in Utah, and copper tailings ventures carve out a future plant with structured dividends and executive appointments.

Massachusetts Edison Electric Pullman Boston United Fruit New Haven & Hartford Allouez L&s Arch Arcadian Top & SP Bos & Albany Bos & Maine Bos & War Daly-West Min Domer & Steel Edison el Ill Fitchburg Pr Gary & Elec Gen Electric Rranby Min Greene Con Mass Electric NH & Il Old Colony Pere Marq A Pullman Co Quincy Rhode Isl Santa Fe Shannon Seattle Flee Thy 'Y i Tecumseh Trinity Minsee Union Pacific United Copper United U $ Coal & Oil U S Steel Utah Victoria Western Tel & Tel Winona State Street Edison Electric Illuminating American Woolen Massachusetts Gas Salt Lake Paine, Webber & Co Daly West Main Massachusetts Electric Massachussetts Electric Haverhill Mass Blake Bros. & Co American Smelting & Refining Company Black Hawk Great Salt Lake Salt Lake City Lake Quincy Mining Company Quincy Stamp Mill Torch Lake Mason Hancock Quincey Mill Copper Country Marquette Iron Range A. F. Howard Munising T. H. Noble Marquette T. G. Mays Butte Mining Company North Butte Company Amalgamated Copper Amer Car & Foundry Eeee Amer Amer Hide & L Amer Ice Securities Amer Locomotive Ee Amer Smelt Baltimore & Ohio See Nee Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Central of New Jersey Chesapeake & Ohio Great Western Chic & Northwestern Cc & St Louis i Colorado Fuel & Iron Colorado & Southern Eee Consolidated Gas Delaware & Hudson del Lack & West Denver & Rio Grande Iowa Central Kansas City Southern Metropolit Railway Mexican Central Minn & St Louis Minn SP & M Ewes Missouri Pacific Kan & Tex Nat R R New York Central Oe Ontario & Western Norfolk & Western Republic Steel Wankeneee Coal & Iron Texas & Pacific St Louis Westinghouse Electric Ee Western Union Ee Wheeling & L Wisconsin Central

Chicago Grain Quotations and Market Commentary

Ennis and Stoppani report mixed grain quotes with wheat near 8114 to 81% and corn around 53 to 54 for September options. They note little news of special interest and caution about a growing surplus, suggesting a lower trading range ahead as foreigners resist higher prices and rains pressure corn and oats.

Ennis & Stoppani Chicago Board of Trade State Mutual Baechen Chicago

Copper Range Mystery Deepens Amid Debt Dispute

Copper Range faces potential litigation over a $500,000 debt tied to Burrage and Paine. Rumors of a forthcoming suit unsettled stock traders as Boston copper shares trade sluggishly, with Burrage away and details unclear.

Copper Range Company Burrage-Paine Burrage Theim Messrs Lawson Paine Trimountain Copper Range Consolidated Company Boston

Standardized Insurance Policies Reported in Minnesota

State Insurance Commissioner O'Brien returned from New York and confirmed western state investigations into large Eastern life insurers will not start before October. He said the investigations will lead to a standard life insurance policy.

ST. Paul, Minn O’brien New York Minnesota

Berlin Mayor Confirms Treasurer Shortages Near 15000

Berlin New Hampshire reports city Treasurer Boothby has a defalcation approaching 15000 dollars. Boston accountant L D Byrnes has spent a month auditing the books and cannot yet estimate the final shortage due to extreme complexity of records.

Berlin N. H Hutchins Winborn A. Boothby L. D. Byrnes Boston Boothby

Deer Ate His Cabbages Compensation Request Heard

Salem Aug 14 Essex county commissioners held a hearing for Cornelius Lucy who asks state payment for 79 cabbages eaten by deer on his Salisbury farm. They found the facts and will certify them to state officials under the prohibition on protecting his cabbage patch.

Salem Essex County Cornelius Lucy St Salisbury

Mrs Ma' R Locates Here In Boston. Miss Marr Found Safe

Mrs Lilliag Marr, who left Ponemah New Hampshire July 22 for Boston and was reported missing, has been in Boston all along. Her father said yesterday the delay in returning was due to illness and she did not go back at once.

Boston Burlington & Quincy Atchison Mexican Central Thayer- Merriam Flint & Pere Marquette Union Pacific Oregon Wisconsin Central Steel Trust New York Salem Massachusetts Gas Companies United Shoe Machinery Company Standard Oil

Apple Crop Short Across New England States

A canvass shows early apple varieties short in New England with winter apples uneven. The fair average is about 50 percent of last year’s crop and quality is expected to be good.

New England

Malden Mayor vows action to curb liquor sales and gambling

Malden Aug 14 Mayor Hastings says he will oversee the police to enforce the law and curb liquor sales and gambling. Chief Phipps reports several alleged gambling venues and vows active measures to stop illegal liquor traffic.

Malden Hastings Phipps

Ground and swordfish draw buyers at T wharf

Ground fish totals show haddock cod hake pol lock and pollock weighing heavy at the dock. Mackerel scarce with only one vessel the Harvard of Gloucester delivering 7000 pounds. Hali fax brings 244 barrels of fresh mackerel from Halifax to supplement supplies.

T Wharf Harvard Gloucester Georges Halifax Waddock Actor Almeida A. C. Newhall Lafayette

Shipping News Miniature Almanac Amid Ocean Arrivals and Departures

Sun rises at 4 51 sets at 6 46 with day length 13 55 Moon rises 7 07 pm High water 11 30 am 11 45 pm Aug 15 arrivals list steamers Alexander Dan iemsen Copenhagen Newcastle Eng 81st Craigellachie Smith Iquique via Philadelphia Halifax Prince Edward Island Hawkesbury Cape Ann others. Cleared steamers Saxonia Chattahoochee Savannah Old Dominion sailed winds northeast to southeast. multiple steamers and tugs listed with destinations and barges in tow.

Alexander Iemsen Copenhagen Christiania Newcastle Eng Craigellachie Smith Iquique Philadelphia Halifax Ellis Charlottetown Hawkesbury C. B N.S Tordenskjold Kroger Louisburg Dingley Dennison Portland Ransom Fuller Blair Bath City of Gloucester Ober Cape Ann Godfrey Gloucester Kanawha Johnson Norfolk Carlisle Lloyd Cumrin Richardson Lykens Hughes Enterprise Tunnel Ridge Suffolk Plymouth Swatara Sabbich Salem Hansen Port Johnson Standard New York S. C. Co Piedmont Sundberg Baltimore S. CC. Co Lehigh McGoldrick Saco Budget Perth Amboy Buffalo Portsmouth N. H Calvin Austin St. John N. B Prince George Yarmouth N. S Jamess. Whitney Rosalie Cto Mae Newport News Sverre Penobscot Eastport Blue Bird Indian Ridge Bear Ridge Maharoy James Woolley Waltham Rockland Ashland Paxinos New Bedford Saucon C. C. Co. 17 Gardiner Manheim Newburyport Beth Ayres Schuylkill

Counterfeit Five Dollar Indian Head Bill Circulates in Lowell

A counterfeit Indian head five dollar bill is in circulation in Lowell. Several well known merchants were duped on Saturday night and police have no solid lead on the passer. Superintendent Moffatt suspects more victims may report.

Lowell Moffatt

Schooner T Towner Floats Off Wrecked Shoals Unharmed

The schooner T Towner carrying paving stones from Cape Ann to New York went ashore at Wrecked Shoals during the night and drifted free by daybreak with no injuries reported.

Hyannis T. Towner Cape Ann New York

Man in Rage Kills Horse in Front of Neighbors

Aug 14 Henry Bates killed his horse with an axe after disputes over a harness instalment payment. He then destroyed his buggy, threatened neighbor David Howe, and fled as villagers sought help. Police pursue Bates for the alleged threats and destruction.

Husband guilty of non-support. four months in House of Correction

Mrs Harriet L Briggs testified to Judge Wentworth that Edward C Briggs gave only 25 cents daily while earning twelve dollars a day as an expert engineer. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to four months in the House of Correction after noting minimal support for wife and child.

Harriet L. Briggs Carver Street Wentworth Edward C. Briggs Briggs Edward Briggs House of Correction

Women to steer yachts in Sea Cliff regatta

Eleven society women will helm 11 yachts in the Sea Cliff Yacht Club regatta next Saturday with all female crews performing traditional sailor duties. Notable participant Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt will race her boat built by the Herreshoffs and leads a selected crew hoping to win.

New York Sea Cliff Yacht Club Alfred G. Vanderbilt Herreshoffs

Too Pretty for Mott Street Judge Rules

Mrs Joseph Forge wins Centre Street Police Court case after magistrate Breen declares her “too pretty for Mott Street.” She testified her husband struck her. the couple had been married three months and lived at 282 Mott Street. She returned to her mother at 95 Macdougal Street. The judge dismissed the case and urged harmony.

New York Elizabeth Street Macdougal Joseph Forge Breen Centre Street Mott Street Forge Macdougal Street

Dispersed crowd watches convicts as guards quell curiosity

At a New Jersey state prison a large crowd gathered by a damaged wall to view inmates. Women in the crowd began handkerchief flirting with the prisoners as guards moved in to disperse the gathering.

Trenton N. J

Mother seeks injunction to stop daughter's marriage

Mrs E R Hollingshead obtained an injunction restraining Charles Guy Stone from marrying her daughter Jessie Griffiths. The order bars Stone or his brother Archie from buying clothing or giving money to the young woman. The mother says Stone tried to elope with her daughter.

Boone, Ia E. R. Hollingshead Charles Guy Stone Jessie Griffiths Guy Stone Archie Stone

Twins Born With Six Fingers and Toes in Rhode Island

The wife of Michaelo Geganti of Quidnick gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, on Saturday. One twin has six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, both perfectly formed.

Providence, R. I Michaelo Geganti

Four-masted auxiliary schooner Frances Hyde launched

The four-masted auxiliary schooner Frances Hyde of New York, built for the Deneveu Granite Company, was launched Saturday at the Kelley-Spear Company yard. She carries a 200 horsepower triple expansion engine turning a six-foot propeller, with Captain Falker of Newfield named her master.

Bath Frances "Hyde New York Kelley-Spear Company Denevenue Granite Company Falker Newfield Lizzie Parsons

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