Stock Market Quiet and Inclined to Sag
Wall Street opened with call loans at 6 percent and firmer time rates as the market showed an irregular tone. Heavy early trading centered on Till and Starriman issues with gains, aided by London demand for American securities, and whispers of a Treasury refund plan for 4 percent bonds of 1907.
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Wall Street
London
Secretary of the Treasury
Tondon
Russia
South Africa
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Amalgamated
Anaconda
Reading
Anaconda Copper
St. Paul
Colorado
Granger Group
Wall Street Holds Steady Amid Mixed Trading On Aug Day
New York stocks remained wobbly but active as gains faded after brief advances. Copper and steel led, with Amalgamated and Anaconda moving up while others retraced. Bond and cash rates eased, traders cautious about a possible market reaction to Union Pacific dividend news. Boston market quiet aside from modest shifts in Steel and Amalgamated. earnings and dividends cited for several utilities and mining plays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Street
Union Pacific
Coppers and Steel
Amalgamated
Anaconda
Steel
Union
Southern Pacific
St. Paul
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Reading
Atchison Rose
Simsy
Jalan
New York
Boston Clearings
Boston
Eereee
Treasury
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Gare Aamen
Pittsburg
Bankers’ Sterling
Steel Common
Pneumatic Service
Common
Calumet & Arizona
Butte Coalition
Cumberland Telephone
Boston & Worcester Electric
Pullman
United Fruit
Massachusetts Electric
Preferred
Swift & Co
Boston & Maine
Amer Tel & Tel
Atchison
Bos & Alb
Bos Elevat
Bos & Me
Chie Jun R
Fiteh
Union Pac
aAdventure
Allouez Ee OD
Cal & Ar
bCal & Hec
Franklin
Nevada
Butte
Shannon
Trinity
Utah
Victoria
Wolverine
Cumberland
bAmalgam Am Chem R
Isle Royale
U S Smelt
Girls on Strike Ties Up Rumford Falls Mill
A strike of 250 girls at the Continental Paper Bag Company mill in Rumford Falls Maine idled 400 workers. They protested the discharge of Olive Pomeroy and an attempted 25 cent daily wage raise, rejecting the superintendent Theodore Hawley’s reply plan.
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Rumford Falls Mill
Rumford Falls
Continental Paper Bag Company
Olive Pomeroy
Theodore Hawley
Oxford Paper Mills
New York City
Open Shop Wins on Carnegie Institute Project
Pittsburg, Aug. 23. After years of efforts to control the $5,000,000 Carnegie Institute addition labor groups abandon attempts and adopt open shop policy. The Marble Letters Union withdraws from sympathetic strike and Structural Trades Alliance. Contractors resume with 40 workers plus hundreds more skilled tradesmen returning to work independent of union dictation.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Carnegie Institute
Marble Letters
Carnegie Library
Structural Trades Alliance
Shark Like Sea Monster Scares Bathers at Winthrop Beach
At Winthrop Beach a strange fish with a shark like fin drew crowds as it surfaced near bathers. Harvard student Leila Jenkins and Jack Sullivan helped corral the creature, which weighed about 175 pounds, prompting speculation it was a pilot fish leading sharks to prey.
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Winthrop Beach
Winthrop
Harvard
Mike Larkin
Mike
Leila Jenkins
Jack Sullivan
Mike’’ Larkin
Jack'’ Sullivan
Meeting Set in New York With Earnings Picture and Stock Plans
A meeting will be held in New York on Oct. 2. The company reports fiscal year earnings between 1.8 and 1.9 million dollars. Copper production nears 25 million pounds. The gas commissioners authorize Haverhill Electric to issue 760 new shares at 160 dollars each for improvements and Malden & Melrose Gas Light to issue 5265 new shares at 120 dollars each for improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Northern
Calumet & Arizona
Herbert A. Tucker
Tucker, Hayes & Co
Lake
Colorado Telephone Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining Company
New York
Bachelor Girl
Red Metal Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Boston & Montana Company
Mountain View
Little Claim
C. C. Hopkins
Butte
East Butte
Tecumseh
Boston & Eastern Electric Railroad Company
Charles Dayton
Williams. Nichols
William H. Young
John H. Bickford
William H. Gove
Boston
Beverly
Dominion Copper Company
Boundary Falls
Canada
Morse
Fitchburg
Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company
Haverhill Electric Company
Malden & Melrose Gas Light Company
Market summary and day’s sales figures in Boston
Stock and bond prices and total sales are recorded for the day in Boston. Total sales include listed stocks 35 611 shares, bonds 8000, unlisted stocks 14 799 shares. The note mentions a second instalment paid a ex dividend and c assessment paid with unclear phrases.
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Boston
Curb Market Highlights From Exchange Place Trading
Raven Mining and Mic mac Gold led activity with Raven trading from 83 to 87 cents and closing at 87. Mic mac reached 3 4, Cumberland-Ely peaked at 9, and Furnace Creek remained at 2 3-4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raven Mining
Cumberland Ely
Micmac
Furnace Creek
Exchange Place
Raven
Cumberland-Ely
Consuelo Duchess of Manchester Attends Spanish Royal Dinner
Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester, the only non royal woman at a Spanish dinner on board the Giralda, attended by King Edward and Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria wore a famous ruby crown as lavish plate and jewelry from Paris lit by electric lights. Consuelo wore violet chiffon with amethysts. the gown and accessories were designed by a Parisian dressmaker with a replica cast for fittings.
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Cowes
Consuelo
Duchess of Manchester
Spain
Edward
Victoria
Alfonso
England
Windsor Castle
Point de Vonise
Paris
St Agnes Garden Party Set at Reading Church Grounds
The annual garden party of St Agnes Church Reading will be held Saturday on the parochial grounds 102 Woburn Street from 1 pm to 10 pm. The Stoneham Brass Band performs 7 to 10 pm. Afternoon events include sports a tug of war between East Woburn and Wakefield AOH and a baseball game St Agnes Sunday school nine versus Medford. Committees lead by William Rodden Hannah Barrett Julia Whelton B J Lehan James Connelly Michael Quinlan and David Whelton Sr oversee activities.
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Reading
St. Agnes’ Church
Woburn Street
Stoneham Brass Band
East Woburn
Wakefield
St. Agnes
Medford
William T. Rodden
Hannah Barrett
Julia Whelton
James
William Trueworthy
Annie Whelton
B. J. Lehan
James Connelly
Michael Quinlan
David Whelton, Sr
Black Hand Leader Osara Captured in Brooklyn
New York dispatch reports Tom Osara, alleged leader of the Black Hand bandits terrorizing Italians in Boston Philadelphia and New York, arrested by Pinkerton men at 227 North Ninth street Brooklyn as he tried to flee to Italy. He had a Sicily past and is jailed in White Plains. Other members fled.
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New York
Tom Osara
Black Hand
B0ston
Philadelphia
Pinkerton
Italy
North Ninth Street
Brooklyn
Osara
Sicily
Croton
Black Hand Society
White Plains
Two Killed by Dynamite at Granite Quarry Near Whitins
A premature dynamite blast at Blanchard Brothers granite quarry two miles from Whitins center killed A. C. Goodwin 35 and William Blanchard about 40. Goodwin of North Uxbridge leaves a widow and three children. Blanchard died of severe internal injuries and leaves a widow.
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Whitins
Blanchard Brothers
A. C. Goodwin
William Blanchard
Goodwin
North Uxbridge
Blanchard
Prisoner Edward Hurley Escapes From Cage At Dawn
Edward W. Hurley alias Edward Finn of Dedham escapes from a 12 foot high prison cage at 8 23 yesterday morning. Hurley has been jailed 23 times in 23 years with a history of drunkenness and past charges including breaking and entering and assault.
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Hurley
Dedham
Edward W. Hurley
Edward Finn
Oakland Street
Fost Dedham
Policy King Adams Closed Bucket Shop Collapses in New York
New York August 23 three hundred brokerages in the Al Adams chain once known as M J Sage Co were closed by order of policy king Adams. Jersey City headquarters held an assignment conference as mail shipments were held up and assets inventoried for Surrogate's Court. The crash follows last weeks stock surge and Union Pacific rise, with Sage Adams losses estimated between two and three million dollars affecting hundreds of thousands of customers.
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New York
Teast
South
al’ Adams
M. J. Sage & Co
Adams
Montgomery Street
Jersey City
Wall Street
New York Post Office
Eugene W. Leake
William Beverly
Leake
Morris J. Sage
Binghamton
N. Y
Bath Beach
Edward L. Bradbury
Charles W. Cannon
Maurice J. Sage
Edward J. Bradbury
David R. Hobart
William H. Newman
Ern Pacific
Sing Sing
Sage
Adams’ Son
Salem Choir to Sing at State Prison Mass
The Immaculate Conception Church of Salem will send a 50-voice choir to sing at the high mass at the state prison in Carles town next Sunday under the direction of organist P. J. Malley, brother of the prison chaplain. Krawuchke's mass in A minor will be performed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immaculate Conception Church of Salem
State Prison
Carlestown
P. J. Malley
Krawuchke
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Amalgamated Copper
Amer Car & Foundry
Amer Cotton Oms Ganee
Amer
Amer Hide & Sea
Amer Tee Sec
Amer Smelting
Amer Sugar
Amer Tobecco, Pfd
Cer
Aha
Ave
Anaconda Mining Co
Owe
Atlantic Coast Line
Ces
Baltimore & Ohio
Ae Ren
Eee Soo
Canadian Pacific
Central Leather Tao
Rene Woo
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago Great Western
Chicago & Northwestern Ry
Chicago, Mil & St Paul
Chicago Ter & Trans
BOO
C & St Louis
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Colorado & Southern
Consolidated Gas
Thy & Trudson
Delaware
Denver & Rio Grande
Ae Distillers’ Securities
Ty General Fleetric Isms
Illinois Central Eree
Sone Nee Ever
Town Central
Too
Kansas City Southern
Nashville
Louisville & Ee
Mexican Central
Minn
St Paul
Missouri Pacific
Missouri
Mexico
New York Central
Ont & West
Norfolk & Western
Pacific Mail
Pennsylvania
Republic Steel
Rock Island Co
Sloss
Sheffield
St Louis Southwestern
Southern Ralkhway
Texas & Pacific
U S Rubber
BOR Ives
U S Steel Ie
Virginia Carolina
Wabash
Chicago
Ennis & Stoppani
Chicago Board of Trade
State Mutual
Open Shop
The
Savinuyilly Lainiw
J. Thomas
Cowper
Ely
Davis-Daly
East Utte
Keweenaw
Majestic Copper
Murnace Creek
Oor
Superior
Superior Pittsburg
Laramie
Respienden
BLACK
Entertainments
Henry W. Savage
Eve
Pixley and
Luters
Jess Dandy
King Adams
United States
Merry Whirl
Paragon Park
Park Nantasket
Rowe’s Wharf
Nantasket
Trip
Provincetown
Cape Cod
Staunch & Elegant Steamship
Bay Liane Wharf
Atlantic Avenue
Rowe's Wharf
A. Moody
Revere Beach
Parade of the Nations
Salem
James E. Hardy
Professor Darling
Fred. A. Bennett
Fritz Bene
Liu Vibe
Readville
Massachusetts
Hotel Essex
Siains
Southtation
Grand Stand
Dudley St
Murray
Carson
Keith
Burclar
Custer
Clobe
Oxford
John Craig Co“Keomar
Eet Bega Park
the-Charles
Sonder All Star
Bowdoin
Dainty Paree Lyceum Co
Batlac
Unity Res. Club
Revere
Strachan’s
Ninth Regiment
Central Wharf
Foot State St
Salem Choir
Maine
St. Wan Co
Washington St
Tel
Ton’s
Smattapan SQ
Blue Hill
Milton
Houghton’s
Ponkapoag
Blue Hill Street
New England
King Philip
Commercial Wharf
Pou Tr
Gloucester and
Cape Ann
Gloucester
E. S. Merchant
Mgr
Gloucester S&s. 8S. CO
American League
Huntington Avenue
St.louis
Wright & Ditson
Washington Street
Herrick’s
Copley Square
SS Castle
Winter St
Nell
Boston Theatre
Lawrence McCarty
New Oren
Eastern Steam Ship Co
Rast Raat
Lubec
Calvin Austin
City
Washingtoni Street
NEW Line
Enterprise Transportation Co
P. O. Sq
Maketiver
Van’s
JOY Line
Pixel
Providence
H Hough
Atlantic Ave
Boson
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