Prices Fell From Their Own Weight in Summer Trading
Wall Street and Boston markets showed dull, narrow trading as speculation faded. Banks expected a weekly loss near 4 million, with Southern Railway dividend cuts and steady absorption of dividend stocks. bears held back, bulls cautious, and overall prices drifted lower amid low turnover.
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Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Southern Railway
Shorts
Manhattan
Third Avenue
Interborough Metropolitan
Brooklyn Transit
Chicago
San Francisco
State Street
New York
Southern Pacific
Boston & Maine
St. Paul
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Reading
Union Pacific
New York Stock Exchange
Gaynor May Dies in Jail in Georgia
John F. Gaynor, convicted in a federal court with Captain Benjamin D. Greene in the Savannah harbor fraud case involving over 1.4 million dollars, lies in critical condition at the Macon jail. He has nearly lost use of his lower limbs and endures a severe cough, with doctors saying death could follow unless he is moved from jail. His wife, a frequent visitor and often allowed to take him out with a U.S. marshal, remains by his side.
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Macon
John F. Gaynor
Benjamin D. Greene
Savannah Harbor
United States
Mother Attempted to Kidnap Her Child
Norwalk reported a mother, Mrs Dunn, who has not lived with her husband for years, attempted to kidnap their young daughter last night. John Dunn, a New Yorker, was away when a man bearing a New York police badge and Mrs Dunn confronted the child at a cottage on River View Terrace.
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Norwalk
Conn
John Dunn
Riverview Terrace
New Hampshire Old Home Week Ends With Record Observances
New Hampshire's ninth annual Old Home Week closed in Concord with 100 town observances and unusually fine weather. Railroads report more visitors to the state during the week than any prior event.
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Concord
N. HH
New Yampshire
Pine Lawn Cemetery Bid Notice for 200 Shares
Bid sought for any portion of 200 shares in Pine Lawn Cemetery. Contact D. F. Adams at 68 State Street Boston for details and submission.
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Pine Lawn Cemetery
D. F. Adams
State St
Boston
Boston Market Stock Summary Aug 23 Market Prices and Sales
The Boston Market records opening high and low prices for the day with totals of sales. Notable entries include 11,000 Amer Tel & Tel 4s at about 80, 5,000 Chl B & Q Jt 4s near 89, 8,000 Seattle Electric 5s around 100, 10,000 US Steel Corp 5s at 92. Stocks section lists railroads and other securities.
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Amer Car & Foundry
Amer
Amer Hide & Leath
Pw Ak
Amer Locomotive
Amer Smelt & Refg
Ead
Amer Sugar Refining
Anaconda Mining
Atchison
Seekers
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Brooklyn Rap Transit
Canadian Pacific
Central Leather
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago Great Western
Chicago &Orthwestern
Chi Mil
Great Northern
International Paper Eee
Iowa Centra Eevee
Kansas City Southern
Louisville & Sorahan
Mexican Central
St P&s Ste M
Missouri ‘Pact Se
Mis
Kan & Texas
New York Central
Ont & Western
Norfolk & Western
Republic Steel
Asainess
Rock Island Co
St L & S
Somthers Railway
Eeu
Texas & Pacific Ee
Tol St L & Western
Tnion Pacific
United States Realty
United States Steel
Go Wabash
Eewee
Westinghouse Electric
TOY
Io Western Union
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wisconsin Central Pref
Boston
Amer Tel & Tel
Seattle Electric
US Steel Corp
Bos & Alb
Bos Eley
Bos & Me
NY & NH
Union Pac
West End
SS de Pref
Allouez Eee
Anaconda Se
Arcadian of HY Ny
Ariz Com
Atlantic
Bingham
Butte C'l
Cal & Hee
Daly-West
Michigan
Nevada
Butte
Utah
Edison el Ber
Georgia
Oe Ae
West Lee
aAmalgam
Amer Zinc
Isle Royale and Swift & Co Stock Reported Totals
A partial stock table lists Isle Royale, La Salle, Swift & Co. and US Smelt with percentages and figures. It notes total sales with 20,769 listed shares, bonds at $35,000 and 14,004 unlisted stock shares, reflecting an ongoing market snapshot.
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Isle Royale
la Salle
Swift & Co
Nipissing Leads Boston Curb Market as Nantasket Boats Begin
Nipissing traded around 81-4 with a close sale at 101-4 after a bid for two shares. Butte & Bradley rose to 67 cents, while Consolidated Steamship bonds moved to 231-2 to 24 and Superior & Pittsburg slipped 38-4. Nantasket line ferries depart Rowe's wharf daily for all day trips to Plymouth and Gloucester aboard the King Philip and Cape Ann, with returns by 6:30 and 10 o'clock departures on Sundays.
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Southern Railway Company
Southern Railway
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
K. D. Corey
Europe
Coffin
General Electric Company
France
England
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
New York Produce Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
New York Coffee Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
New York Exchange
Standard Oil
New York
Copper Hill
Black Hawk
Arizona Commercial Company
Cop
Chicago & Alton
Toledo, St. Louis & Western
Alton
St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company
Atchison Railway Company
Blair & Co
Edmund Bristol
New England & Clifton Copper Company
Copper King
Antietam
Alexander Vietch
A. J. Orem
A. J. Orem & Co
Seattle Electric Company
Old Colony Trust Company
Liberty Trust Company
Sears
Beacon Trust Company
Washington and
Court Streets
Second National Bank
George B. Wason
Wason & Co
Boston
Melvin O. Adams
Adams
Exchange Place
Nipissing
Butte & Bradley
Consolidated Steamship
Superior & Pittsburg
Nantasket
Rowe's Wharf
Provincetown
Plymouth
Old Town
Rowe
Old Gloucester
Cape Ann
Boston Stage Notes Busy Week at Theaters Across City
A rich lineup fills Boston stages this week from the Majestic and Globe to the Park and Colonial Theaters. Openings, new acts, and refreshed interiors promise lively crowds with performances by The Green Bird, The Shoo Fly Regiment, His Terrible Secret, The Belle of Mayfair, Trovatore and Martha, plus burlesques and vaudeville at Keith's and the Tremont.
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Majestic Theatre
Cole
Johnson
Globe Theatre
Hollis Street
Mayfair
Castle Square
Martha
Grand Opera House
Byrne Brothers
Keith’s
Fadettes
Boston
Gardner Crane
Welch
Healy
Montrose
Leon Morris
Colonial Theatre
Frank Lalor
Burk Company
Park Theatre
David Kessler
Ida Conquest
Tremont Theatre
Orpheum
Old Howard
Rialto Rounders
Charlotte Hunt
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Columbia
Adele Ritchie
Palace Theatre
Diamond Palace
Austin & Stone
Grace Merriman
Donald Garrison
Miles Brothers
Wonderland
Dolores Vallecitta
Ellen Richards
Lydia
Albino
George Stedman
Norumbega Park
Paragon Park
Dodge
Petition for Electric Line Across Boston Area
The Boston, Waltham and Western Electric Railroad Company asks the railroad commissioners to issue a certificate that public necessity and convenience require an electric railroad serving Waltham Marlboro Weston Wayland Sudbury and Maynard. The act referenced is the interurban act of 1906. Capital stock is $240,000. directors listed include Atherton W. Rogers, Charles H. B. Stevens, George A. Haynes, Winthrop H. Fairbanks, and Rowland Harriman, all from Sudbury or nearby towns.
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Boston, Waltham & Western Electric Railroad Company
Waltham and Marlboro
Weston
Wayland
Sudbury
Maynard
Atherton W. Rogers
South Sudbury
Charles HB. Stevens
Prefers Jail As His Home In A Hungarian Tramp Case
A Hungarian man arraigned for being a tramp in Lynn. He showed a strong wish to make the jail his permanent home, and police had to eject him. Judge Lummus discharged him due to lack of evidence, but officers faced difficulty in removing him from the building afterward. Police suspect mental illness.
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Lynn
Lummus
Broad
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