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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1913
Page
12
A concise notice from Brown Shipley & Co announces a special convenience office located at 123 Pall Mall in the West End for travelers. The advertisement emphasizes services catering to patrons passing through London.
The Boston Post announces a Monday column answering reader inquiries about listed and unlisted stocks and bonds of New England industrial public utility banks and mills. It emphasizes impartial responses from trusted sources while not guaranteeing accuracy or market directions. Submit subject single, full name and street address to Financial Editor Boston Post Boston Maas.
A stock market column reviews convertible Baltimore and Ohio bonds, Virginia Railway and Power preferred, Kansas City Southern common, and margin buying basics. It details profitability, dividends, earnings, and asset positions for several rail and mining concerns, with reader questions answered on future dividends and potential takeovers.
Market review notes light turnover with prices hovering near post recovery highs since last June. Analysts cite weak money conditions, bank reserve shortfalls in several cities, and government deposits as temporary relief while warning against rapid gains. Expectations point to a cautious, conservative market through spring with tariff, currency changes, and crop factors shaping sentiment.
Dividends payable include Amalgamated Copper 1 4 per cent Boston Land $1 Homestake Mining 65 cents No Penn R K 2 per cent People's Gas Light 1 ½ per cent Round Mt Mining 4 cents Ex-Dividend notes show payable dates Cole Gold Dredging 25c (8-29) Medbury Realty pref 134 per cent (9-2) Ohio Oil $1.25 and 5 ec extra (9-20) Plymouth Rubber pref $1.75 (9-2) Rochester Ky & Lt pref 1 ½ per cent (9-2) Books Close Central R R pret N J for mtg (9-19) Books Open Am Smelting & Refining preg Books do not close.
The first annual outing of the Human Derelicts' Protective Association occurred yesterday in Boston harbor. Seventeen members attended including "Long Dick" Smith, Tom Green, the "King of the Shoe string Sellers," the skipper and engineer, who all crowded aboard the yacht Breeze for the unique harbor trip.
Philip Kenna heads a group of 14 crippled men and 1 organizer aboard the Breeze for a City Point outing. William Joyce, once a derelict, now finances and pilots the trip with Patrick Kelly as engineer. The party, including legless and blind participants, enjoyed the day then returned home, thanking Joyce for the excursion.
Vacationer traffic to Nova Scotia and Maine peaks as excursion steamers fill the harbor. The five masted schooner Gardiner G. Deering, involved in a recent collision with the Sloterdyk, was towed to Bath Maine for permanent repairs after temporary work at Simpson's dry dock.
Arrived steamers include Esparza Br Mader Port Simon Prince Arthur Kinney Yarmouth Governor Cobb Allan St John City of Augusta Dizer Savannah Kershaw Johnson Norfolk Quantico Thatcher Philadelphia Suffolk Versey Norfolk Melrose Frostad Baltimore George FE Warren Ross Balti more O'Donnell New York James S Whitney Crowell New York Bel fast Sawyer Bangor Ransom B Fuller Linscott Portland City of Gloucester Lime kin Gloucester Cape Ann Godfrey Glou cester Argentine battleship Rivadavia Kemp New York tugs Covington Law Baltimore towing barge Kennebec Prudence Harrison Lynn Carlisle Philadelphia towing barges Ephrata Molino and St Nicholas Monocacy Lloyd Philadelphia towing barges Cymru Merriam and Bethayres schooner John Stanson Hardy San Juan Cleared steamers Governor Dingley Clark St John Massachusetts O'Donnell New York Belfast Sawyer Bangor Ransom B Fuller Linscott Portland Sailed steamers North Star Yarmouth Governor Dingley St John St Patrick Br New York Massachusetts New York Bay State Newport News tugs Covington Hampton Roads towing barge Ohio Western New York towing barges David Wallace Smyrna and Thomas L Parker Portsmouth Ports mouth with barges May Maurice River schooner Gardiner G Deering Bath in tow.
Italian societies in Revere and Boston celebrated yesterday for their patron saints. The Revere group marked the Mother of Mount Carmel feast while the Boston North End society observed St. Vincent.
Groundfish arrivals at the Cape shore were small with five schooners totaling 250,000 pounds including 75,000 pounds by the Evelyn M. Thompson and one swordfish. The crackdown on improperly equipped motorboats set a new record with the Winnisimmet inspection team boarding over 150 vessels and 15 inspectors at the wharf.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate Court cites all interested in AMASA G WHITCOMB estate to appear September 4 1913 at Heston to show cause why the first trust account for Jane M Whitcomb should be allowed. Trustee Raymond Adams must serve notice fourteen days prior or publish weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post and mail copies to known interested parties. Witness Judge Robert Grant August 7 1913.
Sealed proposals for 5000 shoe lasts and depot delivery locations will be received by the Quartermaster Corps offices in Boston and other depots until Sept 2 1913. Also sealed bids for removal of the wreck of the barge Bombay in Nantucket Sound are due Sept 25 1913. Information available on application. Electric motors and power equipment offered by Federal Hardware & Electric Co. at 164 Federal St.
William Windsor Wind sor, LL B and Ph D, urged the New Thought Forum to educate youth to choose mates by head shape. He discussed the Eugenics of Crime and phrenology, warning that loveless parents produce children incapable of higher love and likely criminal incline.
A speaker argues that a broad loving affection beyond passion forms the basis of humane behavior. Without such capacity, a person may become potentially criminal, and a child’s permanent mindset reflects the parents' temporary state, implying children born into drunkenness or hatred may inherit those traits.
A speaker argues brains determine virtue and crime, urging scientific love education and phrenology for children. He claims good heads produce good people while punishment fails, advocates recognizing head development as key to love, self esteem, and social behavior, citing eye prominence as a sign of expression ability.
The ninth international Esperanto congress opened in Berne Switzerland with 1100 delegates from 23 nations. Twelve American representatives attended the congress of both sexes.
Dr. Ludwig L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto, received a gold medal commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Esperanto Foundation. A procession behind the American flag opened the event.
Boston area notices list multiple funeral services and honorees with names such as William James Irving Brown Dorothea Maree Andersen Georgianna C Bonnell Donald D Bruce Matilda Carney Michael Cavanaugh M Louise Chapman Mary Clancy William T Clifford Edward J Dooley Sarah Doran Joseph H Ebert Isabella Fowler Mary Hartnett John F Kennedy John T Leonard James G Love William Miller Margaret Murphy Elizabeth Pettengill Eliza beth Sharras Owen L Trefren William P Wyman and others with funeral timings and residences across Dorchester South Boston Medford Somerville Charlestown Roxbury and surrounding towns.
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