Unlisted Stocks 10 Push Market Reopen Efforts Amid War Strains
The Street remains idle as banks resist normal reopening until foreign crises ease. Unlisted brokers form a 15 member panel to set restrictions for outside market trading, while a 3-5 member clearing committee would regulate transactions. London Stock Exchange reopening clarity cited. cotton and grain trade face war related shifts.
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Boston Stock Exchange Committee
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Financial News Notes and Market Movements
New York discusses a city loan of 120 million to meet obligations due through mid January with anticipated interest up to 7.5 percent. Canadian Pacific plans an October 7 meeting in Montreal to approve a 75 million stock increase to 335 million. Transfer books close August 21 and reopen October 15. S. S. Kresge Co. reports seven months ending July 31 sales of 8.13 million, up 23.9 percent from last year, with July sales at 1.17 million. Salem bids closed date noted.
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The
Canadian Pacific
Montreal
S.8. Kresge Co
American Railway Association
United States
Canada
Eeeererss
City Treasurer recalls bids for temporary loan amid money market
Worcester Massachusetts City Treasurer Smith recalls bid requests for a 150000 dollar temporary loan due February 15 1915 as market conditions push rates higher. Gardner Massachusetts approves a 40000 dollar temporary loan at 5.98 percent discount for December maturities while other towns seek bids for water loan bonds and stocks seek exchange listings. Industry notes report steel and copper price moves and shipping fleet registry changes under new rules.
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Worcester
Mass
Emergency Currency and Clearing House Certificates
The European war disrupts global finance and forces U S banks to conserve cash. Banks widely use two safeguards the clearing house certificate and the emergency currency to meet unusual demand. An explanatory feature will appear on tomorrow's Boston Post financial page.
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United States
Boston Post
Boston Money Markets Quotations August 24
Boston money markets show customers loans made prior to the stock exchange close at 7¾ to 8 percent. Outside brokers loans 8 percent. All brokers loans since close 8 percent. Customers commercial loans 6 percent and up. Commercial paper 7 percent and up.
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Stock Exchange
Death at North station linked to Ferdinand A Muller
The death by own action yesterday morning was Ferdinand A Muller of 87 Spear Street Melrose. He was about 55 years old and had suffered ill health for some time.
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Ferdinand A. Muller
Spear Street
Melrose
Financial strains ease in West amid hopes of postwar prosperity
The fourth week of involuntary idleness shows little change in the domestic scene as foreign exchange paralysis persists. Proposals for extending six months at higher interest on New York warrants face British opposition, while US indebtedness to Europe and euro holdings complicate liquidity. London and Paris exchange activity remains steady, with renewed rumors of resumed trading in limited form.
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New York City
Europe
France
Germany
London Stock Exchange
Paris
London
Majestic Players Open at Wilbur with Quincy Adams Lawyer
Wilbur Theatre hosts the Majestic Players in Quincy Adams Lawyer after moving from the Majestic Theatre yesterday afternoon. Wilson Melrose leads with a pleasing performance as Abner Stiles, supported by Betty Barnicoat Lindy Putnam, Gladys Durrell Alice Pettingill and a strong ensemble. Next week the company moves to the Boston Theatre for the remainder of the season.
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William H. Lethy
Majestic
Majestic Theatre
Wilbur Theatre
Quincy Adams
Boston
Wilson Melrose
Betty Barnicoat
Dainty
Lindy Putnam
Gladys Durrell
Alice Pettingill
Walter Walker
Obadiah Strout
Mr. Lethy
Abner Stiles
Harry Hollis
James J. Hayden
William DeWolfe
Harry ©. Arnold
Rose Morison
Florence Tewksbury
Helen Kinsel
Ethel Daggett
Eileen Seymour
Boston Theatre
Waldron's Casino Opens Burlesque Season with Smithcast
Waldron's Casino launches its regular season with a two act burlesque show led by the Morrissey sisters Dolly and Stella with Will Fox and Irving Gear. The big department store venue features two dozen pretty young girls in a lively revue including Julia Kane performing The Irish Do The Tango Now. Harry Lamont Frank O'Brien and Jack Manley provide strong support to the leading quartet.
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Waldron’s
Morrissey
Dolly
Stella
Will Fox
Irving Gear
Ives
Julia Kane
Harry Lamont
Frank O’brien
Jack Manley
Two Hundred Years From Now headlines Scollay Square Olympia
Scollay Square Olympia presents Bert Schader and his company in a sketch Two Hundred Years From Now headline act on the bill. Also featuring the Four Regals minstrels, Seven Russells, Weber Dolan and Fraser, the Three Juggling Bannans, Longenetti, Weston and Young, select photoplays and an organ recital by Richard Henry Warren.
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Bert Schader
Scollay Square Olympia
Regals
Seven Russells
Weber
Dolan
Fraser
Longenetti
Weston and Young
Richard Henry Warren
Colonial Has Sari as Opener
The Colonial Theatre opened last night to a large audience, presenting the Viennese operetta Sari for the first time in the city. The work debuted in this country a year ago, with the hook and score enjoying favor in European capitals. the original title The Gypsy Leader was altered to feature the leading lady, Sam, a minor character.
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Colonial Theatre
Sam
Victorious Youth Leads Gypsy Opera Triumph in Paris
Laczi Racz the younger earns a triumph in Paris while his father admits defeat and honors the youth. Mizzi Hajos as Sari stars in a Kalman score noted for originality and high standard. Cast also includes Henry Leone J Humbird Duffey Irene Pawloska and Bert Gilbert with lively dancing and an enlarged orchestra.
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Tne
Laczi Racz
Pali Fiacz
Paris
Sart
Emmerich Kalman
Mizzi Hajos
Sari
Henry Leone
J. Humbird Duffey
Irene Pawloska
Duffey
Charles Meakins
Bert Gilbert
Plymouth Theatre Under Cover enters final week
The Plymouth Theatre last evening began the final week of its engagement of Under Cover a drama filled with thrills and a concealed love thread. The seat sale opens this morning for Henry W. Savage's Along Came Ruth to inaugurate the fourth regular season with a cast of noted stage favorites and the usual Thursday and Saturday matinees.
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Plymouth Theatre
Henry W. Savage
Ruth
Grand Opera House Week Features Busy Card
The Grand Opera House presents a lineup led by Lydia Jospy the little nightingale with the Brianza Trio and performers Mamie Champion Frank Montrose Jack Atkins Charles Hoback Pauline Russell Jeanette Montrose Marie Atkins Sadie Notworthy Ina Butler and Larry Smith. The closing burletta Hotel De Lux draws praise. Friday promises big circus and amateur features while Thursday hosts Ketonan versus Tom Pappas with George Tuohey as referee.
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Grand Opera House
Lydia Jospy
Little Nightingale
Brianza
Larry Smith
Mamie Champion
Boston
Frank Montrose
Jack Atkins
Charles Hoback
Pauline Russell
Jeanette Montrose
Marie Atkins
Sadie Notworthy
Ina
Vaudeville at Keiths Showcases Opera and Song Acts
The B F Keiths Theatre presented a vaudeville bill with opera selections from Lakme and La Traviata by Mabel Berra pleasing crowds. Fred Sosman offered unusual songs while dancing acts by Joe Keno Elizabeth Mayne and The Primrose trio impressed, other sketches and a violin solo by Stepho Berko complemented a varied program.
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B. F. Keith's
Mabel Berra
Miss Berra
Fred Sosman
Joe Keno
Elizabeth Mayne
Primrose
S. Miller Kent
W. H. Nicholson
James E. Parks
Crook
Jack Williams
James Thompson
Carl Copeland
James Donovan
Marie Lee
Stepho Berko
Beloved Burlesque Crowd Greets Billy McIntyre at Howard
A happy throng of burlesque patrons welcomed Billy McIntyre son of Jim McIntyre of McIntyre and Heath to the Howard Atheneum yesterday where he serves as principal comedian for the Bohemian Burlesquers. The show titled The Belle of the Boarding School featured Marceline Montague and a chorus. other acts included the Equilli brothers hand balancing Monte and Dot and The Long and Short.
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Howard Atheneum
Billy McIntyre
Jim McIntyre
McIntyre and
Heath
Marceline Montague
Anna Bragg
Josephine Exnell
Felix Rush
Ralph Watson
Cycling Berlins
May Russell
Eddie Bourke
Lizzie Grace
Tessie Byke
George Pierce
Equilli Brothers
Monte
Dot
Shorty de Witt
Frankie Stuart
Tremont Temple Sells Out For Opera Biophone Engagement
Tremont Temple opened a seat sale for the wonderful biophone motion pictures featuring European opera stars. The engagement debuts next Monday night and runs two weeks with daily matinees at popular prices.
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Tremont Temple
Gaiety Theatre Opens Second Week With Rosey Posey Girls
The Gaiety enters its second week led by Jeannette Young with a polished vocal display. Soloists Sarah Hyatt Mabel Orrell Jeannett Mohr Jane Pearson Billie Davies and Marie Gates are noted, while a comic trio Harry Bentley Bert Wiggin and Harry LeVan provides humor. The Gates duo are praised as artistic terpsichorean whirlwinds and a 20 member chorus performs in fetching costumes.
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Clark
Jeannette Young
Sarah Hyatt
Mabel Orrell
Jeannett Mohr
Jane Pearson
Billie Davies
Marie Gates
Harry Bentley
Bert Wiggin
Harry LeVan
Earl
America
Sail to Bass Point on Boston Harbor Steamers Delights Visitors
The Bass Point and Nahant line offers a scenic sail with views of harbor fortifications and shoreline scenery. Bass Point hotels Relay House and Bass Point House serve shore dinners with regular menus and host musical entertainment for guests.
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Bass Point
Nahant
Relay House
Bass Point House
Majestic Opens Tonight with The Model Maid in Boston
Philip Bartholomae's comedy The Model Maid with music by Silvio Hein opens the Majestic Theatre Boston tonight, kicking off the regular winter season. Featured players include Anna Wheaton Florence Mackie Alice Hege man Donald Macdonald Claiborne Foster Nettie Black Gladys Zell and Joseph Lertora with Hein conducting the orchestra.
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Philip Bartholomae
Norumbega Park Vaudeville Bill Attracts Big Crowd
Norumbega Park opens an outdoor theatre bill featuring Carl in a rapidity exhibition followed by Freda and America Skinner and Woods the Village Choir and the Lozano troupe. The program notes strong motion pictures and the Grape Arbor Cafe gains popularity overlooking the Charles River.
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Carl
Freda
America
Skinner
Woods
Lozano
Grape Arbor
Charles
Vaudeville Bill Shines At Lexington Park This Week
Lexington Park hosts an open air restaurant and casino attraction with dancing parties every Wednesday and Saturday evening. Edna Frances Simmon's Ladies Orchestra performs in the band court each afternoon and evening drawing strong crowds.
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Lexington Park
Edna Frances’ Simmon
Modern Theatre Presents The Wolf in Six Reels
The Modern Theatre features The Wolf Eugene Walters famous Canadian forest drama in six reels with a tense climax. The program also offers Classical vocal selections by the Modern Quartet and an organ recital by Arthur J Martel.
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the Wolf
Eugene Walter
Modern Theatre
Modern Quartet
Arthur J. Martel
Provincetown Excursion Ships Highlight Boston Harbor Trips
Daily trips by the Cape Cod line steamer Dorothy a Nee depart from the Bay Line Wharf at 9 a m. The excursion offers ideal views of seashore scenery and harbor fortifications with Provincetown's historic landmarks appealing to sightseers.
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Ee Cape Cod Line
Bay Line
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Castle Square Theatre Opens with Over Night
The Castle Square Theatre launches its regular season next Monday with Over Night. Joan Craig Mary Young William P Carleton and other favorites will appear in the cast.
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Castle Square Theatre
Joan Craig
Mary Young
William P. Carleton
High Jinks at Shubert Theatre five weeks
Musical jollity High Jinks by Otto Hauerbach and Rudolph Friml comes to the Shubert Theatre Monday August 31 for a five week engagement. The same New York cast stars Stella Mayhew with Philip Ryley Emma Francis Eugene O Rourke Adele Ardesley Paul Pocassi Dorothy Vernon and others. Seats go on sale tomorrow morning.
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Shubert Theatre
Otto Hauerbach
Rudolph Friml
New York
Shubert
Stella Mayhew
Philip Ryley
Emma Francis
Eugene O'Rourke
Adele Ardesley
Paul Poccasi
Dorothy Vernon
Villa Napoli Nearing Regular Season Close at Nantaghet Beach
Villa Napoli at Nantaghet beach nears the end of the regular season with strong success despite bad weather. Manager Di Pesa notes the seaside resort remains a pleasant surprise this year. The villa is near the boat landing and offers a high class cabaret vaudeville and daily dansants for entertainment.
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Villa Napoli
Nantaghet Beach
di Pesa
St James Theatre Vaudeville Delights Audiences
Loew's St. James presented a high class vaudeville program with Anne Hollinger and her company performing Alias Irish Tessie. The show also featured the American Comedy Four Leonard and Louie Morris Golden Page and Newton La Maire and Daweon and a lineup of new photo plays pleasing patrons.
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St. James Theatre
St. James
Anne Hollinger
Tessie
Leonard
Louie
Morris Golden
Page
Newton
la Maire
Daweon
War May Stop Stop 10 Opera
Boston will have no grand opera season this year due to the war. Director Henry Russell, now in Switzerland, has called the season off as singers enlisted and prima donnas cannot return to America. Americans returning from Europe confirm the report.
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New York
Boston
Boston Opera
Henry Russell
Switzerland
Europe
America
War’s impact halts 1914 opera plans and forces cancellations
The article notes many singers and orchestra members are fighting or serving as nurses in Europe as Italy may enter the war. It highlights Boston Chicago and New York opera plans collapsing for 1914 1915 with foreign houses dark and performers unable to travel. Russell who gathered stars abroad faces shipment and passage issues as war disrupts employment.
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Italy
Boston
Chicago
New York
Russell
France
Germany
England
Switzerland
Bowdoin Square Theatre Week of Shows and Attractions
The Bowdoin Square Theatre offers Violet Mascotte Merrie Maids with Henry Myers and Tom Levine plus Death and Resurrection from Pope to Pope about Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius X. Mary Pickford in Tess of the Storm Country polled by patrons. Hari Kari three reels. Vaudeville features Housely and Nichols Pike and Calane Billy O Malley Roxbury Rennie Cormack. Tango contest Wednesday. Thursday circus and amateur features. Friday cabaret with 15 acts.
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Bowdoin Square Theatre
Henry Myers
Tom Levine
Leo XIII
Pope Pius X
Mary Pickford
Hari Kari
Housely and Nichols
Pike and
Calane
Billy O'Malley
Roxbury
Rennie Cormack
Paragon Park Throngs Remain Strong Late Season
Paragon Park shows no drop in patronage as the Palm Garden draws huge crowds. The cabaret line up features Marie King in a trapeze specialty, the Edward sisters in song and dance, and Mlle. Sabine with Mr. Bronner in dance. Monday amateur dancing contests gain immense popularity.
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Palm Garden
Marie King
Edward Sisters
Mlle
Sabine
Mr. Bronner
All Star Vaudeville at Loew's Orpheum Featured Svengali
An all star vaudeville show at Loew's Orpheum Theatre featured Svengali with Ellen Terry in a mystery musical novelty and included Dave Austin with The Wedding Morn. Other acts listed were Bush and Shapiro Jack Allen Sayce and Oliver Hearn and Rutter Billy Quirk Mellen and De Paula, with Svengali continuing through the week.
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Orpheum Theatre
Svengali
Ellen Terry
Dave Austin
Bush & Shapiro
Jack Allen
Sayce
Oliver
Hearn
Rutter
Billy Quirk
Mellen
de Paula
Medford’s The Movie Girl Wins Warm Theatregoer Praise
Medford Summer Theatre presents J. W. Gorman’s The Movie Girl at the Medford Boulevard Theatre for a return engagement. A chorus of pretty girls delivers strong singing and dancing in foreign modiste costumes, with striking musical numbers and novel specialties thrilling audiences.
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Medford Boulevard Theatre
Wilbur Theatre Opens Season With The Road to Happiness
The Wilbur Theatre begins its season on Labor Day September 7 with William T. Hodge starring in The Road to Happiness eliciting a dramatic opening for the new run.
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Wilbur Theatre
William T. Hodge
War Halts Alpine Climbing In Swiss Alps
Swiss military law now forbids climbing in the central Alps. Mountain guides are among the first drafted, and American climbers near the frontier were stopped by armed sentinels during the outbreak of war.
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Found Dead in Lodging House Aged 35
Frank O. Day aged 35 was found dead in bed at 4 PM yesterday by landlady Annie Stanton at Hankock Street lodging. Last seen alive two days earlier by lodger John Hendry. Medical examiner to determine if death resulted from natural causes.
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John Hendry
Ship Bill in House Aims for $10 Million Navy Merchant Fleet
Washington reports plans to create a permanent American merchant marine by buying foreign ships to be run by the government. The program advances in Congress and at the White House as of August 24.
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Government to Create Federal Steamship Company
President Wilson backs a new federal steamship company with a $10 million capitalization to own ocean vessels under a shipping board including the President and key cabinet members. The government would buy at least 50 percent of stock with appropriation and issue $30 million in Panama Canal bonds to finance ships.
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Rodman Law Plans Tower Jump From Boston Custom House
Rodman Law, famed for daring stunts, aims to leap from the 480 foot Custom House tower in Boston after eluding police. His sister Ruth Bancroft Law and manager confirm a deal for a high altitude daily jump from an aeroplane at Rockingham next week, with Ruth piloting the Wright biplane.
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New York
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Mother Earth
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Custom House
Ruth Bancroft Law
Rodman
Charles A. Oliver
Chester I. Campbell
Ruth
Rockingham Air
The
Fair Management
Wright
Special election set for vacancy in 10th and 11th districts
Governor Walsh announces a special election to fill two vacant seats in the 10th and 11th districts due to resignations. The election is scheduled for November 3, alongside the regular State election, with primaries on October 2 and nominations due by 5 p.m. on October.
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Walsh
Murray
Peters
Man Pleads Guilty to Larceny From Mother
Thomas Saba pleaded guilty in Judge Dowd's court to larceny from his mother valued at 345 dollars. The arrest was by Sergeant Anderson of La Grange Street Station. Saba was reported to be out of Concord on parole and the case was continued for sentence.
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Dowd
Segeant Anderson
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