Fresh fish landings and stormy seas drive profits in Gloucester trade
The Gloucester fleet reported 942,700 pounds of mixed fresh fish from ten recent trips, led by haddock and cod, with prices per pound ranging from 2 to 13 cents. Vessels such as Pontiac Georgianna and Spray supplied offshore catches while Mooween's halibut and salt cod boosted earnings. stormy weather and icebergs slowed crews but produced solid returns.
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Gloucester
Pontiac
Flora
J. Sears
Edith FE
Silveira
Georgianna
Spray
Mooween
Dan McDonald
Haddock
Boston
Funcks Banks
McDonald
Cunard
W. B. Dresser
Liverpool
Thomas Moor
Mystic Wharf
Charlestown
Glasgow
Moville
London
Shipping News Mini Almanac August 28 Highlights
Aug 28 mini almanac lists sunrise and sunset times 5:05 and 6:26, length of day 18 hours 21 minutes, moonset 7:87 p m, high water 12 m at 12 15 p m. Arrivals note steamers Romanic Beadwell Genoa Aug 12 Naples 15 and Ponta Del Gada 21 to White Star. Sylvania to Cunard. Prince George Yarmouth N 8 Governor.
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Sue Sun
Romanic
Beadwell
Genoa
Naples
Ponta del Gada
White Star Line
Sylvania
Cresser
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Prince George
McKinnon
Yarmouth
George’s
Fifth Ave
N. Y
George’s Tailor
Summer Streert
Washington
Boston
Towle and Fitzgerald Move to Handsome New Offices
Towle and Fitzgerald stock brokers relocate after years at 18 Postoffice Square to the Mutual Life Insurance building at 95 Milk Street in a spacious, mahogany fitted suite with seven private offices, a large board room, and extensive clerical facilities. The move, greeted with congratulations and floral decor, marks a modernization of their facilities.
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Mason Financial CO
Milk ST
Messrs. Towle & Fitzgerald
Stock Rokers
Postoffice Square
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Milk Street
National Bank of the Republic
Towle
Fitzgerald
Boston
Trades’ Union
Hospital Land
River Street
Mattapan
Edward F. McSweeney
Board of
New England
John B. McKenna
Old South Poe
A. O. Brown & Co to contest bankruptcy petition
New York Aug 2. Edward F. Buchanan of A. O. Brown & Co announces plans to contest the bankruptcy petition filed by Frank V. Strauss and others in U S Court today. He says assets were ahead of liabilities at noon Tuesday and faults market losses by firms covering their commitments. Attorneys for petitioners report claims totaling about 200000 dollars.
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New York
A. O. Brown & Co
United States Court
Frank V. Strauss
Edward F. Buchanan
Buchanan
Woman riverboat captain retires after a dozen years on Ohio
Pittsburg Aug 27 Captain Mary B Green the only woman pilot on the Ohio River and part owner with her husband in the Green line of steam boats has retired from service after twelve years on the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Penn
Mary B. Green
Ohio River
Green Line
Wage Question Up to Emerson in Lamplighter Contract
Mayor Hibbard leaves wage details to Streets Chief Guy Emerson for a $2.25 daily lamplighter rate with Rising Sun Lighting. Emerson seeks Finance Commission input before signing as Kennedy and Maloney press for a record supporting $2.25. The company resists, citing $8 per week in other cities, while the Commission proposes trial lighting tests pending a new contract next year.
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Hibbard
Guy Emerson
Rising Sun Lighting Company
Maloney
Central Labor Union
John F. Kennedy
Finance Commission
Emerson
Kennedy
Katzmann Declines Renomination for House Seat
Representative Fred G. Katzmann of Hyde Park, longtime campaign manager for Speaker Cole, says he will not seek re election. A lawyer with two Hyde Park terms, he chaired last year’s merchantile affairs committee and helped push a new Sunday law with Luce, which failed. He declined calls to run for speaker next year.
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Fred G. Katzmann
Hyde Park
Cole
Katzmann
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
Luce
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George R. Stetson
Newburyport
Mars
Philadelphia
Fire Island
Delaware
Sterling
Horace A. Allyn
Columbia
Falls
Stetson
C. J. Boush
Spray Russell
Mer H Perry
M H. Whalen
Flora J. Sears
Edith Silveira
Benj. F .Philips
We M. Goodspeed
Rose Cabral
Mary B. Greer
Frances
Sylvia
Fra Elbertus
Dewey & CO
State St
Colonial Loan CO
Tremont St
First Bank of Boston
Kilby Investment CO
Kilby Street
State
Su&dtfexSa
S Franklin Loan Co
School St
Piott
Commercial Investment CO
Devonshire
D. H. Tolman
Devonshire St
Post
D. FE
ADAMS
Fort Hill
Font
Ames
H. Eling
Workingmen’s Loan Association
Robert Treat Paine
Treas
Beacon St
P. O
McNamamra
McNamara & CO
aTtf
Lincoln Trust Cor
Washington Ait
N. E
d&Surf
Warren Line
Sachem
Michigan
Sagamore
Hoosac Tunnel
Warren & CO
Halifax
Sawicesbury
Charlottetown
A. W. Perry
City
Washington St
A. W
L. Ad
J. Harwich
Lowell
Hay
Broadway
Lawyer Hill
Court St
Puritan Ave
Cambridge
Pearl St
Somerville
Shipping News
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Thompson
St. John
N. B
Eastport
Portland
Harvard
Crowell
Penobscot
Colby
Bath
Dingley
Linscott
City of
Numidian
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Esparta
Port Simon
O. R
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Port Antonio
Jam
Jas
Whitney
Gazelle
Plymouth
Onward
Port Wade
N. FE
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Sverre
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Delamore
Tamaqua
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Ivernia
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Vernia
Campania
Carmania
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Mauretania
Lucania
Lusitania
Gibraltar
Adriatic
Carpathia
Bannonia
Slavonia
Hoareathya
The
Cunard Co
Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd
Chas. P. Sumner
Agt
Boston-Queenstown
Merchants and Miners Transportation CO
Fiske Wharf
Hanover St
Newport News
Battery Wharf
Providence
C. H. Maynard
Man
W. 34Th St
Commercia
Bryant & Stratton Commercial School
Boylston Street
H. E. Hibbard
Boylston St
Eto
Lexington
E. N. Paine
Tel
Point Shirley
Boston Harbor
Geo. B. Elliot
Hough’s Neck
South Shore
W. A. Dunham
Water St
Old South Building
Waltham Chemical CO
Waltham
Boston Young Men's Christian Association
Comer
Graham
Pitman
Chandler
Oxford
C. E. Comer
Walker Bldg
Eee
WM. A. Barnes
Schoolhouse Commissioners of
Wareham Street
Trades Unions
R. Clipston Sturgis
James B. Noyes
Tilton
Bell
Commissioners
Cutter Shorthand School
Boylston Sist
Huntington Avenue
Hickox
Pierce
Copley Square
Suffolk School OF Law
Boston Confectionery Co
Hampshire St
Fr. H. Roberts
Cross St
Wee
Venetia Tremont St
Parmenter
Essex St
Dudley Street
Metzler
Field's Corner
Anes St
Ashmont
A. KE. Dennett
Kingston St
L. EB. A
Congress Et
Rewa
Brackenbury St
the Post
Franklin
Xuros
Jamaica Plain Motor CO
South Huntington Ave
Jamaica
B. E
Wellington
Ae Wellington Visiblewriter CO
Old South
Typewriter Exchange
Bromfield St
West End Dispensary
Bowdoin Sq
Cambridge St
Newfoundland
New Caplin
Yerxa
Central Sq
Thomas Snow & Son
No. Market St
Rodman Schapff
Albee’s
Heinemann
Slyb
Sheriff's
Suffolk
William H. Berry
Custom House Street
Albert C. Tilden
Elma Westervelt
Gnaying Ie
M. Westervelt
Guy’s
Canal St
Whitman Oco
Sullivan Sq
bio-SuluThatt
Jordan Marsh Co
Oriental Bug Salesmen
Mi. Ahaw
Tororton A
Market St
Prov
U. S. Marine Corps
Art St
Mass
C. C
Boston Civil Service “School
Post Office
Internal Revenue
Haverhill St
James Coyne
M. E
Lockport
Nuk
Quaker City Rubber CO
Moneyweight Scale CO
Congress
Franklin Str
Collins
Plymouth Rubber CO
Stoughton
J. Keezer
Tremont J
Albert Brooks Music CO
Home _st
N.Y
Ceace
Tas Draughtsman
Medh
Svensson
Tennyson St
Rothfuchs
Grad
Harvard Medical School
Park Sq
James C.ady
Eeaoe
Berkeley St
A.O. Brown & Co. Say
Rep
Marston
Marston’s
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