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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 30, 1913

Page

12

Market Hesitates Before Holiday in Yesterday's Trading

Total sales in New York reached 298 700 shares and Boston 21 081. Steel common led New York with 66 600 and Butte & Superior led Boston with 7 043. Year to date totals show New York 57 897 100 and Boston 3 527 999. Comparisons to last year show declines in both cities. Notable gains include Am Snuff in New York and Calumet & Hecla in Boston. notable losses include United Cigar Stores in New York and Boston & Albany in Boston. Call money NY 2 3 8%, Boston 3%. Time money NY 3 3 4 to 5 1 2%, Boston 5 1 4 to 6%.

New York Boston Steel Common Butte & Superior Am. Snuff United Cigar Stores Calumet & Hecla Albany

New York Market Edges Higher on Holiday Approach

Market lifted in morning trading as bears faded and leaders Smelting, Steele and others pushed prices to new highs. By afternoon, selling and a few weak stocks pulled the list off, with heaviness near the close. Investors remained cautiously hopeful about Mexico, monetary conditions, and bond offerings.

New York Mexico Bears Steele Missouri Pacific New York Central New Haven Union Pacific Southern Pacific Toledo St. Louis Western

Copper Stocks Show Strong Tone With Butte & Superior Lead

The New England market reports a firm copper trade with Butte & Superior pushing up from 29 1 4 to 31 as the day’s business hits 7043 shares. Granby rises to 68 3 8 amid profits noted at 1 207 661 for the year ended June 30 and large ore reserves at Hidden Creek. Disbursements across Utah Copper Chino Ray Consolidated Nevada Consolidated total millions, with Utah and Nevada shares receiving substantial portions of the current payouts.

Boston Butte & Superior Granby Nichols Hidden Creek Porphyries Utah Copper Chino Ray Consolidated Nevada Consolidated Chino and Ray Utah Ray Nevada Ww. F. Bartholomew Thompson, Towle & Co New York Post

Dividends Declared by Copper and Power Companies

Utah Copper Company pays a regular quarterly dividend of 75 cents a share on Sept. 20. books close Sept. 9. Jevada Consolidated Copper and Rhino Copper declare 37.5 and 75 cents respectively, payable Sept. 30 with Sept. 9 book closes. Pocasset Manufacturing 1.34 percent on Sept. 1 to Aug. 25 record. Packard Motor Car and Eastern Power and Light issue 1.4 and 1.34 percent on preferred stock payable Sept. 15 with record dates Aug. 30 and Aug. 30. West Pennsylvania Traction and Water Power 1.44 percent on preferred stock payable Sept. 15 with Sept. 5 record.

Essa Tel& Tel East Ohio Bk RT Brklyn U Cal Et Corp Can Pacific Esate Erie Goodrich BF Co Goodrich BF Pf Nor M Bx Co Nc&sl Sas Tee Utah Copper Company Pep Jevada Consolidated Copper Company Sabi Des Sefe Rhino Copper Company Base Oe Consolidated Copper Pocasset Manufacturing Company Packard Motor Gar Company Eastern Power and Light Corporation

State Street Topics Stocks Hold Near Recent Highs

Traders faced a near holiday lull as activity stayed tentative with prices unchanged from recent peaks. Steel common rose to near its June high, while Reading Union Pacific slipped slightly. call money eased and cotton and grain moved little amid crop prospects and a looming government report.

Amalgamated Reading Union Pacific Wall Street Chicago

Stock Exchange Bond Transactions Report

Total sales reached 1 417 000 in thousands of dollars, up from 1 216 000 yesterday and 1 185 000 a week ago. For January 1 to date, 346 571 009 against 500 487 000 a year ago.

Bradstreet’s Trade Signals Mixed Amid Shifts in Regions

Bradstreet’s notes uneven trade signals with Western buying cautious yet firm and Eastern markets showing vigor in textiles. Textile mills resume, print cloths rise while calico prices fall. New England shoe plants run below full capacity. Canadian activity improving with fewer failures than last year.

New York New England Canada Ontario Northwest

Bond market shifts in major issues spark cautious trading

The Toledo St. Louis and Western 4s rose five points on light volume before sales were cancelled. Other notes cited include New York City issues Chicago Great Western 4s New York and New Haven convertibles and St Louis and Iron Mountain 5s alongside United States government bonds.

Toledo St. Louis

Priest Drowned Bathing Near Dunkirk in Lake Erie

The Rev. Feather Christopher Schissl a veteran Passionist missionary priest was drowned while bathing with Father Ow r off Point Gratiot near Dunkirk New York. He was swept out by a large wave and did not survive though the body had not been recovered.

Dunkirk N. Y Feather Christopher Schissl Congregation of Passionists Lake Erie Point Gratiot Here

No Tender Steak Sparks Witty Restaurant Banter

A diner complains the steak is not tender while a weary waiter quips that it did not kiss him. The exchange captures a brief, humorous moment of restaurant banter amid service fatigue.

Fish arrivals at T wharf slow. good market sizes and easing prices

Vessel arrivals at T wharf slowed yesterday while catches remained large and prices eased. Russell and others brought in swordfish and groundfish. multiple mackerel boats reported varying cargoes. Beatrice, Breaker, Androscoggin sailings noted along with lumber and fruit shipments and transatlantic steamers bound for Boston and Liverpool.

T Wharf Russell Alert Mary Ruth Mildred Agnes Independence Osther Byrda F Haddock Hake Cod Rufbch Mary I. Costa Margaret Dillon KE. Sperling Pollock Rip Wellfleet Cape Cod John Steele Androscoggin Marblehead H. M. Broadbent Gresham Broadbent Sonderklasse Maple Leaf Mildred H. Cochran Arthur J. Parker Beatrice United Fruit Company Wood Nantucket Berry Howard Boston Liverpool Schonfels Calcutta Suez Indrasamha Hiogo Perim Indore Hamburg Lizard Devonian Charlies F. Flammand

Shipping News From The Port With Numerous Vessels

Shipping arrivals cleared and sailed list includes steamers Beatrice Howes Edison Light and City of Rockland. schooners Mineola Jessie Ashley. tugs Valley Forge and Coleraine. barges Kohinoor and Shenandoah plus revenue cutter Androscoggin. ports including Gloucester Boston New York Baltimore and Liverpool.

Beatrice Sarenssen Port Antonio Halifax Howes Charlottetown Bunker Hill Crowell New York Edison Light Meech Sewall’s Point Camden Sawyer Bangor Bay State Strout Portland City of Rockland Hawthorne Bath City of Gloucester Limekin Gloucester Persian Page Philadelphia Middlesex Crowley Norfolk Prince Arthur Kinney Yarmouth Nantucket Wood Baltimore Massisoi Ingersoll Machiasport James S. Whitney Cape Ann Godfrey Valley Forge Lablich Kohinoor Thomas J. Scully Pateman Shenandoah Charles T. Gallagher Pierce Fort Point Boston Edwin L. Pillsbury Swimm Lynn Merriam Honey Brook Collins Ross Liverpool Devonian Trant Georgian Parry Manchester Toronto Rbr Wing Hull Virginia Ofsted Copenhagen James Whitney John J. Hanson Wilkinson San Juan Lizzie B. Willey Rivers Bridgewater Jessie Ashley Spicer Morden Mark Gael Soria Buenos Ayres Esparza Port Simon Governor Cobb St. John Howard Parima Virginian Androscoggin Marblehead Coleraine Enterprise Joshua Lovett Lambert’s Point Edith Pallas Neptune Beverly

Bond Market Notes and Public Bond Bids Across Several States

Berlin New Hampshire awards 150090 4 1 2 per cent public improvement bonds to E H Rollins Sons with Blodget Co and N W Harris Co as bidders. Maine seeks bids by 2 pm Oct 1 for 300000 4 per cent highway bonds dated Sept 1 1913 maturing 1 to 40 years at par or above. Dedham Massachusetts sells 13000 5 per cent miscellaneous notes due in 1 to 3 years to W L Raymond Co with Adams Co and Perry Coffin Burr bidding. Michigan Central sells 2000000 one year 6 per cent notes through J P Morgan Co to investors at better than 6 per cent.

Berlin N. H E. H. Rollins & Sons Blodget & Co N. W. Harris & Co Maine Dedham Mass W. L. Raymond & Co Adams & Co Perry, Coffin & Burr Michigan Central J.P. Morgan & Co

Calumet & Arizona to Enter Helvetia District by Acquiring Tip Top Assets

Reports indicate Calumet & Arizona plans to take over Tip Top Copper Company properties in the Helvetia mining district. A full investigation is underway. Tip Top owns the Bulldozer mine. NYSE holds 1913 Pennsylvania Railroad subscription receipts at 6 percent, with further installments suspended until notified.

Calumet & Arizona Helvetia Tip Top Copper Company Tip Top New York Stock Exchange

Historic 5 and 6 Percent Mortgage Bonds Faced by Trust Banks

A list of long term notes and mortgages includes 5 percent and 6 percent bonds payable at various trust banks in Chicago Boston New York and Pensacola. Institutions named include Hamilton Light and Power Company Harris Trust & Savings Bank State Street Trust Company Old Colony Trust Company Citizens Savings Bank and others. The notes cover utilities and railway ventures with first mortgages and convertible features on some issues.

Hamilton Light and Power Company Office of Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank Chicago Harris Trust and Savings Bank Harris, Forbes & Company New York N. W. Harris & Company, Inc Boston Jacksonville Traction Company First State Street Trust Company Pensacola Electric Company Old Colony Trust Company People’s Light, Power and Railway Company First Mortgage Citizens’ Savings Bank Paducah Kentucky Seattle Electric Company Seattle Everett

Big Future in Russia for New England Trade

The Boston Commercial Bulletin notes vast American exports to Russia in the year ending June 30 1913 led by agricultural implements copper cotton binder twine and typewriters. It argues Russia offers enduring demand with a population over 160 million and extensive untapped resources, urging Massachusetts and Boston to push trade including hardware shoes machinery automobiles and fruits while expanding direct shipments beyond Europe.

Russia Boston Commercial Bulletin Curtis Guild Canada London Hull Antwerp Marseilles Hamburg England Belgium France Germany Cuba Haiti San Domingo Mexico Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras Guatemala Salvador Panama Colombia Venezuela Brazil Uruguay Paraguay Argentina Chile Bolivia Peru Ecuador Russian Empire Ery Latin America United States Massachusetts Boston

Dun's Weekly Review Signals Widening Economic Recovery

Dun's Review predicts revived commercial and industrial activity with growing business optimism. Merchants anticipate a strong fall and winter as stocks must be replenished, tariff effects ease, and monetary conditions improve. Iron and steel show better momentum, dry goods markets strengthen, cotton goods stay steady, and bank clearings rise versus prior years.

New York Dun's

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