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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1914
Page
14
A bank view warns inflation may rise as emergency currency expands. Gold money circulation drops while silver certificates rise. banks hold gold notes as reserves and fear liquidation after wartime shocks. Experts urge gradual price shrinkage and a cautious readjustment to prevent further market disruption.
Instructions outline weekly Monday financial Q A in Boston Post. Respondents to specify one subject per inquiry and provide full name and address for consideration. Answers cover listed and unlisted New England industrial, utility, bank and mill stocks and bonds with impartial data from trustworthy sources.
The paper declines to advise on security purchases. It notes Canadian Pacific shows about 11 percent earnings on par value over five years, or roughly 10.5 percent on a 340 close, a strong rate for a high grade railroad in normal times but uncertain under current market conditions amid wartime capital allocations.
Preferred Dividend No 15 and Common Dividend No 11 declared is semi annual at 3.00 and 3.50 per share respectively payable September 15 1914 to stockholders of record September 5 1914. Webster Transfer Agents.
The piece discusses stock pressure if the exchange opens and foreign selling for Canadian Pacific, estimating US holdings at around 50 percent after recent liquidations. It notes banks aim to keep the exchange closed until foreign selling is checked. It also covers American Agricultural Chemical Co. stance on potash supply, asserting minimal earnings impact and potential substitutes, with fiscal 1914 results.
Massachusetts organized labor will wage a fall campaign to defeat re elected legislators who opposed labor measures at the State House. Labor experts will campaign in districts of those men with unions and central bodies coordinating. The plan emerged from a meeting of the American Federation of Labor State branch executives and legislative committee. Roll calls on labor legislation will be issued to guide the effort.
The Boston conference backed the Garment Workers Union strike and pledged full moral and financial support. It outlined plans for the State labor convention at Musicians Hall September 21 to 24, with hotel arrangements, badges, and the mechanics lien bill on the agenda.
Women from the Women's Trade Union League led a mass meeting to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Labor groups including bricklayers and stonemasons and stationers plotted events, wage disputes, and organizing campaigns across Greater Boston.
Joseph M. Gerrity, retired district chief of the Boston Fire Department, died yesterday in Brookline. The funeral will be from his brother Warren F. Gerrity’s home at 50 Brooks Street Wednesday at 9 am with a solemn requiem mass at St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption at 10 am. He belonged to Mt. Vernon Council 1389 Knights of Columbus Mt. Washington Lodge 115 A. O. U. W.
The company reports a deficit of 100000 dollars on December 31 1913. Net liabilities stand around 100000 dollars after factoring in cash and unsold copper about 50000 dollars and debts including 175000 dollars on notes and 41000 in accounts payable. An assessment of 2 dollars per share is planned to cover debts and fund continued development hoping for eventual earnings for stockholders.
A Boston Bakers Union 7 gathering included Germans French Russians and Englishmen who sang their national anthems amid war talk. Die Wacht am Rhein was proposed and sung with enthusiasm while God Save the King and The Marseillaise followed. Membership spans many European nations and many bakers have served in armies now at war.
Four youths aged 14 to 17 were arrested after midnight by Station 15 police for assaulting and robbing 48 year old Alexander McLaughlin on Medford street near North Mead. McLaughlin lost a $60 gold watch and 87 cents. Officers Landrigan and O'Brien secured the youths, who gave names Warren Smith Edward Flynn John Lane and Daniel McCarty. A hearing is set for this morning.
A car with three men struck an electric vehicle and Dr. Theodore C. Haskell’s car near Newport Rhode Island. One man, believed to be an enlisted navy man named Chief Yeoman Davis, died. Cornelius Harrington and Dr Haskell’s wife and child were shaken but unhurt or only slightly bruised.
Thomas J. Elliott Murray Shannon and William D. Arsenault of Amesbury were injured when their car skidded on the Haverhill road and overturned. Neighbors freed them. doctors from Amesbury and Haverhill treated scalp wound leg and hand injuries and contusions. All are expected to recover.
Ginastino Giampo a 45 year old man from 11 Henchman Street North End killed himself by jumping from a window yesterday after grieving the death of his daughter. He left a widow and had become despondent after the loss.
The Tarantula, a torpedo-boat destroyer styled pleasure yacht flying a British flag, sailed from Boston Harbor aboard to the berth. Rumors say a rich Canadian intends to present her to England after months at Lachey’s ship yard Neponset. formerly owned by W. K. Vanderbilt amid secrecy on wartime preparations.
Princeton trustees will consider an article by Lucius Hopkins Miller, head of biblical instruction, and a reply by Rev. Dr. Ford C. Ottman of Stamford Connecticut. Ottman accuses Miller of heresy in a brochure titled The Devil in Cap and Gown, issued with Princeton colors.
A runaway horse hitched to a light carriage fled from School street through Tremont and past Park Street Church and St. Pauls Cathedral. George Libby of the Clarendon Renting Co. pursued in a car with Officer Cosgrove, finally stopping the horse on Brookline street. Owner is August Spiller & Co.. no serious injuries.
The text presents disjointed lines about the seashore and a childlike scene. It mentions a swimmer and a family dynamic with a tone of frustration and casual references to daily actions. The passage is impressionistic rather than a coherent narrative.
Dr. Ottman says trustees largely oppose Miller's teachings after circulating a critical brochure at the Stony Brook Bible conference. Miller is absent from Princeton awaiting September term. President Hibben has just returned. The pamphlet excerpts Miller on Christ's birthplace and lineage, drawing stern church and academic rebuke.
A report details the arrest of Miss May Leverich of Brooklyn who allegedly posed as a young woman on a ship to lure Brooklyner passengers. Authorities say a male spy used an occupied stateroom to hide her during the night.
An explosion in the early hours destroyed the operating office of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Butte Montana. The blast follows the miners jurisdictional dispute and prompts state militia deployment. Governor Stewart ordered the Second Regiment of Montana National Guard to mobilize in Helena. troops expected by tomorrow.
The American flag failed to fly over Faneuil Hall last evening for the first time in years. The rope broke during a German magi meeting in the Wall, dropping the flag into the cupola where it remained hours until a passerby alerted City Hall. Custodian William A. McLaughlin arranged replacement on the staff.
Joseph Ferreira justice of the peace married last night in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross sanctuary to Miss Anna Jesso. A reception followed with 1 person noted. The ceremony was performed by Rev. John W. Cahane. Mr and Mrs Ferreira will reside at 1474 Washington Street.
In Brighton on August 30 Frank G. Lamachia dies. Funeral from 186 North Beacon Street and services at St Columbkille's Church on Wednesday at 9.
Miss Leverich recalls four days in a Genoa to Gibraltar voyage sharing a stateroom with a cordial old lady in black who read constantly and kissed good night. The companion proved to be a German spy captured by the British at Gibraltar.
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