09 Dec 1904
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
1
Lawson insists yesterday’s trading showed continued price decline with earnings outlook dimming. Analysts note broad weakness across sectors as investors reassess inflation impact and demand trends in the near term.
The Lawson bear campaign caused a multi hundred million dollar swing in Dow stocks with Amalgamated leading losses. Prices dipped, recovered, then fluctuated as pools pushed prices up before a sharp decline amid short selling and insider selling pressure.
A telegraph dispatch from London reports that all Russian battleships and cruisers in Port Arthur were sunk or destroyed, with only torpedo boat destroyers intact. Japanese plans aim to target torpedo boats next before attacking transports, while separate Vermont coverage notes a Sunday execution debate over Mary Rogers and a reaction across the state.
At Madison Square Garden New York the six day race standings as of 1 o clock this morning show root and Derlin Vanderstuyft Stol Breton Gougoltz Samuelson Williams Turville Mettling Keegan Logan Krebs Folger Palmer Abraz all in tight pursuit.
Local forecast for Boston and vicinity: Friday will be fair and colder. The weather is described as suitable for coughs and colds, with improving conditions expected later.
Mrs Cassie L Chadwick, the so called woman of millions, is jailed in the Tombs after bail of 15000 could not be posted. She faces potential charges connected to the Madame De Vere affair and Carnegie notes amid ongoing Wade Park and Oberlin Bank matters.
Miss Lilla S Keene a 24 year old Milton Academy teacher from Jamaica Plain Boston stayed with her uncle Charles E Palmer in Bath Maine. She left the house for a walk in the afternoon and did not return by nightfall raising fears she may have ended her life by leaping into the Kennebec River after reporting overwork and nervous breakdown. Police found footprints near a wharf as relatives and authorities joined in a search.
At the American league magnates meeting Ban Johnson's salary was raised to 10000 dollars. The foul strike rule was debated but ended with no change. W Somers of Cleveland was reelected vice president, and directors were assigned to Boston St Louis Philadelphia and Detroit.
A note requests sending a good likeness home for Christ Ay, directing that a proper portrait or image be prepared and delivered to CHICKERING by the estimated Saturday deadline.
A baby girl playing with matches started a blaze in the rear rooms of George W. Miller's home at 125 Dartmouth Street on the second floor. Firefighters took over half an hour to extinguish the 6500 dollar fire. The child crawled to safety in the doorway and watched the crews work.
Vienna reports November results show 469 asthma cures and 441 catarrh cures in the United States. The Austrian dispensary at 6 East Fourteenth Street, New York, provides ascatco free to sufferers who apply by letter, highlighting the remedy’s efficacy.
Wealthy merchant B. T. Hughes and his wife and two daughters were killed last night in Augusta area home by three intruders who entered via the rear. Hughes went to the hallway and was shot. the house then burned as investigators sought bloodhounds from Columbia.
George Ketcham of Toledo was found not guilty of establishing a fraudulent record for his trotting stallion Crescens at the Wichita track on Oct. 19, 1903. The American Trotting Association board expelled Southern Kansas Fair Association officials and President C. H. Irwin for connivance, voiding Crescens’s claimed 1,593-4 world record.
Treasury Department official in Washington extols Father John's Medicine as life saving. Claims it cures colds and prevents pneumonia and notes fifty years of use.
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