Tight money dulls market as Amalgamated leads with mixed moves
The market in New York and Boston stays dull as tight money curbs activity. Amalgamated Copper fluctuates around 69 1 8 to 72 6 8, closing near 70 6 8, while other issues ease and traders await clearer signals on copper production and dividends.
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Amalgamated
New York
Boston
Delaware & Lackawanna
General Electric
St. Paul
Rock Island
Manhattan
Isle Royale
Trinity
Old Dominion
Parrot
Utah
Atlantic
Quincy
Amalgamated Copper Company
Montana
Lawson
Evening Post
Gunners
Boston News Bureau
Amalgamated ‘Gunners
Boston News
Time Money
N. Y
Old Colony Copper Company
H. S. Fay
Hogers L. Barstow
John C. Watson
William Howell Reed
W. B. Mosman
R. Dow
James Chynoweth
Wall Street Gladiators Clash Over Amalgamated Stock War
A veteran trader denounces modern Wall Street tactics behind Amalgamated copper stock turmoil. He argues press agents manipulate public opinion while asserting his own long history of risk and integrity. He accuses financial elites of hypocrisy and calls for accountability amid market slaughter.
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Wall Street
Grand Central Depot
Trinity Church
Amalgamated
Amalgamated Stockholders Urged to Consider Owner’s View
A company insider addresses Amalgamated stockholders outlining deep knowledge of properties and assets, company plans, and dividend history. He asserts his long-time status as a major owner and rejects hostile accusations from critics who he says are paid to speak ill.
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Amalgamated
Amalgamated Company
Slaughter Plot Said To Drive Amalgamated Stock Drop
The text alleges a planned campaign by New York speculators to slaughter Amalgamated investors across America and Europe to secure certain heavy holdings including the Daly estate. It claims the scheme used Casey letters and copper rumors to panic markets and force short selling, with profits hidden by Wall Street houses.
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Amalgamated
America
Europe
Daly
New York
Casey
London
Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Amalgamated Company Wealth and Planning Disputed
The Amalgamated campaign is defended as carefully planned and conservatively capitalized. Prominent figures including Rogers and Rockefeller and Morgan and Flower supposedly investigated and endorsed its assets and earning power, while critics are deemed to spread false tales of high pricing and instability.
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Amalgamated Company
Wall Street
Messrs
Rogers and
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Messrs. Stillman and Olcott
New York
Messrs Morgan and
Flower
America
Amalgamated
Ecard
Amalgamated stock and copper claims questioned in Wall Street report
The article argues Amalgamated’s capitalizations at 75 and 80 million were justified by coal lumber railroad and other incomes excluding copper, asserts Calumet & Hecla’s copper—valued at 64 million—outweighs Amalgamated and dismisses rumors of receiverships or heavy reorganizations as unfounded. It notes zinc on butteBoston exchanges and rival talk of blind pools as silly.
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Wall Street
Amalgamated
Butte & Boston
Boston & Montana
Calumet & Hecla
Amalgamated Company
The Amalgamated Copper Company Wealth Claim
The Amalgamated Copper Company is described as highly solvent with vast cash assets and extensive holdings in copper mines railroads banking and real estate. The piece argues the firm could weather prices high or low and still provide strong returns, challenging the notion of a dividend cut to four percent.
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Amalgamated Copper Company
America
Amalgamated Company
Change of Management Warns Stockholders at Amalgamated
Boston December 11 1901 headline notes no harm from management change for Amalgamated stock as rumors push prices. It urges stockholders to hold par value, cites insurers owning shares, and warns directors may profit from sales to insurers while awaiting the next annual election.
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Amalgamated
Boston
Aldermen Acton Hurley Charged by Mayor Hurley
Salem reports the Aldermen dismissed most charges against Police Marshal Hart and Officers, with only Hurley and Carr found to have an altercation. Carr may be reprimanded and Hurley fined a week’s pay. Golathwatt tax bill charge not sustained. Ricker named to sewerage commission replacing Neving.
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Salem
Board of Aldermen
Hurley
Hart
Carr
Tfurley
Abercrombe
Jarrett
Butler
Wes
Suslaid
Smith
Massachusetts division elects delegates and club committee
At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts division board, Chief Consul George A. Perkin and officers were elected delegates to the convention in Torrington Connecticut on February 12. George Nash, Charles W. Merce of Brighton, and I. Be ward of Revere were elected a clubice committee.
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Fiie
Massachusetts
Yesteraz
George A. Perkin
L. Howland
Aaron Welfson
J.C. Kerrison
A. W Robinson
Seward
Torrington
Conn
Tiworge
Nash
Charles W. Merce
Brighton
I. Beward
Revere
Tuittee
Eagles to Invite Mayor to Second Annual Boston Ball
The Boston Aerie 45 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles held a largely attended meeting at the American House. James A. Watson was named dance committee chairman and the ball planned for Mead Hall on Wednesday evening February 5. Mayoral invitations were approved for Mayor-elect Collins and Cambridge Mayor-elect McNamee.
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Boston Aerie
Order of Eagles
American House
James A. Watson
Watson
William T. Gartland
Joseph P. Glancy
Mead Hall
The
Eagles
Collins
McNamee
Cambridge
Cambridge Aerie
F. O. BE
Boston
John A. Sullivan
James H. Doyle
John A. Kelcher
Patrick Bowen
James A. Gallivan
John J. Gartland, Jr
Richard F. Foley
Hall
John E. Sheehan
Daniel F. Curran
James. H. Doyle
Robert Crb
Frank 8. Hickey
John J Connell
James White
Billiard Cup Awarded and Challenges Issued
Ned Splaine of Hub Billiard Rooms secured a silver cup symbolizing New England amateur billiard supremacy. Charles E. Smith of Boston won the championship and plans to defend the cup against any New England amateur challenger. The cup is being made in New York and should arrive in about two weeks with a probable 14 inch balk line game as the contest format.
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Ned Splaine
Hub Billiiard Rooms
New England
Charles 8. Smith
Boston
Smith
Eagie
New York
Jenks Trial Opens for Assault with Dangerous Weapon
Ferdinand L. Jenks of Millis faced a Superior Court jury on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to kill against Charles Maier of Norwood. The trial opened before Judge Sherman in Dedham with Jenks pleading not guilty and three lawyers for the defense. The defense presented its side at the afternoon adjournment.
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Dedham
Ferdinand L. Jenks
Millis
Charles Maier
Norwood
Walpole
Sherman
Jenks
Wesleyan Association Annual Meeting Held at Parker House
The Wesleyan Association owners of Zion's Herald met at Parker House with Vice-President Matthew Robson presiding. Delegates from New England and other conferences attended as they discussed paper needs after a banquet. The annual dividend was declared.
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The
Wesleyan Association
Zion's Herald
Parker House
Matthew Robson
New England
New Hampshire
Mains
East Maine
Catholic Women in New Fiction Delves Two Catholic Novels
Katherine Conway's Lalor's Maples and Mary Catherine Crowley's A Daughter of New France debut as contrasted Catholic stories. The Bostonian Conway portrays a modern domestic plot where interfaith marriage tests faith and family dynamics. Crowley's Detroit era romance centers on love crossing religion amid military life and colonial conflict with vivid court and spy intrigue.
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Katherine FR. Conway
Mary Catherine Crowley
Miss Conway
Sacred Heart
Manhattanville
Miss Crowley
Crowleys
Camerons
Boston
Rochester
N. Y
Baychester
John Boyle Oreilly
Pilot
Buffalo
Lance
Detroit River
Normand
Miladi
America
New France
Lalor
Mildred Lalor
Raymond Fitzgerald
Mildred
Raymond
Maples
Lalors
Palmer Ellis
Mr. Ellis
Europe
Murder in New Bedford Stabbing Ends in Death
John Mowbray known as Jimmy the Lar rag picker was fatally stabbed at his Turner's court home in the North End. An Italian laborer, suspected of the murder, has disappeared. Witnesses say frequent gatherings and liquor fueled a confrontation as Mowbray was stabbed twice in the chest.
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New Bedford
John Mowbray
Jimmy the Lar
North End
Mowbray
Turner's Court
Frank Lesser
Thomas J. Lovejoy
Nancy
Mowbray's
Ceft Elde
Best Selling Six Books The Post's Report From Boston Stores
The Post lists top six books for the week ending December 11 with an imagined average based on first to sixth place points. Titles include The Right of Way The Ruling Passion Stir Richard Calmady The Portion of Labor and The Benefactress among others from publishers such as Wolfe Fiske Co Houghton and Dutton.
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Boston
Stir Richard Calmady
PD fu_and I
Lagzarre
The
Cavalier
Marietta
Truth
Stexter
R. H. White
Kimi
TY RI
Glengarri
Ie Wolfe, Fiske « CO
Blennerhassett
Richard Calmady
Latiriat
Sir Richard Calmady
Houghton & Dutton
Dri and
Jtavarre
Larrabee
Holiday edition of Quincy Adams Sawyer and notes on readings
The piece discusses a finely illustrated holiday edition of Quincy Adams Sawyer with aviated binding and gilt top, contrasts with earlier textless editions, and surveys topics from marriage as a sacrament to a play adaptation of She Stands Alone. It cites Julian Whiting on marriage, James Creelman’s war reporting, and library access questions regarding children’s room books.
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Warriage
Julian Whiting
James Creelman
Battle of
San Juan
Will
Post
Eugene F
The
Bates Hall
Pontius Pilate
Quarrel Apparently Ends with Sharp Knife Incident
A conflict behind the heart area leads to a sharp knife involved in a disturbance. Witnesses cannot provide a clear statement of the quarrel. Police are investigating the unclear melee and identifying those present.
Fire devastates Dennison Paper building and nearby drugstore
A fire at 1:45 A M destroyed the Dennison Paper Manufacturing Company store at 1 Broadway and quickly spread through the six story building, threatening Jlegeman's drug store at 1 Broadway. Firefighters fought the blaze as flames engulfed the block in New York on December 1.
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New York
Dennison Paper Manufacturing Company
Broadway
Jlegeman
Dance winners named in crowded local event
Report from a march night at The Grind lists prizes and participants led by Charles Crowley Jr and Frank Maguire. Winners include Miss Mamie, Miss Gladys, and Miss Annie Barrin with prize ties noted for a dance contest and a bridge game.
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Jake ‘Freedman
Charles Crowley, Jr
Raymond
Louis Free
Annie Barrin
Frank Maguire
Canal
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L. A. W. Elections
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