Market dullness persists amid mixed gains and losses
New York and Boston stock activity remains muted with total sales to date showing modest gains and declines. Det. Un. Ry. and Boston & Maine post gains while Island Creek pref. and Texas Co. slide. Interborough traction issues lead a cautious rally as dividends loom.
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New York
Boston
Steel Common
Det. UN. Ry
Texas Co
Boston & Maine
Island Creek Pref
Local Market Dull With Irregular Copper Prices
The market opened flat then firm briefly before zigzagging and closing lower in active copper issues. Smelting shares traded near 512 for common and 47 for preferred, with Lake Copper and Butte Coalitions showing activity. Island Creek preferred fell 234 points to 87 as news and rumors about Calumet and Heela circulated without clear outcomes.
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Lake Copper and
Butte Coalition
Island Creek Preferred
Boston & Maine
Calumet & Heela
Copper plant near-cobalt and other mining notes
Balaklala smelter may resume Dec 28 after a temporary closure. Adolph Lewissohn buys Wettlaufer Silver Mines at South Lorrain Ontario from Kerr Lake interests. Liberty Trust adopts profit sharing for employees. Miami mill expected to start Jan 10 treating 14 tons daily. Algomah drill reports rich copper ore near Lake lode and outlines next hole 300 feet from surface. Boston Worcester Company officers re elected with no action on preferred dividends. Butte Central development continues, sinking shaft to 1000 feet and considering a processing plant. Boston exchanges to close Dec 4 and Dec 26.
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Adolph Lewissohn
Wettlaufer
South Lorrain
Cobalt
Ontario
Kerr Lake
Algomah
Lake Lode
Freeman T. Davison
Butte
Butte Central
Acme
Ariz Mines
Nevada
Bay State Gas
Trohemla
Boston Ely
UU Boswyocolo
Caetus Ap
Calaveras
Chino
Po Corbin
Im Cortez
Davis Dals
BO Dom Syndicate
Luebel Fo
Goldfield Consolay
Humboldt
Kruger
Laramie
Mackinaw
Majestic
Mollie Gibson
Utah
Ohio
South Lake
United Verde
Open HI
Catalec
Boston curb market shows varied price shifts and steady large trades
The Boston Ely break from 11 to 0 cents, Calaveras around 27 8, Mackinaw down from 24 to 15 cents, and steady large transactions in Amalgamated Nevada Champion and Unite Verde Extension defined yesterday's curb market. List of price changes provided.
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Boston Ely
Calaveras
Mackinaw
Nevada
Champion
Unite Verde
Chicago Grain Quotations and Major Stocks
Grain quotations include Am Can preferred Twin City R. preferred and Utah Copper while Hedley Gold Mining and Swift & Co. prepare for books close. Market participants track price moves and announcements across key producers and exchanges.
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Twin City
Hedley Gold Mining
Swift & Co
Massachusetts Gas Companies Post November Earnings Rise
The subsidiary companies of the Massachusetts Gas Companies report November net earnings available for dividends at 214 288 dollars, up 5320 dollars or 2.55 percent from a year earlier. October earnings rose 319 679 dollars or 11.19 percent. November figures compare as follows.
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Massachusetts Gas Companies
Coffee prices to rise as world market tightens supply
Wholesale coffee costs climb to the highest level since 1899 1900, with consumption outpacing production. Brazilian government stockpiles and bond-backed loans limit sales, signaling higher retail prices and a larger impact on lower grade blends used by poorer consumers.
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Brazil
18 Victims in Season of Hunting Ends in New England
The New England hunting season closed with 18 deaths across the states, fewer than prior years. Half the victims were under 21, with one New Hampshire mother killed by a loaded gun mishandled by her seven year old son.
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New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Massachusetts
Alfred Lane
Haynesville
Clarence Leach
South Union
Albert Ryder
West Scarboro
Charles Carey
Waterville
Millage Lyons
Webster Plantation
Foxcraft
Robert Wallace
Whitefield
Irving Brainard
Brideton
Lawrence
Mass
Bond Market Notes and Readings on Listings in 1910s NYSE
Athol Massachusetts grants a temporary loan of 10000 to Estabrook & Co at 3.56 percent discount plus 59 cents premium. Stocks and bonds listed include Reading Company 41.1 million, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron 4 percent bonds due 1997, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 31000 added, Coal River Railway 4 percent bonds due 1945 with 690000 added, Wabash Pittsburg Terminal 593000, Columbia Trust CDs for first mortgage 4 percent bonds totaling 256? million, Central Trust Company CDs for first mortgage 4 percent bonds and Central Trust Company of New York committee CDs with 17285000 added, Guaranty Trust Company CDs 50000000, New York Central lines equipment trust 1910 at 4.125 percent, Southern Pacific 15000000, Southern Pacific San Francisco Terminal 4 percent bonds due 1950 with 4000000 added, total listed about 79.812 million.
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Interborough
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
New York Central
Northern Pacific
Baltimore & Ohio
Atchison, Chesapeake & Ohbto
St. Paul
Kansas
Depity Brees South
Lehigh Wall
Manhattan
Minn
St Louis
MK & Terives
Missouri Pacific
Nevada
Central
Ist
LIZ
Nynh& Si
Norfolk & Western
Pacific Mail
Pacific T & TT
Pennsylvania
I Son Philadelphia Co
Rep Iron & Steel
Rock Island
Tennessee Copper
Texas Pacific
The
Texas Co
Third Avenue
Soo
U Rys Invest
U S Steel
Westinghouse
Wheeling & TL Erie
Wisconsin Central
Athol
Mass
Estabrook & Co
New York Stock Exchange
Reading Company
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company
Chesapeake & Ohio, Railway Company
Coal River Railway Company
Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Railway Company
Columbia Trust Company
Central Trust Company of New York
Central Trust Company of
New York
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York Central Lines Equipment Trust
Southern Pacific Company
San Francisco
Baldwin to Retain Yale Post After Governorship
Governor-elect Simgon E. Baldwin will not leave his Yale Law School duties when he becomes governor next month. He plans to continue part time teaching while holding the office, according to aides.
Miss Edith Wills Becomes Wife of Captain Kelton
Newburyport December 15. Edith R Wills 35 marries Captain Robert H C Kelton U S A of Washington at a local ceremony led by Reverend Lawrence Hayward. Kelton is son of the late General John C Kelton and recently returned from postings on the Chinese coast and the Philippines now at Fort Washington Maryland.
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Newburyport
Edith R. Wills
Nathan Appleton
Robert H. C. Kelton
Washington
Lawrence Hayward
Wills
Appleton
Miss Wills
Nottingham
Boston
Captain Kelton
John C. Kelton
Philippines
Fort Washington
Maryland
Dividends Declared by Major Companies This Quarter
American Locomotive Co. declares 1 3 4 percent for preferred stock with record date Jan 4. Baldwin Co. declares 1 1 2 percent preferred and 2 percent common, record dates Dec 31. Massachusetts Gas Co. 1 percent common, record Jan 18. Citizens Gas Co. of Quincy 2 percent, record Dec 29. Newton & Watertown Gas 2 percent, record Dec 29. East Boston Gas 2 1 2 percent, record Dec 2. Des Site stock of record Dec 31.
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American Locomotive Co
Baldwin Co
Massachusetts Gas Co.'s
Citizens’ Gas Co
Quincy
Newton & Watertown Gas Co
East Boston Gas Co
City Eyes Loans for Lamp Equipment and Brighton Incinerator
Superintendent Louis K. Rourke urged the Mayor to seek City Council approval for loans to fund street lamp equipment at about 310000 and a new garbage incinerator at about 75000 to be built in Brighton. Rourke says the incinerator should be built soon to test a new disposal system, and the lamp project could start after street lighting bids are reviewed.
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Louis K. Rourke
Brighton
Rourke
Last Day for Filing Papers in City Election
Election officials received the last batch of nomination signatures by 5 PM. Five council candidates passed 5000 certified signatures yesterday, with Buckley Butler Mansfield Goodwin and Collins already assured. Municipal League nominees McDonald Smith Sheehan will be on the ballot alongside three more likely contenders Kelley Brand and O’Hare.
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Timothy J. Buckley
John J. Butler
Thomas F. Mansfield
Frank A. Goodwin
Thomas J. Collins
Municipal League
Daniel J. McDonald
Ernest E. Smith
Joseph A. Sheehan
Andrew R. Kelley
Frederick J. Brand
J. Frank O'Hare
Fitzgerald-Lomasney
School Committee
Whitney named Major of Fifth Regiment
Captain Orville J. Whitney of Company E Medford was elected major of the Fifth Regiment to succeed Major Cutting. He won on the third ballot with 18 votes to 10 for Captain Clifford Hamilton. Whitney, son of General Whitney, is one of the regiment’s most popular and youngest officers.
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Orville J. Whitney
Medford
Cutting
Clifford Hamilton
Waltham
Whitney
Hamilton
Massachusetts District Police
Canada Urges All Time Pact to Avert Bloodshed
Ottawa reports Canada plans a permanent peace treaty between Great Britain and the United States. When Parliament reconvenes a resolution will urge Britain to negotiate a lasting agreement with the United States to prevent future bloodshed in disputes. In two years nine long standing issues were settled by negotiation without violence.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Great Britain
United States
Alice Nielsen Scores Big Hit in Madam Butterfly
Montreal December 15. Alice Nielsen received standing ovations at His Majesty's Theatre as Madam Butterfly with the Montreal Opera Company. After the second act the audience demanded several curtain calls.
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Montreal
Alice Nielsen
Echo
His Majesty’s Theatre
Madam Butterfly
Montreal Opera Company
First Cabinet Dinner at the White House
Washington December 15. The first cabinet dinner of the season was hosted by the President and Mrs Taft at the White House. Notable guests included Vice President Sherman Secretary Knox and several cabinet members and their spouses. The table featured pink roses and maiden hair ferns followed by a musicale.
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Taft
White House
Sherman
Knox
MacVeagh
Wickersham
Hitchcock
Meyer
Secretary of the Navy
Ballinger
Wilson
Negel
Nagel
Charles D. Norton
Norton
Judge's Son Files Bankruptcy Listing Two Autos
Joseph I. Bennett, son of Municipal Court Associate Justice Joseph Bennett, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court. He lists mobilities at 11,769 dollars and two cars valued at 400 dollars, with residence at 38 York Terrace Brookline and ties to his father’s law practice on Court Street.
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Joseph I. Bennett
Joseph Bennett
Brighton
United States District Court
York Terrace
Brookline
Court Street
William H. Allen longtime Middlesex market gardener buried
William H. Allen renowned market gardener in Middlesex County was buried yesterday from his home at 339 Massachusetts avenue. A Boston Market Gardeners' Association delegation attended the service. He was 81 years old. Pallbearers included E. Nelson Blake John Crosby Daniel Gorman Benjamin James E. Russell.
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William H. Allen
Middlesex County
Massachusetts Avenue
Boston Market Gardeners’ Association
E. Nelson Blake
John Crosby
Daniel Gorman
Benjamin
James E. Russell
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