Depew Says Panama Canal Might Have Sold for 40 Million
In Paris Senator Chauncey M. Depew told an Associated Press representative that M. Hutin might have sold the Panama Canal for 40 million dollars if the United States had not quarreled over price. He said the Panama Canal Company decision came too late and shareholders adopted a plan to base negotiations on Isthmian Commission conclusions and to authorize a fixed price proposal.
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London
Chauncey M. Depew
Associated Press Today
M. Hutin
Panama Canal Company
United States
Paris
Isthmian Commission
Canal Company
Copper crash drives investors to death and insanity
The World reports broad copper losses from Amalgamated and related stocks. In cities like Pittsburg and Albany, fortunes vanished, provoking suicides and a case of insanity tied to a $10,000 loss. Montanans, Western Mass residents, and others suffered large markdowns across markets.
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Amalgamated Copper
Boston
New York
Montana
Amalgamated Company
Albany
Pittsburg
William R. Morten
Cincinnati
Hotel Metropole
Royal Arch
Springfield
Philadelphia
Providence
MccKinley
St. Louis
Helena
Mont
Gore
Butte
Copper price cuts feared as United Metals plans further reduction
Traders heard in New York that a 12 cent copper price will be announced by the United Metals Selling Company. The move aims to pressure smaller producers under the Copper Trust, with guarantees masking losses on February contracts. Rumors linked Senator Clark's United Verde to the action, which officials denied. Wire makers also cut prices by another cent, base now 14 cents a pound.
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New York
United Metals Selling Company
Copper Trust
Wall Street
W. A. Clark
United Verde Company
United Verde
Raritan
N. J
Marconi's Fiancee Reveals Meeting and Betrothal Aboard Ship
Indianapolis woman Miss Josephine Bowen Holman recalls meeting Signor Marconi during a transatlantic voyage and confirms their engagement. She says they planned marriage after his wireless experiment's outcome and kept the secret until it leaked, noting no date has been set.
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Indianapolis Ind
Josephine Bowen Holman
North Meridian Street
Signor Marconi
Sam
Atlantic Ocean
Marconi
Miss Holman
Miss ‘Holman
Mareconi
Sandy Hook
J. A. Holman
Indiana Supreme Court
Grand Master Gallagher Denounces Bogus Masonic Ring
Grand Master Charles T. Gallagher of Massachusetts says nationwide stir over a so called Grand Lodge of Ohio is a bogus fraud. He links Dr. Darius Wilson to the scheme and notes Wilson’s past ventures and the improper use of Lindstrom as a translator. Gallagher calls the movement exaggerated and useless to real Masons.
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Charles T. Gallagher
Grand Lodge of Free Masons
Massachusetts
Darius Wilson
New York
Grand Lodge
Ohio
Charles W. Meade
Ehlers
New York State
Meade
Gallagher
Post
New York Press
New York City
Dr. Wilson
Boston
P. J. Lindstrom
Wilson
Lindstrom
New England
Marconi Receives Canadian Finance Ministry Inquiry
Marconi today received a second cablegram from Canada’s finance minister Fielding asking when the inventor will leave for Canada to arrange an official meeting in Sydney. There is no new development in the Marconi Anglo American Telegraph Company dispute. Marconi plans to reach Ottawa next Sunday and stay about a week.
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ST. John's
N. F
Marconi
Fielding
Canada
Eee
Sydney
Anglo- American Telegraph Company
Ottawa
Funeral of Dr Alfred S Wiley Held at Newton Highlands
Funeral services for Dr Alfred S Wiley, a leading physician in the Newton area, were conducted at the Congregational Church in Newton Highlands. The service drew hundreds of friends and physicians from across the state, with Rev. Clifford G Twombly and Rev. Charles E Havens presiding. Pallbearers were Newton Hospital medical staff members. Interment followed at Newton Cemetery.
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Newton
Alfred S. Wiley
Newton Highlands
Clifford G. Twombly
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Charles E. Havens
Wellesley
Newton Hospital
Samuel J. Mixter
A. M. Donohue
Loston
G. PL. Curtis
George L. West
David BE. Baker
Robert KP. Loring
Frederick I. Withee
C. Arthur Thompson
Pate
Newton Cemeery
Two Back Bay Fires on Commonwealth Avenue
Sunday morning and afternoon fires on Commonwealth Avenue near Massachusetts Avenue required Engine 383 to extinguish chimney fires with no damage reported. The first fire at 25 Commonwealth Avenue involved a rear chimney in J Brooks Fenno's residence, while the second at 378 Commonwealth Avenue afflicted a main chimney at Colonel Albert A Pope's home, both quickly contained by firefighters.
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Commonwealth Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
J. Brooks Fenno
Albert A. Pope
Breakfas t death of Nicholas Wilson choked by meat
Nicholas Wilson aged 55 died at his Winthrop street home after a piece of meat lodged in his windpipe during breakfast. Police report indicates accidental choking as the cause.
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Salim
Winthrop Street
Nicholas Wilson
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