Market Averages Hold Ground Despite Narrow Declines
The article notes sharp price drops yet explains many stocks held firm, keeping the overall average from new lows since November. It discusses Reading and New York Central as manipulated or overextended plays, steel and rail stocks as lagging, and hints at the Steel Corporation trial implications for trust busting.
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Union Pacific
Amalgamated
St. Paul, Steel
Atchison, Amalgamated, Smelters
American Car & Foundry
Reading
Lehigh Valley
New York Central
Boston & Maine
Boston &Maine
New Haven
Steel
Standard Oil
American Tobacco Companies
Steel Corporation
Hyde Park Fire Hits 40 Fairmount Avenue
About 5 am yesterday Hyde Park fire crews responded to a blaze at 40 Fairmount Avenue a two story building owned by William Harlow. First floor housed Hyde Park Cycle Company and second floor housed tailor Robert Gray. Loss estimated around fifty thousand dollars.
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Hyde Park
Fairmount Avenue
William Harlow
Haye Park Cycle Company
Robert Gray
For Sale Dover W marble Isl 5s
For sale in Dover area a marble island and related items listed by Damel Bhay & Co Boston. Likely an old classified notice noting sale of a marble island and associated goods with firm contact in Massachusetts.
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Marble
Damel Bhay & CO
State M
Boston
City Messenger Jairus Mann dies after sudden illness
Jairus Mann longtime city messenger of Somerville and the oldest in service in the country died at his home 80 Porter street of acute indigestion. He was 80 and had just retired after a shift at City Hall. Funeral plans include private family rites and a public service at Prospect Hill Congregational Church with possible officiant Rev. William H. Rider. Mayor Burns ordered flags at half mast on public buildings. Survived by daughter Harriet A. Tilden and son Alfred F. Mann. wife predeceased him. Mann served since Somerville’s city founding in 1872.
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Jairus Mann
Somerville
Porter Street
City Hall
Elmer, Tilden
Prospect Hill Congregational Church
William H. Rider
Gloucester
National ‘ Lancers
Paul Gordon Favor
Burns
Marin
John Abbot Lodge of Masons
Royal Arch Chapter
Royal Arcanum
City Messengers
National Lancers
Harriet A. Tilden
Alfréd F. Mann
Mr. Mann
Charlestown
Mann
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Philadelphia Factory Row
Fire discovered at 5 o clock destroyed three large factory buildings bounded by Wood Vine Eighth and Franklin Streets in Philadelphia. The Hensel Calladay Company millinery and dress trimmings plant suffered major losses with five alarms needed to control the blaze.
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Philadelphia
Plesk
Wood, Vine, Eighth
Franklin Streets
Hensel-Calladay Company
Branklin
Vine Street
Calendar for Today Ex-Dividend Dates and Meetings
Calendar notes ex dividend dates for Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific class A and B common and preferred stocks. Penmans Penn Railroad U S Steel and Am Woolen close for meetings and open for subscription as of today. Detroit Edison Co. meeting scheduled or announced.
Labor Meeting Debates Boston School Committee Reform
Boston Central Labor Union delegates urged a ward representative for each Boston school committee seat and criticized the current five member panel. A committee including Edward Callahan, Michael J. Dillon and Timothy Kelliher was formed to raise funds and identify needy families.
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Boston School Committee
Boston Central Labor Union
Boston
Edward Callahan
Michael J. Dillon
Timothy Kelliher
Longshoremen Strike Get $100 Donation from Corkmen
At Hi Pernian Hall Charlestown Knights of St Fin bar's Corkmen's Association meeting attended by over 3000 members, a $100 donation was voted to support the longshoremen on strike.
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Knights of St. Finbar's Corkmen’ Association
Hipernian Hall
Charlestown
Labor Union Indorses Boston Longshoremen Strike
The Massachusetts State Branch of the American Federation of Labor voted to indorse the Boston longshoremen strike and issue credentials to the Longshoremen's Trade Council committee to aid visits to affiliated unions for moral, trade or financial support. The exec board's special vote, by mail, authorized credentials sent by Secretary-Treasurer Martin Joyce.
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Massachusetts
American Federation of Labor
Boston
Longshoremen’s Trade Council
A. F. of L
State Branch
Martin
Joyce
Conditions of Women in Foundries Worsen, Says Coremakers Union
The Coremakers' Union 428 reports worsening conditions for women coremakers in foundries due to cold, closed windows and toxic fumes. Many women quit, citing arduous work and health strains, especially in brass shops. A special committee backs a bill to ban women from foundry work, with anticipated testimony from union officers at hearings.
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Coremakers’ Union 428
Massachusetts
A. F. of l
Union of Moulders and Caremakers
Unions Plan West Massachusetts Organizing Drive
The National Federation of State City and Town Employees votes to place two organizers in western Massachusetts to organize city and town employees. Frank F Morse and James J Burns spoke at a Stoneham mass meeting and federation representatives will attend State House hearings on employee bills. Officers authorized to pursue enforcement against eight hour law violators.
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National Federation of State
Frank F. Morse
James J. Burns
Boston Council of
City Department
Metropolitan Park
Stoneham
Boston
Labor Activism and Union Meetings in Boston Area
Labor notes cover eight hour day talks at Boston Consolidated Gas Plant with potential strike debated and authority given to Business Agent Dow. Other items report installs in Park Department Assembly K of L, anniversary plans of Electrical Workers Union 104, a $100 donation by Boston Brewery Workers to Lawrence textile strikers, Bottlers and Drivers Union wage case settlement, and upcoming officer elections and meetings across multiple unions.
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City of Boston Park Department
Fitzgerald
A. F. of L. Park Department
State Commission On
Metropolitan Plaw Commission
Executive Board
Lawrence
Franklin Association
Planta
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Thomas H. Dow
Treasury
J. McCarthy
Patrick MckKensie
Park Department Assembly
K. of L. Electrical Workers’ Union 104
Henry Sterling
Boston Typographical Union 18
Episcopal Divinity School
Cambridge
James J. Dowds
New York
Boston Boilermakers’ Lodge 431
Washington Street
Boston Bricklayers’ Union 3
Red Men’s Hall
Tremont Street
Charles E. O’donnell
Barbers’ Union 182
Night Watch and
American District Telegraph Company
State Street
H. G. Morse
Boston Union
Bakers
Boston Bakers’ Union 7
Brockton Bakers’ Union
Maxim Restaurant Lake Paris Namesake Opens in Boston
A new Maxim's style restaurant and hotel at 19 to 25 Harrison avenue in Boston offers classic Parisian dishes under Charles Day from Maxim's of Paris. The three floor building features private baths, modern rooms, and year round dining with daily music by D Avino. seating for banquets of up to 50.
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Harrison Avenue
Charles Day
Maxim's of
Paris
Maxim
D’avino
One
Hanquets
Rail mergers under PSC scrutiny in Albany hearings
The Public Service Commission halted actions on two railroad deals in which New York Central & Hudson River and New Haven & Hartford seek to buy majority stocks in New York Ontario & Western and Rutland railroads. The commission demands witnesses and full disclosure on motives, rights of minority stockholders, and risks of controlling small lines by large systems.
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Albany, N.Y
Public Service Commission, Second District
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, ‘Company
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
New York Central
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Company
Rutland Railroad Company
Commission
Public Service Commission
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Illinois Central
Louisville & Nashville
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Southern Pacific
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General Electric
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National Sea
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William E. Soule
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Labor Meeting News
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Felix Albini
B.F. Keith
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Bud Fisher
Blanche McCconnell & Simpson
Geo. Ex
Barry Girls
Three Ernests
Reidy & Currier
Louise Stickney
Circus
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Ayer
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Tremont
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Viola Allen
the Herfords
Rachel Crothers
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Harold MacGrath
Castle
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Julian Mitchell
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the Pearl Maiden
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Harry Auracher
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Nogert
Ellis Memorial Club
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United States
Canada
Karl Grey Club
Harvard
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Wright & Ditson
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Reba
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Lilla Ormond
Symphony Hall
Middlesex
Merton L. Gordon
Waltham
Caroline M. Gordon
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Boston Post
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Wm, C. Dillingham
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