Copper Market Boom Drives New York Trading Upward
A strong copper market fuels brisk activity in New York shares with Baltic, Copper Range, Trimountain leading gains. Moody shifts in Standard Oil rumors frame the day as investors push copper-related issues, while Utah and U S Mining advance on prospect of dividends and smelter progress.
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Denver & Rio Grande
St. Joseph & Grand Island
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Chicago
Indianapolis & Louisville
Boston Stock Exchange
Massachusetts E Electric Companies
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Chicago Junction Railway & Union Stock Yards Company
Chicago Junction Railway & Stock Yards Company
Seattle Electric Company
United States Leather Company
Jersey City
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Eascan
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Copper Range
Trimountain
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Centennial
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Bigelow Properties
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Washington
Old Colony
Mayflower
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Bay State Gas
Navaho
Koston
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Francis Brown & Co
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Bingham Company
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Fore River Engine Company
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Market Desk Daily Bond and Stock Totals
Boston report lists highest and lowest sales and closing bid and asked prices. Totals show listed bonds worth 48,000 dollars and stocks at 86,906 shares, unlisted bonds 82,000 dollars and stocks 31,071 shares. Second instalment paid and assessment paid noted.
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Fox
Busy in Shoes Spring Demand in Many Sections Feed and Railroad Traffic
R G Dun & Co reports in its weekly trade review that spring demand rises in retail, with the East improved and the West and South showing satisfactory distribution. Prices ease modestly in staple goods. footwear remains active with large contracts and steady quotes, while woollens lag. Cotton goods dull, raw silk prices fall, and wheat prices slip as snow protects winter wheat states. U S and Canadian failures rise year over year.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Boston
London
United States
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Senator Currier Drafts Essex County Jail Plan
In the labor committee Senator Guy W. Currier of Lawrence proposes reducing Essex county jails from four to two. Current facilities in Lawrence Ipswich Newburyport and Salem service inmates and many officials. Currier argues Ipswich and Newburyport cost more per inmate than Lawrence jail.
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Essex County
Guy W. Currier
Lawrence
Ipswich
Newburyport
Salem
Currier
Count Siegey Smolianoff Convicted In Whiskey Fueled Spree
Washington report says Count Siegey Smolianoff, inventor of Americanite and ceffebite, was convicted of habitual rankard and sentenced to three months in the work house. He is a Russian and has earned large sums from governments for his formulas, with six months continuous spree and daily three pints of whiskey.
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Washington
Siegey Smolianoff
Smolanoff
Fought on the Monitor Veteran John McMahon Dies
Civil War veteran John McMahon, who served as a lookout at the Monitor during the battle with the Merrimac and lost an eye, died at his sister’s home in South Boston. He had worked as first officer for Boston and Bangor Steamship Co. since the war. He leaves a widowed sister and his 90 year old mother. Funeral is Sunday at 2 PM at St Augustine’s Church.
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Monitor
Merrimac
East Fighth Street
Boston
Monitor-Merrimac
Boston & Bangor Steamship Company
St. Augustine’s Church
Trade developments signal modest gains in early February
Bradstreet's forecast notes mainly favorable week for trade with spring demand rising in the South and Southwest. North West and Pacific coast reports are encouraging while winter goods distributions support retail activity. Rail earnings show a solid year over year rise and overall trade totals exceed last year despite irregular prices and slower collections.
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New York
Bradstreet
Northwest
Pacific Coast
Raihway
Tron
Essex County Prison Costs Prompt Consolidation Debate
Senator Currier argues consolidation can save Essex County about 20000 yearly, citing costs per prisoner at Lawrence 18172, Newburyport 4755 for 380 inmates and Ipswich 14084 for 64 prisoners. County commissioners and politicians oppose the plan as Currier vows to present sensational committee facts.
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Rence
Salem
Lawrence
Newburyport
Ipswich
Currier
Essex County
Labor committee clash over 56 hour law for women and minors
In a tense hearing Senator Jones and Representative Donahue clashed over a bill governing women and minors employment hours and mills overtime. Counsel Bailey claimed water power mills are exempt from the 56 hour law, sparking Donahue's protest before a closed session vote against the measure.
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Labor Committee
Jones
Donahue
Bailey
House
Gas hearing room expanded for state house session
Mr Cook of Leominster urged a larger space for the gas investigation hearing before the rules committee. Speaker Myers said the committee would accommodate. Room 40 will host the session at 12 o clock Monday noon with New York lawyers and Whitney and Lawson expected to attend.
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Leominster
Committee On Rules
Whitney
Lawson
Myers
New York
Morse's New Window at Morse & Co 127 Washington Street
Carpenters have transformed the store entrance at 127 Washington street Leopold Morse and Co into a single large window. Two large panes of French plate glass 10 by 9 feet fit within a 19 by 16 foot frame. Fifty interior lamps plus two exterior lights will illuminate the display at night.
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Leopold Morse & Co
Washington Street
Bootblacks win committee approval for Sunday shoe shining law
Boston bootblacks who marched up Teacon Hill last Tuesday urged the probate and chancery committee. The committee reported the bill unanimously through Mr Harrington of Ward 5, and it will be passed into law enabling the boys to shine shoes on Sundays until 1 oclock in the morning within about a fortnight.
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Teacon Hill
Committee On Probate and Chancery
Harrington
Ward 5
The Case of Mrs White Again
A probate and chancery hearing was held on the commitment of women subject to dipso mania or inebriety. Mr Adams noted public indignation over Mrs White. Mrs Alice Parker Lesser cited delegates from fifteen women's societies totaling 25 600 members and warned of potential misuse without a hearing.
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White
Alice Parker Lesser
Mayor Hart Seeks Expanded Boston Highway Funds Authority
Boston finances dominated a Metropolitan Affairs Committee session as Mayor Hart petitioned for a new law allowing the city treasurer to issue bonds beyond existing debt limits for highway construction and repair. Current authority totals about 386000 annually with sewer assessments returning funds, and a separate act permits borrowing so the mayor seeks broader leeway to spend on highways.
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Boston
Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Hart
New Departure In Catarrh Cures Promises Real Results
A testimonial touts Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a cure for catarrh affecting head throat and stomach. It contrasts internal antiseptic action with ineffectual rinses and salves and claims successful use by Wm Zimmerman of St Joseph after lifelong symptoms.
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Wim. Zimmerman
St. Jo
Stuart
Railroad News From Boston Division Meeting and Snow Impact
News of the railroads covers a 10 o'clock meeting of the Boston division of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers led by Chief Engineer A. B. Brazier. A special parlor car on Train 639 carried Senator Morse to ceretown before returning to Boston. The first electric car to Lowell since the snow storm ran yesterday, with heavy snow along the line and a blocked crossing opened by men with shovels. Plans for a new line between Heston and Fall River and New Bedford proceed, linking Taunton & New Bedford Street Railway tracks. Charles S. Cummings pushes another Boston area route near Tewksbury Lowell and Billerica, while bills in session address retirement after forty years and electric delays triggering fare refunds.
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Fatherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Stamford Street
S. Brazier
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Northampton
Morse
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Heston
Fall River
New Bedford
Taunton & New Berford Street Railway Company
Charles 8. Cummings
Tewksbury
Billerica
Lowell & Boston Street Railway Cony
Cummings
Magann arraigned on charge of stealing electricity
James E. Magann of Quincy was arraigned in district court on a charge of stealing electricity from the Quincy Electric Light and Power Company. He waived reading and pleaded not guilty. The case was continued to February 16.
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James E. Magann
Quincy Electric Wyight and Power Company
Magann
Street Car Fare Regulation Hearing Advances Bill
The street railways committee held a hearing on Representative Keith of Brockton's bill to let the railroad commissioners regulate street railway fares without tying to other rate cases. Ncith described difficulty in finding an exact comparable case for comparison. Chairman Jackson supported the measure after reviewing the bill.
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Keith
Brockton
Ncith
Hairman Jackson
Bubonic Plague Reported in Cape Town
APE TOWN February 8 officials report two confirmed bubonic plague cases in the city based on an official diagnosis.
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Ape Town
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