Salem Heavies Get A Hearing In Public Session
Salem holds a public hearing Wednesday night at Now and Then Hall to review discharge cases of two patrol drivers due to weight. A petition prompted the hearing and Charlies W. Childs was named janitor at the police station. Frank Pelletier alleges political discrimination. Lawrence H. Olsen is appointed auto patrol driver, bringing the total to three.
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Salem
Charlies W. Childs
Childs
Frank Pelletier
Lawrence H. Olsen
PENN SYL VANIA TEXTIL Eco Preferred Stock Dividend
Notice states a semi annual 7 percent dividend of 44 percent on the preferred stock, payable March 2 1914 to stockholders of record February 16 1914. Checks will be mailed. By order of the Board. Thomas L Livermore Jr Treasurer.
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Pennsly Ania Textil Eco
Madison Ave
N. Y
Shomas L. Livermore, JR
Financial inquiries policy notes from Boston Post
The Boston Post outlines its impartial approach to financial correspondence. Inquiries are limited to one subject and must include full name and street address. Responses cover listed and unlisted stocks and bonds of New England industrial, public utility, bank, and mill companies.
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Boston Post
New England
Inquirer
Montana Power Co Bond Issue Explored for Investors
A reader asks about the Montana Power Company 5 per cent bonds issued as part of a larger plan to extend the system and refinance debts. The answer notes the bonds will secure a first mortgage on assets, fund construction, retire floating debt, and that earnings have historically covered interest, with 1913 earnings more than double interest. Public utility earnings reliability supports the issue as a safe investment amid ongoing expansion.
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Montana Power Company
Allston
Montana Power Company 5Bs
Montana
Butte
Woolworth Common
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Julius Kayser & Co. Common
Kayser
Boston
Julius Kayser
Woolworth
Boston Elevated
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Brooklyn Rapid
Great Falls
Ssue Company
Investment Offerings from Cities Service and Utilities
A Boston Post section previews Monday investment notes featuring Cities Service five year notes, City of Sault Ste Marie bonds, Montana Power bonds, Orange County highway bonds, Southern California Edison bonds, and South Carolina Licht Power Railroad stock. Highlights include yields around 4.7% to 7%, registered options, calcs on debt, assets, and earnings, with details on issuer size and collateral where noted.
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City of
Orange County
California
Los Angeles
Fullerton
Anaheim
Santa Ana
Pacific Electric
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Maine
New Hampshire
Cities Service Company notes rated very high grade investment
An opinion on Cities Service Company five year 7 percent notes calls them a very high grade investment. The holding company controls gas and electric firms in 150 towns serving over 1.5 million people. It has no funded debt beyond retiring these notes, first lien on assets and earnings. Earnings for year ended Nov 30 1915 were $200 000, over nine times interest.
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Cities Service Company
International Paper preferred stock judged poor investment
A reader from Portland asks about International Paper preferred stock at current prices. The answer notes the company failed to sustain its 6 percent dividend, paying only 2 percent over five years, with no healthy earnings growth in a decade, while competitors gain share and working capital is offset by rising dividends and reduced cash. A California Railway & Power Preif correspondent in Dover, New York, will publish his query response.
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THE
Boston Post
Ludlow Manufacturing Associates
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Portland
B. J
International Paper Company
New York
New York State
St. Paul
Comptroller
Market Review and Outlook Signals Mixed Trading
The market shows a late December high followed by a drawn out side movement as professionals grow bearish. Analysts debate whether prices will rise on contrarian hopes or drift with a continuing reaction, while early-year data hint modest business gains and copper and steel activity tease a broader recovery potential.
Catholic Church Notes on Home for Destitute Children and Parish Activities
The Home for Destitute Catholic Children marks its golden anniversary with 1913 figures showing 762 admissions, 754 readmissions, and 1545 placements. St Monica’s Church adds two sodalities under Rev. William Dacey. Brookline Catholic Group holds annual banquet with invited officials. Port land band asked to perform in Portland. New religious groups formed in East Boston parish and church enlargement planned. St Leo's Dorchester reunion set for this evening. Catholic Nurses Guild Valentine party planned at Boston College High School with officers listed.
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Boys
Girls’ Sodality
St. Monica's Church
South Boston
William Dacey
Father Dacey
Brookline Young Men's Catholic Association
St. Mary’s Parish School
Joseph J. Conry
Boston
John T Creagh
St. Aidans Church
Frank W.W. Rane
State Forester
Philip S. Parker
Guild of
St. Radegonde
The
Catholic Nurses’ Guild
Boston College High Scchool
James ‘Street
Guild
Mary Callanan
Catherine Galvin
B. A. Regan
Anna Judge
Annie Devanny
Fire destroys camps housing Hunnewell workers in Natick
Two camps between Worcester and Bacon streets burned yesterday afternoon, destroying two kegs of beer four watches and many clothes. The rough wooden structures housed six men employed as gardeners for H. H. Hunnewell. Loss estimated at four hundred dollars.
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H. H. Hunnewell
Natick
Worcester
Bacon
Ysaye at the Opera House in Boston
violinist Eugene Ysaye led a Boston Opera House concert with a strong program including Don Giovanni overture Bach Handel Rameau Berlioz Wagner and Bruch and Mozart concertos His playing showed rare mastery and eloquence with superb tone though the audience’s enthusiasm surpassed the numbers present and his accompanists supported well
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Eugene Ysaye
Boston Opera House
Bach
Handel and
Rameau
Berlioz
Wagner
Siegfried
Alo
Mr. Y
Usaya
Noted Men Dodge Fire at Bible Conference Start
In Washington a fire broke out at a local theatre moments after a large crowd left. Vice President Marshall Secretary Bryan and Rev G Campbell Morgan were among the attendees at the first international Bible conference. A discarded clothing pile in a dressing room burned after matches were gnawed by rats.
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Washington
Marshall
Bryan
G. Campbell Morgan
Westminster Chapel
London
Calendar for Today with Dividend Dates and Books Close
Calendar for today shows dividend dates in parentheses and books close notes for Atlantic Coast Line Company special mortgage twelve percent? Milwaukee, St. Paul pref 34 percent on March 2. Chesapeake, Milwaukee and Saint Paul 2. Illinois Central 2 percent on March 2. Annual meetings St. On of Ohio.
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Atl. Coast Line Co
Spec
Mtyee Milw
St. Paul Pref
Illinois Central
City labor practices criticized by union at meeting
The Sanitary and Street Cleaning Department Teams ters and Helpers' Union 149 condemned hiring yard help through contractors. They argued contractors pay around 75 cents daily while the city pays $2.50, defying civil service laws and denying city work to citizens. The union called for an immediate end to contractor hires and adherence to civil service rules.
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Sanitary and
Union 149
Civil Service
R. R. Telegraphers Elect Officers in Division 89
W L Enos of Cohasset is chosen chief telegrapher of Division 89, Order of Railroad Telegraphers, at Pilgrim Hall on Saturday night by a near unanimous vote. J H McDermott is re-elected secretary for his seventh term and D F Drummond becomes vice-president. John Francis Mullen of Taunton is named chairman of the legislative committee. Mullen will push a Beacon Hill bill granting one day off in seven with pay for all railroad telegraphers.
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W. L. Enos
Cohasset
Pilgrim Hall
J. H. McDermott
D. F
Drummond
John Francis Mullen
Taunton
Mullen
Beacon Hill
Telegraphers Wage Dispute Prompts Boston Visit
Thomas M. Peirson international vice president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers will arrive in Boston early this week to press the wage increase demands of Boston Division 14/9 telegraphers on the Elevated railway towers along the line.
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Thomas M. Peirson
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Boston
Boston Division 14
Boston Elevated Railway
Six Day Week for the Web Pressmen
At a Wells Memorial Hall meeting the Boston Web Pressmen Union 3 ordered a strict six day work week to follow the law requiring workers who toil Saturday nights to take another nonworking day. Past staff shortages left enforcement lax but conditions now demand full observance.
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Wells Memorial Hall
Boston
Web Pressmen’s Union 3
Longshoremen Back Mystic Channel Dredging Bill
O Connell Longshoremen Associates of Charlestown pass resolutions urging Representative Tague's dredging bill for Mystic Channel and urging General Court action so Boston may compete with commercial rivals on the Atlantic seaboard after early project completion.
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Tague
Mystic Channel
General Court
Boston
Atlantic Seaboard
O’connell Longshoremen Associates
Charlestown
Opposition to Government Ownership of Phones Debated
The New England District Council of AFL Electrical Workers' Unions adopted resolutions opposing government ownership of telephone and telegraph systems until costs and experiences are reviewed by a congressional committee or government commission. The meeting occurred yesterday in Wells Memorial.
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Congress
New England District Council
A. F. of L. Electrical Workers’ Unions
Wells Memorial
Labor notes reflect 1914 wage talks and union actions
Boston unions adopted wage schedules and working rules for 1914 and planned road submissions. Assemblies in Dorchester and Roxbury signed a 65 hour shop card. Delegates discussed a New England Gas & Coke works strike in Everett. Five minute reel intervals were enforced by Boston Moving Picture Operators' Union despite manager orders.
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Boston & Maine
Boston & Albany
Boston Leather Handlers’ Union
Charles L. Baine
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
Fred Smith
Sole Cutters’ Union
Boston Joint Council of Municipal Employees’ Unions
Legislative Committee
State Branch
A. F. of L
Old South
Dorchester
South Boston
Roxbury
Everett
Boston Moving Picture Operators’ Union
Union Tailors Hear Manager at Boston Meetings
David Oshinsky of New York addressed a special meeting of the Boston Custom Tailors Union 25 in Phoenix Hall and spoke later to the Boston Custom West Makers Union 172. The talks covered employers’ push to restore a nine hour workday replacing the current eight hour day under an agreement expiring tomorrow.
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David Oshinsky
New York
United Brotherhood of Tailors
United Garment Workers of America
Boston Custom Tailors’ Union
Phoenix Hall
Boston Custom West Makers’ Union
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Banquet in Boston
About 700 New England lodge members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen heard Grand President William G. Lee in Faneuil Hall. He reviewed progress and the Newlands law situation, then a banquet at Quincy House followed by his departure at midnight for a New York session of the Newlands board.
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Faneuil Hall
New England
Brotherhood of Railroad
William G. Lee
Brotherhood
Lee
Quincy House
New York
Newlands Board
Clerks Hear Conklin Speech In Open Session
More than 300 members of Old Colony Lodge 148 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks employed on the New Haven railroad were addressed in Pilgrim Hall by Clarence M. Conklin agent William King assistant agent and W C McAllister chief clerk. Past President G W Eastty spoke urging maximum cooperation between the lodge members and railroad employees and company officials.
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New Haven
Conklin
Old Colony Lodge
Brotherhood of Railroad
Pilgrim Hall
Clarence M. Conklin
William King
W. C. McAllister
G. W. Eastty
Lodge
Machinists' Union Plans Flying Wedge Organizing Push
The Greater Boston Machinists' Trade Conference and Eastern New England District 19 executive board voted to launch a flying wedge of organizers. They will start in Worcester with a briefing tonight and a public meeting, then expand to Mansfield New Bedford Providence and Pawtucket over the next two weeks to strengthen the union.
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Greater
Samson and Dalilah sung as an oratorio in Boston
The Han del and Haydn Society presented Samson and Dalilah as an oratorio last night with Emil Mollenhauer conducting. Florence Mulford substituted for Jeanne Gerville-Reache as Dalilah, Daniel Beddoe sang Samson, Earl Cartwright the High Priest and Old Hebrew, Willard Flint the second Philistine. The Boston Festival Orchestra, led by J. W. Crowley, drew a large enthusiastic audience praised for fine chorus work and expressive soloists.
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Samson and
Dalilah
Boston
Handel and Haydn Society
Emil Mollenhauer
Florence Mulford
Jeanne Gerville-Reache
Daniel Beddoe
Samson
Earl Cartwright
Willard Flint
Abimelech
Philistine
Bonds that fund progress invite new investors
Bonds enable public profits from big business and achievements. They financed wars and canals, rails, telegraphs, phones, and city lights. The ad touts $100 monthly 7% bonds and urges readers to join the investor army by requesting “Brieflets for Busy Men” with Boston property photographs. Call Oxford 1359.
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Boston
Oxford
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