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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1919
Page
18
A turbulent session saw gains late in trading with buyers returning despite a weak morning. American Can slumped over two points, while Tobacco Products and Car & Foundry spiked on earnings rumors. United States Steel showed continued weakness though the sector overall softened after a big steel-t
Irregular market with modest gains driven by labor situation optimism. United States Steel issued January report showing a nearly 700,000 ton drop in unfilled orders, boosting its stock and lifting allied shares. Bond yields fell on copper cuts and western tonnage improvements, while rails remained dull.
A compact notes excerpt lists Baltimore and origins references with Beth Steel Liggett Lorillard and other bond items. The fragment hints at trade activity across several industrial names, with minor price terms and dates omitted.
Current prices show brokers customers loans at 514 percent and outside brokers call loans at 514 percent. Customers commercial loans 6 ake she cent and individual collateral 6 percent. Commercial paper 6 percent. Year money 6 percent.
The New York aeronautical exposition in March will show if U S manufacturers can bridge the postwar gap and sustain the industry. Government orders, a broader market for civilian planes, and Europe’s lead in aerial mail influence prospects as plants face potential shutdown without peacetime demand. Captain Hugo Sunstedt leads a Bayonne seaplane test with 80 mph speed and 22 hours of fuel.
A reader asks about Rudyard Kipling's 1887 89 letters "From Sea to Sea" and the Doubleday McClure edition. Other queries cover Swiss federation Basques Foch and a poem misattribution while clarifying ale wine and liquor terminology.
The exchange notes one fatality across over two thousand hours of U S flying in a week and cites 173 760 miles as the total distance flown. It discusses how turning into the wind requires different bank and rudder adjustments than turning with the wind to maintain position over a ground spot.
The letter recalls Boston’s old pest house once near the Charles River bank where trains cross from Cambridge. It notes prisoners were publicly exhibited in cages on the way to the whipping post on King Street, now State Street.
Mrs. R Weinstein from 24 Lynde Street Malden shares practical kitchen hints. Use crushed eggshells with scouring powder to clean pots and pans, orange peel with powder to freshen cookware, sandpaper on the stove to remove spots, wipe brass pipes to stay clean longer, and a half teaspoon saleratus in liquid plus hot water to lighten cakes.
The Sunday Post publishes Guynemer the great French knight of the air with a life story and five months of combat record. His tally shows 338 air battles, 36 planes downed, three drachen shot down, and 36 more forced to land based on the feature.
The report lists mean barometer, mean temperature, mean dew point, mean relative humidity, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature. Authored by J. W. Smith, Meteorologist, the data outlines daily atmospheric conditions.
Business plied briskly after the weekend holiday with twenty eight vessels docking at the pier. Receipts topped the million pound mark as the forest neared sixteen hundred thousand pounds of fish, including 2000 pounds of cask by the James R. Clark and 1500 by the Elizabeth W. Nunan. Flounders added 18,000 pounds. Wholesalers named prices for several species and the fleet list shows notable vessels such as Jeanette and Mildred Robinson among others in port.
Shipping notices list steamer and tug arrivals near Halifax Norfolk and Gloucester with towing barges 765 West End Herbert and Metacomet plus Neponset and Adams bound for New York. Names include Lee Kershaw Pitter Nichols and Mitchell Davis.
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