Markets Show Notable Strength Amid Broad Advance
In New York and Boston traders pushed prices higher on rising demand and shrinking offerings. Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville, Chesapeake & Ohio and Reading led gains while Osceola and East Butte eased. Dominion Steel moved to the listed market as national and international cues supported a firm close.
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New York
Boston
Union Pacific
East Butte
Atlantic Coast Line
Butterick Company
Calumet & Hecla
Osceola Consol
Call Money
Time Money
State Street
London
Harriman
Bears
Louisville & Nashville
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Alton
Toledo
St. Louis & Western
Iowa Central
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Chesapeake
Producers’ Association
Amalgamated
Amalgamated, Up 1-4 To 771-2; Smelting
People’s Gas
Reading
Southern Pacific
Steel Common
New York Stock Exchange
Amalgamated Copper
Amer Car & Foundry
Tee Ee
Amer Cotton
Amer
Amer Ice Securities
Amer Tlinseed
Amer Locomotive
Amer Smelt & Refg
Amer Sugar Refining
Amer Tel & Tel A
Amer Tobacco
Brooklyn
Gsis
Chicago Great Western
Chicago & NW
Delaware & Hudson
Denver & Rio Grande
Erie
Tlinois Central
Interborough Met
Town Central
Kansas City Southern
St P & S Ste M
Missouri Pacific
Kaw & Texas
New York Central
Ont & Western
Norfolk & Western
North American
Northern Pacific
Pacific Mail
Pennsylvania
Republic Steel
Rock Island Co
St Louis & S Fran 2d
Sloss Sheffield S & 1
Southern Railway
Texas & Pacific
St L & West
United States Steel
Wabash
Westinghouse Electric
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wisconsin Central
New York Stocks Record of Prices and Sales
Boston report notes the course of stock and bond prices and the total sales of the day in a table headed New York Stocks. The brief item signals market activity and a summarized price record for traders and readers.
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Boston
Boston Curb Market Sees Gain Across Key Stocks
The Boston curb market on February 11 featured active trading by Bay State Gas First National Davis Daly Southwestern Development Raven Majestic Superior and Boston Dominion Copper. Prices strengthened with Bay State Gas rising from 67 to 75 cents and Dominion Copper from 10 to 18 cents amid broad gains across the list.
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Arizpe
Bay State Gas
Beaver
Bingham Mines
Black Mountain
Boston Ely
Butte & Balak
Butte & London
Cal & Corbin
Consol Ariz
Corbin Copper
Sy Sf Sly Sy
Cumberland Ely
avis-Daly
Eeeee
Dominion Copper
DCU Pre OU
Ain Ee
Giroux Consol
Globe
Goldfield Consol
Goldfield Daisy
Nee Goldfield Por
Hancock
Kerr Lake
Kruger
Laramie
la Rose
McKinley Eee
Majestic Ene
Mines Co of Am
National Explor
Nevada Utrw
Nipissing
Ohio Copper
West Devel
United Mines
United
Yukon
Boston
First National
Davis Daly
Southwestern Development
Raven, Majestic
Superior & Boston
Southwestern stocks rally as tips urge new highs
The note touts First National Bay State Gas and S W D with gains from low entry prices. It claims continuing upside to $2.50 for S W D and higher for Bay State Gas, predicting a forthcoming influx of buyers and a surprise “big noise” investor in 8 W D.
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First National
Bay State Gas
New Haven Surplus Bigger for Railroad Quarter
New Haven Conn Feb 11 The report of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company for the quarter ending Dec 31 1908 shows gross earnings of 13 901 608 43 a drop of 214 780 31 from 1907 The net earnings from operation were 4 198 572 10 up 317 047 63 Income from other sources rose 234 444 59 Interest rentals and taxes increased 285 601 11 The surplus for the quarter was 916 214 26 up from 650 23 25 in 1907 a gain of 265 891 11 in net income
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New Haven
Calendar Today Shows Company Meetings And Open Books
Books close for Pittsburg Brewing Company common and preferred stock. Books open for Boswyocolo Company. Meetings scheduled for McKinley Darragh Savage Company.
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Pittsburg Brewing Company ,Ommon
Pittsburg Brewing Company Preferred
Books Open Boswyocolo Company
McKinley-Darragh-Savage Company
Bradstreet View of Trade Uneven as Spring Buyers Arrive
Bradstreet notes unsettled, stormy weather adds to irregular trade amid early spring buyer excursions. Eastern markets show improvement versus last year, while metals and electrical goods slump. Copper stocks rise sharply, European supply high, suggesting prices must fall to revive business.
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New York
Bradstreet
New Copper Producers’ Association
Bond Market Notes from Various Cities
Quincy awards a temporary loan of 50000 dollars to Eliot National Bank at 3.37 percent discount. Globe Arizona plans to issue 300000 dollars in bonds. Goldman Sachs and Heidelbach Ickelheimer report 10000000 dollars New York city revenue bonds fully sold. State Treasurer Chapin borrows 1000000 dollars from Bond & Goodwin for tax anticipation. notes due November 17, 1909. Requests for 38000000 dollars in temporary loans were rejected. interest was reported under 3 percent.
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Quincy, Mass
Eliot National Bank
Goldman, Sachs & Co
Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co
New York City
Chapin
Bond & Goodwin
Dividends Declared by Major Firms This Quarter
Homestake Mining Co announces a monthly 50 cent dividend with books closing February 20. Wisconsin Central By Co sets a quarterly 1 percent preferred dividend with books closing March 1 and reopening March 12. Quaker Oats Co issues multiple dividends including 114 percent on preferred and 144 percent extra on common with various record dates in February and April. Old Colony Trust Co pays 3 percent quarterly. National Bus of Mexico declares a semi annual 1 percent on first preferred with record February 17.
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Homestake Mining Co
Wisconsin Central By. Co
Quaker Oats Co
Old Colony Trust Co
National Bus. of Mexico
Fourth annual session of House Furnishers Assn of Massachusetts
The fourth annual meeting and banquet of the House Furnishers Association of Massachusetts was held at Young's Hotel with about 200 members present. Officers elected included Henry L. Kincaide as president and B Scofield as first vice president. many named executives joined the council. The event featured speeches by Morse, Spalding, Sholar, and others, a retiring president honored with a gold watch, and music by the Salem Cadet Orchestra.
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House Furnishers’ Association of Massachusetts
Young's Hotel
William A. Morse
Lincoln
Thorndike Spalding
William Jessup Sholar
W. F. Richardson
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Samuel D. Elmore
C. E. Osgood
S. D. L. Moore
Jackson Caldwell
C. E. Sprott
New York Furniture Exchange
Leo Kharpin
Karpin Brothers
Chicago
Henry B. Scofield
Association
Caldwell
Salem Cadet Orchestra
Charles E. Osgood
Boston
Henry L. Kincaide
H. L. Kincaide & Co
Quincy
H. B. Scofield
Plimpton-Hervey Company
RR. E. Warner
The
Household Furnishing Company
New Bedford
I. P. Luce
Holmes, Luce & Co
LeBaron Atherton
Atherton Furniture Company
Brockton
Flint & Parker
Worcester
B. A. Atkinson
I. Wing
E. A. Jennings
C. F. Wing Company
C. C. Buckley
Metropolitan Manufacturing Company
Charles A. Smith
Smith Brothers
Charles I. Phillips
Phillips Brothers Company
Cambridge
Henry Rh. Scofield
I. O T. A. McLeod
Henry L. Killcaide
Harvard Opposes Luxury and Segregation of the Rich
Harvard University president Dr Charles W Eliot denounces luxury at a Religious Education Association session noting past hardships and arguing private dormitories spur college dorm improvements while maintaining dignified housing. Ambassador James Bryce calls for religious instruction from non-state bodies and warns of growing religious indifference in the United States.
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Chicago
Harvard University
Charles W. Eliot
True University
Religious Education Association
Harvard
James Bryce
Great Britain
United States
Fort Wolcott to be demolished at Newport
Newport Rhode Island February 11 Old Fort Wolcott famous from the days of the Revolution is being torn down to make room for improvements in the torpedo station plant where the new torpedo factory was recently put in operation.
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Newport
R. I
Fort Wolcott
Naval Torpedo Station
Whipple Founder of First YMHA Boys Branch Dies
William H. Whipple founder of the first boys branch of the Young Men's Christian Association died at his Salem home. He organized the earliest YMHA boys department and his death marks the end of an era in local youth work.
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Salem
William H. Whipple
Young Men’s Christian Association
Stewart Led Dual Life In Fall River Widow Claims
Worcester February 11 reports reveal William J. Stewart of Fall River lived there for 15 years until his death on November 25. He belonged to Wing and Stewart at the time. New information from Kalamazoo and Detroit shows he was more known as William Smith before arriving in Fall River 15 years ago.
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C. F. Jonasson & CO
New York
United States
Canada
Mexico
Worcester
William J. Stewart
Fall River
Wing & Stewart
Kalamazoo
Detroit
Mich
William Smith
Mystery of Smith-Dunkley President Sparks Estate Claim
William Smith of the Smith-Dunkley Company, once a leading canning magnate based in Kalamasoo and Detroit, vanished in 1892. Rumors of his death lingered as his accounts stayed exact. A drummer later linked him to a Fall River man known as Stewart who died at 60, revealing Smith's wife Rhoda Smith and a sizeable fortune. The Kalamazoo widow claims the estate and alleges a divorce was never disclosed.
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William Smith
Smith-Dunkley Company
Kalasmazoo
Detroit
Smith
Stewart
Fall River
Rhoda
Kalamazoo
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RAY Sly
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Arizona
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Straus
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Hattie Williams
John J. McNaally
Castle Sq
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Temple Place
Temple Holmes
Hawaii
Providence Joy Line
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