Market Trends Falter As Traders Reconsider Bullish Bias
The week ending Feb 4 showed strong bullish positioning among traders, but the following week cooled. Rail shares rose to 119.9 then closed at 119.70, industrials peaked 86.22 and closed around 80.46, and the copper average stayed near 43.26. Investors await court decisions on Union Pacific Southern Pacific, the corporation tax, railroad rates, Standard Oil and American Tobacco, which may shape policy and market risk.
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Boston
Arizona
Butte Coal
Calumet
Butte
Franklin Ea
Hancock
Indiana
Isle Royale
Lake Cowper
North Butte
Osceola
Quincy Rie
Superior
Superior & Pittsbore
Utah
Ava
Ata United Shoe
United Fruit
New York
Atchison
Baltinore & Obie
St Paul
Delaware & Hudson
Louisville& Nashville
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Rock Isla
Bacttera
Tmz
Union Pacific
Am Car Foundry
Colorado
People’s Gas
Westinghouse
Saturn's
Sanday’s
United States Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Standard Oil
American Tobacco
Supreme Court questions restraint of trade in Sherman Act
The piece discusses the legality of large corporations like Standard Oil and American Tobacco under the Sherman Act. It argues the key issue is whether contracts and combinations are illegal or if reasonable restraints aligned with modern business customs may be allowed. The outcome hinges on the Court's stance on reasonableness versus prohibition. The article notes market jitters and hopes the Court clarifies the law amid ongoing financial uncertainty.
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Ated
Standard Oil
Northern Securities Company
New York Journal of Commerce
Supreme Court
Dorchester Couple Celebrates Golden Wedding Jubilee
Dorchester couple G Edwin Brown and wife Heity Johnson Brown marked their Golden Wedding Anniversary at 337 Codman Street with their five grandchildren and several children in attendance. Mrs Brown is 71 and Mr Brown 75. The two were wed in New Brunswick and have spent much of their married life in Dorchester.
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G. Edwin Brown
Codman Street
Dorchester
Brown
Heity Johnson
Mr. Brown
New Brunswick
Fire kills 82 year old in Milford home blaze
In Milford the 82 year old Mrs Catherine G Middleton died when a kitchen fire spread through the house trapping her on the second floor. Two others his household aged 38 and 75 were overcome by smoke and later saved by a youth named Thomas Quirk who dragged them outside. Firefighters arrived too late to rescue Mrs Middleton.
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John Cochrane
Thomas Quirk
Father Gasson Challenged Over Socialist Views in Irving Hall
George Willis Cooke dismissed Father Gasson's attack as ignorance and argued Socialism aligns with modern science. He said Socialists oppose monopoly and seek economic justice through cooperation and democracy, while condemning child labor and arguing family and marriage are not inherently opposed by socialism.
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Father Gasson
George Willis Cooke
Irving Hall
Socialist Party
Funeral of C. J. Lynch Today
The funeral of Cornelius J. Lynch, longtime Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters member, will be held this morning from his Roxbury home. Mass will be at St Patrick's Church on Dudley Street at 9, likely by Rev Thomas T. Gasson with Deacon Rev George A. Keelan and sub-deacon Rev Daniel J. Lynch. Knights of St Rose, long active in the order, held a yesterday memorial meeting and named Frank J. McGrath, Owen F. Hayes, Miss Mary E. F. Digan, and Mrs. Benjamin Green to represent them at the service.
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Order of Foresters
Greenville Street
Roxbury
St. Patrick’s Church
Dudley Street
Thomas TI. Gasson
S. J
Boston College
George A. Keelan
Daniel J. Lynch
St. Peter's College
Jersey City
Knights of St. Rose
Worcester Street
Frank J. McGrath
Owen F. Hayes
Mary E. F. Digan
Benjamin Green
Hill Studied in Prison Readers Correct Pardon Report
In a Boston letter dated February 12 1911 Geraldine L Trotter corrects a report on the William F Hill pardon noting he learned to read and write in prison after discovering Lt James M Trotter was a comrade in the fifty fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment. She explains his progress came through reading the Guardian, to which he had subscribed for four years, and appeals to Mr Trotter as the son of a fellow veteran.
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William F. Hill
Hill
the Guardian
James M. Trotter
Fifty-Fifth
Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment
Stabbed in Cheek with Hatpin at Music Hall
George E. Holbrook of New Boston Conn was stabbed in the left cheek by a hatpin when a woman neighbor pulled pins from her hat during a moving pictures show at Music Hall. The wound bled heavily and he sought medical treatment after leaving the hall.
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Attacks at Socialist Meeting Target Warren Case
Mrs May Wood Simons of Chicago and James J Kirkpatrick of New York attacked the Warren fine for misuse of the mails at a Socialist gathering of more than 600 in Faneuil Hall. They charged federal judges protect capitalists and accused courts of injustice against workers in Boston.
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Chicago
James J. Kirkpatrick
New York
Faneuil Hall
Fred Warren
Kansas
Kirkpatrick
Criminal Courts
Boston
Two Die in Montreal Boarding House Fire
In Montreal on February 12, Joseph Phillips 70 and Michael McMahon 47 died when a fire damaged a boarding house on Prince Street owned by Phillips. An overheated stove pipe caused the blaze. Mrs. Phillips was rescued by firefighters but severely burned and may not survive.
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Michael McMahon
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Ice Wall At Revere Beach Draws Crowds
Hundreds visited Revere Beach yesterday to see a two mile long ice wall stretching from Eliot Circle to the Point of Pines. The picturesque formation towers near the bandstand and State bath house, with theatres and food booths thriving as B & N Railroad cars ran full.
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Pageant of Darkness and Light seeks 5000 Boston choristers
Rehearsals for the World in Boston missionary exposition will begin tonight at the Mechanics Building. A call has gone to Boston churches for 5000 choristers, with about 2000 already enrolled. The Pageant features five episodes and about 200 participants per scene under Cutter Jr. and three assistants. Rehearsals run Monday in four districts and Wednesday in one starting Feb 15, with mass chorus rehearsals in early April in a central city church.
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Cutter, Jr
Fire Fought to Contain Ammonia Plant Blaze
In Findlay Ohio on February 12 volunteers aided the fire department to control a blaze that destroyed the Paragon Insulating Company plant and much of the National Refining Company site. Loss estimated at 125000 dollars as firefighters diverted flames from large ammonia vats to prevent explosions.
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Paragon Insulating Company
National Refining Company
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