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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1901
Page
8
Copper price activity shows gains with leaders Copper Range and Taltic leading. insiders place buy orders as publics retreat, stock locked up, and future rises expected on renewed buying. GE advances on dividend rumors. Lake copper and Victoria mine strength noted amid cautious money market and pending deals.
Report notes some bondholders sold their holdings after a dividend increase on preferred shares. Directors faced pressure and acted to distribute funds, with InkhAm mentioned in connection to the decision.
On the Boston exchange today investors traded listed bonds totaling 119 500 dollars and listed stocks 52 144 shares. Unlisted bonds moved 11 000 dollars and unlisted stocks 12 436 shares while rights traded 4197 shares. Ex-dividend and ex-rights notes accompanied the session along with two assessments paid and a total sales figure.
The Omega Mu Sigma of the Boston Conservatory hosted a reception at the conservatory honoring a large gathering of musical and artistic society members. Mr and Mrs Strain were guests of honor with Mr Strain noted as an accomplished artist who recently painted Mr Chelius.
John Redmond frames Ireland's stance against the coronation as a protest of constitutional oppression. The Irish National party Unity meets after ten years to plan vigorous action opposing Edward VII's reign, including a push for compulsory sale of Irish estates and scrutiny of Boer War. Boston United Irish League sends godspeed. Government civil list rise estimated at 2.5 million dollars faces opposition.
Nellie a 16 year old and Benjamin Surdam three years her senior fled from Norfolk to elope in Gretna Green. With freezing temps and rough country they walked thirty miles toward Millerton New York to wed despite parental opposition.
The article notes four arrivals totaling about 33,000 pounds with haddock and other fish selling at high prices. It discusses plans for a seven masted schooner in Franklin Maine, steamship schedule changes due to accidents, cargo movements to Buenos Aires and Rosario, and navigation hazards from ice and wreckage near Boston Harbor and Cape Cod.
Boston clergy defend pastoral visiting as essential and deny Peabody’s claim that pastoral calling is worthless. They cite benefits to both flock and church, noting visits aid workers, the poor, and isolated members while countering mischaracterizations of the practice as confessional or harmful.
Washington February 14 The Senate spent most of the session on the agricultural appropriation bill with warnings from Hale Lodge Chandler about large sums and wasteful projects. They criticized river and harbor subsidies expositions and battlefield sales as real estate schemes and urged economy before the billion dollar mark.
Recruiting for 30,000 volunteers by June faces a weak response though the 1900 Army plan aims for a 100,000 standing force. Boston shows slow gains with enlistments averaging three months, while New York and Chicago lead in December. Officials urge intensified effort to meet quotas and reduce the four year path to full readiness.
The New York & Bermudez Company offers no forceful resistance to Venezuelan federal or Sucre department authorities attempting to dispossess the asphalt lakes. Officials here see this as paving the way for a judicial settlement of the dispute between the two governments.
Hartford Massachusetts withdrawal explained by Hartford Life Insurance official. He said policies are preliminary one year term contracts valued by the home department and accepted everywhere but Massachusetts which insists on a contrary valuation. The company declines that condition and withdraws.
The Massachusetts Brigade Knights of Pythias hosted General James K. Carnahan of Indiana at the American House last evening. About sixty members attended a banquet after the reception with Carnahan as chief speaker on military matters.
The Washington street home of Charlies E. Lane burned tonight. Lane was overcome by smoke while trying to recover jewelry and £ 209 in cash from the blaze.
Cheverus Court observed its twenty first anniversary last evening at St Marys Hall Suliman Street in the North End. Members recalled fifty one years of growth and fellowship and a banquet was held to commemorate the event.
The article lists officers for the Ladies’ entertainment event including Steohn J. MecGaffigan C R Patas O’Brien V C R Stephen J. Fitzick recording secretary Francis J. Murray financial secretary Leo Quassidy treasurer Michael Lynch senior conductor John Harkins Jr conductor James Barry and Charles Kerrigan marshal.
The Philo Celtic Society of Boston held its mid winter event on Hudson Street with Gaelic songs and an address by Rev B P Mahon on Life and Labor of George Washington. Attendees included Maurice W Pineen and many local residents. later a court note reported charges of assault and a dynamite attack with a knife and axe pending adjournment.
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