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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1903
Page
8
The Olalla Copper Mining and Smelting Company offers a stock sale designed for moderate means. It aims to democratize ownership by allowing purchasers to pay nearly half of their stock from the dividends earned, aligning small investors with wealthier holders and sharing profits.
A Maine incorporated firm touts 63 Olalla claims covering 2500 acres at Olalla B C with town and smelter sites and a 70 mile railway. it forecasts 3 to 5 percent copper and 2 to 20 dollars per ton gold with smelters and a telegraph network to back a yearly output of 10 000 tons. The firm cites strong water rights, railway control, and promising ore values to attract investors while highlighting a cash price rise to 15 per share by February and withdrawal by March.
Mrs. J Ellen Foster first vice president and Red Cross executive member passes through Boston en route to New Hampshire to address mass meetings in support of women's suffrage. She defends the society while noting need for business like accounting of funds and predicts an early resolution with Miss Barton. Foster returns to Boston Feb 2 to speak to graduate nurses about forming a state nurses association and seeking state registration by legislation.
Samuel Dalton leads Provident Securities and Banking Company in introducing a Boston auxiliary banking system. Small steel deposit boxes let customers hand over minor accounts, the bank keeps the key, and deposits are counted and entered on the passbook. Partners include Sidney M. Hedges William H. Brigham Lorenzo W. Burien and Charles D. Gurley. The plan aims to place 25000 boxes around Boston and follows a pattern seen in other cities where every 1000 accounts yield 382 new commercial relations.
Daniel J. Flynn a Boston man with suspected New Orleans ties followed a medium's instruction to die by his own hand. He leapt before a Southern Pacific train in New Orleans Friday, was rescued by a nearby patrolman, and detained. He told investigators his family lived in Boston and he had friends in Chicago. He had recently searched for work after visiting three addresses listed in the city.
Advices from Nigeria report Colonel Morland’s 1200 man West African Frontier Force occupying Kano on Feb 8 after sharp combat. Two British officers wounded. 12 British rank and file wounded. about 300 of the enemy killed. Emir fled to Sokoto with 1000 horsemen while the city remained uninjured.
The Free Baptist council in Batavia New York has stripped Rev. George N. Howard of his ministerial recognition after a trial over a lawsuit to regain possession of letters he claimed were fished from a slop jar. No defense was offered, the letters were pieced together as evidence, and Howard previously preached at Melrose Highlands Massachusetts.
F A Golden of Unga Alaska warned that native Alaska faces extermination within 80 years if current dynamics persist and that white settlement corrodes native life. He cited scant schooling, disease, and moral harm from settlers, while praising mining and fisheries potential and urging education through local tutoring.
Ward 19 businessmen fear a costly special election to fill the vacancy caused by William H. Curley’s resignation. All saloons breweries and bottling plants must close on election day, costing about $4000 plus election expenses, totaling over $6000. Critics say the ward should already have three councilmen and that the vacancy must be filled by law.
Boston prepares for a Boston Sportsmen's Show at Madison Square Garden in New York from Feb 21 to March 7 with an opening in Boston on March 19. The event features a large camp with guides from Quebec to Virginia and a cantata titled Hiawatha Songs of the Woods with 150 participants.
A tube used for mail between the New York post office and Grand Central station ruptured during a test. Michael Garrity was killed and Hugh Wart seriously injured when four heavy pouches shot through a weak spot and the air pressure burst the tube.
A Buffalo physician touts charcoal as safe cleansing for the stomach bowels and blood. Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges are recommended for gas breath complexion and liver benefits costing twenty five cents a box.
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