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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1913
Page
12
Each Monday column answers inquiries on listed and unlisted stocks and bonds in New England industrial, utility, bank, and mill firms. It pledges impartial data but not guarantees accuracy and will not give market predictions or individual price opinions. Anonymous submissions are refused. include full name and address.
The Q and A explain floating indebtedness equals all one year or less debts including trade bills and notes payable. Walpole Tire & Rubber is a decent industrial investment with growing revenue and solid surplus. First National Copper faces smelter issues and weak prospects. Silverton, Gladstone & Northerly railroad struggles with damages, low earnings, and bond default. Market review notes overall price declines, copper price volatility, and a hopeful shift after Balkan and Mexican issues, plus a strong bank statement supporting liquidity.
Lee Higginson & Co. offer investors $5,000,000 7 percent cumulative preferred stock at 103 1 2 with 20,000 shares unsubscribed. The Chicago firm, incorporated 1918, shows 1912 gross sales of 35 million and net profits of 2.347 million. Proceeds fund new plants in New York and on the Pacific, plus increases to working capital and a sinking fund.
The First National Bank of Boston notes in its February letter a coming price readjustment and reliance on short term activity. It cites strong orders for spring though long term commitments are scarce, with tariff effects only moodily restraining trade. Demand driven by crop-related buying power supports a robust, though narrow, trade climate.
A calendar list of securities with callable dates and note on payable dates. Entries include Adams Express American Sumatra Tobacco Company Butterick Cripple Creek Central Deere & Co Independent Brewing Company American Bank Note American Radiator Borden's Condensed Milk Buffalo Mines Connecticut Ry Columbus Ry Niles-Bement Pond Pratt & Whitney M Rumely Tuolumne Copper Norfolk & Western Underground Electric Rys Meetings Daly-West Mag Hudson River Telephone Ontario Building Pacific Coast Coal Ry Company General Salmon Falls Mfg U. S. Motor and privilege expirations. Books do not close.
A syndicate led by William Salomon & Co and others offers Fisk Rubber Company 7 percent cumulative first preferred stock at 1021-2 to raise 3 million dollars. The issue carries a $100 par, is fully paid, nonassessable, redeemable at 120 with accrued dividends, and includes a sinking fund cap at 120. The target company, Massachusetts chartered, plans to acquire Fisk Rubber Company of Delaware, with assets about 5 million and strong earnings.
Financing of the M Rumely Company, a leading Western agricultural implement maker, takes the form of a ten million dollar issue of two year 6 percent convertible notes dated March 1 1915 maturing in 1915. Initially a stock sale was considered to raise working capital. The notes feature a likely conversion or equity aspect to bolster finances.
Four fishing schooners arrived at T wharf yesterday as fishermen anticipate a fish surge after a week of unusually dull activity caused by prior bad weather. Traders expect a large fleet of trawlers early this week, following calmer seas and improved conditions. The Sagamore from Liverpool sailed stormy and docked at Hoosac docks. The Itasca came from Province town to the navy yard, and the Sicilian from Charlestown sailed to Glasgow with a substantial cargo. Other steamers expected include the Braunfels from Calcutta, Bulgaria from Hamburg, Median from Manchester, and the Win from Leyland.
Fredian of Liverpool sails on the steamship Nelson carrying 1,450,000 gallons Havana molasses. Red Star line Manitou from Antwerp due Thursday or Friday. Allan Haer Numidian from Glasgow due midweek. Hollis Burgess agency sold 44 foot power boat Helen of Fred A Porter Bangor to Fred A Schirmer Newton, Boston Yacht Club member, and 25 foot Sentana sloop of G Walter Vialle Concord to Rufus T French New York.
Shipping notes list 17 sunrises and six sets with day length ten hours forty one minutes. Itasca and Sagamore steamers arrive and depart trading routes from Liverpool Boston Yarmouth and Gloucester with numerous tugs and barges active in coastal traffic and several vessels returning due to thick weather. The report names Providence towns New Jersey and Maine ports and multiple schooners steamers and transports including Itasca Carpathia Prothero and Daniel Willard among others.
Anxious relatives and police search for Miss Lillian Campbell daughter of Judge Lawrence Campbell of Bedford City Va who escaped via a rope from a Virginia State Normal School dormitory window and eloped with Thomas D Berry also of Bedford City The couple paused to marry during their flight
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