Inquiries to the Boston Post Finance Editor
The Boston Post announces a weekly column answering reader inquiries on listed and unlisted New England stocks and bonds. It commits impartial data based responses while not guaranteeing accuracy or market forecasts. Readers must include name and address and limit inquiries to one subject.
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Boston Post
New England
Iniver
Boston
Mass
Post
Financial Department
The
Cape Cod and New Haven Stocks Uncertain Outlook
The report notes New Haven stock faces uncertain prospects due to nondividend issues, fixed charges, and ongoing investigations. It suggests dividends may not resume soon, while large operators remain short, betting on a decline to align with dividend prospects amid broader inquiries.
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Cape Cod
New Haven
Dividend notices from Rhode Island and Utah mining firms
Notices announce a quarterly dividend of 2.00 per share on Clarkstone Valley Gas and Electric common stock payable March 2 1914 to stockholders of record at close of business Feb 24. Utah Consolidated Mining declares a 1.00 per share dividend payable March 21 1914 to holders of record as of 12 o clock noon.
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Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric Company
Pawtucket and Woonsocket
Rhode Island
Clarkstone Valley Gas and Electrics
Brock
Stonaw
Binghamton
N. Y
Light, Heat & Power Company First Ss
Bingheamton
New York
Investment offerings from Adirondack Electric Power and peers
The Boston Post presents a Monday section of select securities from leading banks. Highlights include Adirondack Electric Power bonds, Binghamton Light, Verdun debt, Detroit United Railway notes, Fore River Shipbuilding bonds, and Interborough Transit bonds among others with prices, yields, and terms.
Premium for Loaned Stock Draws Investor Scrutiny
Belief grows that investors paid a premium for stock loaning over six months. Old holders say they sold shares long ago, bought at roughly twice the current market price, raising questions about valuation and liquidity.
New Haven 21 2 percent bonds convert to stock details
Converts between Jan 1 1911 and Jan 1 1915 at 150 bond par for 19 stock par. current price around 74 yields about 5 percent. conversion profitable only if stock rises to about 110. bond appears a fairly safe investment with stock market support.
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Uestion No
New Haven
W. Manche
Answ
Legal status of option dealing in railroad shares debated
Question 530 from Portland asks if brokers may offer options on American railroad shares and if clients may accept. The answer says option dealing is legitimate and done by many houses, forbidden on stock exchange floors but allowed outside. The "put and call" business is larger abroad and seen by authorities as a safer, more scientific method of speculation than stop loss orders.
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Union Pacific
Exeter
Baltimore & Oho
Interstate Commerce Commission
Portland
Boston Irish Societies Fund Rossa Last Days Mission
Matthew Cummings and P J Colbert arrive with New England funds for O Donovan Rossa at St Vincent s Hospital on Staten Island. A check for 1582 85 will be presented as the Boston Federated Irish Societies lead national relief efforts. The committee plans calls on Mayor Mitchel and the Rossa family cottage.
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New York
Matthew Cummings
P. J. Colbert
Greater Boston
New England
O'Donovan Rossa
Erin's Rights
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Staten Island
Rossa
Mitchel
Celt
Boston Society
Boston
Charles McCarthy
Federated Irish Societies
Pastor denounces Boston press in sermon over railroad probe
The Rev. A Z Conrad of Park Street Church attacked Boston newspapers for criticizing the railroad inquiry. He claimed investigators could harm national and local interests by overreach, calling out perceived hypocrisy in paper advertising and praise for the Secretary of State as a model of probity.
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A. Z. Conrad
Park Street
Boston
Dr. Conrad
Chautauqua
Marriage as a democratic ideal and home discipline
Dr. Charles Fleischer lectured at Commons Hall arguing that the clinging vine image of marriage poisons democratic ideals. He warned the home can become a despot if couples lack integrity and mutual growth. true stability requires spiritual and intellectual development alongside wedlock.
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Charles Fleischer
Commons Hall
Cambridge Moosers Declare Principles Pressing Municipal Reform
The Cambridge Progressive party publishes a principles declaration opposing sixth class liquor licenses and pony express licenses. It calls for strict liquor enforcement, a city hospital near Concord Avenue, municipal gas and electric plants, improved car service, a relief hospital and free dispensary, fair property assessment, and purchase of fire apparatus.
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Cambridge Moosers
Progressive Party of
Cambridge
Concord Avenue
Burglar ties two policemen to trees in Summit NJ
A stylish burglar armed with a revolver and a walking stick forced a chauffeur to drive him to verify a false identity. He tied Officer John J. Gannon and Officer William George to a tree with torn lap robe strips, then left with a suitcase and stick. The pair freed themselves after more than an hour. Investigators link the suspect to a Newark jewelry burglary worth $10,000.
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Summit
N. J
Ile
John J. Gannon
William George
George
Gannon
Essex Road
Whitteridge Street
A. J. Rose
Brantwood
G. Edward Escher
Russell Bland
Bland
Short Hills Station
Max Smith
Newark
Tango deemed dangerous by Warren Avenue pastor
Dr Frederick Heath at Warren Avenue Baptist Church warned the tango shows liberty and license and should be restrained. He condemned its popularity in halls and called it a sign of demoralization and foreign contaminating influence, urging restraint.
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Frederick Heath
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
Heath
Pankhurst Aided Escape From Campden Hill House
The Women’s Political and Social Union says Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst escaped tonight from Campden Hill Square with aid from a bodyguard after a scuffle with police. She had spoken from a window nearly two weeks earlier criticizing the government on woman suffrage as police sought to rearrest her.
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London
The
Women's Political and Social Union
Emmeline Pankhurst
Campden Hill Square
Waltham Suffered 40 Hours Without City Water
A 40 hour water outage in Waltham led to a public scramble for supplies as residents used buckets and kettles to collect water. Fire crews monitored hydrants, and Superintendent Higgins battled a broken 20 inch main and a failed valve while plans for urgent repairs aimed to restore high pressure service by nightfall.
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Daniel J. Higgins
Water Department
Boston
Higgins
City Hall
South Street
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White
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Verdun
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Care
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Detroit United Railway Mpay
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
Bethlehem St Company
Incomax
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Assesseil Wailue
Peaul el
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Closet and Short Line Railway Company
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Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
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Mortenge
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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Sierra and San Francisco Power Co
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Southern Sierras Power Company
Knerpal
Nevada
Calla Power Company
California
Nevada California
OG Net
Sierras
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Tennessee Power Company
Tennessee Railway Light & Power Company
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H. P. Com
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Xyilie
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Franklin
Tranklin
New Yor
New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Pal
Mt. Vernon-Woodbury Company
International Cotton Mills
International Cotton Mills & Per Cent
International Cotton Mills Company
Allis-Chalmers
H. B. Marlow
N. H
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Allis-Chalmers Company
Lawton Mills
Fitchburg
Antwer
Lawton Mills Corporation
Lawton
Coropany
International Cotton Mills Notes
Allston
Canada
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N.b.stark & Co
Congress St
Toronto
Boston Committee Bearing
N.Y
Conrad Scores
Probe
Dr. Fleischer
Dr. Heath
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Straus Building
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Jdrof
Wepman
Ren Sakemarski
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