ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES COLUMN FOR BOSTON POST
Monday through Friday readers send inquiries about listed and unlisted stocks and bonds of New England companies. The Post answers impartially from data available, but does not guarantee accuracy or give market forecasts. Inquiries must include full name and street address. mail to FINANCIAL EDITOR Boston Post Boston Mass.
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Charles Chaplin
Chaplin
Charlie” Chaplin
Federal Trust Company
Devonshire Street
Boston Mass
Boston Post
New England
Post
Financial
The
Inquirer
Boston
Mass
Ventura Oil Company Prospects and Current Oil Rate
Answer states Ventura Oil Company is producing about 2000 barrels daily with oil grades differing from typical Western varieties and resembling a specific regional grade. Earnings run rate for the stock is not fully disclosed in the excerpt.
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Ventura Oil Company
B. L. Holyoke
Mass
West
Reading on Shannon Copper Company investment prospects and Global oil assets
The report outlines Shannon Copper Company as a steady producer with sporadic dividends plus potential earnings near $2 per share in a favorable copper market. It notes a large oil property in Mexico and near Los Angeles with development ongoing and a market being developed in Los Angeles. It also discusses International Steam Pump stock, explaining an old common stock lost status after a 12.50 per share assessment, reorganization, and conversion into new preferred and common stock with fractional ownership details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Oil
Los Angeles
Mexico
Shannon Copper Company
A. J. Fall River
Mass
Hinsdale
Anaconda
Utah Copper
Chino
American Car & Foundry
American Locomotive
American
Goodrich
Lee Tire
Baltimore & Ohio
New York Central
Chesapeake & Ohio
Ment
Troy
Arizona
Market Review and Outlook for 1916 Stocks
A weekly market snapshot notes little change in the average price of 20 rail stocks and a sideways pattern across markets. Copper gains propel a bullish tilt while rails remain lackluster. investors await developments with Germany and assess whether earnings momentum can sustain through the year.
Investment choice between Pennsylvania Railroad and American Telephone stock
A reader asks which stock offers better prospects for a saver in Massachusetts. Pennsylvania Railroad yields about 5.2 percent at $3 per share. American Telephone about 6.2 percent at $8 with prices indicating similar safety of dividends. Tax rules make Telephone net yield higher in Massachusetts. Pennsylvania is deemed safer by bankers.
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Savings Bank
Pennsylvania Railroad
American Telephone
Dorchester
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Five Vessels Arrive at New Fish Pier in Fine Weather
Five vessels arrived at the new fish pier yesterday including a steam trawler. The offshore boats brought in large fares while two smaller-fare ships rounded out the arrivals. With clear weather forecast, a large fleet is expected at market opening this morning. The Gloucester schooner Corona and its crew were later brought to port after going ashore near Clarks Harbor. The steamer North Star was freed from a grounding in Castle Island and will sail to St John. The Washington cruiser arrived from New York with ammunition to be transferred to Hing.
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New Fish Pier
Helen B. Thomas
Mary T. Fallon
Mary
Gertrude DeCosta
Spray
Gloucester
Corona
Yarmouth
Prince George
Clarks Harbor
N. S
North Star
Castle Island
St. John
Washington
New York
Hing
Shipping News Dockside Arrival List With Lots of Vessels
A lengthy shipping report notes arrivals and current movements of U S and British steamers and gunboats including Washington Eagle Eagle and gunboat Eagle along with numerous tugs and barges. It lists ports such as New York Norfolk Newport News and Baltimore and references multiple ships sailing to and from Buenos Aires Montevideo Rio de Janeiro and other routes.
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Washington
Decker
New York
Eagie
Shoup
Portsmouth
N. H
Dupont
Fall River
Anglian
U. S
Eagle
Norfolk
Indian
Philadelphia
Bay State
Sewalls Point
Boxer
Franklin
Merriam
Robesonia
Valley Worge
Beechwood
Pxeter
Suffolk
Gwalla
Lamberts Point
Grace
Beattie
Lynn
Charles P. Greenough
Helen
Hmelie
Newport
Baby Born in Police Station in Somerville
Somerville records a baby born Saturday night in the city police station. The newborn, a “war baby,” and the mother are reported in good condition at Somerville Hospital. The mother, a recent arrival from Ireland employed as a domestic, refuses to identify the father. She says he is at the front fighting for his king and country.
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Somerville
United States
Ireland
Metropolitan Opera to Open Boston Season with Four New Operas
The Metropolitan Opera Company to open at the Boston Opera House on April 3 for a three week run. It will present its most extensive Boston repertory to date with full orchestra and noted singers. Four new operas headline the season including Boris Godunoff Rosenkavalier Mme Sans Gene and Taming of the Shrew.
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Boston
Metropolitan Opera Company
Boston Opera House
Metropolitan
Moussorgsky
Boris Godunoff
Richard Strauss
Rosenkavalier
Giordano
Mme
Sans-Gene
and Goetz
New York
Shakspere
Sardou
Geraldine Farrar
Hugo von Hoffmansthal
Strauss
Europe
Caruso
Farrar
Carmen
Maria Barrientos
Melanie Kurt
Margarete Ober
Paul Althouse
Tuca Botta
Giuseppe di Luca
Pompilio Malatesta
Buffo
Arthur Bodansky
Toscanini
Metropolitan Opera House
Charles A. Ellis
Ellis
Gatti-Casazza
Princeton's President for Preparedness
New York February 27. Princeton University President John Grier Hibben urged a U S military system like Switzerland and military training for college men. He said he was a pacifist yet favored preparedness and warned that failure to spend now would cost blood and tears later.
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New York
United States
Switzerland
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Funeral of Boston journalist at home of Edwin M Bacon
Prominent civic and journalistic figures gathered at 36 Pinckney Street to honor Edwin Munroe Bacon. The funeral, arranged during his illness, was simple with no pallbearers or music. Cremation followed at Mt Auburn crematory per his wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Munroe Bacon
Pinckney Street
Boston
Mr. Bacon
Edwin M Bacon remembered in Boston in 1915 funeral note
The Boston ceremony eulogized Edwin M Bacon a longtime editor and civic figure. Rev Edward A Horton praised his conscience and devotion to uplift, noting his love of work and causes while friends from major papers attended. Bacon’s published last article urged Boston voters to participate in the municipal election and his cremated remains will be interred in Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. Horton
Second Unitarian Church
Bacon
M. J. Savage
Horton
Post
New England
Mr. Horton
Mr. Bacon
Edwin M. Bacon
Boston
Boston Daily Advertiser
Chicago Illustrated News
New York Times
Advertiser
The
City of
Union
Good Government Association
Frances G. Curtis
Wright High selects captain and staff for baseball team
Wallace Wright, class of 1916, will captain Lexington High's baseball squad with Lawrence H. Burnham, 1916, as manager. John J. Sullivan, who coached last fall's football eleven, is hired to coach the nine, and Sub-Master Fred C. Ball serves as team director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Wright
Lexington High
Lawrence H. Burnham
John J. Sullivan
Fred C. Ball
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Lone Star Film Corporation
Crawford Livingston
Livingston & Co
Bankers
J. R. Freuler
Pres
Mutual Film Corporation
Donald C. Macdonald
Trens
Boston Financial News
Canada
Ventura Oil
Midwest Oil
Midwest
L. L. Winkelman &Co
Broad Street
Wilmington
Del
Parkersburg
W. Va
Direct
Prive
Smith
Iza
Devonshire &T
Shannon Copper
Germmany
Germany
Steel
Manchester
Dundee
Louisburg
C. B
Monadnock
London
Port Hunter
Brisbane
Australia
Hesperus
Huelva
C. A. Jacques
Josey
Matanzas
Acadian
City of Vienna
Calcutta
Limon
Port Lbmon
Havana
Chio
Massaria
Shields
Santurcé
Jobes
P. R
Lowland
Preston
Cuba
Clearway
Shipping News
Cleardd
Nickerson
Hatch
Camden, Brown
Winterport
Shakspere’s
South America
Madame Barrientos Bellini
di Luca
Frances Alda
Ida Cajatti
Louise Cox
Vera Curtis
Minnie Egener
Rita Fornia
Johanna Gadski
Mabel Garrison
Frieda Hempel
Edith Mason
Marie Rappold
Leonora Sparkes
Altes
Emma Borniggia
Sophie Braslau
Maria Duchene
Louise Homer
Marie Mattfeld
Margarete Obe
Antonio Scotti
Riccardo Vegani
Hermann Weil
Clarence Whitehill
Carl Braun
Adamo Didur
Giulio Rossi
Leon Rothier
Basil Ruysdael
Andrea de Segurola
Henri Scott
Gaetano Bavagsnell
Giorgio Polacco
Richard Hagemann
Gennaro Papi
Rosina Galli
Giuseppe Bonfiglio
Singers New
Tristan and Isolde
Lucia di Lammermoor
Aida
Madama Bitterfly
Lohengrin
der Rosenkavalier
Il Trovatore
Madame Sans-Gene
Madama Butterfly
Martha
Die Meistersinger
Princeton
President For
Bostonian
Editors At Service
J. E. Chamberlin
Boston Evening Transcript
Nathan Haskell Cole
Lindsay Swift
Boston Public Library
George F. Babbitt
Boston Herald
Robert Lincoln O’brien
Herald
C. W. Barron
Boston News Bureau
Henry C. Merwin
Eewin L. Sprague
McCall
John J. Attridge
Walter L. Collins
James J. Storrow
Thomas J. Kenney
Treasury
Trinity
First National
Congress St
Canyon Mines Corporation
Canyon Mines
Chas. A. Day & Co
Boston Curb Exchange
State Street
the City Realty Trust
City Realty Trust of Record
Bulrit
Norris Chester I. Camphell
Louis H. Parkhurst
Connecticut Power Compan
Connecticut
Connecticut Power Company
Stone & Webster
Thanhouser Film Corporation
A. E. Jones
Treas
Tta
Frank J. Smith
Nevada
Douglas Majestic
Boston & Montana
Fortuna
CAL
Montana
American Oil Stewart
Consol
FIRST
NAT
Temple H.ray&c Co
State St
Telburt Hill
White Bros & CO
Ry Fort Hill
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