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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1911
Page
12
Editor notes Norfolk and Western Railway stock has shown resilience amid bear markets. Despite a history of reinvestment via bonds, earnings for 1910 hit records with a 6 percent dividend likely. potential convertible bonds aim to attract buyers while keeping stock above par.
Market activity centered on stock offers from copper firms with Calumet & Hecla influence as Lake Superior producers consider a merger of 12 Lake companies. Official figures show a 50 percent drop in copper recovered from the conglomerate lode over the decade due to deeper ore poverty, despite milling advances. American Telephone and Boston & Maine rights also featured in the day’s miscellaneous list while closing prices showed firm net advances.
The Boston Market reports stock and bond market activity for January 3, detailing price movements, total sales, and comparisons to the prior close across bond issues.
Ex dividend Am Locomotive pfd National Carbon com Chi Bur Quincy.
Market summary shows New York total sales 391 100 shares and Boston 19 418 shares with steel common most active in both cities. Jan 1 1911 to date figures mirror last year, Sears Roebuck leads NY gains while Kansas City Southern pref. shows losses. Boston gains include N E Cotton Yarn and Osceola Consolidated drops noted. Call and time money rates listed for New York and Boston.
The first market day of the year shows strong price advances and brisk activity with about 400,000 shares traded. Union Pacific rises to 173, Reading climbs to 152 6 8, and Steel remains active but lags as prices hold near recent highs amid steel price-cut talks and declining orders.
The National Suffolk Bank of Boston pays out the final liquidation dividend while stockholders have realized $136.62 per share from a $127 purchase. The Old Colony Trust Co plans exchange of 61 percent of National Mining Exploration for Iron Cap Copper, with a $0.20 assessment due by January 19, 1910. Rumors of $20 to $30 million stock for American Tobacco & Telegraph circulate, rights due this month. Old Colony adds staff changes, Mohawk Mine dividends total $22.50 per share since 1906. Local curb exchange last month shows 1,204,862 shares traded with Champion leading. Total 1910 curb trading reaches 17,176,502 shares per Frank J. Souther & Co.
The Boston curb market attracted attention with movements in low price shares such as Kruger and Mackinaw while higher priced issues like Arizona Mines Rhode Island Coal Mexican Metals and Calaveras also featured prominently.
Methuen bids due Jan 5 for 23000 four percent water bonds dated Dec 1 1910. New Bedford bids due Jan 6 for 329000 four percent bonds including 100000 high school bonds and 146000 school and 14000 municipal bonds with varied maturities through 1931. Nashua awards a temporary 30000 loan to Blake Brothers at 4.24 percent discount with Dec 4 1911 maturity.
Worcester Massachusetts invites bids by noon January 4 for 100000 temporary notes maturing October 17 1911. Dedham Massachusetts accepts bids by 3 p m January 6 for 7740 four percent building bonds dated January 10 1911 and maturing 1912 to 1916 with specified annual amounts.
Lists semi annual and quarterly dividends declared by National Licorice Boston Safe Deposit Hamilton Woolen Tuolumne Mining Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Western Maryland Mohawk MiningBrighton Savings Bank with dates for payment and stock record. Includes cents and percentages, books close and reopen dates.
Florencio Constantino trains under Tito Ricordi to portray road agent Dick Johnson in Puccini is Girl of the Golden West set for January 17. Carmen Melis sings The Girl with Signor Galeffi as Jack Rance and Jose Mandones as Sonora in the Boston Opera Company cast.
Elizabeth Richmond must serve life for killing Stewart McTavish a transient boarder in her Cambridge Street house East Cambridge The full bench of the Supreme Court denied her appeal yesterday and she remains imprisoned at Sherborn
The Sunday Post Magazine will publish another Charles G D Roberts nature story next Sunday. It recounts the journey of a big bull seal from the South toward sealing grounds in the Behring Sea. Readers will find it wonderfully interesting.
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