Inquiries on stock questions from the Boston Post
The Boston Post financial editor answers reader questions on listed and unlisted securities in New England. Topics include Liberty bonds exchange options, Converse Rubber Shoe and American Telephone stocks, Ventura Oil, Quincy and Copper Range futures, Corn Products dividends, and market expectations with cautions on accuracy.
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Boston Post
New England
Post
Financial
The
Inquirer
Boston
Mass
Converse Rubber Shoe Company
American Telephone
BE. W. BH
Claremont
N. H
Converse
Rubber Shoe
Converse Rubber Shoe
Telephone
Champion Copper On Boston Curb Opens January 7
New ce at 10 Postoffice Square opens Monday January 7 to handle Liberty bonds and other stocks for cash or on margin or on monthly plans. A Tuesday ad will reveal stockholders should know key facts. Phone Main 4605. Richard A Burton & Co.
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Postoffice
Dividend Notice for Sierra Pacific Electric Preferred Stock
A dividend of per share is payable February 1 1918 to Berra Pacific Electric Company stockholders of record at the close of business January 1 1918. ITO vE WEBSTER Transfer Agent.
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Berra Pacific Electric Company
Ito*ve & Webster
Premier's London Speech Endorsed by Press and Labor
British leaders laud Lloyd George's war aims as a democratic declaration. The Sunday Times and National News hail it as a true expression of the British people, delivered to labor representatives. Ramsay MacDonald says the speech shows responsibility, while Hyndman notes contrasts with Wilson and Turkey's status.
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Sunday Times
National News
Representatives of
Labor
Lloyd George
Great Britain
James Ramsay MacDonald
Mier
Henry M. Hyndman
Mr. Hyndman
Willson
Hohenzollerns
Germany
Europe
Turkey
Black Sea
Market Review and Outlook for the War Era Stocks
The market rose from December lows but faced a broad pullback through the past week, led by industrials and copper with rails holding gains. Traders expect a trading range to form between the recent lows and highs, with potential for gradual upward drift supported by rail guidance, industrials, tax effects, and anticipated changes in United States Steel dividend policy.
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Russia
Germany
Italy
United States
United States Steel
Ha&i
Critics Debate Ireland Big Wind as Myth
A Boston reader voices skepticism about the so called Big Wind in Ireland. He argues no contemporary data supports the legend and calls for verifiable evidence before accepting the tale as fact. He cites anecdotes from Galway and the Shannon river as unconvincing without solid data.
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Ireland
Emerald Isle
Jerry Connor
Joy Toye
Will O
Galway
Shannon
Connaught
Boston
Big Guns Busy on Whole Italian Front
Austro German and Italian artillery kept up a vigorous fire along the entire Italian front with intense aerial activity. Enemy patrols between Brenta and Piave were repulsed while fires of small calibre guns and machine gun bursts occurred between Fossalta and the sea on the lower Piave.
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War Office
Brénta
Piave
Fossalta
Intervala
Taft Says Germany Must Be Convinced of Defeat
Former President Taft argues in New York that peace will come only when every nation is convinced of Germanys defeat and the end of military conspiracies against the world. The remark reflects a call for unwavering Allied resolve and broader mobilization to secure victory.
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Taft
Germany
New York
Taft Urges War Peace Not Terms in Brooklyn Address
Former President Taft warned that peace of the world is foredoomed to failure unless democracy is protected from militarist threat. He cited Lloyd George on Germany ceding Alsace Lorraine as a potential marker of defeat but stressed terms are secondary to safeguarding democratic ideals.
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Taft
Brooklyn
Lloyd George
Germany
Alsace
Lorraine
France
Earth
God
Caesar
Alleclee
America
Belgium
Italy
Jesus Christ
Germans Active on British Front Amid Snowbound Stalemate
The brutal winter freezes the front with impassable roads and desultory fighting. Germans conduct raids across the line, including an assault east of Bullecourt that cost many enemy lives before a British counter thrust recaptured the post. Air activity continues alongside heavy artillery wrangling as overall quiet returns.
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France
Associated Press
Bullecourt
Berlin Denies Ludendorff Resignation Report
An official Berlin despatch says a published report that General von Ludendorff tendered his resignation is not consistent with the facts and is denied by Berlin authorities.
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Berlin
von Ludendorff
Amsterdam
von Ludendorf
Cardinal Urges Loyalty at Holy Name Society Service
Cardinal O Connell addressed about 3500 Holy Name Society members at Boston Cathedral urging loyalty to America and to God. He warned against atheistic materialism, urged faithful conduct, and called members to stand with troops abroad while defending religious rights at home.
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Holy Name Society
Cardinal O'Connell
Holy Name’ Societies
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
America
France
Belgium
Italy
Holy Name Societies
South End
West End
North End
Roxbury
Demurrage hike ordered by McAdoo amid wartime congestion
The Interstate Commerce Commission approves higher demurrage rates at McAdoo's urging to speed freight flow. The new schedule raises charges from $1 to $3 for the first day, $4 for the second, and $1 more per day thereafter up to a $10 maximum, with higher coastal rates in some regions. The order takes effect January 21, 1918, and urges shippers to load and unload quickly to ease rail congestion hindering war efforts.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Pacific Coast
McAdoo
Interstate Commerce‘ Commission
United States
First Thaw Brings Visitors to Camp Devens
Camp Devens sees a warm spell as Sunday crowds flock outdoors for the first thaw in weeks. Soldiers from Boston's Own 301st Infantry resume rifle practice with several fine scores on the muddy ranges.
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Camp Devens
Boston
301St Infantry
Soldier loses limb in extreme cold during service
Harry St. Myers, cook in the officers’ mess of the 2th Engineers Regiment, wandered three days without food as temperatures dropped to 34 degrees below zero. He returned with both feet and one arm frozen. amputation of part of a leg was needed and he is in serious condition at the base hospital. Myers’ home is in Barry, Illinois, and he will be discharged after recovery.
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Harry St. Myers
2Th Engineers
Emma Myers
Barry
Il. I
Myers
Boston
Ayer
Cape Towns
New Bedford Way
Harold W. Clark
H Company
802D Infantry
John Jacob Rogers
Lowell
Edward Teschner
Harvard
Madison Square Garden
Millrose Club
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the National City Company
State Street
National City Bank Building
Ventura Oil
G. J. J. Worcester
Ventura Consolidated Oil Wields
California
Mexico
Copper
Quincy
J. Brookline
J. RD. Somerville
Corn Products Refining Company
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Corn Products
Sierra Pacific Electric Company
London
Congress
Augustine I. Hickey
M. J. Scanlan
Catholic Charities Bureau
Neil A. Cronin
John W. Culhane
William E. Conroy
Richard I. Powers
W. B. Finigan
William H. Dacey
John A. Fletcher
Pio de Luca
Jesus
Mens
Society of the Holy Name of Jesus
Church
Humanity
Holy See
Cathedral of the Holy ‘Cross
M’adoo
PAU Vsebessnees
Us- Cess
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Cook
Herbert L. Baldwin
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