Selling movement puts stocks down
Wall Street reports a mixed session with early promise fading as speculative opinion split. Union Pacific, Amalgamated Copper and Reading showed selling pressure amid distributed trading, seen as profit taking by last week’s buyers and influenced by public discussion of Harriman railroad affairs. The joint distribution suggested a broad market view from a influential speculative faction.
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Wall Street
Dulness
Union Pacific
Reading
Amalgamated
Harriman
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Amalgamated Copper
New York Bonds Close Figures Report Jan 7
New York bonds close figures released for the day compare this Monday with Saturday noon levels. The report notes price changes and yields across key securities in the market, reflecting trading activity and investor sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elias Berbarie Dies in Willimantic Jail Grief-Stricken
Elias Berbarie the uncle of Najeeb Berbarie who is jailed in the murder case of his wife died in Willimantic Connecticut today. Reportedly grief over his nephew's alleged actions drove him to madness.
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Willimantic
Conn
Elias Berbarie
Najeeb Berbarie
Berbarie
Grain Exports From Portland Reach 9.46 Million Bushels
For the year just ended Portland exported 9 460 000 bushels of grain per Grand Trunk railway local office records. There were 1 100 000 bushels on hand at year end.
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Portland
Grand Trunk Railway
Kennebec Attorney Says Hackett Murder Case Next Session
Augusta Maine January 7 The new Kennebec county attorney Fred E Bean says the current grand jury will not act on the Mattie Hackett murder case. He notes the case will be taken up at the next session and finally disposed of with new evidence unearthed by county authorities, details withheld.
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Augusta
Fred E. Bean
Kennebec County
Mattie Hackett
Ice harvest halted on Kennebec River as workers wait cold snap
Gardiner Me Jan 7 All ice harvesting on the Kennebec River has been suspended with workmen awaiting colder weather. Ice thickness measured about nine inches.
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Gardiner
Kennebec River
Nelson Returned to Danvers for Observation
Neal A. Nelson, located in Boston at a relative’s home, was returned to Danvers Asylum for observation. His family denies disturbances at St Mary’s Church and says he discarded his revolver and spoke calmly in the Endicott place dining room when officers arrived. Neighbors report no commotion and say the case involves a religious mania, not homicide.
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Winchester
Neal A. Nelson
Boston
Danvers Asylum
St. Mary’s Church
Endicott Place
Poston
Danvers
Samuel Knapp Dies at 60. Longtime G A R Member
Samuel Knapp, oldest member by years of Willard C. Kinsley Post 139 G A R of Somerville, died at his home 3 Lester terrace Sunday night. He was 60 years old.
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Samuel Knapp
Willard C. Kinsley
Somerville
Lester Terrace
Mr. Knapp
Cobb Couple Celebrates 50th Anniversary in Great Barrington
GREAT BARRINGTON Jan 7 100 friends gathered at Mr and Mrs George H Cobb West Stockbridge home to mark their fifty years of marriage. Deputy sheriff Cobb has served since January 1 1855.
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Great Barrington
George H. Cobb
West Stockbridge
Cobb
Temporary receivers named for National Steel Foundry Co
New Haven Conn Jan 7 Judge Gager appoints F B Farnsworth and H S Hotchkiss as temporary receivers of the National Steel Foundry Company after National Steel and Wire Corp counsel filed the application.
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New Haven, Conn
F. B. Farnsworth
H. 8S. Hotchkiss
National Steel Foundry Company
Gager
National Steel and Wire Corporation
Lineman Injured In Arlington Fall From Pole
Daniel J. Chis holm, a New England Telephone Company lineman, fell from a pole and broke his right arm and injured his back today. He was taken to his home at 62 Beacon Street.
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Arlington
Daniel J. Chisholm
New England Telephone Company
Beacon Street
New Hampshire Legislature Debates Rail Commission Election and Primaries
At a session in Concord bills were read proposing popular election of railroad commissioners and establishment of primary elections. A measure also favors presenting a silver service by the state to the battleship New Hampshire.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Women Crowd The Gallery At The Stock Exchange
A jammed corridor outside the stock exchange sees women seeking luck as Lawson’s stock closes at thirty five and a half. Wealthy and poor alike press into the gallery and corridors, trading social duties for market whispers and ticker updates.
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Trinity
Stock Exchange
Lawson
Exchange Building
Market Place
Curb Market On the Boom
A broad and active morning market shows prices tending higher with a general relaxation and a quiet sag. Davis-Daly advances to 19 and slips to 17. Nevada Utah and Acme Consolidated with Amalgamated Nevada remain firm throughout the day with detailed fluctuations shown.
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Davis-Daly
Nevada-Utah
Acme Consolidated
Amalgamated- Nevada
Woman Falls to Death On Asylum Street Steps
Lillian Nicholson, known resident of Asylum street, died at the steps to her former home after a fall in the rain. Three boys testified a second woman pushed her, leading to a suspect’s arrest and later release after Police Captain Dugan’s examination. The 8:30 p.m. incident remains under investigation.
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Lillian Nicholson
Asylum Street
Dugan
Salvatore Jacomah
Genesee Street
Wolf Cohen
Oneida Street
Max Landy
OMearas Force to Seek 95 Summons Today
Boston police will present 95 names to courts for Sunday law violations. Commissioner O Meara said 27 summonses stem from long deemed unlawful work. Forty men were found working in bakeries after hours, but a Charlestown judge had refused a summons, leaving only one to be sought.
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Boston
O’meara
Charlestown
Fair Play Plea for Lawson and Trinity on State Street
A letter to the editor defends Thomas W. Lawson and Trinity from sensational stock market notices. It argues that Trinity’s 40 to 26 drop caused only paper losses for most investors, noting limited trading and margin use and asserting bucket shops, not regular brokers, drove the scare.
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Post
Thomas W. Lawson
Trinity
State Street
Lawson
Mr. Lawson
Stock Exchange
Labor notes from Boston union meetings and officer changes
The Boston Sheet Metal Workers' Union 17 sent delegates to the Civic Federation of Labor annual meeting. General Organizer P. J. Downey spoke on progress of the international, and shop rules plus a list of fair employers were distributed. The sick benefit committee formed with Matthew Welch as chair and Frank A. Faulkner as secretary. Death notices for Frank Whitman and Joseph Harrington were reported to the Boston Carpenters' Union 33 with death benefits approved. John Curry was elected president and John P. White secretary of Boston District Council 4 of Metal Polishers Union. Henry Roberts was elected treasurer of Asbestos Workers' Union 6 replacing Christian Olsen.
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John J. Hynes
John F. Kennedy
Edward F. X. McCarthy
Boston Sheet Metal Workers’ Union
Civic Federation of Labor
P. J. Downey
International Organization
Matthew Welch
Frank A. Faulkner
Frank Whitman
Joseph Harrington
Boston Carpenters’ Union
John Curry
John P. White
Boston District Council 4
Henry Roberts
Asbestos Workers’ Union
Christian Olsen
United States Smelting Declares Initial Dividend
The United States Smelting Company board voted to declare a 7 percent initial dividend on common stock and the April preferred dividend, payable April 15 to holders of record March 15. They reported probable net earnings of about 3.5 million for the year ending December 1, 1906, with quick assets over 10 million and preferred dividends costing about 1.643 million annually.
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United States Smelting Company
Chicago Grain Quotations From Ennis and Stoppani
Ennis and Stoppani report Chicago grain quotes with May and July wheat and corn prices. They note a visible increase roughly as expected and shipments a bit larger than projected, with no other major market news and a forecast of still lower prices.
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Ennis & Stoppani
Chicago Board of Trade
State Mutual
Boston merchants press Hammond in fight against telephone monopoly
A Boston Post column reports a growing petition campaign led by Mayor Fitzgerald and merchants to lower suburban toll rates from 10 cents to 5 cents. Joseph J Leonard represents petitioners as hearings widen from Jamaica Plain to suburbs, amid talk the Highway Commission may merge hearings with the larger Post petition against high rates and poor service.
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Post
Fitzgerald
Milk Street
Mr. Coon
Boston
Jamaica Plain
Joseph J Leonard
Highway Commission
John F. Fitzgerald
Boston Post
Washington Street
WM. S. Butler & CO
W. E. Butler
Pres’t
Shreve, Crump & Low Company
Tremont Street
S. A. Macdonnell
Meyer Jonasson & CO
Tremont
Boylston
P. F. Bonney’s Sons
Washington St
George H. Hall
Adams House
James A. Houston Company
McCarthy
Page & Shaw
West Street
Lawrenceburg Roller Mills CO
B. J. Rothwell
Chamber of Commerce
Lists of names and addresses from Eastern Clay Goods Co ad
A long enumeration of company names and individual addresses appears, listing Eastern Clay Goods Co and numerous associated businesses and persons across Boston area neighborhoods. The fragment ends with the phrase and hundreds of others, indicating a broader directory-like listing.
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Philadelphia
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Kan City
Louisville
Northern Pacific
Pacific Mail
Pennsylvania
Republic Steel
Rock Island Co
Pere
Sloss Sheffield
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Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Uy Tennessee Coal & Iron
We WA
Bae Texas & Pacific
Toledo, St Louis & West
U S Realty
Eevee
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U S Steel Eee
Virginia Carolina Chem
Wabashe
Western Union
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wis Central
Ewes
Olly
Inca
Car & Foundry
Tobacco
Anaconda Mining Co
Atchison Earees
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago Great Western
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Mil & St Paul Eee Co
C & St Louis
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Colorado & Southern
Consolidated Gas
Delaware & Hudson
Denver & Rio Grande
General Electric
Great Northern
Ilinois Central
Aes Oe
NEW York Bonds
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IM & SL
K&t
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Nor Pac
N & We
Erie
Japan
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J. Thomas Reinhardt
Exchange Place
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Amal-Nevada Ees
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Black Mountain
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Ely
Eagle & Blue Bell
East Butte
Ely Witch
Foster Cobalt
Giroux
Globe Consors
Greene
Hancock
Ee Ee
Kruger
Newhouse
Superior & Pitts
Troy
Manhattan
Utah
SOULE
Kidder Peabody
Devonshire ST
LABOR
Martha Dean
Poplin
United States
Tremont St. Charles
Clinton L. Eddy
D. L. Seaman & CO
Kennedy & CO
Commercial Street
Thomas F. Galvin, Inc
Frank P. O’connor CO
Adams Cloak, Suit & Fur House
O’callaghan Cloak & Suit Company
Ees
Pattern Department
the Post
Eastern Clay Goods CO
Postoffice
A. G. Smalley & Co., Inc
Blackstone St
THE
Forino Go., Inc
H. Weinberg
Pres
Atlantic Ay
the Bennett Shoe CO
C. E. Jenks
Summer St
Madden Bros
Albany St
R. J. Greene
Hanover St
S. W. Damon
Boylston St
W. G. Newell
William H. Reid
John Riedle
Roxbury St
Joseph E. Waitt
Mt. Warren
Roxbury
William K. Wood
Charlotte St
Dorchester
Alexander H. Fisher
Warren St
Francis F. Whittier
Tremont Building
J. H. Hatfield
Canton Junction
Berg P. Cushing
Patrick Rinn
Auburn St
Roslindale
Michael Rinn
Robert H. Nichols
Cross St
Arthur F. Garey
Jesse D. Crook
Frank L. Roberts
Summit
Brookline
George C. Beal
Braintree
R. Bestick
George W. Lane
Maple St
Malden
B. J. Short
Tremont St
Henry F. King
Riverbank Court
Cambridge
B. Tewksbury
Landseer St
West Roxbury
William Flaherty
Myrtle St
Watertown
Henry N. Chandler
Elba St
H. H. Chandler
Main St
Charles W. Horney & CO
Henry J. Alther
Alther St
J. L. Alther
Chadwick St
William E. Bryant
Circuit St
Arthur B. Clark
Walter CO. Miner
Seaver St
Fred L. Crocker
Hampstead Road
Frank C. Skinner
M. W. Chute
Whitfield St
Mrs. Rice
Warren
M. A. Webber
Appleton St
Walter C. Stone
Walnut St
H. Lyon
Norfolk St
M. A. Trobridge
Union Park
Henry F. Paine
Commercial St
Alexander R. Kelley
A. J. Cunningham
John A. Gale
Old South
S. A. Fuller
Joseph Green
Exchange
Charles H. Robinson
Massachusetts Ave
William White
T. L. Brinaldi
Atlantic Ave
Joseph S. Russell
H. G. Wellington
Mt. Pleasant Ave
P. M. Sleeper
Mt. Vernon St
Latham Machinery CO
W. G. Chase
William N. Irving
Corey St
KF. A. Moore
George E. Barnard
Mary FE. Walsh
Eliot St
Jacob L. Green
Lowell St
W. B. Tyler
Champa Ave
Massachusetts Highway Commission
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Boston Telephone District
Telephone
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