Answers to Inquiries From Boston Post Financial Column
The Boston Post announces a Monday morning query column for listed and unlisted New England stocks and bonds. It will answer impartially from data sources but disclaims guarantee of accuracy and offers no market opinions. Inquiries must include full name and street address for attention.
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Federal Reserve System aims elastic currency and banking balance
The Federal Reserve System, created December 23 1913, consists of 8 to 12 regional banks with Boston among them. Member banks must subscribe capital, and the system can rediscount loans and issue notes. It seeks an elastic currency tied to commercial loans. It may deal in U S government and municipal securities.
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Market Review and Outlook for War Business
Market trends show a February recoil after January gains with a trading range near recent highs. Major firms like American Telephone American Can and Westinghouse have raised short term funds while others conserve cash, awaiting the Liberty Loan cycle and potential peace negotiations affecting future dividends and stock prices.
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Westinghouse
Post Draft Questions Answered By Post
Readers consult a legal advisory board for draft questions as the column offers general guidance. It notes space limits may hide answers and urges submission with name and address for individualized replies and potential corrections to affidavits or classifications.
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High corn prices hit local hen farmers in Rockland
A reader laments $4.50 per hundred pounds for corn versus $1.25 in Chicago and a rising grain market. He notes many hen keepers sold out and fears future margins, urging action from Mr Hoover to curb speculative price spikes. The letter is dated January 12 from Rockland Maine.
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Tax questions from Post readers explain federal income tax rules
Massachusetts readers ask about extensions for soldiers abroad and how to file when earning low wages. Officials state extensions are available. unmarried individuals with net income over 1000 must file, with deductions for taxes paid, interest, and charitable gifts. Dividends appear on returns and may face surtax. and some pay no tax if net income is under 1000.
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Mrs Mullen Has Three Sons in the Service
Dorchester mother Mrs. Mullen of 16 Southwick street reports three of her boys serving Uncle Sam. Edward serves with the 38th Regiment in North Carolina, John is a first class seaman aboard the battleship Arizona on the Atlantic, and Michael a chief petty officer with the U S S Bridge presently in France. All are well known in Dorchester.
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Uncle Sam
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Atlantic
Arizona
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U. S. S. Bridge
France
Michael Mulln
Dorester
Wind That Blows Nobody Good Reconsidered by Boston Letter
A Boston reader rebuts claims about a historic Irish wind event. He narrates his Connacht‑born father hiding from police, a windstorm in June 1538 that collapsed a house, sent people to America, and swapped farms, ending with the writer's note dated January 12, 1918.
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Philip O'Reilly
Boston
Women to canvas for British recruits
About 100 women will begin a Canvas of Greater Boston today to seek enlistment in British or Canadian armies for British subjects registered by exemption police. The British Recruitist Mission led by Captain Kenneth Barratt hopes to recruit several hundred through this tour. plans were discussed at the mission’s headquarters on Bromfield Street yesterday afternoon.
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Bombing School and Jam Tin Bombs in World War I Front Lines
A former American volunteer recalls joining British forces in World War I, training as a bomber, and learning to assemble and throw improvised bombs from jam tins. He details the grim process, faulty fuses, and the evolving bombs from jam tins to the Mills bomb as soldiers endure frontline danger.
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