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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
25
The page lists assorted bond ticker details with varied issuers and ratings across industries, including Japanese government and U.S. corporate bonds, alongside a waterfront calendar for January 16 noting lunar phases and morning stars Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Market activity focused on raid attempts to force lower prices with buyers aiming to sell in. Margin holders urged to cover or add 33 1 3 percent. Arizona Silver, Arizona Extension, Silver Reef and Consolidated Silvers to merge into Universal Silvers next week, with a final week to adjust holdings.
Schooner Commonwealth delivered 60 000 pounds haddock 24 000 pounds cod 6000 pounds cask and 500 pounds halibut at Fish Pier. Ex vessel sales ranged haddock 41 2 to 51 2 cents cod 7 1 2 to 8 cents, pollock 8 cents, halibut 60 cents. Laverna sold to Newfoundland market. British steamer Hartmore carried 6 268 bushels wheat 1450 tons dried fruit 600 tons provisions 5 tons hay 160 tons lumber 10 carloads apples 3 carloads pears to Liverpool. Annie & Reuben carries granite curbing into Boothbay Harbor. Mayflower to replace Peaked Hill buoy. Ida May, 900 tons, launched in East Deering and bought by Morey Lord, to sail from Boston. sails being bent for Jan 21. The Landsman.
Shipping news lists steamer arrivals including Comeric Blackmore Calcutta Colombo North Land Ingalls St John N B Yarmouth N B and Yarmouth N S for New York towed by tug Neptune. Departures include Hartmore Manchester Colombo Cape Delancey Lake Inaba and several schooners toward New York with tugs and barges in tow.
The Church of the New Jerusalem moves from Main Street to Crescent Street opposite the post office after a 99 year lease to Edwin J. Dreyfus and Edward A. Bardol of Boston. The plan includes a stucco exterior granite finish and a remodeled tower with a recreational centre for Boy and Girl Scouts in a church dwelling. The Rev. Russell Eaton serves as pastor.
Developments of plans for the Amoskeag power house indicate a complete new dam about twice the length of the present structure in the Merrimac river at Amoskeag Falls. The project would add thousands of dollars to the half million cost of the new power house.
A comic exchange unfolds as a servant reveals the professor is sitting on the noisy cat. The line quips about the creature being the source of disturbance while the professor works. The scene highlights humorous miscommunication and a domestic lapse.
Governor Coolidge sent the Executive Council the appointment of Elias B. Bishop of Newton to the Superior Court bench to replace the ill health grounded William F. Dana. Bishop has long served Newton as city solicitor and former state representative. The council also confirmed Frederic W. Fosdick of Medford for the same court, to be inducted at East Cambridge Court House.
Miss Mary A. Danahy 48, a former teacher, collapsed on the platform while serving as a substitute at Green Grammar School in Lowell. A physician aided her before she died tonight at St. John's Hospital. She had retired to care for five brothers and volunteered due to teacher shortages.
Governor Coolidge sends a 1920 budget seeking at least 12.49 million in state tax, 1 million more than 1919, to fund 41.49 million in total expenditures including last year’s extraordinary costs. Revenue is estimated at 29.49 million with major current expenses in mental diseases public works welfare education health and collection.
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