Answers to Inquiries in the Boston Post Finance Column
Inquiries on listed and unlisted stocks and bonds of New England firms will be answered impartially from data available. Readers must provide full name and address. The column discusses dividend prospects for American Tobacco and MK&T, receivership, and possible reorganization with explanations of debt and credit issues.
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Boston Fest
New England
Post
Financial
The
Inquirer
Boston Post
Boston
Mass
Cambridge
North Adarmms
New York
No decision on Lusitania settlement expected soon
Berlin reports the German foreign office views a final Lusitania settlement as premature. No word from Count von Bernstorff in Washington suggests negotiations continue, with a settlement likely in the near term. The Mediterranean issue is deemed settled and German submarines are described as adhering to cruiser warfare rules.
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Berlin
London
Germany
Lusitania
Count von Bernstorff
Washington
Mediterranean
British Isles
Market Review And Outlook
The market edges along in a narrow trading range with war stocks volatile yet overall prices held since late October. Analysts see no clear trend, await United States Steel director decisions on earnings and dividends, and note possible manipulation by pool operators amid rising distrust.
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Steel
Anaconda
Union Pacific
Reading
Stock Exchange
Merger prospects between Old Dominion and Arizona Commercial
Inquiry notes discussions by controlling interests on a possible consolidation of Old Dominion and Arizona Commercial. Both firms are under same management with adjoining properties, suggesting shared development work and potential economies. Each side faces the question of which would gain more from a stock exchange, seven Old Dominion shares for one Arizona Commercial, depending on continued ore prospects and profits.
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Old Dominion
Arizona Commercial
Haverhill, Mass. Co. Dd
Building Laborers Union 222 to Present New Wage Scale
Building Laborers Union 222 will on February 1 present to the employers a new wage scale calling for 421 2 cents an hour, an eight hour day and time and a half pay for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays. The agreement becomes operative on June 1 according to their demands.
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Building Laborers’ Union 222
Bell pushes for aerial mail routes nationwide
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell urged Congress to establish aerial mail routes across the United States via the Aero Club of America. He said expanding air routes would mobilize a large fleet of trained aviators for wartime use. The club will review plans for 43 routes, including Sag Harbor to New London, at its next meeting.
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New York
Alexander Graham Bell
Aero Club of America
Congress
United States
Aero Club
Postoffice Department
Sag Harbor
New London
Two Fires In Ash Barrel In South Boston
Neighborhood youths offered to carry a second blaze to the fire station after Ash Barrel fires prompted two trips by firemen to the home of A. C. Haley. The first blaze damaged the cellar, and the barrel was moved to the sidewalk and extinguished with $4 of damage. A half hour later the barrel reignited, triggering a call to a chemical engine.
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199 Broad Way
Boston
A. C. Haley
Barbers Union 182 Sets Meeting on 1916 Wages
Barbers Union 182 will hold a meeting tomorrow night to discuss the new wage and working agreement for 1916. All members are requested to be present to act on this and other important questions to be brought before the meeting.
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Barbers’ Union 182
Roosevelt Choice of Progressives Named for Presidency
George W. Perkins, Progressive national committee chairman, says Colonel Roosevelt is the Progressive choice for president with no second option. He notes Progressives favor Roosevelt and avoid discussing others. In Chicago, Progressive leaders at a conference list three possible candidates acceptable to them if Republicans stalemate.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Justice Hughes
Supreme Cow
McCall
Massachusetts
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Illinois
Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Hughes
George W. Perkins
Old Bay
New York
Progressive National Committee
Chicago
Progressive Party
National Committee
Republican Steam Roller
How Big Rufe Was Promoted
The story recalls how Boston officer Rufus G. Fessenden, known as Big Rufe, was saved from discharge after Judge Emmons targeted him. Surveyor of the Port Jeremiah J. McCarthy intervened, proving Fessenden’s innocence and prompting promotion to lieutenant.
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Judge Emmons
Fessenden
Big Rufe
McCarthy
Eimmons
Fesenden
Wilson orders five engineer boards per state for rapid mobilization
President Wilson has begun implementing a plan from his last message to Congress to organize national resources for quick mobilization. Each state will form a naval consulting board with five engineers from key societies to inventory production and transportation assets for defense.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
United States
Secretary of the Navy
Naval Consulting Board
Engineers to aid national defence data gathering plan
President and advisers prepare plans to gather industrial data from five engineering organizations with 36 000 members to mobilize resources for war. Secretary Daniels says the program quietly builds preparedness in peacetime to avert losses in lives and money during hostilities.
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Daniels
Navy
Boston Man Thugs Victim Harold V. Gannett Dies
Harold V. Gannett 27 a salesman for J. A. & W. Bird Sons Co of 8 Pearl St is dying at St. Josephs Hospital Elmira NY after Saturday night beating by robbers who took his overcoat watch and money He was found unconscious near the Lafayette Hotel where he was going to a business appointment His mother Mrs Benjamin Gannett of Dedham and an aunt rushed to his bedside.
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Harold V. Gannett
J. A. & W. Bird Sons Company
Pearl Street
St. Joseph's Hospital
Elmira
N. Y
Benjamin Gannett
High Street
Dedham
Gannett
Lafayette Hotel
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and Hughes
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