Stocks Fed Out in Large Amounts
Wall Street reports broad market strength amid heavy profit taking with large orders driving up strong stocks. Trading showed uneven action as concerns about a potential market corner lingered, with Union Pacific Amalgamated Copper and Reading among notable moves and a weak close in Boston markets.
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Northern Pacific
Anaconda
Reading
United States Steel
Union Pacific
Amalgamated Copper
St. Paul
Pacific Coast
State Street
London
Amalgamated
Southern Pacific
Boston Consolidated
Utah Consolidated
Copper Range
Parrott
North Butte
Mohawk
Brockton Co. Bankruptcy Schedule Reveals Liabilities
The Ted Last Company of Brockton, adjudicated bankrupt, filed a District Court schedule showing liabilities of $41,222 and assets of $21,206. Unsecured claims total $25,507 and secured claims $14,400. Secured creditors include Brockton Savings Bank, International Trust Company, and Alfred V. Lincoln. Unsecured creditors list Emil E. Keller, F. A. Richardson, and Silman & Son.
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Ted Last
Brockton
Brockton Savings ‘Bank
The
International Trust Company
Alfred V. Lincoln
Charlestown
Emil E. Keller
East Pittsburg
Penn
F. A. Richardson
Ticonderoga
N. Y
Silman & Son
Springfield
Consolidated Mercur earns steady dividends on rising ore output
Management reports crushing and leaching gold dollars from over 0 tons daily, sourced entirely from old Mercur mine stones. With retimbering of the main shaft nearing completion, Golden Gate system ore will be drawn, boosting monthly earnings to about $89,000. The firm claims record ore exposure and continued dividend prospects.
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Consolidated Mercur
Mercur
Golden Gate
Dern
Elm Rich
Santa Fe
Wyandotte
A. G
Elm River Copper Company
Lake Superior
Michigan
Santa Fe Gold & Copper Mining Company
San Pedro Land Grant
New Mexico
Elm River
Everett B. Webster
National Steel & Wire Company
Utah Apex
Utah Consolidated
Calumet & Arizona Mining Company
Boston Stock Exchange
Pacific Coast Company
E. H. Harriman
Seattle
J. J. Hill
New York
Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad
Harriman
Hill
Great Northern
Manzanillo
Vancouver
Albert Watts
Daly-West Mining Company
Salt Lake
Raven Mining Company
Buffalo
Anaconda Company
Washoe
SOULE
Boston curb market tides steady with mining gains
The Boston curb market showed dull, inactive trading as Raven Mining led activity with a 6 price rise. Shawmut Consolidated Copper stayed strong around 418, while Calumet & Pittsburg rose to 38 amid robust buying from Western sources. Official sales.
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Exchange Place
Raven Mining
Shawmut Consolidated Copper
Calumet & Pittsburg
East Butte
Utah-Apex
Troy-Manhattan
Continental Coal
United Zine
Mitchell Mining
Eagle & Blue Fell
Mexico Consolidated Oe
St Mary's Rights
Pittsburg & Duluth
Arizona Commercial
Shawmut Consolidated
Santa Ysabel
Lake Superior
Majestic Osa Oil
National Mining & Exploration
SOULE
Six-Dividend Rights Report Notes Mixed Changes
The report shows no change for six dividends with a decrease noted in OFx rights. Total bond sales total $81,000 and unlisted shares amount to 30,804 with rights listed.
Evangelist Griffith Faces Court Over Trespass
Rupert D. Griffith an unattached evangelist has been summoned on trespass charges for blocking the steps of the old courthouse. He has drawn crowds in front of the courthouse during busy hours and will appear in the Municipal Criminal Court today. He has a history of jail time in Pennsylvania and elsewhere for blocking streets.
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Rupert D. Griffith
Municipal Criminal Court
Griffith
Pennsylvania
Conway and Cole Confer on Rutland Sanatorium Hearing
At a Governor's council meeting tomorrow the expected first hearing date on the Rutland Sanatorium will be announced for council approval. A conference between Speaker Cole and Ward 23 Representative Conway discussed the investigation order now before the House Rules Committee. Conway preferred keeping the order in committee until the council's hearings are complete and then pressing it in the Legislature if needed.
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Rutland
Cole
Representative Conway
Ward 23
Committee On Rules
Conway
Kyle Explains Bill On Attorney General Appointment
Senator Kyle defends his proposal to make the attorney-general an appointed office. He says the bill requires passage by two Legislatures and a public vote and could not reflect on Malone. Ex-governor Bates backs the measure, with Hurtubis noted as a campaign manager for Asa P. French.
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Kyle
Plymouth
Malone
John S Bates
Hurtubis
Asa P. French
Report on Savings Banks Commission Annual Findings
The Savings Bank Commission will publish its annual report today. It notes provisions for Provident Securities and Banking Company and suggests stronger powers for the commission. The Legislature contemplates abolishing the commission, delaying appointments by Governor Guild for two retiring commissioners.
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Savings Bank Commission
Commission
Provident Securities and Banking Company
the Provident
Governor Guild
Reed Proposes Fifty Club for Massachusetts Senators
Senator Silas D. Reed of Taunton urges forming a forty club for former Massachusetts senators. If joined by all former senators, the group could reach about six hundred members including U S cabinet officers judges governors mayors and congressmen. He plans three banquets annually tied to inauguration day mid session and final session eve.
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Silas D. Reed
Taunton
Senate
Massachusetts Senate
The
General Court
United States
Senator Logan Probes Province Laws Expenditure
Senator Logan of South Boston seeks Senate accounting from Editor Bigelow on annual costs for publishing the old Province laws. The request asks for past expenses, future costs, and the total number of volumes planned for completion.
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Logan
South Boston
Senate
Bigelow
Province Laws
Proposal to Increase General Court Compensation
Senator Seiberlich proposes raising member pay from 1500 to 1000 for Representatives and 1500 for Senators plus 2000 yearly for Senate president and House speaker. The current level is 1500 for members.
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Seiberlich
General Court
Senate
House
Cobb's Tavern Seeks Water Pipe From Canton
Cobb's Tavern at Shar on Canton and Stoughton lacks water and owner Emery C. Britton asks Canton to lay pipes. Rep Patrick J. Shiels introduces aldermanic bill to divide the city into 11 districts electing 15 men.
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Cobb's Tavern
Sharon
Canton
Stoughton
Cobb’s
Emery C. Britton
Patrick J. Shiels
Party executive control over city tax assessors bill
Clerk Fred Thissel of the Republican city committee introduces a bill requiring assessors to be subject to endorsement by the executive committee of the party they belong to. The proposal aims to strengthen party influence on local fiscal decisions and policing of assessor appointments.
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Fred Thissel
Republican City Committee
Representative McManus and Mellen Seek Post Office Fees and Resolutions
Representative McManus of Natick requests a $20 registration fee for automo tiles and James H Mellen of Worcester seeks resolutions to Congress on parcels post.
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McManus
Natick
James H. Mellen
Worcester
Congress
Clerk Henry D Coolidge Makes First Senate Appearance
Senate clerk Henry D Coolidge appeared publicly for the first time yesterday after recovering from a serious surgical operation. He had undergone a major operation recently and attended sessions to resume duties.
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Henry D. Coolidge
Senate
Dr Keany to retire from hospital board
Dr. Francis J. Keany, City Hospital trustee, announces his retirement from the board of trustees and intent to join the regular medical staff. He is a personal friend of the Mayor and may become a member of the Boston Board of Health if he wishes.
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Francis J. Keany
City Hospital
Board of Trustees
Keany
Boston Board of Health
Appointment for Maloney in City Law Department
City Trail reports Attorney John B. Maloney, linked to Mayor Fitzgerald through prior insurance and real estate work, is slated for an important appointment in the city law department.
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City Trail
John B. Maloney
Fitzgerald
Touraine Bill Seeks Hotel Exemption From 400-Foot Rule
The Hotel Touraine bill faced exhaustive discussion before the legislative liquor law committee. It would exempt hotels with 200 room capacity from the 400-foot schoolhouse rule if two public streets intervene, with support from Jerome Jones and figures like Burrill Mead and Weeks, while opponents included Melvin M. Johnson and E. J. Slattery. Two other liquor bills were also before the committee, one cutting the clause to 200 feet and another exempting licensed landoowners. the latter had no supporters.
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Jerome Jones
Legislative Committee
H. Houstis Newton
Boston
New England
Charles L. Burrill
Thomas J. Livermore
George T. Mead
Eugene Nelson
Charles W. Whittier
Phineas Pierce
Robert Gardiner
J. Richard Carter
J. L. Burrage
Daniel G. Wing
Edwin P. Hatch
Samuel L. Powers
John W. Weeks
Mayor Fitzgerald
Touraine
Melvin M. Johnson
Chelsea Board Allocates 1000 For Witnesses In Graft Probe
The Chelsea board approved a 1000 dollar appropriation to pay witnesses and the official stenographer for the aldermanic committee investigation of alleged graft and bribery. The city solicitor will petition the legislature to restore executive powers to the Board of Aldermen and to approve selling Powder Horn Will land for a Soldiers Home hospital costing 100000 dollars. Patrolman James B. Webber retires on a pension. Alderman O'Brien orders 14500 dollars for Ward 2 paving and street repairs and the election of several city officers is postponed to next Monday.
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Chelsea Board
Black
Powder Horn
Soldiers’ Home
Shipping Bill Vote Delayed in Senate Discussion
The merchant marine bill was laid before the Senate at 2 o clock. Gallinger urged a February 12 vote but Daniel objected the measure had not been enough considered. Mallory objected to March 5. The bill was laid aside. Clay pushed the railroad rate debate noting no bias against railroads and promised to continue the subject tomorrow.
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Senate
Gallinger
Daniel
Mallory
Clay
Interstate Commerce Commission
Canal Labor Policy Sparks Panama Debate on Hours
In Washington on January 22, discussion of a 5 340 786 dollar Panama Canal appropriation highlighted plans to begin actual excavation between April and July. Mr Littauer said current work focuses on sanitation and that repealing the eight hour day for isthmus labor would allow ten hour days, with wages of 1 60 to 2 03 silver for ten hours. Chief Engineer Stevens cited a 20 percent payroll saving and millions of dollars in potential savings if ten hour shifts are authorized.
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Panama Canal
Littauer
Canal
Stevens
Mayor Directs Aldermen in Suffolk County Juror Draw
The Boston city board spent the session selecting three grand jurors and 29 other jurors for Suffolk County with Mayor Fitzgerald presiding. City Messenger Leary and the Mayor entered the chair’s desk to oversee the drawing as Aldermen observed and Chairman absence due to Cauley’s wedding tour led to no election of a new chairman.
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Board of Aldermen
Suffolk County
Hart
Leary
Thomas Schofield
Charles J. Pierce
James F. Byam
Edward J. Donovan
Fitzgerald
Alderman Cauley
Jernegan Divorce Suit Filed in Circuit Court
Mrs Betty Evelyn Jernegan of Boston filed for divorce from Prescott Ford Jernegan in St. Louis Circuit Court alleging desertion in 1900 after their Massachusetts marriage on November 25 1892. She says he fled abroad after a failed salt water mining scheme and has since been a fugitive in the Philippines and elsewhere.
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St. Louis
Betty Evelyn Jernegan
Boston
Mass
Circuit Court
Prescott Ford Jernegan
Philippines
Jernegans
Massachusetts
Jernegan
Europe
Montreal
Far West
Railroad Report Expected On Steam Roads Electric Railways
A special recess committee report on laws for steam roads and electric railways is due in the Legislature today. The panel has until Wednesday to finish hearings begun last year amid a major clash, with steam lines seeking power to acquire trolley stock subject to railroad commission rules.
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Trollley
Gaston-Shaw
Boston
Providence
Steam Roads
Railroad Commissioners
Porto Rican Tech Student Seeks Naturalization
Jose Cartagena, a Porto Rican tech student, applied yesterday to the Circuit Court for naturalization papers. He plans to travel to South America as an American citizen and asks what his legal nationality status is since the Supreme Court has not ruled Porto Ricans as aliens nor affirmed citizenship.
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Jose Cartagena
Circuit Court
South America
United States Supreme Court
Jose
Mark Twain Missed $10,000 Bequest for Youth
A. W. Carson of Joplin Missouri left ten thousand dollars to circulate Mark Twain's How to Be a Gentleman among middle West youth. Clemens, aka Mark Twain, commented that he wished he had written the book and earned the bequest for himself.
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A. W. Carson
Joplin
Mark Twain
Middle West
Clemens
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