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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1921
Page
14
The market last week showed mix of rally and fatigue with rails slipping while Industrials steadied and copper edged higher. Near term risk eyed a correction, yet overall prices held firm as sector momentum shifted, with strong foreign exchange and rising U S exports boosting sentiment.
Eigen Trade Finance and peers face work ahead as financing stabilizes. Call money closed at 7 percent while time money held steady. Reserve Board aims to keep rates above market to curb rediscounts, signaling a contraction in circulation and a cautious path to growth.
The Boston Post announces a Monday morning column answering reader inquiries on listed and unlisted stocks and bonds in New England. It promises impartial data from trustworthy sources but disclaims guarantees on accuracy or market predictions and requires full name and street address for inquiries.
The Financial Editor reports GM likely to contract with Kelly Springfield for all tire needs and anticipates a very favorable US Steel quarterly report due tomorrow. An international banker notes broad business demoralization from six months of cancellation effects, hoping for measures to ease the downturn.
Waterfront calendar notes a January 24 entry with weather and celestial references. It mentions a 11ft 4in morning tide height, a 37m increase, and moon phases including new moon February 7 and February 22. It lists morning stars Jupiter Saturn and planets Venus Mars in the morning sky and two named dates in February.
The report lists mean barometer 20.76 mean temperature 48 degrees mean dew point 34 relative humidity 80 maximum 80 minimum notated with a west wind at 24.00. Meteorologist J. W. Smith signs as the authority.
The British motorship Mississippi arrived at port from London yesterday afternoon under Captain Wylie with a small general cargo. Also docking was the United Fruit Company's steamer San Mateo bringing 33,000 stems of bananas from Port Limon via Cristobal Canal Zone.
List of incoming steamers from various ports including Cochra Katuna Suffolk and others with routes via Norfolk and Boston plus a Tuesday Dub and Wednesday dub schedule. Weather notes at Graves Light report northwest wind and clear skies with barometer reading. Wireless reports give positions of Clement Smith Cochra Haven Lake Elismere S M Spaulding San Jose Sewalls Point. American and foreign port arrivals and sailings for Baltimore Norfolk and Boston with multiple steamers listed by name.
The list records multiple ships docking at Boston including Steamera Mississippi Br Wylie London and West Ebonk with cargoes bound for Copenhagen and Gothenburg. Also noted are vessels Vincennes Bridge Ulvestad New York and Heattle Luckenbach among others, awaiting loading and port movements under Governor Dingley Ingalls.
A historical dispatch details multiple tugboats and towing barges operating between ports such as Salem, Perth Amboy, Gloucester, Philadelphia, Portland, and Belfast. Vessels named include Derbyline, North America, Mercury, and several barges by number. The report chronicles frequent calls at Fall River and Rockland with several movements to Bar Harbor and nearby harbors.
Mme Eva Gautier mezzo accompanied by Lee Pattison and Guy Maier gave a concert at Copley Plaza. Maier and Pattison are noted as an acclaimed two piano ensemble known for beauty precision and balanced tone.
In Symphony Hall the Handel and Haydn Society under Emil Mollenhauer presented a varied program. Miss Gauthier impressed with intelligent singing while the chorus and soloists felt the Sullivan work The Golden Legend was unusually excellent and rehearsed with precision.
Berwick, Penn., Jan 23. Berwick's first Sunday under strict Sabbath closing laws saw only about six businesses open, mainly cigar stores and ice cream parlors, with most shops remaining closed.
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