Wall Street Dulls Coppers As Western Rates Drive Decline
Monday market notes a sharp overall decline with heavy selling in United States Steel and copper shares. Western rate war pressures push St Paul Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific down while Amalgamated dips below 120. brisk bank statements and crop damage weigh on New York sentiment.
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Missouri Pacific
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Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
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Henry B. Day
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United States Steel Corporation
R. 8. Brine Transportation Company
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Erie Telephone System
Boston Merchants Eye Wireless Station Off Sable Island
Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Exchange of New York consider placing a far offshore wireless station where transatlantic routes diverge. Messages would be received at sea and relayed to Boston, with New York vessels telegraphed along land lines.
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Preston
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Sable Island
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France
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Dover
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Europe
Sabre Island
Boston Stocks: Ex-dividend and Ex-rights Prices Reported
Daily stock summary from Boston shows highest and lowest sales and closing bid and asked prices. Ex-rights and ex-dividend notes noted with figures for bonds, listed and unlisted shares, and total sales across categories.
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Boston
tAss
Sener
Aero
Riot in Madison Square Park over chair fees
A July 8 riot in Madison Square Park followed two men refusing to pay for reserved chairs. A large crowd cheered the resistors and threatened chair officials, with police reserves called out. Two resisters were arrested for stoning a policeman as the Board of Estimate approved 20000 dollars for more free benches.
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New York
Madison Square Park
Board of Estimate
Park Department
Boston Dinner Honors Cork Port Collector Drummey
Congressman Henry F. Naphen hosted a University Club dinner for James Drummey collector of the port of Cork Ireland. Attendees included Dr Nicholas D Drummey and Joseph Donahoe of the Pilot. The Drummeys plan to sail July 17 on the New England and praised Boston hospitality and friends.
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University Club
Henry F. Naphen
James Drummey
Cork
Ireland
Nicholas D. Drummey
Joseph Donahoe
Pilot
New England
Boston
Attorneys Son Frederick White Dies By Own Hand
Syracuse report says Frederick D. White son of Ambassador Andrew D. White killed himself at 5 30 this afternoon. He was noted as a respected attorney in Syracuse.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Frederick D. White
Germany
Andrew D. White
Steamship signal station proposed for transatlantic routes
The article explains shifting transatlantic routes with New York bound ships taking southern courses and Boston boats staying direct. A winter relocation would move the station farther south and likely aboard a ship modeled after a lightship to receive messages far offshore. Cunard Steamship Company has been experimenting with the system.
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New York
Boston
Cunard Steamship Company
Shaffer Proclaims Steel Conference in Pittsburg
Theodore J Shaffer, head of the Amalgamated Association, announces a key steel industry conference in Pittsburg next Thursday at 10 AM with top union and steel executives to settle grave questions. He hints a general strike if issues from Wellsville are not resolved and notes Wattsville workers will stay at work until a settlement by Thursday.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Capital
Baner
Hota Lincoln
Amalgamated Association
Iron and Steel
Alabama
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Theodore J. Shaffer
Shaffer
Carnegie
American Sheet Steel Company
Wellsville
Wattsville
Hursday
Gomez in New York State Guests Honor Central Valley Visit
General Maximo Gomez arrived by the Tuxedo express at 9:20 p.m. in Central Valley N Y and was hosted by Senor Estrada Palma. He spoke briefly to the crowd praising the liberty fighter and his role as a soldier of liberty.
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Central Valley
N. Y
Maximo Gomez
Senor Estrada Palma
Gomez
Leader Reflects on Cuba Freedom Fight and Support
A veteran revolutionary recalls years of struggle against tyranny in Cuba. He reveals growing awareness of a large, sympathetic fellow countrymen backing the liberty movement and his fight toward national independence.
Fire at John Cousens Coal Wharf Causes Damage
A refinery fire at the John Cousens Coal Company wharf at 781 Commonwealth Avenue damaged the wharf and the coal barge Scranton. Two alarms were sounded around 3 28 PM, the blaze starting in the boiler room due to a defective chimney and spreading to nearby barges. Fire crews confined the fire to the end of the wharf with about 3000 dollars in damage, including 1000 to the Scranton.
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Metropolitan Coal Company
John&. Cousens Coal Company
Commonwealth Avenue
Scranton
Delightful Nova Scotia outing with D A R steamers
The Dominion Atlantic line offers eight round trips Boston to Yarmouth for summer travel. Excursions depart Saturdays at 3 p m with round trip fare four dollars arriving Yarmouth Sunday morning. Steamers Prince George Prince Arthur and Boston in service with rail connections via Flying Blue Nose train. Tickets at Boston offices.
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Dominion Atlantic Railway Line
Boston
Yarmouth
Prince George
Prince Arthur
Evangeline
Halifax
Truro
Pictou
New Glasgow
S. C
Washington Street
Long Wharf
State Street
Rockefeller and Morgan plan Paris parking house venture
London dispatch reports Paris will host a new financial house founded by John D. Rockefeller and J P Morgan with an announced capital of 60 million dollars. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail cites this as a developing financial move.
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London
Paris
The
Daily Mail
John D. Rockefeller
J. Piepont Morgan
Wireless telegraph predicted to command future
The description notes metal particles cohering under current in a Morse instrument forming dots and dashes, with a tapper striking a glass, tides decohering the home battery current, and the coherer ready for another impulse from the ether. Inventors have not yet determined message direction, delaying true wireless telegraphy.
Kramer After Taylor in Championship Pursuit at Charles River Park
Newark rider Frank Kramer aims to capitalize on a string of championship races as he targets Major Taylor's American sprint title. He won the two mile at Vailsburg in 3m 59 2 5s, cracking the old mark, with odds even on his victory over Taylor tonight. Moray Nelson Stinson and Champion turned in strong workouts as the crowd heads to a large Boston-bound contingent. the meet begins at 7 30 with a motor paced race finishing by 11.
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Newark
Taylor
Charles River Park
Kramer
Vailsburg
Moray
Nelson
Stinson
Champion
Charles River
Boger Moran
Madison Square Garden
Boston
Photograph credit mixup for fencing article
The Sunday Post article on fencing for women used a half tone of Captain A W Seaholm and Miss Zara Belasco with photography by Carl J Horner. It was published without credit to Mr Horner due to a publishing mistake.
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A. W. Seaholm
Roxbury Latin School
Emerson College of Oratory
Zara Belasco
Sunday Post
Carl J. Horner
Winter Street
Horner
New York Motor Pace Race Results Include Big Upset
California cyclist Floyd McFarland defeated Welsh rider Tom in a 15 mile motor paced race at Madison Square Garden ten lap track. Major Taylor was fined $100 for his appearance at the garden tonight.
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New York
Floyd McFarland
California
Tom
Wales
Madison
Sarf Garden
Taylor
the Garden
District Attorney Fred N. Wier Retires from Middlesex
The Middlesex county District Attorney Fred N. Wier announced he will not seek re election. He stated he would retire after serving as district attorney and will not be a candidate in the upcoming election.
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Wier
Lowell
Fred N. Wier
Middlesex County
Dr Henson Takes a Vacation
Dr Henson of the Quincy House closed his office Sunday afternoon and will take a vacation until September.
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Henson
Quincy House
Funeral Held for Mrs. James Gill at Star of the Sea
The funeral service for Mrs. James Gill took place at Star of the Sea Church in East Boston yesterday morning. Pallbearers named were Austin Gill Patrick F Hastings Austin Duffey John Aghan James DeNelly and Joseph Thornton.
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Star of the Sea
East
Boston
Austin Gill
Patrick F. Hastings
Austin Duffey
John Aghon
James DeNelly
Joseph Thornton
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