Inquiries to readers of Boston Post on securities data
The Boston Post outlines a Monday column answering reader questions on listed and unlisted stocks and bonds of New England industries, public utilities, banks and mills. It stresses impartial data, no market forecasts, and requires full name and address when writing to the Financial Editor.
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Boston Post
New England
Post
Gee
Inirer
Boston
Mass
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United Fruit Dividends and Expansion Questioned
Questioning why United Fruit paid an extra 2 percent dividend in 1913 after borrowing 12 million dollars at high interest and then borrowed more in 1918 for Costa Rica properties and new steamships. Claims that overexpansion reduced stockholder equity. future results depend on the success of new land purchases and heavy investments.
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United Fruit Company
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Boston
Fruit Company
United Fruit
Danville, Champaign & Decatur Ry. & Lt. Co
Illinois Traction Company
Danville, Champaign & Decatur Railway & Light Co
Danville Street Railway & Light Company
Decatur Railway & Light Company
Urbana & Champaign Railway, Gas& Electric Company
Urbana Light, Heat & Power Company
Illinois
Danville
Decatur
Champaign
Urbana
United States
Market Review and Outlook on Prices and Rail Stocks
Market avenues show a 10 day rally topping near April high with little late strength as leaders resist selling ahead of the rate decision. Wheat supply expectations rise while corn and oats crop prospects vary. copper surplus grows but near term outlook dims. Steel shows June orders up slightly, signaling potential revival, while rail stocks like New Haven and Missouri Pacific tumble on restructuring fears and dividend worries.
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Steel Corporation
Organe
New Haven
Massachusetts
Missouri Pacifica
Chesapeake & Ohio
Missouri
Kansas & Texas
Denver
Rio Grande
Company shifts strategy and expands with new plants in 1912
In 1912 the firm stopped taking orders on certain lines and began erecting new plants. For the ten months ended October 1912 net profits reached $922,000. The company then had $5,500,000 of 7 percent cumulative preferred stock and $8,000,000 in common stock outstanding.
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Elmira
Tulsa Nekoma
Corporation First Mort Sinking
Tulsa Corporation
Tulsa
Okla
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Worcester Holdups Leave Carfare
A holdup under the Union station bridge on Harding street in Worcester occurred late tonight. Ham Kazanian of Fitchburg said six men attacked him, taking $15 and a solid gold watch and chain. One man pinned his arms and another gagged him as the others went through his pockets, leaving him 2 cents carfare.
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Worcester
Union Station
Harding Street
Ham Kazanian
Fitchburg
Kazanian
Brennan blames enemies over unfounded newspaper story
Senator James H. Brennan accuses political enemies of instigating a false story in Boston papers to damage his reputation and hinder his bid in the 10th district. He plans a mass meeting at Hibernian Hall in Charlestown next week to announce his candidacy.
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James H. Brennan
Boston
Brennan
Hibernian Hall
Charlestown
Airship Destroying Gun Tested In France
Three monoplane and a biplane served as targets yesterday for the first government test of an automobile machine gun designed to destroy aeroplanes. The device shows speed and direction of a flying machine while one man directs sighting and another fires. The operators claim remarkable precision and rapidity.
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Nancy
France
Missionaries of Ceylon and India Address Clarendon Street Church
Two leaders of the Ceylon and India General Baptist mission spoke at an open air gathering last night. Benjamin Davidson, director, and David Gardiner, secretary and treasurer from Panadura Ceylon, shared experiences from the southern tip of India.
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Ceylon and India General
Lynn Man Dies by Gas in Lynn Attic Room
The body of Samuel Bornstein, 66, was found across two chairs in an attic room at 145 Blossom Street in Lynn. Police report he committed death by own action by gas yesterday morning at about 9 o clock. he had lived in the room for two months.
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Samuel Bornstein
Blossom Street
Lynn
Bornstein
Financial Calendar Entries Open and Close Dates
A fragmented page lists financial calendar items including Savoy Oil at 2 percent with payable date, El Paso Electric at 38 dollars, and Oklahoma Oil and other firms with book openings and closings. The readable details suggest pending payments and corporate actions.
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Savoy Oil
el Paso
Ireland Gains National Salute in Illinois Celebration
Illinois recognizes Ireland as a nation and fires a 21 gun salute at Gaelic Park. About twenty thousand Irishmen gather as hats fly and cheers erupt on Orangemen's Day, led by Lieutenant Weinstraub who commanded the firing squad.
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Chicago
Ireland
Illinois
Gaelic Park
Battle of the Boyne
Weinstraub
Irish Home Rule Celebration in Chicago Ends with Pledge
The Rev. J. K. Fielding and Catherine Morgan raised a green flag beside the Star Spangled Banner at Corpus Christi Church to mark an Irish home rule celebration. A national gun salute followed by a cablegram to John Redmond pledged fifty thousand Chicago Irishmen in money and arms to the Irish volunteers, signed by Father Fielding.
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J. K. Fielding
Corpus Christi Church
Catherine Morgan
Ireland
J. R. Weinstraub
Frank S. Dickson
John Redmond
House of Commons
Chicago
Irish Volunteers
Father Fielding
Bald Eagle Caught in Hen Yard Wire Near Worcester
In Worcester on July 12 Joseph Drauble of Leicester freed a bald eagle tangled in his hen yard wire. The bird, about the size of a Plymouth hen, ate a pound and a half of raw meat for supper before Drauble took it to the Leicester Country Club where a packing case cage was prepared for taming. The eagle was captured while attempting to strike at a prize fowl, but the wire trapped it.
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Worcester
Joseph Drauble
Leicester
Plymouth
Drauble
Leicester Country Club
Investment Notes on Major Railway and Utility Bonds
A roundup of long term bond issues from Canadian Pacific, Danville-Champaign Urbana, Los Angeles Pacific, Louisville Gas and Electric, St Lambert Quebec, Tulsa Corporation, and Virginian Railway. Details include denominations, maturities, security, and prices with yields around 5 percent.
Baby Shaw Dana Defies Socialist Heritage at One Week
The newborn Shaw Dana on the north shore is a healthy seven day old baby, nursing from Mrs. Jesse Trowbridge Dana. Dr G H Washburn compares his habits to a Patagonian chieftain's infant, noting all basic behaviors align with normal milk seeking infancy.
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Shaw Dana
North Shore
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Jesse Trowbridge Dana
G. H. Washburn
Manchester
Washburn
Beverly Hospital
Passengers Rescued From Stranded Steamer Rosedale
Two hundred passengers, over half women and children, were taken from the ex excursion steamer Rosedale after it ran aground on a Jamaica Bay sand bar. Lifeboats ferried them to a police boat and into New York City. The vessel remained stuck as rescue efforts were planned for tomorrow.
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New York
Jamaica Bay
Rockaway Beach
Confessed Auto Theft Linked to Washington Men
George W. Lynch of Washington confessed while at Boston City Hospital that he and John F. Moriarty stole a $2500 car in Washington a week earlier and drove to Boston. Moriarty was arrested in Dedham Street lodging house. both await court processing and transfer to Washington police.
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George W. Lynch
Washington, D. C
Boston City Hospital
Dover Street
R. Somerville Bowie
Boston
Irwin and
Mullen
Dedham Street
Lynch
John F. Moriarty
Brookline Street
Washington
Telegraph
Revere Beach Records 4950 Bathers at State Bath House
The State bath house at Revere Beach drew the season’s largest crowd yesterday with 4950 bathers entering the water. Some 150000 visitors thronged the beach, and hundreds more swam after moving from private houses with permits. No arrests occurred that day.
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Revere Bath House
Revere Beach
Explosion Kills 35 on Chinese Gunboat Tungchi
Shanghai reports a deadly explosion on the Chinese gunboat Tungchi while docked at Kiangnan arsenal. Many cadets stationed nearby were killed as a result with authorities noting the cause is not yet known.
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Shanghai
China
Tungchi
Kiangnan
Naval Cadets
End of Warfare in Mexico Seen Near
Washington reports that Mexico’s civil strife appears to be ending as General Huerta, toppled by the constitutionalists, concedes defeat. The weakened regime faces a dominant constitutionalist army marching toward Mexico City amid lack of recognition and European financial support.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
General Huerta
Madero
Europe
Mexican Crisis Near End as Huerta Plans Resignation
Diplomatic cables report Huerta’s likely resignation in favor of Francisco Carbajal, a conciliatory judge, as constitutionalists led by Carranza oppose Huerta’s creation. Carranza aims to seize Mexico City under Plan of Guadalupe, with interim presidency and elections to follow, drawing concern from South American and European powers over a forcible transfer of power.
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Carbajal
Mexico City
Rafael Zubaran
General Carranza
Huerta
Carranza
Guadalupe
United States
South America
Europe
No Trace Of Missing Girl In Medford Mystery
Police report no information by late night on Gladys Lewis a 17 year old of Medford and Arthur D Jones Dorchester married man named as the suspected enticer. Gladys mother pleads for return and warns of consequences should she stay away asking the postman to deliver a heartfelt appeal.
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Gladys Lewis
John F. Lewis
Marshall Street
Medford
Arthur D. Jones
Dorchester
Gladys
Youth Struck by Melrose Trolley Breaks Leg on Broadway
Joseph Parker aged 18 of 751 Broadway Chelsea was struck by a Melrose trolley car on Broadway Chelsea last night. His left leg was broken above the ankle and he was taken to Frost Hospital for medical care.
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Joseph Parker
Broadway
Chelsea
Melrose
Frost Hospital
SteamER Canada Strands Near Cape Chatte Lights
The Canada of the Gaspe and Baie des Chaleurs Co Ltd ran aground on rocks off Cape Chatte in the St Lawrence while returning from Montreal to Campbellton. Passengers were ferried to shore in boats. little excitement aboard as the vessel grounded for about a half mile east of the lighthouse.
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Rimouski, Que
Canada
Gaspe and Baie Des Chaleurs
Progressive party buzz on gubernatorial candidate picks
Progressives across the state consider Charles Sumner Bird's assertion he will not run for governor as final and seek other material for the fall campaign. The talks focus on securing viable candidates to lead the ticket.
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Charles Sumner Bird
Burbank
Mr. Burbank
Bird
Charles Henry Davis
Progressive Party
Mr. Bird
Alvan T. Fuller
Malden
Charles S. Bird
Progressives mull candidates for Governor and Congress
The discourse centers on Joseph Walker, abroad and listed for Progressive Congressional candidacy in the 9th district, with the district committee ready to release him for a Governor bid. Rumors also favor Senator Charles E. Burbank for the Progressive nomination. supporters tout his ownership stance and long radical faith.
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Joseph Walker
Walker
Charles E. Burbank
Plymouth
Senate
Maine
Lynch Woman for Murder at Elloree
Rosa Carson, described as a negress, was taken from Elloree jail and lynched by a mob. She allegedly confessed to beating to death the year old daughter of D. F. Bell yesterday.
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Orangeburg
8. C
Rosa Carson
Elloree
D. F. Bell
U S Senate Clerk Durfee Dies at Marion Residence
Benjamin Durfee of Washington D C died today at his niece Miss Lillian A Dexter’s summer home on Great Neck Marion aged 67 He had been ill for some time a result of a shock Durfee long served as statistical clerk of the United States Senate
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U. S. Senate
Marion New Bedford
Benjamin Durfee
Washington, D. C
Lillian A. Dexter
Great Neck
Marion
Durfee
United States Senate
Chelsea Boy Still Unidentified in Chelsea Day Nursery Custody
Interest in the 212 year old boy cared for at the Chelsea Day Nursery continues after he was found wandering streets of Chelsea yesterday. Several women visited the institution hoping to identify him but none could.
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Chelsea Day Nursery
Chelsea
British and Canadian Fair Day Observed at Mechanics’ Fair
British and Canadian day observed at the shoe and leather fair in Mechanics' building today. Halls decorated yesterday with union jacks, the maple leaf and the Stars and Stripes, symbolizing harmony in current industrial and commercial relations between the two countries.
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Ir Mechanics
Foreign exhibitors visit Boston shoe and leather fair
The day honors British and Canadian exhibitors with ten large leather houses represented. A. G. Moxley of Leicester plans to stay in Boston and open an office after visiting the United States trade. An automobile tour to the United Shoe Machinery Company plant in Beverly is planned with model plants shown to guests. The fair closes with New England trade organizations meeting Wednesday.
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New York
England
Scotland
Canada
A. G. Moxley
Leicester
Boston
North Shore
United Shoe Machinery Company
Beverly
Shoe Machinery Company
New England
Odds Over a Motorboat in Dorchester Court
In Dorchester Court Judge Churchill delayed ruling on which child inherits a deceased father's motorboat when neither son nor daughter had a will. Fred Borden, who claimed the boat belonged to his sister, reportedly took it from T. F. Pocket's yard and refused to return it, prompting possible larceny charges.
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Churchill
Dorchester Court
Flora Borden
Mt. Vernon Street
Alfred H. Borden
T. F. Pockel
Neponset River
Fred Borden
Dorchester Bay
Fred
Pocket
Death takes Fr. Perennes at Cambridge hospital
The Rev. Franklin Perennes, chaplain of Holy Ghost Hospital Cambridge, died after a yearlong cancer illness. A Marist missionary, he served in hospital work for years. Born in Brittany, France 44 years ago, ordained at 24, he leaves a brother Father Hernin Perennes, pastor of Notre Dame de Pitle in Cambridge. His body will lie in state at Notre Dame de Pitle until funeral.
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Franklin Perennes
Holy Ghost Hospital
Cambridge
Father Perennes
Marist Fathers
Brittany
France
Hernin Perennes
Church of Notre Dame de Pitle
McManus Infant Rites in Dorchester
In Dorchester on July 12, Thomas F McManus infant son of Edward and Bessie McManus aged 11 months 19 days. Funeral from 115 Boston Street Sou Tuesday July 14 at 3 PM. Relatives and friends invited.
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M’manus
Dorchester
Thomas F
Edward
Bessie McManus
Boston St
Tcienda
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West End
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Lawrence
Continental Can Company, Inc
New Jersey
Export and Domestic Can Company
Standard Tin Plate Company
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India
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company
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Pacific Electric Railway
Pacific Electric Railway Company
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Quebec
Montreal
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Virginian Railway Company
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Pocahontas and
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Deepwater
W. Va
Francisco Carbajal
Supreme Court of Mexico
Niagara Falls
ST. Lawrence
Utah Power & Light Company
Concord, Maynard & Hudson St. Rwy
Texas Power & Light Company
Citizens Gas & Fuel Company First & Ref
Kansas City
Clay County
St. Joseph
Liggett, Hichborn & Co
Siatiaiegest
Bull Moose
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