Inquiries to Boston Post on Stocks and Bonds
Readers are advised that every Monday the Boston Post will answer inquiries about listed and certain unlisted stocks and bonds from New England industrial and utility companies and banks. Answers are impartial and based on data from trustworthy sources, with no market forecasts or guarantees. Send inquiries to FINANCIAL EDITOR Boston Post Boston Mass.
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Boston Post
New England
Post
Gece
Inquirer
Boston
Mass
International Steam Bond Question and Analysis
Question about whether International Steam Pump 6 per cent bonds have a prior lien to notes if receivership occurs. Answer says current 5 per cent bonds are first mortgage on company properties and secured by subsidiary bonds and stock. in receivership they would have prior lien to notes. Also notes market and company history noted.
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International Steam Pump
B. D. Worcester
International Steam Mp
International Steam Pump Company
Dallas Electric Corporation
Robert Gair
J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company
Interborough Rapid Transit
Danville, Champaign & Decatur Railway & Tight Company
Ae SS
Cambridge, Mass
Dallas Electric Company
Dallas
Tex
Ompany
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge
Marne
Fernes
Preeatena Arms
Finglas
Massachusetts
Danville, Champaign & Decatur
Danville
Decatur
Champaign
Urbana
Illinois
D. W. Westerly
R. I
Montgomery Rollins
Framingham
Mass
Indiana Lighting Company
Fort Wayne
Lafayette
West Lafayette
Logansport
Wabash
Bluffton
Peru
Lebanon
Frankfort
Indiana
Lima
St. Marys
Wapokoneta
Celina
Cold Water
Fort Recovery
Credersville
Ohio
Rhode Island Savings Banks
River Gas Works declares quarterly dividend of $3.00 per share
Stone & Webster transfer agents announce a quarterly dividend of three dollars per share on River Gas Works Company capital stock. payable August 1, 1914 to stockholders of record at close of business July 20, 1914.
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River Gas Works Company
Stone & Webster Transfer
Amalgamated Copper declares stock dividend to stockholders
Amalgamated Copper Company at 42 Broadway New York announces a directors meeting action. A one and one half percent assessment was declared payable August 31 to stockholders of record as of noon July 16 1914. Signed Mellin Secretary.
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Amalgamated Copper Company
Broadway
New York
Epaagemated Copper Company
Mellin
Seerstary
Calendar of today stock dividends and dates for multiple issuers
Calendar lists dividends and payment dates for numerous companies. Entries include Chic. Rys Series 1 8 Aug 1, Cluett Peabody Aug 1, Fall River Gas Aug 1, Homestake Mining July 25, Milwaukee Electric Ry July 31, Omaha Electric July 25, American Chicle quarterly, Beaver Canal Mines, Brooklyn Borough Gas semiannual, Del Lack & West quarterly, Harbison-Walker quarterly, Nipissing Mines quarterly, Plymouth Cordage quarterly, Shawinigan Water quarterly, and other utilities and mines with varying quarterly monthly or semiannual schedules. Contains many firm names and payment percentages.
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Chic. Rys
Cluett, Peabody, Ec
Fagie & Bine Bell Mining
Fall River Gas Works
Homestake Mining
North Util, G
Kayser
Julius
Care
A . Lowell
Milw
People's Nat. Gas & Pipeage
Omaha
Amer
Chicle
Beaver
Brooklyn
United Trac
Pitts
Artist Drowns When Auto Plunges Into Canal
Miss Margaret Monahan a young Easton artist drowned when the automobile she rode in broke through a guard rail and fell into the Delaware Canal near Easton Pennsylvania. Dr R H Hoey owner of the car and two men and a woman were thrown into the canal but escaped. A detective steering gear was blamed for the accident.
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Easton
Penn
Margaret Monahan
Delaware Canal
R. H. Hoey
Hit by automobile as he steps off car at Nantasket Beach
Joseph R. Grace of Nantasket Avenue Nantasket sustained internal injuries and a fractured right arm last night when he stepped off an electric car at Nantasket Beach and was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Joseph Kerr of Lind Avenue Nantasket Grace was treated by the Metropolitan Park physician.
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Joseph R. Grace
Nantasket Avenue
Nantasket
Nantasket Beach
Joseph Kerr
Lind Avenue
Grace
Metropolitan Park
Market review points to renewed downward bias in averages
Last week saw eight of nine trading days down as rails hit a low not seen since 1908 while industrials held above June lows. A breakdown in rails suggests the main downtrend resumes unless industrials also break. money conditions and bank reserves show limited improvement, signaling tighter rates ahead in fall.
Hindus Repel Authorities on Komagata Maru Boarding
Hindus aboard the Japanese steamer Komagata Maru at Vancouver repelled a boarding party of armed guards sent by Canadian immigration authorities. They fired bullets and used hot water to resist after stokers were taken from the hold.
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Bellingham, Wash
Vancouver
B. C
Three Die in Fence Conflict at Allingdale West Virginia
A long dispute over an old line fence ended in a shooting today at Allingdale Weston. Three farmers from Nicholas County John Mammon Joseph Fletcher and Ernest Bailey were killed. Maston Mammon is hospitalized and Patrick Dodrill a Fletcher relative is jailed on charges of involvement.
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Weston
W. Va
Allingdale
John Mammon
Joseph Fletcher
Ernest Bailey
Nicholas County
Maston Mammon
Patrick Dodrill
Fletcher
Girl Taken From Hotel By Police
Janie Smith, 16, of Somerset Massachusetts, was taken from the Hotel National by police in Portsmouth New Hampshire. She is sought as a witness in charges against James McCarthy of the U S 8 Nebraska, who was recently held by authorities at Fall River Massachusetts. They allege he enticed the girl from home.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Janie Smith
Somerset
Mass
James McCarthy
Nebraska
Fall River
Smith
Explosion Burns Crew On Yacht Bluebird In New Jersey
In Seabright New Jersey an explosion on the yacht Bluebird owned by E Palmer Gavit of Albany New York injured captain L C Bird of Caldwell severely burned and two crew members with minor burns and sprains. Bird was testing the engine when a gasoline leak ignited and blew a large hole in the hull throwing him ten feet through the hatch. He is hospitalized at Long Branch and expected to recover.
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Captain Bird
Long Branch Hospital
Revere Beach Draws Record Crowds This Season
Revere Beach attracted more than 200 000 visitors in a single day, the largest turnout this season. The record surpasses past crowds, though only Labor Day 1964 saw higher attendance at around 260 000. Bathers reached 7921 with about two thirds men.
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Revere Beach
Investment offerings from The Boston Post readers note
The Boston Post presents a Monday roundup of selected investment issues from leading bankers. Highlights include Birmingham Railway, Light and Power 6% notes and various municipal and utility bonds with prices, yields, and brief descriptions.
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THE
Boston Post
McCormick Refuses To Pay Wright License Fee
Harold Field McCormick of Chicago refuses to pay a $1000 royalty on a Curtiss flying boat. He says the fee is exorbitant versus the machine price and signals readiness to fight any suit. The case would follow a January court ruling that the Curtiss plane infringes a Wright patent.
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Chicago
Harold Field McCormick
Wright Company
McCormick
United States Court of Appeals
Curtiss
America
Eagles Ready for Field Day in New Haven
Thousands of members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles from New England and a large delegation from New Jersey gathered in New Haven to participate in the annual New England field day. A competitive drill of degree teams is scheduled for tomorrow with a parade on Tuesday. Many distinguished Wagies attended a banquet tonight.
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Terre Haute
Ina
Knights of Pythias
Arthur J. Stobbart
St. Paul
Minn
William B. Gray
Indiana Brigade
Ralston
Indiana
Don M. Roberts
Stobbart
Fort Harrison
Northwest Territory
New Haven
Conn
Order of Eagles
New England
New Jersey
Scottish Earl Caithness Dies in Exile
A funeral under Hollywood cemetery pepper trees laid to rest John Sutherland Sinclair 17th Earl of Caithness. A monument erected yesterday bears the inscription of his title and name as per his last wish.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Hollywood Cemetery
Earl of Caithness
Scotland
John Sutherland Sinclair
Earl of
Hidden Scottish Noble Heir Looms Over American Estate
Three years a Los Angeles resident John Sutherland Sinclair is revealed as Earl of Caithness and Lord Berrisdale with a Nova Scotia baronetcy. Letters to Judge Rives will show vast Aberdeenshire estates and millions in property, with an heir brother Norman MacLeod Buchanan of Auchmacoy House. Key figures include Corridan H. Putnam and Mrs. Putnam, and cousins John W. Forbes of Bronte Cottage who returned to Scotland.
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Los Angeles
John Sutherland Sinclair
Balboa
Robert Bruce
Scotland
Isles
Crown Office of Scotland
Rives
Earl of
Caithness
Berrisdale
Baronet
Nova Scotia
Aberdeenshire
Norman MacLeod (Sinclair) Buchanan
Auchmacoy House
Ellen
Corridan
H. Putnam
Putnam
John W. Forbes
Bronte Cottage
Peterhead
Bondholders Barred from New Deposits on Refunding Bonds
The committee announces that a majority of bonds have moved under the Deposit Agreement of June 20, 1914. Certificates of Deposit are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and a foreclosure suit has been filed. The committee, acting only for deposited bonds, may refuse further deposits at any time without notice.
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Central Trust Company OF New York
New York Stock Exchange
New York
Frederick Strauss
J. & W. Seligman & Company
J. N. Wallace
Central Trust Co
Alexander J. Hemphill
Guaranty Trust Co
Edwin G. Merrill
Union Trust Co
Harry Bronner
Hallgarten & Company
C. W. Cox
Robert Winthrop & Company
Breckinridge Jones
Mississippi Valley Trust Co
St. Louis
Joline
Larkin & Rathbone
Charles E. Sigler
Wall Street
New York City
Pledge Aid to Arm Irish Volunteers at Boston Meeting
Nearly 400 men and women rose at Hibernian Hall Roxbury to pledge support for the Irish National Volunteers. They vowed to aid Ireland in obtaining home rule and to oppose any division of Ulster from the rest of the country.
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Boston
Irish National Volunteers
Hibernian Hall
Roxbury
Irish Volunteers
Ireland
Ulster
Irish Volunteers Fund Drive Raised Subscriptions at Meeting
Speakers urged support for the Irish National Volunteers as $176.75 was subscribed and a 500 person canvass was planned. John Devoy praised arming Nationalists to force concessions from England while leaders predicted Ireland's eventual independence and a unified island under a national government. A Russell Hall meeting of the County Dublin Club raised funds, donating $2 and collecting $27, totaling $652.
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Volunteers For Arms
Irish National Volunteers
Ireland
Ulster
Munster
Leinster
Connaught
England
John Devoy
New York
The
Gaelic American
Irish Volunteers
James H. McInerney
Timothy Canty
Roxbury
Russell Hall
County
Woman Falls From Castle Island Wharf in near-drowning incident
Mrs Mary Flaherty 78 of 119 East Sixth Street South Boston fell from the pleasure wharf at Castle Island at dusk and was rescued by a passing launch. The Vigilant health boat returned her to shore where Dr Crawford and Dr John J Murphy treated her.
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Mary Flaherty
East Sixth Street
Boston
Castle Island
Crawford
Eastern Avenue Wharf
Flaherty
Haymarket Square
John J. Murphy
Five Vessels Wrecked in Nova Scotia Storm
Halifax reports a fierce storm wrecked five vessels off Cape Sable and along the Nova Scotia coast. The four masted schooner Clarence H Venner from Dennis Massachusetts with 1300 tons coal was wrecked off Cape Sable. Captain Baker and eight crew were saved. No lives were lost though salvation of the other wrecks is unlikely.
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Venner
Halifax
N. S
Baker
Clarence H. Venner
Dennis
Mass
Cape Sable
Nova Scotia
Multiple Ships Wrecked Along Cape Breton Coast
The Cuban steamer Cienfuegos struck Scat tarie Island while carrying hard pine from Gulfport to Sorel and Montreal. The Norwegian Ragna was wrecked at Balene near Louisburg while en route from Chester, Pennsylvania to St Anns. The four masted schooner Clarence H Venner ran ashore near Cape Sable with her crew saved and coal aboard from New York to Halifax. The American schooner Harold C Beecher struck rocks off Scattarie. Captain Corey and crew escaped. The Norwegian bark King Malcolm, 1300 tons, wrecked near Yarmouth and likely total loss. she sailed from Portland to Restigouche.
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Cienfuegos
Gulfport
Sorel
Montreal
Scattarie Island
Cape Breton
Ragna
Balene
Louisburg
C. B
Chester
Penn
St. Ann
C B
Clarence H. Venner
Dennis
Mass
Portland
Restigouche, N. B
Two Killed in Row on Water near Bridgeport
Louis Kanaki 28 of Spruce Street Bridgeport is held for arraignment in Fairfield town court on murder charges after a fishing trip on Long Island Sound near Penfield Reef Lighthouse left two men dead. Paul Aurlich of Spruce Street and Steve Wargo of Villa Park Bridgeport suburb were missing. a bloodstained car linked to the incident. Authorities believe a drunken row preceded the fatal fight in the boat.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Long Island Sound
Penfield Reef
Louis Kanaki
Spruce Street
Fairfield Town Court
Paul Aurlich
Steve Wargo
Villa Park
Kanak
Child of Eight Struck Down by Auto in Roxbury
Marjory Baxter eight of 36 Cranston street was knocked down by a car driven by Charles H Curtis of 509 Centre street Roxbury. She ran from the curb and fell beneath the wheels. She was taken to City Hospital with abrasions to the forehead left hip and left arm.
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Marjory Baxter
Cranston Street
Charles H. Curtis
Centre Street
Roxbury
Braves Once Gus Getz May Join Dodgers Trade
Gus Getz a Newark Indian second sacker with about .280 batting and timely hits is likely to be theBrooklyn Superbas next acquisition. The consideration centers on Getz as a potential asset for the Brooklyn club.
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Gus Getz
Newark Indians
Redskins
Brooklyn Superbas
Getz
Fraher Anastasia R. Funeral Notice in Dorchester
In Dorchester on July 19, Anastasia R Fraher daughter of Patrick F and Catherine R Fraher. Funeral from her late home 6 Herbert Street Wednesday July 22 at 8 15 am. Services at St Leo s Church at 9 o clock.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brown Brothers & Co
State Street
Brown, Shipley & CO
West End
Pall Mall
S. W
Andrew Kerr Co
Plymouth
J. S. Orler & Co., Inc
Devonshire St
Fall River Gas Works Company
Fall River, Massachusetts
Canada
Lachine,p.q
City of
N. B. Stark & Co
Congress Street
Toronto
London
Ind
Monroe & Tol
Dunkirk
Alleg
Valley & Pitts
Geneva
Kalamazoo
Lake Shore & Mich
Central
Terminal Ry
Buffalo
Missouri Pacific
Missouri
Kansas & Texas
Denver & Rio Grande
Boston & Maine
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Canadian Pacific
Steel
Steel and Amalgamated
Bear Party
Tos
Ecomptroller
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Louisville
Death
Spellman
K. OF
P. Begin
Clinton
Worcester
John F. Spellman
St. John's Catholic Church
John Spellman
Roxbury Street
Father Spellman
Holy Cross College
St. John’s Seminary
Brighton
Springfield
St. Patrick’s Church
Sacred Heart Church
Bluebird
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Union Trust Company of New York
Stephen Baker
Bank of Manhattan Co
Howard Bayne
Columbia Knickerbocker Trust Co
Louis V. Bright
Lawyers Title Insurance & Trust Co
A. B. Hepburn
Chase National Bank
Henry Ruhlender
Speyer & Co
E. K. Boisot
First National Bank
Spooner & Cotton
Henry M. Popham
Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company
Birmingham
Ala
St. Lawrence
Continental Gas & Electric Corporation
Gage County Gas Light & Power Isles
Gage County Gas Light & Power Company
Beatrice, Neb
York Gas & Electric Company
York, Neb
Point Aux-Trembles
P. Qa
Canadian Northern Railway
Montreal Tramways Company
Montreal Service Corporation
State of Maine
State Treasurer's
Augusta
Flying Boat
Eagles
Callifornia
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Co
Braves
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