Market Lags Amid Strength Seen in Copper Shares
The market opened quiet but firm with London bids for 6000 shares and New York trading limited. Sugar fell on refinery strike rumors while Copper stocks fluctuated in Boston and London. The Amalgamated firm and Stanton holdings were cited, plus notable actions by Dominion Coal rights and Helvetia Copper, with the market described as stronger overall despite light turnover.
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London
New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
Sugar
State Street Commission
Wall Street
Baltimore & Ohio Board
J. J. Hill
Roo
Mudge
Mexican Central
Boston
Dominion
Stanton
Atlantic
Baltic
Champion
Trimountain
Salmon River
Redridge
Baltic Mills
Helvetia Copper Company
Market Summary: Bonds and Stocks Trading Figures
Boston report shows ex dividend notes and daily closes. Total sales include listed bonds 25,500 and unlisted bonds 18,000. Listed stocks 4321 shares and unlisted stocks 4351 shares.
Wanted a cure for health that won’t benefit
Advertisement touts a health cure promising relief for various ailments. It claims a cure may result if certain regions are treated, asserts the product induces sleep, and is sold at all druggists as ten for five cents. Substitutes are warned against and an address in New York is given for payment and forwarding.
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Sranpice & S
Spruce St
New Yorks
Variags Trial Delayed by Fog in Boston Harbor
Russia adjusts plan for the new cruiser Variag as fog postpones the start of her secret trial from Boston Harbor to Philadelphia. Fourteen naval officers and Cramp reps visited Charlestown Navy Yard and met Rear Admiral Sampson before touring key facilities with Commander Pillsbury and Lt. Bennett.
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Russia
Variag
Boston
Philadelphia
Lewis Wharf
Cramp Company
Charlestown Navy Yard
William T. Sampson
John B. Pillsbury
Equipment Department
Ernest L. Bennett
City Hall notes on Labor Day plans and property valuation
The Labor Day committee voted to spend the city appropriation to aid labor groups. Mayor Hart hosted a visit by Captain Behr and staff from the Russian cruiser Varing, with dinner at Swampscott. A rise in the assessed value of 17 Blossom Street spurred rumors. the city rejected a $24,000 offer for the site and later set $20,000, while nearby properties show varying assessments.
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Behr
Varing
Cramp
Hart
Theyor
Swampscott
Blossom Street
City Hall
Burr
Medford
Clothier Cuts Prices to Clear Wool Trousers Stock
Overstocked on five styles of all wool trousers the clothier began selling at a cent price and lowered it by four cents daily. Today the price is 18 cents with about 100 pairs left. The plan aims to clear the five lots before loss accumulates.
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Calumet & Hecla
Pope Saa
Treasury
Blackfoot Copper CO
Montana
Corn crop optimism amid mixed trade signals
Bradstreet’s notes an immense corn crop expected after rains in the West, improving Northwest demand, and renewed export buying. Iron and steel face weak prices and a new round of sector meetings. Bank clearings dip 9 percent. 45 rail receipts for week reach 6.5 million.
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New York
Mississippi
Rockies
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
St. Louis
Chicago
Gulf
Atlantic Coast
Asia
Philadelphia
Boston
Halifax
Trade activity wavers as midsummer slowdown seen in Dun's Review
Dun's Weekly Review notes muted speculative demand in raw materials amid mixed signals from producers and consumers. Activity shows offsetting trends with wool and cotton markets fluctuating, iron segments improving, and wage dispute strikes affecting bar mills. overall prices easing and early spring goods anticipated.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
California
Territory
American Woollen Company
Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association
Republic Company
Dean's Ointment Promises Gentle Cure for Eczema
A wartime era style ad urges parents not to let children suffer eczema and other skin ailments. It claims Dean's Ointment cures without harming delicate skin and notes availability at any drug store for 60 cents.
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Dean
Insect Bites Said To Claim Lives In New York Area
Reports from Greater New York describe two deaths and many alarming symptoms from poisonous insect bites. An 18 month old, Joseph Bokek, died after a kissing bug sting on the lip. Alfred P. Herron, a New Jersey politician, died after a red mite bite. Morris Levine, seven, was gravely bitten by mosquitoes in Passaic and a cannibal bug, conorhinus sanguisugus, is noted as present.
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New York
Doner
Joseph Bokek
East Seventy-fifth Street
Alfred P. Herron
Windsor Township
N. J
Morris Levine
Dayton Avenue
Passaic
Hasbrouck Heights
Market Notes on Metals Wheat and Trade Tangles
Copper exports advance to 16 to 16.38 cents per pound in large lots while steel billets hold at 19 dollars. Gray forge falls to 15 dollars in Pittsburg and leather demand rises for immediate needs. Wheat prices ease as conditions improve supplying abundance for home and export needs. Shipments show mixed weekly totals with 231 US failures and 28 in Canada.
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Gray Forge
Pittsburg
Bessemer Steel
Steel Companies
Chicago
Gera
Beeton
New York
Atlantic
United States
Canada
West End May Issue Bonds Approved
The railroad commissioners approve an issue of bonds not exceeding 1,930,000 dollars by West End Street Railway Company for permanent additions and improvements made during the fiscal years ending 1898 and 1899 under the lease with Boston Elevated Railroad Company. An order approves applying 73,734.11 dollars of unexpended bond proceeds from a 600,000 dollar issue authorized July 15, 1897 toward certain improvements.
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West End Street Railway Company
Boston Elevated Railroad Company
West End
Forgave Sister After Elopement And Return
Clara Morse Dease forgives her younger sister Estelle Morse and Estelle's husband Bert Dease after their elopement and return. The desertion left the older wife with two children, but she now absolves Estelle and recalls Bert's role in the affair. Estelle, once a high school pupil, had worked for the Dease family.
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Chester
Conn
Clara Morse Dease
Bert Deuse
Estelle
Pstelle
Deep River
Dease
Martin Morse
Zana
Delphine
Mother In Law Defies Court in Far Rockaway Abduction Case
In a crowded Far Rockaway court a confrontation erupted between Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Throop as 22 year old Thomas Throop, accused of abducting 15 year old Antionette Smith, appeared before Magistrate Smith. The couple married last Tuesday and were separated after a $1000 bond was set and the case adjourned.
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New York
Far Rockaway
Thomas F. Throop
Antionette Smith
John W. Smith
Smith
Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Throop
Miss Smith
Throop
Girl Prisoners on Island Near Lake Mahopac
Four summer visitors from Jersey City disappeared Tuesday evening after hiring a rowboat and drifting to Petrie Island on Lake Mahopac. The girls, escaping to the island’s interior, built a camp from branches and skirts, then slept through the night. They were rescued the following day unharmed.
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Lake Mahopac
N. Y
Petrie Island
Ransom
Mother of ten elopes in Reading arrest follows license deceit
Mrs Charles A Klock 41 mother of ten children was jailed in Reading after a planned visit to Sunbury ended with the discovery of a marriage license issued to Charles Beale and her under a false name Mollie Murdock. Beale allegedly met her seven months ago and she claimed to be an old maid.
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Reading
Penn
Charles A. Klock
Sunbury
Charles Beale
Mollie Murdock
Beale
Woburn Tax Rate Cuts Impress Taxpayers
Woburn assessors announce a tax rate cut of $1.40 per $1000 from last year’s $19.20. Residents praise the sizable reduction after years of high levies tied to municipal expenses. The city’s almshouse municipal store has saved $3500 the past year.
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Woburn
Almshouse
Secretary Hill Takes Vacation at Surf Side Mass
Secretary Hay returned to Washington while Dr. David J. Hill first assistant secretary of state goes on vacation to his summer home in Surf Side Massachusetts with his family for a rest away from duties.
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Washington
Hay
David J. Hill
Surf Side Mass
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