Stocks Fluctuate As Market Opens With Mixed Results
Irregular early trading sees motor stocks weak while American Sugar shows strength and rails hold firm. Local list reflects uneven gains and losses across sectors amid shifting investor sentiment.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
16
Points in Yesterday's Markets
Total sales in New York and Boston reported with 1 027 800 and 21 376 shares respectively. Most active New York issue Steel 343 800 shares and Boston Lake Copper 2222 shares. Jan 1 1917 to date New York 88 328 200 and Boston 3 208 271 shares, versus last year 73 491 641 and 5 471 698. Industrial Alcohol led NY gains 47 8 to 104 7 8, Studebaker led NY losses 31 8 to 81 3 4. Conn River rose to 130 in Boston, American Zinc pref fell to 64.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Steel
Lake Copper
Industrial Alcohol Prof
Studebaker
Conn. River
American Zinc Pref
Minn& Son
Bilyn
Montana
Nynh&h
Bordeaux
Chee & O
Deere
City of Lyons
Ches & O
Marceilles
Piri
Ud Canada
B &Q
Nox & W Con ‘S
Mil&&t Pani
Erie
Noth
Mil & St
Nor States
Los
Pac Gas & Elec
I&é
Penn
Cuba
U K
Erlisia
Viailie
Britain
Bose & T
Bose Cstp& Minn
Fescue & I
Ning Amer Venture
Barnett
EL &P
Ors Cosden & ‘Company
New
Bart Cot
Cosden & OG Com
Midwest Oil Com
den& R
Midwest Oil
Oklahoma O & G
Tates
Britain & I
United Western
Utah
Amer
Aly
Ag Erie
Chevrolet
Nyc
San An & AP
Joplin Ore
Mer Marine
Keystone Tire
Midvale Steel
Miami
Man Elec Sup Co
Marlin Arms
MK & T Pf
National Conduit & Cable
Hocking Val
Mo Pacific Wi
Pacific Pf
St Joe
Alaska
Nat E & Stp
Ap Nevada Co
Universal Motor
Ae Jon Mining
Ajax Rubber
No Pacific
Alaska Standard
Ohio Cities
Austin
Amazon
Seems
Alaska-Juneau
Arizona
Belmont
Texas
Big Ledge
Lorillard
Boston & Montana
Pitts Coal O
Car & Fadry
Pitts & W
Bradshaw
Caledonia Butte
Butte & Detroit
M Marine
Bisbee
Calumet & Jerome
T & T Steee
Linsee Pe
Union Bag & P
Canada
petKey
Royal Dutch
Serene Ia
Hive Pac
New Utah
L&sf
Cresson
Bere
Smelt Pf
Val
LSW Cate
Seaboard AL
Ely Cons
Teeeerese
Town Central
Seaboard
Globe Dominion
Sears-Roebuck
Ecla Pereseer BS
Really & i
Sinclair
Hollinger
Bly Jerome Verde
Afubaisi
Superior Bt
Jim Butler
Cop &C
S Steel
Writ Pa
Texas Co
Kerr Lake
Louisiana
Asso Oil Co
AIL& Cal Ry Lake S
Atchison Stew
ALG & WI
Montana Pitts Lene
Liggett & M
B&o
Balt & O
L& N
Kaowe
Barrett Coneeay
U S Ind Alco
Nixon Seeaeeee
Cina
Weat Union
Batopilas Eieenee
Alpf
Ohio C
Sie
New Pitts
Jerome Ether Wheese
Balt & C
Beth Steel A
West Union
Eee
Beth Pet Bias
Ray Hercules
Red Warrior Mining
Ptaeee
Bait & Cohain & &T Oe
Wilson & Co
Brunswick Ter
Rex
Balt
Pitts Ag
Burns Bros
Rochester
Eenee - Seree
Y Va
Butterick Co
Uta Jen
Eame Chem
St Nicholas Zinc
Se Eesers
Opa
Lea
West Pac Ps
Neon
Voeres
Cerro de Pasco
Western Union
United Magma
Chandler Motor
United Mines of Arizona
Ches & Chic
United Verde
White Motor
United Zine
Stet Teste Eenens
Willys-Over
M & St P
Woolworth Co
CM & St P
Woolworth
Yerrington Mountain
Chic & N’west
P& A
Wevals
Tee Veniam
High Point Beeense
Seeeteerenees
High Point
Low Point
Col Fuel & Iron
Col & Southern
Steeeee Tee Sabetty
Col
NASA Ers Eeseesteenage
Col Gas & Aes
del & Hudson
den & RG
BON Ie
Fed Min & Sm
Fed M & Spf
Gen Electric
Gen Motors
Goodrich
Gt Nor
Greene-C
Ill Central
Agri
Agri Co
Har Corp
Har NJ
Boston Market Reviews Dull Trade As Copper Stocks Suffer
The Boston market shows subdued activity with 2 to 3 percent of New York volume. Copper producers predict tighter prices as Allied buying looms and Torrington plans a large capital reorganization with a stock dividend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
American Zinc
Butte & Superior
Atlantic Gulf
United Shoe
Torrington Company
New York Stocks May 31 Quotations
New York stocks reported high and low quotations for May 31 with closing values and net changes from the previous close. Market activity reflected varied investor sentiment across sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Grain Markets Update on Gold Rates and Outbound Trade
Grain markets report a shift as the out rate and gold pricing influence futures. Analysts note volatility in prices for traders and farmers amid global market cues and currency movements.
New High Records Mark Steel Rally After Holiday
The market opened buoyantly with many stocks hitting new highs for the move and some reacting late. United States Steel surged to a new high of 136.5 and then fell to 134 after an ex-dividend drift, while the market remained overall higher. The day saw earnings reports from railroads improving in April and a record foreign trade pace with large imports and a $666 million gold inflow, though grain prices declined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel
Boston
United States
Studebaker
Anaconda
Market rises amid Liberty Loan support and exports surge
New York markets rose today on holiday optimism as Liberty Loan popularity and strong April export data boosted prices. Ruble weakness and motor stock declines tempered gains, while steel pushed higher before a late pullback. Total volume reached about 1,000,000 shares with bonds steady and internationals irregular.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liberty Loan
0. S. Steel
Lehigh Valley
Coal
Spanish War Hour at Recruiting Stand on Boston Common
The Ninth Infantry plans a Spanish War Hour for recruiting on Boston Common this noon. Postmaster Murray, a signal corps veteran from Cuba, will lead the speakers, joined by prominent local veterans from 1893.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Infantry
Boston
Murray
Signal Corps
Cuba
Telegraphed promptly engagements and coastal trade notes
Marriage notices from Bellows Falls Vermont to Cambridge Massachusetts appear alongside Boston area obituaries. Noted were engagements of Catherine Flint to Joseph Bisbee and Elisabeth Eliot to Arthur McGiffert Jr. Maritime items report Acushla’s maiden voyage profits, crew payout, large fish landings, wholesale prices, and ship movements plus the death of Captain Edward Richardson of Deer Isle Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bisbee — Flint
Catherine Flint
John Wysman Flint
Bellows Fells
Joseph Bartlett Bisbee, Jr
Bellows Falls
Barker
Watertown
Edward ©. Camp
John Morrill
Elizabeth Barker
M’giffert—Eliot
Cambridge
Samuel A. Eliot
Elisabeth Eliot
Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr
Acushla
Ernest Parsons
South Boston
Browns Bank
Plier
Buema
Haddock
Bryda FF
Edward A Richardson
Boston
Deer Isle
John S&s. Emery & Co
Money Markets Snapshot May 31 Rates and Money Types
Current prices show brokers customers loans at 4 percent outside call loans 4 to 4 and a half percent customers commercial loans 6 percent to 6 percent individual collateral loans 5 to 6 percent commercial paper 5 to 5 3 4 percent year money 5 percent. Silver prices in New York and Mexican dollars noted with references to the Federal Reserve Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lean Dee Ee
Federal Reserve Bank
War Bond Offer Urges Public to Invest in Victory
Government urges support through war bonds describing secured investment with equal rate to future issues. Bond denominations include 80 100 500 and 1000 dollars and readers are asked to inquire at office or bank for details.
Funeral notices from Boston area as printed in May and June
In Mattapan South Boston Somerville Cambridge Roxbury Dorchester and surrounding towns numerous notices announce the deaths of Arthur Baldwin Maria Berg John Bettencourt Mercy Crandell Cornelius Doherty James Dool James F. Flint Charles H French Elizabeth Gillis Alice Gray Jacob Heil Holmes Jernegan Amelia Juthe Charles Kembalt Richard Kilduff George Levins George Malkin Julia Manning Alice Martin Albert Mattsen Duncan McCormack Washington Mills Jennie Moran Morris O Connor Ann Pike Barrie Richardson Michael Ryan Mary J Shee Thomas Slattery Abbie Starr Minnis Stewart Peter Timoney and others. Funeral times and mass details are listed with locations including St. Anthony's St. Pauls Church Sacred Heart Church St. Benedicts Church Our Lady and more. Numerous relatives and friends are invited to attend with notices of high mass requiem and burial details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Mattapan
Arthur
Albert
Lillian Baldwin
Concord Ave
St. Anthony's
Relatives
Friends United
Brassil
Cambridge
Peanutin St
St. Paul's Church
Carbferry
Roxbury
Sarah A. Carberry
Crandell
Mercy Frye Crandell
John Cheater Crandell
Redland Rd
West Roxbury
Doherty
Somerville
Cornelius A
Grace EK. Doherty
Nea Hutchins
Heath St
Dolaher
Boston
Agnes
Joseph Dolaher
Nee McGunig
Chelsea Et
Sacred Heart Church
Mt. Clements
Mich
Dooley
Roslindale
James F
Cecelia G. Dool
Kewin
Fletcher St
Church of the Sacred Heart
Ashland St
Holy Cross
Malden
Downey
Dorchester
Elizabeth
Cornelius Downey
Kimball St
Sabbertina Court
M. C
C. F
Eichler
Watertown
Mary
Julius Ki. Eichler
Catherine M
Charles H. Eichler
Mt. Auburn Et
Flint
Edward Flint
William At
Manchester
Mass
Charles H. French
Princeton St
Gillis
St. William's Church
Gray
East Roston
Alice
John TF
Mary Gray
Webster St
Church of the Assumption
Heil
Jacob
Matilda Heil
Larkman
Marginal St
Kembalt
Charles Frank Kemball
North Munroe Terrace
Kilduff
Brooklyn
N. Y
Richard
Lone
Mary Kilduff
Watson
Tremont St
A. m
Mieston Church
Levins
George F
Johanna Holligan Tetins
Harvard St
St. Mary’s Church
Holihood Cemetery
Malkin
George Malkin
Worcester
Nee Tague
Peter H. Martin
Mattsen
Everett
Albert F. Mattsen
Oakland Ave
People’s Baptist Church
Camden St
Moran
Jennie Moran
W. H. Graham
Washington Et
Morris
West Somerville
Toutse A. Morris
Edward
Walter F. Thomas
Chetwynd Rd
O'Connor
Newton
Ann O'Connor
Duffy Tracey
Mureral
Chanest
Church of Our Lady
Jarvis N
Katie ¥. Pike
Murray
Elmwood Place
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Richardson
Barrie G. Richardson
Worcester St
Waterman Chapel
Orange
Ryan
Michael Ryan
Eliza Horgan
Broadway
Immaculate Conception Church
W. 8
Hancock Command No
UU. YV. WU
Department of Massachusetts
Shae
Duxbury
Mary J. Shee
Michael Shee
Annie Dalton
John McDonough
Church St
St. Joseph's
Kingston
Slattery
Thomas
Bridget Noonan Slattery
Sixth St
St. Augustine’s Church
Starr
Abbie Howard Starr
St. John’s M. EH
Stewart
Minnis Frances
Charles M. Stewart
Elijah D. Brooks
Savin St
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Stock Exchange
Boston Stocks
G & WI
NET & T Ds
Swift
Ahmeck
Arizona Co
C &W
Bos & Albany
Boston & Maine
Cub Port Cem
East Butte
Davis
Hedley Gold
Miggit
Isle Royale
Maine Central
Michigan
Mohawk
Nevada
New Haven
New Idria
New River
Nipissing
North Butt
Old Colony
Old Dominion
Osceola
ASL
Pacific Mill
Pond Creek
Quincy
Santa Fe
South Lakast
Superior
Sup & Bos
Swift & C
United Dru
United Fn
United Sh
Ventura
Vt & Mase
Warren Br
Baty
West End
West End Pt
Mona
Wolverine
Wyandot
Chicago
Prey
Eioee
Iat
Soasedie Neers
Tesla
PRA City Seeveeeneesd
Ereeveeees
Poiedo
Ae Orcenteseenss
Eee Heen Ewene
As Ste Eeweree
A Rf
Eve
U. S. Steel
Com
Crucible Steel
Ohio Cities Gas
Amer. Sm
Jerome Verde United Verde
Emma Consol
George Graham Rice
New York Stock Exchange
William Street
Seattle
S. B
Pine Snt
Bradstreet
J. E. Boyer
Second Ave
Baltimore& Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
St. Paul
Federal Shipbuilding Corp
Ima Ul A
Broad &T
G. F. Redmond & Co., Inc
Devonshire Street
Fort Hill
Oal
Bay State Gas
Bingham Coal
Bingham Mines
Boston Y
Boston Electro
Boston & Corbin
Bost & Mont
Cal & Jerome
Champion
E& BB
Ely
Fortuna
Lis Gila
Gloma
Humboldt
Inter-Mount
Lestic
Mohican
Mojave
Smokey
Roy Arizona
New York Market
Seer Ae
New Orleans
Liverpool
Opos
Abbott
Allston
Abbie Louise
Ambrose H. Abbott
Pratt St
M. Aiken
Addray M. Aiken
Playstead Road
Gloucester
Anderson
Revere
Andrew FP. Anderson
Hedvig FE. Anderson
Haskell Ave
Gustav Vasa
F. of A
Scandinavian Mechanical Society
Sullivan Sq
Baker
Eleanor Baker
Henry Mathfes
Orono St
California
Margaret M
Richard and
Catherine Baker
Tane
Westville St
St. Peter's Church
Cad
Beach
Europe
Tremont Street
Albany
Montreal
Atlantic City
Nantucket
Bismarck Ae
Buffalo
Charleston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Denver
Portland
Des Moines
Ore
San Francisco
Galveston
Los Angeles
St. Pauls
Helena Veseesaae
Jacksonville
Steeee
Washington
Pers
Kansas City
Sores
Money Markets
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Eesceers
Actus
Bodell & CO
Congress St
Peter P
Mary H. Timmoney
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