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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1907
Page
10
Cardinal Gibbons awards degrees at Holy Cross in Worcester and delivers an address urging the world to need manly leadership. Large crowd of relatives alumni and clergy fill the college as diplomas are presented by the venerable prelate.
Listless trading on June 18 shows early gains fading as buying orders are filled. Declining money reserves and expected gold outflow to Paris raise rates and curb marginal holdings. Reading and Union Pacific drag prices, while Adams Express gains on a 200 percent collateral-bonds plan, yet overall market remains soft.
The Utah Consolidated stock rose after ex dividend while Amalgamated and Reading moved firm or slipped. Trading slowed with 15,326 shares and a dull close, amid mixed national market signals and rumors about Old Dominion and Jersey Central dividend news.
Curb market activity was light with Nevada Utah Nipissing and others featured. Nipissing rose 3 8 to 12 closing at 113 4 while Nevada Utah held at 43 4 Bullfrog Mines traded 24c to 21c Bingham Mary 57c Butte and Bradley 51 52c Superior and Pittsburg steady near 1488 and Silver Leaf 9 10c.
Cardinal Gibbons urges graduates to pursue Christian manhood as society's core need. He calls for upright character, conscience over expediency, and loyalty to God and church, noting public life reflects private virtue and urging informed vote for candidates of integrity. He concludes with a Psalmist watchword about Jerusalem.
Representative Michael J. McEttrick urged the ways and means committee to report his bill to appoint a State purchasing agent for public institutions. He argued the state had seen no financial-system changes in 20 years and pressed for reform.
The means committee offered an order to substitute for the McEttrick order calling on the Ways and Means Committee to report to the next Legislature on the most economical methods of supervising the state institutions. It was adopted.
Harvard's baseball lineup is unsettled on the eve of the Yale game with Captain Dexter and Charley Leonard in doubt and Arthur McCarthy unlikely to play. Coach Pieper concentrates on Jack Hartford as a key hitter while Harvey to center and Dana in right field are favored choices.
The Boston News Bureau reports 19 copper properties at the lake produced about 101,775,100 pounds in the first five months of 1907, up from 94,284,000 pounds in the same period of 1906. The gain is 7,491,100 pounds or 7.94 percent, suggesting 1907 output could exceed last year by about 18,000,000 pounds based on current trends.
Boston resident Mrs Amelia Hanlon reports her husband’s three year kidney trouble improved by Doan's Kidney Pills. She says the remedy acts quickly, restores kidney function, and has become a house staple for preventing recurrence. Sold by all dealers at 54 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Frank H. Wayland was found guilty of assault and battery for thrashing George E. Symonds after Symonds played To Like Your Style on a phonograph with its horn aimed at Wayland’s house. Wayland cited a quarrel over Symonds and Mrs. Wayland, with Symonds denying recent meetings. A civil suit for damages is expected.
Portland Missouri, June 18. The city endured near record heat with 95 degrees at 2 p.m. at the weather bureau, just shy of the all time June high of 96 from June 23, 1888. Street temperatures exceeded 100 degrees.
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