Stock Market Prices Fell Amid Weak Tone and Dividends Declared
The market traded irregularly with a downward tilt as crop worries and world news spooked traders. Sugar and American Tobacco led declines while rails and iron shares slipped. Amalgamated hit lows. Local issues showed sparse activity though Revenue Leasing reported ore strength. multiple companies announced dividends and pending earnings with scheduled payments and book closes.
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Wall Street
China
Commission House
American Tobacco
People’s Gas
Consolidated Gas
Iron and Steel
Amalgamated
Bay State
Bgesc
American Telephone and Telegraph Comany
E Books
American Bell Telephone Company
Cochiti
Fay
Centennial
Boston Quicksilver Company
W. B. Buckminster
Planters’ Compress Company
Anderson & Dyer
Lowry
Tracy H. Tucker
F. M. Tucker & Oes Bankers and Brokers
State Street
Amalgamated Copper Company
Parrot
American Smelting and Refining Company
Cambridge Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Street Railway and
Illuminatin Properties
Boston
New York
Opportunity to invest in copper deal yields huge profits
An ad touts a copper investment claiming historic returns and a limited chance to buy shares. It urges buying now with 10 shares offered if needed, notes treasury stock may soar, and cites Calumet & Hecla and a Boston firm as examples of fortunes made in copper.
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Calumet & Hecla
Treasury
Boston
Blackfoot Copper Co Montana stock offers rich mining lands
Oliver M. Holmes writes to stockholders from Helena asserting the Blackfoot Copper Co properties include six teen mining claims totaling over four miles of rich bearing land with water power timber and a strong town site. He notes fissure veins tunnel sites abundant timber ready water power accessible by railway and ore that concentrates to 45 percent with no antimony, zinc or arsenic.
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Blackfoot Copper CO
Montana
Oliver M. Holmes
Helena
Nontana
Copper investment pitch promises vast ore yields by mining chiefs
A letter from Oliver M Holmes to Morrill Smith & Co. touts a booming opportunity in copper. John Byrne forecasts large ore bodies as tunnels deepen, claiming Blackfoot could become a continental giant. Subscriptions open with 20 percent cash, closing June 23, limited to ten thousand shares.
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Oliver M. Holmes
Morrill Smith & Co
John Byrne
Calumet
HECLA
PtP Not clear relief claim for indigestion sale
Ad copy for immediate relief featuring PEPTO EX promises cure for severe indigestion. Mentions one box guarantees relief and availability at all druggists, price 25.
Send-off to Bergin at Charlestown for New England voyage
Patrick J. Bergin, a well known State street merchant, sails on the Dominion liner New England to Queenstown and Liverpool. A Boston Light farewell organized by Senator Mahoney and Alderman Bowen featured tug Ariel, music, and a sailors’ concert for officers and crew aboard the Indiana and Kearsarge as passengers gathered on Lewis Wharf to bid him goodbye.
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Europe
Patrick J. Bergin
State Street
New England
Charlestown
Queenstown
Liverpool
Boniface
Ireland
Boston
William Brittain
Ariel
Jeremiah E. Mahoney
North End
Roger Scannell
Alderman Bowen
Brittain
Populardot
Indiana
George Johnson
Briggs
Smith
Mme. Calve
Alon
Tugs Zetes
Vesta
Confidence
George C. Lorimer
A. Fred Brown
Chamber of Commerce
Tngher
Lewis Wharf
Senator Mahoney
Pace
John J. Hickey
Mark Donnelan
James Finty
John B. O’higgins
Charles Bosworth
Annie
James Keefe
Wiliam McKenna
John W. C. Fallon
Miss Shea
Herman Dierkes
Ike Weir
Belfast’ Spider
Fred McAvoy
P. J. Kenney
M. J. Hickey
Augustus E
Five-Cent Ice Sales Bill Voted On By Rules Committee
The Rules Committee bills to require ice dealers to be licensed and to sell ice in five-cent pieces were discussed in the Massachusetts House. The Borofsky measure faced opposition from several ice firms but the Westminster Chambers bill was vetoed by Governor Crane. Other votes included veterans Spanish War exemption and state institution expenditures as the chamber debated work hour limits and county employee rules.
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House Committee On Rules
Boston
Borofsky
Lowell
Westminster Chambers
Massachusetts Senate
Crane
Yeas
Attwill
Baldwin
Clemence
Currier
Fales
Senate
Messrs
Gleason
Henson
Kelcher
Mahoney
Suffolk
Hampden
McCellan
Moran
Ray
Oyle
Tague
Ll. Nays
Harrington
Hazleton
Innes
Luscombe
Maxwell
Parry
Patch
Post
Sanderson
Tolman
Washburn
Worcester
Houses of Correction
House
Haverhill Gas Securities Company
Engstrom
Fraternal League Delegates Chosen At Special Meeting
Delegates were elected at the American House to attend the convention of the Union Fraternal League Columbian Chapter. The convention will elect delegates to the annual congress next week. Liam McKeever of Ph Dr J P Rouller of Salem and Price of Somerville were chosen.
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Fraternal League
American House
Union Fraternal League
Columbian
Deletee
Liam McKeever
J. P. Rouller
Salem
Price
Somerville
Ice bill sparks constitutional clash over 5 cent pieces
F J Bartlett treasurer of the Boston Ice Company disput es a proposed licensing bill that would capice prices at 5 cents. He argues government price fixing is unconstitutional and says the company would oppose such a law and resist selling 6 cent pieces even if chartered to do so. Bartlett notes little demand for 5 cent pieces and urges trust in customers for a month’s ice supply.
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F. J. Bartlett
Boston Ice Company
Post
Committee On Rules
Borofsky
Hart
Bartlett
Westminster Rules Committee Hears Pass Corruption Charges
The rules committee met in secret to review alleged corruption tied to the Westminster Chambers bill passes. Witnesses F W Kittredge and Alderman Jordan testified as letters from Henl bert Pillsbury and John K Holmes were read. The panel found no substantiation and saw no probable cause for further investigation as the inquiry resumes after today’s session.
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Rules Committee
House
Westminster Chambers
F. W. Kittredge
Alderman Jordan
Henlbert
Pillsbury
John K. Holmes
Training School Boys as Hosts at Young's Hotel
Sixteen members of the Rindge Manual Training School hosted a dinner at Young's Hotel. The occasion was presided over by Superintendent Morse and Mrs Morse with Mrs Allen and Mr Turner among the guests. Morse delivered the after dinner address.
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Rindge Manual Training School
Young’s Hotel
Ww. Morse
Bloodless War at Nobscot Hill Ends as Scouts Hold Ground
At Nobscot Camp near Framingham on June 20 Colonel Darling’s force repelled a probing Confederate-style assault. Fitchburg troops manned guards and outposts as skirmishers checked a column of 1200 men with six guns. In a brisk day-long engagement, Darling’s line held, then fell back to rally on the ridge as the Star Spangled Banner played and the battle of Nobscot Hill ended.
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Framingham
Darling
Nobscot
Priest
B Company
Fitchburg
Gilson
Reveille
Sudbury
Fitchbury
Wakefield
Stoneham
Lowell
Boston
Concord
Marshall
Mathews
Pierce
Clark
Santiago
Emery
Nobscot Hill
George A. Devlin
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