Market closes near best as sugar and rail stocks gain
Feb 28 stock market opens nervous but improves with Third Avenue surging after Hugh J. Grant named receiver. Sugar climbs late. International Paper declares 1 1 2 percent dividend. Reports show Mexican Central Railway earnings and various zinc mines sales. copper and Erie stock activity noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Avenue
Hugh J. Grant
Atchison Preferred
Southern Railway
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
Louisville & Nashville
Baltimore & Ohio
Missouri Pacific
New York
Thomas W. Lawson
New York Stock Exchange
Lawson
International Paper Company
Joplin
Lbs. Lbs. Am. Zinc
Mo. Zinc Fields Co
Boston
Get-There Zinc Co
Boston Little Circle Zinc Co
Duenweg Zinc Co
Russell-Erwin Zinc Co
United Zinc Companies
Boston Aurora Zinc Co
Ok Saa
Dell Lead Zinc, Co
Ternational Zic Co
GOAOO
Vaecis Assasoit Zinc Co
Crown Point Zinc Co
New England Zinc Co
New York Zinc Co
Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company
Harmer
Mexican Central Railway Company
Market closes with mixed bonds and gas notes on record
Boston reporters list today’s high and low sales along with closing prices for several securities. Am Bellae lt. BIR COT 1 val dee A shows 1,000 units at 98.5 bid and 98.0 asked, while BU Gas Ist 5s notes 2,000 units trade at 80 bid and 81 asked. C & N Mich 5s 1,000 units bid 96 and asked 96.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eat
Am Bellae Lt
Val Dee A
T& SF
C & N Mich
Dividend and asset totals for EXx division reported
Assessment paid shows total sales bonds at 121620 dollars and unlisted bonds at 7000 dollars. Stockholdings include 12781 listed shares and 9929 unlisted shares.
Grain market opens steady amid Liverpool cables and snow
The grain market opened fairly steady on weak Liverpool cables and widespread snow in the winter wheat belt. Foreign houses were mixed with more buying than selling but selling remained free. London quotes were nominal with no activity and Paris fell five points. Northwestern receipts run high at 568 cars today, vs 674 last year and 63 last week, as market weakness grows toward the close and bulls await export demand or spring weather to reveal crop injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Howard
Crosby & Co
Liverpool
London
Paris
Itching Piles Plague Dear to All Night and Day
An advertisement extols Dean's Ointment as a perpetual cure for itching piles. It promises relief during day and night and claims availability at any drug store for 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Symbolist poet De Regnier audits U S in lecture tour
Henry de Regnier, third French poet to lecture in the United States, departs for Boston after defining the Symbolist school. He contrasts Symbolists with Realists like Maupassant Zola and Daudet, praises American literature yet laments U S magazines for women readers. At Harvard he lectures under Cercle Francais de Universite Harvard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry de Regnier
Boston
Ibsen
D’annunzio
Belgium
Maeterlinck
Guy de Maupassant
Daudet
Zola
United States
France
Sand
de Regnier
Harvard
M. de Regnier
Cercle Francais de Universite Harvard
Harvard Club
MM. Brunetiere Doumic
Rod
Kenibbs Denies Shortages In Legion Of Spanish War Veterans
Past Commander William P. Kenibbs defends the Legion of Spanish War Veterans against claims of shortages in accounts. He denies any officer misappropriation and argues only minor bookkeeping lapses may exist. Kenibbs cites letters from Commander Stover endorsing his administration and acknowledging receipt of all papers and accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Kenibbs
Legion of Spanish War Veterans
Legion
Stover
Commander Stover
Kenibbes
Remarkable Blood Poison Cure Promises Now
The State Medical Institute in Fort Wayne Indiana reports a new cure that allegedly treats blood poison once thought incurable. It claims to heal mucous patches sore throat skin ulcers and hair loss and offers a free at home trial by mail to all sufferers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Medical Institute
Elektron Bidg
St. Wayne Brin
Callender Leads Fight for State Supervision of Telephones
Hearing before the Massachusetts committee on mercantile affairs drew about fifty business leaders supporting state supervision of telegraph and telephone services. E B Callender urged passage of Bill 430 and Bill 13, arguing against alleged “fake” objections and citing costs, competition limits, and a desire for a single supervisor to curb abuses in rates and service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Callender
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
State House
Gas and Electric Light Commissioners
Dallinger
Boston
W. S. Quimby
J. D. Mead & Co
Francis Batchelder & Co
Harris S. Bean
Conant & Bean
Associated Board of Trade
Massachusetts State Board of Trade
Chamber of Commerce
Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange
Massachusetts
Hall
Cambridge
United States
Mead
Lexington
Western Union
Kyle
Burr
G. W. Allen
East Bridgewater
P. Frank Hennigan
Gillette & Hennigan
Quimby
George B. Lehigh
W. S. Quimby & Co
Fruit & Produce Exchange
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Samuel I. Powers
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Callender
England
Sweden
Congress of the
Bell Telephone Company
Department of the Interior
Joy
Price Soars on Cotton Exchange as Demand Surges
New York February 28 The wildest excitement on the cotton exchange in years sent prices to the highest level since 1895. Transactions reached about one million bales with aggressive short covering and heavy buying from European and Wall Street interests for August delivery and March contracts. March May and August advanced strongly before closing irregularly with gains of 14 to 24 points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cotton Exchange
Wall Street
Woodbury V Eddy Libel Case Kept On Track
Judge Braley overruled objections and allowed Mrs Woodbury to file her declaration in the latest form. Mrs Eddy receives 30 days to answer before trial scheduling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine C. Woodbury
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Braley
Mrs. Woodbury
New Boston & Albany Coaches Enter Service on Fast Ex
The Boston and Albany Railway announces a large order of new 70 foot coaches for use on fast express trains Nos 110 11 between Boston and Albany and Nos 22 4 between Worcester and Boston. Cars feature broad vestibules mahogany interiors ladies and gentlemen toilets Hale Kilburn neverbreak seats Pintsch gas illumination Allen steel wheels 36 inches and Boston & Albany gold striped paint. Upholstery is dark maroon plush with leather smoking cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany
Boston
Albany
One Field
Worcester
Hale & Kilburn
Judge Denies Inunction in Railroads Lease Case
Judge Knowlton of the Supreme Court denies the motion for a preliminary injunction in Massachusetts Central Railroad v Boston and Maine et al. to restrain the defendant from executing a lease with the Fitchburg Railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knowlton
Supreme Court
Massachusetts Central Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Southern Pines Resort Spotlight and Train Tickets
Southern Pines in North Carolina promotes its Seaboard Airline access and premier golf links. Hotels listed include Piney Woods Inn Ozone Hotel and Prospect House with excursion tickets sold at Boston office 306 Washington street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Pines
Great Health and Leasure
North Carolina
Seaboard
Piney Woods Inn
Ozone Hotel
Prospect House
Boston
Washington Street
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Pennsylvania Furnace Company
Subsidy Trust Fund
American Steel & Wire Company
F. O. B. Pittsburg
Corporation
Mercantile
Balante
F. Aug. Heinze
Waldorf-Astoria
United States Leather Company
Er Ae
Telegraph, Telephone & Cable Company of America
Bell Telephone
Erie Telephone
Eric
Erie
S. O
S.O
Messrs
George A. Fernald & Co
Dillaway & Starr
Washoe Company
Amalgamated
Bay State Gas
Hortona Republica
Buckminster
Santa Ysabel
Stanton
Codman
Heffron
Bingham
Pinkham
Est
America
Frederick W. Hill
Stocks and Bonds
New England
State Street
Mass
Isaac van Horn & Co. Bankers and Brokers
Congress St
State St
Lewis A. May & CO
Bankers and Brokers
N. Y. Consolidated Stock Exchange
New York Produce Exchange
Devonshire Building
Rialto Leasing & Mining Co
Semowills Colorado
Hater
C. Colling & CO
Kilby, Ner
Erie Pole
Howard, Crosby
Boston ST
Curtis & Sederquist
Summer ST. Hotel Savoy
Hayward Pl
Lawrence
Essex Street
Providence
Banigan Building
WM. F. Dever &Co Commission Stock Brokers
Stock Exchange
Telephone Boston
C & W Mich
Erie Tel Bs
Ewe Awe
M & B Inc
Mexican Central
Do Ist Inc
Atch
T&s F
Ewe
Boston Elevated
Ee & Maine
B& Eee E Nee
Con & M
Fitchburg
Old Colony
Rutlan
California
Union Pacific
West End
Zinc L&s
Arcadian
Arnold
Dominion Coal
Elm River
Franklin
Quincy
Indo Aay Pt
Pacific Mills Rts
the Pullman Co
Union, C, L& M
United Shoe Mach
Am Sugar Ref
Seee Fenee
Amalgamated Is
Am Ag Chemical
Centennial Eureka
Isle Royale
A &Gok
Ya Swift & Co
Miscellaneous Stock Exchange
Wilson W. Fay. & Co
Fortuna-Republica Ee
Bonanza
Batopilas Minin
Freert & Cripple Creek
Valerde Cop
Morley Hatton's
Little Tree
United New Limited
fAsked
NEW York Stock Exchange, Railroads
AtChigon c
Canada Southern
Chesapeake & Ohio
Great Western
Chicago & Basieri’ Iih
Chicago & North O
RI & Pacific
Bee
OCC & St Louis
Colorado Southern
del & Udson
del, Lack & Western
Denver & Rio G
Manhattan L Sewer
Northern Pacific
Ontario & Western
Pennsylvania
St Louis
San Fran
Southwestern
St Paul
Southern Pacific
Wabash
Wheeling & LE
Wisconsin Central
Am Maling Sree
Wesweene
Anacondaining Co
Brooklyn Pid Transit
North American Saber
Pacific Mail
People’s Gas i
Republic Steel
Tenn Coal & Iron Do
United States Leather
United States Rubber Do
Symbolist
Kenibbs
Mercantile Committee
E. G. Preston
H. S. Bean
S. L. Burr
Representative Mead
Firm
Sidney I. Burr
Mr. Callender
Mr. Atwood
Bulls Couch
Lug
Ler & Perro
John Duncan
Europe
Woodbury
Eddy
Mass. Central
DR. M'Laughlin
M. G. M’laughlin
Broadway
New York City
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