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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 03, 1905

Page

8

Wall Street Rail Stocks Dominate Broad Market Activity

Wall Street reports show rail stocks being accumulated while industrials rise and fall. Amalgamated, Sugar and Steel lead gains as Erie and Reading advance, New York Central under pressure, and concerns of export grain rate cuts shadow sentiment.

Wall Street Stock Exchange Erie New York Central Union Pacific Reading Pennsylvania United States New York Weather Bureau Boston Savssisvereve State Street Amalgamated, Sugar and Steel

Rutland Railroad Begins Open 1000 Mile Tickets

Beginning March 1 the Rutland Railroad will issue open 1000 mile tickets valid for bearer and usable by any number of passengers traveling together. Previous limits restricting tickets to four named passengers are removed. Tickets target travelers to Vermont northern New York and Canada. Mileage tickets available at the Boston office Old South Building 298 Washington Street.

Rutland Railroad Vermont New York Canada Burlington Malone Ogdensburg Montreal Boston Old South Washington Street

Bicycle Rider Will Stinson Weds Mrs Elsie Richmond Lovering

The marriage took place Tuesday evening in Providence between famed bicycle rider Will Stinson and Mrs Elsie Richmond Lovering the photography subject and former divorce seeker daughter of Rev William C Richmond. The couple drew notable attention in Cambridge and Boston with Lovering’s high society profile and prior stage work.

Cambridge Boston Will Stinson Elsie Richmond Lovering Providence Lovering Joseph Lovering Sherman William C. Richmond Warren Avenue Church Somerville Coquelin America

Doan’s Kidney Pills Credited By Boston Man

A Boston citizen from 131 Bow street Everett recounts ten years of kidney pain. He states Doan’s Kidney Pills relieved back ache and improved kidney secretions after trying plasters and other remedies. He offers his name as a reference and urges use of Doan’s. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY agents.

Bright Boston N. W. Putnam Bow Street Everett Dean Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo N. Y United States Doan

Stock and bond totals from rights and dividends update

aEx-rights. bEx-dividend. cFirst instalment paid. dAssessment paid. Total sales total 30 588 listed stock shares. Bonds amount 179 000 dollars. Unlisted stock 21 999 shares. Rights 8 935.

cFirst dAssessment

Bull movement resumes in prominent New York stocks

Indications point to a near completion of the bull revival with buying widening from Harriman stocks to coal, copper, Southern, Steel, and traction shares. Reading and Amalgamated are seen as poised for material rises amid broad market strength, with detailed quotations from W B Smith & Co.

Nailroads Tehison Atlantic Coast Line Ee & Ohio Creanee Canadian Pacific Central of New Jersey Chesapeake & Ohio Ee Delaware & Hudson Lack & West E Denver & Rio Grande Erie Hocking Valley Ilinois Central Kansas City Louisville & Nashville Manhattan Sweeree Eens Metropolitan Securities Metropolitan St Ry Mexican Central Minn St Pp Nat R R of Mexico New York Central New York Out & West Norfolk & Western Pennsylvania Pittsburg E&stl BOR Rock Island Co Louis & Pad TOW St Ae Southwestern Bonihern Pacific Southern Railway Texas Do Pre & Pacific I Us Toledo St Louis Union Pacific Wabash Lake Erie Whee Wisconsin Central Se Am Car & G Sree Aeee Smelting & Befng Sugar Refining Anaconda Mining Co Brooklyn Rapid Transit Colorado Fuel & Iron Ae Consolidated Cour Sae Ais Tig Distillers Securities General Electric Republic Steel Sane Cseres Tennessee Coal & Tron Ss Steel See Westinhouse Electric Union Eee Ene New York Harriman Steel Reading Amalgamated W. B. Smith & Co Congress Street Amalgamated Copper Ae Ateh Top & Santa Fe Eeeseeereee Tennessee Coal & Iron Eeee Te Ibis Ok Haaseseas Osesecersece

John W. Hutchinson Ill With Pneumonia at Home

John W. Hutchinson the venerable abolitionist singer is very ill of pneumonia at his High Rock home in Lynn. Physicians hold out no hope of recovery as he nears his eighties.

John W. Hutchinson Lynn Lynn High Rock

Wheat Quiet but Firm in Chicago Grain Pit

In Chicago today contracts show firm undertone as cash grain receipts slipped. May wheat rose 1 8 to 11 4 cents, corn gained 3 cents, with dates and provisions practically unchanged.

Chicago

Chicago Grain Quotations and Market Commentary

Wheat held firm with modest fluctuations as cash markets improved and primary movement was down from last year. Corn showed dull activity with occasional late spikes while oats stayed steady and strong amid light trade and fading exports. Ennis & Stoppani forecast higher prices on wheat due to cash market strength.

Ennis & Stoppani Chicago Board of Trade State Mutual Building Chicago Pats Ecalis

New York Bonds Close Mixed Across Large List

Closing bond prices from New York show a broad mix versus Wednesday March first with US government and corporate issues ranging from about 70s to 110s in price. Notable entries include US 4s at 132 percent, Am Tob 4s around 74 percent, and NYC g3 4s near 100 percent with varied yields across issuers and maturities.

Japan N.r Do Ist Inc N.c Nyc Atch G NJC G Nor Pac Atla C Bal & O N & We OSL Ridges Penn C.b&q Sea A L G.ri&p Seu Pac C.r1&pc Sou Ry CCOC Wabash Erie P Wis

Dividends Announced by Multiple Firms This Spring

The American Chicle Company declares a monthly dividend of 1 percent on common stock for March 20. Swift & Co plans a quarterly 1 percent dividend on all shares for April 4. American Snuff Company issues a quarterly preferred dividend of 1.14 percent and a common dividend of 2.44 percent on April 1.

American Chicle Company Swift & Co American Snuff Company

Free Phones for the Poor and Police Expansion Ordered

City council passes multiple orders including free telephones for the poor in every ward to aid information gathering from the City Hospital. McCullough of Ward 13 breaks records with 14 bills and supports 50 reserve police, while 60 more reserve men are approved and a wage plan for snow removal laborers is urged.

McCullough Ward 13 O'Connor Ward 15 Boston Committee On Common Council Public Buildings Department Public Grounds Emmons Police Board Fitzgerald

Massive Shuffle in City Police Department Promotes and Reassigns

Major reorganization shifts seven patrolmen from reserve to active duty and moves captains, sergeants, and patrolmen across divisions. Clarence Swan becomes City Prison captain. Dennis Donovan shifts to Back Bay as drill master. Anna Gregg resigns as assistant chief matron and Ida Hall becomes assistant matron. New rules require supervisor permission for lunch breaks.

Clarence A. Swan City William H. Allen Henry Fetridge Stilman B. H. Hall James P. Smith Francis J. Hird John J. Ryan Division 14 Anna M. Gregg House of Detention Ida KE. Hall City Prison Back Bay C. A. Swan Dennis Donovan Hall Allen Swan City Point Stillman Morse Howe Harbor Police Hird Ida E. Hall Brighton

Million Dollar Inheritance To California Heiress

In San Francisco on March 2 a $5,000,000 inheritance was formally transferred to Miss Jennie Adeline Crocker, daughter of the late Charles F. Crocker, who has just turned 18. Her brother Charles Templeton Crocker will receive his one third share when he reaches 21.

San Francisco Cal Jennie Adeline Crocker Charles F. Crocker Crocker Charles Templeton Crocker

Kansas Senate approves bill to ban trusts in Kansas

The Kansas Senate unanimously passes Senator Notzinger's bill to prohibit trusts. It imposes a 20000 dollar fine for each attempt to stifle competition and expulsion for firms that persist in violation.

Kansas Pera Kan Kansas Senate Today Notzinger

New York May Lose Primacy in Tax Plan Hearing

At the joint taxation committee hearing in Albany the New York stock and consolidated exchanges warned that proposed stock transfer taxes of 2 dollars per 100 would cost New York City its status as a financial center. Financiers said they would move business to Boston Chicago and Philadelphia and long term revenue would decline. President Henry K. Pomeroy said the tax would be unjust and unwise hurting local brokers while benefiting non taxable bucket shops.

New York Amalgamated Baltic Osceola Allouez Mass Mohawk Parrot Trinity United States Mining Bingham Centennial Franklin Greene Consolidated Isle Royale Wolverine Chicago Junction Stock Yards Boston & Worcester Preferred American Woolen Common Mining and Stock Exchange Bay State Treadwell Horseshoe Massachusetts Breweries Pioneer Lynn United Zinc Albany N. Y New York City Henry K. Pomeroy The Stock Exchange

Bonds Seized In Court From Shipbuilding Company

Six steamer trunks bearing nearly 15 million dollars of United States Shipbuilding Company bonds arrived at the Federal building in Wilmington Delaware and were placed in the U S District Attorney Fields vault. Judge Bradford ordered the purchaser George R Sheldon to deliver fourteen point seven four million dollars of bonds to the court clerk within twenty days following a February thirteenth ruling in the Mercantile Trust Company and New York Security and Trust Company suit.

Wilmington Del Federal United States Shipbuilding Company United States District Attorney Fields United States District Court Mercantile Trust Company New York Security and Trust Company Harlan & Hollingsworth Company James Smith Jr Bradford George R. Sheldon United States Court

Young Dono hue Edges Burke in Short Bout at Unity Cycle Club

Lawrence report records Dono hue of Roxbury winning a one to two round decision over Jimmy Burke of this city in a boxing match held at the Unity Cycle Club tonight.

Lawrence Young Donohue Roxbury Jimmy Burke Unity Cycle Club

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