Somerville Husband Seeks Wife Missing Since November
Henry H. Stevens tells a Post reporter that his wife Mary Stevens left their Somerville home on Joy Place on November 11 with their child crying on the doorstep. He says neighbors report she planned to flee to a Maine farm for a new life, though he insists she would not abandon him. The couple’s son is living with the bride’s parents in Wellesley.
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Joy Place
Somerville
Henry H. Stevens
Post
Newton Lower Falls
Mary Smith
Walter Smith
Wellesley
Mr. Stevens
Natick
Stevens
Maine
Mary
Public not yet ready to plunge in Wall Street report
Wall Street Traders hold back as market shows hesitancy amid labor disputes in the anthracite field and mixed signals from London gold shipments. Reading leads declines while Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Central Leather show strength. mixed closing with notable activity in steel, copper, and railroad shares.
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Wall Street
London
New York
State Street
March L
Brooklyn
Amalgamated
Anaconda
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Central Leather
Union Pacific
Dividend Declarations From Several Companies
The Homestake Mining Company declares 50 cents a share dividend payable March 26. Sloss Sheffield Steel & Iron announces a regular quarterly dividend of 1 percent on preferred and 2 percent on common stock payable April 2. Boston & Philadelphia Steamship declares a regular quarterly dividend of 1 percent payable April 2. American Telephone and Telegraph posts a quarterly dividend of $1.50 per share payable April 16. Providence Telephone Company issues a regular quarterly dividend of 2 percent payable.
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Homestake Mining Company
Sloss- Sheffield Steel & Iron Company
Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Company
American Telegraph & Telephone Company
The
Providence Telephone Company
Copper Range Consolidated Company
Board of
Frederic Stanwood
New England Telephone offers bond tender window in 1906
The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company invites holders of its Fourth Series bonds 1501 to 2000 and Fifth Series 2001 to 2500, both 6 percent, to tender for redemption. Tenders received by March 24 1906 at 119 Milk Street Boston. selected bonds priced and redeemed March 31 1906. payment capped at 1020 per 1000 face plus accrued interest.
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New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Loan and Trust Company of
Boston
Milk Street
Mass
WM. R. Driver
Boston Stock Market Report March 12
The Boston market rundown shows price movements in bonds and stocks and lists total sales for the day. Figures detail advances and declines across sectors, reflecting trading activity in a busy session.
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Boston
New York Stocks Ex-Dividend Trade Snapshot
aEx-dividend notes trade with total sales of 652,700 shares reflecting market activity on the exchange.
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bEx
cSecond
Ennis & Stop
Broad ST
New York
Consolidated Stock Exchange
New York Produce Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Boston
State Mutual Building
Congress ST. Tel
Beverly R. Wood
Mer
Wheat markets buoyant on foreign demand and May wheat option activity
Ennis and Stoppani report a day of firm wheat with bullish tone as foreign prices rise. Traders buy for a potential turn, while cash demand remains lackluster and future moves rely on overseas response to current surplus.
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Sentencr
Ennis & Stoppani
School Board Elect Brooks as Superintendent
A town meeting report states the school board elected Brooks as superintendent. A motion directed drillmasters to form battalions from South Boston High, Dorchester High, and English High School with field music to participate in the Evacuation Day parade if weather allows. the motion passed.
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Boston
South Boston High School
T. J. Kenny
South Boston High
Dorchester High
English High School
Mr Brooks Career Highlighted By Western Training And Boston Experience
Stratton D. Brooks, in his 87th year, blends Western education and training with Boston study and Eastern scholarship. A Democrat with broad teaching roles, he promoted a grammar reorganization plan to shorten schooling by one year, potentially saving about 90 000 annually. He and Mrs Brooks, formerly Miss Marcia Stewart, have three children in Boston public schools.
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Stratton D. Brooks
Boston
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Brooks
Cleveland
Marcia Stewart
Question of Irish history debated at Boston school board
The Boston school board heard advocates for adding Irish history to public schools. Speakers included Matthew Cummings and Joseph Carroll among others. The board did not decide, going into executive session after arguments. Chairman Storrow suggested Irish pride but offered no firm promise.
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Matthew Cummings
Boston
Joseph Carroll
Irish Counties Association
Joseph F. O’connell
John H. Dillon
Suffolk
P. J. Timmins
P. J. Daly
Joseph M. Sullivan
Martin J. Mulray
W. J. Dolan
Storrow
Ireland
History Topic in Schools Faces Policy Hurdles
In grammar schools Irish history was taught with focus though high schools found elective studies difficult. The board plans to decide on the issue and may refer it to supervisors for guidance.
Brooks Named Boston Public Schools Superintendent Candidate
In Cleveland March 12 Stratton D Brooks declined to discuss his plans pending official notification of his election as Boston public schools superintendent He indicated he would accept and said a formal decision would come after notification The Cleveland School Board has chosen likely successor Superintendent Kencaid of Indianapolis.
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Cleveland
Stratton D. Brooks
Boston Public Schools
Brooks
Boston
Kencail
Indianapolis
Baker 10 Head Ins Committee Named in Baltimore
Bernard N. Baker, president of Union Trust Company, accepted the chairmanship of the Mutual Life Insurance policy holders committee with active cooperation from Stuyvesant Fish of New York. Baker called his chairmanship temporary until Fish can become permanent.
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Baltimore
Bernard N. Baker
Union Trust Company
Mutual Life Insurance Company Policy Holders’ Committee
Stuyvesant Fish of
New York
Fish
Lowell License Inquiry Pushed in Senate
Senator Clark of Wilmington asked in the Senate yesterday for an investigation into the Lowell liquor license charges. The joint committee on liquor law would investigate and report on the proposal to have the Board of Police appointed by the Governor.
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Clark
Wilmington
Senate
Lowell
Joint Committee On Liquor Law
Board of Police
Everett Aldermen Balk Police Chief and Park Commissioner
Everett aldermen refused to confirm Fred W. Knight as police chief and John C. Jutse as park commissioner in a move tied to Mayor Thomas J. Boynton. Joseph Burns and George M. Nash were confirmed to the Board of Public Works.
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Everett
Fred W. Knight
John C. Jutse
Thomas J. Boynton
Joseph Burns
George M. Nash
Board of Public Works
Gifts Acknowledged For Red Acre Farm For Horses
The Home for Horses lists grateful acknowledgments for gifts to Red Acre Farm for Horses. Donors include George N. Black $20 Mrs Hall Curtis $10 a friend of dumb animals $5 Miss Fannie A French $5 Mrs P R Hollingsworth $3 Mrs Mary T Lodge $5 Miss Emma E Morse $10 Miss Helen A Smith $1 Miss Bessie A Sprague $5 Miss Trene Stearns $5. A box of liniment and medicines from Dr S A Tuttle.
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Red Acre Farm
George N. Black
Hall Curtis
Fannie A. French
P. R. Hollingsworth
Mary T. Lodge
Emma E. Morse
Helen A. Smith
Bessie A. Sprague
Trene Stearns
The Title Mart at Majestic Theatre Opens Monday
A Churchill comedy set in the Adirondacks follows a debt weighed English lord and a bounder who swap identities to woo a wealthy bride. Misidentifications, an American heiress, and a social climbing stepmother fuel a brisk farce led by a cast including Gilmore Hare Edwards Moore Clarkson Kellog Paget Pardoe.
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Majestic Theatre
Winston Churchill
China
Lord Tredbury
Barking
Adirondacks
John Blackwell
J Austin Fynes to Launch Large Vaudeville Circuit
J Austin Fynes former general manager of F F Proctor announces a broad vaudeville venture. He forms the International Amusement and Realty Co with 100000 capital and buys sites in New York Jersey City and Newark for theatres and moving picture venues. Fynes, a Boston native aged about 46, helped develop modern vaudeville after joining B F Keith in 1893.
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J. Austin Fynes
F. FF. Proctor
Mr. Fynes
Mr. Proctor
International Amusement and Realty Co
Brooklyn
Fynes
New England
New York
Nicolet Amusement Company
Harlem Playhouse
125Th Street
Fifth and
Lenox Avenues
Boston
New York Clipper
Evening Sun
B. F. Keith
Park Square Roller Rink Hosts Freak Party and Big Race
Attendance at Park Square Roller Rink was near season peak as a freak party with 19 prizes is planned for Thursday night. The 9:30 grand march is billed as a sight. Friday features White defending his 20 straight wins in a $100 purse two mile heats with McLeod Merritt Ayres and others. Between heats New England skate clubs vie for two cash prizes.
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Park Square
White
McLeod
Merritt
Ayres
Skate Boys
All New England Rirms
Russian Players Farewell At Park Theatre Performances
Three more chances to see Paul Orleneff s Russian company at the Park Theatre as they present Gogol s Revisor this afternoon in a first local performance by Russian actors. On Thursday Mme Alla Nasimoff repeats Zaza and Friday offers Love and Intrigue in a final farewell matinee.
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Paul Orleneff
Park Theatre
Gogol
Mme
Alla Nasimoff
Zaza
Verdict Favorable to Dr. Pierce in libel suit
A court awarded Dr. R. W. Pierce and the World's Dispensary Medical Association a libel victory against the Curtis Publishing Company over remarks in Ladies' Home Journal. The May 1904 article by Edward Bok claimed alcohol and harmful ingredients in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which the plaintiffs contended were false. The trial included testimony that the medicine is derived from native roots by glycerine and that it contains no alcohol opium or digitalis, and Curtis later issued a retraction.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Curtis Publishing Co
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R. W. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Edward Bok
Bok
Er Curtis Publishing Company
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George N. McKibbin
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Ilinois Central
Grant
United States Circuit Court
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William Foster, Jr
Howland Hazard
Lebanon Springs Railroad Company
Foster
Hazard
Michigan
Phenix Mining Company
United Railway Company
Union Traction
Waltham, Mass
George Mixter
St. Paul
Rock Island
Atchison, Burlington and Northwestern
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New Haven Iron and Steel Company
Philadelphia
Hooper
Victoria Copper Mine
John Farson
Western
Worcester & Holden
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Fitchburg
Leominster
Westminster
New Haven
F. A. Heinze
Terkwa River
British Columbia
Supreme Court
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Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company
Stone & Webster
Soule
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Dominion Copper
Calumet
Arizona
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MR. Brooks
Everett Aldermen
Balk
Supreme Court of the State
Wilson Bros. Jewelers
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