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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1919
Page
16
Monday Boston Post column invites readers to submit questions on listed and unlisted New England securities. The paper pledges impartial data while not guaranteeing accuracy or market forecasts and requires full name and address for inquiries to the financial editor in Boston.
Pierce-Arrow Motor manufactures pleasure cars and trucks and recently cut car production to expand truck capacity. Industry observers expect truck sales to rise as highway routes replace rail for many goods. The firm earns about 18 dollars a share in 1918 with no funded debt, though dividend timing may shift due to airplane engine payments.
The 363,250,000 Baltimore & Ohio convertible gold 41-2s remain outstanding, convertible at 110 a share by Feb 28, 1923 and redeemable at 1021-2 after 90 days notice. Government guarantee yields ample interest, with a current market around 78 and about 7.78 percent yield. Reorganization of Mass Electric favored by a plan issuing new securities totaling 32.60 in value to preferred holders, forming the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company with scaled capitalization. The market outlook notes a near top after million-share days, a expected partial recovery next week, and the role of inflation, investor psychology, and professional buying in the current bear-to-bull transition.
Poles of Protestant faith, numbering nearly 1,000,000, submitted a memorial to the peace conference requesting inclusion in the new Polish state. The Polish bureau released the text, asserting that Poland will be a welcoming mother to Protestants despite claims of Poland being largely Roman Catholic.
London report says Bolsheviki executed Swedish Red Cross delegate Sven Hedslom at Kharkov, per Stockholm despatch to Central News.
Cardinal O'Connell addressed Hibernians and Ladies Auxiliary at the Suffolk cathedral on communion day with 2500 participants. He urged steadfast faith against Bolshevism and oppression, praising Ireland's centuries of devotion and urging Americans to heed the Christian lesson for world peace.
Masses in all diocese churches mark St Patrick's Feast. Banquets, whist parties, Irish plays and reunions unfold at venues across Boston including the Hotel Somerset, City Club, Hibernian Hall, and Gate of Heaven Dramatic Club. Catholic and Irish societies host events culminating in a St Patrick’s Day program across Roxbury Somerville and Dorchester.
The Waldorf Theatre on Tremont near Berkeley opens tonight with Mayor Peters and state officials invited. Manager Harry F. Jones will run the vaudeville and moving pictures house, seating 3500 with an eight women orchestra and ample exits. Proceeds from tonight go to the Welcome Home fund of the 26th Division.
The Greenwood Memorial Church on Washington Street Dorchester marks its 60th anniversary with the current edifice dedication and mortgage burning. A week of prayer and golden anniversary events leads to dedicatory services next Sunday with Bishop Hughes delivering the sermon at 4 30 p m.
Patsy English and Frank Marcello of 145 Toro street Cambridge were visiting Italian friends at 12 Arsenal street Watertown when an altercation with a stranger led to severe slashing. Marcello suffered cuts to the left eye and hand while Patsy injured in the right arm lip and scalp. The attacker fled and the pair, treated at Watertown police headquarters, would not reveal the assailant's name.
John P. Armstrong forty six of 72 Sprange street Watertown attempted death by own action by locking in a bedroom and turning on a gas jet. His son alerted a police chauffeur Arnold Holmes who broke the door and gave first aid. Armstrong was taken to Waltham Hospital and expected to recover.
South Boston prepares for Evacuation Day with a semi official Victory Day banquet at Hotel Brewster featuring Governor Coolidge and other dignitaries as speakers. Officials cancel the parade due to Yankee Division arrival while many clubs churches and societies host open house and events.
In Roxbury on March 16 Thomas H Palmer beloved husband of the late Maria F Palmer nee Harney of 40 Fields et. Notice of funeral later.
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