Traders in Apathetic Condition Across Market Totals
Total sales for New York and Boston are reported with shares by exchange, listing most active issues and comparing period figures to last year. Notable gains and losses include St L S W and United Cigar pref in New York, Chemical common and N E Cotton Yarn in Boston. Call and time money rates are provided for both markets.
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New York
Boston
Reading Common
Steel Common
United Cigar Pref
Chemical Common
N. E. Cotton
Time Money
Wind Ate Rie
Bankers’ Sterling Ee
Frances Stee
Reichsmarks
Local Market Shows Mixed Copper Stock Activity
The Local Market reports a day of mixed activity with Amalgamated copper leading selling pressure from New York. Granby stock fell to 32 1/2, East Butte held near 12 3/4 after broad absorption and a Shawmut Bank move. Agricultural Chemical rose 1 1/4 to 56 1/2 as steel and telephone modestly firm while overall tone ended weak.
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Amalgamated
New York
Granby
East Butte
Shawmut Bank
Robert H. Gross
East Bute Company
Gross
Wall Street Quiet Before Supreme Court Decisions
Markets were nearly motionless until late trading when bears pushed several specialities to month lows. Anticipation of the Supreme Court trust decisions next Monday dominated sentiment with expectations of restructuring rather than confiscation, while firms like Standard Oil and American Tobacco faced potential reorganization under new rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bears
Washington Sharps
Supreme Court
Wall Street
Standard Oil
American Tobacco
drift at the 104-foot level noted in current news notes
A list of entities appears in a noisy industry note including OR SALE-25 NAVIN KELLY 1 CENTURY SAFETY RAZOR 70 AUTOFORCE VENTILATING PRE EARED and various company and product names such as BOSTON HERALD, AMERICAN DRUG GISTS' SYNDICATE, ANTA CTION ROLLER BEARING and AMERICAN PHOSPHATE, with addresses like 6060 State St. Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navin & Kelly
Boston Herald
Antaction
Autopress
American Phosphate
Mes Shay & Co
State St
Boston
Milk St
Mass
Adams Exp O
Chalmers
Aim
Allis
Amer Cotton Oil
Amer Agri Chem
T & T Collat Tr
Tobac
Sennnee
Brunswick & Wn
Bklyn R T
California Gas & Elec
Cent of Georgia Ist Inc
Inc
Ches & Ont
Illinois
Boston Curb Market Drifts with Subdued Trading
A sleepy Doane street session sees few brokers recoup expenses while Amalgamated Nevada, Boston Ely, and Begole show little price movement. Amalgamated Nevada around 17 cents, Boston Ely about 114, Begole near 8, with fluctuations detailed in the following list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doane Street
Amalgamated Nevada
Boston Ely
Begole
Massachusetts towns seek bids on short term loans and notes
Gardner offers 90000 temporary loan bids due March 23 with 10000 maturity steps from Oct to Nov. Bristol county seeks 30000 notes due up to five years. Quincy invites 51000 water bonds 4 percent dated 1911 with 3000 yearly from 1912 to 1928. Weymouth calls 90000 temporary loan due Oct 18. Winthrop awards 110000 in three issues with discounts and premiums. Watertown invites 150000 temporary loan with 100000 due Sept 22 and 50000 due Oct 10. Quake Shore notes sold in Paris via J P Morgan for 60000000 francs due 1912.
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Quincy
Mass
Paris
J. P. Morgan & Co
United States Steel Issues Annual Report 1910
The United States Steel Corporation released its annual report for the year ending December 31 1910. Net earnings reached 141 054 755 up from 131 491 414 in 1909 and 91 847 711 in 1908. Gross receipts totaled 703 961 424 versus 646 382 251 in 1909 and 482 307 840 in 1908. Earnings applicable to dividends stood at 12.2 percent on common stock, up from 10.4 percent in 1909. Detailed figures follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Dep & Sk
Market Trends Show Varied Activity Across Sectors
The report notes slower and conservative trade in iron, steel, dry goods, and cotton sectors, with pockets of activity in silk, woolens, worsteds, linens, and footwear. Prices are steady to firm, leather demand weak, and shoe production gradually reopens. A bread weight scandal in Boston prompts calls to end half and quarter loaf exemptions, arguing for sale by standard loaf.
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Lynn
Bradstreet report notes quiet distributive trade in early spring
Bradstreet's State of Trade says retail distribution is slow as buyers return home to watch spring trends. Millinery shows activity, dry goods sell fairly, tariffs dampen purchases, wool weak, iron and steel cautious, and building invariable. Bank clearings rise 2.8 percent. 251 business failures in week to March 16. Canada steady. overall outlook hopeful.
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New York
Bradstreet
Canada
Dividends Declared by Various Companies in Spring
Hotel Somerset Company declares 11 2 percent and 11 2 percent extra dividends to stock on record April 1 with April 15 payment. Niagara Falls Power Company sets $2 dividend for April 15. Massachusetts Lighting Companies announce quarterly 13 4 percent dividends with record March 30. Union Typewriter Company issues semiannual 3 12 percent first preferred and 4 percent second preferred on April 1. Nebraska Telephone Company pays $1.50 dividend with record April 5 and payment April 10.
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Hotel Somerset Company
Niagara Falls Power Company
Massachusetts Lighting Companies
Union Typewriter Company
Nebraska Telephone Company
Calendar for today dividends payable list
Dividends payable include Norfolk & Western at 114 percent ex dividend Am Pneumaticist preferred Cumberland T and T Sloss Sheffield preferred. Books close for Brooklyn R T Superior and Pittsburg.
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Norfolk & Western
Am. Pneumaticist
Cumberland T. & T. Sloss
Sheffield
Bakers Evade Bread Law Says Editor to Public
An editor recalls a bill to regulate bread weight, noting bakers mislead customers by advertising only three quarter and quarter loaves. The writer insists the law requires a two pound loaf and urges enforcement to prevent losses to consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercantile Efeice
Agere Fae
AS DUN SEES IT Improvement in Trade Slow and Irregular
R G Dun Co reports irregular trade activity with slight improvement in some lines. The survey notes uneven demand across sectors and cautious merchant sentiment as the season progresses.
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Dun
City Worker Retirement List Sparks Debate on Staffing
Commissioner Rourke seeks to retire 114 public works staff with salaries totaling 104000 annually and outlines replacing them with half as many younger workers. The list highlights Charles H Godbold the ferry tollman with 40 years service and Horace Sias an inspector as focal figures. An appointment for Sias faces opposition due to veteran status. The department asks for authority to examine the retirees for retirement.
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Rourke
Charles H. Godbold
Horace Sias
Public Works Department
Wheeler
John A
Seenee
Cragin
Thomas
Flynn
John Hl
le Ray
Godbold
Charles H
Peratan
Riley John
Tollman
Long
Dennis Gateman
McLaughlin Philip Ens Toe
Moran, Peter
Gateman
Wilber F
Stowes
McCarthy
Dennis
Lamiighter
Snow
Stephen D
Pmery
George W
Moore
John
O’ Donnell Patrick
Smith, John
Healey John
Laborer Oe
Sias Horace Inspector Saree
Conroy John
Teamster Eee
Cronin
Laborer
Moran
Beales
Isaiah H
Sanitary Service
Maxwell
Isaac S
Stableman
McCarron
Richard
McLaughlin
Augustus
Hesper
Uinn
Francis
Teamster
Wilson
Shipping News From the Port Amid Gale and Returns
The northwesterly gale slowed fishing vessels with eight receipts expected today two arrivals yesterday the Stranger with haddock cod hake pollock and the Annie & Jennie with haddock cod pollock The Ripple sold 69500 pounds of fish The Allan steamer Numidian arrived with 68 cabin and 88 steerage passengers many disembarked at Halifax Captain Hall takes command Scotian reassigned The week sees four Cuban sugar cargoes totaling 24390600 pounds The Kanawha lost anchors and sought shelter while vessels resumed movements The Daniel Daly and tug Neponset faced gales and Cape storms Mattakeesett doomed at Peaked Hill Cape Cod Caledonian shipload includes corn wheat apples cattle hay and more Sigurd chartered to sail to Buenos Aires La Plata The Landsman ends its port report.
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Stranger
Haddock
Annie & Jennie
Ripple
Glasgow
Moville
Mystic Wharf
Halifax
Hall
Thomas Moor
Scotian
Allan
Statendam
Holland-American Line
Rotterdam
New York
South Boston
Kanawha
Parmenter
Searsport
Portland
Newport News
Daniel Daly
Boston
Point Judith
Vineyard Haven
Acushnet
Neponset
Roger Sears
Cape
Ruth
Chatham
Sears
Mattakeesett
Peaked Hill Pass
Cape Cod
J. M. Lewis
Caledonian
Leylard Line
J. R. Cannon
Clyde Street Pier
Manchester
Sigurd
Buenos Ayres
la Plata
Argentine Republic
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Ice Encrusted Liner Snestad Reaches Boston Harbor
Norwegian steamer Snestad arrived from Cienfuegos after a 16 hour gale near Nantucket. Officers reported near freezing pipes and heavy seas but no damage, as ship discharged 24,782 bags of sugar and two cases of wine at South Boston berth pending Monday.
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Snestad
Cienfuegos
Nantucket South Shoal Lightship
Haakenserl
Sea of Shore
Snestaa
Boston
Shipping News Update from March 18 Mini Almanac
Arrivals and departures at port listed with ships and destinations. Vessels include cutters Gresham and Romanic. steamers Kanawha, Nacoochee, and James S Whitney. schooners Jessie A. Bishop and Clara E. Randall. multiple tugs and barges bound for Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Savannah. Cleared ships head to Europe and the Mediterranean via Gibraltar and Naples, while sails include Yarmouth, Nantucket, and Newport News routes.
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Gresham
Aberroth
Snestad
Haakonsen
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Gloucester
McDorman
Baltimore
Newport News
Norfolk
Persian
Thacher
Philadelphia
Nacoochee
Munson
Savannah
Melrose
Frostad
H. M. Whitney
Crowell
New York
Kanawha
Parmenter
Searsport
Belfast
Brown
Winterport
Juno
Cunningham
Lynn
Hattie
H. S. Nichols
Rockrt
Nemasket
Betts
Portand
Summit Hill
Romanic
Azores
Gibraltar
Algiers
Naples
Genoa
Caledonian
Manchester
Patricia
Hamburg
Kabinga
James S. Whitney
Katalidin
Charleston
Jacksonville
Jessie A. Bishop
Brunswick
San Jose
Port Simon
R. Frances
Manzanillo
Boston
Yarmouth
N. S
Nantucket
Ewport News
Felix Carbray
Wight
Portsmouth
Ontario
Forest Belle
Metacomet
Cadosia
Savage
Scranton
Newrt
RB. I
Tasco
Vineyard Haven
Forego News
Tipton
Solus
Clara E. Randall
Portland
Barbadoes
Chas. T. Gallagher
Keene
America
Rockport
Boston Crew Survives Sinking Sander Race for Life
Five men slept in the Parsons sander when it began to sink near Newburyport’s mouth. John Blumberg woke others as water filled the cabin. Captain Maddock and the Newburyport life-saving crew aided rescue, pumping out the craft and refloating it.
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Newburyport
Sander
Parsons
Boston
John Blumberg
Maddock
Curtis Guild's Will Filed For Probate
The will of the late Curtis Guild was offered for probate yesterday. The estate is left to Curtis Guild Jr Sarah Guild and Courtenay Guild. The Bostonian Society once led by the deceased receives 500 and a copy of the testator's paper. Courtenay Guild is named executor. No public bequests are stated.
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Curtis Guild
Curtis Guild, Jr
Sarah Guild
Courtenay Guild
Bostonian Society
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The
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Bristol County
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Wees
United States Steel Issues Annual Report
State Sealer
George A. Perkins
Court Square
Brooklyn
R. T. Superior
Pittsburg
R. G. Dun Co
Sias
General Office
Division
Water Service—Distribution Branch
Rymill
George H
Rooney
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Leland
Daniel P. S
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Kidward J
James O
Carney
D. T
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Cloney
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Folleage Dennis J
Edgeworth
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Monwright
Michael H
Fitzgerald
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Griffin
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McFarland Paniel
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Toyce
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McDevitt
Philip
Shea
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Nason
George
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Shepard
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Martin
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Leary
Paige
James M
Hassett
John B
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Lane
Thomas M
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