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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1911
Page
12
The piece argues chart averages mislead about price movements as rails and industrials show mixed signals. It notes banking influence shapes stock trends, with bonds favored by institutions and commercial paper yielding higher than top bonds. Crop conditions brighten outlook, suggesting steadier market gains for the year.
Canon Gilbert Higgins visiting England born clergy delivers address to Catholic Alumni Sodality at Boston College music room on Catholic Church in England tracing growth since early centuries. He praises archbishop of Boston and sodality work with seamen and Sunday school for Italian children in North End with 1200 attendees. Notable attendees include Hellamy Storer and judges Me Laughlin Fallon.
Calendar item notes subscription payable for Soo Line at 20 percent. Wyandot Mining calls a meeting while Parrot Mining opens its books.
Arthur M. Purdy of Summer street Peabody was arrested by U S Deputy Marshal Bancroft on the charge of concealing assets in bankruptcy. Purdy a Salem grocer entered bankruptcy and allegedly held an undetailed equity in a mortgage. He was taken to Boston and jailed at the Tombs to await U S Commissioner Hayes today.
Beverly May 7 John P D Standley aged 86 today laid the first brick for the new cotton mill at Lawrence signaling the start of the city’s mill industry. He worked on Naumkeag in Salem and Atlantic and Pacific in Lawrence and helped build Salem schools. He married Ann Wallis of Beverly sixty three years ago. his family group attended a supper with seven generations present.
New York May 7 Miss Helen Gould is under police guard as threats surge from beggars. In one week she received letters totaling 1 500 000 dollars with aims from false teeth sets to funding a Cuba colony. Seven secretaries handle incoming requests and 231 letters arrived last week alone.
Roxbury mass meeting planned to oppose May 31 closure of the Peoples Institute founded by the late Robert Treat Paine. Members claim dissolution illegal and seek injunctive action while noting endowment funds and merging relief work with the Y M C A on Ruggles Street.
Archbishop OConnell assisted at a mass for Italian children of the North End held in St Johns Hall Moon Street at 9 30 am. Rev James P E OConnell celebrant and addressed a Sunday school project run by capable Catholic volunteers. He praised the Catholic Alumni Sodality for supplying teachers and support to the new program.
The 10 year old redistricting plan for Massachusetts is defended as nonpartisan. Charles R. Saunders and Loved Chamberlain led the 1901 effort amid a Republican majority, with districts drawn for near equal population. The current measure fixes 433 House seats nationally and expands Massachusetts to 16 districts.
Washington May 7 Henry Joe Cannon celebrated his 75th birthday in Washington with friends. Born on a Greensboro area farm near Guildford Courthouse, he later moved to Indiana to work as a grocery clerk and after the Civil War settled in Danville before entering Congress in 1873. He joined in a dance step to show he felt young.
Announcement of Miss Marion Elizabeth Hill of Dorchester to Daniel W. Rhea, a Toledo attorney, with a fall wedding planned. Hill, daughter of the late Jonathan Hill, is a former Savin Hill life saving corps member and Dorchester High School graduate of 1904.
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