Traders Discouraged At Publics Caution On Stocks
Wall Street reports a stagnant trading day with minimal volume and weak public interest. Distillers Securities rose on free alcohol bill prospects while American Locomotive faced merger rumors with General Electric. Local markets showed irregular declines and narrow activity as investors watched Pennsylvania and Lackawanna shares.
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Wall Street
General Electric Company
General Zone
Pennsylvania
San Francisco
Sub-Treasury
London
Pacific Coast
International Pump
Lackawanna
Delaware & Hudson
New York Stock Exchange
Cee Vegebeed
Mull Papel
New York
Boston Clearings
Boston
Treasury
New York Clearings
Bankers’ Sterling
Reichsmarks
Nfigh
Amalgamated Cop
Amer & Foundr
Amer Cotton Oil
Amer Hide & Lea
Amer Ice Securities
Amer Locomotive
Amer Smelting «& Mee
Amer Sugar Refng
Amer Tobacco
Pfd
Anaconda Mining Co
Eos
Stealie Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Canadian Pacific Eeeee
Central of Newee
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Alton Pref
Chicago Great Western
Chicago, Mil & St Paul
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Colorado & Southern
Delaware, Lack & West
Denver & Rio Grande
de Yref Ee
Iowa Central
Kansas City South
Louisville & Nashville
Manhattan I. Eee
Mexican Central
Minneapolis & St Louis
St Paul
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Oat & West
Norfolk & Western
Pennsylvania Ewes Enere
Pittsburg
CC & St L
Rock Talana Co
Esesee
Ae Doaiswee Eerese
Sloss Mshemield
St Louis& SF 2d
Southwestern
Fay
Union Pacific Eevertsee
Western Union Ee
Wheelin & Lake Erie
Wisconsin Central
Ssseeee
Copper gains lead on Exchange Place Curb market
Keweenaw Copper led the Exchange Place Curb with an opening of 12 percent and rising to 13 percent before finishing strong at 12 percent. Shawmut Consolidated also showed solid strength around 14 percent.
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Keweenaw Copper
Exchange Place
Shawmut Consolidated
Dividends Declared By Several Firms In June and July
Northern Ohio Traction & Light issues a 4 to 1 percent initial quarterly dividend payable June 15. North Butte Mining pays 2 per share quarterly dividend. Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron proclaims 15 percent dividend. United States Reduction & Refining declares 1 percent quarterly on preferred stock payable July 1. Eastman Kodak declares 2.44 percent on common and 1 percent on preferred payable July 1.
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Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company
North Butte Mining Company
Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Company
United States Reduction & Refining Company
Tesual
Itman Kodak Company
Aldermen Seek Arbitration Over Edison Lighting Rates
Aldermanic debate in Boston calls for a mayoral commission to arbitrate the Edison Electric Illuminating Company contract and review rates.oms and Moran named for potential arbitration panel while critics warn of industry influence and past alleged theft of a device lowering production costs.
Metropolitan Home Telegraph Company Seeks Boston Start
A new telephone company plans to begin operations in Boston. The Metropolitan Home Telegraph Company filed a petition with the Board of Aldermen yesterday, pledging to challenge existing firms and cut rates.
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Boston
Board of Aldermen
Metropolitan Home ‘Telegraph Company
Petitioned Massachusetts Company Seeks City Telephone System Change
On motion of Alderman Linehan the petition was assigned to the next board meeting. The group proposes an organization in Massachusetts to build own operate a city telephone exchange and lines for electric transmission of intelligence. If granted the petition would revolutionize city telephone service with reduced rates and more discussion is anticipated at the upcoming board meeting.
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Edison Company
Suffolk County
John B. Moran
Curley
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Boston
Alderman Linehan
Massachusetts
Tufts Night Dominates Pops Concert at Symphony Hall
Tufts students fill Symphony Hall for a Tufts Night program with five Tufts songs among twelve numbers. Herbert Night follows tomorrow as audiences remain large and records continue to fall.
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Tufts
Symphony Hall
Herbert
Wagner
Tannhauser
Largo
Handel
Jacques Hoffmann
L. C. Powers
McRch
F. E. Dow
Zampa
Herald
College Hill
E. W. Newton
Zach
Gavotte
Linke
Robyn
Waldteufel
Strube
The Tourists Opens in Philadelphia at Lyric Theatre
The Shubert brothers staged The Tourists a new musical by R H Burnside with music by Gustave Kerker at the Lyric Philadelphia. The Majestic Boston summer production will feature an expensive cast headed by Richard Golden Julia Sanderson and others starting Monday June 4 with a lively chorus.
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Shubert Brothers
Lyric Theatre
Philadelphia
R. H. Burnside
Messrs. Shubert
Gustave Kerker
Majestic Theatre
Boston
Richard Golden
Julia Sanderson
William Pruette
William Hodge
George A. Schiller
Estelle Wentworth
Phil H. Ryley
Della Niven
Ben Greet Open Air Plays Benefit Chestnut Hill
Regular box office prices apply at Herrick's for the May 28 and 29 outdoor performances on Mrs. John Lowell’s grounds. Proceeds go to Massachusetts Infant Asylum and St Monica's Home for Colored Women and Children. Plays include As You Like It, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Herrick’s
John Lowell
Chestnut Hill
Massachusetts Infant Asylum
J. Monica’s Home For
Colorea Women and Children
Chicago grain quotations rise after bullish market letter
Ennis and Stoppani report a quiet opening followed by a wave of bullish sentiment across the grain list. Traders pressed longs and covered shorts, yielding a broad advance that held into the close.
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Ennis & Stoppani
Broad ST
New York
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Urage
Boston State Mutual Building Orvice
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
State Mutual
Ieeewr
Eery
Ennis & Stonnani
Sewer Loan Blocked by City Republicans Sometime Ultimatum
Republican aldermen demand 500000 or nothing for sewer loan while the mayor and supporters push for 1000000. The stalemate continues as talks fail to reach a deal on the sewer borrowing.
City board stalls sewer loan vote amid partisan talks
After failed compromise Aldermen delay action until Friday. Republicans push 500000 loan limit while Democrats seek 1000000. suspensions of sewer department workers continue. Mayor Fitzgerald names two appointees and a special meeting is set for next Friday at 3 o clock.
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Sewer Department
Joan Dill
Alderman Bromberg
Alderman Linehan
Alderman Whelton
Alderman Bell
Alderman Berwin
Curley
Baldwin
Fitzgerald
Ww. D. C. Curtis
Ward
Statistics Department
Arthur G. Everett
Board of Appeal
Buildings Department
Tinehan
Wills of Women Under Court Challenge In City
A grandson and a brother contest two wills here as guardians and courts scrutinize claims of unsound mind. The cases involve women who reportedly disinherited relatives and stated they did not want those who intruded on them to receive any of their property.
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Beverly
Maine Druggist Tests Timing Of Mary's Will Contest
Charles H. Moore, a Rockland druggist and grandson, challenges the 1908 will of Mary Ann Gowen alleging lack of sound mind and undue influence. The hearing notes Gowen's 1906 death, a 1908 will, a June codicil, and gifts to the Consump tives' Home Roxbury Old Ladies' Home. Witnesses testified Gowen's liquor use and declining mind years before.
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Charles H. Moore
Rockland
Grant
Buffalo Exposition
Mary Ann Gowen
Frank A. Gorham
Roxbury
F. N. Nay
L. G. Roberts
A. S. Littlefield
MISS WILKINSONS WILL AT BEVERLY PROBATE HEARING
Maria Wilkinson of Beverly left a $10 000 estate to adorn and maintain the town cemetery. Her brother James H Wilkinson of Keene Cal contests the will claiming undue influence and unsound mind. The will authorizes sale of estate but prohibits selling household goods to Beverly families.
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Maria Wilkinson
Beverly
Hammond
James H. Wilkinson
Keene
Cal
Sodality Minstrels Impress Boston College Audience
In Boston College Hall the Young Men’s Sodality of the Church of the Immaculate Conception staged an up-to-date minstrel show directed by Dom P. Keegan. Fifty black-faced performers included six end men on tambourines and bones, with Joseph H. Farren as interlocutor. Jokes and singing showed thorough training and the event will be repeated this evening.
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Boston College Hall
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Dom P. Keegan
Joseph H. Farren
M. J. Brady
P. J. Brennan
T. F. Cochrane
W. P. Roberts
D. P. Danehy
G. A. Farren
W. J. Greene
C. F. Mahony
A. J. McNeil
W. M. O’brien
J. J. Waters
Woman starves to test belief she can turn white
In White Syracuse, Alice Karr locked herself in a room for six days believing fasting would bleach her mulatto skin after her husband said he wished she were white. Health officers found her severely malnourished. she refused food until confronted with a mirror showed her color was still dark, then she ended the diet.
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Syracuse
Alice Karr
Dodge, 81, Killed When Horse Runs Wild At Turn
In Damariscotta Maine Charles B Dodge 81 of Edgecomb died today after his horse bolted at a sharp turn throwing him from the saddle and breaking his neck.
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Damariscotta
Charles B. Dodge
Edgecomb
Dodge
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Boston Bank
Shawmut Consolidated Copper Company
Portland
Alexander Chandler
B. W. Curriner
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Foxcroft
Samuel L. Powers
William Rotch
John R. Thayer
Worcester
Leslie C. Wead
Herbert Williams
Utah Copper Company
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Clyde Steamship Company
Harlan & Hollingsworth
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Calumet & Hetla
Houghton
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Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
D. Loring, & Son
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Bonanza Circle Mines
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Pittsburg Junction
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Black Hawk
Globe
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Beverly R. Wood
Mgr
Agnew
James Shaw , CO
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Aklala
Pittsburg & Duluth
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NEW Telephone Company
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Boston Young Men's Christian Union
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Manning Glee Club
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Gilchrist Benefit Association Dramatic Club
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Laenoresation Bureau
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Huntington Ave
Detroit
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Copleyen
John T
Mrs
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Melville B. Raymond
Buster Brown
Tee Eephry
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Colonial
Richard Carletn
Tokio
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S&s. Mat
Marcaret Anglin
Henry Miller
Young Fernald
Howard
Geo. B. Alexander
Myles McCarthy and Co
Bedford and
Winchester
Sandy’’ Chapman
Newell and Niblo
Sid E Baxter
Polumbi
Bowdoin
Merchant On the
Venice
Lyceum
Transoceanics
Sodality
Boston College
Tremont
Tolentory
Jesse Lynch Williams
Enry Wage
Harry ‘Bulger
Castle So
Down Town
Winter St
Christopher, Jr
Pops
Orchestra RA
Tel. B. B
Nantaskel
Rowes Wharf
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Pemberton
G. P. Cushing
Gen. Mer
Enterprise Transportation Co
Fall River
Frank Jones
Kennebec
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