Earnings and Dividends Under War Tax Pressures
The article analyzes how excess profits taxes and higher inventory and plant costs could force large industrial firms to curb or skip extra dividends in 1917. It contrasts Steel, General Electric, Crucible, and copper majors Utah Copper and Anaconda, noting cash resources, debt, and potential future dividend capacity amid wartime conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Corporation
General Electric
Goodrich Rubber Company
Crucible Steel
Crucible
Congress
Utah Copper
Anaconda
Money market rates and foreign exchange report
Daily rundown of broker and bank lending levels with current rates on loans and commercial paper. Also notes bar silver prices in New York and London, Mexican dollars, and Federal Reserve terms for rediscount eligible paper. Concludes with nominal foreign exchange rates and spot cable quotations for sterling and other currencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Federal Reserve Bank
Pee
United States
Miss Isa Belle Stanley Weds Distant Cousin James Stanley
Neighbors still called her Miss Stanley but the gypsy train resident of Smith Street Roxbury is Mrs. Stanley. Isa Belle Stanley filed marriage intentions with James Stanley last week. Though planned for last evening, the couple quietly married Thursday evening.
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Miss Stanley
Smith Street
Roxbury
Stanley
Isabelle Stanley
City Hall
James Stanley
Red Cross Benefit at Colonial Theatre Features O Reilly Address
Mary Boyle O Reilly will speak on Under the Red Cross Out There at a Boston benefit for the Red Cross and War Library Fund. John Drew and Mrs Jesse Eldridge Southwick join with a musical program by Jessie Morse Berenson and two bands. Proceeds go to the Boston Metropolitan Chapter and War Library Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Boyle O'Reilly
Colonial Theatre
Boston
American Red Cross and War Library Fund
Red Cross
Miss O'Reilly
John Drew
Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Jessie Morse Berenson
Mme
Mme del Castillio
Fort Warren
Severnson
Commonwealth Pier
Hinckley
Hap Ward
Eleanor Baldwin Cass
The
War Library Fund
Spectators See Man on Clock Hand at Custom House
Boston residents flocked to State Street and nearby avenues claiming a man in black perched on the minute hand of the Custom House tower clock. A Post reporter and field glasses failed to confirm the sight, though crowds insisted they saw a dangerous stunt hundreds of feet high.
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Custom House Tower
State Street
Central
Milk, Water
Washington
Custom House
Post
Growth of National Bank System Under War Stimulus
Comptroller Williams reports four months ending October saw 60 national banks chartered with $5,145,000 capital, up from four with $3,025,000 a year earlier. During the period 45 banks increased capital by $6,180,000, vs 30 banks increasing by $7,832,000 in 1916. no capital reductions recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Williams
Alien Enemy Found Working at Fore River
Henry J. Bessler held an alien enemy permit but was found working on submarine construction at the Fore River Works in Quincy. He was arrested by Deputy U.S. Marshal Tighe and taken to the marshal's office at the federal building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry J. Bessler
Fore River
Quincey
United States
Tighe
Marshal
Federal Building
Rochester Mayor Edgerton Clinches Sixth Term
Edgerton, Republican, was elected Rochester mayor for the sixth consecutive term by a 13,104 plurality, his largest ever. Opponent William A. Buckley, former Democratic postmaster, resigned amid pressure from the Tamany wing of Monroe County Democratic organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MU Bib Hme
Keydouv
Ehieies II
Edgerton
Rochester
William A. Buckley
Tammany
Monroe County Democratic Organization
All In Unit To Speak French
Brigadier General Sweetser will form a regiment of French speaking guardsmen for provost guard duty in France. The First New Hampshire Regiment will recruit from the First Vermont, First Maine Heavy Field Artillery and the Fifth Sixth and Eighth Massachusetts regiments. Officers and men will receive training and be sent to France. remaining units will go south for training. The regiment will guard headquarters and key points and operate as traffic officers behind the trenches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweetser
National Guard
Westfield
Framingham
Washington
France
War Department
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine Heavy Field Artillery
Eichler Heads Zion Work in New England
Dr M M Eichler former rabbi of Temple Chabei Shalom Union Park street was yesterday appointed director of the Zionist Bureau for New England by the provisional committee for general Zionist affairs of America. He succeeds Alexander Sachs who is transferred to Montreal to direct Zionist work in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eichler
New England
M. M. Eichler
Temple Chabei Shalom
Union Park Street
Zionist Bureau For
Provisional Committee For General Zionist Affairs of America
Alexander Sachs
Montreal
Zionist Movement
Canada
Hotels pledge food days gains spread nationwide
More than nine tenths of the country’s better class hotels have signed pledges to follow food administration directions for conservation, with others joining in. The meatless Tuesday and wheatless Wednesday movement began in late September and is now widely observed in public eating houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Food Administration
Watt Elected Albany Mayor Over Armatage
James R. Watt won the Albany mayoral race by a margin exceeding a sow over Democratic challenger Charles H. Armatage. Watt, a Republican, secured the plurality in the New York capital city election held November 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
James R. Watt
Charles H. Armatage
Suspect Spy in Shell Shop at Wheeler Reflector Co
Barrage Nov 6 report notes a German spy suspicion at Wheeler Reflector Co in a munition plant. A broken giant shell head and tampering linked to sabotage followed by the loss of an accumulator and two electric outages. The plant, sole US facility for six inch brass shells, is filling an order for 196 500 units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler Reflector Company
United States
German Attack on Venice Expected
Berlin reports Austro-German advance toward Venice and prepares the public for an assault on the famed art center. It calls Venice a key war industry hub and suggests a forthcoming combat operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Amsterdam
Berlin
New England Men On Casualty List
Ottawa reports the Canadian casualty list with American names including Wallace of Boston wounded and gassed E Martin of Westbrook Me wounded Warren Read of Medford Mass died of wounds and David Ramsay of Holyoke Mass wounded.
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Ottawa
Ont
Wallace
Boston
E. Martin
Westbrook
Warren Read
Medford
Mass
David Ramsay
Holyoke
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Ranier
Arizona
United Verde Ext
Bonanza Copper Belt
United Verde
G. F. Redmond & Co., Inc
Devonshire Street
Fort Hill
Railroad
Pullman
Western Utah
Western Utah Extension
Gold Hill
Co. L. Glass & Company
Scollay
Court Street
Vandergrift Building
Pittsburgh
BAY State Film CO
High St
Boston, Mass
Crystal Copper CO
John E. Allen & CO
Great Britain
Puerto, Rico
Mass. Company
Aroccanhiente
John A.kobs
Boylston ST
Kkeystine
York
Truesdale & Co., Inc
Central Park West
American Circle Building
Hornblower & Weeks
Detroit
Providence
Chicago
Portland
Rex Petroleum Company
Rex
Oklahoma
Texas
Wyoming
Chelsea
Muddy Creek
Goose Creek
J. George Leyner
Pres
Leyner Engineering Works
Rex Sales Co
Foster
Denver Cold
Rex Petroleum
Sable
U. S. Steel and Crucible
United States Steel
Statistical Department
Exchange Place
Money Markets
Treasury
Peerless Oil & Gas
Cannon, Stamm & CO
Broadway
First
Nat. Bank
Alfred R. Risse Co
Wall St. N
Tel
Mary Boyle O’reilly
Ectures
North-West Oil & Refining Company
Casper
Salt Creek
Powder River Dome
Tisdale
Lost Cabin Fields
North-West Oil & Refining CO
Denver
Colo
North -West Oil & Refining CO
B. P. Foster
Denver, Colo
Watt
Europe
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
South Boston
Loucester
Natalie Hammons
Dee Sadie M. Pain
Marconi
Maine
Brittah
Northwest
Portland Navigation School
Exchange Street
Maxwell
Huntington
Huntington Ave
Aleo
Lewis ST
Lynn
Richmond
D. Clark
the Post
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Commission On Waterways and Public Lands
State House
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation of
Chapman's Creek
Dorchester Bay
Squantum
Quincy
John N. Cole
Farragut Co-Operative Rbank
Navy
Artemus R. Wood
Taylor's
Catslamne
M. Hesslern
Dudley
Baker & CO
Portland St
C. S. Gooding
School St
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