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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 08, 1902

Page

10

Bears Drive Sugar Down in New York Market

Bear movement in Sugar caused a sharp price drop to 1153-4 with a tally of 1-4 before close, while beet sugar rivals threaten a price war. Copper stocks drifted as traders waited for cues with little new news, and Calumet & Hecla rose in Boston. Stone & Webster plan a large Washington state power plant, and Dominion Coal reported record production. wage increases at Atchison were announced.

Aon New York Congress Boston Standard Oil Commission Calumet & Hecla Centennial Copper Range Wolverine Shaw Stone & Webster Puyallup Glacier Chicago Atchison Bay State Rotary Ring International Rotary Am Bell Tel Bos Tin Gas Ist B & Q Joint Ill Steel M & BR L& Fg Top &Sf SG SA Bingham Con Boston & Alvany Thom Ir & Steel Edison el Mw AG Qaas Ga Rv & Flee General Fleetrie Gnanejaate BS Mass Electric Seeee Ee Bay Mergenthal Lin Michigan Pere Marquette Rhode Island Seattle Electric Shannon Swift & Co Eeene Hee Tamarack Torrington Trinity Union Pacific Eee United Copper United Fruit Eno United Shoe U & Coal Victoria Mio TG Ai NBL Bis West End St Ry T & Tel

Boston Stock Sales Report Highlights

Boston stock table shows highest and lowest sales and closing bids for Westinghouse Electric preferred at 101 1/4 to 104 1/2, Wolverine Mining at 59 1/4 to 59, with ex-dividend noted. Total sales include listed stocks 13,825 shares, bonds $51,500, unlisted stocks 11,329 shares, bonds $4005.

Hancock Tavern Sign At Old State House

The ancient swing sign of the Hancock Tavern in Corncourt, bearing Governor Hancock’s portrait, has been loaned to the Bostonian Society for safekeeping in the Old State House collection. The tavern is to be replaced by a modern business building as progress moves in.

Hancock Tavern Corncourt Governor Hancock Bostonian Society Old State House March of Improvement

Volume of Business Signals Steady Trade Heights

Wall street remains bearish in a broad market report while jobbing trade stays active and shipments surge. Railroads move fuel and grain, weather shifts lift demand for heavy goods, and failures drop. wages and rail pressure color a cautious but improving outlook for October.

New York Bradstreet Wall Street

Lady Henry Somerset Meets the President in Washington

Miss Risley Seward introduces Lady Henry Somerset to the President. Somerset has long been known for temperance and philanthropic work in Great Britain and is the guest of Miss Seward, who pursues similar charitable efforts in the United States. The visit is a courtesy call with no formal agenda.

Washington Risley Seward Henry Somerset Great Britain Lady Somerset Seward

Pensions Adopted for Martinique Disaster Victims

Paris November 7 President Loubet signed a law granting pensions to widows and orphans of civil and military officials who perished in the volcanic disaster on Martinique Island.

ST. Pierre Paris Loubet Martinique

Mad Mullah Awaits Fight Near Bohote

Berbera, East Africa. Colonel Swayne, once British commander in Somaliland, sails for England ill. General Manning now pushes for an advance against the Mullah but slow supplies limit progress. The Mullah nears Bohote with about 2000 rifles, one Maxim gun, 15,000 spearmen, and vast camel and sheep reserves. Bohode is well defended as guns move through French territory.

Berbera East Africa Swayne Somaliland England Manning Bohote Bohode

Waterfront fish landings set record for two days

A total of 1,162,900 pounds of fresh mixed fish were landed at T wharf over two days, 888,000 pounds by 25 vessels the first day and 274,900 pounds the second. Haddock sold at 3 cents, large cod 4, and other fish prices listed. The Hamburg-America steamer Badenia docked at Mystic pier on its first voyage, with 8,500 tons cargo. The page also notes other ships, cargoes, and ongoing port activity.

T Wharf Haddock Badenia Mystic Pier Hamburg Mystic Plier Baltimore Barkentine Allanwilde Savannah Kennebec Bath City of Bangor Rockland Alderney Simpson Lake Michigan Cardiff Elder-Dempster Line Teutonic Liverpool Queenstown New York Iran Galveston Malta Manila Cebu Europe Saxonia Altonia Boston

Shipping News Miniature Almanac Reads Arrivals and Clears

Shipping notes list arrivals at port with steamers Badtenia Froelich and Oscar I plus numerous schooners and barges, detailing origins from Cardiff to Nantasket Roads and Halifax. Cleared vessels include Altonia Oscar I Louisburg and many others. wind steady N W to N N W, listings cover loading for Boston and New York.

Badtenia Froelich Hamburg Lake Michigan Morgan Cardiff Wales Liarthony Abbey Barnett Barry Oscar N Peterson Louisbure, Co. B State of Maine Thompson St. John N. B Eastport Portland Halifax Pye Charlottetown P. B.I Hawkesbury C. B N. S Nantucket March Baltimore Norfolk Grecian Briggs Philadelphia Seaboard Kirby Herman Winter Crowell New York Bay State Oliver City of Gloucester Oher Gloucester City of Bangor Arey Bangor Frostburg Svendsen Mass Alliant Parks Cambellton Maria O. Teel Johnstone Sarah C. Ropes Sweet Daylight Nickerson Charles W. Church Moore Ellen M. Golder Chase St. Bird Patterson St. George S. J Elvira J. French Hopkins Wilmington N. C Ervin J. Lace Paschal A. G. Lawson Ingleson Lanesville Iuge Richmond Perry Newport News Herge George R. Schofield Spartan Chandler Alaska Newburyport Bear Ridge Kohinoor Altonia Live Eng Michigan Glasgow Oscar I Louisburg Tiems Nor James L. Maloy RK. D. Spear Weymouth N A Francis A. Rice Yarmouth N. W Lillian Blauvelt Tusket Swallow Garfield White Wellman Hall Parrsboro Anglian London Boston Kershaw State l of Maine Araucania Avonport Erie Ateaea J. Henry Eamunds Rockport Spartan Nile Rockland G. M. Porter William Duren Calais Ada Herbert B. C. Gates Allan Machias Manhattan la Flove Pandora Ida_ May Hattie Muriel Riverdale Clifford Co Lena Maud All St. John Farle William W. Converss Satilla Lyman M. Law Barkentine Addie Morrill Mosarie

Sunday church services across Boston area churches

Multiple congregations list Sunday schedules. Baptist Tabernacle Bowdoin Square preaches at 10:30 and 7:30 with a 12 m Bible school and 6 p m Young People meeting. First Baptist Commonwealth Avenue and Ruggles Street Baptist detail sermons, their choir Florida Jubilee Singers, and a union evangelistic service at the Dudley Street Opera House. Tremont Temple Baptist, Congregational Old South and Berkeley Temple also publish morning and evening services with pastors and special programs including choirs and choruses.

Baptist Tabernacle Bowdoin Square Feene F. L First Baptist Church Commonwealth Avenue Francis H. Rowley D. D Sunda School Ruggles Street Baptist Church Tremont Washington Streets A. C. Dixon the Love of God Florida Jubilee Singers Professor Case Tremont ¢ Temple Baptist Church George RB. Hors, D. DD Avery A. Shaw Brookline Old South Church George A. Gordon Hope Chapel Shawmut Street Park Square Percy H. Epler Berkeley Temple William A. Knight Technology Maie Annie May Whitten R. Kelso Carter Heaven Sauvage Boston Young Men's Christian Association Boylston Berkeley Streets C. W. Holden Dorchester Ariel Ladies Dudley Street Dudley Street Opera House W. W. Bustard S. M. Landis Dartmouth Street Back Bay Station Hamilton Harvard Social Science Club Boylston Place Tremont Temple Florida Berkeley Hall Tremont and T. D. Gibbs Paine Memorial Appleton Street J. P. Bland Salvation Army Yorke No. 1 Corps Green Street Christadelphians Christ

First Sermons and Religious Items Sunday Services

The local schedule lists sermons and services at Tremont Street M E Church, St Andrew's Presbyterian, Boston Spiritua Temple, First Spiritual Temple, Harmony Hall, Lynn Spiritualists, Roxbury Spiritual Association, Gospel of Spirit Return Society, Universalist churches, and other venues. Notable speakers include Dr Stuntz of Manila, Rev William Haven, Dr Alexander MacKinnon, Mrs E Cobb, and Mrs N J Willis. Also events on mediumship, clairvoyance, seances, and religious lectures.

Stuntz Manila Charles A. Crane Jesus Tremont Street M. E. Church Concord Street C. E. Davis William I. Haven D. D New York City Epworth League Presbyterian America Hall Washington Street E. Cobb P. McKenna Boston Chickering Hall Huntington Avenue F. A. Wiggin Wiggin Hatfield Pettibone Harmony Hall Circle Georgie Hughes Smith Josephine Webster Annie Hanson Kibble Julia E. Davis Lynn Spiritualists’ Association Cadet Hall Alex. Caird M. D H. D. Barrett Harry Chase Roxbury Spiritual Association Highland Warren Street Walnut Avenue Dudley Street E. Mack M. Adeline Wilkinson Harvest Moon Indian Council Boston Psychic Conference Massachusetts Avenue Northampton Coombs F. Davis Carbee Mme. Zara Horton Henry

Corbin Urges Army Reforms In Annual Report

Washington Nov 7 General Henry C Corbin ad jutant-general reports on army reductions to 61020 men by Dec 1 and details losses including 35 officers killed or wounded and 1227 enlisted men. He calls for better arms parity with National Guard, annual maneuvers, improved artillery defense against fog, wireless reconnaissance gains, promotes staff expansion seeking lieutenant general ranks for Merritt Brooke Otis, and criticizes canteen abolition while urging singing and regimental marches to bolster discipline.

Washington Henry C. Corbin Corbin Signal Corps National Guard United States Merritt Brooke Otis Gilmore Williston Philippines

Democratic Caucuses in Boston Set for November 14, 1902

Notices announce Boston Democratic caucuses to nominate a Street Commissioner, elect delegates to the city convention for School Committee, nominate aldermen and three candidates per ward for Common Council, and form a Ward Committee for 1908. Schedule lists ward by ward start times on Friday, Nov 14, with additional public meeting dates in wards 14 and 15 on Nov 6 and 10.

Boston Democratic City Committee W. T. A. Fitzgerald Malachi L. Jennings Thomas W. Flood William BE Hickey

Civil action in Boston court concerning contract debt

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk. In Boston Municipal Court a suit to recover 155 dollars plus interest from Mil Dred Aldrich. Executors under Anna M. Clark’s will Thornton H. Simmons and Theodore Conant issue. Defendant not served. Publication ordered in Boston Post weekly for three weeks. Hearing set November 29. Orsino G. Sleeper, Clerk.

Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Suffolk City of Boston Holden County of A. D Stephen G. Steviens Mildred Aldrich Thornton H. Simmons Theodore Boston Post Orsino G. Sleeper

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