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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
12
Readable pieces show addresses in Boston New York Chicago Detroit and Detroit area including 60 Congress Street 120 Broadway 152 Monroe Street and Majestic Building indicating a listing or notice with multiple location references. Further context is unclear.
Assessment No 1 of two cents per share levied by the Ely Consolidated Copper Company on Oct 13 1908 payable to Gideon Snyder in Salt Lake City or Windsor Trust Co New York by Nov 28 1908. Delinquent shares to be sold Jan 11 1909 at 8 PM in Salt Lake City to cover the unpaid assessment plus costs.
The market shows heavy realizing sales with lower priced stocks leading declines. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific fall from recent highs while Amalgamated and Reading slide. Erie and Wells Fargo Express rise on short covering and Harriman speculation. Net changes list several leaders down, while money rates and local call money shift amid volatile trading in New York and Boston.
Advertisement notes buying and selling all stocks in the New York market at five dollars a share margin. Boston stocks selling at fifty dollars or less also at five dollars a share margin. The firm offers best execution in New York Boston and curb stocks via private direct wires.
Boston reports outline the day’s stock and bond price changes and total sales, with a focus on the market's overall movement and daily totals as recorded by the TeloWwing table.
The local curb market reports bids on Doane Street for November 11 with First National, Consolidated Arizona, Raven and Bay State Gas as active tenders. Prices ranged from 83-8 to 73-4 for First National and 11-4 for Bay State Gas, while Raven moved from $1 to 94 cents with Ojibway fading from 15 to 14. Superior and Boston remained near 18 as overall list fluctuated.
The notice lists quarterly and monthly dividend dates and stock record cutoffs for firms including Union Pacific Southern Pacific Adams Express Homestake Mining American Railways Chicago Railways American Express Royal Bank of Scotland New York Honduras Rosario Mining Philadelphia Germantown Norristown Chestnut Hill Grand Rapids Uncle Sam Colorado Sioux National Biscuit American Sugar Refining. Books close or reopen on specified dates, with percentages and payment details.
Charles I. Gourley, long time with Boston and Maine passenger department, is named district passenger agent by C. M. Burt. The move fills the vacancy caused by A. F. P. Messey’s resignation. Gourley becomes chief clerk in the general baggage department.
Anna Bussert, pupil of M. Jean de Reszke, joins the Tremont Theatre production of The Merry Widow to sing the Natalie role. She replaces Virginia Foltz from the Boston engagement and marks her first appearance on the American stage aside from a Victor Herbert Pittsburg orchestra solo tour and a Daimrosch directed tour.
Democratic members of the House Ways and Means committee favor higher duties on barytes while Republican members oppose a protective rate. The hearing covers Schedule A chemicals and finishes with plans to revise the tariff into a maximum and minimum system to align with France, Germany, and Russia.
Walter A. Bailey, aged 13, believed kidnapped by his sister Caroline Bailey on Oct. 21, was found and handed to his father Rufus H. Bailey after an agreement with Frank Mansfield and others. Caroline Bailey faces continued court hearing on kidnapping charges. she is held in Dorchester on $2000 bail.
Theatre listings fill the week with Jillian Russell in Wild Fire at the Hollis and Robert Moleson debuting The Call of the North. Otis Skinner and The Honor of the Family follow, plus The Thief at the Park and Hook of Holland at Tremont. The Merry Widow runs a 12th week at Tremont as Dorothy Vernon and The Liars are planned next. John Craig’s Castle Square offers The Man on the Box, Brown of Harvard, and a Grand Opera House afternoon showing of The Angel of the Trail. Next week’s Shadows of a Great City and vaudeville stars like Walter C. Kelly at Keith's, Sherlock Holmes at Bowdoin Square, Touie Dacre at Howard, and the Blue Ribbon Girls at Palace provide a varied program. The Cambridge circuit features top ballrooms and burlesque at the Columbia, and the Winter Garden opens Monday with new Siafety Theatre interiors under construction at the Hub.
Richard Czerwonky, young violinist praised for his concert last season, gave a Steinert Hall recital amid bad weather. He now focuses on teaching and leading his quartet. Critics note his vigor and ardor but praise his sincere reading, clear tone, and absence of sentimentality, especially in the adagio and final movements.
Kansas City Missouri November Maniel F Barker of Boston extended his lead in the American checker championship series by defeating Jace Drouillard in the third game. The match, played in the Cross opening, left Barker ahead 9 to 2 with 16 games remaining as Drouillard’s chances to catch up diminished.
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