Sharp Price Advance Sparks Early Reopening Hope
A sharp rise in security prices recently boosts confidence in an early market reopening. Curb and gutter trading in New York and Boston listed stocks like Douglas Shoe and Arlington Mills show strength, suggesting speculative capital signals. Foreign liquidation remains the main unknown, with Boston banks expected to contribute about two million dollars to a New England cotton pool as New York reopenings loom.
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New Street
New York
Boston
Douglas Shoe
Draper
Arlington Mills
Waltham Watch
Europe
New England
McAdoo
Eungland
New York Cotton Exchange
Metal Exchange Quiet at New York Trading Slows
At the New York Metal Exchange yesterday trading was quiet with activity limited to small five to ten ton lots. Bid prices moved modestly for lead, spelter, aluminum and quicksilver with quotes ranging from 3.65 to 19.00 dollars per unit.
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New York Metal Exchange
Baton Rouge Electric declares preferred dividend No 7
Baton Rouge Electric Company in Baton Rouge Louisiana announces a semi annual dividend of 5.00 per share on its preferred stock. The dividend is payable December 1 1914 to stockholders of record at close of business November 14. Transfer agents are Stone Webster.
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Baton Rouge Electric Company
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Shar Han Yeon
Stone & Webster
Market Notes On Copper Stocks And Minor Price Shifts
Moderate activity led by Verde Extension Butte London Mexican Metals Gigar Stores and First National Copper with small price moves. Notable gains include Butte London to 19c Chief to 70c Jumbo to 77c Nevada Douglas to 46c Profit Sharing to 12c and New Battle to 60c while Verde Extension rises to 11c. Calumet & Corbin falls 6c to 5c. Detailed inductions follow.
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Verde Extension
Butte & London
Gigar
First National Copper
Nevada
Douglas
New Battle
Verde
Calumet & Corbin
Indiana Michigan Bond Issue Offered by Local Bankers
N W Harris & Co. Inc offers 2 800 000 Indian & Michigan Electric Co first mortgage bonds at 90 plus interest. Due August 1 1997 with optional at 108 and interest from August 1 1922. Company serves northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan including South Bend Elkhart Mishawaka Niles Buchanan St Joseph Benton Harbor with over 108 000 people served. Net earnings last year more than twice annual interest charges.
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N. W. Harris & Co. Inc
Indian & Michigan Electric Co
Mortgate
Indiana
Michigan
South Bend
Elkhart
Mishawaka
Niles
Buchanan
Memorial Medallion for Chicago Bankers Honoring Federal Reserve Opening
A bronze bas relief lion bearing President Wilson’s portrait was struck for Chicago bankers to mark Monday’s Federal Reserve banks opening. One hundred fifty medals go to first officers and directors of the new system to honor their trust. Secretary K. R. I. Crampton of the Illinois Brokers’ Association praised the Boston Post for publishing a photo of the medal.
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Wilson
Bankers of
Chicago
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
KR. I. Crampton
Ilinois Brokers’ Association
Boston Post
Boston
Boston to pay 419297 in bond interest next month
Boston will pay 419297 in interest on its bonds due next month with no principal due in December. Quincy bids sought for a 50000 temporary loan due February 12, 1915, with bids due November 17 at noon.
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Boston
Quincy
Company dividends and stock records listed
Essex Company offers semiannual dividend of 3 a share payable December 1 to holders of record November 12. Middle West Utilities reg quarterly 150 on preferred stock payable December 1 to holders of record November 14. New England Fuel Oil Company offers 2 percent or 2 per share. Newmarket Manufacturing Company regular quarterly 1/12 percent payable November 16 to holders of record November 11. Philadelphia Germantown Norris town railroad regular quarterly 1.50 payable December 4 to holders of record November 20. Porto Rican American Tobacco Company scrip dividend of 6 percent payable December 3. Books close November 14 reopen December 4.
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New England Fuel Oil Company
Tampico
Mexico
New England
Boston
Ttoval Dutch-Shell
Essex Company
Middle West Utilities Company
Newmarket Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad
Navy
Porto Rican-American Tobacco Company
Baker Ayling and Co Move to Larger Quarters
Baker Ayling and Co bond dealers have leased the ninth floor of the addition to the State Mutual building and will occupy new offices on Monday. Walter B Phillips of the Boston Stock Exchange will join the firm to handle commission orders on the New York and Boston stock exchanges, supplementing the bond business.
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Baker, Ayling & Co
State Mutual
Walter B. Phillips
Boston Stock Exchange
New York
Boston
Beal Named Deputy Governor of Local Federal Reserve
Thomas P. Beal, president of the Second National Bank and a class A director, has agreed to serve as deputy governor of the local Federal Reserve Bank until a permanent officer is elected.
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Thomas P. Beal
Second National Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
Mr. Beal
London money and treasury bill rates widen on weak bills
London cables report money at 1 to 1 1 4 percent with bills weak at 2 3 4 percent. Treasury bills sit at 3 3 8 percent, Indian six months bills 3 9 16 percent, and one year maturities 3 2 4 percent. New South Wales plans 1 500 000 pounds six months bills. New Brazil scrip valued at 70. Bank discounter pre moratorium bills noted.
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London
Treasury
New South Wales
New Brazil
Bank
Heavy Austro-Hungarian War Loan Planned
Austria-Hungary plans a 200 million dollar war loan with 5 year bonds. Bonds sold at 97.5 percent, effective 6 percent due to allowances.
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Austria-Hungary
Cotton Fund Up to Boston in Effort to Reach Loan Goal
Washington reports strong efforts to complete the 185,000,000 cotton loan fund have yet to succeed. Bankers in Boston and Philadelphia hold the key to raising 96,000,000 in non cotton producing states, with officials hopeful of announcing completion soon after talks between Amory Elliott of Boston, J. G. Wells of Providence, Governor Hamlin of the Federal Reserve and Secretary McAdoo.
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Washington
Boston
Philadelphia
New England
Amory Elliott
J. G. Wells
Providence
Hamlin
Federal Reserve Board
Trade Outlook Mixed as War and Exports Shape Recovery
Dun says trade shows little growth outside exports as major industries remain below normal. Improved business sentiment strengthens with recent developments. Markets repair after crisis, exports rising, money loosening, and federal reserve actions freeing gold. Domestic demand flags while war-related sectors stay active. US failures total 443 vs 99 last year. Canada 79 vs 4% prior.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Federal Reserve Bank
United States
Canada
Vulcan Detinning Company Quarterly Report Summary
Vulcan Detinning Company releases its quarterly report for the period ended September. The document shows figures in the hundreds of thousands with total costs and expenses highlighted. Specific figures appear garbled but indicate revenue, recall expenses, general costs, and a miscellaneous fee.
Narrow Gauge Quarterly Report for Sept 30 1914
The quarterly report of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad Company for the three months ended Sept. 30, 1914, is issued and compares as follows.
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Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad Company
Edison Electric Illuming Company October earnings rise
The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston earned 611,828 in October, up 24,288 from a year earlier reflecting a 3.96 percent gain. Year to date comparisons show increases over 1918 with totals reaching 2,137,848 for the period versus 1,974,896 previously.
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Edison Electric Illuminating Company of
Boston
Ini
Inc
Oss
Cleveland Exchange Reopens After Vote on Nov 23
Members of the Cleveland Stock Exchange voted to reopen for business on November 23. A separate test found a bee capable of pulling a weight 300 times its own body weight.
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Cleveland Exchange
Cleveland Stock Exchange
Call for Stronger Massachusetts Child Labor Laws
Leaders at the Massachusetts child labor conference at Boston University urged better work certificates for children and full time well paid school physicians. Lieutenant-Governor-elect Grafton D. Cushing chaired as speakers including Meyer Bloomfield urged health and vocational continuation schools and individualized health exams to prevent injurious work for weak children. Reforms mirrored in New York were cited as Massachusetts officials discussed replacing half baked bills with tougher measures.
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Massachusetts Child Labor Committee
Boston University
Meyer Bloomfield
Bloomfield
Richard K. Conant
New York
Massachusetts
Nes H. Bigelow
Edwin Mulready
Laura A. C. Hughes
M. B. Safford
United State Immigration Department
Philip Davis
North End
Civic Service House
Cushing
Rank wLeveroni
Charles S. Bradley
Richard Conant
United Irish League Postpones National Convention
Michael J. Ryan national president of the United Irish League of America announced tonight that the national convention set for December 8 in New York has been indefinitely postponed due to the continuation of the European war.
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New York
Michael J. Ryan
United Irish League of America
Bar Gasolene at Fish Pier
Mire Commissioner John O Keefe bans landings of gasolene at the fish pier for power boats deliveries will be from gasolene boats anchored off shore. A fire at Hodges boiler shop in East Boston last night was blamed on a forge near a wooden wall and a statewide investigation of other forges has begun.
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John O'Keefe
Boston
Aviators in Russian trap near Plock rescue repulsed
A Russian cavalry detachment near Plock captured two German aviators Lieutenant Merez and Lieutenant Poldte after an attempted German rescue. The Albatross aircraft bombed Konin Kutno and Plock, forced to land west of Rypin, then surrounded by Russians who repelled the rescue. The aircraft remained undamaged and the aviators were brought to Plock.
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Petrograd
Plock
Warsaw
Merez
Poldte
Konin
Kutno
Rypin
Major General Promotions at War Office Shuffle
President Wilson selected Hugh L. Scott as army chief of staff upon Wotherspoon’s retirement next Monday. Frederick Funston to fill the major-general vacancy at Vera Cruz, with Bliss to lead the mobile army division and Scott to be promoted to major-general after Murray’s retirement. Garrison notes three future brigadier-general vacancies in infantry and coast artillery.
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Navy
Hugh L. Scott
Wilson
United States Army
Wotherspoon
Frederick F. Funston
Vera Cruz
Tasker H. Bliss
Mobile Army Division
Murray
Scott
Garrison
Funston Woud
Carter
Tasker Hl. Bliss
Funston
Promotions to Fill General Hoyle and General Scott Vacancies
Sécland notes retirement of General Hoyle third and General Scott promotion. Vacancies trigger promotions of colonels Henry A. Greene infantry William A. Mann infantry and Frederick S Strong coast artillery to fill the posts.
Worm Candy Poisons Girls In Winthrop Suburb
Helen McNeil and Alice Griffin, four year old daughters of Mrs Jessie Mc Neil and Mr and Mrs Andrew J Griffin, were seriously poisoned in Winthrop when they ate more than five pellets of a patented worm candy found by the children. Medical aid was summoned as their cries drew attention. both remained in critical condition late last night.
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Helen McNeil
Alice Griffin
Jessie McNeil
Shirley Street
Andrew J. Griffin
Winthrop
Taft Brothers Walk Five Miles Between Towns
LENOX Nov 13 Professor William Howard Taft and his brother Henry W Taft of New York walked five miles from Monument Mountain in Stockbridge to Great Barrington this afternoon. A tire on the automobile failed near Williamstown delaying them nearly two hours but Professor Taft said he enjoyed the constitutional and declined a lift offered by a passing motorist.
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Lenox
William Howard Taft
Henry W. Taft
New York
Monument Mountain
Stockbridge
Great Barrington
Williamstown
New Haven
Taft
Empress Alexandra Leaves on Warsaw-bound Trip with Daughters
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna sails from Petrograd with Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana on the Grand railway line toward Grondo, 533 miles southwest of the capital, en route to Warsaw.
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Petrograd
Alexandra Feodorovna
Olga
Tatiana
Grondno
Warsaw
New York to Reopen Cotton Markets Next Week
All three major cotton futures markets plan to open next week after a three month wartime suspension. The New York Cotton Exchange will resume unrestricted trading at 10 am Monday, with New Orleans and Liverpool following soon. Old style January contracts trade until further notice, while new style contracts start.
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Europe
New York Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Liverpool
Liverpool Exchange
Corporation Syndicate Plan
Board of Managers
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Vulcan Detinning Quarterly Report
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