Gold pool begins operation amid large gold shipments
The gold pool started with a $10 million shipment to Ottawa from New York as $5 million more is expected. The move pushed down the exchange rate to 4.96 and may continue as London settlements expire. Bankers expect high demand for London bills before the English moratorium ends on November 4, with profits to be prorated among subscribing banks.
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New York
London
England
Financial notes show Missouri Kansas & Texas earnings dip
Missouri Kansas & Texas reports August gross 2 699 334 down 264 206 and net 691 749 off 69 462. Boston stock exchange rulings loosen order submission. Maine Central August gross 1 066 024 down 21 853. net 365 007 up 60 041. Copper and oil prices move on markets with Standard Oil NY and South Penn Oil showing gains.
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Missouri, Kansas
Texas
Maine Central
Brockton Fair boasts Vanderbilt day amid record crowds
Blue ribbon junior calf winner Roseadela owned by Edmund Butler of Guard Hill Farm Mt Kisco highlighted a bustling Brockton Fair day. Thousands filled gates and grandstands as Alfred and Reggie Vanderbilt shone in multiple horse classes. Governor Walsh planned to attend Governor's day amid fine weather and renewed excitement.
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Brockton Fair
Edmund Butler
Guard Hill Farm
Mt. Kisco
Tates
Boston
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Reggie Vanderbilt
Edward B. Mclean
Washington
Alfred Vanderbilt
William Ziegler Jr
New York
Walter Hanley
Providence
Mr. Ziegler
B. F. Gregory
Vanderbilts
Boston Money Rates and Clearing House Totals Report
Current quotations show broker loans at 6 percent for customer pre closing, 8 percent for new loans, and 7 percent for commercial paper. Yearly changes include silver at 52. said bar. Sub-Treasury and exchange figures list year ago totals and daily net losses amid New York banking activity.
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Boston
Stock Exchange
New York
Sasole Cesigsicak
Treasury
Grain markets show varied wheat and corn prices
Wheat prices for No 2 red around 1.02 dollars, No 3 red near 1.02, and hard winter bids about 1.05. Corn No 2 white around 76 to 72 cents, No 2 yellow about 72, No 3 white and yellow mid 70s, with No 4 bids near 72 cents. Nats quotes list mixed white and standard wheat figures. DEC wheat noted in outside markets.
Boston & Maine Issues Complete Annual Report for 1914 15
The Boston & Maine Company publishes its annual stockholder report for the year ended June 30 detailing freight and passenger revenues, operating costs, deficits or surpluses, and intercompany eliminations. It notes government scrutiny, cash balances, rail additions, and new equipment, with comparisons to prior years. No Hampden railroad mention.
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Boston & Maine
Treasury
Hampden Railroad
Dividend dates announced for several firms and trusts
Commonwealth Edison declares a regular quarterly dividend of 2 percent payable November 2 to shareholders of record October 15. Hood Rubber Company pays 13.4 percent on preferred stock on November 2 to holders of record October 28. Merchants' National Bank offers 2.5 percent quarterly dividend payable October 15 to record October 8. Pittsburg Terminal Warehouse and Transfer Company issues 21.25 cents monthly with books closing October 8. W. D. Quimby & Co. pays 2 percent quarterly on guaranteed stock October 5. Wilbur Theatre Realty Trust declares a regular semi annual dividend of 3 percent to stock holders of record October 1.
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Commonwealth Edison Company
Hood Rubber Company
Merchants’ National Bank
Pittsburg Terminal Warehouse and Transfer Company
W. D. Quimby & Co
Wilbur Theatre Realty Trust
Five Cent Meals Draw Crowd at Mor gan Memorial
About 200 needy men visited the Morgan Memorial on Shawmut Avenue for five and ten cent meals at a temperance bar. The menu offered lamb stew beans and coffee fried eggs and beans frankforts and beans and doughnuts and coffee. Albert Price who runs the temperance bar said the hill plans to stay open all winter and later expand in a new $50 000 building.
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Morgan Memorial
Shawmut Avenue
Boston
Memorial
F. C. Moore
Skilled Labor In Demand In September At Boston Office
September shows slight improvement in skilled labor demand vs August but lags a year earlier. Daily average 69 openings, 50 filled. 150 boys placed in September. Housework girl demand exceeds supply in the women’s department. Clerical and unskilled workers face unemployed numbers while office attendance runs about 2000 daily.
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State Free Employment Office
Boston
Woman’s Department
Smoking Privilege Expanded for Charlestown Prison Inmates
Governor Walsh extends smoking hours for inmates at the Charlestown State prison. Previously allowed after dinner for half an hour and 6 to 7 pm. new order lets prisoners smoke from 7 am to 9 pm on Sundays and holidays, limited to cells with no smoking in the yard or shops.
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Walsh
Young Boston Postmaster Murray Receives Mass Congrats
William F Murray is sworn in as Boston postmaster after a festive ceremony surrounded by flowers and telegrams of good wishes. He indorsed a Republican check for stamps and ordered reviews of streetcar fare reimbursements and carrier routes. He 33, youngest ever to hold the post, shadows his Harvard and Spanish War service with a plan to fair treatment for Boston’s vast postal staff.
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Peter FF. Tague
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Edward E. Moore
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Harvard Law School
Company 10
U. S. Signal Corps
Post
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