Boston Exchange May Reopen Before New York
Prominent brokers say Boston may reopen trading before New York as a broader list of listed and unlisted stocks is allowed. Banks back relaxation on low priced issues and unlisted securities to stabilize collateral and ease price readjustments while brokers push for on floor market making to speed a return to normal operations.
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U. S
Boston
New York
Boston Exchange
New York Exchange
Thoston Exchange
The
Post
Boston Stock Exchange Committee
Committee of Five
Wheat and corn price quotes from cash markets
Wheat No 2 red priced at 1.025 dollars with 1.04 percent move. No 2 hard winter at 1.02 dollars with 1.04 percent. Corn No 2 yellow 724 dollars per bushel, No 3 white Tic, No 3 yellow 72c, No 4 white 72c. Oats figures show No 2 white around 45 to 46 percent and other standard quotes near 4.00.
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Chicago
Jan Tseeas
Nor Oe
Money Markets and Clearing House Figures October 2
Current Boston quotations show loans and rates for brokers and customers with 6 to 8 percent ranges, commercial paper at 7 percent, and year money from 6 percent up. Clearing house exchanges list totals for Boston and New York, with year ago figures and sub treasury balances and losses.
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Boston
Stock Exchange
New York
Bers A Meritan Solars
HAWK
Treasury
Cis
Trade review notes war effects on confidence and exports
R G Dun & Co reports continued war induced abnormal business conditions with cautious retrenchment. Confidence grows modestly as financial markets improve slowly and partial opening of exchanges nears. Grain exports uplift the West and aid international trade, while iron steel curtailment affects domestic activity. Dry goods slow due to cotton and finance, mills show promise as Spring orders flow in. Canada failures total 60, up from 32.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
London
West
South
I Coal
New England
United States
Canada
Cotton Exchange Suspends Sessions In Special Meeting
The New York Cotton Exchange board ordered the liquidating committee to pause all sessions until further notice. Liquidation has been slow and the move signals possible steps to hasten the process. Members wishing to liquidate October contracts may submit propositions to the committee chairman through the superintendent.
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New York Cotton Exchange
Pierce Oil Bond Syndicate Dissolved
The syndicate formed last June to underwrite 10 million in 6 percent convertine gold debenture bonds of the Pierce Oil Company is dissolved by limitation. Proceeds were to retire 5,109,000 one year gold notes maturing July. No public offering has been made though investment houses privately placed much of the issue. Syndicate led by Ladenburg Thalman & Co and Hayden Stone & Co with foreign bankers support.
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Pierce Oil Company
Ladenburg, Thaliman & Co
Hayden, Stone & Co
Foreign market report notes steady discounts and brisk foreign bills
London value shows discounts steady with few bills offered and business around 31 4 percent while nominal rates reach 33 8 to 1 2 percent. Foreign bills brisk with cable transfers to Paris and Holland in demand. Public securities quiet with Americans easy. Amalgamated, Canadian Pacific, United States Steel on shares. Argentine rails easy.
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Londonvalue
Paris
Holland
Amalgamated
Canadian Pacific
United States Steel
Fresh groundfish prices stay high amid scarce supply
Groundfish prices remained elevated despite a 21-4 cent fall in steak cod. Haddock 71-2, steak cod 123-4, market cod 71-4, steak pollock 63-4, steak cask 41-8, large hake 51-2, medium hake 3, swordfish 15. The Thelma brought 5 000 small mackerel yesterday. Advance landed 56 swordfish. Jorgina 2 000 cask. Surf 1 000 and Ripple 800 sales, Surf 5 000 butterfish. Scroo arrivals Ripple 13 000, Surf 18 000. A large scallop fleet sails from the cape. season opens Thursday. Various ships due, Balto and Bra Kar arrived. Westerndyk, Ubbergen, Fridland, Canadia, Canton, New Sweden slated. Eastern service to New York ends for winter. Balto unloads 1,000 tons locally. Old Colony sale denied. Norwegian leaves for port with cargo. Hambleton Range heads to Montreal for grain and flour. Perkins arrives from Newport.
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Nibs
Surf
Ripple
Cape
Balto
Bra Kar
Westerdyk
Rotterdam
Ubbergen
London
Fridland
Canadia
Canton
New Sweden
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Here
New York
Bunker Hill
Boston
Massachusetts
Brown's Wharf
Old Colony
Pacific Navigation Company
East Boston
Portland
Shipping News Arrives and Sails From Various Ports
Shipping notices list numerous torpedo boats and steamers sailing to and from American and Canadian ports. It notes vessels like Perkins Hatch Soderry Fitch Newport and many others bound for Bar Harbor Philadelphia Gloucester Baltimore and more with barges towed and consignments listed.
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Laited States
Perkins
Hatchsoderry
Fitch
Newport
Balte
N. S
Mamie Saunders
Mayo
South Amboy
Bar Harbor
Marjorie A. Spencer
Richards
Philadelphia
Carrie
Yate
Ward
Eatonville
G. HE. Perry
Bro
McDonough
St. John
N. B
Catawaiutesk
Kelloch
Rockport
Luln W. Epps
Fullerton
Elsworth
Edward L
United States
Lebanon
Bassam
Teneriffe
Las Palmas
West Coast of Africa
Stigatad
Nor T
Sydney
C. B
Wambleton Range
Montreal
CC. B
Prince George
Yarmouth
Governor Cobb
Portland
Eastport
Everett
Suffolk
Norfolk
Manchioneal
Baltimore
Santa Isabel
Bunker Hill
H. M. Whitney
New York
Dorchester
Newport News
Fureka
Newburyport
Lizzie Lane
Stockton Springs
Marie Saunders
Daniel Batley
Stonington
K. B. Harawick
Plympton
Mary Langdon
Herman F. Kimball
Rock
Salem
Clark's Point
Savage
Portsmouth
Standard
O. Co
Nod
Portamouth
U. S. Opinion Favors Allies as Eliot Explains
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, writes from Asticon Maine to the New York Times outlining why American public opinion leans to the Allies. He argues Americans admire German unification and progress but oppose Prussian methods, secrecy, and aggression, urging constitutional government and peaceful progress over militarism.
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Charles W. Eliot
Harvard College
New York Times
Asticon
Eliot
United States
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Czar
Kaiser
Reichstag
Europe
Senate
Salem High Selects Harry McDevitt as Coach
Salem High names Harry McDevitt as football coach after settling the coaching decision. With limited veterans on the squad, the Witch City eleven aims for a stronger season under new leadership.
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Salem High
Harry McDevitt
Witch City Eleven
Germany to Take Belgium in War Strategy View
Professor T N Carver of Harvard argues Germany seeks Belgium and Antwerp to dominate Europe and world trade. He reasons Berlin calculatedly abandoned Paris, aims to seize Antwerp, control rail routes from Antwerp to Germany, and Blegian territory to encircle Holland and threaten Suez via water routes, challenging Allied positions.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Germany
Fastern
Teutonics
Holland
Europe
Asia Minor
Persian Gulf
England
Suez
Gibraltar
Walker Attitude Outlined on Prohibition and Rail Policy
Progressive Governor hopeful Joseph Walker released his positions: supports nation wide prohibition and favors state ownership of the Boston and Maine majority stock. He opposes repealing the New Haven string bill and argues the governor should appoint the majority stock board with minority stockholders and employees represented.
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Joseph Walker
Boston & Maine Railroad
Commonwealth
Boston & Maine
New Haven Road
New England
Massachusetts
Germany’s Fronts and The New Belgian Frontier
Sincerely T N Carver argues that Germany might defend its fortified borders including the Belgian frontier, and plausibly hold against the Allies, though only fate will tell if these plans succeed. The letter, dated October 1, 1914, from Cambridge Massachusetts, comments on German military strategy and prospects.
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Germany
Belgium
T. N. Carver
Cambridge
Mass
Death Notice Anna A Dowd in South Boston
In South Boston on Oct 2 at 352 East Seventh Street Anna A Dowd died, daughter of the late Patrick and Ann Dowd nee Monney. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
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Boston
East Seventh St
Anna A
Patrick
Ann Dowd
Monney
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Contoocook Mills Report
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Commissioner of Corporations
Coil
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Shawmut
First
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Close
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St Louis
Acco
Kansas City
Toledo
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Money Markets
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Cotton Exchange
Pierce Oil Bond Syndicate
Financial News Notes
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Maine Central Railroad Company
Rangeley Lakes and Megantic
Boston & Worcester
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Pacific Telephone
San Francisco Stock Exchange
Pacific Gas & Electric
Spring Valley Water
Kimball
American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company
Joplin
Maryland
Butte and Superior
Shipping News
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Cuba
Spain
Mexico
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Alsace-Lorraine
North Sea
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Austria- Hungary
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East
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Harvard University Department of Economics
Aisne
von Kluck
Walker
Prohibition
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Carter DeHaven
Flir Thrasher
Joe Welch
MR. and
Mrs
Vernon Castle
Janet Beecher
Tully Marshall
Ralph Delmore
Charles Richman
Orrin Johnson
Elaine Hammerstein
Hollis Sir
Globe
John Mason
Cort
John Cort
Oliver Morosco
Peg O
Hartley Manners
Loew
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Keltons
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India
Pickford
Castle SQ
CRAIG
Arizona
Grand Opera House
Howard
Dave M
High Rollers
KYRA
Matinee
Herman Lieb
Willard Simms & Co
Fires and Sword
Hestra
Boylston
ARION
Tremont Theatre
Ggmks Newsc Mi
Plymouth
Henry W. Savage
Oxford
Cohan and Harris
Hemas
Clayton Baisman
Ziegfeld
Boston Theatre
Wilton Lackaye
Wis
Leon Pae - Shubert
Stella Mayhew & CO
N.Y.V
Ecoaelar
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Theatre de Luxe
Estey Organ
Phen
Scollay Olympia
Olympia Stock CO
Walter, Fowler & Barrett
Waldron’s
Watson Sisters Burlesquers
Loews St James
Rowe’s Wharf
Pemberton
Nantasket
cSundays
King Philip
Edw. W. Dixon
RED Sox
New York Fenway Park
Huntington Ave
Moore
Tremont Temple
Gabrielle D’annunzio
Cabiria
ODD Fellows
HAL
Oo Ee Oreshestra Dbing
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Tremont St
Blackwell
Uuntington Ave
Wilbur
Hodge
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