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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1912
Page
14
The week showed a steady market with rails under slight pressure and industrials nudging higher while overall averages hold near April highs. Analysts cite broad investor participation, shifting from old favorites to new issues, and robust rail earnings and a strong crop outlook supporting continued prosperity.
A Mining and Engineering World survey shows 135 mining companies paid dividends totaling 65,900,543 in the first nine months of 1912, up from 1911 and 1910 figures. Copper, gold silver lead zinc, and metallurgical groups contributed large sums, with Canadian and Mexican firms adding substantial totals since incorporation. The report includes a table detailing September payments per share.
Redmond & Co offers first mortgage 56 percent gold bonds of Wheeling Traction Co at 98 12 and interest yielding 6.12 percent. Bonds secured by closed first mortgage on current and future property. Net earnings for past two years exceed fixed charges, $370 261 after taxes for year ended December 31 1911. Subscriptions handled in Boston by I Copley local representative of Redmond & Co.
Associated Merchants first preferred and second preferred notes listed. H B Claflin Company common and preferred, Corn Products preferred and common, Shawinigan and Partners, Virginia Railway and Power Company dividends payable. Joliet and Chicago, Swift and Company, Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. Meetings include New Haven Iron and Steel, Norfolk Southern.
Mrs Woodhull Martin offers a trophy and 6000 dollars for the first transatlantic flight. Through the Women’s Aerial League of Great Britain any national may enter from Europe or Africa with any aircraft, landing anywhere in the new world.
The State actuary of savings bank life insurance announces reduced rates for straight life and 20 payment life policies for $500 effective November 1 1912. The retroactive changes apply to all premiums after Nov 1 including existing policies. Reduction varies by age with a 50 year old saving policy seeing 1.88 reduction on straight life and 0.96 on 20 payment life.
Czar Nicholas at Tsarskoye Selo watches daughters play tennis when his adjutant Captain Orloff strikes the czar in the back. The czar, surprised, quips about Golovin being hit, then smiles at the moment.
Thousands visited the new bear dens at Elin Park with crowds forming from three bus lines. Spectators surrounded the dens from morning until night, crowd control by police proved smooth, and visitors diverted to see the bird cage where most birds had been moved to winter quarters.
Mrs Barnard Russak of Adjar India spoke to the Theosophical Society on life after death and reincarnation. She described aura photography and argued death is the shedding of the physical body while the higher bodies persist. She asserted the other world is matter at a higher vibration and Christ will return in his physical presence.
Samuel D. Felker Democratic candidate for governor gains momentum as his campaign opens headquarters in Rochester. The Dartmouth and Boston University Law School graduate and practical farmer is set to speak in Derry Thursday and Rollinsford Friday. The Plymouth fair crowd cheered his demand for a state board of agriculture to serve farmers.
Miss Tacy, 21, admitted kidnapping Louis, a Boston child, claiming the boy was her son. Police say she took him from Dana street and shopped for clothes with him before his parents pressed kidnapping charges. Authorities note she blamed drinking and love for the act.
Mrs Frances Ledowski a 33 year old widow from 1319 Fifth avenue Milwaukee endured a needle’s travel through her left wrist up the arm across the shoulder to the right hand over more than a year of intermittent pain. An Emergency Hospital operation removed the long needle.
Mrs Maria Steele age 78 of Duluth Minn visiting Logan Avenue residents takes a 24 mile motorcycle ride reports she would like to repeat the distance. She has long enjoyed cycling and says outdoor exercise benefits health and every woman could enjoy motorcycling with proper care.
The Boston Post filed its ownership statement listing Editor Edwin A Grazier Managing Editor B Grozier Business Manager W A Grozier Publisher M Grozier and stockholders owning 1 percent or more. Notable names include Hawin A Grozier 4098.9 shares 259 Washington St Boston Mrs J B Grozier 76 Denver Colo W A Grozier 66 Chelsea St East Boston J J McDevitt 66 42 Chelsea St East Boston Mrs Frances Taylor 91 Everett Ave Boston and Est William Taylor 50 Everett Ave Boston.
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