Market Review and Outlook Shows Slow Weekward Decline
Market drifted with minor losses across averages as investors weighed steel optimism and Balkan news. Industrial average fell from 113.83 to 113.27 while rails slipped to 101.38 and coppers held at 46.99, amid heavy early volume and a buoyant steel outlook for 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company
Carnegie Steel
W. F E. Corey
A. C. Dinkey
Answers to Inquiries on Missouri Kansas Texas and Other Stocks
The Boston Post financial column answers reader questions on securities. Missouri, Kansas & Texas needs new money and may benefit if properly financed. Mohawk Mining paid a 5 dollar per share dividend with address details for the secretary. California street improvement bonds are semi municipal with tax liens and strong investment traits. United States Smelting preferred stock has paid 7 percent dividends. common stock prospects discussed. Middlebury Marble Company 6 percent 10 year debentures are small and early to judge. Vermont quarrying expands to 4500 cubic feet monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balkans
Balkan
United States
Boston Post
New England
Post
Financial
The
Inquirer
Boston
Mass
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
J. Br, Saco
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railroad Times
Mohawk
Studson
Mohawk Mining
William Street
New York City
California
Portsmouth
N. H
S. Wareham
Mexico
New York
Vermont
Fitchburg Railroad Stock Quotation Question
Fitchburg has 7 million dollars in common stock and 18.86 million in preferred stock outstanding. Preferred shares are listed on the Boston Stock Exchange, common shares are not. The Boston & Maine leases Fitchburg and pays 5 percent annual on preferred and 1 percent on common. Of the common, 14,486 of ten million are in treasury. Banks might quote a private market for the common.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitchburg Railroad
R. W. Plymouth Union
Fitchburg Railroad Company
Boston Stock Exchange
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Fitchburg
Laphams Build New Boston House Amid Family Tensions
Silas Lapham, a self made industrialist, guides a costly Beacon Hill style house project with architect and wife Persis clashing over Rogers partnership. The dispute erupts at the Nantasket site as social ambitions and past wrongs threaten their marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Lapham
Vermont
Boston
Nankeen Square
South End
Lapham
Beacon Hill
Quebec
Beacon Street
What Loan Means to United States
A committee of investors explains the Anglo French loan of 500 million dollars to Great Britain and France. The loan shifts payment timing, fuels American trade, and keeps money in U.S. hands by financing purchases of U.S. goods. It argues the loan strengthens farmers workers and manufacturers while expanding commercial credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
France
America
England
Indebtedness low for loan says signers trust safety
The signatories declare the loan financially safe and promptly repayable. They believe every American who participates will aid the nation's commercial prosperity. Signers include Daniel Catlin, Joseph H. Choate, Charles W. Eliot, Howard Elliott, Fairfax Harrison, Henry L. Higginson, James J. Hill, H. B. Ledyard, Robert T. Lincoln, Franklin D. Locke, Seth Low, 4. P. Ripley, Theodore N. Vail, Henry Walters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Catlin
St. Louis
Joseph H. Choate
New York
Charles W. Eliot
Cambridge
Mass
Howard Elliott
Boston
Fairfax Harrison
Washington, D. C
Henry L. Higginson
James J. Hill
St. Paul
Minn
H. B. Ledyard
Detroit
Mich
Robert T. Lincoln
Franklin D. Locke
Buffalo
N. Y
Seth Low
P. Ripley
Chicago, Ill
Theodore N. Vail
Lyndonville, Vt
Henry Walters
Baltimore
Also Mentioned on This Page
Saint Cloud Public Service Coinneso
Philadelphia
Springfield
Chicago
Hartford
Wilkes Barre
Elmira
Missouri, Kansas
Texas
U. S
Middlebury Marble Bonds
Middlebury Marble Company
W. A. Woonsocket
R. I
R. R
William Dean Howells
Laphams
Persis
Bartley Hubbard
Mr. Rogers
Milldam
Silas
Rogers
W. D. Howells
Arangement
Houghton, Mifflin Co
Tomorrow’s Post
Europe
the United Kingdom OF Great Britain and Ireland
French Republic
United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland
New York Stock Exchange
J. P. Morgan & Co
Fourth Atlantic National Bank
Second National Bank
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co
Commonwealth Trust Co
New England Trust Co
Adams & Co
Baker Ayling & Co
Blake Bros. & Co
Blodget & Co
Wm. P. Bonbright & Co., Inc
Bond & Goodwin
Boston Brown Brothers & Co
Curtis & Sanger
R. L. Day & Co
Estabrook & Co
Halsey & Co., Inc
N. W. Harris & Co., Inc
Hayden, Stone & Co
Hornblower & Weeks
Jackson & Curtis Kidder, Peabody & Co
Lee, Higginson & Co
A. B. Leach & Co
Merrill, Oldham & Co
F. S. Moseley & Co. Millett, Roe & Hagen
Moers & Cabot Paine, Webber & Co
Parkinson & Burr
Wm. A. Read & Co
E. H. Rollins & Sons
Stone & Webster
Tucker, Anthony & Co
Townsend, Anthony & Tyson
Spencer Trask & Co
H. C. Wainwright & Co
White, Weld & Co
Common & Preferred
Slattery & Co
Invetment Securities
Exchange Place
1St National
Temple H. Fay & CO
State Street
Richard J. Burton & CO
Scollay
Court Street
First National
Trinity
Champion
Island Creek Coal Company
F. W. Batchelder
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