Day of Liquidation Dominates Sept Market Movements
On Friday evening September 13 1901 serious McKinley relapse drags down stocks with copper shares leading the fall. Amalgamated plunges over 6 percent to 105 as Calumet and Hecla Quincy Tamarack and other copper issues slide. The report notes weak closes and widespread selling while investors hear unsettled rumors about Isle Royale and United Fruit amid a cautious market mood.
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London
New York
Amalgamated
Calumet & Hecla
Quincy
Tamarack
Adventure
Baltic
Atlantic
Bingham
Copper Range
Dominion Coal
Franklin
Mass
Mohawk
Michigan
Isle Royale
Trinity
Dreamer
Bucksport
Lawson, Arnold & Co
Boston
Telegraph
Thomas W. Lawson
Federal Street
Congress Street
Boston Belting Company
Horace J. Stevens
Lake Superior
Isle Royele Rock
Winona
Stevens
Ishpeming
State Street
Standard Oil
Sears
Old Dominion
N. G
O. D
United Fruit
Market quotes show Sededna bid lower and bond asks
In Boston on September day traders note Sededna at the bottom of the bids while the lowest asks appear for bonds. The scene captures a cautious trading mood as investors weigh securities and yields.
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Boston
Sept
Dictionary sales pitch ends with a cat
A New York Times cartoon caption shows a book agent offering a new dictionary to a man with no children, only a cat. The agent quips that the dictionary could be used to throw at the cat, implying humorous futility of sales pitch and domestic oddity.
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New York Times
Trade conditions steady as growth resumes after crisis
G Toleose New York dispatch reports R G Dun & Co weekly trade review noting an assassin's bullet halted progress and postponed orders, then better news and renewed activity. Transportation profits rise, mills operate, leather prices up, dry goods active, Fall River print cloth gains, and cotton lines move higher. Wheat yield expectations persist as exports rise and weekly failures edge up in US and Canada.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
New England
Fall River
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Canada
Bradstreet's Review Sees Trade Steady Despite Buffalo News
Bradstreet's notes speculative markets paused after Buffalo news but overall trade remains strong. Bank clearings exceed last week by about one third. August rail gains set records and September earnings rise. Steel strike wanes, crops vary, but Western and Southern regions boost shipments. staples firm, iron and steel active, wheat shipments abroad shift stocks Europe up and down. World stock on Sept 1 stands at 124,402,000 bushels, down from last year but up from 1899. weekly business failures total 182 versus 169 prior week.
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New York
Bradstreet
Buffalo
Europe
Light grain receipts at port amid car shortage woes
The week brings poor cereal totals at the port from the West with only 87,064 bushels of wheat and smaller corn and oat shipments slated for foreign ports. Total grain receipts reach 444,787 bushels, while ships like the Ivernia and Saxon King will carry thousands more, leaving hope for improved shipments later.
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Ivernia
Eczema relief ad promises painless cure for children
A vintage ad touts Dean's Ointment as a cure for eczema and other skin diseases. The copy claims it cannot harm and is available at any drug store for 50 cents.
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Dean
Most Held In $1000 Bail For Examination In Most Case
New York magistrate Olmstead held anarchist Johann Most on $1000 bond for examination next Monday after he delivered a statement from Freheit denouncing despots and praising violent acts as defence. The courtroom was sparsely attended as police disrupted potential sympathizers.
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New York
Johann Most
Olmstead
Centre Street Court
McKinley
Most
Fretheit
cKinley
Vast Atlantic Fleet Crowds Boston Harbor Coal Trade Boom
A bustling harbor reports arriving from Africa and Java with palm oil sugar and 90 parrots in a John Paul cargo. The Vienna carries 6600 tons of grain as Cunard liners and other ships shift through the crowded stream near Jeffries Point and Bird Island flats.
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Africa
Robert Everett
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Henry Lippitt
Fiske
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Axim
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Hatasu
Nash, Spaulding & Co
McDougall
Frank Moran
Boston
Duncan Nickerson
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Philadelphia
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London
Vesta
Joseph Kemp
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Trilby
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Charles River
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Commonwealth of the Dominion Line
Europe
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Bronson
Delaware
Southern and Western Coal and Railroad
Lynn
George W. Wells
Eleanor A. Percy
Curran & Burton
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Paasengéram
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Guoandér Ivernia
Tuga
Comets as Harbingers of Assassinations
The article links celestial events to assassinations from Lincoln to McKinley, noting Encke and other comets appearing near those dates. It discusses sunspots, weather links, and a historical view of comets signaling violence, including the 1901 McKinley attempt and prior planetary alignments.
Garfield's Son recollects Garfield tragedy in Boston lawyer life
Irvin McDowell Garfield, son of the late President, now a Boston lawyer at 31 State Street, recalls his father’s shooting and heroic death struggle from when he was 10. He declines to discuss McKinley’s shooting, saying he cannot speak on the subject. Garfield’s memory centers on family, resilience, and the perils of public life.
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Irvin McDowell Garfield
Boston
State Street
Garfield
McKinley
Guiteau
Death Penalty for Assault on a President
Washington D C Sept 13 Messrs Botkins and Bynum members of the commission to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws have drafted a bill to make assault on the President a felony punishable by death when the act aims to obstruct government operations. The move seeks to extend federal court jurisdiction in such cases.
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Washington, D. C
Messrs. Botkins and
Bynum
United States
Probate court cites for accounts in Baird estate and name change
In Suffolk Massachusetts probate court notices concerning the estate of George Baird of Boston require appearance September 25, 1901, to show cause why Howard A. Studley’s seventh to ninth trust accounts should not be allowed and to serve the citation publicly. A separate notice petitions change of name for Philip B. Cohen to Ilip B. Phillips with appearance September 26, 1901.
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Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Suffolk
George Baird
Boston
Howard A. Studley
Amd
Boton Post
John . McKim, Mire
Elijah George
Commonwealth OF Massachuse Suffolk
Pralip B. Cohen
Ilip B. Phillips
Boston Post
Roston
Jenet
Sal Rt
John W. McKim
Mlajah George
Probate Notices From Suffolk Massachusetts
Probate notices announce Emily A. Banchor’s estate with heirs named and executors Waters and Somerville cited to appear Sept 25 1901 in Boston Probate Court to show cause for letters testamentary. Public notices run three weeks in Boston Post. Also name Morris Horovitz name change petition to Morris Aparatz heard Sept 26 1901 with public notice in Beeton Post.
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Suffolk
Probste Court
Emily A. Banchor
Waters
Fon
Charles Somerville
Middlesex
Boston
Boston Post
Lea
John W. McKim
Ben
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