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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1904
Page
8
The day’s stock action showed weakness with lower prices and reduced volume. Amalgamated Copper led gains amid copper market optimism while Copper Range and others showed mixed moves. Isle Royale and several miners dipped as traders weighed crop estimates and bank conditions.
Horatio N. Parker of Cambridge Massachusetts and MIT graduate has been appointed hydrographer of the United States Geological Survey.
The Sears mansion at Commonwealth avenue and Arlington street undergoes renovations for J Pierpont Morgan to entertain during the Protestant Episcopal church convention in Boston. Staff will be tripled, the Boston chef retained, and the house opened for three weeks starting October 5 to host many noted guests.
In Chicago on September 19 liberal profit taking pushed wheat down 11 8 cents as world shipments rise and U S primary receipts grow. Corn fell 1 2 to 5 8, oats down 1 2, provisions rose 21 2 to 10 cents. Large selling and stop orders deepened the drop amid weakness in Minneapolis. Primary receipts reached 1 885 900 bushels.
Royston Georgia September 19 John Ware a Black man was seized from Sheriff and Lynched after fatally shooting C Y Daniel son of George Daniel of Daniels ville. He was captured and while being taken to Carns ville mob overtook officers and hung Ware from a limb with a noose and horse whip. The body was riddled with bullets.
A Wallingford woman claiming to be the widow of a former prominent citizen advertised a monologue in men’s clothing. She was ejected from a local theatre after hundreds of ticket buyers demanded refunds and the proprietor refused entry without payment. The woman, previously Miss Annie Dunn of Girardeau, Mass, had registered as Mrs Clifton J Morse and left town on the midnight train after a second hotel scene.
In New York trading, professionals took profits while bears pressed a further retreat. Rail stocks fell with St Paul off and Reading and New York Central down. industrials showed mixed moves as A C P advanced then eased on illness rumors later cleared. Steel preferred fluctuated before a late rally and the market closed with slight gains from the day’s lows. Total volume 146,720 shares.
Ennis & Stoppani report Chicago grain prices with Sept wheat at 107 1/4 for open and 105 1/2 close, Dec at 100 3/4. They note Liverpool wheat firmness despite Saturday decline, expect possible further decline if heavy receipts continue, and advise May corn purchases around 48 cents for moderate turns as oats price dips affect local trading.
On opening day at the Columbus track grand circuit meet Patchen Match defeated Aerolite and Katherine A in the 2:12 trotting class. Angus Pointer outpaced the 2:24 pace field, while Bedworth Jr was favored to win the 2:07 pace. Pauline G set a heat record before Larrie Ginter bested the mare in the final heats.
Professor Wood of Harvard Medical School challenges the find in the Burns case by declaring the supposed human flesh pieces from a sawdust heap are not human or animal tissue. He also states the supposed floor blood at Bennet Hill schoolhouse is not blood.
The Misses Anna M. and Catherine L. Brown sue Royal Arcanum in Superior Court to recover $3000 alleged death benefit for their father Moses Brown. They claim he was a Rumford Council member and held a policy at his death.
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