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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1914
Page
14
The Boston Post outlines a weekly column answering reader inquiries on listed and unlisted stocks and bonds of New England industrials utilities banks and mills. It invites questions to the Financial Editor with full name and address and notes moderation and accuracy caveats.
Analysis notes copper stocks likely to trade lower than July 30 prices if the war persists, given reduced demand and 60 percent production. It cites Amalgamated and Anaconda potential dividend cuts, but argues intrinsic value and earnings power may rebound if war ends. Also mentions York Manufacturing Company of Saco Maine with limited official data and around 78 to 83 price, $2 semiannual dividend, and weak balance sheet signals.
Readers ask about 6 percent New York City notes and long-term bonds. The reply notes current yields reflect panic pricing and that high-rate long bonds are unlikely. short notes will tide issuers over. War hurts steel exports and domestic demand. U S Steel may post a deficit this year, with dividend cuts possible, while US steel aims to expand foreign markets.
A vivid sketch shows Scottish Highlanders clinging to stirrups of Scotch Grays as they dash into battle at St. Quentin. The illustration, produced for the Illustrated London News and the Boston Post by R. Caton Woodville, follows his acclaimed Mons artillery work.
A pocket conversation guide found in a wounded German officer’s notebook in a French hospital suggests a plan to exploit Paris after invasion. Translated phrases request food and drink and end with questions on locating the opera and Moulin Rouge, indicating intent to blend into the city.
More than 800 German wounded arrived in Bordeaux late tonight and were moved by motor ambulances to the Vaintiailles barracks. A German prisoner said war is terrible and that many Germans do not support it, detailing forced marches and the hardship endured.
A Bordeaux correspondent reports French 71 millimetre bombardment injuries of Germans. He describes a Saxon boy in a cot reading Die Gartenlaube amid French wounded and notes the boy’s concern about his condition.
A resting French trooper recounts being rescued by two German soldiers after faking death. They bandaged his wounds and helped him flee a trench, then a French hussar ferried him on horseback for about 12 hours. He laughs at the absurdity and says he is nearly well and ready to return to the front.
A German offensive entry describes a French private wounded near Noyon. He recalls firing until his rifle burned, seeing his friend fall, and feeling a sharp sting in his arm as he collapsed with his comrade dead beside him.
Reports in Brussels center on the Kaiser visit amid war news. A wounded high ranking officer was brought to a hotel turned hospital, masked and attended only by German doctors, with English and Belgian staff removed. The officer died. his identity was not disclosed.
Times notes that raids in northern Belgium, unexplained by large week battles, were tied to 1200 Uhlans sent in small groups to find British landings. They were ordered to advance at all costs with Iron Cross rewards for reliable reports, and the correspondent doubts any will return.
Police surround a store after a disarmed break in. Three men identified as John Snyder, Joseph Gordon, and Harry Davis attempted a clean getaway with gloves and nitro paraphernalia. Officers from Boston Lynn New York Chicago plan cross checks to confirm identities and connections to similar crimes. The film shows $600 in the safe and $24.96 on the prisoners.
At 2 30 yesterday morning on Chel sea street and Drake place East Boston an unknown man attacked John Lina 50 Chelsea street Louis Ricchini 28 and Louis Ricci 44 Drake place with a knife. Lina suffered a back stab wound and was treated at East Boston Relief Hospital. Ricchini and Ricci were lightly injured with back and hip slashes respectively.
The Leyland liner Bohemian with 120 passengers and a large cargo from Liverpool was due yesterday morning. It has not been heard from and though expected to arrive today no details are known.
A Paris dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph reports an American army officer who witnessed four days of combat along the Rebais Champenoise line. He estimates German losses at about 20,000, many fallen to French bayonet charges executed in coordinated attacks.
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