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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 23, 1908

Page

10

Market Plunge Follows Heavy Liquidation Across Exchanges

Not since last autumn has the market shown such nervous, excited tone as heavy liquidation drove prices down across issues. Reading, Amalgamated, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and others fell from ranges, with notable losses in Calumet & Hecla and Chicago & Eastern Illinois. money rates eased in New York and Boston while copper and steel shares hit new lows for the movement.

New York Boston Reading Amalgamated Soo Boston l Chicago Illinois Arizona Commercial Calumet & Hecla State Street London Union Pacific Southern Pacific Broadway Republican Party Great Northern Harriman Erie St. Paul Northern National Northern Pacific Butte North Butte Butte Coalition Lake Arizona Copper Range Centennial Mohawk Massachusetts Osceola United Fruit Amalgamated Copper Amer Car & Foundry Amer Cotton Oil Amer Hide & L Amer Ice Securities Aiee Oemaelt & Refining Sugar “Refining Amer Tobacco Amer Woolen Anaconda Mining Co Atchison Ewe Enee Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Kansas City Southern Louisville Ontario & Western Norfolk & Western North American Pacific Mail Pennsylvania Pitts, CC & SL Reer Garget Steel Seers Sig Do P Visiand CO Aca Diemfield '$ & I Eee Pacific O Pan Ginttiana Utah Co Een Virginia Ore ” Chemical We Wabash Western Union Seurenee Wisconsin Central

New York Stock Floor Offers Cash and Margin Trades

Brokers advertise buying and selling all active New York stocks on five dollar margins. They promise cash for curb trades and fastest execution over direct wires in New York markets.

New York Boston

Boston Stock and Bond Market Prices and Totals for the Day

The report records daily stock and bond price movements in New York curb markets with numerous issues listed, showing bid prices and percent changes. Included are U S Steel, Canadian and Atlantic lines, utilities, railroads, and foreign bonds, along with Chicago grain quotations for wheat corn and oats.

Bay State and copper prices lead Boston curb market

On Sept 22 at Exchange Place Boston the curb market showed Bay State at 99 cents and Dominion Copper at 80 cents while Yukon traded at 4 3 8, First National Copper at 5 3 4 and Davis Daly at 13 4. Orphan Copper stayed near 7 3 8 as overall curb prices dipped fractionally with market-wide trends. Details of fluctuations follow.

Exchange Place Bay State Dominion Yukon First National Davis Daly Orphan Acme Consolidated Nevada Amer Rotary Bay State Gas Boston British Columbia Cobalt Central Arizona Gumberland Bly Davis-Daly Tetuia Eureka Sae Goldfield Boston Nat Copper Goldfield Consol Troux Eevee Greene Helvetia Saeoe Tree Howell&Little Laramie Caspers &Eihie Majestic McKinley Utah Nipissing No Butte Palmer Mt Ovis West Devel Sup & Boston Sup & Pitts Union Mines

Dividends Declared by Various Companies

Dividend notices list Great Lakes Towing Company 1 percent preferred Oct 1 Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad 6 percent semiannual Oct 1 Garfield National Bank New York 8 percent quarterly Sept 30 Seat Northern Railway quarterly 1 percent Nov American Agricultural Chemical Company 3 percent semiannual Oct 15 North Star Mines Company quarterly 2 percent Sept 30

Great Lakes Towing Company Chicago Savings Bank & Trust Company Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad Company Garfield National Bank New York Seat Northern Railway Company American Agricultural Chemical Company North Star Mines Company

Lenox School Site Battle Over Mrs Jesup Gift

The Lenox dispute over a new school site sharpens as Mrs. Morris K. Jesup buys the Depot street site for 10000 dollars and offers to donate it on condition the Servin estate is abandoned and that a board selects plans to exclude the Donahue firm.

Lenox Morris K. Jesup Main Street Servin J. C. Greenleaf Donahue & Co Springfield Greenleaf W. Grace Donohue John B. Parsons New York Jesup Richard A. Stanley Donahue

Fitchburg Railroad Annual Report for Year Ended June 30

The Fitchburg railroad reports 1907 08 receipts totaling 4 059 080 with increases over 1906 07 and cites B M rental refinements and redemptions. Disbursements total 4 059 080 including bonds due May 1 1908 interest debt dividend rent of roads and staff costs. President Moses Williams notes due to Boston and Maine for unfunded debt from 1900 and that treasury stock was not sold. The B M outlay for permanent improvements totals 483 176 and Conway Street Railway purchases 92 000 unreimbursed.

Po & L Moses Williams Boston & Maine Railroad Treasury Conway Electric Street Railway Company

Rev Guth Offered Pacific University Presidency

The Reverend William W. Guth pastor of Epworth Methodist Church Cambridge has been offered the presidency of the University of the Pacific and will accept. He has led Epworth Church for five years and studied in Halle Berlin Leland Stanford and Boston universities.

W. W. Guth Pacific University William W. Guth Epworth Methodist Church of Cambridge University of the Pacific Epworth Church Halle Berlin Leland Stanford Boston

Gossip of the Gridirons Opens Season Before Norwich and Carlisle

Exeter faces Norwich University to start the campaign while Carlisle hosts Lebanon in the second game. Yale coaches seek Kilpatrick progress as Harvard trims its squad. Keogh shines at Amherst and West Point relies on internal coaching with Joe Beacham aiding. Navy and Army centers Slingluff and Philoon headline line play as Dashiel adds Paige to the squad.

Exeter Norwich University Indians Carlisle Lebanon Yale Kilpatrick Haughton Harvard Cornell Keogh Ambherst Hebron Academy West Point Joe Beacham Army Wright Bates Williston Springfield Annapolis Philoon Slingluff Navy Midshipmen Paul Dashiel Ray Paige Jack Cates Naval Academy

Wife of Maine Town Treasurer Gets Divorce

Chief Justice Emery of the York county Divorce Court in Sanford Maine grants an absolute decree to Kate M Kilhern of St Louis against Arthur T Kilhern town treasurer of West Newfield on grounds of grass and confirmed habits of intoxication Carrie B H Elliott of Keezer Falls also wins an absolute decree from her husband Coote Elliot superintendent of the Keezer Falls Wooden Company on grounds of desertion

Sanford, Mo Emery York County Divorce Court Kate M. Kilhern St. Louis Arthur T. Kilhern West Newfield Carrie BH. Elliott Keezer Falls Coote Elliot

Boston Girl Weds Buffalo Man at Cathedral Ceremony

Miss Alice J. Thorpe of Boston married William J. Hulse of Buffalo yesterday in Buffalo. Friends from Boston attended the ceremony at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Hulse works with a New York Central agency in Buffalo.

Alice J. Thorpe Boston William J. Hulse Buffalo Cathedral of the Holy Cross Hulse New York Central

Ferry Division Suspends Two Employees in East Boston Case

Superintendent Emerson suspended Frank P. Tully a blacksmith and Michael Driscoll an electrician in the ferry division on recommendations from Deputy Superintendents Pratt Foss and Wade who are probing the East Boston ferries. John J. McLaughlin an electrician and J F Waters an inspector of horses in the paving division were also dropped.

Emerson Frank P. Tully Michael Driscoll Street Department Pratt Foss and Wade Boston John J. McLaughlin J. F. Waters

Worcester Girl Almost Strangled in Theater

A Worcester girl identified as Agnes Burrill attempted suicide in the theatre on Pleasant Street by choking herself with a wide ribbon in the retiring room. Melvin Carron, an usher, intervened to save her.

Worcester Pleasant Street Melvin Carron Agnes Burrill

Symphony Auction Sale Dates For Sea Son Tickets

Public rehearsals and concerts at Symphony Hall will be held on September 28 29 and October 1 2 starting at 10 o clock each day. Sale of season tickets will occur during these sessions with details announced at the hall.

Symphony Hall

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