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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1919
Page
27
The magazine previews the adventures and fees of the entertaining couple Helen and Warren abroad. Next Sunday they dine in an ancient tavern and Helen wits a point. Exclusive in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. Chicago grain market.
Financial editor's notes explore mining value and potential crossovers in U S Smelting versus American Smelting. The piece discusses market dynamics, bear and bargain hunter activity, banking pool support, and Steelcommon's large float and trading activity.
The text notes that large volumes, from 50,000 to 100,000 shares, can flood the market in hours without affecting price. It contrasts this with Boston & Maine where low speculation leads to several point movements from only a few hundred shares traded.
Fred Michael of 7 Tyler street Boston recently left the army and cannot locate his sister Mrs. Annie Joseph and her young child. Despite searches across New England the sister and child remain missing. Mrs. Joseph left her husband five years ago and lived with her brother in Springfield. Michael, now in Boston, hopes to reunite the family if she is found.
Current prices list shows brokers' customers loans six percent outside brokers' call loans six percent. Brokers' commercial loans six percent. Individual customers' collateral loans six percent. Commercial paper ranges from 5 1/4 to six percent.
The Boston friends of Daniel F. Hession announce the Buffalo businessman died suddenly of brain hemorrhage on September 19 at his home 181 Lancaster Avenue. He invented the Hession filler and tractor and led the MHession Tiller and Tractor Co. in Buffalo. He was born in Fitchburg 57 years ago and is survived by his widow and two sisters in Leominster. Funeral services were held last Sunday in Howe's Memorial Chapel at Leo.
A girl held in Washington may be Muriel Young daughter of Mrs A P Eagleston of Boston Springfield and Vineyard Haven who vanished Sept 15. She was last seen boarding a train to the mother’s Vineyard Haven summer home. Private detectives and police pursue a nationwide effort, with one theory placing her in Boston.
John L. Lewis acting president of the United Mine Workers of America declines invitation to attend President Wilson's round table conference opening in Washington on October 6. He cites lack of confidence in success and dissatisfaction with the delegates chosen to represent the public.
Mass resignations by Boston teachers create a staffing crisis as salaries prove insufficient, forcing female normal school graduates to be pressed into service for the first time in the city. Judge Michael H. Sullivan confirms the seriousness to a Post reporter, noting the facts should be public.
Boston school troubles grow as substitute options vanish. Judge Sullivan notes 100 resignations and 29 senior normal school girls used as teachers at $3 a day. Teachers enroll a campaign led by Charles Parmenter seeking legislative raises, backed by the Boston Teachers Club and the Women’s Teachers Union.
Harry Neily of the Chicago American was elected by the local BBWA chapter to act as official scorer with Joseph M. McCready and J. G. Taylor Spink at the World Series games to be played in Manila.
James R. MacColl led calls at a Copley Plaza lunch for net weight cotton bales to replace ragged variable bales. Delegates from England Belgium France and Switzerland praised Massachusetts governor Coolidge and urged exchange reforms to aid the cotton industry.
The waterfront calendar lists the 269th day of the year in autumn with tide heights. Morning tides are about 9 feet and evening 6 feet. The moon phases show new moon on Oct 23, and there is no visible mention of Mars Jupiter Saturn or other stars.
Nine fishing boats delivered haddock cod pollock hake and cask totaling over 560 000 pounds with ex vessel prices near the week’s low. A Cuban sugar cargo of 6 169 600 pounds arrived aboard Draincreek with more destined from Lake Pearl Lake Hewes and Bar Harbor. No marine engineer strike occurred though a walkout was expected to be postponed. The Panama Canal’s opening era shows 7970 vessels carrying nearly 30 million tons. Lighthouse Board notes naval mooring buoy in Boston harbor discontinued and light characteristics updated.
Shipping news lists arriving steamers and schooners including Esparta O Neill and Manzanillo in port, with tied barges and tugs around Gloucester Portland and New York. Departures include Bueland Koppervik Oneka Calvin Austin and Kershaw for orders, plus numerous schooners and freighters sailing from Bath Rockport and Halifax.
Bay State Street Railway trustees headed by Homer Loring pose the question to City Council and Mayor with a Oct 1 deadline. Mayor Whiton asks 904 year round residents to vote on transportation preference revealing 400 replies and scant dozen favoring jitneys. Jitneys cut fare from 10 to 7 cents but cannot access certain streets or railroad property. Bay State warns loss of street car service if jitney licenses remain.
The first operators reply argues current Washington wage agreements cover the war or end by April 1 1920, so no new scale should take effect Nov 1. Operators cited preliminary remarks from the joint wage scale conference in Buffalo New York as miners press for a November raise or a general strike.
The Sporting Department lists Walter Grannan Louris Pieper Dewitt Adler Lester Babcock Joe McCarthy East Boston Rowing Club Kid Lee and Charley Sheppard. This recording assigns communications to the named persons as of the current post.
L Sherman as member of Boston Stock Exchange lists net cash prices for various Liberty Bonds due September 26 including First 4 50 Bonds Second 4 50 Bonds Third 4 50 Bonds Fourth 4 50 Bonds Fifth 4 50 Bonds and also 1909 100 500 bonds. Prices shown range from about 47.35 to 50.15 with shipments possible by rei or draft.
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