Creditors seek receiver for failed J Francis Brown & Co
Creditors of the failed banking and brokerage firm J Francis Brown & Co met yesterday. Liabilities total 184 000 dollars, assets seven thousand, and amounts due from customers and employees near 200 000 dollars. A receiver will likely be requested. The committee notes little prospect for dividends and questions whether the 10 000 dollar capital was customer money or others funds. The business under the Brown name may have been operated by another local firm. Managers and subordinates are blamed for the collapse, with emphasis on the handling of margins, collateral, and underwater accounts. Bankruptcy is urged, to be pursued by Oct 20, 1903.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Francis Brown & Co
Credit One
W. F. Garcelon
J. 8. Bache & Co
New York
J. Francis Brown
Young
J. M. Shaw & Co
R. B. Young
Harry C. Young
Brown, Riley & Co
Haskell of Revere Tells of His Lightning Experience
Scores visited the home of William Haskell at 419 Proctor Avenue Revere yesterday after a Sunday night electrical storm. Haskell and Joseph W. Davis, both milkmen in bed when the bolt struck, described the blaze and shock. The bolt burned the head board and mattress, tore a closet, smashed pictures, woke firemen, but Davis was uninjured though stunned.
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William Haskell
Proctor Avenue
Revere
Fred E. Haskell
Joseph W. Davis
Post
Haskell
Young Davis
Mannino Names Other Bandits in Silk Robbery Plot
Giusseppi Mannino, before Justice Maurner in Brooklyn, confessed to involvement in the Saranac mills paymaster robbery. He implicated Antonio Agrosa and Ferdinando Badalanenti as the ring leaders. Plotter planned murder, later abandoned, with the gang planning a Sicily return to divide loot.
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Woonsocket
R. I
Maurner
Brooklyn
Giusseppi Mannino
Sicily
WB. C. Sherman
Saranac Mills
Antonio Agrosa
Ferdinando Badalanenti
Agrusa
Mr. Sherman
Mannino
Boston
Palermo
Donkey vs Horse Rampage Through Woburn Cemetery
In Woburn, a maddened horse chased a donkey from Montvale Avenue to a cemetery on a morning spree. The wagon and canopy smashed gravestones, splinters flew, and the horse and wagon thrashed inside the burial ground before the jack fled back to its stable. Spectators watched as the pair caused chaos and a final taunting bray echoed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woburn
Chase Cole
Montvale Avenue
Jack
Mr. Cole
Debates Proposed Between Avery and Socialist Candidates
Martha M Avery and David Goldstein challenge Socialist State committee nominees to a series of debates in leading Commonwealth cities on atheism free love socialism and its threat to the state and labor. Letter sent to Squire E Putney at Somerville for arranging meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha M. Avery
David Goldstein
Martha Moore Avery
West
Springfield Street
Maywood Street
Squire E. Putney
Socialist State Committee
Somerville
John C. Chase
John Quincy Adams
General Court
James F. Carey
Wallace C. Rawsden
Commonwealth
Socialist Party
American Federation of Labor
Partridge
Invisible Bifocal Lenses for Eyeglasses and Spectacles
Advertises subtle invisible bifocal lenses for eyeglasses and spectacles highlighting discreet design and ease of use. Claims improved vision for near and far tasks with modern lens technology and comfort.
Nine Hour Day Demand Placed by Silver Workers
In Meriden Connecticut and at International Silver Company shops across the country workers demand a nine hour day with ten hours pay and time and a half for overtime. The Metal Workers International Association circulates the blank agreement urging signatures and setting January 1 1904 as the start date with a reply requested by October 5. Local unions cite a summer 60 hour week with pay as proof the firm can afford the cut to a nine hour schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meriden
Conn
International Silver Company
United States
Canada
Metal Workers’ International Association
England Leads World's Mercantile Marine in 1903-04
Lloyd's Register for 1903 04 records 29 943 steamers totaling 27 183 365 tons and 12 182 sailing vessels totaling 6 459 766 tons. Principal nations by tonnage are England 16 006 374 United States 3 611 956 Germany 3 283 247 Norway 1 653 740 France 1 622 015 and Italy 1 180 835.
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England
Lloyd's Register
Mercantile Marine
United States
Germany
Norway
France
Italy
Manager seeks fairies for Boston fairytale promo
Manager A R Rogers laments the trouble of finding suitable young women to dress as fairies for the Midway of Fairyland at the Merchants and Manufacturers Fair in Mechanics Building. He recalls receiving many unsuitable offers including older chromos and married women hoping for a vanity turn, while he seeks bright 18 to 20 year olds, blonde or brunette, pleasing and photogenic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Fair
Mechanics
A. R. Rogers
Carrie Nation
Boston
Rogers
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Prospectus
H. G. B. Jeskins
Protector Co. Ltd
Protector
Sunday Post
Paymaster
Sherman
Alice Glassey
Peruna
Lawrence St
N. Y
WRS
Mary Miller
Old Shield Block
Indianapolis
Ind
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Jay Hartman
Andrew J. Lloyd & Co
New England
Down Town
Washington St
Back Bay
Boyston St
Mest
Clair Horthand Schoodl
U. S
Tremon Teple
Mass
Charles Parsons
Hartshorn
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