Financial market snapshot from Boston August 27 1896
A compact price list from F R Cordley & Co outlining opening to close figures for Boston market stocks bonds and mining shares. It notes a dull trading day with a stronger undercurrent and possible rally if shorts cover. Other markets reference New York activity and a subdued tone across listings.
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Lst
Daily Courier
F. R. Cordley & Co
Bankers
State Street
Boston
Glidden Building
Middlesex Street
Lowell
Bank of England
McKinley
Bargain Hemstitched Huck Towels On Sale
A linen fringe and hemstitched towel lot offered at 15c after 20c values. Specials draw attention at Palmer Street Left Aisle.
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Palmer Street
Chenille Covers Marked Down to 75 Cents
Chenille covers reduced from 1.00 and 1.25 to 0.75. Call to see their worth at 75c. Promoted as the best value in covers in this city. Located on Walier Street, Left Aisle.
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e-Palmer Street
Walier Street
Prices cut on ladies vests and undergarments at Merrimack Street
A local sale offers ladies Lisle vests at 25c after 38 and 50c price tags, men’s jersey ribbed shirts and drawers in balbriggan at 35c, silk vests with lace sleeves in multiple colors at 50c, plus a full line of underwear at deep discounts all from the Merrimack Street left aisle.
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Bn Merrimack Street
Ba Merrimack Street
Tragic Charlestown Fire Claims Mother and Wounds Daughter
Early Sunday fire at 23 Vine Street Charlestown forces Mrs Mary OBrien to jump from a third story window and is killed instantly. Her daughter, clinging to the window, falls to the pavement and is admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital with serious injuries.
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Mary O’brien
Vine Street
Charlestown
Massachusetts General Hospital
Allen's Foot Ease promotes instant foot relief and comfort
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of coins and bunions. It's the greatest com fort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot- Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweat ing, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen 8, Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Dark Horse Wins in New York Governor Nomination
The New York Republican state convention in Saratoga nominated Frank S. Black of Troy for governor after a long roll call. Black’s speech impressed delegates as he pledged to serve the people, while Lt Governor candidate Woodruff was chosen unanimously. The convention adjourned at 2:04 p.m. with Black likely to lead the ticket.
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Saratoga
N. Y
New York
Frank S. Black
Troy
Woodford
Platt
Tioga
Titus Sheard
Herkimer
Sheard
Warner Miller
Miller
Herkimer County
Aldridge
Fish
Wadsworth
Black
Baxter
Saxton
Roberts
Ellsworth
Fassett
Odell
Sutherland
Monroe
Woodruff
Stranahan
Mr. Woodruff
Court of Appeals
Irving G. Vann
Judge Vann
Independents
Murphy
Citizens’ Committee
Bat’ Shea
Robert Ross
McKinley
Livingston
York County
Lebanon Academy
Limerick Academy
Dartmouth
Congress
House
Sultanal Power Struggle Rages In Zanzibar Palace
Said Kalid seized the Zanzibar palace and proclaimed himself Sultan. British consul urges disarmament of 700 Askaris and removal of palace guns. Warships Philomel Thrush Sparrow await orders as Rear Admiral Rawson lands 250 marines. An ultimatum to disarm and restore order is expected.
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Zanzibar
Said Kalid
Askaris
Philomel
Thrush
Sparrow
Harry H. ‘Rawson
Cape and West Africa
St. George
Raccoon
Rawson
Kalid
Foreign Office
Rioting Armenians Beset Constantinople Banks Looted
A Times dispatch from Constantinople reports Armenian provocation sparking deadly riots. Banks in Galata and central Constantinople raided as mobs attacked gendarmes and police, with fires and shelling from rooftops. Wide chaos followed including shop looting and bazars, as authorities battled the mob.
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London
Times
Constantinople
Galata
Govan shipyard strike escalates to wholesale lockout
Glasgow August 26 engineers strike in Govan Clyde shipyards prompts masters in England Ireland and Scotland to bar further concessions. They resolve that if Govan strikers do not surrender immediately a wholesale lockout will be declared in the Clyde Belfast and Tyne yards.
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Glasgow
Govan
Clyde
Belfast
Tyne
Tragedy at Gale's Ferry Excursion Ends in Death
A quarry tramcar loosened by boys on a Gale's Ferry wharf incline struck a crowd of Sunday school excursionists from New London. One woman, Mrs. Mary L. Avery, died from injuries after the car halted the train’s progress. Several others were injured, with many leaping into the water to escape. Passengers were evacuated by steamer Manhanset and later by the freight house.
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New London
Conn
Gale’s Ferry
Second Congregational Church of
Red Top
Harvard
Navy
Manhanset
Moulthrop
Mary L. Avery
Huntington Street
Avery
Manhauset
Nathan S. Lawrence
Miss Wheeler
Frederick S. Moody
George Bentley
New Hampshire Industries Expand and Infrastructures Planned
C E House opens a barber shop in Lyme and J W Burley starts a mica mine in Groton. A Sunday school forms at Easton and a lodge of Odd Fellows to be organized in Enfield. Sumner E Wallace buys Union Street railroad in Dover for 165000. Mill repairs near completion at Hillsborough Bridge. Thayer company secures 2 million brick contract for Mead Mason Co. Cheshire Mills cut to three days a week amid hard times. New truss bridge planned over Bellamy River at Madbury. Snowdrift Footwear eyes Amsden plant in Penacook with Col John A White among directors.
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C. E. House
Lyme
Easton
J. W. Burley
Groton
Lodge of
Odd Fellows
Enfield
Magfire Dechenes
Berlin
Sumner E. Wallace
Rochester
Union Street Railroad
Dover
Hillsborough Bridge
Thayer Company
Milton
New South Wales
Australia
Samuel Holt
South End
Concord
Mead, Mason & Co
Cheshire
Harrisville
Bellamy River
Madbury
Snowdrift Footwear Company
Boston
Amsden
Penacook
John A. White
Successful Laurada Lands Expedition on Cuban Coast
The Laurada, evading Spanish warships, sailed to Port Antonio Jamaica after a race with a Spanish gunboat. Captain Dynamite John O’Brien led the crew uninjured aside from boiler tube damage, with cipher telegrams confirming a large cargo landed on Santa Clara Province’s southern Cuba coast.
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Philadelphia
Cuba
Port Antonio
Jamaica
Santa Clara
John O’brien
John R. Hart
Laurada
Darmo
United States
Czarina to Accompany Czar in Paris Visit
Paris dispatch states that the Czarina will accompany the Czar to Paris for his visit, instead of visiting Queen Victoria at Balmoral as previously reported. The piece also touts Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a proven treatment for dysentery with nine epidemics since 1878, claiming universal success and urging sale by Hlingwood & Co.
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Paris
le Nord
Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Chamberlain
Hlingwood & Co
Tramp Killed By Train Near Palmetto Station
A tramp named A J Ballard, age unknown, claimed Lowell as his home and was run over by a Boston and Albany freight train at Palmetto station, dying soon after. The incident is reported from Springfield.
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Springfield
A. J. Ballard
Lowell
Boston and Albany
Palmetto
Shortlater
Also Mentioned on This Page
Highland Paper
G. C. Prince & Son
Merrimack, Opp
John Street
American Bell
Erie
New England
Atlantic
Montana
Butte
Calumet & Hecla
Franklin
Kearsarge
Merced
Old Dominion
Osceola
Pioneer
Quincy
Santa Ysabel
Tamarack
Wolverine
Tobacco
Bay State
Chicago Gas
Dominion Coal
General Electric
U.S. Lesther
U.S
Pullman Car Co
Western Union
Lameon Store Service Cor
Westinghouse
Tenn. Coal & Iron
National Lead
Pacific Mail
Boston Market
Boston & Albany
Boston & Maine
Witchburg
Mexican Central
Oregon
West End St. Ry
Atchison, Toeka & S. Fe
Fosvon
Atchison, Topeka & S Fe
Canada
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
New Jersey
Chicago & Northwestern
Rock Island & Puc
C. Delaware
Delaware & Hudson
Lake Shore & M. So
Louisville & Nashville
Manhattan
Missouri Pac
New York Central
Ontario & Western
Omaha
Pullman
St. Paul
Reading
Wheeling & Lake Wire
E. D. Steele & CO
Central
Prescott Streets
Eclipse
Greene’ S Shoe & Bicycle
Central Street
Remington
Rambler
March
Union
Keating
Falcon
Crescent and Bierce
A. G. Pollard & CO
Merrimack Street
Porticres
Ba Palmer Street
A. G S. Pollard & Company
Merrimack, Palmer and
Middle Streets
Dimity
Massachusetts
Albert SG. Guild
Wyman’s Exchange
Haton
Dark Horse
Gov
Ernor
Said Khalid
Eremzars
White Mountain
Bartlett & Dov
Turkey
Toronto
Ont
Lord Russell
England
Niagara Falls
Royal Canadian Yacht Club
American Bar Association
N. W. Norcross & Coq
Central Block
Mass
Sapolio
New Hampshire Hills
Rogers Hall
M&s
Miss
Nessuth ST
Alteohol
NEW England Business University
Pherss
Glick & Young, Weneus“Hurepaxe
Jay
Piano Forte
Swan Building
Wedneys
Choir Guild
Hal Wtén
Montgomery
Nec
H. Scodil
Geo
Arthur J. Cummiskey
Merrimack Stree
Hie Busch Obergh Grogery
Will Accompany
Czar
Williams & Carleton CO
MFRS
Liartford, Conn
Lowell Tramp
G. H. Hanson JR
Woodward & Brown
Chickering
Westford Street
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