New York Stock Market Opens Firm Amid Demand for American Securities
New York December 9 trading opened firm as London demand for American securities supported an overall advance. Amalgamated Copper led gains before profit taking pulled the group lower by late morning. Brooklyn Transit rose amid short covering while Manhattan and Metropolitan Securities advanced.
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New York
Amalgamated Copper
Atchison
Baltimore & Ohio
Brooklyn Transit
Canadian Pacific
Erie
Erie First
Louisville
Manhattan
Missouri Pacific
Ontario & Western
Pennsylvania
Reading
Rock Island
Sugar
St. Paul
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Texas Range
Union Pacific
Steel
U. S
Waibash
London
American
General Electric
Amalgamated
Manhattan and Metropolitan Securities
Metropolitan Street Railway
Anaconda
Brooklyn Union Gas
Lake
Cotton Market Opens Firm In New York Futures
New York December 9 futures opened firm with December at 22.08 January 12.19 February 12.27 March 12.38 May 12.42 June 12.48 July 12.44 August 12.15 indicating strong trading activity and price levels.
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New York
Heidelbach Ickleheimer Co Announces London Engagement
New York dispatch reports Heidelbach Ickleheimer and Co announce a $350,000 gold engagement in London. Part of the funds are already in transit.
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New York
Heidelbach, Ickleheimer & Co
London
Cotton market jittery amid mixed futures and spot
New York on December 9 reports a dull morning in business yet a lively cotton market. Cables show lower futures but firm spot prices, with New York opening unchanged to 10 points higher amid weak weather and expectations of no immediate curtailment in manufacturing. The session then turned erratic as bull buying pushed prices 9 to 14 points above opening before profit taking pulled them back to near open.
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New York
New York Produce Exchange Plan Seeks Buffalo Delivery
At a NY Produce Exchange meeting on widening option market access in grain trading a resolution favors extending the New York delivery system to Buffalo. A committee will work with the grain committee to pursue this aim. If approved Buffalo warehouse receipts would be deliverable on the New York exchange.
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New York Produce Exchange
New York
Buffalo
New York Exchange
Obituary notices for Etienne Chamberlain and Mary Kenney
Etienne Chamberlain aged 66 died yesterday at home 422 Suffolk after long illness leaving wife and son Pierre. Mary Kenney wife of Patrick Kenney died yesterday at 63 Newhall Street leaving three daughters and a son. parishioner of Sacred Heart church and devout attendee.
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Etienne Chamberlain
Suffolk
Pierre Chamberlain
Mary Kenney
Patrick Kenney
Newhall Street
Sacred Heart Church
Smallpox Case Ties Up Victoria Passengers at Quarantine
A steerage passenger on the Victoria, Lattista Stasio, contracted small pox during the Genoa Leghorn Naples voyage and was moved to hospital after the ship’s arrival. About 200 passengers were sent to Hoffman Island for observation while the ship remained under quarantine for disinfection with 708 steerage travelers affected.
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New York
Victoria
Genoa
Leghorn
Naples
Lattista Stasio
Hoffman Island
Cabinet reshuffle signals broader Belgrade changes
Belgrade Ser via December 8 Finance Minister Radovanovitch resigns and is replaced by Dr Pasios. Prem ie r Gruies plans to resign citing ill health and is likely to be succeeded by Dr Pasios, foreshadowing a complete cabinet turnover.
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Belgrade
Servia
Radovanovitch
Pasios
Gruies
Calumet Woolen Mill Resumes Work After Shutdown
In Uxbridge on December 8 workers returned to the Calumet Woolen mill under a 50 hour weekly schedule. The plant, which employs about two hundred workers, had been shut down for several weeks for an indefinite period.
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Uxbridge
Calumet
Market brief from New York Boston and Chicago exchanges
Stocks bonds grain and cotton reported with private wires linking New York Boston Philadelphia and Chicago. Commission orders executed in all markets. Securities carried on margin consistent with sound banking. Daily market letter and a special letter devoted to International Paper. Free upon application.
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New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Avon Man Released As Liquor Forfeitures Count
Brevity marked this morning’s police court session. John Walsh of Avon confessed to drunkenness and was ordered to leave town for three days. John Driscoll received a state farm sentence after an unsuccessful defense. Larceny case James Carson is continued to December 10. Forfeiture of several barrels of liquor named John Smiths and others.
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Welch
Cambridge
Frank Goodwin
John Walsh
Avon
John Driscoll
James Carson
William Jones
Patrick J. McNuilty
Commonwealth
John Smiths
James Nevins
James Danforth
John Lewis
Robert Smith
Maurice Hannafin
Italian Bark Cavour Ashore at Peacock Spit Near Astoria
The Italian bark Cavour of Genoa lumber laden for East London South Africa is ashore on Peacock Spit and likely a total loss. The Point Adams life saving crew saved the master and 16 men plus a dog, transferring them to the tug Tatoosh. Queenstown reports the Red Star line steamer Kroonland arrived with steering gear disabled but kept control by twin screws. About 900 passengers are onboard and may transfer to the Teutonic in transit to New York.
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Astoria
Ore
Cavour
Genoa
East London
South Africa
Peacock Spit
Point Adams
Queenstown
Irc
Red Star Line
Kroonland
White Star
Teutonic
Liverpool
New York
Fire chiefs inspect Middlesex street blaze site
Chief Hosmer with Fire Chief Marshal's Aid Casey of Haverhill visited the Davis and Sargent building on Middlesex Street yesterday to determine the cause of the Sunday evening fire that partially destroyed the property. A close inspection was conducted but no report was released.
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Hosmer
Casey of
Haverhill
Davis & Sargent
Middlesex Street
Five Die in Fire at Clarksburg New Jersey
Five lives including Clayton Fowler and his wife with three children perished in a Clarksburg dwelling fire that destroyed their home. A 16-year-old daughter escaped from a second story window as one child's body was found in the cellar and others in the ruins. Neighbors arrived as the mother crawled out with a six-month-old infant but fell back into the flames.
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Freehold
N. J
Clayton Fowler
Clarksburg
George
Fowler
Bogus priest jailed for selling holy wafers in Westfield
A man in priest garb claimed to be J B Mayer, former Fall River mayor, and was sentenced by Judge Lilley to six months in jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. The Pole, once named Zeigler, sold colored wafers as holy items with supposed church approval, saying Father Przybylski authorized him to travel and sell them. He operated in 17 cities across Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island, taking large sums.
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Westfield
Fall River
Lilley
Westfield District Court
Poland
Zeigler
Mayer
Przybylski
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Pope presides private mass at American College feast
In Rome on December 8 the Pope celebrated Mass in his private chapel for the Immaculate Conception feast and the 45th anniversary of the American College. Cardinal Setom of Newark officiated, with music led by Joseph Kennedy of Philadelphia. Mrs. Dean and her two daughters from Chicago attended the ceremony.
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Rome
The
American College
Robert Setom
Newark
Heliopolis
Joseph Kennedy
Philadelphia
Burglars Loot Laundry Safe In Cleveland Heist
In Cleveland on December 6 four masked burglars blew open the Garter Frazee Laundry office safe at 112 Huntington Street, taking about 2000 dollars. They bound and gagged the night watchman after knocking him unconscious, then calmly drank at a nearby hotel bar before vanishing.
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Cleveland
Garter-Frazee Laundry Company
Huntington Street
Sandow's man held for big larceny
Boston December 8 Fred M. Clease former manager of Sandow's physical culture college was found guilty or likely guilty of larceny involving 2300 dollars entrusted to him and was held for the grand jury in municipal court. Bonds set at 3000 dollars. The hearing spanned several days with leading counsel seeking discharge in the lower court.
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Boston
Fred M. Clease
Sandow
Physical Culture College
Clease
Women pray for no license during Somerville city vote
In Somerville on December 8, women gathered at Prospect Hill Congregational church and prayed throughout the day that the city would remain without licenses as men cast ballots in the city election.
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Somerville
Prospect Hill Congregational Church
Court Action In Conspiracy Case Sparks Warrant Delays
Grand Rapids Michigan December 8 warrants issued last night on charges tied to a water scandal led to a non arrest approach. Officials phoned suspects to appear at police headquarters, with Gerritt Albers entering and leaving after admitting a bribe offer linked to Alder man Renihan. Others including Charles S. Burch J. Clark Sprout J. Russell Thomson and Ex-Alderman Mol faced police court examinations or bond rulings as cases advance toward the superior court.
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Grand Rapids, Micch
Lant K. Salsbury
Gerritt P. Albers
Renihan
Albers
Haggerty
Willie Devries
Chas. S. Burch
Evening Press
Superior Court
J. Clark Sprout
The
Democrat and the Post
J. Russell Thomson
Mol
Salsbury
McColl
Kenney
Schriver
Ghysels
Jonhson
Beck
John Kremer
William D. Pugh
Ward
William F. McKnight
Mel
George E. Nichols
Iowa
Fr. D. Conger
Grand Rapids Herald
Raising Galveston Grade to Meet Sea Wall Level
Galveston Texas bids opened to raise the city seven feet to the sea wall level. The filling amounts to about 11,000,000 cubic yards and the project is estimated at 2,000,000 dollars funded by city bonds.
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Galveston
Tex
Presiding Elders Hold First New England Convention
Boston hosts the first in a series of Methodist Episcopal church conventions to discuss district conditions and church interests. About 20 presiding elders from Maine East Maine New Hampshire Vermont Troy and New York East districts attend at Wesleyan hall with Rev Willard T Perrin presiding. Papers by Rev C S Nutter and Rev W A Richard are read and Bishop W F Mallalieu is expected to speak in the afternoon.
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Boston
Methodist Episcopal Church of
New England
Methodist Conferences
Maine
East
New Hampshire
Vermont
Troy
New York
Willard T. Perrin
Wesleyan Hall
C. S. Nutter
St. Albans
W. A. Richard
W. F. Mallalieu
TWO KILLED IN STEAM PIPE EXPLOSION AT BLEACHERY
Two men died and a third was badly burned when a steam pipe burst at the lower bleachery in Saylesville. James Allen and Michael Mitchell, both 35, were plumbers who had been repairing a leak in the finishing room. Robert Read, 28, was badly scalded but expected to survive. Allen was survived by a widow and two children. Mitchell by a widow.
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Saylesville
R. L
James Allen
Michael Mitchell
Robert Read
Read
Allen
Mitchell
Exchange of Visits Between American and French Officials
Paris reports movement toward an exchange of visits between American congressmen and French parliamentarians. Baron D'Estournelles de Constant says he planned similar exchanges for British and French officials and now pursuing American French talks. He hopes to arrange details on his U.S. trip and extend invitations on behalf of several hundred French deputies. E Spencer Pratt and other American residents here back the plan.
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Paris
Washington
Baron D'Estournelles de Constant
Associated Press
United States
French Chamber of Deputies
E. Spencer Pratt
Result of Jealousy Murder at Cologne Hotel
Berlin reports the Metropole dancer Frieda Boelke was slain in a Cologne hotel on December 2 by Ferdinand Tessier a Vichy machinery maker and former Nationalist candidate. They planned marriage and dined together when quarrel arose over her attention to another man. Tessier attempted chloroform then fatally struck her with a hatchet and stabbed her thrice before killing himself.
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Berlin
Metropole Theatre
Jaulein Frieda Boelke
Cologne
Ferdinand Tessier
Vichy
France
Chamber of Deputies
Tessier
Fr. Fulham Dead Injured Ottawa University Fire
Father Fulham DM I. injured in the Ottawa university fire on Wednesday last died today in hospital. Ottawa Ont Dee 8. The oblate priest’s death follows his injury in the blaze at the university campus.
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Ottawa University
Ottawa
Dee
Tifather Fulham
Sale of Whitney stable draws strong turnout
In Newmarket on December 8, a large crowd attended the sale of William C. Whitney's stable. All horses were auctioned without reserve with their engagements. Hands Down sold for 3400 guineas and Mintagon for 1450 guineas.
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Newmarket
Eng
Wm. C. Whitney
Mintagon
Casey at the Bat dramatic rally ends in strikeout
Wm. H. Wilson notes at a Democratic rally that Casey is at the bat as Boston trails four to two with one inning left. Flynn hits a single, Blakey advances, Casey faces the pitch, strikes out, and the crowd mourns, a somber finale as Boston falls silent.
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Casey
Wm. H. Wilson
Boston
Cooney
Burrows
Mother Gray's Powders for Children advertised cure
A New York Children’s Home nurse endorses Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders to cure feverishness stomach teething disorders regulate bowels and destroy worms. Over 30 000 testimonials claim success. Sample free for 25 cents with Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY. Also notice Lawler’s Bible sold for 98 cents.
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Gray
New York
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Shipbuilding case reopens as Nixon cites Sheldon plan impact
New York December 8 Lewis Nixon testified in the U S Shipbuilding receivership hearing that the company could have continued if Bethlehem had paid dividends. He said the Sheldon reorganization plan signaled insolvency and noted disputes over profits, stock, and loans tied to Crescent yards and Bethlehem stock while J P Morgan & Co facilitated major financing and ownership shifts.
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New York
Lewis Nixon
U. S
Samuel Untermyer
Shipbuilding
Mr. Nixon
J. A. McGregor
Nixon
Untermyer
Pam
Young
Crescent Yards
C. Co. Deming
Deminey
Shipbuilding Company
John W. Young
Dresser
Deming
Alexander & Green
Max Pam
Guthrie
Perkins
United States Ship Building Company
Crescent
Mr. Untermyer
Mr. Deming
Alexander and Green
3. P. Morgan and Company
Bethlehem
U. S. Shipbuilding Company
Russian and Austrian appoint assessors for Macedonia reform plan
Constantinople reports that M. Demerik, Russia's consul general at Beirut, and Herr Von Mueller of Austria's foreign office will serve as assessors to supervise the reform scheme of the powers for Macedonia.
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Constantinople
M. Zinovieff
Porte
Russia
Austria
M. Demerik
Beirut
Herr von Mueller
Macedonia
Maude Debates Love With Her Fiance In Times Democrat
In a brief item from the New Orleans Times-Democrat, Ethel asks if Maude loves her fiancé and a companion answers that she is silly. The dialogue captures a light social moment referenced in the clipping.
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Ethel
Maude
Jean
New Orleans Times-Democrat
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