Money 90 Percent Stocks Weaker In Opening Market
The Moston stock exchange opened strong in contrast to New York with United Copper leading gains to 75, then pulled back to 67.42. Copper Range opened at 82 and Utah at 54, while American Pneumatic rose to 15. Money rates jumped. local banks tightened lending to outside interests amid high January disbursements. Trading slowed, with Union Pacific and Amalgamated showing limited moves. overall market closed slightly weak as money costs rose. United Copper retreated to 65.5 after an initial surge.
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Moston
New York
United Copper
Utah
Wall Street
Union Pacific
London
Boston
Stock Market Wide Changes In Early New York Session
New York December 27 opening prices showed wide shifts with the general list unsettled within fractional ranges. Metropolitan securities traded unevenly with drops from 81 to 74 then recovered. Amalgamated Copper and Tennessee Coal led declines while Corn Products and Metropolitan Street Railway posted gains before noon.
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New York
Metropolitan Securities
Metropolitan Street Railway
Amalgamated Copper
Tennessee
Brooklyn Transit
Anaconda
American Express
Reading
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Louisville
Atchison, Sugar
Delaware & Hudson
St. Paul
Federal Mining
Tennessee Coal
Cotton Market Report and Stock Gossip Summary
The cotton futures opened steady with several contract points noted across months and spot prices showing quiet demand. Stock gossip hints at rising New York equities, Amalgamated speculation, copper moves, a higher Anaconda dividend, and a bullish mood despite cautions about money tightness. A corporate title update announces The New York Central Lines to appear on rolling stock.
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New York
Uplands
Gulf
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad Company
New York Central Lines
Mayor Still Refuses to Approve Gasco’s Bill
City affairs run through 1905 tensions as Mayor Casey rejects Gasco’s bill and contemplates a January 1 start. Councilman Dodge to deliver a signed report on treasurer and assessor departments with recommendations for enhanced tax collection. Police chief ordered to file weekly reports on unlit street lamps, with details and officer notes. Atherton operatives now drinking city water after months of wait. Overseers’ final 1905 meeting set at city hospital, sewer committee to meet.
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William H. Dodge
Casey
Dodge
William B. Moffatt
Police Department
Moffatt
Lowell
Mass
Call Money Lending Surges to 90 Percent in New York
New York on December 27 saw call money ratchet up through the day from 30 to 50 percent, closing at 90 percent. Secretary Show visited the sub-treasury as the high rate drew attention, but he declined to discuss the financial situation.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Call Money
Secretary of the Treasury
Sub-Treasury
Bomb letters target Witte Trepoff and Durnovo at post office
London dispatch reports letters written in one hand exploded while being opened at the general post office. In financial circles the new treasury bonds are seen as a strong tool to retain gold within Russia under the new government.
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London
St. Petersburg
Daily Telegraph
Count Witte
Trepoff
Durnovo
Major North American Stocks and Dividends Listed Jan 15
A dense list of company stocks with January 1 or January 15 ex-dividend or payment dates. Firms include Am Tel and Tel, Androscoggin Mills, Atlantic Cotton Mills, Bigelow Carpet, Boston & Lowell Railroad, Gen Habeas, Greene Copper, Merrimack Mfg, United Fruit, Utah Copper, and others. Percent and per share figures noted. various pref and common listings.
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Am. Tel. & Tel
P. c
Androscoggin Mills
Arlington Mills
Atlantic Cotton Mills
Bigelow Carpet Co
Boston & Lowell R. R
Greene Cons
Hill Mfg. Co
Huntington Chambers Trust
Int. Paper Co
Lowell Bleachery
Merrimack Mfg. Co
Naumkeag S. C. Co
Af Idria
United Fruit Co
Utah
West End St. Ry
Elec
Mfg. Co
Winthrop Mins ‘Co
A P.c
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Chase will contest probate hearsay and family names
In Salem on December 27 the Essex county probate court resumes the trial over Mrs Jennie P Chase's will. Dr Horace Chase testifies amid doubts raised about her brother David Phillips's death and the adoption of De Forest Woodruff Chase. Witnesses and allies discuss health, astrology, and family settlements as the hearing proceeds.
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Salem
Horace Chase
Essex County
Jennie P. Chase
Chase
Dr. Chase
R. M. Morse
David Phillips
Morse
Storey
Lynn
David
Boston
de Forest Woodruff Chase
Young Chase
Over-Loans on Discounts Sink Memphis Banks
Memphis Tenn December 27 three financial institutions suspended operations Merchants Trust Company with 200000 capital stock American Savings Bank and Trust Company and Mechanics Savings Bank allied with first cited cause cited over loans on discounts One director said assets ample and will pay dollar for dollar Chancellor Heiskell appointed John P Edmondson receiver Merchants Trust had recently absorbed Memphis National Bank and owned controlling stock of American Savings Bank and Trust Mechanics Savings Bank had been absorbed by American Savings Bank and Trust Disruption caused little excitement in financial circles
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Memphis
Tenn
Merchants Trust Company
American Savings Bank and Trust Company
Mechanics Savings Bank
Heiskell
John P. Edmondson
Memphis National Bank
Devil Gargeted Away Statue Guarded by Constable
Detroit dispatch reports Herman Menz’s statue of the Devil, set up two months earlier, was levied on by a writ of replevin. Menz resisted, his family attempted to save the idol with a sledge hammer, but officers removed the statue and returned it to satisfy a claim of 51.40 for labor on the figure.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
Detroit
Herman Menz
Menz
Diety
Warren West
Ypsilanti
Beelzebub
Barge Canal funding eyed for 1906 in New York
Albany reports propose forty million dollars for barge canal work in 1906 and road improvements. State Engineer Henry A. Van Alstyne notes that less than one million of ten million annual funds for 1905 was spent while about nine million in contracts were assumed.
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Albany
N. Y
Henry A. van Alsteyne
Burlington Traction Co Severely Censured In Accident Report
Burlington Vermont December 27 The Burlington Traction Company receives sharp censure in the state railroad commissioners report issued today about the October 7 collision that injured 16. The commission says the law affords no power to act and faults overcrowded cars and an inexperienced motorman without proper orders. They condemn the widespread use of inexperienced crews and lack of specific directives on electric rails as a dangerous practice.
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Burlington, Vt
Burlington Traction Company
State Railroad Commissioners
Wormwood's dot and monkey circus to grace Keith's Theatre
Keith's Theatre announces a holiday week program beginning December 25 featuring Wormwood's dot and monkey circus from Europe, touted as the greatest animal act with dogs and apes performing instruments, somersaults, and bicycle stunts. The bill also includes Frank and Jen Latora, Crane Brothers, Mudtown Minstrels, Lew Hawkins, John Birch with headgear changes, and ventriloquist Ed Reynard with Rosaire and Corrette acrobats, plus special holiday films in the kinetograph.
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Wormwood
Europe
Frank
Jen Latora
Crane Brothers
Lew Hawkins
Chesterfield
John Birch
Charles
Jack Ahern
F. Reynard
Rosaire
Corrette
Chase Will Contest Hearing Delayed to Thursday
Lynn December 27 The hearing of the inquest before Judge Berry has been postponed until Thursday when Dr Chase is to be examined, delaying the Chase will contest proceedings.
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Lynn
Chase
Berry
Dr. Chase
Professor Hambach Injured by Fire Engine
St. Louis reports professor Gustav Hambach of Washington University geology and zoology, age 74, was struck by a fire engine and severely injured. He sustained a fractured skull, broken leg, scalp wound and internal injuries.
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St. Louis
Gustav Hambach
Washington University
United States
Hambach
College class contest opens today at Rice residence
The seventh annual triangular college chess league featuring Cornell Brown and the University of Pennsylvania begins today at Prof Isaac L Rice's River side drive home. The four day event has one round per day with two players from each college meeting the other four competitors. The second Rice trophy, held by Pennsylvania, is at stake with Penn leading championships since 1899, having won four tournaments to Cornell's two.
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New York
Cornell
Brown
University of Pennsylvania
Isaac L. Rice
Riverside Drive
Pennsylvania
Raymond Hitchcock Stars in The Galloper at Tremont
Raymond Hitchcock appears as Copeland Schuyler in The Galloper a three act farce by Richard Harding Davis at Tremont manager Henry W. Savage presents the production. The cast includes Edgar Davenport May Buckley Nanette Comestock Helen Lackaye and others in a war front setting with a host of correspondents and army types.
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Henry W. Savage
Raymond Hitchcock
Tremont Theatre
Mr. Hitchcock
Copeland Schuyler
New York
Red Cross
Kirke Warren
Schuyler
Warren
Newark
Savage
Edgar Davenport
Eastern “College Widow
May Buckley
Comedienne
Nanette Cometock
Otte Skinner
Helen Lackaye
Harry Stone
L. Rogers Lytton Herold Vicard
Herbert Cortell
T. Daniel Frawley
B. B. Tilton
M. W. Bale
Howard ‘ Scott Cooper
Missing heir Pratt may be found in Minnesota search
Duluth Minnesota December 27 James A Pratt aged 40 of Flushing Long Island heir to an estate worth over 1 million disappeared from his home on Easter day leaving a wife and five children. Police have not located him though sister May Pratt believes he may have gone west. The father's will named him executor but a codicil substitutes Brooklyn Trust Company. Since the father’s death heirs push to settle the estate promptly.
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Duluth
Minn
James A. Pratt
Flushing
L. L
Minnesota
May Pratt
Brooklyn Trust Company
North Chelmsford Mills Idle Amid Canal Break
The mills at North Chelmsford remain idle due to a canal break with no water entering the system. Workers built a temporary wooden sluiceway from the dam gateway to the canal to move water from Leach's pond, but pond levels are low. Gates above Leach's pond were opened to replenish the pond, and a cofferdam was erected at the break as earthwork resumes to restore flow.
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North Chelmsford
Albert's Little Dinner Pill Offers Stomach Relief Cure
A reader notes Albert's Little Dinner Pill, claimed to cure indigestion and chronic dyspepsia without harsh drugs. The ad asserts Dr. Hutchinson authored the remedy, promises relief from stomach troubles, and claims no opiates or dangerous ingredients, with a guaranteed improvement in well being.
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Albert
Hutchinson
London
Brighton
England
Dangerous Two Cent Economy Tale Sparks Debate
A fragment notes a sudden shift in pricing and policy as Sanford and Tat Bete are cited in a tale about cost, value, and risk. The item hints at public concern over cheap goods and unstable markets, with evolving attitudes toward economics.
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Sanford
Dr Flint's sanatorium and Cragin's wood works Lowell
Dr Flints sanatorium near Bridge street one mile from Merrimack square Lowell cares for maternity and other invalids except violent insanity Laer fading cases O A Flint MD Supt Cragin and Co manufacturers of wood tanks blocks and furniture 46 Fletcher street Lowell Mass Wm Clark Notices bank meetings annual Prescott National Bank Lowell January 9 1906 10 am E Sawyer cashier Wamesit National Bank January 16 1906 2 pm Dc Goulding cashier Lowell Mass December 15 1905
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F. W. Cragin & CO
Fletcher Street
Lowell
Mass
F. W. Cragin
W. BI
Clark
Union National Bank of Lowe Annual Stockholders Meeting
Stockholders of the Union National Bank of Lowe are notified the annual meeting to choose directors and for business will be held in the banking rooms on Wednesday January 3 1906 at 10 o clock a m. J F Sawyer Cashier Lowell Mass December 4 1905.
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Lowell Bank
Prescott National Bank of
Lowell
Central Street
Wamesit National Bank
Dc Goulding
Mass
J. F. Sawyer
Parker will trust notices to Melrose heirs and Parker heirs
To Alice Parker Lesser of Melrose trustee under Hiram Parker's will and to all persons interested in the trusts under said will.
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Alice Parker Lesser
Melrose
Hiram Parker
Lowell
Public Auction of Chelmsford Mortgage Property
By virtue of a mortgage deed dated January 1 18 and recorded in Middlesex County will be sold at public auction on Saturday the twentieth day of September 1906 at eleven in the forenoon on premises in Chelmsford, Middlesex County Massachusetts. The tract includes a building on Bartlets Street with about 24978 square feet and bounded by Hoyt land and other parcels, beginning at the southwest corner and running along the street to the corner, then northeast and southeast to end, conveying the described estate.
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Frank H. Crane
Boston
Suffolk
Romaine Boyd
Ensley
Alabama
Alice Parker Lesser
Hiram Parker
Lowell
Lowell Daily Corrier
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
W E. Rogers
Register
P. C
Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Waliami Hoyt
Morteages
Wanted Kitchener Call H dieers Street For Sale
Classified fragment shows a for sale notice referencing armours and a farm at Wes Killmardeon. Readable items include a street name and listing intent though details are fragmented.
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Kitchener Call
H Dieers Street
Armours
Net
Killmardeon Farm
Wes
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