New York Stock Market Opens With Small Losses
The New York stock market opened easy with declines led by Amalgamated Copper and Brooklyn Transit. By 11 a.m. a recovery followed as bears bought to cover, Sugar and Manhattan remained firm, while Metropolitan Securities receipts rose and St Joseph and Grand Island preferred fell.
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New York
Amalgamated Copper
Anaconda
Atchison
Brooklyn Transit
Canadian Pacific
Erie
Erie First
Missouri Pacific
Ontario & Western
Pennsylvania
Reading
Rock Island
St. Paul
Sugar
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Amalgamated
Chicago Great Western
Bears
Manhattan
International Pump
St. Joseph
Grand Island
Futures Open Steady As Markets Close Dec 30 New York
New York futures opened steady with December at 8.60, January 8.62, February 8.51, March 8.52, April 8.50, May 8.58, June 8.54, July 8.54, August 8.30 bid.
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New York
Mortgage filed in Mobile probate court for $475000
In Mobile Alabama yesterday morning Equitable Trust company of New York filed a mortgage in probate court. The mortgage is given by Mobile and Ohio and Chicago and Alton Railroad companies to secure payment for 500 railroad cars.
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Mobile
Ala
Equitable Trust Company of
New York
Mobile & Ohio
Chicago & Alton
Marine News Arrivals Reach Boston Ports For Dec 29
Boston dated December 30 reports the steamers Caledonian from London and Liverpool arrived December 29, the Ivernia from Boston via Genoa also on December 29, and the Sicilian Prince from New York completing arrivals in port.
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Boston
Caledonian
London
Liverpool
Ivernia
Genoa
New York
Obituary: Michael Hunt 77 and Ellen McMahon 43 Die
Michael Hunt aged 77 dies at home 68 Elm Street leaving five daughters Mrs James McNamara Mrs Michael Heslin Mrs Girard Mary J Hunt Nellie A Hunt a Lyon Street School teacher Ellen McMahon aged 43 dies at 639 Chelmsford Street leaving husband Frank two daughters Mrs Carrie Warren and Mrs Christina Laflamme one son Lindall McMahon two brothers Joseph and Peter Ahearn of this city and three sisters Mrs Angus McDonald Lawrence Mrs Thomas Gallagher Rockland Me and Mrs Edward Andrews Illinois
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Michael Hunt
Elm Street
St. Peter's Parish
James McNamara
Michael Heslin
Girard
Mary J. Hunt
Nellie A. Hunt
Lyon Street
Ellen McMahon
Chelmsford Street
Frank
Carrie Warren
Christina Laflamme
Lindall McMahon
Joseph
Peter Ahearn
This City
Angus McDonald
Lawrence
Thomas Gallagher
Rockland
Edward Andrews
Illinois
Funeral services for Irene F. E. Richardson held at home
Funeral services for Irene FE Richardson were held Saturday afternoon at 40 Walker Street with Rev. R A Greene officiating. Mrs D A Floyd sang appropriate selections. Bearers were the deceased's nephews. Burial followed in the Lowell cemetery family lot. Ela and Son arranged the services.
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Irene FE. Richardson
Walker Street
R. A. Greene
D. A. Floyd
Lowell Cemetery
Ela & Son
Parcel post in America discussed by postal expert
Ella Morris Kretschmar in Good Housekeeping relays Captain Maurice J. McGrath’s view that a U S parcel post faces insurmountable obstacles due to vast distances and costly deliveries, with Alaska cited as a prime example. He notes government-owned railroads aid parcel post feasibility elsewhere, but the U S network makes even a modest service prohibitive under present conditions.
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Maurice J. McGrath
Chicago
United States
Post
Postal Service
Captain McGrath
Ella Morris Kretschmar
Spencer I rask and Co Bankers Members New York Stock Exchange
Spencer I rask and Co is listed among bankers and members of the New York Stock Exchange. The notice highlights their role in financial markets and affiliation with the exchange.
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Spencer I Rask & Co
New York Stock Exchange
Betrayed by Rooster in Police Court Session
In the afternoon police court, Arthur Haramabolus was jailed for assault on keeper George Lykoures who struck him. Lykoures fined $5. Zeno Richard faced charges of concealing property tied to Walter Morrison, a Moody Street bicycle dealer, after a chaotic arrest in Middlesex Village with game cocks. Richard found guilty, fined $20 or three months’ jail. he had earlier paid $3 toward a wheel but vanished from the deal. George Baspard settled baggage removal charges with Mrs. Codding outside court.
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Arthur Haramabolus
George Lykoures
Lykoures
Haramabolus
Zeno Richard
Walter Morrison
Moody Street
Richard
Middlesex Village
Laflamme
Maher
Chanticleers
Zeno
Inspector Laflamme
Zeno and the Roosters
Morrison
George Baspard
Dewey Commands Caribbean Squadrons for Final Manœuvres
Washington reports three American squadrons now reassembling at Culebra for final manoeuvres beginning January 2. Admiral Dewey will directly command all three in tactical evolutions and fleet drills before they disperse to their respective stations. Rear Admiral Coghlan will stay with a division of the North Atlantic squadron in West Indian waters.
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Washington
Caribbean
West Indies
Culebra
Dewey
Coghlan
North Atlantic
West Indian
Acre dispute progresses toward settlement with arbitration likely
New York says Bolivia reports from La Paz that the Acre incident is progressing satisfactorily and should be settled soon. The Peruvian representative has discussed Huancane province boundaries with Bolivia's foreign minister, and arbitration by Argentina or the president is likely to decide the issue.
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New York
The
Herald
la Paz
Bolivia
Comercio
Brazil
Acre
Huancane
Sargentina
Wealthy Bostonian pleads guilty to $2700 theft
Boston December 29 Martin Welch, arrested in Hartford Saturday night and returned to Boston, pleaded guilty to stealing 2700 dollars from his father. He claimed half the money was his. After the plea he was held in 5000 dollars for the grand jury.
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Boston
Martin Welch
Hartford
Conn
Welch
Thoroughly fumigated ship clears quarantine
Halifax December 29. The steamship S S Assyria from Hamburg, with smallpox on board, has been fumigated and will proceed to Boston today after five days at the quarantine station. Passengers remain on Law Island and those without signs of disease will be released after 18 days.
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Halifax
N. S
Assyria
Hamburg
Boston
Law Island
Intercollegiate Chess Tourney Opens at Columbia Grammar
The eleventh annual intercollegiate chess tournament began in New York with four students from Columbia Harvard Yale and Princeton. Today’s matches pitted Columbia against Princeton and Yale against Harvard at the Columbia grammar school.
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New York
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia Grammar School
Postmaster Appointments Listed for Several States
Washington December 29 announces new postmasters for multiple states including Vermont East Dummerston Mary E Brown Maine Lewiston Junction Charles SS Patterson Massachusetts South Carver Henry B Griffith with appointments reflecting federal postings. The brief notice records a sequence of geographic and personal names as part of the routine federal staffing actions.
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Washington
Vermont
East Dummerston
Mary E. Brown
Maine
Lewiston Junction
Charles SS. Patterson
Massachusetts
South Carver
Henry 8. Griffith
Venezuelan Matters Rest With Castro In Caracas
Washington dispatch reports Venezuela’s negotiations awaiting President Castro. Bowen will represent Venezuela in drafting the protocol for submission to The Hague arbitration, with Rus-sell to assume duties when Bowen departs Caracas, and Castro expected to decide shortly. A settlement by arbitration is assured regardless of Castro’s reservations.
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Castro
Bowen
State Department
London
Berlin
Rome
Hague Tribunal
United States
Venezuela
Caracas
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Russell
American Legation
Associated Press
Foreign Office
Andijan Earthquake Kills Nearly Five Thousand
Reports from Andijan state about 4800 people died in the quake and aftershocks. More than 1000 square miles were affected with 1600 deaths in Andijan towns and the rest in surrounding areas. The disaster included a ground cleft and continued shocks for 15 minutes amid rain and a hurricane. Local natives and soldiers worked to disinter the dead and living as cries arose from buried families. Governor Ivanoff sent words of the garrison and populace praying for the czar on his Name Day amid ruins.
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St. Petersburg
Andijan
Ivanoff
Fron
Maine Game Sees Record Hunting and Fishing activity in 1962
The annual inland fisheries and game report shows 133,885 visitors to Maine for extended vacations, with 461 moose killed and an estimated 20,000 deer killed statewide. Guides report 6070 deer killed with guides and 2489 by unguided parties. 1,250,000 fish were hatched across five hatcheries. The commission urges a non resident license law for big game hunting.
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Augusta
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game
Leroy T. Carleton
Winthrop
Henry
Maine
Report Denied on British Marines at La Guaira
Caracas dispatch reports that no British marines have landed at La Guaira and that Commodore Montgomerie says no landing occurred. He notes such an action would contradict British policy toward Venezuela.
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Caracas
Venezuela
United States
Montgomerie
Great Britain
Doings at La Guaira on December 29
The Dutch steamer Prins Willem V from Amsterdam arrived and discharged her cargo after preliminaries. The German school ship Charlotte also arrived. The British cruiser Tribune captured another schooner and sloop.
Earthquakes Hit Andijan And Ecuador Rail Service Restored
Ashkabad reports another violent earth shock at Andijan with passenger service on the Andijan railroad interrupted but now restored. In Guayaquil Ecuador a slight quake was felt last night as well.
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Ashkabad
Russian Turkestan
Andijan
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Von Richthofen awaits Castro reply on arbitration plan
Berlin December 29 Foreign Secretary Von Richthofen awaits President Castro's answer to a proposal that the Venezuelan dispute be submitted to The Hague tribunal with reservations. He would then discuss with Britain the tribunal’s personnel or the blockade's possible date for lifting matters.
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Berlin
von Richthofen
Castro
Hague Tribunal
Great Britain
Compliments for Roosevelt Reach St. Petersburg
General satisfaction is expressed in St. Petersburg at the turn of affairs in the Venezuelan controversy. Roosevelt is praised for forcing recognition of The Hague Tribunal, described by the Bourse Gazette as a splendid Christmas gift to Europe.
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St. Petersburg
Roosevelt
Hague Tribunal
Bourse Gazette
Europe
Tri-State Arrest Of Austrian Wanted For Schenectady Murder
Antonio Tornitta an Austrian charged in the November murder of Franketti Martine in a Schenectady saloon was arrested in Whitmanham Vermont by local officers with Sheriff Morrissey of Stanford. He admitted striking Martino and agreed to return to New York for customary papers, and was lodged in the city prison awaiting directions. Tornitta was a wood chopper in Whittham and the Vermont officers consented to the measure.
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North Adams
Antonio Tornitta
Schenectady
N. Y
Franketti Martine
Whittinham
Morrissey
Stanford
Tornitta
Martino
New York
Vermont
Life Sentence After Guilty Plea in Turners Falls Murder
In Greenfield on December 29 Louis Martin Bitzer of Turners Falls retracted a not guilty plea and pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree. He was sentenced to life in the State prison at Charlestown with one day in solitary confinement. The case concerned the murder of Ida May Columbe on December 31, 1901. no mention was made of a second indictment for his infant son’s murder. The court, Judges Fessenden and Aiken, adjourned after the proceeding.
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Louis Martin Bitzer
Fessenden
Aiken
Bitzer
Charlestown
Parker
Frederick L. Greene
Mythical Conference Hype Over Union Pacific Talks
In New York on December 29, a reported stock conference between E. H. Harriman and labor leaders of Union Pacific employes had not occurred by noon. The official said he knew of no meeting, Harriman was in the city with nothing to disclose, and labor leaders had not arrived at the Ashland House.
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New York
Union Pacific Railroad
E. H. Harriman
Union Pacific Company
Ashland House
Union Pacific
Poisoned wine death in Chicago amid family quarrel
Richard Cummings, 50, died after receiving a Christmas bottle of wine at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Shanahan in Ashland avenue. Police say Mary Moniak delivered the wine for the Moniak family as a peace offering. Mrs. Shanahan drank some and suffered severe pains. William Moniak Theresa Moniak and their 14 year old daughter Mary are held on suspicion of poisoning.
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Chicago
Richard Cummings
Lizzie Shanahan
Ashland Avenue
William Moniak
Theresa Moniak
Mary
Cummings
Woman Offered Wine To Niece Then Died Soon After
A woman shared wine with her niece who found it bitter. The woman drank the remaining wine and died within a day. Authorities investigate the circumstances of the death and whether the beverage contributed to her demise.
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Cummings
Paradise Girl Arrested Over Dispute with Father
Ora Paradise, about 16, was arrested Friday by Detective O Dowd at Manchester Street on a complaint from her Lowell, Massachusetts father. She had left home 14 months ago, spent time in a mill, and recently been seen on the streets. She was released to her father to return to Lowell.
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Ora Paradise
O'Dowd
Lowell
Mass
Ora
Paradise
Manchester Street
Inspector O'Dowd
Manchester Union
Praise For Buck in Tokyo Papers After Death
The Japan Times in English calls Colonel Buck one of the American diplomatic service’s most picturesque figures and a friend of Japan, noting his death as a loss to both nations. The steamer Tartar carried these sympathies from Victoria to report.
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Victoria
B. C
Japan
Buck
Japan Times of
Tokio
Dominion steam er Lady Laurier damaged at sea
A cable from Halifax reports the Dominion government’s steamship Lady Laurier, which departed Greenock in Scotland last week for Halifax, returned to Greenock damaged. The Evolution, adrift at Charlottetown in a gale, has been towed in. Britannia ashore near Liscomb has been freed and towed to Halifax. Bertha Nickerson towed from Newfoundland for repairs.
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Halifax
N. S
Dominion
Lady Laurier
Greenock
Scotland
Evolution
Charlottetown
Britannia
Liscomb
Bertha Nickerson
Newfoundland
James B Chase Dies at 86 in Lynn
James B. Chase, Lynn’s oldest shoe manufacturer, died at 86. He started the business in 1887 and carried it on until about three years ago. He lent $200 to Elias Howe to help perfect the sewing machine invention. His first presidential vote was for Henry Clay.
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Lynn
James B. Chase
Elias Howe
Henry Clay
Banker Missing Strands as $23750 Securities Vanish
Berlin reports Albert Heyde sub manager at Potsdam branch of National bank Fuer Deutschland missing. An investigation reveals $23,750 in securities are also missing, prompting an official inquiry.
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Berlin
Albert Heyde
Potsdam
Bank
Fuer Deutschland
Girl Missing From Helena Delaney Home
Helena Delaney, 17, has been missing from First Street Extension since December 10. Her parents seek help locating her. she left to work at Boott Corporation and had mentioned Lawrence as a possible job site. Authorities and her family fear for her safety as efforts to locate her have been unsuccessful.
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Helens Delaney
First Street
Boott Corporation
Lawrence
Mayor Seth Low Dines With Governor Odell In Albany
Albany December 29 Mayor Seth Low of New York visited Governor Odell at the executive chamber and shared luncheon. Both men declined comment after their conference, understood to concern municipal matters.
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Albany
N. Y
Seth Low
New York
Odell
Sultan Scared in Fez as Moroccans Rebel
Tangier dispatches report the Sultan retreating to Fez with artillery and barricading the palace amid rebel threats. English women missionaries are leaving Fez and Tetuan for the coast, while Spain readies troops at Malaga Cadiz and Algeciras to reinforce Ceuta and Melilla. Madrid says the situation is serious but not hopeless. various units move to Morocco and European warships may follow.
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Morocco
Fez
Londo
Ysterday
London
Tetuan
Mequinez
Madrid
Malaga
Cadiz
Angeciras
Ceuta
Melilla
Silvela
Algeciras
Crocodiles in America on the Florida coast
An eyewitness tale from Country Life in America describes encountering a large Florida crocodile near the Everglades. After a long chase with harpoons, the hunter lands a 14 foot crocodile with a damaged tail and broken tooth, noting the crocodile as more active and shy than alligators and commenting on the edible flesh differences.
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Florida
Everglades
America
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