Stock Market Opening in New York Steady But Varied
New York markets opened steady with Amalgamated Copper around 654 and major rail and steel names showing mixed moves. Early gains for Chesapeake & Ohio and Missouri Pacific contrasted with losses for Rock Island and Northwestern while Sugar and Colorado Fuel weakened. Overall, the market remained sluggish and irregular with only select blocks shifting.
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New York
Amalgamated Copper
Atchison
Baltimore and Ohio
Brooklyn Transit
Chesapeake and Ohio
Colorado Southern
Erie
Louisville
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Paul
Sugar
Southern
Southern Pacific
Texas Pacific
Union Pacific
United States Steel
St. Paul
Rock Ifsland
Northwestern
Chesapeake & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Colorado & Southern Common
Second Preferred
Louisville and Fuller
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Sault Ste. Marie
Colorado
Futures open steady with July to March prices listed
From New York on July 8 futures opened steady showing July at 8.65 and August 8.39. September 8.08 October 7.92 November 7.86 December 7.85 January 7.86 February 7.87 and March 7.86.
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New York
Monticello Abandoned After Stranding on Cuttyhunk
Pasque Island reports that the two masted schooner Monticello, a 30 ton vessel built in 1860 at Bristol and from Portland, was abandoned today after being stranded on Cuttyhunk Island last Monday night.
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Pasque Island
Cuttyhunk Island
Bristol
Portland
Two More Coal Ships Added to Overdue List
San Francisco reports two British vessels now overdue. The Cumberland is four days out of Newcastle for Taltal, and the Earl's Count is eight days out of Newcastle for Valparaiso.
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San Francisco
Cal
Cumberland
Newcastle
Australia
Newcastl
Valparaiso
Moltke Arrives from Hamburg at New York
The steamer Moltke arrived in New York from Hamburg on July 8, bringing passengers and cargo. No incidents reported. customs and port authorities underway with standard processing.
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New York
Moltke
Hamburg
Queen Alexandra Hosts Ten Thousand London Servants
London observers report Queen Alexandra opened a day of events for ten thousand domestic staff with the mayoral and official leaders in attendance. Guests were presented with gifts from the Queen including a box of chocolates and a silver gilt brooch.
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London
Queen Alexandra
Core Makers' union installs officers for next six months
Fraternal Core Makers' union No. 12 held its semi monthly meeting Monday night. Officers elected earlier were installed for the ensuing six months: president John Richardson, vice president Edward Cromby, treasurer James Ray, financial secretary John Hoar, recording secretary Henry Turner. New officers presided over the regular business.
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Core Makers’ Union, No. 12
John Richardson
Edward Cromby
James Ray
John Hoar
Henry Turner
Clergy Fathers Planned Southern Vacation Trip
Rev Fr Carney of St Michael s Church here and Rev Fr Finnick of Marlboro will take a vacation in the South, planning rest and travel together.
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Carney
St. Michael's Church
Finnick
Marlboro
Vanderbilt Gift Aims to Build Yale Scientific Dormitory
A Vanderbilt gift to Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School outlined by Prof Russell H Chittenden includes a dormitory system and a large land tract around Wall Temple College and Grove streets with a dormitory building to be erected. Real estate experts estimate the donation at about half a million dollars.
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New Haven
Conn
Frederick W. Vanderbilt
New York
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
Russell H. Chittenden
Vanderbilt
Wall, Temple
College
Grove Streets
Freight Strike Paralyzes Chicago Rail Hubs
A freight handler strike in Chicago tied up 24 railroads with 9000 workers walking out over wage, overtime, and union recognition demands. Police mobilized 250 reserve men, while teamsters show solidarity by withdrawing from nonunion freight tasks. Arbitration efforts by the state seek rapid peace amid widespread disruption.
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Chicago
Curran
Union
Teamsters
O'Neil
Cincinnati & St. Louis
Chicago & Great Western
Baltimore & Ohio
Erie
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Chicago Terminal Transfer Company
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Rock Island & Pacific
Chicago & Alton
Monon
Illinois Central
Job
State Board of Arbitration
Coronation Planned Between August Eleventh and Fifteenth
Royal orbit report from London notes provisional date for King Edward VII coronation between August 11 and August 15. Ceremony scaled back from original plan with shorter procession and simplified Westminster Abbey service. Prince of Wales thanks God for his father’s recovery at Raphael Nurses' Home opening.
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London
Edward
Westminster Abbey
Raphael
Guys Hospital
Prince of Wales
Guy's Hospital
Tragic Cigarette Death Sparks Inquest in Boarding House
Mary Gagne an 18 year old mill worker living at 2 Coolidge Street died after smoking two packs of cigarettes on Saturday. Dr Patenaude says peritonitis caused death not tied to smoking. Parents reside in St Lombard Canada and sister Albina of Manchester has been notified.
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Mary Gagne
Coolidge Street
Patenaude
Courier-Citizen
Tremont
Suffolk Mills
St. Lombard
Canada
Albina
Manchester
Explosion at Eagle mills injures watcher and wrecks boiler
In Woonsocket Rhode Island July 7 an explosion at Eagle Mills blew the centre boiler destroying the engine room and scattering stone and timber. Watchman Irving A Briggs was thrown through a door with broken ribs and severe injuries. A brass flue and brick chimney were displaced and a dozen beams ruined. one boiler in a trio destroyed, others only slightly damaged. Estimated loss stands at 12000 dollars.
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Woonsocket
R. I
Eagle Mills Corporation
Irving A. Briggs
Saranac mills see limited return to work amid strike
Blackstone July 1 The Saranac mills of the American Woolen company opened gates to offer strikers a chance to return before imported help arrives. Strikers did not respond and only a small portion of the weaving department operated. Quiet has returned since Italians withdrawn. more strike breakers expected, with no Waterford police protection beyond 18 special deputies from Boston guards.
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Blackstone
Saranac Mills
American Woolen Company
Waterford
Boston
Injuries and deaths across Massachusetts reported
Springfield man Frank Pinot is fatally injured after a fall from a street car near Indian Orchard. Clinton innkeeper Frank Merrill faces liquor charge with a $75 fine and an appeal. Jamaica Plain youth Edward Bowler fractures his skull after a barn scaffold fall. John Sullivan, 29, drowns in Jamaica Pond while boating. Cambridge teen Emeline Emerald saves a boy at North End baths and may receive a humane society medal. Waltham man Patrick Gilligan dies by suicide on Newton Street Bridge. Roxbury father and son burn in a clothes fire at home. Hadley immigrant John Kuhyt fatally injured on Central Massachusetts road track. Lawrence tax rate remains $15.60 per $1000 with valuation $41,657,488, up $1,054,540.
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Frank Pinot
Springfield
Indian Orchard
House of Mercy
Lawrence
Trolley Injuries Worsen as City Reports Fatal Wounds
In Gloversville New York on Friday night a trolley crash left Edward Schell George Fischer and City Recorder Wood in critical danger with severe injuries. Schells abdomen was torn and thigh flesh cut. Fischers skull fracture caused delirium. Wood may lose leg and blood loss endangers him. Benjamin Rice shows improvement. Daily reports describe exhausted doctors and many new injuries in private homes.
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Gloversville
Edward Schell
Geo. Fischer
City Recorder Wood
Schell
George Fischer
Recorder Wood
Benjamin Rice
Jis
Shome
Camden officer Felton dies by own action in office
Colonel Geo B Felton deputy quartermaster general of the national guard of New Jersey was found dead in his Camden office today. He aged 53 and former Camden city treasurer. He was heavily involved in real estate and financial troubles are believed to have driven his suicide by inhaling illuminating gas.
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Camden
N. J
Geo. B. Felton
National Guard of New Jersey
Col. Felton
Suit to restrain United States Steel stock to bonds
A new suit was filed in Trenton by counsel for Miriam Berger to stop converting preferred stock of United States Steel into bonds. Vice Chancellor Emery granted a rule to show cause returnable July 15 and issued a temporary order restraining the conversion. J Pierpont Morgan & Co. are named as party defendants in the action.
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Trenton
N. J
United States Steel Corporsion
Court of Chancery
Emery
Newark
Miriam Berger
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
Winter Harbor Fire Destroys $10,000 Property In Maine
In Bar Harbor Me on July 7 a blaze threatened Winter Harbor but was finally checked after destroying ten thousand dollars worth of property. Sehoodie Inn Edward Hammond's livery stable the Tracy block and nearby residence and stable owned by Nathan Hammond burned. The Tracey block housed tenants including the New England Telephone company and the Masonic society. Losses are insured.
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Bar Harbor
Winter Harbor
Sehoodie Inn
Edward Hammond
Wreck at Manchester Derails Freight in Yard
Derailment in Manchester New Hampshire halted all passenger trains both directions at 11 30 with a heavy northbound freight brake incident. Lighter cars were telescoped by heavier cars, two cars left on tracks and contents scattered. Tracks cleared by 3 30.
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Manchester
N. H
Students Firebugs Spark Commons Rustication Debate
London July 7 in the House of Commons, Winston Spencer Churchill and Ivor Churchill Guest both Conservatives pressed the rustication of cadets at the Royal Military College Sandhurst. The debate centered on disciplinary measures and the implications for military training and morale.
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London
Winston Spencer Churchill
Ivor Churchill Guest
House of Commons
Royal Military College
Sand
Reverend George Darling Dies After Brief Illness
Rev George Darling died last week Tuesday at his daughter's home in Warren Pennsylvania after a brief illness. Born October 24 1821 in Sterling he spent his youth in Holden. A Union College and Princeton Theological Seminary graduate he served 43 years in the ministry including 32 years in two West pastorates and earlier in this city. After retiring at 70 he lived in Cambridge and Warren. He was known for broad views and charitable judgments reflecting his preached truths.
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George Darling
Warren
Sterling
Holden
Union College
Princeton Theological Seminary
Cambridge
Notable deaths claim several notable figures in US history
A sequence of obituary notices reports Chief Justice Marshall J. Williams of Ohio aged 65 dying at home in Columbus from diabetes after four terms on the state supreme bench. Also dies John Stromberg composer and Weber Fields orchestra leader at his Freeport summer home from heart paralysis after rheumatism. born in Prince Edward Island, 42. Colonel William Henry Perry former South Carolina congressman 1885 1891 dies, Civil War Confederate veteran. Dr George B E Tyler Colorado health secretary dies in Denver of typhoid pneumonia, son in law of Senator Henry M Teller. Sylvester B Breed of Lynn dies at 35 in Camden Maine from pneumonia. son of Amies F Breed, linked to Boston Lynn clubs and Oxford club, once involved in leather business and divorce publicity.
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Marshall J. Williams
Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus
Ohio
Supreme Bench
John Stromberg
The
Weber & Fields Company of
New York
Freeport
L. L
Prince Edward Island
George BE. Tyler
Colorado State Board of Health
Denver
United States
Henry M. Teller
Sylvester B. Breed
Lynn
Amies F. Breed
Camden
Mr. Breed
Boston
Breed
Funeral of Alice H. Frankland at St. Patrick’s cemetery
The funeral of Alice H. Frankland was held from her parents home at 70 Seventeenth Street at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Burial followed in St. Patrick's cemetery with Undertaker O'Donnell in charge.
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Alice H. Frankland
Seventeenth Street
St. Patrick's Cemetery
O'Donnell
Birth notices from 7 July in city records
In this city on July 7 at the homes of their parents, Marie Flore Elliott age 20 days at 32 South street Henri and Al bina Elliott. Aurore La rouge age 6 months at 18 Reed's court Louis and Josephine Larouge. Andrew Crowe age 4 years at 137 Willey street Michael and Annie Crowe. Dorothy McCullough age not stated at 33 Chestnut street John and Annie McCullough.
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Elliott
Henri and
Albina
South Street
Marie Flore Elliott
Larouge
Louis
Josephine
Reed's Court
Aurore Larouge
Crewe
Michael
Annie
Willey Street
Andrew Crowe
McCullough
John
Chestnut Street
Dorothy McCullough
Laxative Bromo-Qui-nine Tablets Ad
E. W. Grove name appears on every box of the genuine remedy Laxative Bromo Qui nine Tablets priced at 25 cents, marketed as a cold cure in one day.
Society Woman Hosts Dog Birthday Party in Indianapolis
An Indianapolis society woman recently held a birthday party for her beloved dog. The event reflects social customs of the era and highlights personal leisure above public reform efforts.
Three workers escape wreck in Woburn tannery collapse
Middlesex County Woburn three workmen Joseph Lyden Patrick Beadly of Woburn and John OMelia of Winchester narrowly escaped death when part of an old brick boiler house at Maxwell tannery on Cross street collapsed during demolition. All suffered cuts and bruises Lyden may be internally injured and was taken to Woburn Emergency hospital while the others were sent home.
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Joseph Lyden
Patrick Beadly
Woburn
John O’melia
Winchester
Maxwell Tannery
Cross Street
Lyden
Dracut Lawn Party Aids Library Curio Room Fund
Dracut plans a Belle Grove lawn party to raise funds for a curio and natural history room in the library. A subscription list led by Calvin Richardson includes Rev. W. A. Lamb and many local donors. Committee roles cover tickets, dancing, ice cream, lemonade, cake, flowers, candy, and cigars sourced from Cuba via Butler Ames.
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Dracut
Belle Grove
Calvin Richardson
W. A .Lamb
Los Angeles
Cal
Henry F. Peabody
Bert Smithgon
D. S. Fox
R. S. Fox
Emma Varnum
Kenwood
Flowers
George Fox
Candy
W. E. Dodge
Burden
Bert Smithson
Miss Shepard
Granville Coburn
Eaton
Baxter
Cuba
Butler Ames
Receiver Appointed In Gas Syndicate Bond Case
In Trenton on July 8 Judge Andrew Kilpatrick named George D. Halleck as receiver for the Bay State Gas company of New Jersey, holding $160,000 bond value, amid allegations of defaulted interest totaling $278,937 and a $9,000,000 liability. The case targets the Addicks Dillaway syndicate over Boston gas holdings. The four Boston gas firms and the trust company are central, with a Delaware affiliate involved and a sinking fund in default.
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Trenton
N. J
Bay State Gas Company
New Jersey
J. Edward Addicks
William BE. L. Dillaway
Boston
Andrew Kilpatrick
United States Circuit Court
George D. Halleck
F. L. Day & Co
New York
Boston United Gas
Addicks Syndicate
Mercantile Trust Company
Trust Company
Boston Gaslight Company
Roxbury Gaslight Company
South
Delaware Company
Dry Goods Market Remains Quiet In Textile Trade
The dry goods market shows quiet activity with mills busy on orders yet new business small. Prices stay firm for brown cottons and breached cottons, while exports weaken due to soft demand and China trade. Wool and yarn markets hold firm though conditions vary, with retailers holding stock and fall orders shaping the near term outlook.
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China
Fall River
New York
Boston
Definitions of a Kiss
A playful, period voice offers numerous witty definitions of a kiss as a shared, intimate act. The piece presents a collage of metaphors, describing kissing as nourishment for love, a bond between two, and a social signal amid courtship and marriage.
Death of the Duke of Norfolk's Only Son
London July 8 The Earl of Arun del and Surrey, only son of the Duke of Norfolk, died this morning at Arun del Castle Sussex. Heir of the premier duke and earl had been a cripple since birth born Sept 7 1879.
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London
Earl of
Burdock Blood Bitters Promises Digestive Help
An 1890s style ad claims Half the ills that man is heir to come from indigestion. Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens and tones the stomach, makes indigestion impossible.
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New York Market
Marine News
Fisk & Robinson
New York Stock Exchange
Cedar Street
State Street
Spencer I Rask & Co
Pine St
Philip R. Hovey
Investment Securities
American Telephone
NEW England Telephone
Sears & CO
Middlesex St. Lowell
Boston Stock Exchange
Percene
Brodrick
Sandhurst
Lord Roberts
Westminster
Massachusetts
Frank H. Merrill
Clinton
Smith
Edward Bowler
Thomas R. Bowler
Jamaica Plain
Gardner Monday
Massachusetts General Hospital
John Sullivan
Jamaica Pond
Emeline Emerald
North End Baths
Miss Emerald
North End
Humane Society
Joseph Graves
Patrick J. Gilligan
Waltham
Newton Street
Charles River
Thomas Walsh
Michael T. Walsh
Roxbury
Boston City Hospital
John Kuhyt
Hadley
Kuhyt
Maine
Parliament
William Henry Perry
Congress
South Carolina
Perry
E. W. Grove
Courier-Citizen Co
Merrimack St
Middle St
Middlesex County
Conway Transfer Co
Northern Depot
DRY Goods Market
Windsor
Denison
Nicholas G. Norcross
Insurance
Central Street
Lowell, Mass
Courier
Duke of Norfolk
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