Market Opens Weak With Large Block Trades Amid Stagnation
New York June 5 stock market opened weak with heavy offerings in key issues. Amalgamated Copper and U S Steel fell, Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific also declined, and sugar ex dividend. Rallies formed but failed to recapture opening lows as broad list remained feverish and irregular. A long passage then shifts to a natural history note on the song sparrow, describing its singing behavior and qualities in a separate editorial-like passage.
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New York
Amalgamated Copper
Atchison
Baltimore & Ohio
Brooklyn Transit
Canadian Pacific
Erie
Erie First
Louisville
Manhattan
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Ontario & Western
Pennsylvania
Reading
Rock Island
Sugar
St. Paul
Southern Pacific
Southern
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Wabash
U.S
American
Minors Central
Consolidated Gas
Union Bay
Hocking Coal
Amalgamated
United States Express
St. Louis-Southwestern
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Futures open barely steady in New York markets
On June 5 in New York futures opened barely steady with July at 11.21, August 10.72, September 10.14, October 9.69, November 9.43, December 9.43, and January 9.42 for the active contract months.
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New York
Government Receipts and Market Liquidation Affect Holdings
Government receipts from internal revenue total $811,934, customs $1,060,677, and miscellaneous $119,664 while expenditures run $1,620,000. It is believed that American Telephone holdings of a prominent estate have been placed on the market, contributing to weakness, with notable New York held stock also liquidated.
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New York
The Cotton Crop Conditions Report Highlights Mixed Gains
Dun's Review reports mixed outcomes across the cotton belt. Alabama and Georgia show better stands and rapid growth with good rains, while Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Arkansas face poor stands and replanting. Flooding in Arkansas and slow progress in Tennessee and Texas temper optimism.
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Dun
R. G. Dun & Co
Cotton Belt
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Tennessee
Arkansas
Texas
The Song Sparrows Long, Varied Song Minstrel Charms
The song sparrow, common in city parks and open fields, is a small brown bird with a speckled breast and a single black midline dot. It perches low, hides easily, and sings from a stump or sapling, listing many distinct notes as a vaudeville artist might.
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Thrash
John J O'Brien obituary of Celtics member at 22 Clare Street
John J O'Brien aged 27 died this morning at his home on 22 Clare street. He leaves his brother Michael F O'Brien and was a well known member of the Celtics.
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John J. O'Brien
Clare Street
Michael F. O'Brien
The
Celtics
Funerals Held For James Green And Leon Tillotson
The funeral of James Green proceeded from his home at 11 Little Street with mass at St. Patrick's Church at 9 led by Rev. Fr. Duffy. Choir, solos by Frank McCarthy and Mr. Bond, bearers Scully Green Barry Gray McManus Scully. Commital at St. Patrick's Cemetery. Undertaker Savage. Leon Tillotson funeral at 208 Appleton Street with Rev. Mr. Dean officiating, singing by Bond and Kershaw, Rutherford and Bennett. Remains sent to Elizabethtown NY. Undertaker Young.
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James Green
Little Street
St. Patrick's Church
Fr. Duffy
Schmidt
Frank McCarthy
Mr. Bond
William Scully
George Green
James Barry
Thomas Gray
Bernard McManus
George Scully
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Savage
Leon Tillotson
Appleton Street
Mr. Dean
Fred A. Bond
Kershaw
Obituary notices for Symonds Pelsue Whithed Worcester and Amherst
In Worcester on June 3 Robert A Symonds aged 44 funeral services at his residence 82 Congress street Saturday at 2 pm. George W Pelsue aged 57 of Dracuta died at corporation hospital. In Amherst New Hampshire on June 4 Mrs Gratia T Whithed widow of Darius Whithed formerly of the city funeral at Lowell cemetery chapel Monday June 8 at 1 pm. Friends invited.
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Lowell
Dee
Lexington and Boston Street Railway seeks new tracks in Billerica
The Lexington and Boston Street Railway Company requests additional track locations and extensions in Billerica to connect with existing lines and enable a double track system. Plans include a second Bedford Road track, a Cummings Street connection, and routes via Bedford Street Turnpike, with overhead lines and necessary switches. A public hearing is ordered for June 22 at 7:45 pm at Town Hall, with notices to be run in Lowell Daily Courier.
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Newtonville
Mass
Billerica
Lexington and Boston Street Railway Company
Bedford Or Great Road
Billerica Centre
Bedford Town Line
Great Road
Cummings Street
Lowell and Boston Street Railway Company
Boston and Maine Railroad
Bedford Street
Bedford Town
Board of Selectmen
Lexington and Boston St. Ry. Co
Adams D. Claflin
Commonwealth
Richard T. Perry
John A. Richardson
Memorial Day Observed in West Acton and Area Funerals
Memorial Day activities included graves at Hope Cemetery decorated by the Isaac Davis Post Relief Corps and local schoolchildren with Rev E Easterbrook leading prayers and songs. Other items note a 45th wedding anniversary at Holden home, Memorial Day services at Woodlawn and Gettysburg address by Geo Burns, and local notices on a new house, a Clover puzzle prize, and civic club plans for a July 4 picnic and Nottinggrove ball field dedication.
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Mr. Hope Cemetery
Isaac Davis
Relief Corps
E. Easterbrook
Miss Brown
Alec Monroe
Clough
H. T. Clark
West Acton
Mercy Davis Smith
Jamaica Plain
Mississippi
Silas Davis
Beddoe
Smith T. Ford
Lowell
Weber Quartette
Boston
George Hutchins
Stoneham
Sumner Teele
West Somerville
Etta Blanchard
Worcester
Grace Richardson
Baptist
Fannie Teele
Cushing Academy
Roscoe Knowlton
Harvard Medical School
Jessie Knowlton
Alice M. Hall
Wellesley College
B. Hall
John Hapgood
Old Homestead
Middlesex Northwest Temperance Union
Littleton
Geo. J. Burns
Ayer
D. H. Goodell
New Hampshire
Walter O. Holden
Somerville
Watertown
Concord
Wesley Gray
Mabel Davenport
Washington Street
David Hubbard
Sandy Pond
John Ryan
Nation Land
Gen. Thomas
Chicamauga
John Carrigan
Shirley Street
Evelyn Sanderson
Clare
Hazel Perry
Mary Leahey
Main Street
T. A. Fisher
America
Louisa Burns
The
Baptist Church
Woodlawn
Pleasant Street
Cambridge and
Pleasant Streets
Dickson
Woodlawn Cemetery
E. H. Brenan
Lincoln
Gettysburg
RE. O. Harlow
Kansas
Addie
California
Webster Powell
Powell
Dorchester
M. E
Smith Carleton
P. A. Carleton
Mary's Parish
Town Hall
Helen E. Hartwell
Sarah “J. Tuten
Flora L. Pierce
Nannie EB. Sanderson
Mamie A. Carley
Emily M. Robinson
Sabrina Bixby
Elaine Walker
Clara L. Burns
Ruth M. Clark
Lillah M. Woodbury
Annie T. Moses
Nellie F. Kittredge
Abbie F. Wyman
S. T. Tuten
Hartwell
Fred L. Cumings
Fitchburg
Leander W
Frances (Wright) Cumings
Townsend
Lawrence Academy
S. P. Morgan
Augustus Lovejoy
Artemas Wright
Nottinggrove
Local nine triumphs as Palmers fall 9 to 2
Bert catches the win in a strong game against the Revere club of Nashua, lifting the local nine to a fifth straight victory. Riley the Graniteville pitcher shone with three hits including a home run, while Healy and Riley formed the battery for the home team and Charlton plus Hart ford starred in the field.
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Bert
Revere
Nashua
Healy
Nine
Horace Caunter
Palmers
Lowell
North Chelmsford
Riley
Kane
King
Graniteville
Charlton
Harry Hartford
Nutting
Horne
McCarty
Loftus
Roy Hartford
Rafferty
Pepperells
Schoolchildren perform patriotic exercises at town hall
Last Friday the town hall hosted school children with a varied program. The opening number Speed Our Republic featured all schools followed by recitations and songs including The Thin Line of Blue by Mary Guthrie and The Flag by grade 4. Lillian Carleton recited True Heroism and the high school chorus sang There's a Beautiful Flag. Shirley street primary presented Patriot lowers and Bonnie Flag, Main street primary performed recitations.
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Our Republic
Mary Guthrie
Lillian Carleton
Shirley Street
Bonnie
Main Street
Memorial Day Quietly Observed by Village Residents
Memorial Day passed quietly as villagers gathered at Westford town hall for exercises despite threatening weather. The Graniteville Cornet band performed in the hall and later gave an outdoor Pepperell concert, receiving praise from Pepperell residents for their show. Ed Defoe noted a reunion with Bert DeRoehn while waiting for the return train.
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Westford Town Hall
Graniteville Cornet
Pepperell
Ed. Defoe
Bert DeRoehn
A. A
Bedford Notes On Health Families and Local Changes
Modern temperance lessons from the Rechabites to be explained by Den L B Smith at the C E meeting next Sunday. Dr and Mrs Shaffer plan to open their Bel Terre home for invalids and convalescents with Prof H Herbert Cook as part of a health oriented school and gymnasium. Joseph McCann named station agent at Bedford Springs replacing Edward P Kelly. Lucius Page Lane dies in Boston. funeral at Shawneen cemetery. public school teachers held a visiting day. Hughes home festivities begin with New York cousin Charles Puffer and Capt and Mrs William Reed of Newburyport arriving for the wedding events.
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den. L. B. Smith
C. E
William Vincent Shaffer
Gragg Place
Bedford
Edward P. Kelly
Waverley
Edward Evans
Sweetwater Hotel
W. G. Webbers
W. G. Webber
Dr. Wood
Wareham
Webbers
Lucius Page Lane
Boston
Jonathan A. Lane
Lane
Shawsheen Cemetery
Hughes
Charles Puffer
New York
William Reed
Newburyport
Mosquito control method with sponge and kerosene
A contemporary suggests a new way to deal with skeet by tying a sponge to a stick, dipping it in kerosene, and holding it under the mosquito, which allegedly dies instantly. The idea is compared to catching a bird with salt on its tail.
Gotham Women in Gambling Spark Citywide Frenzy
A Collier's Weekly piece by David Graham Phillips describes a sweeping gambling craze among New York's elite. Women from fashionable circles increasingly bet at tracks, pool rooms, and private rooms while Wall Street firms court female clients. The piece also notes rising policy fraud in tenement districts and chronicles vivid colonial crocodile-hunting anecdotes from Jamaica and Jamaica harbor.
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New York
David Graham Phillips
Collier's Weekly
Wall Street
Saratoga
Palm Beach
Aiken
A Crocodile Hunt in Jamaica Described as Sport
The piece extols stalking and shooting Jamaican crocodiles as a premier sport, noting wary behavior, the protective plover, and the difficulty of getting a clear shot. It details how crocodiles retreat into mud, feign death, and sink after a shot, making success unlikely without swift action.
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Jamaica
Kingston
Steamer Arrivals With Weimar Perugia Arimatea
Maritime notices list steamers Weimar Perugia and Arimatea arriving from Italian ports in New York June reports Also Cambria from London and Blucher from New York arriving in Boston and Plymouth on June 5 A concert by an American band at Canobie Lake Park in Lowell is announced for Sunday afternoon and evening.
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New York
Weimar
Perugia
Arimatea
Boston
Cambria
London
Plymouth
Blucher
Lowell
Canobie Lake Park
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Tropics
William Thorn
Chicago Daily News
Marine News
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Nicholas G. Norcross
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Jj- J. McOmanmon
Prescott Street
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