Paris to List United States Steel on Paris Bourse
Paris brokers anticipate United States Steel Corporation stock trading in Paris within months after completing technicalities. Bearer certificates will enable small share trading, with Morgan syndicate and French banks backing the listing. Steel is seen as best American stock to spark a revived Paris market and attract other American issues.
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NEW York Times
Paris
United States Steel Corporation
United States Rubber
Utah Copper
Morgan Syndicate
Crédit, Lyonnais
Société Générale
Comptoir d’Escompte
Bank of France
Bankers’ Trust Company of New York
Mr. Morgan
Pennsylvania
New Haven
Syndic
Bourse
Prince Poniatowski
French Finance Corporation
France
Paris Listing Delayed for 100000 United States Steel Shares
Bankers Trust as depository for 100000 United States Steel bearer certificates to be traded in Paris is postponed to fall. French authorities require corporate history, asset lists, and tax guarantees before listing on the Bourse for U S Steel and United States Rubber shares. Utah Copper is also in process.
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United States Steel
Paris
Bankers’ Trust Company
United States Rubber Company
Ministry of Finance
Official Journal
French Republic
United States
Bankers Trust Company
Leon
Utah Copper Company
France shows rising births over deaths in 1908
Paris reports vital statistics for France 1908 showing an excess of 46 441 births over deaths. The 1907 gap was 19 892 deaths more than births, with 1908 deaths down 48 266 and births up 18 067.
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Paris
France
Competent Help Ad Advertised on Page Fifteen
An advertisement directs readers seeking competent help to page 15 for more details. The note implies a service or assistance offer and points readers to the specified page for information.
American Lodge of Freemasons consecrated in London
The American Lodge of Freemasons in London under the Grand Lodge of England was consecrated in Grand Lodge by Lord Ampthill. Robert Newton Crane was chosen first Grand Master with James MacDonald as Senior Warden. Taft sent a cablegram congratulating the lodge and British good will. Sixty grand officers attended along with F C Vanclvser of Pennsylvania. The membership includes twenty three other Americans.
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London
American Lodge of Freemasons
Grand Lodge of England
Lord Ampthill
Pennsylvania
F. C. Vanclyser
Robert Newton Crane
James MacDonald
Taft
United States
Griscom to Start Home from Rome
Ambassador Griscom, retiring from the Diplomatic Service, will present recall letters to King Victor Emmanuel and sail next week for New York with his family. He is to present recall letters to the Italian Government around June 10, with John G. A. Leishman to follow as Griscom’s successor. Oscar S. Straus is to become Ambassador to Constantinople in August.
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Rome
Griscom
Victor Emmanuel
New York
Washington
State Department
John G. A. Leishman
Turkey
Oscar S. Straus
Constantinople
Congo Libel Suits Deferred for Missionaries
A Congo dispatch reports the libel trial of American missionaries Rev. William Morrison and Rev. W. H. Sheppard, initially set for May 23, moved to July 30. The suit seeks $20,000 damages from each man, brought by a Kasai rubber concession company, framed as a Belgian Government case. The U S had asked postponement, but Belgium cited insurmountable legal obstacles.
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Brussels
Leopoldville
Congo
William Morrison
W. H. Sheppard
Kasai
Washington
Belgium
Czar to Visit King Edward at Cowes in August
Emperor Nicholas will visit King Edward at Cowes on August 2 with the Russian squadron first to Cherbourg arriving July 31. The fleet will return to Russia for imperial guard manoeuvres starting August 12, revisiting the prior Reval visit by the king. The Italian visit by Nicholas appears abandoned.
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ST. Petersbur
Nicholas
Edward
Cowes
Cherbourg
Russia
Imperial Guard
Reval
Italy
Liberia Board To Return After Liberia Visit
The American Commission that studied conditions in Liberia plans to leave for home. Members will stop at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands aboard the cruisers Chester and Birmingham before reaching home waters, expected July 4.
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Monrovia
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Liberian
Chester
Birmingham
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
Funds Sought for Asia Minor Refugees in Adana Rescue
Dr. Thomas D. Christie president of St. Pauls Institute Tarsus Asia Minor appeals for urgent funds to relieve 4000 refugees after the Adana massacres. He notes three days of isolation from home and asks donations sent to Dr Christie in care of the American Board 14 Beacon Street Boston Mass.
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Thomas D. Christie
St. Paul's Institute
Tarsus
Asia Minor
Adana
Mr. Imer
Shahs protest as Russian arrests prompt note at Tabriz
Dispatch from Tabriz says the Persian Foreign Affairs Minister protested to the Russian Consul General over arrests by a detachment of Russian troops. In Troitsk Siberia a military court convened to try officers of the Orenburg Cossack Regiment for large financial irregularities with $70 000 found. Prince Eristoff of the Union of Unions was murdered on his Klonieff estate. Earthquakes and subterranean rumblings continue in Ribatejo Portugal with walls collapsing but no casualties reported.
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Tabriz
Persia
Troitsk
Siberia
Orenburg Cossack
Tiflis
Prince Eristoff
The
Union of Unions
Klonieff
American Horses in Private Show at Olympia Exhibition
American horses prepared for the International Horse Show at Olympia display sensational numbers and luxury but judges will determine quality in competition. Lord Lonsdale criticized New York teams for exaggerated high stepping while noting British horses may surprise Americans. Judge Moore exhibited forty eight harness horses. Stotesbury's trotters drew praise. Webb, Stotesbury manager, is ill. Stotesbury distressed.
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NEW York Times
London
The
Olympia
Lord Lonsdale
England
Judge Moore
Holyrood Road
E. T. Stotesbury
Philadelphia
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Walter Winans
Mr. Stotesbury
Winans
Moore
New York
Madison Square Garden
TIMES
George M. Webb
B. T. Stotesbury
Kensington Palace Hotel
Stotesbury
Sale of Linoleum Patterns inlaid inlaid at low prices
Today's sale offers linoleum yards with patterns reaching through to the back rich and durable. Lot 1 features seven genuine inlaid patterns at 75 cents per square yard, regular 89 cents. Lot 2 presents heavy quality inlaid linoleum, regular $1.09, offered at 89 cents per square yard.
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New York
Roosevelt Heads Toward African Jungle from Kenya Base
The Roosevelt special arrived at Kijabe at 5 10 PM and was greeted by natives and American missionaries. The party planned to camp tonight near the railroad and resume for the wild Souk district tomorrow or Saturday. Col Roosevelt and Major Mearns rode the locomotive cowcatcher for 22 miles from Kikuyu, sighting a near miss with a hyena on the rails.
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Kijabe
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Rift Valley
Nairobi
Souk District
Kikuyu
Col. Roosevelt
Major Mearns
Roosevelt expedition to Sotik district in Kenya jungle
The diary-like account describes thickly wooded, high Nairobi to Kijabe terrain with the Kikuyu escarpment rising 7 830 feet and a vast view into the Great Rift Valley. Elephants linger in forests. Roosevelt party members will explore the Sotik district in Kisumu Province east of Lake Victoria Nyanza amid Kisii communities.
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Kijabe
Kikuyu
Great Rift Valley
Zambesi
Palestine
Roosevelt Ty
Kisunu Province
Lake Victoria Nyanza
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Liberia Board TO Return
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Ager Webb
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O'Neill Building
59Th St
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Columbus Circle
9Th Ave
Bloomingdales
Lex
3D Av
59Th
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Lake Victoria
Nyanza
R.h.macy & Co
Men's Store
Panama
Macy’s Price
C. G. Gunther's
Fifth Avenue
Gramercy
Ason & Hamlin 1 Company
Mason & Hamlin
Fifth Ave
32Nd St
Masons Haulines
Cooper Square
Brooklyn
Browning
King & Co
Fulton Street
DeKalb
Maritza
Royal Ward
Percy Brebner
Betty Walmisley
Boston Globe
Harry C. Edwards
Little, Brown & Co., Publishers
Boston
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