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...boom of 1900-1901, and the causes for the return of "public confidence" which created the speculative craze of that period. The surplus wealth, he said, saved by cautious people mindful of previous bad times, became too recklessly invested with the return of national prosperity. So inexhaustible seemed the reservoir of American capital that ambitious promoters combined already enormous companies and formed collateral trusts to give room for the investments the public was so anxious to make. Before long, however, the enormous inflation of stocks and bonds without corresponding increase in the real property behind them, was detected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Noyes' Second Lecture | 11/16/1904 | See Source »

There is good skating today on Hammond's Pond at Chestnut Hill, on Winchester Reservoir at Winchester, on Crystal Lake at Newton Centre, and on Cow Island Pond at West Roxbury. There is no skating on Spy Pond at Arlington or on Jamaica Pond at Jamaica Plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skating Bulletin. | 3/7/1904 | See Source »

There is good skating today on Hammond's Pond at Chestnut Hill and on Crystal, Lake at Newton Center. On Winchester Reservoir the ice is poor. There is no skating on Jamaica Pond at Jamaica Plain, on Spy Pond at Arlington, or on the Cambridge Skating Club rink, which is closed for the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skating Bulletin. | 3/5/1904 | See Source »

...Play-ground, and Billings Field at Dorchester. The ice is very good at the North Brighton Play-ground, and fair at the Columbus Avenue Play-ground and the cleared part of Spy Pond. There is no skating on Hammond's Pond at Chestnut Hill, Mystic Lake or the Winchester Reservoir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skating Bulletin. | 2/12/1904 | See Source »

...Pond at Jamaica Plain and Wood Island Pond at East Boston have been cleared of snow and the ice is in fair condition. There is very good skating on all the ponds in the Boston Park system. Spy Pond at Arlington, Hammond's at Chestnut Hill and the Arlington Reservoir are not now in a suitable condition for skating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skating Bulletin. | 1/9/1904 | See Source »

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