Word: stock
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stock holders of the Co-operative Society have declared a dividend of eight per cent on purchases made by members in 1902-1903. These dividends will be paid during this week. Purchases of coal and law books are not included in calculating the dividends payable to ticket holders...
...reported that by the will of Mary Putnam Ropes of Salem, the University will receive a bequest of Boston and Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. The surplus, if any, is to go to the Peabody Museum. A second bequest from the same source of one-half the interest of an annuity bend of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, is to establish the Nathaniel Ropes; Jr., fund, the purpose of which is not stated. At present it is impossible to estimate the value of these bequests...
...Hale '04, H. Adams '02; inspectors, H. H. Fox '00, D. Edwards '04, J. Wilson '03, L. D. Granger '05; material clerks, C. Tirrell '04, W. Tyng '05; W. Bullen '03; draughtsmen, H. F. Tucker '01, C. M. Harrington '05, H. M. Turner '06; charge of stock, C. Morse '07; paymaster, C. H. Fisher '04; timekeeper, E. White...
...comparison of the stock-taking with the books showed a shortage of $2233.17, or 1.4 per cent of the total sales, divided among the departments as follows: Men's Furnishing Department, $541.47 Book Department, 476.13 Stationery Department, 21.25 Furniture Department, 381.31 Medical Branch, 812.61 -- Total...
This shortage may have been caused by carelessness in keeping the accounts or by the disappearance of stock from the stores. No business as large as that of the Co-operative Society can be run without some discrepancy of this sort; but in this case the directors feel that the discrepancy is entirely too large, and therefore a careful investigation is being made...