Hopedale Bill Sparks House Clash Over Lobby Tactics
Debates in the Massachusetts House over the Hopedale incorporation bill prompt protests by Mr Stratton of Milford and accusations of paid lobby influence. Arguments accuse the Draper family and temperance forces, with calls to read newspapers and fight division, while final votes and senate plans loom.
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Substitute for the arbitration bill introduced in Plymouth
Representative Lord of Plymouth proposes a county arbitration board to settle employer employee disputes. The measure sets eligibility for workplaces with 25 or more workers and outlines selection, hearings, reporting, and enforcement procedures with a three week filing deadline.
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Sail Board
Pobate
Senate defeats junket order as Howes Norris away on railroad business
Senators vote 17 to 5 against approving a trip for the State House committee to Albany and Hartford to view capitols. Hayes and Joslin blamed for failing to back the measure, with a plan to reconsider on Tuesday and possibly pay own expenses. Contested election cases move to shelving Blue Book printing due to bulk concerns while Lilley presses pricing and binding issues.
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Cottage City
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Wilbur
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Election Laws Committee
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Meryon etchings on display at Boston Art Museum
The Meryon etchings are loaned by Messrs Keppel & Co S P Avery and Howard Mansfield of New York and C C Perkins of Boston. The collection shows eighty one of the artist’s ninety seven etchings with many states. Notable plates include Haux fortes sur Paris Le Pont au Change La Morguy and Notre Dame. The San Francisco panorama cost Meryon his health and life. The exhibit runs for several weeks.
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Art Museum
Paris
le Pont Au Change
la Morguy
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Bracquemond
Flannery
Bonenza Development and Tropical Telephone Court Caption
100 Bonenza Development and 60 People's Telephone are involved in a Stormont case. Suwa Tom CUBL is named along with SIMFIOMOTIND entities in a civil matter. The docket references Tol. Cin. and St. Louis and a 200 to 260 range of figures.
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Cecee
IHO
Stormont
Ccasecessee
Dbaueane
Suwa
Market Prices and Provisions Include Fresh Meats and Hogs
A long list of provisions and meats is reported with prices for pork and lard, fresh ribs and sausage, lard pails, hams, beef cuts, and live hogs. The hog market shows higher bids and steady cattle, with notes on hides, pelts, and crude certificates. Western markets touch sugar, molasses, and grain movements with Chicago insights.
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Cape Cod
Norfolk
Kale
Worcester County
Asion
Briighton
Tilgo
Trade Receipts and Wool Purchases Highlight March 1886 Boston Market
Boston customs receipts for March 1886 totaled 1 006 405 69 dollars, up from 1 590 228 14 in March 1835. February 1666 duties at the Boston Custom House reached 1 507 325 08 dollars. Foreign wool receipts show a large weekly surge with three vessels from Australia unloading. Purchasers totaled 24 407 bales, including local brokers and merchants, as two ships approach and one overdue Eugenia carries 126 days late with 2406 bales awaiting arrival. Market notes cover flour, corn, oats, feed, meals, malt, barley, butter, cheese, eggs, apples, potatoes, peas, fish, and green fruits with varied prices and dull to steady tones across commodities.
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New York Cotton Markets Mixed Amid Broad Commodity News
April reports show quiet cotton prices with varied staple futures across U S ports. Notes include mixed wheat and flour markets, receipts and exports tallies, and price levels for corn, rye and sugar with several regional shifts.
Wheat and grain markets in London and Liverpool slip notes
London and Liverpool market reports show wheat firmer, corn steady, and flour prices mixed as cargoes and spot trades move. Prices in London and ports are described with quantities and varying regional quotes, while weather and breadstuffs demand influence valuations.
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Beerbohm
Chamber of Commerce
Mark Lang
Liverpool
Nosland
California
Financial market notices from London and Havana dated April 2
London stock quotes show Consols 1007 16 for money and account with United States 4193 1141¢, Canadian Pacific 6744, Erie 26% and Illinois Central 1421¢. Havana reports Spanish gold 239, exchange quiet, sugar firm with 835 bags sold, polarization 97 degrees at gold per quintal.
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Freight receipts from multiple railroads amid 19th century trade
A dense ledger lists cargoes for several railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Fitchburg and others. Commodities cover cotton wool flour corn meal sugar butter cheese eggs beef pork leather hides and more with numerous bale, bus, box, and case tallies.
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Boston and Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Rairoad
New York and New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston and Maine Railroad
Boston and Maine Rairoad
Lowell Railroad
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Receipts of staple products at port compare to last year
The table shows total receipts from all shipment points for week ending April 2, including in transit goods, with figures for 1886 and 1885 across cotton Sugar Wool Molasses pork butter oats cheese wheat beans potatoes and more. The second table lists today’s receipts versus last year for Cotton Wool Molasses Butter Lard Beef Pork and other staples with numerous itemwise figures.
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Railroad matters outline February financials and new lines
The report notes St Joseph and Grand Island show a favorable February and a stable year outlook with fixed charges from May. It covers New York and Boston Rapid Transit with $310,000 spent, plans for a 183 mile line at $50 million, and stock controlled by Rapid Transit shareholders. Also updates Winthrop Railroad management, a Chicago rate dispute, Louisville and Nashville February figures, and a new Billings Clark s Fork Cook City Railroad with $1.0 million capitalization to open mining districts and oil fields.
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Salem and Danvers railway lease proposed by Naumkerg Street
Naumkerg Street railway seeks long term lease of the Salem and Danvers line with a 5 percent stock guarantee. Many Danvers stockholders favor the plan and an arrangement seems likely. John G Estes of Peabody dies on Boston street. he was a Civil War veteran and G A R comrade. John Fitzgerald, nicknamed the Marine, attempted suicide with chloroform but survived after doctors treated him for about ninety minutes. physicians say he is likely to be sent to the Danvers asylum as he is deemed insane.
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New York
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Boston Machine Company
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George W. Hitabrook
Augustus Russ
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J. H. Benton, Jr
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Robert Moore
Plaitiff
C. W. Cushing
C. F. Donnelly
Farrington Et al
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J. l. Powers
Charles Robinson
J. O. "Teele
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Frank L. Vak
P. N. Blanchard
H. N. Sheiden
Ae South Society
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Richardson
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Peabody
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Remarkable Rescue Sparks Community in Kingston
A Kingston letter describes Jere Smith who survived a deadly ordeal with Hunt's Remedy, prompting widespread local endorsements. Cornelius B. Smith and W.H. Winton of the Kingston Freeman recount similar experiences and praise the medicine for health restoration amid doctor skepticism and high prices.
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Jere Smith
Cornelius B. Smith
State Insurance Department
Kingston Freeman
W.H. Winton
Smith
Mr. Winton
Hunt
Edwin H. Fassett
Kingston
William D. Brennier
Cooper
Winchell
Winthrop
Mid 1880s Mercantile Failures Decline Nationwide
Quarterly reports from Dun and Co and K Russell show a drop in business failures. First quarter 1886 failures total 203 with liabilities near 29 million dollars, down from 3668 failures and 46 million in 1885. Liabilities for the last quarter are the lowest since 1873, with notable declines in the middle states. The text lists a sequence of bankruptcy cases and assignments across multiple firms and individuals in Boston and other cities, including names like William M. Pray, Charles H Foster, Walter F. Sherburne, and Durant & Co, with various creditors' settlements and assignments noted.
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K. Russell & Co
Crad
Berkrupts
McKim
Yhey
William M. Pray
Creighton House
Tremont Street
Charles H. Foster
East
Concord Street
Walter F. Sherburne
George Rt. Stimpson
Sherburne & Stimpson
Washington Street
Charles H. W. Pope
Lincoln Street
Charlestown
Joseph W. Howard
Albany
Swett Street
Roxbury
Whitmen B. Smith
W. E. Smith
Whitman B.smith & Son
Quincy Market
Greenwood
Soule
Bedford Street
Philome
J. Cole
Milford J. Cole
Union Park
James H. Carter
Berkley Street
Peter F. Judge
Desser
Dana Silver Streets
Boston
John F. Cronan
L. G. Pattee
Lebanon National Bank
Pattee
Meccabee & Long
Undertakers
North Cambridge
Long
D. W. Wilxie
Geneva
N. Y
Cyrus Stone
Providence
Edwin C. Pieres
Patrick White
Central Falls
BR. I
H. L. Parsons
M. Loeb
Columbus
Stoughton Baseball Club Reorganizes for Season In Town
Taxable property rises as twenty dwellings go up this spring and more projects start soon. The Stoughton Base Ball Club reorganizes for the season and has arranged a game with the Riversides of East Boston to be played here on the last day.
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Pillsbury
Scott
Stoughton
Cearon
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Boston
Financial instruments and bonds listed in Boston area notes
A fragmented archival snippet shows multiple bank names including National Exchange Bank Charlestown and Glow National Bank with trustee orders and bonds. Mentions Mexican Central Co and Brush Electric Lighting Co of Boston, plus various bonds dated 1892 to 1903 and sums like 1000 and 5000 dollars linked to rail and city financing.
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Charlestown
Mass
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Nat Bank
Mexican Centrala Co
Air & Do Brush Electric Lighting Co
Boston
Maine
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