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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 05, 1886

Page

3

Money Market Steady as Boston Stocks Close Firm

The money market remains steady with loans on call at 6 to 6 1 2 percent and general business paper at 5 to 6 percent. New York funds sold at par to a small premium, and government securities are quiet. Atlantic & Pacific stock draws attention with large sales and a formed pool aiming to boost prices, while earnings for June show notable gains for several rail lines and a shift in Atchison leadership.

Boston New York Frances Bell Telephone New England Erie Mexican Telephone Water Power Boston Land Boston & Montana Franklin Huron Sonora Smith Robinson Atchison Construction Department Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Atlantic & Pacific Atlantic & Pacific Securities St. Louis San Francisco Atchison Philadelphia Union Pacific Prime Mercantile Sterling Exchange East Tennessee Texas Pacific Pacific Mail Louisville & Nashville Tennessee Texas Pacific Bros Chesapeake & Ohio Big Sandy Louisville & Nashville Trusts Missouri Pacific Texas Pacifica Kansas City

Margin Trading Orders On Chicago And New York Described

The notice lists 35 Congress Street Boston as the filing point and states that orders were executed and carried on margin in Chicago and New York, indicating activity tied to those markets and the firm handling the transactions.

Congress St Boston Chicago New York

Merchants' Electric Light and Power Costs Listed

An August 4 sales entry lists multiple suppliers and items including American Electric Mfg, Napa Cons, and Catalpa, with amounts like 214.00 and 1000 Bannon noted in a fragmented vendor ledger. The document shows miscellaneous charges and credits for utilities and related materials from several firms such as Huron, Napa, and Min. with brief tallies.

Mfg Huron Ecianauwe Wacesersecceses

Mining Stocks Close Prices Report San Francisco

The official closing prices today list Beichney, Curry, Rest and Belcher, Chollar, Mono, Bodie Con, Eureka Con, and The Silvering Mining Company. The Silvering Mining Company declares a dividend of 25 cents per share.

San Francisco Cal Beichey Rould & Curry Rest & Belcher Tale & Norcross Bodie Con Silvering Mining Company

Commercial market report with prices and a fruit shipment

The flour market is dull with concessions needed. Grains, butter, cheese, and eggs show quiet or steady prices. Livestock and produce like potatoes, rye straw, berries, currants, and cherries stay largely unchanged. A cargo of bananas from Baracoa aboard the steamer Bergenseren sails Aug 7 for W. W. C. R. Noyes.

Week Ending Aug 4 Flour and Grain Prices in Downbeat Market

The week shows no improvement in flour as prices stay weak in buyers favor. Western superfine sold around 260 300 dollars per barrel, mixed extras 325 340, Minnesota bakers in moderate demand at 390 439. Michigan stone ground flour steady at 420 430, spring patents in fair demand at 5 10 per barrel, winter patents quiet at 475 515, corn meal advanced to 280 249 kiln dried and 315 325 for granulated, oats higher with tins 450 5 and cut 595 625 per barrel, rye flour steady. Corn firm with high mixed 60c, steamer yellow 57 57. Oats quiet. Various readings on white and barley prices, beans steady to strong, butter steady, cheese steady, eggs dull. Metals mixed with copper, lead, tin, iron values noted and steady.

Bergenseren Baracoa W. W.& C. R. Noyes Minnesota New York Michigan Ohio Indiana St. Louis Illinois Western c Emery Northern Western Dairy Imi Ote Nova Scotia Vermont Canada Lake Boston Gray Forge Baltimore Gasconla Java Maracaibo Lagutra Jamaica Rio Coltlon Uplands Gulf Dyewoodsis St. Domingo Rustic Lima Sicily Brirnstone Gambier Quassia Haddock Pollock Malaga London Valencia Turkey Shellec Virginia Wilmington Liverpool Glasgow Antwerp Australasia Melbourne Sydney Adelaide Brisbane Wellington Auckland Philadelphia Montevideo Rio Grande Steemer Speller Dul Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Detroit

Com Essen prices and demand for various commodities

Prices and demand across coal coffee cotton dyewoods drugs fish fruit and freight details. Reports show light anthracite demand, mixed bituminous pricing, steady Rio coffee, quiet cotton, steady dyes, moderate fish sales, and firm freight to multiple ports. Livestock markets in Boston region reflect steady hogs and improved sheep sales with 2900 head from northern sources.

Goods Prices and Market Reports of Various Commodities

Market notes show steady or firm prices across floats of groceries, oils, meats, seeds, sugars, and wool. New York and Eastern markets quote hogsheads and weights with specific price bands, while leather, molasses, oils, and lard report variable demand and steady to higher values. Regional notes include New Orleans and Calcutta oil, wool values across Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and general market tone remains cautious yet steady.

Fresh horse and cattle auction figures from New England

Fresh arrivals include 40 Indiana and Michigan horses ranging 900 to 1360 lbs with prices 125 to 250. One saddle horse named Last Chance and a running horse weighing about 1000 lbs at 175. Ohio horses sell as groups from 125 to 300 for pigs and hogs. cattle and veal droves listed with multiple sellers in New Hampshire Vermont New York and Boston yards. Demand varies with western and northern cattle selling 4 to 5 cents per pound, some export-bound.

Catle Maine New Hampshire Vermont New York Canada F Gosselyn P Covell RG Kimball E C Rowell B M R Nelson W C Cleaveland Combs & Farrar Lambs &V Whipple & Farnham J. Morse P W Thompson C V King Richard H . Arnold JG Littefield Breck & Wood CY King Libby & Son Weiler & Libby Hurlbert H A Wilcox Slec A Williamson HC Arnold Wahipple & Farnham Liverpool Stockholm City Monroe Iowa JC Hardson Indiana Michigan Gilvers Ohio Eng Watertown Scolians A Worthein J Crow Brighton Boston & Albany A N Monroe

Markets by Telegraph Aug 4 wheat and grain prices

The report lists receipts exports and prices across major markets including New York Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo St Louis Detroit and Detroit. Notable figures cover No 2 spring No 1 hard No 1 Northern and No 1 red wheat as well as rye corn oats barley and flour with freight, pork, lard, beef, and butter values.

Cattle Market And Cotton Reports From Chicago Aug Fourth

Cattle receipts 7200 with 1600 shipments steady. steers around 3.60 to 3.60. stockers and feeders active. cows bulls and mixed 2.50 to 3.60. hog receipts 20060 with 4600 shipments lower. packing and shipping 4.80 to 5.15. sheep receipts 3000, nations mixed. cotton markets show varied yet quiet to firm values across multiple ports from Augusta to New York with mid range quotes around 9 to 9 1/2 cents and noteworthy exports to Britain and coastwise movement.

Chicago Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Mobile Memphis Savannah Lee Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St. Louis Louisville United States

Harvey failure spurs renewed activity in Chicago markets

Special despatches from Chicago describe a muddled late session after the Harvey failure, then a surge as traders moved to protect trades. Buying improved on wet cables and export business while big traders seem to have sold much, freight engagements for about 100000 bushels noted. Wheat formation weak on rains and better prospects, provisions steady amid falling prices, with persistent strong demand for lard.

Chicago Messrs. Clark & Ward Devonshire Street Hicago Grain Market. Co Brewer & Wilkins Congress Street New York Corm Nash & Co

London and Liverpool Market Notes on Wheat Prices and Trade

Beerbohm reports to Chamber of Commerce as wheat and corn markets hold steady or ease. Prices listed for Liverpool and London with quotational ranges, arrivals for orders, and coastal passage activity. Financials show Consols at 1011 16, with various railway and telegraph stock quotes and domestic bond prices.

Imports and Exports Listed for Boston and Foreign Goods

A detailed ledger itemizes imports and exports across vessels and firms including State of Maine with eggs and butter, Jesse Freeman bananas and coconuts, Bark Caleb mdse hides and cow hides, brig Samuel Coipel salt, schooner Judith Ann lobsters, and ships Big Bonanza and Kansas with sugar and various goods. It records numerous firms such as H Hiavery F H Bowles A Keyes GC Rockne Oliver Smith J Ward Stan US, and buyers like Stand ard Sugar Refinery, Boston Sugar Refinery, and J Campbell Co. The entries cover commodities from eggs and leather to pig iron, earthenware, woollens, and ships’ cargoes across multiple ports and dates.

ST John, NB State of Maine Bowles & Co Griffin & Co Kimballs Jesse Freeman Caleb Warner & Freeman Jvrdan Bay Judith Ann ES Bis & Co Iloilo Mats Sugar Standard Sugar Barbadoes Bolds Boston Sugar Efinery Liverpool Eng Kansas Jones Case Muse A Smith & Co Hollander & Co Ciesweill & Co Pierce & Co Eustiss White & Co Muse Murnoch Parior Grate Co Codman & Shurtleff Elise, Talyman & Co Richard Briggs Norcross Merlen &Co Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Nicholson, Frost & Co Abram French & Co Care Steel H&g Jackson Jere Abbott & Co Norway Steel & Tron Co Bradford Thomas É2co Jordan, Marsh & Co Baring Bros & Co Pierce & Robertson Macailar, Parker & Co Smith & Sons King & Co Wooliens Neale, Morse & Co Joel Goldthwaite & Co Barrows & Co Keane Stoddard & Kendall Moidner & Co Atkins & Co Lovering & Co

Receipts From Multiple Rail Lines and Goods Lists

Receipts dated Wednesday August 4 from Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Boston and Maine Eastern Western and Lowell divisions total varied consignments including wool flour corn oats malt milfeed birds tallow lard bacon butter cheese eggs beans apples hay lumber rolls leather potatoes and more across several rail lines plus sea and express shipments with numerous car and box counts, sacks and bales noted. Names of railroads include Grand Junction New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western and Lowell. Goods range from agricultural staples to textiles and animal products with quantities heavy and diverse.

Boston & Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Golong Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg ECOCO Boston & Maine Railroad Boston & Maine H Railroad Western Division Boston & Lowell Railroad Express Causeway Street Boston West Syracuse Chicago St. Louis Pullman New York Central New York Cent West Shore Railroad Albany Troy Sanbeebiee Saratoga Mechanicville Sara Express Athol Tunnel Greenfield North Adams Gardner Baldwinville Grange and Miller’s Falls A Falls Royalston and Erving St. Albans Keene and Rutland Winchenden Keene and Bellows Falls Worcester Lowell Ayer Junction North Leominster Shirley Affer Dunction Greenville and Townsend Centre Bariboro, Hudson and Maynard Concord Lincvein Waltham Belmont Waverley Mieturn Watertown Union Market Mt. Auburn Cambridge Metarn Union Square Somerville Mbeturn Nion Baldwinsville Ware River John Adams

Total Receipts of Staple Products Aug 4 at Port

A dated table lists today’s total receipts of principal staples from all shipment points comparing with the prior year. Figures cover cotton bales, wool, flour, beans, corn, oats, wheat, hay, potatoes, lumber, leather, beef, lard, hides, bacon, tea, coffee, molasses, butter, cheese, and more with year over year totals.

Eeeaee Orbea Sains Aeces Dgises

Advertisers and Agents Listing by City and Firm Names

A fragmented directory of names and firms with city affiliations across the United States and by country, listing individuals such as Johnson Dill Creeden O Neill Sullivan Edge Conrade Daum Stribling S Miller Green Miner Becker Heffelfinger Hann Weil Lippincott Borland Goldsmith Nettleton Starsey Lewis Shrader Rodgers Young and others working with various companies and agencies in markets from Altoona to Yankton.

Altoona Penn Johnson Augusta John P Dill John P Dill & Co Craw Chicago Steve Creeden Steve Creeden &O Charlesten M C O'Neill D O’newl & Sons Creigh Claerksville Tenn Corsicana Tex Ads Kansas City J C Egelhoff S K Green Lafayette Ind Ala J Weil J Well & Bro Par Paris Iil P H Bro Petersburg A Wright Lippincott Lippincott, Son Pittsburg J H Borland Scranton M Goldsmith Goldsmith Bros Nettleton Sprimfield O R A Starsey Starkey & Scowden St. Louis W Lewis O J Lewis & Co Springfield W Watson Shrader & Co Toledo J S Rodgers Dewey Rodgers & Co Waco T Young Young & Baker Yankton

Timetable Snippets From Newburyport and Nearby Towns

A string of times and numbers lists schedules for Newburyport Wakefield and Wilmington areas. The readable parts show dozens of arrival and departure times across multiple towns with am and pm indicators and scattered formatting errors.

Newburyport Reading Wakefield Wilmington

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