Money Market and Rail News Amid Mixed Market Signals
The money market shows banks with stretched funds but steady rates 7 percent at clearing house and 6 to 7 percent for call loans. Atchison stock activity highlights heavy investment, new stock subscriptions near $2 million, and strong six month earnings. Calumet and Huron mines report fire risk and declining stock value, with Tamarack and Osceola showing varied July outputs and improvements underground.
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Bowron
New York
Paris
Reichsmarks
The
New York Commercial Bulletin
Treasury
Wall Street
United States Treasury Department
Atchisan
West End
Atchison
Iis
Boston News Bureau
New England
West
California
Ccd
Ncennescensees
San Diego
San Francisco
West Nd
New York Stock Exchange
New York & New England
New Haven & Hartford
Housatonic Road
Bostwick
New York, Bow Haven & Hartford
New York & New England Securities
Shinn
Connecticut River
Hartford
East Hartford
New Haven
Valuless
Albany
New Bedford Gaslight Company
Board of Gas Commissioners
Prc-Light Company
New Bedford
Electric Lighting Company
Gas Company
Mexican Telegraph Company
Central & South American Company
Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad Company
Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield
Chicago& Eastern Ilinois
Tuscola
Chicago & Eastern Ilinois
Indianapolis
Decatur
Springfield
Illinois
Danville
St. Louis
Calumet & Hecla
Johnson Vivian
Franklin
Huron
D. L. Demmon
Calumet
J. Vivian
Tamarack
Osceola
Basset Whitney and Co Bankers and Brokers Firm
Basset Whitney and Co bankers and brokers members of New York and Boston stock exchanges buy and sell stocks and bonds for investors or on margin dealers in municipal and railroad securities.
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Sonlante
Bia
Aldin Wall
Boston
Brookline
Maverick
San Diego
New
West End
Atchison
Atlantic & Pacific Gs
Atlantic & Pac. Inc
Cal. Southern Incomes
Chi
Kan. & Western Bs
Kan. & Western Inc
Bk Astern
K.C
Ft. Scott & Gail Is
Dr. Bliuts
L. Rock & Ft Smith
Central
S. Pac
N.Y
New Engle
N. E
Oregon
Ox. & L. Champ ‘Lavin Gs
Ef & L. Champ’n, Inc
Ub. & Nh A
Sen Ee
Rutland
OG Hyllynd
Sonora
Southern Kansas
Southern Kansas Inc
Atch
Toneka & S. Fe
Atlantic & Pacific
Boston & Albany
Boston & Lowell Eeetenes
Boston & Maine
Boston & Providence
Chi. Bur. & Northern
Bur. & Quincy
E. Ilinois
W. Michigan
California Southern
Central of Mass
C., Sand
Cleveland
Cleve
Canton
Beastern
Seaee
Fitchburg
Flint & P. Marq
Flint & P
Sis
K C
Flint
Spring
Maine Central
N.Y & NE
L. Champlain
Ld Colony
Falls
Rutland. Com
Summit Branch
Union Pacific
Bell Telephone
New Eng
Erie
Lamson Store Serv. Co
Iron Mining Securities
Gogebic Investment CO
Spate Street
Aurora Iron Mine
Aurora
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New York
Stock Issue Challenge to Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Clarence H. Venner of Boston questions the legality of a 10 million dollar stock issue by the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad as unauthorized by its charter. He warns of severe financial strain, urges restraint by directors, and cites contracts and constitutional limits to impairing a charter.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Comeet
The
United States
Clarence Hl. Venner
Congress Street
Boston
Diverse Aug 5 Sales Ledger Fragments
Fragmented ledger listing multiple items with quantities and prices from diverse suppliers including Lord Acoustic Tel and Bruns Ships Berth. Reads like a rough commerce catalog with incomplete vendor names and figures.
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Lord Acoustic
Elec
Tere Hee
Honerine
Ewes Ra
Gray’s Dynamo
Pees Wee
Boston Water Power
Tol., Cin
St. Louis
Kansas City Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Stock Dividends
Kansas City Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company declares 4 percent on preferred and 2 percent on common stock payable August 15. Richard Borden Manufacturing Company Fall River quarterly 14 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company
Richard Borden Manufacturing Company
Fall River
Stock Market Closes Strong After Active Day in New York
Active trading pushed readings higher with Reading Lackawanna Western Union and St Paul leading gains up to over 1 percent. Rail bonds were strong late, and closing prices finished irregular but generally higher across a wide list of issues amid a feverish trading session.
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New York
Sterling Exchange
Reading
Lackawanna
Western Union
St. Paul
New England
Northern Pacific
Omaha
Jersey Central
Canada Southern
Northwestern
Colorado Coal
Missouri Pacific
Norfolk & Western
Oregon
Transcontinental
Lake Shore
Chicago
St. Louis
Foreign Financial Markets Report from London and Havana
London markets show Consols at 1017 16 for money and account and United States bonds around 48 1804, with several other securities trading mixed. In Havana Spanish gold quotes near 234 234, with exchange and sugar markets quiet and premiums for U S dollar noted.
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London
United States
St. Paul
New York
Real Estate Transfers Listed Across Boston Districts
A compilation of property transfers and mortgages dated July in Boston areas including Olive Court Worcester? ND, Bromfield Street, North Square, Columbus Avenue, Harvard Place, Sherman Street, Avon Place, Dorset Street, Cockney? Dorchester Avenue and more. Notable entries show transfers involving Vaughan Mullen Marcus Green Bacon Mills Demmon Lord Godbold Quirk Hatheway Fenelon etc with prices from $1 to $3500 and mortgage backs up to $1500.
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Olive Court
William Warren Vaughan
John J. Mullen
Olive Street
Bromfield Street
Augustin Shurtleff
Alfred A. Marcus
North Square
Matthew Keany
John B. Anderson
Columbus Avenue
Benjamin §. Brown
Nathan G. Green
John T. Manson
Charles W. Bacon
Harvard Place
Henry L. Mills
Daniel L. Demmon
William H. Chamberlain
Mary J. Lord
Sherman Street
David Greenhood
John Doroyvan
Avon Place
Porchester
Charlotte T. Clapp
John H. Mahoney
Dorset Street
Clara A. Fillebrown
Horace A. Prescott
Hancock Street
William H. Keal
Austin D. Collins
Dorchester Avenue
Marcellus B. Goodwin
Amos M. Learnard
Joseph A. Jackson
Mather Street
Brighton
George A. Wilson
Pierce Quirk
Arlington Street
Francis J. Barnes
James A. Hatheway
Harris C. Porter
Reno Street
Walter H. Murdock
Cassey C. White
Grant Street
Patrick C. Fenelon
Boston
George Franklin Lord
George W. Peabody
Orleans Street
John Benson Et al
John William Godbold
Bennington Street
Margaret McCarron
Bridget Healey
Sumner Street
Union Institution For Savings
James Menzies
Bremen Street
Johnager
Hannah A. Hagerty
Fifth Street
John J. Collins
Charlestown
Andrew Jackson
John F. Mullen
Monument Court
Caroline L. Cristy
Ephraim L. Hall
Forest Plece
Everett Avenue
James H. Ingersoll
Theodore P. Austin
Beacon Street
John A. Loring
Nellie L. Gilbert
P. Briggs Wadsworth
Summit Avenue
Jefferson Avenue
Sloco. Revere
William T. Hall
L. K. Washburn
Broadway
Dr. Tuckerman
Jonathan Stone
Winthrop
Herman B. Tewkesbury
Jonn
Whitman
Centre Streets
Edwin P. Lichfield
Orlando L. Belcher
Harbor Avenue
Roslindale
Otis Shephard
Henry A. Wood
Mortgage transfers on Boston area streets in July 2000
Multiple transfers show mortgages on properties across Boston area towns. Lenders include Boston Five Cents Savings Bank and Chelsea Savings Bank, with borrowers such as Louis Frank Alfred Marcus and John Collins. Property locations span Washington Street Bromfield Street Central Avenue Roxbury Chelsea and Revere.
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Louis Frank Et
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
Washington Street
Alfred A. Marcus
Augustin Shurtleff
Bromfield Street
John J. Collins
David J. Hagerty
Fifth Street
Boston
Charles A. Merriam Et al
Frazier Page
Central Avenue
Chelsea
Solomon Ehrlich
Henrietta Goldsmith
Chestnut Avenue
Roxbury
William Jackson
Franklin Bing
Fernplace
Brighton
John Cook
Mary S. Curtis
Wise Street
Nellie Peabody
Charles H. Putnam
Garfield Avenue
Revere
Sumner Flagg
J. Theodore Heard
West Cedar Street
Charles H. Newell
Chelsea Savings Bank
Edenh and
Heard Streets
Commodity Market Report Shows Stable Prices Across Goods
The market lists firm prices for fish corn and butter with steady oats rye and malt. Beans potatoes hay and berries show good demand or supply while pork lard and beef remain steady or quiet. Sugar molasses and other staples hold steady with a quiet but persistent demand for truck goods.
Boston Fish Market Reports Mixed Week as Demand Slips
The Boston Fish bureau notes soft mackerel receipts versus demand and a decreasing season outlook. Codfish remains firm with light dry bank cod arrivals while herring is dull for barrels but firm boxed. Canned mackerel demand wanes and lobsters hold steady. sardines unchanged. Fresh fish mostly readily taken. prices listed for mackerel, cod, hake, pollock, haddock, halibut, salmon, oysters and clams. Week ending Aug 5, 1887.
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Labrador
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Cod
Haddock
Best
Norfolk
Providence
Boston Fish Bureau
Market Reports Aug 5 Flour Quiet Corn Firm Sales
Flour prices steady with moderate daily sales and steady tones. Corn steady with light supplies. steamer yellow and elevator lots quoted. Oats stable with new No 2 white sold at 38c. Various flour types priced from $2.35 to $5.16 per bbl. cornmeal and rye figures listed. millfeed and oats ranges included. hops prices for 1885-86 seasons noted.
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Minnesota Bakers
Michigan
New York
Canada Superior
Canada
New New New York
Wey
Bush
Canada Western
Eastern
Butter and Cheese Prices Steady Across Markets
Butter markets are firm with steady demand. New York butter at 22 24c, Chicago offerings at 27c and 25Vec, light receipts. Cheese prices mostly unchanged with New York cheddars at 10% and 10c. Chicago cheese inactive at 9c. Liverpool quotation 50s.
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New York
Western Creamery
Chicago
Elgin Creamery
Liverpool
Market Update Mixed with Steady Eggs and Soft Demand
Dull egg market with steady prices in New York and Chicago steady. Butter cheese and eggs hold at varied wholesale quotations while beans, peas, seeds, hay, and straw show steady or light activity. Potatoes and sweet potatoes move at established rates as poultry prices slip.
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New York
Chicago
Vermont
Ohio
Vermont Choice
Choice
Canada
Michigan
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
West
Jo Bing
Timothy
Jersey
East Swale
Long Islands
Bristol Ferry
Norfolk
Fruit Prices and Supplies in Local Market Report
The market lists plentiful watermelons and apples at low prices. Pears, cantaloupes, grapes, and berries show varied availability with several price points, including Nassau and Baltimore listings. A steamer sale and recent California fruit prices for pears peaches plums prunes and grapes are noted among frequent shifts in demand and supply.
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Curtis & Co
Delaware
Baltimore
Norfolk
Jersey
Choice Nyack Pi
Clapp
Bell
North Carolina
Messina
Palermo
Bessarabia
California
Local Produce Prices Nonspecific Mess of Items
Prices for various vegetables and produce listed with units and vague origins such as native and Egyptian. Entries include onions 1 75 per case, tomatoes 1 150, cabbages 7 per 160, beans 1 75 per bush, and other items like Portlands, green corn, beets, turnips, squash, marrow, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, and parsnips with mixed units such as bush, box, dozen, and bbl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maltas
Portlands
Meat Prices Steady Across Varied Cuts and Mutton Rates
Market notes list beef and pork prices by cut and weight with ranges for lard hams bacon and ribs. Prices include fresh beef and mutton cattle rates, and assorted lamb and veal values, reflecting a broad catalog of current retail figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illtec
Chicago
Brighton
Cotton market mixed in Liverpool and New York trading
Liverpool cotton futures opened and closed steady with various August to March intervals. Spot Upland prices held at 542d per lb. New York spot steady at 10c middling and higher grades. New York futures opened quiet. several month bids and asks listed, market closed steady. Sugar futures steady with various refinings and grades quoted.
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Liverpool
Orleans
New York
Manila
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Pittsburg
St. P
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Wvee
Texas Pacific
Avye
Toledo & O
U. Pacific
Utica & BR
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Oregon Lin
Pacific Mail
Pullman P. al Seewan
Union
N. W
R. G
P. Lets
So. Ga
Tex
P L. G
Pac
Seale
O. Nay
Shore
Adams
American
Wells Fargo
Amador
Best & Belch
Oly
Ontario
Brunswick
Phenix
Carson D. Co
Wicksilver
Col. Coal
Con.Cal. Cva
D. Terra
Santiago Ee Savage
EL. Cristo
F. Treasure
G'ld & Curry
Tenn
Uosgry Csseterives
Miles
Southern California
New York Railroad Commissioners
Kidder, Peabody & CO
Devonshire Street
Nassau ST
Philadelphia
Devonshire
Boston Stock Exchange
Brokers’ Board
So Kan Inc
Cal & Hec
At & Pac Ee
Cal So Inc
M&sp
Fre & Elk H
Atlantic
Ee NE
Quincey Minoxi
San Diego Land
West End Land
Wollaston Ld
A&p Oere
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Fl & P Maré
Prio KC
Spr & It
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Ny&ne
C.B& Q
Diego Land
West England
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A&p
Cb&q
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Mex C
A & Pine
C.ban
Chi & W
Ny&ny
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S&c
Concord
Oerev
Ny&n
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Pomere Nemem
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Bonanza Development
Boston & Montana
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Texas
Kan
Long Island
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Essex
J. Cent
Pacific
Bish C
Ance &N-E
Ohio & Miss
West Enee
Oregon Trans
Wilson W. Fay & Co
State Street
NEW York Financial
Foreign Financial Markets
Suffolk County
Tome
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