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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 23, 1886

Page

3

Money Market and Stock Movements Across the Nation

Boston reports a steady money market with calls at 6 to 9 percent and 7 percent for general business paper. New York funds discount 25 to 33 cents per $1000, with weekly gross exchanges around $68 million. Railroad and telegraph shares fluctuate, with Missouri Pacific extending lines, and talks of consolidations involving New York New Haven Hartford and other regional roads. Canada and U.S. failures rise modestly, while copper markets show firm ingot prices and limited selling pressure, amid renewed financial improvements in Arizona Copper Company.

Boston New York Bank of Dayland London Southampton Liverpool Burgoyne Havre Bretagne Boston Post United States Boston Stock Exchange Merchants’ National Bank C. P. Mudge Atchison Wall Street News Missouri Pacific Texas & Pacific Pacific Avenue Dallas Greenville Hillsboro Waco Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Chicago, Burlington & Northern Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagan Flint & Pere Marquette Common Wisconsin Central Union Pacific Columbus Springfield Cincinnati Iowa Walls Sioux City Oregon Short Line Little Rock & Fort Smith Atlantic & Pacific Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland United States Circuit Court Sage Indiana, Bloomington & Western Jackson Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Road Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis the Herald Commonwealth of Ohio Hiram A. Blood Cleveland & Canton Railroad Corbin New York & New England New Haven, Conn New Haven Hartford Consolidated Railroad New York & New England Road New York, New Haven & Hartford Company Air Line Northampton Housatonic Railroad Company Berkshire New York & Northern Danbury Housatonic Danbury & Norwalk Housatonic Company Tidewater Wilson’s Point New Milford New Preston Washington Marble Dale Northville Shepaug Railroad Hawleyville New Preston Station Litchfield Naugatuck Road Torrington Connecticut Western New Hartford Northampton Road Westfield Boston & Albany New York, New Haven & Hartford Housatonic and Fitchburg Boston & Lowell Boston, Concord & Montreal Connecticut & Passumpsic Boston & Maine Old Colony Metropolitan Rutland Maine Central Sandusky & Cleveland Pueblo & Arkansas Valley Bell Telephone New England New York Commercial Bulletin France Calumet & Hecla Arizona Baltimore Arizona Copper Company London Cables New York Metal Exchange Appleton Boott Dwight Great Falls Pepperell York Lyman Naumkeag Amoskeag Cocheco Atlantic Cabot Chicopee Massachusetts Tremont Suffolk Banks Boylston Central City Exchange Howard Third National Faneuil Hall Prime Mercantile Sterling Exchange Lackawanne Chesapeake & Ohio American Dock Denver & Rio Grande Consol Trust New York City & Northern Trust Nickel Plate Trust Oregon Itolsi Cleveland & Pittsburg Jersey Central New York Central St. Joseph & Grand Island Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Peoria Decatur & Evansville W. S Leke Shore Nickel Pilate Lackawanna West St. Louis Mojave Western Division Land Department Poor's Manual Atchison and San Francisco

Wisconsin Central lines extend toward Gobebic and Penokee region

The Wisconsin Central system gains momentum as work advances on the Penokee gap to Bessemer branch near Colby mine. The Chicago extension to St. Paul has opened recently and the combined lines Milwaukee & Lake Winnebag o Wisconsin Central Minnesota St Croix Wisconsin report roughly a 65 percent rise in traffic versus the same week a year ago.

Wisconsin Central Gobebic and Penokee Penokee Gap Bessemer Colby Chicago Whic St. Paul Milwaukee Lake Winnebago Wisconsin & Minnesota Minnesota, St. Croix & Wisconsin Wisconsin Central Line

Property transfers listed across Boston area streets

A compiled record of land and building transfers shows numerous parcels sold or mortgaged on Warren avenue Mechanics street Cypress avenue Fay street Locust street St. James avenue North street Washington street Pelham Street Thetford avenue Richfield street Roxbury Jerome street Chestnut avenue Miliet street River street Pond street Broadway Grave street Haynes street Seplace Faun Bar avenue Chestnut Hill avenue Louis street and other Boston districts. Transactions include amounts from 80 to 80000 dollars and dates in July 1879.

Warren Avenue Rosa C. Lane Thomas Paterson George EB. Mansfield Mechanics’ Street Anton Beecher Mary J. Bulkhiir Jana Cypress Avenue Edward Turner John A. Nisbet Fontierly St. James Avenue Silas W. Merrill Charles B. Thayer North Street Anne E. Snow John D. Patten Washington Street Catherine C. Mactier Helen M. Glover Fehsm Street Charles H. Denison Rauben Pelham Street Thetford Avenue Charles D. Adams Walter A. Dyer Dorchester John S. D Samuel B. Pierce Frank A. Merriam Miliet Street George H. Gustin Hugh Giblin Mt. Vernon Street Petrick Glennon Joseph R. Churchill River Street Roxbury Seth Nichols George B. Nichols Homestead Street Franklin Savings Bank Thomas Garfield Thomas Geffield Mary M. Vogel Chestnut Avenue Matthew McCormick Pond Street Charles Cochran Richard E. Cochran Jamaica Plain Francis H. Downes Henry Prew Eliot Street Chelsea Andrew Tibbits Samuel N. Harris Bloomingdale Spruce Streets Isaac N. Smith Thomas B. Jones Beacon Street James E. Gilman John Low Broadway Margaret Stevens James Brooks Grave Street North End Savings Bank Frank Damrell George E. Morrill Williams Street Boston Marv EK O’brien Abbie A. Butler Haynes Street Chestnut Hill Avenue John Carey George N. Parker Louis Street

Agricultural market report shows mixed wheat and produce activity

The flour market is firm with better trade while corn oats and several others stay dull or unchanged. Peaches sold well Saturday at 75 to 225 cents per basket. potatoes and eggs show dull or steady trends. general farm commodities like butter cheese and molasses remain quiet or steady.

Williams Maryland South Carolina Jersey Pesches

Flour and grain markets show strength amid rising exports

The flour market is firmer with better trade and winter wheat flour selling freely. export clearances from four Atlantic ports for the week reach 2 650 000 bushels of wheat versus 1 876 000 of flour and corn. Corn and oats are dull, rye rising slowly, butter and cheese steady, eggs firm, and dairy exports down though butter substitutes rise. Cotton markets show higher visible supply and mixed London and New York futures.

Argents Atlantic Iasi Bois. Bush Busi York Baltimore Philadelphia Opesee Poston Minnesota New York Michigan Louis Illinois Ohio Indiana Wisconsin Norfolk Bovster Ile Northern Eastern Creamery Choice Vermont Creamery East New Hampshire Vermont Nova Scotia Bush Choice West Williams Timothy North Red Top West Jersey New Bristol Ferry Portland Bulk Hebrons Liverpool United States United Brazil London India Europe Egypt East India Mid Uplands Orleans Shorts

Provisions and meat markets and U S export totals

Provisions packed meats and pork are in fair demand. Lava and beef are firm at same questions. No change to note in fresh beef meals limbs and muttons. Exports of provisions and cattle from the United States for the nine months ended July 31, 1886, and same time 1885, were as follows.

Great Britain United States Ana

Widespread Grain and Market Quotes Across Cities

Market notes from Detroit to Minneapolis show wheat quotes and receipts. Reports include Chicago grain prices, flour and corn futures, and local refinery figures with multiple city receipts and shipments.

Cotton Markets Quiet Amid Mixed Receipts Across Ports

On August 21 market activity shows varied receipts and steady to dull tones. Galveston and New Orleans reported steady to dull tone with modest gains, while Savannah and Philadelphia remained quiet. Cincinnati, St Louis and Louisville showed firm to very firm conditions with mid to high prices across the board.

Anug Auguste Galveston Great Britain Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St. Louis United States

Wheat and sugar market notes from London Liverpool Havana

A brief foreign market dispatch records Beerbohm's London report on wheat and flour stability, Liverpool prices for winter and spring wheat, corn, pork, bacon, lard, and tallow values, and Havana sugar market quietness with shipments to the United States and outport trade data.

London Beerbohm Chamber of Commerce Peris Liverpool Havana United States

London Gold Shipments and Bank Notes Hold Steady

The report notes large gold shipments to London and Paris and talks of significant transfers to America by steamers. Market data shows U S bonds and major lines with varied yields. Trade renewal is slow as liquidity shifts and shipments continue into next week.

London America Paris

Massive City Warehouse List of Goods and Goods in Transit

A sprawling ledger of consignments and consignors lists thousands of items in transit through Liverpool and surrounding firms. It catalogs merchandise from J M O’Rourke and Hayes to Jordan Marsh and many others, detailing cases, boxes, crates, and parcels of woollens linens hardware china glassware tin plates oil paints steels and more with numerous firms and partners named. The document reads like an extensive inventory of imports and shipments to warehouses and buyers across multiple firms including Grout Warren Blanchard F Hovey and Co, Shepard Norwell Co, Jordan Marsh Co, and Morse Wilson Co among others, noting quantities such as 260 boxes tin plates 500 boxes tin plates 275 boxes tin plates and 1 378 tons of steel billets in a single sprawling entry. It reflects a high volume, multi-firm trade flow through a port warehouse system and highlights the scale of late 19th or early 20th century mercantile activity.

Liverpool Eng Pavonta O' Noutke Hayes & Co Tripp Heustmaniere, Kimail & Co Saco Water Power Co Case Borley Cese Woollens Grout, Warren & Blanchard Jordan, Marsh & Co Cace Woullens Neal, Morse & Co -i Cate Wouilers Grout Warren & Blanchard Kendall, Barrows & Co Pitkin Bros Hingham & Co Zenas Sears— & Co Oidse Kendall, Arrows & Co Dgackson, Mandell & Daniels Cuma Co Ptuffs Eal Higgins & Nenderson Stevele Lubber Co Elnett & Co Raymond & Fox Snow Scowell Bros & Co Daven White & Co Indie Shepard, Norweil & Co Schoenff Schmidt & Co Muse French & Co Furniture Koopman & Co Shepard, Nowell & Co Ovieman, Mead & Co Hovey & Co Rogers Morse King & Co Burt & Snow Brow, Lurrell & Co Stone & Downer Wilson & Co Leeson & Co Little, Brown & Co Kivs Mook & Co Moise Baring Bees & Co Sanderson Bros Steel Co Dodsge, Heley & Co Horace Partidse & Co Abram French & Co Cartisenware Jones, MceDuffee & Stratton Boils Steel CO H Rolfe & Co Spices Hardware Stearns & Co Wadsworth, Howland & Co Shepard, Norwell & Co B Moors & Co Goodie Cumner Jones & Co Macailar, Parker & Co BiPeyser & Co Baldwin Pros & Co Moors & Co Fuller, Dana & Fitz Burr & Co Bigelow Kennard & Co G CO Goodwin & Co Muse Boston Button Co Jones McDuffee & Strattoen Cradford, Thomas & Co Suepard Norvel & Co Hittle & Co Gilebs, Jr Neale, Morse & Co Talbot, Wilmarth & Co CO F Hovey & Co Greut, Warren & Blanchnard Beal, Higgins & Wenders N de Grent Warren & Bianchini Pike Manusco Martin M Burke Mitch Pearson— Case P Walcott Neal, Mose & Co Byrne Elwaris Jackson, Maidell & Daniell Pieter de Corinck Pierce & Co Webster & Co Devereaux & Mesroe Eteel Bare Naylor & Co Lambert Bros Doctor R Booth & Cco Mil’s, Turner & Co Windmiler & Co Chemicals Billings Clapp & Co Moise Jones McDuffee & Stratton She

Maritime Goods and Cargo Entries Across Atlantic Ports

A dense OCR listing details cargoes and shipments at multiple ports including MONTEVIDEO ANNAPOLIS NS WEYMOUTH NS HALIFAX PICTOU PORT HAWKESBURY CHARLOTTETOWN and YARMOUTH NS. It enumerates vessels such as Bark Aspatogan Togan and schooners Hugh M Annie L McKie and Buckeye with quantities of flour corn cotton kerosene oil and various goods. The fragment emphasizes the breadth of commodities moved by steamers and schooners along the Canadian coast and into Atlantic hubs.

Montevideo Zanz Bar Taria Togan Eee Battie Annapolis Hugh M Weymouth Lesposer Wwalifax Annie L McKie Yarmouth Halifax Pictoun Port Hawkesbury Charlottetown Pel Carroll

Port Receipts Show Staple Shipments August 21

A compiled tally lists Reston Albany Boston and other rail lines as shipment sources. Wool flax flour oats com malt millfeed lard bacon coffee butter cheese eggs apples potatoes and hides appear in large quantities from multiple railroads including Grand Junction New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Boston & Lowell and others. The report compares today’s totals with the same day last year.

Reston & Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Golony New York New England Hallroas Fitchburg Railroad Poston & Maine Haliroad—Keastern Boston & Maine Railroad Wsetern Division Boston & Lowell Railroad Express

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