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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1883

Page

3

Mining Stock Listings and Rail Company Tangles

A dense OCR page lists numerous railroad stocks and mining shares with multiple company names, routes, and figures. It includes Pacific routes, Chicago lines, series of express companies, and several mining stocks like Colorado Coal and Homestake, with bid and share quantities interspersed.

Grain and market report with varied delivery car details

A dense market summary lists December through May vehicle deliveries of No 2 white and mixed cars, seller cash terms, and multiple serial codes. It also reports today’s car inspection totals, grain receipts in bushels and sacks, flour receipts, and elevator stocks. Local grain prices, Liverpool cheese, New York mercantile exchange notes, and Chicago wheat and meat quotes fill the page, noting overall steady trends in butter, cheese, eggs, and oats with firm corn.

Cail Board Liverpool New York Mercantile Exchange Elsin Canada New York Boston Chicago Aoe Bilgc Bilge Chicazo Chicago Park Ts@Zee Uotten Uplands New Orleans St. Louis Minnesota Milwaukee Van Cuba Moissies Orleans Petroleum United Kosta Entine Sig Continent South America Elgin Creamery Nova Scotia P. KE Cape Ann Toledo Seilamineea Canal Cincinnati Detroit

Trade and fruit markets show steady pricing across varieties

Commodity prices for garden vegetables fruits and provisions remain largely unchanged with steady demand. Apples and cranberries hold value. dried apples, grapes, hay, and gr ain seeds show modest activity. Meat, poultry, and game supply slightly tight with typical regional variances.

Ben Davis New England New York State New York Caer Norfolks Richmonds Mass Boston Texas Philadelphia Yorkshires

Steamers and cargoes across Halifax to Havana and Calcutta

Detailed list of ships and cargoes in multiple ports including Halifax Nova Scotia with items such as hair, potatoes, eggs, meats, fish, and oils aboard numerous steamer and schooner consignments. Also notes goods in Glasgow Boston Manila Charleston Town Pei and Havana with sacks, bales, casks, crates and tonnage of cotton, pig iron, jute and guano.

Halifax Worcester Arthur Young & Co Arlington Arthur & Co Burt & Henshaw Barclay & Co Geiler Gibbons & Co Mathieu Manning Bros Morey Eags A & O Meads Rockwell Russell & Co Ring Oliver Smith John Seller Winsor & Son Ring & Co Whitney, Poussanti & Co Glasgow Scot JK Leesen & Co Hogg, Brown & Taylor Jones Bros T Y Crowell & Co Seavey, Foster & Bowman Linder & Meyer Boston Dyewood Co Bates J B Moors & Co Crocker Bros & Co Baring Bros’ & Co J & Allen & Co Mackintire Lawne & Co Waldo Bros & Co F Hovey & Co L C Chase & Co Wim Doherty & Co Pollard & Co Phillips & Weden Jas Lee & Co Calcutta David Taylor & Son Baring Bros & Coo Bank of Montreal Moors & Co Bariog Bros & Co Mirzapore Carpets How & Goodwin Caimphor Wood Galveston Geo Sweeney Besse Charlottetown Montague Delong & Seaman Caracoa May Munroe Havana City of Alexandria New York Charles B Perkins Pierce&co Cow Bay Minnie Louise Loudrot Westport J W Raymond J G Hall & Co

Diverse cargo lists from ships and schooners across ports

The itemized cargo manifests record flour, seeds, lumber, foods, and goods loaded or cleared aboard vessels in London, St. Pierre, Hayti, Liverpool, Mayaguez, Metaghan, Economy NS, with quantities including 11 200 sacks flour and 12 000 bus barley aboard Steamer Durham City and other diverse consignments like timber, canned meats, leather, and hardware. Names of vessels include Durham City, S C Noyes, Bulgarian, Lamoine, Gen Doyle, Flora, and Flora ships, with destinations and departure/clearance notes in multiple ports.

London Eng Durham City ST. Pierre Miq la Plata Liverpool Mayaguez Meteghan Gen Doyle N.S Flora

Inventory fragment shows varied goods for sale and storage

A fragmented ledger lists commodities including eggs beans apples hay lumber leather bales skins pelts cotton wool flour tallow beef grease bacon meal malt tea coffee sugar molasses butter potatoes and other items with quantities in bales bags boxes and cases, indicating a general goods shipment or warehouse record.

Babes DORE Orr Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Peabody and Salem New York and New England Railroad Providence Heailread

Cotton Markets Mixed Prices Across Port Cities

Market reports from Louisville New Orleans Norfolk Savannah Memphis St Louis and other ports show mixed activity with receipts, exports, and prices varying by region. Textile and commodity notes indicate steady to easy tones, with grains flour and meat markets described in broad terms across multiple cities.

London Market Summary Signals Quiet Trade Across Commodities

London and Liverpool reports show wheat and corn cargoes steady with light activity on sale lists. Prices for flour pork and cotton shift modestly as weather remains snowy and bullion reserves at the Bank of England decline by £152,000 in the past week.

Canada Basse Northern Ross Burbank London Beerbohm Liverpool United Kingdom California Loudon Uplands Orleans Bank of England

Rankin v Taunton Locomotive Works at Superior Court trial

First session before Judge Rockweru. Damages suit for injuries from alleged negligence at Highlandville station in August 1881. Plaintiff claims cars started while he stood for Boston, throwing him and breaking his leg. Trial under way with counsel for both sides listed.

Rankin Taunton Locomotive Works Wim.Gaston Plif Highlandville Station Boston J. A. Maxwell W. W. Dwyer W.C. Loring H. E. Bolles Samuel Oakman Lorenzo C. Paul Lorenzo C, Paul Et al Bay State Glass Works Plaintuf John Squire

Boston and Maine Annual Report 1883 Highlights

The Boston and Maine railroad reports 1883 gross receipts of 2,991,429.75 with operating expenses 1,849,119.10 and net surplus 1,027,046.27 after improvements. It notes increased equipment, track expansion, rail and tie placements, iron bridge work in Dover, and a lease with the Eastern railroad contested by a Massachusetts court suit. A Kennebunk to Kennebunkport line opened June 18, 1933, under a 99-year lease from May 15, 1883. The note cites Mexican railway updates and a New York Central commutation-rate cut starting January 1, 1884.

Atchison A. E. Touzalin Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company Boston Chicago Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Toledo Cincinnati St. Louis Connorton Valley Detroit Lansing Northern Common Flint Pere Marquette Kansas City Fort Scott Gulf Common Springfield Memphis Maine Albany Old Colony New York New England Springfield Republican Mr. Landers Gen Franklin Vanderbilt Boston and Connecticut Norwich and Worcester Norwich Transportation Company Gen. Wilson Felton Mexican Central St Louis E. D American Bell Telephone Messrs Henry Clowes and Co Congress Chicago and Northwestern Milwaukee and Seaboard Boston and Maine Boston and Maine Railroad Company Cosak Oe Caekab Nee Old Orchard Scarboro Pine Point Charles Street Dover Cocheco River Eastern Railroad Eastern Railroad Company New Hampshire Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Boston and Maine Railroad Kennebunk Kennebunkport Lawrence Matamoros and Monterey Mexican National Matamoros Reynosa Tampico Moralvillo Tamesi River Guaymas Las Vegas Hot Springs Bay Gulf of California Gulf New Street Railway San Jose de Guaymas New York Central Railroad Company Hudson River Harlem New York Central Oedensburg Lake Champlain

City Police Revoke Liquor Licenses of Two Citizens

Police commissioners revoke liquor licenses for Thomas P. Williams of 2010 Washington Street and Jeremiah Donovan of 74 Essex Street. General order No 225 by fire commissioners promotes Dr George W Stinson to hospital surgeon with full charge of horse care and sales. Water board reports 50 workers discharged from basin two with many voters removed and nonresidents kept. plan to rehire resident laborers and discharge equal number of nonresidents.

Thomas P. Williams Washington Street Jeremiah Donovan Essex Street George W. Stinson Water Board Basin Two Boston

December meeting of soldiers' home association discussed kettledrum plan

Mrs. Micah Dyer Jr presided over the December meeting with reports from Mrs. W. E. Ralph and Miss N. P. Heitt and treasurer Miss H. K. Bowdlear. The board approved kettledrum arrangements and read Capt. J. G. B. Adams endorsement. The committee was tasked to secure Mechanics Hall for February 14. December visitors were Mrs. H. H. Hartt and Mrs. Col. W. H. Hartt of Chelsea.

Soldiers’ Home Association Micah Dyer, Jr W. EH. Ralph N. P. Heitt H. EK. Bowdlear E. Florence Barker the Home J. G. B. Adams

Speaker Carlisle and tax relief for prosperity

The Newport News notes surprise that Speaker Carlisle proposes nothing to disturb business interests. It rejects talk of disaster from reducing or taxing necessary goods and argues relief is needed to make the country prosper. Lowering burdens will let business flourish.

Newport News Carlisle

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Davis Continental National Bank Shoe and Leather National Bank National Bank of Redemption Traders National Rape Blackstone National Bank Vermont and Bates Manufacturing Co Revere Beach Lynn Rd Union Cotton Manufacturing Co Fall River Colorado National Rubber Co Bristol, RT Union Market National Bank Watertown National Car Co Southern New England Telephone Co Halfway Boston Beiting Co McKay Sewing Machine Association Wilmington Baltimore Boston, Concord and Montreal Const Ittle Rock Mississippi River Continental Mills de Lynn Gas Light Co Erie Telegraph and Telephone Co Indian Queen Mining Co Minneapolis Suares Phenix Manufacturing Co Taunton Portsmouth, Great Falls Conway Eastern R R Francis Henshaw & CO Amory Manufacturing CO Boston Stock Exchamg C. W. Amory State National Bank OF Boston C. B. 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Cox Boylston Mutual Insurance Co Sandusky and Cleveland Dedham and Hyde Park Gas Light Co Boston Athenaeum Boston and Albany Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Marquette Ontonagon Eastern National Bank of Republic Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Champion Ron Co Mich Etropolitan Foot Mile Street Boston Daily Post Cannes Salem National Bank Salem Merchandise National Bank Merchants National Bank Dwight Manufacturing Co Laconia Manufacturing Co Saratoga Victory Manufacturing Co Peabody Mills Newburyport Para Rubber Shoe Co Connotton Valley Northern Railroad Burlington and Missouri River Delft Dresden Lowestoft Artique & Modern Oriental Carpets Horatio Harris & CO. Auctioneers and Commission Merchants Samaria Cyrus L. Harris & Co Central Wharf Fisk’s Wharf Commercial Street Suffolk Emma BR. Smith Curacoa WM. D. Martin Jerome Sarah A. Raddin Ca M. Bary Frank M. Blaney Evan E. Gwynne East East Boston Liverpool Street Barry and Bigelow John H. Burke Charles A Vogeler A. 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