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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1884

Page

3

Clearing House Shows Improvement In Trade News

The report notes a fair to good demand for money with abundant bank vaults and steady business. Mercantile paper brings 5 to 5.5 percent, miscellaneous 6 to 7 percent, with bank calls at 4 to 5 percent. New York funds show premiums, and weekly clearing house totals reach 11.93 million with balances of 1.87 million.

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Fragmentary note hints at unseen sequence in 67 volume

A garbled excerpt mentions SEES NIST and a figure 67, suggesting an unseen sequence or dataset in volume 67. The text is unreadable in parts, offering limited clear names or places. Further coherent details are not recoverable from the fragment.

Pork and Lard Prices in Multiple Markets Reported

Export demand remains strong for backs and various pork products with prices listed for prime and new mess, along with lard, hams, bacon, and shoulders. Regional markets Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee New York show fluctuations in pork, lard, bulkmeats, and beef, with hogs and cattle receipts and price ranges across days and conditions.

Chicago Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee New York Tierce City Steam Extra India City South America Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Oid Colony Railroad York and New England Aurora Fitchburg Railrose Eastern Railroad Maine Railroad Lowell Railroad Peabody, Salem Sea

Track Laying and Railway Finances in 1884 News

The Railroad Gazette reports 84 miles of new track in 1884 across Milwaukee Lake Shore and Western Brule River Ashland Corvallis Oneatta Corner Stone Swan Lake Tionesta valley Gauge three feet totaling 3509 miles for 1884 and compares with prior years. Erie default seeks forfeiture of rolling stock valued at about 1.2 million dollars. Chicago Burlington and Quincy offers stock payment deferral at 3 percent interest. Pennsylvania and Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago settle rental arrangements while disputes over stock issuance continue.

New York New England Lynn Washington E. Connor Clark Herald Sage Messrs Haven, Webb Rice French Frank L. Higginson Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Wade Mexico Chicago Burlington and Quincy Iowa Inc Omaha Council Bluffs Burlington Missouri Ashland Union Pacific Boston Maine George C. Lord Nathan J. Bradlee Nathaniel G. White J.S. Nichols J.S. Ricker W. S. Stevens Amos Paul Samuel C.lawrence Richard Troy H. B. Nason Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Overland Telephone Company Bell Telephone Company Vandermyer Institute Bell Nason Montreal Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company Dallas Tex Sherman Texarkana Houston Galveston Prime Mercantile Paper Lackawanna Delaware and Hudson New Jersey Central Northwestern St. Paul Tjs Vanderbilts New York Central Lake Shore Pacific Central Pacific Northern Pacific Iron Mountain Kansas City Northern Missouri Pacific Ohio Southern St. Louis San Francisco Utah Southern Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Ochio Central Paul Despatch Alexander Mitchell Manitoba Northwest Brandon Bank of Montreal Canadian Pacific Railway Winnipeg Europe Atlantic Gulf United States Financial Chronicle Newcastle City Halifax London Annapolis County Iron Trade Review London Cablegram London Telegraph Majeve Desert Colorado River New Orleans Liverpool Ottawa Valley Ottawa Philadelphia Reading Railroad Great Trunk Lines Howard Spinners’ Union of Fall River Railroad Gazette Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Bessemer Mich Norwood Wisconsin Brule River Wis Oregon Pacific Corvallis Ore Oneatta Pine Bluff Swan Lake Corner Stone Ark Tionesta Valley Garfield Augustville Erie Solon Humphreys E. D. Morgan Erie Railroad New York Car Trust E. N. Howell Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pittsburg Fort Wayne Pennsylvania Company Chicago Company Oregon Springfield Eastern and Western Air Line Railroad Company Western Pennsylvania Corneil Bluffs la Mississippi River Aledo Mercer County Megantic Moosehead Lakes Mt. Desert Ferry New England and Acadia Steamship Company Toronto Cincinnati Chicago Board of Trade Lowell Charles E. Paige Boston and Lowell Railroad Elevated Comproller New York City Smith Boston and Maine Railroad Dover N. H Eastern

Business Troubles Across States Reported in Insolvency Notes

A sprawling insolvency roundup lists Alvin W. Osborne of Boston owing about 9600 with no assets, Nathaniel W. Todd owing 2031, and The Standard File of South Hanson attached for 2800. Creditors include Holt & Co. and various small firms. other cases show receivership petitions, failed merchants, and settlements offers, with notes on Grant & Ward liabilities and possible dividends.

Alvin W. Osborne Boston Nathaniel W. Todd Standard South Hanson 8. Holt & Co Chandler & Carr, Grocers Worcester Mass Samuel Graves Marblehead William B. Brown Graves Brown William C. Hawes Revere Rufus Pickering Woburn and Wakefield James Gibbs Chelsea O.H. Perry & Co Bobbin Lowell Mags John T. Dearborn Bryant’s Pond Woodstock George F. Comstock West Winsted H. W. Atwood & Co Bridgeport Conn R. J. Morrison Tailor Birmingham S. Lowenstein & Bro Nashville Tenn J. R. Hyatt & Co Waynesville S. C G. F. Mitchell John T. Terry Cornelius A. Garrison Frederick D. Grant Terry Garrison Julien T. Davies Grant & Ward Davies James D. Fish F. D. Grant

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