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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 29, 1884

Page

3

Prices and Stocks in Eastern Markets Amid Holiday Trade

A fragmented listing shows stocks from Boston to Chicago and mining shares, with prices for wheat, corn, oats, and rye mixed across regions. Reports detail receipts, shipments, and market activity in New York, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Chicago, noting firmer butter and eggs and steady pork and lard amid holiday demand.

Bers Minnesota Bakers New York Roller Michigan St. Louis Ilinois Ohio Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota St Louis Milwaukee Chicago New York Toledo Detroit Rye Canada C.esmerie City India Tlerces Western Steam Tierces City Steam South America Union Cincinnati Boster and Albany Haliroad Grand Junction Railroad Providence Mauread Olé Colony Railroad New York and New Ngiang Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Jay Maine Railroad Lowell Haliroad Peabody, Daiem

New York Stock Market Opens with Bear Movement in Coal Shares

In New York on December 27 money on call at 1 11 percent. Prime mercantile paper 44 percent. Bar silver at 1073 g. Foreign exchange steady. Government securities steady, state bonds dull, railway bonds lower. Bear movement on the exchange with heavy selling in coal shares, grangers, Lake Shore and Union Pacific, down 1 to 2 1 4 percent, touching recent lows amid reports of coal company percentage disputes and trunk line pool trouble, Chicago Burlington and Quincy declines.

Boston New York Clearing House Boston Post United States Chicago St. Louis San Fran Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburg Louisville Providence Milwaukee Cleveland Memphis Hartford Columbus New Haven Portland Worcester Springfield N.Y New York City Bradstreet’s Canada Indianapolis Lowell New England Old Colony Fitchburg Maine Eastern Union Pacific Symon Mexico Diaz Wade Sonora Alemphis Little Rock Erie GYOSS New York Commercial Bulletin Europe London Pacific Mills Revere Bank Washington Mills Lancaster Mills Amoskeag Great Falls Lyman Cocheco Boston Gas Massachusetts Bank Shoe and Leather Bank Freeman’s Bank Lawrence Manufacturing Company Chicopee Manufacturing Company Bears Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Burlington and Quincy Asian Pacific Chicago and West Michigan Fiimt and Pere Marquette Pullman Palace Mexican Central Wisconsin Central Common Northwestern St. Paul I Omaha Lactawanna Delaware and Hudson Lake Shore Missouri Pacific New Jersey Central Western Union Pacific Mail New York Central Lackawanna St. Paul G. I. Seney East Tennessee Railroad Company Lenny Haide Koeper Tennessee Seney Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Nashville and Chattanooga Oregon Rock Island Louizana Missouri River St. Pau Consol Texas Pacific Denver South Park Mdiana Bloomington Western Iron Mountain General Kansas Pacific Y’s Prime Mercantile Stock Exchange Grangers Shaw Fayette Shaw Newton and Brackley Shaw Copartners F. Shaw & Bros Brooks East Cambridge Ferdinand N. Wyman Hyde Park George Shattuck First National Bank of Lynn B. F. Brooks Judge Brooks Einstein Schwartzburg Washington Street Oscar Reinstein S. D. Gottschalkson John P. Barnard Boston Proper Charlestown Frank A. Shepard Stoughton George H. Hayes East Weymouth W. H. Chadwick Truckman T. A. Colburn West Romney N.H Clinton Potter Castleton Louis E. Ryder Conn Charles H. Fowler Providence Lumber Company Jesse Burdette D. B. Potter Suffolk County Charles W. Morris Wiliam Waters, Jr John D. Campbell Helen B Wiliam B. Mack Cornelius Driscoll Francis J. Baldwin B. K. Bliss & Sons Edward Cooper National Bank of Mass Ewen Bros David M. Ripley John R. Ewen Cotton Exchange Virginia L. Welch William Prescott William and Edward D. Verplanck Welch, Wellman & Verplanck Mercer Street Philip Verplanck Waugier & Co Gustav Solomon John H. Chase, Jr Sebastian Duncan Messrs. Opdyke & Co Asignee Co. A. Sheffield Villanova N. Y S. M. Hooper Dugway John E. Coe Lycoming Charles M. Coe Edward H. Kinskern Sporting Goods Elmira J. R. Joslyn William R. Hubbell Canandaigua Arin S. Bacon Frederick S. Bletz Columbia Thomas F. Heyman Wheeling W. Va Charles Berbuss Willow Ware East Charleston S. C A.T. McCullough & Co Edwards, Miss L. Marks Dry Goods Tenn Rothschild H. B. Claflin & Co Railway Age West Shore Buffalo Wabash Pacific Philadelphia Reading Rio Grande Allegheney Valley Ohio Central Texas Rio Grande Western Ogdensburg Wheeling and Lake Fire Union Pacific Railway Company Huntington Oregon Railway and Navigation Company New Orleans Mississippi River Wisconsin Centrals Chippewa Falls Wis Minn Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Ashland Michigan Northern Pacific Cascade Mountains Puget Sound California San Francisco

Financial telegraph notes World markets December 27

Lloyd’s LOXDON reports Bank of England bullion in at 14000 pounds with weekly decline of 435843. German Imperial Bank shows 17674000 marks drop. Economist notes firmer money and weaker Consols due to gold withdrawal. London wheat markets quiet. Havana sugar trade mixed with cargos abroad. Exchange dull with premiums on U S. sight and 69 day bills.

Loxdon Bank of England Berlin Imperial Bank of Germany Economist Vienna Denver and Rio Grande Louisville London Beerbohm Paris Liverpool Havana Matanzas United States

Trade outlook and markets in December reports across towns

Holiday trade is poor overall with unsatisfactory collections except at St Louis. New Orleans cotton and Louisiana sugar crop projections dominate the scene. Wheat and corn exports rise while cotton declines. Minneapolis and Iowa milling slow. Fall River mills run steadily. most pay no dividends January. London wharfinger insolvency disrupts oil trade. Ice harvest planned for Troy area. extensive lumber output in Saginaw River mills.

St. Louisa New Orleans Wilmington Minneapolis Iowa Pennsylvania Railroad Reading Coal Company Atlantic Gulf United States Financial Chronicle Fall River Mill Board of Trade Mili Troy N. Y Ingall, Phillips & Co St. Mary Axe London Turpentine Sacinaw River Mich Commercial Exchange

Market tone across ports shows general quiet steady shifts

The market tone remains quiet at Baltimore Charleston Cincinnati and Savannah steady at Memphis and New Orleans quiet but steady at Norfolk dull but steady at New York dull at Wilmington and firm at other points indicating broad stability.

Baltimore Charleston Cincinnati Savannah Memphis New Orleans Norfolk New York Wilmington

Imports at Hoétem Mediterranean Ports Steamer Alexandria

A catalog style report listing inbound goods from Messina Catania Paermo Denia Antwerp Archangel Pernambuco with consignors and quantities. Items include green fruit oranges lemons raisins almonds window glass China earthenware sacks bags mats flax crown fur and tins from multiple firms such as Franklin Rolfe & co A Winsor & Son DH Tully & co and Naylor Rh Sherburne Lambert Bros J Wirth Jacob Wirth and others.

Mediterranean Alexandria Messina Achille Spectare China Catania Brimstone Bradley Fertilizer Co Hambro & Son Minard Hard & Co Westerveit & Co Cusimano & Co Pa'ermo Inecaroni J A Hayes & Co Lopez Sumac RG Norris & Co Grean Fruit Franklin Rolfe & Co H Westervelt & Co Cusiimano & Co Amoroso Santa Farrar, Simpson & Co Denia H Hardy & Co Winsor & Son Antwerp Jan Breydel Naylor & Co Sherburne Birtwell & Co John Conlona Bailey & Co Pernambuco Skobeleff Nash, Spaulding & Co

Bradstreet figures show 121 banking failures in 1884

Bradstreet estimates total 121 U.S. bank failures for 1884 with over 11,660 suspensions and liabilities around 210 million dollars. Failures rose 12 percent from 1883, while assets and liabilities climbed, suggesting losses concentrated among wealthier firms despite broader distress.

Bradstreet United States Bradstreets

Real Incarnation sermon at Church of the Unity

Special Christmas services at Church of the Unity featured a morning program with organ and solos led by Mr Adams and Mrs Richardson. Rev. M J Savage spoke on The Real Incarnation, arguing against literal truth while praising enduring moral truths found in ancient accounts.

M. J. Savage Church of the Unity Mr. Adams Savage God Christ

Christ's Other Sheep sermon and railroad protest in Iowa

Rev C A Bartol preached at Westchurch on Christ's Other Sheep from John x 16, likening Christ’s flock to followers beyond local fold. A strong Iowa protest against Union Pacific charter extension follows, urging congressional investigation into tariffs, bridge tolls, and public interests amid rising receiverships and rail expansion in 1884.

C. A. Bartol Westchurch Christ John x the Redeemer Palestine Solomon David Union Pacific Railroad Iowa Congress Union Pacific Union Pacific Company Nebraska Omaha St. Louis Kansas City St. Joseph Des Moines Council Bluffs Lincoln Fremont Columbus Chicago

Charity Ball Plans for Home for Destitute Catholic Children

Committees named for a charity ball benefiting the Home for Destitute Catholic Children. The event set for February 9, 1935 at Music Hall with Sheriff John B. O'Brien as chief marshal and John T. Wogan as floor director. Tickets go on sale Thursday. arrangements emphasize more comfort and a costume theme.

Alonzo P. Jones Found Dead At Beacon Street Sluceway

The body of Alonzo P. Jones, ticket seller for the Old Colony railroad, was found at the sluceway on Beacon street around 4 PM Saturday. A longtime Boston depot agent and Brunswick Hotel resident, Jones, unmarried, had recently seemed lonely yet left no sign of business trouble. accounts checked out as correct.

Alonzo P. Jones Sluceway Beacon Street Jones Old Colony Railroad Brunswick Boston New Hampshire Old Colony Yall River New York

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