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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 02, 1885

Page

3

Clearing house returns show weekly clearings in New York and New England

A Boston Post despatch table lists clearances for the week ending January 31 1885 from leading US clearing houses. It compares figures with the same week a year earlier, highlighting growth or decline across New York and New England institutions.

Boston Post United States New York Weston Philadeliphia Chicago St. Louis Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburg San Fran Milwaukee Kansas City Providence Cleveland Detroit Omaha Indianapolis Hartford Mermphis New Haven Columbus Porviane PROOR Sc Isess Worcester Sprinefield Ht. Joseph Lowell Syracuse

Grain and flour market report with mixed prices and bids

Market summary shows flour blends and wheat values across Minneapolis Chicago Milwaukee Toledo and New York with bids, receipts, and shipments. Prices range from winter wheat extra at 3 75 to No 2 red around 81 4c in Chicago, rye and oats easing, butter and cheese markets softer amid rail blockades and regional demand shifts.

Manchester Eng America Liverpool Oldham New Orleans Lancashire New York New England Belge Choice Minnesota Michigan St Louis Wisconsin Milwaukee St Lous Chicago Southern Illinois Missouri City Toledo Detroit St. Louis Delaware White State Rye Canada

Market Tone Mixed Across Cities With Dull and Easier Trade

Net receipts at U S ports 11515 TL 515. Net exports to Great Britain 17405 17405. Net exports to Continent 5399 5399. Decrease of American stock 3039 3089. Consolidated American stock 872368. The market was steady at Louisville easier at Memphis dull at Norfolk Savannah St Louis and Wilmington dull and easier at New Orleans and quiet at other points.

U. S Great Britain Louisville Memphis Norfolk Savannah St. Louis Wilmington New Orleans

London Financial Roundup and Havana Sugar Market Summary

Financial wires report US bonds and rail securities with mixed moves across Atlantic markets. Central Pacific and Union Pacific show small gains while others edge lower. Cuban sugar market opens quiet but firm with warehouses listed and weekly exports tallied. Freight rates rise as vessels head to the United States and exchange remains dull.

New York Prime Mercantile Alabama Georgia North Carolina Erie London Bears Pennsylvania Railroad Lackawanna Delaware and Hunson Jersey Central Reading St. Paul St Paul Canadian Pacific Missouri Pacific Central Pacific Hudson Western Union Union Pacific Chicago West Shore Houston and Texas Denver Rio Grande Iron Mountain General Kansas Louisville and Nashville New Orleans Mobile Metropolitan St. Louis Great Western Northwestern Chesapeake and Ohio California Oregon Wabash Lprusactions Atlantic New York Central Ilinois Central Pennsylvania Economist Ohio Mississippi Lake Shore Louisville Nashville Havana Matanzas United States

Receipts of Staple Goods by Railroads and Expresses

Inventory of shipments from multiple railroads and express lines detailing bales of cotton and wool, flour, corn, wheat, oats, barley, rice, pork, lard, tallow, butter, oleomargarine, beans, apples, potatoes, hay, lumber, leather, hides, skins, pelts, molasses, tea, coffee, eggs, and other staple items. Counts include Boston and Albany, Graae Junction, Providence, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Maine Railroads, Maine Eastern and Western divisions, One Railroad, Peabody Salem and Expresses, and Sea routes with dozens of bales and cases listed.

Boston and Albany Graae Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Oia Colony Railroad New York and New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Maine Hailroan Maine Railroad Peabody Salem Sea Utter Rees Sasigo Ean 25 5 Tea, Bf Dig ORM Escess Dales S.s.ssgerrhall Aces

Maritime Goods and Cargoes Listed Across Ports

Shipping lists detail consignments from multiple firms including J F Swan, Abram French, Barington, and Baring Bros. A variety of goods are tracked from earthenware and woollens to sugar, hides, and pulp with destinations across Buenos Ayres Havana Ponce Pernambuco Gonaives Corkburn Harbor and Port Medway. The entries specify quantities such as cases boxes casks bales tons and bags alongside names of merchants and traders.

Neale & Morse Webster King & Co Moors & Co Baring Bros & Co Walbaum & Co Stuart & Co Hell & Bosworth Talbot Wilmarth & Co Kendal Barrows & Co Buenos Ayres Andrew Havana Newport New York Samuel Boston Ponce Henrietta Wood Pulp Frame & Smith Barclay & Co

Union Pacific Affair and Storm King Bridge Plans

The article surveys the Union Pacific debt and a proposed Hoar bill to settle it via bonds and partial government adjustments, noting long-term costs and impact. It also details Massachusetts interest in Highland Junction Storm King Bridge funding, proposing a five-million-dollar cantilever bridge over the Hudson and connections to New York and New England and to the Erie. It reports a looming rate war as Pennsylvania railroad lowers passenger fares toward New York, prompting other lines to match or beat the price.

Boston Stock Exchange Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Washington Hoar Gould Flint and Pere Marquette Toledo Cincinnati ST. Louis Southeastern Division Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Dayton and Ironton Railroad Company Toledo, Delphos and Burlington Railroad Company N. B. Mansfield Gresham Ohio Quigley Toledo, Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad Boston and Maine Boston Providence New York New England The New England Car Trust New York & New England Railroad Company American Loan & Trust Company New England Car Trust Association New York and New England Railroad Company Car Trust Association F. L. Higginson N.Y Mexican Central Springfield Memphis Ote Valley American Bell Center Erie Calumet Hecla Quincey Osceola Franklin Lake Ingot Bowman Brunswick Bath American Electric Common Catalpa Commissioner of Patents Edwin S. Osgood Osgood Cash Car Company H. H. Hayden Lamson Cash Railway Company Gilbert R. Elliott Continental Cash Car Company Amoskeag Lyman Massachusetts Nashua Sandwich Glass New England Glass York Appleton Dwight Great Falls Hamilton Hill Lowell City Exchange Union Webster Atlantic State Eliot Old Boston Mechanics Suffolk Freeman Naumkeag Salem Warren Peabody Railroad of Irving A. Evans & Co New York and New England Railroad Great Trunk Line Road Massachusetts Central Wisconsin Central Union Pacific Railway Company United States Treasury Agawn Chicago, Burlington and Quincey Railroad Denver and Congress United States Transportation Highland Junction Storm King Bridge Railway Committee New York and Pennsylvania Newburgh Pennsylvania Railroad Pennsylvania Company

Boxing Card Matchups Listed for Monday

In the lineup for Monday there are eight bouts including James versus Paul from 1734, Driscoll against McKay at 1770, Hillil versus Fitzgerald at 1612, Henderson versus McCann at 1492, Bowker versus DeLong at 1840, Heustis against Putnam at 1778, Sherman versus Davis at 1782, and Jacques versus Goff at 1794. The card spans several eras and features rivalries across weight classes.

James Paul Driscoll McKay Hillil Fitzgerald Henderson McCann Bowker DeLong Heustis Putnam Sherman Davis Jacques Goff

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