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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 07, 1885

Page

3

Market Summary of New York Financials and Stocks

New York financial tone in January reports easy money on call at 11.5 percent. Prime mercantile paper 4.75 to 6 percent. Bar silver 108. Foreign exchange irregular with long 48 14 and short 48 14. Markets mixed with coal shares leading gains later. declines in Louisville and Nashville. Northwestern up to 88 4, Lackawanna 88 4, St Paul 79 7, Union Pacific around 46, Western Union 55.9. End of day weakness amid rumors and coal-stock sales. several bonds and rail issues fluctuated. The day saw 35,531 shares traded. notable names include Plymouth, Hale & Norcross, Colorado Coal, Homestake, Quicksilver, and others.

Europe England London Mercantile Boston New York American Bell New England Car Trust Company Mexican Central Securities Union Pacific Gould Prime Mercantile Paper Louisville Nashville Northwestern Delaware and Hudson Lackawanna St. Paul New York Central Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Western Union Louisville and Nashville Pennsylvania Railroad St. Paulity Lake Shore Houston Texas West Shore Oregon Transportation Home Watertown Ogdensburg Wabash Florida Hubbard Jersey Virginia Rio Java Maracaibo Faneuil Pembroke Huron Cienfuegos Barbadoes Porto Ico New Orleans Pernambuco Louisiana Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis Turkey Valencia Muscatel Centennial Beacon Light New York—Petroleum United Pipe Line Ittsburg Figo Thorn Creek Jacksonville Atlantic Coast Line Seaboard Richmond and Danville New Orleans Exhibition St. Johns River Northern Pacific Railroad Company New York Stock Exchange Washington Territory Texas Pacific Gouldsborough el Paseo Mississippi Gordon Coal Iowa Roads Iowa City Council Kansas City Wyandotte Kan Boston and Maine Eastern Henry Fink East Tennessee Railroad J. W. Cole Messrs. N. Robinson Isaac Bailey Alex. H. Stephens East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad I. A. Robinson E. W. Cole I. W. Barlow Baxter United States Circuit Court of New York Lienry Fink East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company Coal Combination H. P. Clark

Fragmented OCR dataset with numbers and names scattered

A garbled OCR fragment lists varied figures, percentages, and references to American brands and locations. The text shows inconsistent spacing and partial product identifiers, resembling a page of catalog-like entries or financial figures without coherent narrative or clear event.

Grain and livestock markets mixed with firmer tone seen

Receipts and bids noted across corn oats rye barley and flour futures with strength in some crops. Chicago and New York show variable prices, steady to firmer markets for corn oats rye and barley while hogs and cattle fluctuated. butter cheese and eggs steady with broad demand and priced ranges.

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Toledo New York Bright Canada Ile Saies Canada Liverpool Western

Pacific Coast action tightens rail contracts and rates

Despatch from Chicago reports the Transcontinental association ending special contracts after Jan 1 and charging regular Chicago rates. Central Pacific limits Sunset route competition to seaboard-origin traffic, boosting Chicago lines by preventing diversion and reducing price gaps for contract holders.

Chicago Pacific Coast Association St. Louis Missouri River California Transcontinental Association Central Pacific New York New England Seaboard the Tribune Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners

Market Livestock Totals and Road Car Counts

This week totals show 1,069 cattle 4,758 sheep and lambs 15,434 swine. Last week 864 cattle 4,215 sheep 12,251 swine. One year ago 570 cattle 3,463 sheep 8,557. Regional breakdown lists New Hampshire Vermont Connecticut Rhode Island New York and Western regions with varied counts. Also notes car classifications by road and quality terms for cattle and hogs in market listings.

Eeee Sone N.hampshire Ewe Vermont Rhode Island New York Comeane

Bell faces setback as Drawbaugh case looms

The article notes Bell Telephone weakness tied to rivals' outlook. It cites a Pennsylvania circuit court decision in a Bell versus Overland case, but says final ruling hinges on the Drawbaugh case at the U S Supreme Court. Overland backers expect a ruling against Bell, hoping to open the field.

Bell Telephone Bell Company Overland Company United States Pennsylvania United States Supreme Court Overland Bell

Mediterranean Ports Steamer Italia Cargo Summary

From Leghorn and Malaga to Valencia Geneva and Pernambuco the shipment lists dozens of commodities. Olive oil soap marble alabaster almonds wine raisins oranges vermouth and sugar appear from multiple firms including J A Hayes C E Hall Frank Len tini Codman & Hall and Franklin Rolfe & co. Notable totals include 1614 boxes of raisins 9782 bags sugar and 889 boxes of wine with many blocks casks and cases of various goods.

Mediterranean Italia Leghorn Chickering & Co Frank Lentini Moise Barros & Co Codman & Hall AH Hardy & Co Weaver & Sterry Joshua Blake Tally & Co Phelps Bros & Co Geneva Vassalo Brignati & Co Joshua Black Pernambuco

Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Promises Renewal for Ailing Wife

A persuasive appeal urges husbands to use Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription to restore vitality and rosy cheeks in a wife suffering from nervous debility blamed on female weakness. The tone pressures action to revive her health and happiness.

Dr. Pierce

Foreign Exports at St John First Little Bell Shipment

Schooner Little Bell 50 tons pig iron and 280 bags cotton seed meal sail from St John NB. The vessel also carries 15 000 feet of lumber bound for export, indicating a mixed cargo of bulk iron seed meal and timber in a single voyage.

ST John Little Bell

Joyner and Wild Nuptials at Norton Church

Announcement of the marriage by Rev J P Lane at the Congregational church Norton on January 5. Hon HC Joyner of Great Barrington weds Mary Elizabeth daughter of G W Wild of Newark New Jersey. Copies requested for Newark papers.

Receipts of Staple Products by Railroads

Detailed freight items listed for the Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, and Nena Colony Railroads. The tally includes bales cotton and wool, bbls flour and tea, bushels corn wheat and peas, millseed and meal, lard and pork, butter and cheese, eggs apples hides and pelts, lumber, leather and skins, and other staples in multiple carloads and consignments. Names include Boston and Albany Railroad and Grand Junction Railroad, with quantities exceeding thousands of units across multiple commodities.

New York and New England Railroad Naples Sancia Railroad Eastern Railroad Maine Railroad Lowell Railroad Peabody, Salem Subese Bagu Jan. G Boston and Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Nena Colony Railroad

Court action over Huckleberry Farm book sale and bank cases

Court records detail Samuel S. Clemens versus Dana Estes et al seeking an injunction against advertising and selling Huckleberry Farm at subscription price. Other notes cover Lewis Price in appeals over bank tax costs, transfers, set offs, and insolvency rulings, with related commentary and district court decisions.

Samuel S. Clemens Dana Estes Equity Huckleberry Farm Laintiff George L. Huntress S. J. Elder Eee Lewis M. Price Lewis Coleman George N. March Supreme Court Alley National Bank Colby Wall Bill National Security Bank Linus M. Price District Court Pacific Bank The Case Citizens’ Bank Woods Silverman Sawyer

January term open in Taunton court for two matters

The January term opened at 10 A M with prayer by Rev Duryea. Case 1290 Wichomas Sanders vs John H Carroll et al concerns 554 days labor under dispute. Case 931 George H Rankin vs Taunton Locomotive Works seeks 20000 dollars for injuries from a May 16 1878 accident.

Allen Cameron Roland Worthington Liverpool St. John N. BG Boston Tvial George S. Boutwell G A. King George P. Sanger C. A. Almy, Jr Duryea Wichomas Sanders John H. Carroll P. B. Kiernan W. F. Kimball George H. Rankin Taunton Locomotive Works Taunton William Gaston C. S. B. Whitney R. M. Morse, Jr Fuller Rankin Blodgett Wright P. P. Co Stacey Shaw Globe Chem. Co Young Bliss Randall Severen Holt Sanborn Nutter Tilton Corse Sunley Rice Loomis Richards Murphy Jones Lemoir Giroux Tower Brothers Barker Anderson Gurney Low Clark Patton Beil

Business Troubles Fox Shaw Bros Case Embarrassments

The old Philadelphia lumber firm Henry Croskey & Co. failed with liabilities about 450000 while assets near 700000. Croskey blames Keystone Lumber and Salt for unpaid drafts of 379000, noting their West Bay City plant and timber land assets. Other failures noted include Izer & Buckman and London firms Francois & Joseph Badart, with broad insolvency activity across Boston Worcester and New York, as creditors seek hearings and plan distributions under insolvency law.

F. Shaw Bros Henry Croskey & Co North Delaware Avenue Philadelphia Croskey Keystone Lumber and Salt Manufacturing Company Keystone Company Michigan West Bay City Izer & Buckman New York Produce Exchange Shaw Bros Commonwealth Supreme Court Messrs Francois & Joseph Badart London J.C. W. Forrester Blackstone Street Boston EK. R. McPherson McPherson Leonard & Hayden, Grocers Providence R. I Albert H. Allen John Schaffer Baker Birmingham Derby Conn Abraham Cadden Hartford David J. Ayres Stamford M. A. Adams Middletown John Paracinti Fruit Norwich Jarvis Bridgeport Barker & Kellogg Baltimore H. G. Penniman Yarmon & Hilton Defiance Butler & Smith Cleveland

Birmingham's rise from a river town to a southern hub

In Lewiston Journal prose the author describes Birmingham Alabama, noting ten years of explosive growth to 17000 people, its coal and iron ore industries, and how Alabama mining has reshaped regional trade, challenging Pittsburg in iron and fuel markets.

Birmingham Cincinnati South New Orleans Ohio Mississippi Pittsburg Alabama

Four Contemporaries Weigh Hanna Loyalty Across States

A compilation from Ohio, California, Missouri and Nevada papers notes Judge Hanna and his relatives have voted for every Democratic presidential candidate since varying years. The pieces praise family loyalty, calling the Hannas thoroughbreds and citing multiple generations in public service and business roles.

Hanna San Francisco Examiner Morgan County McConnellsville N. A. Hanna Cleveland Sentinel Cadiz F. R. Hanna St. Joseph San Francisco Travellers’ Insurance Company

Connecticut Village Life In Temperance Corner Notes

The piece records local chatter from East Litchfield noting mumps cases, false reports, a corrected identity about a westward move by Joel Hungerford, and a horse sale in Plainville linked to a Canton Village incident. It also mentions a clam peddler from Niantic selling decomposed clams and Captain Elias Wilcox buying a new horse, with light commentary on truth and a joke about Grover Cleveland.

Temperance Corner East Litchfield Joel James Hungerford Sage Canton Village Plainville Jacob Blakeslee Niantic East Great Plain Elias Wilcox Grover Cleveland

Annual Meetings and Board Reappointments at Two Banks

The National Hide and Leather Bank re elected the old board at No 85 Milk Street and chose George Osey as president with A P Weeks as cashier. Washington National Bank held its annual meeting at No 47 State Street electing directors Joseph W Balch Eben Bacon Henry A Green Edward I Browne Caleb A Curtis William Simes, with officers to be chosen soon.

National Hide and Leather Bank Milk Street George Osey A. P. Weeks Washington National Bank State Street Joseph W.balch Eben Bacon Henry A. Green Edward I. Browne Caleb A. Curtis William Simes

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