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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 22, 1883

Page

3

Money markets and clearing house totals report dull week

The week closes with a dull money market and near nominal rates. Bank borrowing at 2 percent, mercantile paper discounted around 5 to 6 percent, call loans 4 to 5 percent, and corporation notes at 4 to 4.5 percent. New York funds carry premiums, and weekly clearings show a decline versus last year. Substantial tables detail leading clearing houses and regional shifts with mixed gains and losses, while stock and railroad news describe company earnings, bond plans, and infrastructure projections.

New York United States Perch Boston Inc Cincinnati St. Louis New Orleans Baltimore San Francisco Pittsburg Milwaukee Louisville Providence Kansas City Cleveland Indianapolis Hartford Peoria Columbus New Haven Memphis Portland Worcester LOWE Philadelphia

Electric Lighting Gains Public Confidence and Growth

Electric Lighting is now an acknowledged success and a safe, legitimate business on a paying basis. Its lights are widely used and favored in Boston by prominent institutions and businesses including the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Olympian Skating Rink, Winslow Skating Rink, Hotel Brunswick, Creighton and Tremont Houses, and many shops and saloons along Tremont and Washington streets near the Mechanics' Fair building.

Boston Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Olympian Skating Rink Winslow Skating Rink Hotel Brunswick Creighton Tremont Young Men’s Christian Union Horticultural Hall Washington Boylston Eliot Mechanics’ Fair Boston Daily Post United States Brush Electric Light Company New England Brush Company New England American Electric Association Edward H. Goff Silas Gurney C. D. Smith Samuel Elder

Stocks at Auction. Boston and Maine and Others

Auction list of bonds and stocks from multiple issuers. Companies include Boston Gaslight, Eastern Railroad, Mass Central, Union National Bank, Ames Manufacturing, Pacific Mills, Lowell Machine Shop, Merchants' Manufacturing, Washington Mills. Entries show issue names, locations, and nominal values with dates ranging 1880s to 1900s.

R. L. Day & Co Metropolitan Morse Railroad Manchester & Lawrence Connecticut River Iave Lowaalls Sioux City Boston & Albany Fitchburg Railroad Worcester & Nashua Eastern Railroad Mass Central Boston Gaslight Co East Boron The Commonwealth Sss Vacsac Kesay Cadens Arlington Manufacturing CO Seceseeeusees Astern N. H Saeco Highland Street Manchester City St. Jos C. B. Ist Boston, Key, Beh. & Lynn Little Rock & Ft. Smith Massachusetts Central Connotton Valley Slight and Street LLIN Stanstead, Shef, & Chambly Francis Henshaw & Co Old Boston National Bank Webster National Bank Tremont National Bank Hamilton National Bank National Bank of Commerce Massachusetts National Bank Union National Bank Ccccscss Tscceseeerens Atlantic National BK Exchange National Bank Ise New England National iBank Union Market National Bank Watertown Union Cotton Manufacucing Co Fair Bk Pacific Mills Waka avRskeae i Okeraaee Lowell Machine Shop Boston & Lowell Rd Boston & Albany Railroad Chelsea Gaslight Lymn Gaslight Co Boston Co-operative Building Co Boston Atheneum Essex McKay Sewing Machines Massachusetts Maine Chicago Cincinnati Burlington & Missouri Kansas City & Cameron Rivers Rd Sandusky City Indianapolis Kansas City Topeka & W Marion & McPherson Central RR of Iowa Union Paci Ific Sinking Fund Chi Clin., Dub. & Minn

Financial market summary with United States bonds and stocks

Despatch from Boston notes money on call at 3 to 5 percent, with 4 percent close. Government and state bonds show firm to higher levels. railroad and mining shares move unevenly amid midday gains and later declines. Sierra Grande declares dividend. weekly bullion receipts reach 236,611. Market totals 356,000 shares with a broad downturn ending the day.

London Paris Frances United States Kean Pasenteey Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Little Rock Fort Smith Little Rock and Little Rock, Mississippi River Texas Union Pacific Bears Union Pacific Railway New York New York Exchange Boston Acts of Congress Toledo Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago West Michigan Town Falls Sioux City Flint Pere Marquette Columbus Springfield Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad Company Marquette Houghton and Ontonagon Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Ontonagon and Brule River Prince Arthur’s Landing Canadian Pacific Railroad Eastern Fitchburg New England Albany Old Colony Old Colony Railroad Company Old Colony Steamboat Company Fall River Framingham and Lowell Road Boston, Clinton and Ogdensburg Lake Champlain Common Lake Champlain Alburgh House’s Point Vermont and Canada Lamoille Valley Extension Railroad Company Missisquoi Bay Northampton Bondville State Line Poughkeepsie American Bell Telephone Pullman Mutual Union Telegraph Company John Sherman Boston Post Prime Mercantile Tennessee Indiana Denver Rio Grande Ilinois Central Wabashes St. Paul Louisville Nashville Lackawanna Lake Shore Northwest Canada Southern Denver and Texas Pacific Richmond West Point Western Union The Stock Exchange

Market report on hog futures and receipts at Union Stockyards

The report shows bids and closes for hog futures across months from January to June with figures like cash lard at 1065 and 1070, and April at 11, cash lard. Union Stockyards reports estimated receipts of 17,000 hogs yesterday official 44,947 with shipments 2,288 and leftovers 30,000. Hot hogs bring 580,620. mixed packers 580,625. heavy shipping 630,670. Weekly totals show receipts 242,805 and shipments 9,673.

Milwaukee Chicago Toledo Detroit

Flour and grain market notes from Chicago and New York

The market remains steady with firm mill pricing as wheat option gains bolster flour values. Quotations show little change from prior, with detailed price ranges for western superfine through Michigan and Illinois patents, plus corn meal oats and mill feeds. Cotton futures and related notes in New York and Boston markets complete the market update.

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Imports at Boston Antwerp

Ship Wadffusett 39 204 coils steel wire rods 2049 coils steel wire rods Naylor and Co Lugano Bark Maria 65 670 cantars logwee Boston Dyeweed and Chemical Co Port de Paix Schooner Lillian May 216 tons log weed Lyon Dupuy and Co

Boston Antwerp Wadffusett Naylor & Co Lugano Boston Dyeweed and Chemical Co Port DE Paix Lillian May Lyon, Dupuy & Co

Maritime Cargo Listings From Ports Across New York and Nova Scotia

Compiled excerpts detail cargoes and vessel names at PORT CHALMERS HALIFAX GUADALJ S Schooner Alice Tarlton and other craft loaded with commodities such as lumber, tobacco, hardware, fish, eels, oil, and foodstuffs. Entries name multiple ships, cargos, and port towns including PORT CHALMERS NZ HALIFAX NY POIUNT-A-PITRE Guad. HAYTI HARBORVILLE.

Port Chalmers Jane Maria Halifax Worcester Poiunt-A-Pitre Guad Alice Tarlton Charles E Moody Harborville Talisman

Receipts of Staple Products Jan Twenty From Railroads

Detailed tally of shipments by Boston and Albany Grand Junction Old Colony Providence New York and New England Eastern Lowell Maine Fitchburg and Peabody and Salem lines listing bales flour corn meal oats rye beef pork butter eggs beans apples leather hides pelts lard and other staples with quantities across multiple railroads and conveyances. The record reads like a wholesale stock and tolls ledger reflecting commodity movements and assortments.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Old Colony Railroad Providence Railroad New York and New England Railroad Eastern Railroad Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Humber Peabody and Salem Sea

Principal staples receipts tabulated for Jan total

A historical table compares total receipts of major staples at the port via shipments from all points, including in transit, against the same day last year. The 1883 column lists Cotton, Wool, Flour, Cheese, Corn, Oats, Wheat, Eggs, Beans, Barley, Apples, Potatoes, Rye, Hay, Millfeed, Tallow, Leather, Beef, Pork, Hides, Bacon, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, and related items with units and quantities, noting foreign receipts by sea excluded in 1882 for sugar, molasses, and tea totals.

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Cotton Market Report Fragment

Fragmentary note shows 135 bales with low middling at 10s and good ordinary at 58 cents. Indicates a pair of unidentified figures or buyers ready to sell. unreadable name and location.

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Wheat and grain prices drift in unsettled markets worldwide

Prices for corn, oats, barley and wheat move in mixed directions across Chicago St Louis Milwaukee Toledo and Cincinnati reports. Dealers note firming oats and barley with steady to higher corn while pork and lard trade shows softenings and steadier wheat with varied monthly contracts across major regional exchanges.

London and Liverpool Market Report on Wheat and Cotton

Beerbohm reports cargoes of wheat and corn firm with California wheat just shipped and due. Liverpool prices show flour and wheat ranges and new and old corn. Cotton market shows Uplands and Orleans bids with 8,000 bales sold and futures steady. Havana Market.

Boston New York Liverpool Uplands Orleans lGlac New Orleans Ohio St Louis Minnesota West Indies Europe South America Brandywine Duluth London Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange California Havana

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