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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 06, 1883

Page

3

Money market and stock notes from the trading day

Banks are able to meet demand at 4 to 5 percent with call loans at 3.4 to 4 percent. Clearing exchanges total 17,076,929 with balances 1,233.64. Foreign bills and Paris francs quoted. stock market dull but firm with Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe up to 85 and Union Pacific around 95. Railroad earnings and bonds cited, with Mexican Central activity and copper mine outputs for June. Track work on the Mexican Central noted and new station plans discussed.

Corporation New York Western Railroad Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe Paris Union Pacific Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Wheeler Arnold-Lee Toledo Cincinnati St. Louis Toledo, Cincinnati and Marquette Houghton Ontonagon Common Wisconsin Central Common Detroit Lansing Northern Preferred Flint Pere Marquette Old Colony Boston Albany Metropolitan Rutland Providence Mexican Centrals Mexican Central Railway Company Chihuahua el Paso Durango Parral Huajuquilla Porral New England Sonera American Bell Telephone Colbear Mexican Telephone Boston Land Boston Water Power Quincy Franklin Arkansas Pine Bluff Northwest St. Paul Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern Firsts Canada Southern Kansas Texas New York City Northern General Mortgage Iron Mountain Bloomington Western Ohio Mississippis West Point Pullman Manitoba Chicago Pittsburg Ersey Central New York Central Robinson Consolidated The Stock Exchange Hi’st. Lo St. Juli Jui Canaan Ee Cental Pacific le Pyrd Del L. & West Delaware& Hud Denver& Rio G BT van St. Jon Lake Shore Louisville & Nasha Lake Erie & W Michigan Gentral Gare Missouri Pacific Memphis & C Peoria Dec Phila Reading Milwaukee &St.p St. P Omaha Texas Pacific Union Rapite

Local dividends declared by multiple banks and firms

South Weymouth Savings Bank declares 2 percent dividend while Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance issues a semi annual 5 percent dividend. Paterson and Ramapo Railroad posts 44 percent and Pocasset National Bank Fall River 34 percent dividend. Massasoit National Bank 4 percent and Southbridge Gaslight 3 percent. Dedham Hyde Park Gas 3 percent. Merchants Insurance Boston 5 percent. Cheshire Railroad 150 dollars per share dividend payable July 16.

South Weymouth Savings Bank Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company Paterson and Ramapo Railroad Pocasset National Bank of Fall River Massasoit National Bank Southbridge Gaslight Company Dedham and Hyde Park Gas Company Merchants Insurance Company of Boston Cheshire Railroad Company

Mining Stocks and Market Ledger Snippet

The note lists mining stocks with prices and ranges for several companies including Homestake 15 50, Silver King 16 00, Sierra Nevada, Union, and Sierra Grande. It references railroad lines and regional exchanges, such as Fort Wayne and Pacific districts, plus mentions of preferred shares and various regional stock listings.

Dgmdciastecsas Sierra Nevada Ae Dave Sa Vsneexe Bavasc Vce Sideauad Union Veecass Cue Sierra Grande

Trade and Its Outlook in Grain Markets

Trade and outlook notes show no sales today with July oats prices 48c for No 2 white and 46c August bids, plus various prices for No 3 white and mixed grains. Receipts of flour and grain totals, car inspections, and Liverpool cheese and butter market summaries accompany a brief on Board of Trade activity and upcoming sessions.

Iocal Liverpool Whitworth New York Mercantile Exchange Western Canada Chicago Board of Trade

Dull market for breadstuffs and grains with wide price ranges

The market shows a quiet to dull trend across flour, corn, oats, barley, and millfeeds with mixed prices. Butter and eggs soften while meats and lard ease, and tropical fruits remain steady. overall farm produce faces slow demand and variable retail quotes.

Canada West

Fragmented 19th Century Trade Ledger Roster

A long OCR list documents diverse goods and consignments from multiple firms such as Hilton Weston Linder Meyer and Thayer Lincoln across Glasgow Demerara Havana and Saint Johns. Entries show casks machinery pig iron hardware textiles and various bulk commodities with numerous firms and quantities, highlighting historic shipments and mercantile activity.

Hilton Weston EK & F King & Co Thayer & Lincoln Sherburne Linder & Meyer Dumock Bates Baring Bros & Co Howard, Bulough & Riley Barry Bree & Co Jones Abbott & Co Gould Leigh & Co Hart & Young Thos Leyland & Co Moise Carter Dinsmore & Co Cunningham Co Root & Tinker Geneva Goldsmith Morey & Co Haley & Co Moise Cummer, Jones & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Morse, Shepard & Co Brigham Moise Stoddard, Lovering & Co Williston ,Knight& Co Holway, Wright & Rich Moise Beach & Co Stone & Downer Homer Bros Seavey, Foster & Bowyan Ford Dodo Linder & Meyer Simons, Hatch & Whitten Blels Cement Waldo Bros Cushman Bros Davis & Windsor Jordan, Maab & Co Dupee Domoise Taos S Whitman Nichols Demerara Matilda Buck Cushman & Co Havana City of Puebla New York

Foreign Exports Summary From Atlantic Trade Ports

Liverpool shipments include Norseman with cattle sheep and goods such as leather dry goods and oil. Sierra Leone Brig Merryman carries bread fish flour lard sugar tobacco and lumber. Halifax Brig Eagle reports flour while Labrador schooner Polar Star brings flour oil tea and tobacco. Annapolis steamer New York lists a sewing machine nails paint marble and sash weights.

Liverpool Eng Norseman Sierra Leone FJ Merryman Halifax Eagle Labrador Polar Star Annapolis New York

Receipts of Stapie Products and Railroads

A long list of freight movements from multiple railroads and sea routes detailing bales of wool cotton and foreign wool, bushels of corn and malt, boxes and cases of butter cheese eggs and meat, lumber leather hides and pelts, barrels of tallow molasses and greases, and numerous car and roll counts across Maine Fitchburg Grand Junction New York and New England Providence Old Colony ton and Albany and Salem K Expresses with quantities and products. Names of railroads include Lowell, Maine, Fitchburg, Eastern, Grand Junction, Seacoast, New York and New England, Old Colony, Ton and Albany, Providence. commodities cover wool cotton corn oats flour lard butter cheese eggs beef meat leather hides and more.

Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Socay 'Y Salem K New York and New England Railroad Old Colony Railroad Ton and Albany Railroad Providence Railroad

Total Receipts of Staple Products July 5 at Port

Receipts for 1882 and 1883 show totals by commodity such as cotton wool butter cheese flour eggs corn wheat malt hay and more. The column notes that barrels and sacks are converted and 1882 sacks are reduced to barrels. all figures reflect shipments from all points including in transit.

Choice Western Creamery Northern York Vermont New York Nova Scotia New Brunswick Dearby

Markets by Telegraph Cotton and Grain Notes

Markets by telegraph show mixed tone with dull cotton and steady to weak grain across Cincinnati New Orleans Baltimore Norfolk and Savannah reports. Prices and receipts quoted for hogs cattle and lambs in Chicago and Cincinnati reflect light activity and nominal quotes amid holiday week.

Cincinnati NORFO Ross Epee Oorstwire Ccscsece Baltimore SRR BOCK Mobile United States Britain France Savannah UOC Chicago

Atlantic and Western firsts and Bank of England dull outlook

London market report shows Atlantic and Great Western firsts at 4714 and seconds at 1244 with overall bullion decline of £172,000 and reserve ratio down to 353-16 percent of liabilities. Be rbohm notes slow wheat cargoes, steady corn, and muted trade as Liverpool and Liverpool-bound cargoes list price movements for wheat, corn, and provisions with daily receipts around 27,000 centals.

London Atlantic Great Western Ontario and Western Bank of England Beerbohm Liverpool United Kingdom Canformia Ulands Griegos

World’s Biggest Sponge and Local Deaths Missing Value

In Pittsfield Journal items a 12 pound sponge worth 300 dollars is shown in a Williams Street store, while an enormous 150 pound sponge worth nothing is noted. Hardware merchant Mr. Smithers is found dead from heart disease. his wife dies of convulsions.

The Pittsfield Journal Williams Street New York Smithers

Suffolk County Transfers and Mortgages in Boston Area

A long list of land and building transfers across Suffolk County with buyers, sellers, and prices including June 1883 to July 1885 dates. Notable entries include Byron Street deal to Anne L Lawrence for 8500 and Newton Street transfer to Warren G Foley for 10000 with a mortgage, and various transfers in East Boston Roxbury Dorchester Charlestown and West Roxbury. Mortgage entries feature Levi Tower Jr. and others with sums up to 16060 and 6000. Other items note street addresses, acreage, and conveyances to trustees or city entities.

Byron Street David W. Skillings Anne L. Lawrence Newton Street J. Cranston Neponset Avenue Asa Robinson John Donahoe Bailey Street Henry S. Worrall Charles H. Clark John Casey, Jr Art Scorages Lydia A. Simmonds Coe Ee Augustus Russ Sumner Street Nathaniel Tucker City of Boston Bellevue Street Henry J. Nazro Fred H. Warner Dartmouth and Newbury Streets Levi Tower, Jr Charles N. Cotting Worcester Square William $. B. Main Five Cents Savings Bank Albion Street William W. Lowe Franklin O. Whitney Ellen Carruth Henry F. Jenks Dexter T. Mills Merrimac River Savings Bank J. Francis Furkerman William Dawson Suffolk Savings Bank Carrie D. Jewett Nathaniel M. Jewett Parker Fair Hannah C. Littlefield William A. Lawrence George H. Timmins Et al J. Amory Davis Catherine Dexter Charles Amory William Perkins Charles Robinson, Jr George A. Blaney James A. McDonough

Gloucester Fisheries Six Months Ending June 30 Report

Gloucester Mass July 5 1883 statistics show mackerel receipts down over 50 percent from last year while codfish totals for the first half of 1883 exceed 1 000 000 pounds over 1882 and nearly 500 000 pounds above the four year 1879–1882 average Halibut receipts lag the average by over 1 500 000 pounds The table lists six month totals by bank Georges Cape Shore Western Bank and other sources with pounds barrels and quarts for 1879 1880 1881 1882 and 1883 including frozen herring portions from Grand Manan Eastport Newfoundland and Newfoundland totals and notes last year and this year figures for Cape North Grand Manan Eastport and Newfoundland.

Gloucester Mass Bank Abbat Bank Aec Bine Bank Cod Bank Batin Pounds Georges Western Bank Cape Shore Bank Halibut Georges Halibut Cape North Grand Manan Eastport Newfoundland

Mexican National railroad progress and notes on earnings

The Mexican National railroad reports track laying progress across divisions reaching 92314 kilometres total, with soon Morelia and Celaya targets. Earnings updates follow for Southwestern system lines Missouri Pacific Missouri Kansas and Western and others, plus resignations and tariff plans from California railroad commissioners.

Court records in frostsein forgery case and city court actions

The district court found Elling F Frostsein committed forgery by inflating a savings bank note from 300 to 3005 kroners. He remains custody as extradition is not immediate. Municipal court actions report various defendants: assaults with pistols, drunkenness, breaking and entering, profanity, and liquor offenses with fines and period of confinement at the house of industry. Multiple defendants await examinations or trials in July and September.

United States Ccouurt J. H. Sherburne Godfrey Morse Churchill Emma Rowe Mary Coleman Eben Dupont House of Industry William Kelley Daniel McCarty House of Vice John M. Davis Timothy Sullivan Morgan J.a John J. Bunker Aed Louis Ganesso Daniel Kelley Richard Harrington Thomas Robinson Bunker Hill John Clayton Daniel Donohoe East Boston Bartholomew Lyons South Boston James N. Donaghue William H. Collins Patrick McCarthy John B. Collins Highlands Court John J. Curley James Monahan Martin Kane

Southward view on Butler presidential candidacy

A Charleston News and Courier opinion calling the Southern Democrats to clearly express views on the potential presidential bid of Benjamin F. Butler, arguing the need for firm stance amid national political tensions.

South Carolina Charleston

Butler for President and the Democratic Split Threat

The piece argues Massachusetts Governor Butler could win the 1884 Democratic nomination, citing wealth audacity and political cunning as strengths. It warns such a nomination would disrupt the solid South and foresees Butler potentially captivating northern Democrats despite a tainted record and harsh personality.

Vulgare Commonwealth of Massachusetts Butler Advanta New England Ben Butler North South Carolina South

Bathing fashions and safety garments of 19th century advice

The article details inexpensive bathing outfits using cork and silesia, ticks, and Turkish towel cloth, with designs for men women and children. It describes hats of grit wire with gold lace, bathing caps, capes, and practical accessories like a bathing sack, rubber cloth envelope, and a key pocket. It also notes elastic corsets for gymnastic wear and London National Health Society dress innovations emphasizing freedom of movement and absence of constrictive bands. It mentions a July Dublin event to train women for employment, with officials Countess Spencer and Lady Muriel Boyle present.

National Health Society of London Royal Dublin Society House Countess Spencer Muriel Boyle John Lentaigne Paris

Farming and hay making shift to oats and corn feeding

J D Gillett of Elkhart Indiana explains a new system switching from growing and fattening steers to turning off three year olds and finishing at 20 to 28 months on an oats and corn program. He plans sowing 1100 acres of oats, using grass feeding for eight years, and spaying half his heifers next spring to yield fine beef. Hay timing changes favor earlier grass cutting and better hay quality for cattle.

J. D. Gillett Elkhart Dil Garden State Inter-Ocean

Warning to Mr Voorhees from Vincennes News

A Vincennes News editorial warns Mr. Voorhees that future Senate bids will fail with democratic votes if he aligns with Republican doctrine. It accuses him of abandoning Democrat disguise for full Republican traits, suggesting the party’s gain would be the reader’s loss. Also notes the Diamond Dyes for family use at 10 cents per package.

Vincennes News Dem Voorhees Senate Sycamore

Iron man of Waterloo recovers from Bright's disease with cure

An observer chronicles Dr A W McNames of Waterloo a powerful man who suffered Brights disease in its last stages losing weight to 170 pounds and enduring weak health. After trying Warner's Safe Cure recommended by Dr John L Clark he improves dramatically now claiming renewed strength and health and urging others with similar illness to seek treatment. The piece highlights the deceptive nature of the disease and the hope offered by the remedy.

Waterloo N. Y A. W. McNames Bright John L. Clark Warner Ann Arbor Michigan Philadelphia Brey Ayer Mrs Ann O'Brian Sullivan St New York

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