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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 17, 1885

Page

3

Boston Money Matters and Stock Report July 16 1934

Boston markets show steady but low money rates with prime mercantile paper around 3 percent and general business paper near 4 to 4.5 percent. Call loans secured rise to 2.5 to 4 percent, while New York funds discount at 5 cents per $1000. Stock activity features a booming New York market, heavy trading, and notable moves in Mexican Central bonds, Atchison, and Bell Telephone.

Boston Prime Mercantile New York

Fragmented Rail Market Ledger Shows Mixed Rates and Totals

A readable fragment lists various rail lines and agents with odd figures, percentages, and cents. Entities include Atlantic and Pacific, Mexican Central, Brunswick Berth, and Mexican Central again, alongside numeric values and percentages suggesting rates, quantities, or prices. The partial data hints at a trading or timetable ledger with inconsistent formatting.

Btocree Rr Alghest Atch. Top Santa Fe Atlantic & Pacific Buver Gonboss Dev Brunswick Berth Sorton Sumerowe

New York Financials Show Mixed Market on July 16

New York on July 16 reports easy money on call at 11 percent and steady bonds with mixed stock activity. Trading soared in early hours with New York Central rising to 964 and Lake Shore to 6714, while Vanderbilts faced heavy selling by London interests. By close, most advances receded, leaving the market generally 4 to 5 percent above the day’s lows but 1 to 2 percent below the prior evening’s levels.

New York Prime Mercantile Lackawanna New York Central Lake Shore Lackawana Northwestern St. Paul London Depew Arkell West Shore Gould Connor Erie Firsts Consolidated Texas Pacific General Atlantic and Pacific Columbus Hocking Valley Toledo Western Construction Delaware and Hudson Pennsylvania Chicago St. Louis New Orleans Indiana Bloomington Western International Great Northern Central Pacific San Joaquin Kansas Pacific Firsts Consolidated Oregon Short Line Richmond Danville Wabash Keokuk Des Moines Oregon Improvement San Francisco Texas and Pacific General G. C. Eldredge & Co Messrs Emery & Hod State Street Afghanistan Hea Portsmouth N. H Atlantic Coast Boston Wentworth Eastern Railroad Fabyan House White Mountain Notch North Conway Sea Shore Express George F. Thompson

Butter and Cheese Receipts Slump Amid Heat At Port

Receipts for butter and cheese this week show 25,551 tubs and 4103 boxes, with last week lower at 24,521 tubs and 2195 boxes. Exports reach 89,048 lbs this week, 163,374 last week, while most beef and dairy stock stalls in storage. Prices ease as Western imitation creamery sales dwindle and hot weather pressures market. New York steady with slight uptick in cheese and Eggs demand remains strong for choice stock.

New York Sanaa Minnesota Milwaukee St Louis Detroit Toledo Chicago Buffalo Ilwaukee White State Rye Prince Wolwerdsland Lord—City Boston Cincinnati South America Union

Cotton futures hold steady as sales near 111k bales

Middling upland at 10 15-16c and ordinary upland and ordinary de at Sc with spot cotton easy. Futures steady, closing firm, sales 110 900 bales. Liverpool cotton market shows buyers favored with uplands 59½d and Orleans 5 5d. totals include 8 000 bales traded and 1 000 speculative/export.

Liverpool Uplands Orleans

Promotion at New York New Haven and Hartford Railroads

Mr O M Shepard receives a key promotion as assistant to the president of the New York New Haven and Hartford railway, bringing deep line experience from Cincinnati and St Louis routes, with a career spanning master mechanic to superintendent and transportation chief in Boston Hartford and beyond. The report also covers NY West Shore and Buffalo finances, Hoosac Tunnel month figures, tolls, and forthcoming locomotive engineers excursion to North Adams on July 19.

Watrous New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company 0. M. Shepard Shepard Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton St. Louis Southeastern Louisville and Nashville Gen. Wilson New York New England Wilson Hartford Boston S. M. Felton Hudson River New Haven Clark New York and West Shore Buffalo New York Railroad Commission New York, West Shore and Hoosac Tunnel Troy and Greenfield Fitchburg Troy Boston, Hoosac Tunnel

Gloucester Fish Market prices and notes for week ending July 16

Gloucester fish market reports dull mackerel and varied prices across species. Codfish listings show old and new bank prices with barrel measures, while haddock cusk pollock and hake receive mixed quotes. herring, salmon, and halibut also listed with several byproducts and miscellaneous lots noted. Local Cape Ann Advertiser provides the daily quotations and purchaser remarks.

Gloucester New Georges Nova Scotia Labrador Cape Ann

Trade cargo list from Atlantic voyage ports shows diverse consignments

A long shipping list from Liverpool and Annapolis details cargoes on multiple steamers and schooners. Items include caustic soda, steel, wine, machinery, woolens, carpeting, earthenware, onions, baskets, hats, books, cloth, yarn, salt, soda ash, and foodstuffs. Named firms, carriers, and vessels appear with quantities, including Palestine, New Brunswick, Blythe, E M Bacon, Susie H Davidson, Lillian, and John C Gregory, among others.

Liverpool Eng Palestine King & Co Drexel, Morgan & Co Jere Abbott & Co Norway Steel and Iron Co Little & Larkin Wadsworth, Howland & Co Noise Brown, Durrell & Co Read & Sons Maron Bros & Pierce Kendall, Arrows & Co Stock Bros & Co Tully & Co Burgess & Goddard Annapolis New Brunswick George F Bent Carlton & Sanders Pin Bros Clements S$ Ellis & Co Frye Fales & Lahey Gay & Co McKeever & Hall Mead McKeown Rockwell Randall Delong & Eaman Tlacotalpan Mex John C Gregory Weston Bros

Larceny sentences levied at Concord reform school

John Ryan received one year at the Concord reformatory for larceny. Frank Lovering was fined fifty dollars and costs for the same offence. George Essex was sentenced to one year at the Concord reformatory for larceny.

John Ryan Concord Reformatory Frank Lovering George Essex

Municipal Courts July 16 In re Hardy ruling and fines

Ed win Edwards appealed from a six month sentence for larceny in the central court before Judge Hardy. Thomas F. Denning was fined ten dollars for obstructing a street car. John N. Getting and Henry Barty each paid ten dollars and costs for disturbing a religious meeting. Ida Munger pleaded guilty in Roxbury and was probationed for larceny. Margaret Murphy in East Boston was held on five hundred dollars bail to answer a larceny charge.

Central Court Hardy Edwin Edwards House of Correction Thomas F. Denning John N. Getting Henry Barty Roxbury Ida Munger East Boston Margaret Murphy

Minnie Pickett Leaves Irvington for Lumpkin Home

Miss Minnie Pickett will depart Irvington for Lumpkin next Friday leaving many young men to mourn her exit. The line says their loss will be her eternal gain, a playful note on her departure.

Irvington Minnie Pickett Lumpkin

Fisher Hill inquiry and land deal details emerge at session

Eighteenth Fisher Hill hearing features Simmons testimony about land purchase, Baxter and Wilson parcels, and possible influence. Cross examination by Morse prompts terse exchanges as audience watches, with bank account and funds questions linked to the Equitable vault and wife’s accounts.

Lively Fisher Hill Mr. Simmons Simmons Morse The Water Board Board Wilson Baxter Fisher Mr. Baxter Swan Miny Dr. Blake Avery Mr. Morse Hobbs Brackett Walden Wightman McClearn Davis Mr. Hobbs Mr. McClearn Blake Mr. Wilson City Solicitor Bailey City Solicitor’s Office Faneuil Hall Bank Lislwid Equitable Boston Bank

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