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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 02, 1886

Page

3

Telephone bill at State House stirs Worcester and Salem voices

The joint committee on mercantile affairs held a hearing at the State House on a bill to put telephone companies under state supervision and regulate charges. Witnesses from Worcester and Lawrence described rising rates. speakers urged public interest and a uniform monthly charge as a compromise.

Joint Committee On Mercantile Affairs State House Tate R.M. Morse, Jr George A. Bruce John R. Thayer Worcester Qua Lowell Peopl W. H. Gove Salem Joseph Butterwe Lawrence Higginbottom Holyokessia Josep Fuser Joln Kh Thyer Worerster New England Company American Bell Company Jessee Bell Company Commonwealth Thayer

Aldermen approve appointments and budget items in Boston

Boston aldermen approved Michael D. Collins as sealer and named deputy sealers. Petitions sought damages from Stony Brook overflow, new sewer on Templeton street, and repairs on Georgia street. Library trustees filed the 34th annual report. tax and reservoir site debates aired. numerous appropriations discussed for bridges, hospitals, sewers, and public works.

Board of Aldermen Michael D. Collins David PF Sullivan Benjamin Brintnall Edward Carl William W. Bryant Horace W. Barlow H. K. Smith Paul Grasser Stonybrook Newland Street West Dedham Upton Streets Templeton Street Dorchester Georgia Street Pablic Library The Public Library C.u.ce National Bank

Investigation of Spooks by Psychical Research Society

The American Society for Psychical Research forms a committee including Josiah Royce Dr Merron Prince Colonel T W Higginson J C Ropes T E Abbot Roland Thaxter and Wood ward Hodson to study apparitions and haunted houses. The panel invites reports of sightings of deceased persons and aims to compile and analyze them, with the secretary Dr Prince sending queries to applicants.

American Society For Psychical Research Josiah Royce Cambridge Merron Prince T. W. Higginson J.C. Ropes T. E. Abbot Roland Thaxter Woodward Hodson Concord Prince

Boston Money Market and Clearing House Report

Boston March 1 opens with a quiet money market as call loans sit at 3 34% and good business paper at 4 to 4 1 2 percent. Clearing balances and exchanges are reported with New York and Chicago figures, bond calls push government securities higher, and the local bank statement shows a reserve decline of 250 614. The stock market weakens under blizzard telegraph outages while Atchison leads activity and rail earnings show gains for February.

Boston New York Tezist’d Siesta Ears Sterling J. & W. Seligman Halgarten & Co Chicago St. Louis Baltimore Kansas City Milwaukee Omaha Peoria Indianapolis St. Louie Atchison Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe Galveston Indian Territory Sunset California Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Pacific Mail Wisconsin Central Mexican Central Atlantic and Pacific Sonora Oregon Burlington Northern Wichita and Western New England Maine Albany Old Colony Central Massachusetts Eastern Supreme Court Stern Bears Erie Calame Asd Hecla Huron Franklin Osceola Worcester County Jersey Florida Messina Palermo Valencia Forto Rico Havana Philadelphia Turkey Beacon Light C . Geilon

City of Cleveland Bonds Prepayable by Maverick National Bank

The Maverick National Bank is authorized to prepay now any bonds of the City of Cleveland maturing in 1886. The notice indicates readiness to furnish further details or actions as of February 26.

Saalor Cogswell Sculter Cogswell Harlow Phursday Senate Chen Joyner Alger Dunbar Lena Kendricken Gas Commissioners Hlowland Lilley Berkshire Tocaeseuesteceacer Losta Vendome City of Cleveland Maverick National Bank Suffolk Chales Boston Tremont Street Ezra Brown Sid Brown Moses B. Sewall Mount Vernon Street Charles Tufts Said Tufts Port Bequo School Street Thomasarker Nathaniel Ayer Laulof Nathaniel L. Cobb Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank Amos Stone

Brokers' Board Sales Report March 1 Highlights

Market snapshot shows broker board activity with bonds and stocks, listing prices, yields, and volumes for items such as Mex Cep 7s, MB 6s, RailRoads issues, and several real estate and mining securities. Notable entries include $13,000, $1,300, and $10,000 across various issues, with several bonds around 100–128% yields.

Brokers’ Board Bobbs. Trivag Cloriag Frices Bris Big St. Lo’st Ates Ub& N Gavierr Duvandt Rutland Ucuti Huron Uscoola Anima Boston Land Hest St. Mar Louisville & Nagh Lane Erie Manhattan Missouri Pacific Emphis& Chstn Norwwesern Dereey Ute Brannan Dansan Te Western Union Pacific Eensee Ullman PalaAve Atone Minn Laseeesece serseenidGl N Chic. & Bt. L Ac WeLeeserace Hio & Kiss’.Ja. Pac Otskor Nsw Io Land Oregon Improvement cc de Padatir Col Coal Sess-Eeee - TS Quicksilver Savage Asleconia ConUal & Vasuu

500 Empire and Utility Lines Listed in Trade Ledger

The fragment lists items including a BC Standard Water Meter, a ships berth, a tropical telephone, an American shoe tip product, COD panels, and an electric and limited company reference. The OCR shows unclear text but signals a catalog style inventory with several named items and numbers.

Elec & Lim Com Ccecce Oe

Wall Street closes dull with mixed gains and losses

Money on call remains easy at 144 2 per cent with dull, steady rates for mercantile paper and steady government and railroad bonds. Market activity was quiet after 2:15 pm, ending firm with small fractional changes. Notable moves include Chesapeake and Ohio, St Paul consolidated, and various railroad issues. Lafayette Bloomington and Muncie, Milwaukee and Northern see declines amid a broad, modestly firming mood.

New York Prime Mercantile Sterling Exchange Northwestern Western Union Reading Northern Pacific Consolidated Gas Tennessee Coal and Iron Chesapeake and Ohio St. Paul Consolidated Mineral Point Division Denver South Park and Pacific

Flour and Grain Prices and Wheat Markets Across Cities

Trade in flour and grain remains moderate with firm price tone across Chicago Milwaukee St Louis and New York. Reports show varied receipts and shipments, with milder activity in oats rye and corn, and steady to firm prices for butter eggs and meats. highlights include No 2 red wheat at 9 cents in Chicago and mixed corn quotes with declines in places, plus broad commodity movements across ports and stockyards.

Minnesota Michigan New York Chicago Milwaukee St. Louis Ohio Southern Steady Toledo Detroit Sten Bush St. Loui Doclandi Wille St Louis Steaty Searley Canada Cas Pune Vermont Franklin County Mass Liverpool Western Cape Aroostook Nova Scotia New Brunswick Lara Tierces Western Steam Tierces City Steam South America Cincinnati Trale Maine Greenings Tallman Aroostook County New Hampshire Maine Central Grand Track Beauty Hebron Wate Burbank Tie Speerless York State St. Andrews Norfolk Kale Uplands Orleans Great Britain Continent Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Mic Sige Charleston Baltimore Lhc Livisville United States

London Market Report Shows Wheat Firm Prices Across Regions

London market dispatch notes wheat firmly held with no corn offered, marking increases in Mark Lane and Liverpool amid snow and heavy conditions in England and the continent. Cotton weak at Liverpool while prices generally favor buyers. various bond and stock listings follow in the financial section.

Commercial London Vohm Chamber of Commerce Mark Lane Liverpool Poeris England Baltic Great Britain California Orleans

Value Exports by Country From Boston Port Week Ending

Trade figures show totals for multiple nations including Scotland Belgium Italy Germany and Nova Scotia with exports of dry goods, paper, coals, sugar, cereals and machinery. Major recipients include England and Argentina while values are listed in dollars with detailed commodity lines and country tallies.

Scotland Akubber Ra T Sgostone Belgium Italy Nova Scotia Kivu Michal Absdenesen Cuba Ivather Lange England Escoveee Nova ScoMa Freich West Ladies Duatch WIAA Azores Maderra Elc SUDA Argentine Republi Até Belg Ceenes Sane Tolas

Atchison Link to Kansas Southern Road Studied

A Lawrence despatch says the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe may build a twenty six mile link between Lawrence and Atchison, securing Kansas Southern connection to southern Kansas. A Kansas Southern rep notes interest in a Thayer to Columbus line via Parsons, with existing bridge piers near Columbus and potential cheap acquisition of land along the Neosho river. Coal traffic could lower coal prices in Lawrence and nearby points.

Lawrence Kan Atchison Topeka Santa Fern Kansas Southern Kansas Thayer Parsons Columbus Cherokee Crewford Columba Neosha Little Rock Mississippi River Texas Ark Mississippi Btl Elisha Atkins

Imports at Houston MATANZAS Steamer Pedro-8400 bays sugar

A long list of goods and consignors is shown from imports at Houston and Matanza, detailing steamer cargoes such as cotton bales, sugar, hides, grapes, pig iron, wool, and various domestic goods. Names include Spaulding & co, Boott Cotton Mills, Warren Croton Mills, Leyland Line, and many others, with quantities per item.

Houston Matanzas Pedro Spaulding & Co Savannah Gate City Barry, Thayer &O Almy & Co Great Falls LM Haris & Co C.trom Warren Croton Mills Cotter Leyland Steamship Line Wela & Co Andrews Adams & Co Billings & Eaton Bent Doctor& T Folun Haskell & Son Bern & Co Bishop Fish Brown Seavey & Co Boston Oyster Co Higgins New England Oyste Co Norfolk Oyster Co Church Drinkwater Baes van O H Sampson & Co Tuttle & Ca Willams

Superior Court First Session List of Docketed Cases

March 1 session before Judge BlopGrrt and Judge Thompson. Numerous docket entries list cases or names such as Rothschild vs Hen thaw, Wood vs Atwood, Taylor vs Marweil, Russell vs Fink, Hamilton vs Me Laughhin, Boston M. Ins. Co. vs Butler, Collins vs Mogensstern, Nevillh’s Yagenstern, Purrington vs Laws, Farring 69 vs Ware, Kelly vs Stockport Granite Co, Hesmer vs Preciole, Brady v Costrove, Muray v Rovests, Lord vs Eascem Kit, and many others. Includes tort action Mary H. Niles vs Middlesex Railroad Company. defense denied. arguments by Bainbridge Wadleigh and L. M. Guild. Numerous order numbers follow.

Rothschild Henthaw Wood Atwood Taylor Marweil Russell Fink Notic Deohotfer Hamilton Me Laughh- Hin Boston M. Ins. Co Butler Colins Mogenstern Ween M. Co Decting Mpoeyeert Va. B.anal A . K Guoning Duard Noa Preeakiey Cawbridge KR Donnely Suffolk Saviours Swee Nevillh Yagenstern Purrington Laws Farring Ware Kelly Stockport Granite Uo Hesmer Preciole Goenzenhauser Fanthier Brady Costrove Muray Rovests Lord Eascem Kit Thompson Mary H. Niles Middlesex Railroad Company Scolly Square Bainbridge Wadleigh L. M. Guild Bacon Annie L. Osgood Metropolitan Railroad Company Warren Dudley Streets R D. Smith M. KR. Thomas Wiliam Gaston E. O. Shepard Michael J. Holein South Boston Railroad Company Perry & Creech Dabney

Vast Coastal Trade Goods List Surfaces

A dense OCR ledgers-like inventory lists items from flour to codfish, pork, sugar, butter, lard, and tobacco. It names shipside wares, crates, bales, and cases including mackerel, alewives, biscuits, bread, cheese, candles, and oils, with numerous quantities and packaging types for a port market or shipment manifest. The fragmentary tally includes hardware, dry goods, linseed oil, turpentine, and spices, hinting at a broad ferry or trader merchantry on Torks Island and surrounding Harbors.

Torks Island Haytian Vorts Stestner Haytian Reputli Tures Island Ad Irons Nals — Bales Dry Goods

Freight cargo listings from multiple railroads

A dense OCR of March 1 freight totals shows goods by railroad. Items include bales wool cotton and barley, bushels flour and oats, butter lard and grease, hides and skins, and various cases, boxes, and bags across Boston Albany Providence Old Colony York and New England Fitchburg lines with numerous quantities and units.

Peite Cal Boston and Maize Railroad Potet Chang Huh Wits Division Sty Express By Sea Hecetpta Stapte Boston Sod Albany Railroad Ttand Junction Provilence Railroad Old Colony Railroad York New Enz Fitchburg Railroad

Norwood Lumber asset sale tied to defunct Vermont bank

Receiver Rich of the defunct St Albans trust company negotiates sale of the Norwood Lumber Company property in northern New York, the last major asset, to a New York syndicate for about 410000 dollars with option on remaining 35000 acres of wild land. Several other creditors and firms including Dodge & Lawrence of Kentville have failed while various local businesses face insolvencies and assignments.

St. Albans Norwood Lumber Company New York New York State Norwood Dodge & Lawrence Kentville N. S Boston United States Worcester Malleable Iron Company E. P. Howe C. H. Bowker Gottfried Lundberg Samuel Woodward Syke Agriculttural Implements Manchester N. Y E. J. Burns Grocer Milford Energy Perrin East Providence KR. I John F. Wood Milk Street

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Elver Goosel Mr. Thayer Mr. Morse Mr. Elder Massachusetts Judiciary Committee Committee On the Judiciary Ma Dent Mystic Blackstone Charles Rivers Beacon Hill Committee On Armories Alderman Smith Aldcman Bromwich East Boston House of Steam Fire’ Engine Company No. 18 Horace T. Rockwell James M. Bugbee Ellen M. Baker Alexander 3. Wheeler Thomas C. Richardson County of Loully Albany Street Wiarc Western Avenue Bridge Watertown City Hospital Mount Hope Cemetery Stony Brook Board of Deslin L Street Bath-Bone Board of Fire Commissioners Davis Water Board Iss5 Fies Freeman Bireau of Statistics of Labor Donovan Bureau of Statistics of Labor Committee On Health N. B. Walker Arlington the Society For Missie Murphy Naumkeag Mills Eighth Regiment North River Dr. Bull George E. Mneill Dearborn Street the Highlands George E. McNeil Knights of Labor McNeil New York Star J, Lawrence Sullivan Smith New York City Grand Union Hotel Grand Central Depot Patutles Strand Union Hotel Cuan Clearing House Louns We New York and New England Railroad Newburyport City Railroad Company West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad Taunton Crucible Company Foote 2 Neers Ent Bonus Congress Street Asap Potter Buston Stuck Exchange Wilson W. Fay & Co State Street NEW York Financial Chicago Markets Messrs Emery & Hodgen Northwest Seaboard Wagat Jurce BEM BaTy Vuorxn Cece Boston Chamber of Commerce J. V. Lewis Cotton Oil Trust Company Ted States Canadian Pacific Eria St. Paul Common New York Central Pennsylvania Port of Germany Philo Court of Chancery Brainerd Fish and Game Protective Association E. L. Samuels Parker House Edward Barker Rangeley Guide William H. Parger Montreal Sportsmen’s Club Lauer Artour L. Bracket Bradlee Whidden A. Ed. Reed Journeymen Tailors’ Protective Benevolent Association Union Old Fellows’ Hall Lodgett Central Trades Union Carpenters and Joiners’ Union Granite Cutters, Typographical Union 13 Merchant Tailors’ Exchange Providence and Worcester Baldwin Michael J. Kelly Thomas J. Giennon Waie Howe C. G. Freund J. McArdle C. Anerson P. Scheill A. Arntz J. Kingsley S. Wallman J. Ducey B. C. Gallagher L. Daley M. J. Keays J. Owens R. Dalzell P. Ceze Svein Peirson Owen Rooney Wiliam Green L. J.mcqueney Charles F. Meiiehardt Eugene Courtney William Sigmond J. W. Lotg Ren O. Osbery Brockton Knights of Pythias Democratic Democratic City Committee N.J. Ryder Martin Pennsylvania Coal Company Indiana, Bloomington and Westers Road Evasaville Tera Haute Farmers’ Lawn and Vrast Company of United States Court of Idianapolis Creag and Atlantic Road Omaha Road Mareelages Hiale Glenn Court Record Blopgrrt Norder Rarding Va. Wallace hSmailey Carts Boston Port S.A Soc Plunesan Wheelock Wolffsoho Ldacme A Mechl Kent New York & ‘i N.er Fort Tappen Durgill Kell Niles Kemt Campbridge Mann Williams Richards Hayward Whitmore Clair Disco Murray C. N Moore Spiegelsen Lumber Co Harvey Same Lowell Railroad Hedding Cooke Baird McDonald King Metropolitaga Eaton Boston and Lite Insurance Co Fissel Jacks Tewksbury Town of Holmes Winthrop Tegan Hurley Davenport Richmons Worces- Hagan Ter Electric Light Np Simpson Biggs Chick Merchants Brown Va Hunt Providence Railroad Beissharth Budget Edwards Cambridge Publishing Co Greenbank Raddieg Molasco Wes Susker Uormmeni Gms al Temssar SKB Pete F. Humphreys, M.D Price Olera Forbes Ing Fulcom St. SN Humphreys’ Medicine Co Fulton Bt Nico Humphreys Bottie Humphreys’ CO Fulton St N.Y Erie Med, CO Buffalo Hichborn & Co Court Street Sulle Hicyborn &Co Terma Artuur E. Brown Reston Algert Howe & CO Market Street Brighton Warren Avenue Austin D. A Collins Samuel EB. Brackett Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dover Street John W. Rolling Barison Avenue Samuel E. Brackett Mortzagee ZS. Arnold Solertor Constable’s Wendell Street Dexter JOUN R_ REA Constabble B.S. Richards & GO 4&T Auction Burdett & Dennis Burling Strathay Standard Oil Company Weehawken Haplam & Fenner Broadway James Walls Willsell Phenix Manufacturing Co John A. Wilmerding Wilmerding, Hoguet & Eee Y Gustionsers Tuownserd & Moni Leonard Strest Samuel Bust 84'S Sons& CO Lippingott, Son & CO Kh. i. Day & CO Breakers & Appraisera State St Hachange Buliiding Boston Stock Exchange Fares Winnisimmet Co de Goulding Mills Malden Maas Do Unln Cotton Mfg Co Fall River Massde Cheshire KOR Pis Beers Heece Fire and Marine Ins. Co Nowich & Worcester KR South Boston Horse RR Springfeld Pleasant de Soto Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Danwar Eiptof International Trust Co Del Burl RR Wayton Ivy Ist Cambridge Horse RR National Bank of Commerce Second Nat. 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