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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 13, 1889

Page

6

Auction sales at Boston Stock Exchange listed many securities

The Boston Stock Exchange held auction sales featuring numerous securities from Newton National Bank to Southern Kan. RR and sugar refineries. Entries include shares of Middlesex ae, Union Metallic Fastening Co, Edison Phonograph Toy Mans, and many railroad, bank, and trust company issues with varied maturities and debentures.

Newton National Bank Newton Mass Middlesex Ae Davidson Investment Co Everett Mills West End Street Ry. Co Rutland RR Charles River Embankment Co Sugar Refineries Co Nashua Stock Co Nashua N. A Ve Loan and Trust Co Watertown Jak Lombard Investment Co New York Despatch Refrigerator Co Busell Trimmer Co Union Heel Trimmer Co National Mortgage and Debenture Co Peabody Millis Peabody Mills Com Arlington Mills Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad Edison Phonograph Toy Mans, Co Eastern KK National Exchange Bank Great Falls Mans. Co Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. of Kansas Boston Athenæum Union Metallic Fastening Co Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Portland & Kennebec RR Atch. & Neo. Ry. Co. Ln Farmers’ Loan and ‘Trust Co Kan Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co Delaware Safety Ins. Co Scrip Worcster, Nash, & Roch, KR American Shoe Tip Co Do Thomson Electric Welding Co Bates Mant. Co Shay’ Stocking Co Amory Mant. Co Phil, Wil & Balt Natonal Bank Brunswick & Chillicothe RR Southern Kan Zec. & Santa Fe RR. Co

Commercial Market Snapshot of Farm and Food Goods

The report notes varied activity across commodities including flour dullness in parts, corn steadiness, oats quiet, rye flour unchanged, graham flour slow, cornmeal steady, oatmeal quiet, rye dull, barley very quiet, millfeed steady, cottonseed meal unchanged, malt quiet, hops dull, butter steady, cheese dull, eggs firm, beans active, potatoes in good demand, hay quiet, rye straw unchanged, game firm, poultry firm and steady, apples dull, oranges fair demand, lemons steady, cranberries dull, pork unchanged, corned beef firm, fresh beef dull, other fresh meats quiet, raw sugars firm, refined sugars strong, molasses unchanged, tallow steady, oleomargarine firm.

Money Market Mixed With Loans and Bond Movements

The money market remains dull with clearing house rates at 1 to 2 percent and time loans between 3 1/4 and 5 percent. New York funds sell at 5 to 10 cents per $1000 discount. exchange totals and bank balances are reported, while various rail and telegraph stock movements and earnings figures from multiple companies are noted. The piece also covers foreign exchange rates and European monetary signals, alongside local stock activity and specific bond movements.

Williams & Co Lackawanna Lake Shore Northwest New England Canada Southern St. Paul Richmand & Terminal Alail Williams &O Congress Street Congress Sq Devonshire St Quincy House Boston Mower’s Lyan

Dividends Declared by Regional Rail Operators

The Lehigh Valley Navigation Company has declared its regular quarterly dividend of 14 percent. The New York New Haven Hartford directors have announced a quarterly dividend of 2 percent.

Lehigh Valley Navigation Company New York, New Haven & Hartford

Market report notes wheat price support and bearish government data

Farnum Reardon & Co say traders aimed to prop up wheat by conspicuous buying to sustain prices. Government data show 112 million bushels of wheat held by farmers, below expectations, while corn in farmers hands totals 787 million bushels. Prices for wheat and corn shift across futures and cash markets in New York and St Louis.

Chicago Farnum, Reardon & Co C$ Williams & Co New York St Louis

New York Financial Markets Endure Dull Session With Few Gains

Money on call easy at 2% to 3% with last loan 2 1 4. Sterling dull at 4.85 bid for sixty days. Government and railroad bonds steady. Stocks mixed with Louisville and Nashville strongest, St. Paul active, overall dull with small advances and late losses. Total sales 1,207,000.

New York Prime Mercantile Sterling Exchange Louisville & Nashville New England St. Paul Reading Lackawanna Sioux City Denver Milwaukee & Northern Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Harlem Colorado Coal

London Market Report Shows Stocks and Rates

London at 12:30 p.m. Consols 979 16 for money and 974 for the account. Atlantic and Great Western lists 33 2. Canadian Pacific 51 14. Erie 29 54. Reading 22. New York Central 110. Pennsylvania 55. The open market discount 2 percent. 2:30 p.m. Paris quotes 3 percent rentes at 85 francs 1742 centimes for account. The stock market steady with better feeling. Bank of England bullion withdrawn today 169000 pounds on balance.

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Boston Life Underwriters Hold Monthly Meeting and Dinner

The Boston Life Underwriters Association met at Young's Hotel with D. W. Kilburn presiding. T. P. Stevens of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance was elected an associate member. J. S. Winn presented a paper on experiences in life insurance canvassing, drawing laughs and interest. Remarks followed from Holden, Warren, Calef, Dyer, and Hodges on endowment insurance benefits.

Boston Life Underwriters Boston Life Underwriters’ Association Young’s Hotel D. W. Kilburn T. P. Stevens Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Portland Kilburn New York Life Agents’ Association Winn The Mutual Life Aose Messrs Holden Warren Calef Dyer Hodges

Boot and Shoe Buyers Listed From Many Cities

A run of buyers and firms appears across numerous U S cities including Albuquerque Baltimore Bowling Green Cincinnati Cleveland Chicago Philadelphia St Louis New York Philadelphia Pittsburg Rochester St Paul Wilmington Zanesville and others as apparel and footwear firms like Ilfield Bros J Lawrence Jandorf Tucker Smith Adler Nabn Bloomberg Meyer Mets Belknap Cady Childs Kellogg and more are named with associated representatives and offices in the listings.

Albuquerque Brownsville Fex A J Bloomberg Bloomberg & Raphael Cincinnati A. Meyer A Meyer & Co Mets Mets & Co Belknap Carpenter de Corsicana Tex J T Sullivan Clarksville Tenn Rosenfeld Clevarne Tex—S Strauss Beirne & Stinson Aston Penn M Hapgood Hapgood, Hay & Co Greenville Miss North Star B & 8 Co New York City G B Tench Rouse Clark Craw St Paul Minn H Kellogg Kellogg, Johnson & Co St Louis Smith Tre H Schafer Schafer Swarts & Co Sandusky Geitleman Geitleman & Homegarde Staunton Holiday Nuusville Leudheim Troy E Baird Baker & Baird Toledo O C Smith Smith, Simmons & Peabody J S Rodgers Dewey, Rodgers & Co W B Taylor Wabash Ind

Domestic grain and flour prices in varied markets

The report lists carloads of flour and grain, detailing receip ts and prices across New York Detroit Chicago St Louis Toledo Milwaukee and Minneapolis for corn oats rye and buckwheat flour. It notes a quiet dull market for flour with wheat weakness suppressing demand.

Minnesota Michigan Canada Superior Canada

Oats and wheat markets show mixed activity across multiple cities

The Hoosac elevator quotes No 2 white at 36c while other elevators show 34 5 to 40c. Fancy oats and futures ease. spot prices rise for No 2 white and No 3 white. On call and off the call, May and June oats trade around 35 to 36c. New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit report receipts, shipments, and varying prices for No 2 white, No 2 red, and No 1 white oats, with a generally firmer tone in oats and weaker rye and wheat in spots.

New York City Minnesota Milwaukee St Louis Chicago Detroit Toledo Hoosac Peoria York State Minneapolis Duluth Canada Sens Michigan R Bush

Butter and dairy prices hold steady across regions

Market reports show steady tone with fair demand for butter across Western and Eastern creamery products. Prices vary by grade from 15 to 30 cents, with receipts small for creamery lots and higher j o bbing figures noted. eggs and beans supply shifts noted, but overall activity muted.

New Wilk Vermont Elgin Neimati Elgin Creamery Altimore New York Eastern West Cincinnati Chicago Baltimore Liverpool New Hampshire Michigan Canada California

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