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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 18, 1884

Page

3

Stock Market Snapshot With Mixed Rail and Minin​g Names

A fragmented stock page lists varied issuers and rail lines including Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Crescent Mining, Mex Central, and Quincy Mining. It shows bid and ask figures, price levels, and percent changes amid a noisy OCR of early 20th century market activity.

Amabuuc Sasseinewese Steam American E. Ana Ill. Co Arch Top Santa Fe Los Bid. Ass Ainseedersiegs Bowman Silver Ooe Suis Esse Des Boston Gland Iciccocces Crescent Mining Catapa Mining PINE N.Y N. Pewadic Seceecs Quincy Mining Union Pacific Rd Salee

Market Closes Mixed as Stocks Rally on Arbitration Hopes

New York on March 17 reports a mixed market with early gains in stocks led by Pacific Mail and Northwestern. Advices from Washington on possible revival of America Shipping boost supported long positions, while late trading saw weakness and declines in New York Central Union Pacific and Lackawanna. Trading volume reached 217,800 shares with notable activity in Pacific Mail and Pacific.

Northwestern Company Northwest Traffic Association Pacific Mail Northwestern Ool Treasury Washington Congress America Shipping New York Central Union Pacific Lackawanna

Market News Highlights From Cotton to Fruits

Trade shows a decline in Pork and Lard prices with no quota changes. Poultry remains quiet with turkeys 17 to 20 cents and chicks 17 to 25 cents. Florida oranges quoted at 325,475 dollars for bulk fruit. Sugar and molasses steady. Cotton prices rise slightly with Liverpool upland advancing. spot market active and firmer. New York futures open firm and close steady with notable trading volumes and varied forward prices. Port receipts today total 7,974 with broader year totals 15,837 and port stocks at 825,485.

New York Clearing House Boston Banks Associated Banks of Boston AORN New England Brokers’ Board Telephone Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Union Pacificc Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Mexican Central Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Preferred Connorion Valley Flint Pere Marquette Toledo Cincinnati and St. Louis Post Rairoads Cincinnati St. Louis Eastern Boston and Lowell Fitchburg Boston and Albany Phillips Eastern Railroad Oregon Atlantic Pacific American Bell Telephone Bell Telephone Company Meiona Vivian Franklin Portsmouth Wrench Company South Eliot Frank Jones J. A. Walker Samuel Dixon Amuel Dixon Ss. 4 Atkins Charles Inclair Timothy Dame Boston Commercial Exchange Barney Liverpool New York Mercantile Exchange Eastern Creamery Western Southern Gold and Stock Telegraph New York Report State Elgin Chicago Union Stock E March Jane Sea Florida Orleans Eales Uplands City Minnesota Shippers Light Canada Barc Continent South America Texas Milwaukee Detroit

Receipts of Stapie Products and Railroads Trade Totals

A condensed ledger of shipments from multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Eastern Lowell Maine Peabody and Salem and Other Expresses. It records bales of cotton wool flour corn oats malt millseed cotton seed meals and varied goods such as tea butter eggs beans potatoes hay straw lumber hides leather and molasses with numerous totals and item counts.

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

Vast Atlantic Imports Tie Up Boston and Savannah Ports

A sprawling list details imports at Boston and Savannah from multiple firms and regions. It includes bales paper stock, tin plates, leather, woollens, crates of hardware, pig iron, earthenware, MDSE, and cargoes of oranges, hides, fish, and sugar. Numerous firms such as Baring Bros & co, Hollander & Bradshaw, J H Pray's Sons & co, and Merchants Despatch Transportation Co appear, with quantities ranging from single cases to thousands of bales and tons. The compiled ledger-like report underscores the breadth of 19th century transatlantic trade activity.

Tiverpool Eng Kansas Baring Bros & Co Jere Abbott & Co Fuller, Dana & Pitt Wetherell Bros Hollander & Bradshaw Austin & Co Smith & Dove Manusco Jackson Simons, Hatch & Whitten Dodo Coleman, Mead & Co John P Lovell’s Sons F Hovey & Co Brown & Griffiths Pierce & Co Geneva Richards & Sons Messenger Bros & Jones Messenger Jr Briggs Gordon Pray's Sons & Co Bones Earle Manus Co Bray & Layes Reed & Barton Stone & Downer—s Macullar, Parker & Co White & Co Baldwin Bros Coleman, Mead & Co Moors & Co Brown Durrell & Co Canvas Mackintire, Lawre & Co Brown, Durrell & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Despatch Transportation Co Hogg, Brown L Davis Mackintire, Lawne & Co H L Davis Francis Tuckerman Savannail Gate City Allen, Field & Lawrence Bigelow & Co Bernd Bros Curtis & Co Barry, Thayer & Co Hattie Graham James Graham Gioodall Haskins & Montague Hancock Insurarce Co Waste Hill & Cutler Kendall Lewis Leonard & Clark Middlesex Bleachery Co Marqueze & Varney Roach & Co Richardson & Dennie Furber Wheelwright & CO J M York Caibarien Lookout Hilds Sugar Nash, Spaulding & Co Grand Manan Herring Dupuy Riboul & Co Mayaguez Manila Elizabeth Nicholsoun Nathan Piper South Framingham Mass John B. Haselton China Savings Bank Edwin Andrews Lewiston Richardson & Hall Newark N. J Zadoc G. White Oak Forest John T. Mitchell Washington, C Ty . D James £. Hogan Detroit Mich Albert Borchman Degonee Archer M. Lee & Co Moorhead Minn

1884 1883 Potton Batea Trade Totals

A fragmented ledger style entry lists commodities including molasses, wool, flour, butter, cornmeal, oats, eggs, wheat, beans, barley, apples, malt, potatoes, millfeed, hay, cotton meal, straw, lumber, tallow, leather, beef, lard, hams, hides, grease, dry hides, tea, coffee, sugar, pelts, and related quantities and notes. The line ends with a note that flour sacks are reduced to barrels.

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Markets by Telegraph Cotton Markets Receipts and Prices

Cotton market reports across ports including Baltimore, New Orleans and New York with receipts, stock and export figures. Prices and receipts are listed by port, with details on bales, net exports to Great Britain, and consolidated stock and reductions. Market tone varies by location from firm in Baltimore to New Orleans and other points.

le St L's United States Great Britain Baltimore New Orleans

Financials and new heat under smoke free system headline

London news notes gains in railway stocks and a bold claim for a no water coal heating invention by National Heat and Light company. It touts no smoke ashes or odor with safety insurance approval and half the coal cost, urging rights sales nationwide. Boston shirt sale and Regence kid gloves highlighted in commercial notices.

National Heat and Light Company Cornhill Boston

Obituaries From Boston Area, March Deaths Recorded

Multiple notices list residents and widows with ages from 25 to 89 across Boston area including Bark er Crane Coles Coolidge Dockray Enwright Holden Kelley Loring Margeson Nevens Neat Russell Simes Sumner Temp Underwood and others with dates mid March and funeral details at King's Chapel Charles Loring and William Loring noted among the deceased entries.

Quincy Charles Loring Duxbury Mass Loring Newton Centre William J Loring Margeson East Somerville Jonathan W. Margeso Nevens Somerville Joseph Nevens Neat Shirley Joanna Neat Wiliam Neat Russell East Cambridge Willam W Russell Simes Boston Joseph Simes King’s Chapel Thomas W Sumner Brookline Charlestown Salem Mary Susan Magoun John H Tempie West Roxbury Underwood

Central Mass railroad eyes completion within the year

The Massachusetts Central line, long in adversity, is under a new company with a chief engineer to draw contracts and supervise construction. Jonathan Dwight leads inspection and expects specifications ready by May, with full line completion anticipated in the fall and operation only after the line is finished.

Central Massachusetts Central Massachusetts Railroad Massachusetts Central Northampton Jonathan Dwight New York and New England Road Messrs Aldrich Northern Pacific Minneapolis, Minn Board of Trade Board of Trade of Minneapolis St. Paul New York Northern Pacific Road Committee On Railroads Chamber of Commerce Harris Oakes Northern Pacific Company

Supreme Judicial Court ruling on Cape Cod Ship Canal case

The plaintiffs, landowners in Sandwich, challenge the Cape Cod Ship Canal company's acts alleging lack of sworn cost estimates, unpaid capital, and improper damages procedures. The court sustained the demurrer, dismissed the bill with costs, and affirmed the prior decree. Attorneys Moses, Williams for complainants, Olney for defendants.

Supreme Judicial Court Jedediah Briggs Cape Cod Ship Canal Company Sandwich Barnstable County Barnstable Bay Buzzards Bay Lockwood Corporation of Lockwood United States Moses C. A. Williams Richard Olney

Wills Admitted to Probate and Admin Taken Out

The wills of Charles Hopkins Elisha V Ashton Ebenezer Collamore Ellen Whitsitt George W Webb William H Brown Charles P Traub Jona Mason Caroline E Brownell Emily S Gardner and John A Murray were admitted to probate. Letters of administration were taken out on the estates of Mary I Lavery Patrick O Bryan Louisa M Tuttle Samuel S Sawyer Hannah Larkin John Dove Ann Kehen Alexander Leary John Henley John B Ney Martin Brophy Ellen S Riley Elizabeth T Towle Cornelia Crowley and William O Keefe.

Charles Hopkins Elisha V. Ashton Ebenezer Collamore Ellen Whitsitt George W. Webb William H. Brown Charles P. Traub Jona Mason Caroline E. Brownell Emily S. Gardner John A. Murray Patrick O Bryan Louisa M. Tuttle Samuel S. Sawyer Hannah Larkin John Dove Ann Kehen Alexander Leary John Henley John B. Ney Martin Brophy Ellen S. Riley Elizabeth T. Towle Cornelia Crowley William O'Keefe

Jottings on farming tips and dairy notes from Maine and beyond

A collage of agricultural advices and anecdotes including spring nitrate use on young crops, night milking guidance, a Maine gathering weighing 2662 pounds, sorghum varieties at Wisconsin station, dust baths for hens, profitable persimmon growing near Nashville, and reviews of goose production shifts in Boston. Also covered are sewage versus manure fertilization debates, foot and mouth disease descriptions, and a call to teach boys to love farming with practical, small-farm strategies.

Maine J . E. Morrill Caribou Wisconsin Experiment Station Ira D. Sturgis Augusta Kennebec County Vassalboro Sturgis Belfast New York Daily Jenks Cheshire Mass Indiana Nashville Tenn Con Department of Farm England Edinburgh China Boston Westminster Kennel Club New Jersey Vermont New York Kansas Illinois R. H. Holbrook Springfield

Household tips and decorative ideas from a bygone era

A collection of homemaking hints on fashioning white shades with lace, egg enriched apple pie, fringed scarf decor, raisin preserves, fried breakfast potatoes, waxed mahogany care, glass pane removal with acid, orange nut cookies, Indian mull curtains with pink ribbons, toasted oyster gridiron dishes, photography toning with parchment size, gum tragacanth painting, coconut tarts with meringue, and a silk handkerchief converted into a crochet workbag with ribbon drawstring and lace trimming.

Democratic shift in speakership debate and tariff reform

The Post outlines a virile democracy focusing on business driven political questions. It emphasizes taxation tariff reform as the dominant issue, pledging coverage of banking currency and bankruptcy while offering thoughtful analysis from the paper to advance the reform movement.

Carlisle Post Republic

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