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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1883

Page

3

Cure for Painful Complaints Among Women

A discussion notes a sought after remedy labeled as a positive cure for a range of painful complaints and general weakness reported by women, reflecting concerns common to the local female population and urging exploration of effective treatments.

Liquid Food Restores Health in a Child and Mother

A mother reports her 12 year old daughter recovered from severe weakness after using Murdock's Liquid Food. She credits four bottles with restoring strength, appetite, and overall health despite rheumatic neuralgia and black jaundice. The letter suggests the product purifies blood and assists consumptives.

Ty Murdock Murdock

Market Report Highlights Rail Stocks And Mining Activity

The market shows mixed strength with Union Pacific near 97 percent and New York closing at 74, while steamship rates cut 25 percent to divert freight from transcontinental lines. CB&Q gains, Hannibal and St. Joseph sales lean toward a sale to CB&Q as weekly earnings rise, and mining stocks pause with Bonanza advancing to 21 shillings. President Nickerson arrives in New Orleans en route to Vera Cruz, Chihuahua division tracks reach 339 miles, and Eastern railroad directors debate lease terms amid a New Hampshire assembly session.

Union Pacific New York New York City Galveston New Orleans Southern Pacific San Francisco Central Pacific Central Pacific Railroad California Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Hannibal and St. Joseph Fling Pere Marquette Boston Chicago West Michigan Kansas City Fort Scott Gulf Detroit Lansing Northern Nickerson Vera Cruz Tampico Chihuahua el Paso Atchison New England Boston and Maine Eastern Railroad New Hampshire Moody Currier Dexter Richards Francis Thomson Edwards L. Geddings Edward A. Abbott William H. Goodwin William H. Hackett Wortsmouth Eastern Boston and Maine Railroad Bonanza Whitney Santa Rita Corrasco Bonanza Development Company Catalpa Crescent Colorado Coal and Iron Company Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Franklin Pullman

New York Market Opens Weak As Mining Dullness Quiets Trade

New York trading May 1 shows money on call active with rates 5 to 6 percent, prime mercantile paper at 6 7 percent, and bar silver at 10934. Exchange dull, rates up to 484 for 60 days and 486 for demand, actual business at 4823 to 485 for short sight. Stock market weak at day’s close, mining shares dull, American mining stock exchange closing, Vanderbilts and Union Pacific prominent, total 280,000 shares traded.

Boston New York Foreign Exchange New York Bull Organs Paris Reichmanns Guilders Prime Mercantile Sierra Grande Hall Anderson Hales American Mining Stock Exchange New York Mining Exchange New York Stock Exchange West Shore Buffalo Texas and Pacific Chicago St. Louis Chesapeake and Ohio Houston Texas Milwaukee St. Paul Stock Exchange Minneapolis Manitoba Vanderbilts Union Pacific Wabash Lackawanna Louisville Nashville Lake Shore Vanderbilt

Treasury Asset Summary of Bond Issuance and Interest

Available assets show cash in treasury totaling 319 159 401 with 35 bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Companies. Interest payable in lawful money includes principal outstanding and accrued but unpaid interest. Interest paid by the United States and repaid by companies are noted. details reference cash payments as a percent of earnings and relate to transportation services.

Middlesex Central Railroad Company Boston and United States Pacific Bv. T.auspor Tata Bet Vices Ise Sciecieces Ole G

Grain and market notes from Boston to Chicago today

A compact report covers corn and wheat activity at the Boston corn exchange with car counts and grades, Boston grain receipts, and inventories. It also lists prices and movements for butter cheese eggs and apples, plus May pork and Maynard contracts in Chicago and New York markets and hog and wheat receipts across Chicago and other hubs.

Boston Market May Day Grain and Cotton Report

Market rounds up a mix of commodities with firm flour and quiet butter, while beans show a slight price drift. Cotton futures rise in New York with active trading. Boston middling at 10 9/16 to 10 3/4 cents, stock in ports 676,349 bales, receipts 6,774 bales. Prices for sugar, lard, and pork range within steady bands amid light rail and sea demand.

Sal Corn Exchange Boston Daily Report Ted Boston Shorts Boston Corn Exchange Liverpool Elgin St Albans New York Mercantile Exchange New York Chicago Maynard Brige May Aroostook Houlton New Brunswick Maine Central Nother Burbank Brooks Cotton Exchange Uplands Orleans Liverpool Cotton Exchange Odston Coca Sk PO Pea Savan Oeckee Steevenee Iting Suiddlin Ing Louisville United States Great Britain TANCE Tgc New Orleans Ohio St Louis City Minnesota White Southern Aigabe United Rosm Tierces City Continent South America Old State

Retail Prices at Faneuil Hall Markets

Prices at Faneuil Hall markets show abundant stock and freer movement on Wednesday May 2. Fresh meats display fair firmness as dealers purchase lightly early in the week, with expectations of arrival of additional live stock later at Brighton.

Faneuil Hall Brighton W. C. Wilson Astoria Oliver Street

Vast Trade Ledger Of Goods From Ports Worldwide

A detailed ledger lists shipments to and from multiple ports including Glasow Antwerp Cornwallis Georgetown Port Barrington Aguadilla Havana Trinidad and Matanzas. It records quantities of potatoes eggs sugar cigars window glass steel and other commodities on various steamers schooners brigades and ships with numerous firms such as Norcross Mellen J R Leeson Hart Young Estes Linder Meyer Hogg Brown Taylor and many more.

Hardy & Co Steel Blooms Bros & Co Norcross, Mellen & Co Parker & Co Hunt & Co Alien & Co Moors & Co Hall & Co Moise Stults Mansur Hart & Yount Leigh & Co Annapolis Steamer City Point A & OW Mead McKeever & Co Gay & Co Rockwell Hale & Co Dodge—S Halibut Delong & Seaman Pryor, Jr Shattuck & Jones Holmes Hatheway & Co Cochran & Co Moors & «O Thompson Steinman Cundy Dianiteco Heser Bros Cornwallis Maggie Edith Hugt Forrest Georgetown P el Annie Duncan Port Barrington Pride—S Johnson & Young Aguadilla Jennie A Cheney Bbis Boston Ser ST Pierre Ardanagh Iamarinds Kingmen & Co Havana Puebla Ida Tierces Sugar Foster & Co Demerara Mary Lovisa Matanzas Wm Mason Antwerp Vida Husmacoa St Groix

Foreign exports and ship clearances list by port and cargo

Shipping records show multiple vessels clearing in April and May with assorted cargoes. Samaria bound for unknown port clears April 28 with corn, tallow, leather, butter, cheese, flour, furs, leather goods, and other goods. Maggie L clears May 1 from Fredericton with 625 bbls?. City Point clears May 1 with tees, boxes, and cotton. Laig clears May 1 with bbs hour and cornmeal. Alpha at Glasgow clears lumber, flour, meat, corn, extract, and turpentine. Flora clears Sydney with slavers, rakes, forks.

Fredericton Maggie L Annapolis City Point Glasgow Alpha Mt Lumber Stud Oy Sydney Brez Flora

Receipts of Staples by Various Railroads and Regions

A dense list of freight receipts across multiple railroads including Maine, Fitchburg, Eastern, Grand Junction, By Sea, Peabody and Salem, New York and New England, Old Colony, Boston and Albany, Providence, and others. Items include wool bales, flour, cornmeal, oats, wheat, butter, eggs, beans, apples, hay, lumber, leather, hides, tallow, tea, coffee, pork, lard, sugar, potatoes, and crates. Entries note quantities such as bales, bushels, crates, barrels, boxes, and rolls, with many place and company identifiers.

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

Live Stock Market Report From Boston Post by George J. Fox

The market summary shows cattle sheep calves horses and swine across states with price ranges for beef store cattle hogs and lambs. It lists car counts by railroad and notes western hogs and Brighton market inclusion with various quality classifications and prices for hides tallow and skins.

Maine En Wits New Hampshire Vermont Mass Uusetts Tess Seece Boston Lowell Albany Fitchburg Eastern New York New England Providence Old Colony Brignhcen N. B Boston and Albany Brighton

Cotton Markets Across Major Ports in August Markets

Market reports show steady to firm conditions with middling to low middling ranges across Augusta Cincinnati Norfolk and other ports. Net receipts and gross receipts are listed for multiple markets including New York New Orleans Philadelphia and Charleston, highlighting firm to buoyant sentiment and stable to rising prices for cotton and staple commodities.

Augusta Seeveevees Wilming Svar Middlin Orfolk Oss Philadelphi New Orleans Oshoe Charleston Continent

Wheat and grain prices across major markets May 1

Milling markets in St Louis Milwaukee Toledo and Chicago show firmer wheat No 2 red and white with cash and May contracts advanced. Corn oats rye and barley move higher while pork lard and bacon prices hold, hogs mixed and shipments cover large food grain volumes.

Chicago Riga Cociglon Ti Ag Ae ST. Louis Weis Sa Aera Cat Milwaukee Toledo Gorn SBS Cincinnati Wno Detroit

London Bank Holiday and Global Market Note

London observes a May Day holiday as the Bank of England settles balances. Overseas cargo markets report firmer wheat, steady corn, with Liverpool quotations for flour cereals and provisions. Cotton futures remain steady with significant American imports. editorial aside on naval power and unverified medical ads conclude the item.

Multiple Boston Marriages Tie Names in April Notices

In Boston area civil announcements, several marriages are recorded with April ceremony dates. Notable unions include Frank Carney and Jennie Mosher in Newcastle to Jennie Mosher of Boston, and John Fay to Margaret Decoste of Boston. Other couples listed are William Corse and Jennie Rand of West Somerville, Lewis Graves and Isabella Williams of Boston, J Arthur Ross and Amelia Dove of Boston, and J Winn to Ladora Stetson of Dedham.

Bacheret Kellogg New L B Bates John Fay Margaret Decoste Boston Graves—Williams L G. Walden Lewis Graves Isabella Williams Boston Ton Ross—Dove Dorchester J Patterson J Arthur Ross Amelia J Dove

Death notices from Boston area, late April and early May

Deaths list Lucy Gilmore Alden 81 in Roxbury Joseph W Alden. Elizabeth Bruce age unknown Newtonville. Eliza Dewson Charlestown District. Daniel Griffin 10. Horatio Gilbert 75 Milton. James A German Jr 26 at St Marys GA. Nathanial Hebard 73 in Boston. Fred Channing Littlefield 7 in Brooklyn NY interred Wakefield. Thomas G Price 66. Thomas Vickery 52 Somerville.

Alden Roxbury Lucy Gilmore Joseph W Alden Marq Newtonvillle Elizabeth W Bruce Ye Dewson Charlestown Eliza Dewson Boston Daniel Griffin Gibert Milton Mass Horatio Gilbert St Mary's James A German, Jr Hebard Borton Nathanial Hebard Littlefield Brooklyn Fred Channing Littlefield Channing Nellie A Littlefield Wakefield Thomas G Price Somerville Thomas Vickery

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