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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 23, 1885

Page

3

Urban growth figures and finance notes from 1885 report

The itemization covers a Boston brokered loan secured at 109.15 on a 70,000 debt, population estimates for East Saginaw rising from 29,100 in 1884 to 50,000 in 1885, a Grand Rapids bond award ruling in favor of R. L. Day & Co., and assorted telephony and land stock quotes. It also notes Connecticut tax adjustments for the New York and New England road and projected delinquent tax figures for 1885.

Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Chicago Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific New York Boston Northern Pacific Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon Pacific Mail Atlantic and Pacific Pullman Palace Fitchburg Eastern New England Old Colony Providence Framingham Lowell Denver Ogdensburg East Saginaw Messrs. C. Hl. Vennor & Co Messrs. C. H. Vennor & Co Grand Rapid Messrs R. L. Day & Co Bell Telephone New England Telephone American Bell Company Aspinwall Mersie, Putnam, Messervy & Co California Central Division Okolahoma Connecticut New York and New England Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Institute Huntington Avenue W. H. Leatherbee & Son Moulton Bros J. B. Smith Lawrence Arthur E. Randall Huntington Chas F . Farrin St. Albans Thomas Miller R. I Philip Yeaton Hampton N. H George W. Baker & Bradford Paper Manufacturing Company Bradford George H. Adams Harroll & Ashcroft Manufacturing Company Ionen Suffolk County Julia B. French George E. Jacobs Iver Concord A. F. Bates HM. L. Day &Co Merchants’ Exchange State Street Exchange Place Atlantic National Bank Continental National Bank Shoe and Leather National Bank Suffolk National Bank Portland Saco Portsmouth R R Co Worcester Nashua & Rochester R R. de Soston Albany Roxbury Gas Light Co Cambridge Gas Are Co Philadelphia Wiliington Baltimore Fremont Elkhorn Missouri Valley Boston Water Power Co Atlantic Avenue Central Street Nathaniel J Bradlee

Butter and Cheese Markets Mixed with Quiet Demand

Receipts total with butter at 1463 tubs and 62 boxes while demand remains limited. Prices show Western creamery and Northern dairy sales with choice and extra grades detailed, but buyers show little enthusiasm and some markets like O T 68 stay dull. Cheese receipts reach 604 boxes with quiet buying and Liverpool New York quotations noted, eggs receipts 179 barrels and 1672 cases with soft demand and varying regional prices. Provisions not specified.

Chicago St .Louis New York Dull City Minnesota Ilwaukee Waukee Milwaukee Toledo St. Louis St Louis Ile Sic Western Canada St. Louvuis Western Creamery Northern Dairy Bester State Liverpool Lac iSige Louis York Pork Man Tierces Western Steam Tierces City Steam South America Cincinnati Hebron Maine Norfolk Charleston Tennessee N. C Florida Rio Java Maracaibo Me Laguayra olOe Jamaica St Domingo' S Porto Rico Philadelphia Byson Pa Pi Byson Twankay Congou Souchong Japan Messina Ag Coe Orn Creek

Cotton Prices and Market Summary May 22 1885

Uplands and Orleans classes show slight shifts with Ordinary around 10 1 8 to 10 11 16 cents and middling near 11 3 16 cents. Liverpool market steady. futures quiet with May to November spreads noted. American stock declines, total receipts and exports detailed, with weekly and year totals across U S ports and Liverpool stock.

Uplands Orleans Liverpool

Financial Market Roundup From London May 22

London reports show Consols at 99 with United States bonds mixed. Bar silver quotes 49 4d per ounce. Bullion balance at Bank of England daily total £49. Cargo wheat and corn markets quiet in Mark Lane and Paris. Liverpool prices for winter and spring wheat brisk but mixed with corn dull. Receipts three days totaling 117,000 centals. American share 57,000 centals.

Chicago U. C. Eldredge & Co Messrs. Emory & Hodges No. 28 State Street Liverpool Cazaty Saul Uy Bea Eibeheu Seeensekal Rene BekBaooe Elf Eee Augusta Charleston Galveston Altimore Savannah Wilmington United States Great Britain London 40Th Atlantic Ae Great Western San Pacific Iilinois Central St. Paul Common New Yor Central Reading Bank of England Commercial Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange Mark Lane Paris Calfornia

Diverse cargo trades span Atlantic to Boston docks

Lists of shipments and cargoes across ports include steamer Alpha-5 mackerel salmon eggs lobsters and fresh fish. shipments from Apalachicola Bermuda Grand Manan Havana and Port au Prince show lumber cypress shingles cigars logwood hides coffee and onions. multiple firms and vessels named with quantities and destinations.

Boston Yarmouth Delong & Seaman Ellis & Co Clark & Co Garrie E_ Pickering T Stearns Apalachicola Elia Ellett Bermuda Mary Jane Bennett, Rang & Co Charleston MK Rawley Glendonco Grand Manan Mansur Oakes Havana City of Washington New York Pierce & Co Lunenburg Scylla Port AU Prince Swiftsure Logwood JG Hall & Co Fowle & Co Lizntimvus

Foreign Exports From Liverpool and Windsor Trade Records

Liverpool exports list goods and quantities including organ materials stoves and fixtures organettes and cattle hides beef and flour shipments aboard Virginian schooners Modena and Melinda to Windsor Nova Scotia detailing weights cases bales sacks and tonnage with a note on weather conditions and miscellaneous items such as tobacco wax and scythes.

Liverpool Eng Virginian Windsor

Maine and Other Railroads Material Totals in Trade Goods

A fragmented OCR list details goods moved or listed for various railroad divisions and express routes. Items include wool bales, flour barrels, grease, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, lumber, leather, hides, straw, pots of tea, potatoes, hay, and cotton. Mentions multiple divisions and routes such as Maine Railroad Division, Western Division, Owell Railroad, and Peabody Salem Expresses with varying counts of bales, cases, barrels, and cars.

Shivmeet Nes Boston and Albany Providence Railroad Old Colony York New Newland Patt Maine Railroad Maine Raioad Owell Peabody Salem Sea

Removal of Haymarket Square station debated by rail boards

General Manager Furber notes a joint committee of Boston and Maine and Fitchburg boards has discussed moving the depot from Haymarket square to Causeway street but no decision has been reached. Protests mount as petitioners argue the move harms settlers and profits, while some officials allegedly suppress distributed tracts.

Haymarket Square Furber Beston and Maine Fitchburg Railroad Causeway Street Boston and Maine Eastern Railroad Passibe Fitchburg Railroad Company Boston Boston and Maine Railroad Boston and Maine Eastern Somerville Prison Point Fitchburg City Pennsylvania Philadelphia City of Mexico Galveston Diario James Sullivan Mexican National Railroad Company Mexican National Railroad Sullivan Department of Public Works

Contested Divorces and Tort Suit in 19th Century Court

SUPEREME JUDICIAL COURT May 22 Before Judge C ALLEN hearing contested divorce cases to resume Monday. Remaining jury case expected to finish Monday. SUPERION COURT First Session May 22 Before Judge PITMAN No 2336 John Green vs city of Boston Tort suit seeks 4000 for injuries after wagon accident on Beacon Street June 16 1884 due to street hole. Plaintiffs Jakon Geston and Francis Peabody Jr. for plaintiff Babson for defendant No 2550 Susan S Braston vs Geo W Guildhard board case at 35 per week. defendants deny contract. Closing argument began. Attorneys Hemenway Gooddell for plaintiff Colby for defendant.

Supereme Judicial Court C. Allen Pitman John Green City of Boston Beacon Street Wm. Geston Francis Peabody, Jr T. M P. B. Gooddell Plaintif J. F. Colby Rockwell James Baxter John Doe Thos. Newman Same John Laurell Earl Granville W. E. Russell W. Trowbridge John M. Brown Winnifred Daly No. 10 Wall Street P. O. Loughlin T. M. Babson

Unquestioned Success at New Orleans Exposition

Special correspondence from New Oxowans reports a strong consensus that the New Orleans exposition is a triumph. The article praises southern hospitality, cooperative labor, and the vast educational and agricultural displays across many departments. Boston’s contributions include a large educational exhibit, fisheries, industrial art, and extensive school and university displays. The exhibition runs through May 31 with steady attendance and active engagement from visitors and delegates.

University of the Nations Boston Post New Oxowans South New Orleans United States Department of Agriculture The Agricultural Bureau Bureau of Information George B. Loring Thia 8. G. Johnson Massachusetts Normal Art School Institute of Technology School For Massachusetts School For the Blind North Bennett Street Boston Board of Education Boston Common Schools Ben. Perley Poore J. W. Dickinson State Board of Education Old Bay Gen. Eaton Birmingham Sheffield Sweden France Creche Benjamin Fitch Buffalo N. Y Dennison Washington, D.C Oliver & Boyd Edinboro Scotland Prang Warner N. H Haton Bureau of Education of the Washington, D. C Washington Alexandria Edward A. Paul Paul Dartmouth Miss L. Smith State Normal School Baltimore Kansas State Agricultural College University of Pennsylvania L. van Ran Hoosae Bureau of Education Alaska Florida Atlantic Ocean Pacific M. A. McB

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