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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pitman
John Green
City of
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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.
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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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World’s Dispensary Medical Association
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Washington Street
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Rochester, N.Y
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Rochester, N. Y
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Newark
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Devonshire St
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Springer Bros
Harrison Ave
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Water Street
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Dole Bros
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Hamilton
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Reade Street
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F.c.wolbert, Sons & Co
Leonard St
Broadway
John OC. Wilmerding
Wilmerding, Hoguet &O
White St
Townsend & Fargis
Leonard Street
Samuel Bunting
S Sons & CO
Boaton
Lippincott, Son & CO
Market Street
A. M. Bates
Boston Carriage Repository
Silverhill Street
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Werdnetay and Satercey
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Boston Stock Exchart
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Cinn So
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Brookline Gaslight
Dedham Water Co
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Lyman Mills
New Bedford Copper Co
Blackstone National Bank
Mercnantie National Bank
Middlesex HR
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Cleld Rattan Co
Erie Telegraph and Telephone
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Dasaw
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American Loan & Trust No
Reece Batton Hele Machine Co
Atlantic Oe
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Albo
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Atlantic Mutual Ins Co Scrip
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Istmon Air Line
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R Rist Moé
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Do Atlantic Sa
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Court SC Street
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Albert Bowker
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L. Foster Morse
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Albert Howe
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Cornelius Hamblen
Louis Hamblen
Suffolk
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Archibald Babcock
Dorrance
Mystic
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Stevens & Sanborn
Cornelius Hemblen
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Corneius Hamblen
Thomas Babcock
Filip Colford
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