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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 26, 1886

Page

3

Money Market Quiet and Rates Steady in Boston

The Boston money market remains quiet and easy on May 25 with banks and others discounting paper freely at 4 to 5 percent. Prime factory paper is scarce and note dealers complain of limited supply of the best notes. Loans on call with collateral sit around 3 percent, with some at 2 to 2.5 percent. Clearing house borrowing stands at 2 percent. New York exchanges reach $96.4 million with a $4.91 million balance. Corporate and railroad shares see varied activity including Atchison and Union Pacific. Dividends and earnings reports surface for several firms, alongside notes on foreign exchange and port shipments.

Boston New York Eugene Kelly & Co New England Water Power Franklin Mining Huron Atchison Eastern Atlantic and Pacific Mexican Central Marquette Stoughton Ontonagon Union Pacific Rutland Chicago New York Evening I Missouri River Kansas Missouri Iowa Illinois Burlington St. Paul Quincy Burlington and Northern Duluth Burlington and Quincy Rock Island Minnesota and Northwestern G. M. Lane Adams White Star Steamship Republic London Herald Wabash Erie Oregon Short Line Patings O'S Osin Ovens Miles Uper Houghton Escanada Atlantic Pacific Kansas City Springfield Memphis Little Rock Fort Smith Town Falls Sioux City Cleveland Canton Denver Atechion Consolidated Vermont Northern Pacific Oregon Navigations Vince State of Connecticut Hertford Concord Railroad Boston, Concord Montreal Boston and Maine Eastern Railroad Lowell Lawrence Manchester Maine Boston, ©Orcora the Journal

New York Financial Markets End Quiet After Late Rally

On May 25 in New York the money market shows 16 2 on call, sterling strong, and government bonds steady. Stocks closed heavy with small intraday gains led by Northwest, St Paul, and Western Union amid a dull, steady session. total sales reach 3,417,86 and 215,189 today.

NEW York Financial New York Sterling Exchange Actusl St. Paul Western Union Union Pacific Gown Delaware and Hudson Northwest Consolidated Pag Duluth Drawers Chicago Sykes St. Pent London Lackawana Northern Pacific Clevelaxd Columbus Cincinnati Indianapolis Houston Texas Louisville Nashville St. Louis Oregon Richmond and Alleghany Trust Wabash General Mortgage Anc Cday

Controversy over Boston Concord and Montreal railroad control

A New Hampshire syndicate has acquired 6500 shares in the Boston Concord and Montreal railroad to block a North ern consolidation and to align New Hampshire lines under Concord management. Concord fears a Boston and Lowell lease challenge and warns of a rival Nashua to Concord line, while Boston and Lowell insist the lease is valid and preparations for continued operations proceed.

Boston, Concord Montreal Concord Railroad Boston Concord and Montreal New Hampshire Vose 5. N. Bell Peter Butler John E. Lyon Lowell Boston and Lowell Concord Massachusetts Boston and Morey bBoton Lowell Road Travaller Boston, Concord and Concord Road New England Concord Corporation White Mountain White Mountains Nashua Manchester

Concord Railroad Names 6 Directors In Vote At Opera House

May 25 report from Concord NH details the forty sixth annual meeting at White's Opera House. Frederick Smyth is reelected president with six directors chosen by a 15 585 ballot. The directors organize in the afternoon with William M. Chase as clerk. A state executive council committee continues final auditing of state treasurer accounts.

Concord N. H Concord Railroad White’s Opera House Smyth C. H. Campbell Nashua Nathan Parker Manchester John A. Spalding W. F. Thayer John J. Pickering Portsmouth Frederick Smyth James W. Johnson Enfield Josiah Minot J. A. Kimball John H. Pearson Walter M. Parker John

Rail gauge changes spark shift in Southern trade routes

A Chicago dispatch reports progress on connecting lines from Atchison to Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, with the east-bound pool smoothing difficulties. Expect gauge unification to favor southern systems as northern access to southern ports tightens, while Reading gains a coal outlet via southern links. The Galveston News lauds Houston Central’s revival as a premier road bed. Montpelier and Wells River railroad host stockholders next week with improved finances and higher yearly earnings.

Indian Territory Atchison Kansas Chicago Ohio Oply Suthern Reading Balthore Ohio Road Galveston News Houston Central Road Montpetier Earuel Montpelier Wells River

Artificial Ivory Emerges In France For Art and Industry

A vast French industry now produces an artificial ivory substitute due to dwindling natural ivory. Methods shift from lime-chloride injected wood to composite bones and deer skins treated with lime, then heated with skin, forming a fluid mass. Alum hardens the material into white, workable plates.

France Amsterdam

Flour and grain prices steady as market shows slow trade

The flour market remains unchanged and trade is quiet with steady prices. Receipts in Minneapolis reach 51 150 bushels with 26 950 bushels shipped while oats and mixed grains trend lower or nominal. Steamer yellow corn and No 2 white oats feature varied bids and settling prices as inspections list diverse car lots.

Minneapolis Minnesota New York Roller Michigan Ohio Indiana Illinois St. Louis Canada Superior Canada New New York Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Berney

Butter and dairy prices drift in mixed North American markets

Butter markets show dull tone with lower best grades and slow sales of box butter. Elgin and Western creamery quotes vary with active Elgin butter. large shipments sold, while New York and Chicago markets stay tame. Cheese and eggs steady with mixed regional demand. fruit, potatoes, and seeds listed alongside extensive wholesale price ranges and cargo notes.

New York Elgin Chicago Western Creamery Extra Utica Albans Liverpool Bermuda Florida London New York and New England Imitation Eastern Creamery Northern Creamery Vermont Dairy East New Hampshire Vermont Western Choice Michigan Nova Scotia Island Heans North Maine Palermo Messina Valencia Do West Red Top West Jersey Aroostook Maine Central Hebrons Meine Burbank Burbanks Prolifics

Market Report Shows Stable Pork Prices and Mixed Beef Demand

There is steady pricing for pork and lard with fair trade and no beef changes. Fresh beef is dull, mutton steady, lambs weaker due to Kentucky arrivals, veal plentiful and dull. Detailed cuts and prices for pork, lard, fresh beef, veal, and other meats are listed with varied regional quotes.

Kentucky Lord Choice Ana L&c Brighton Chicago Worcester County

Cotton Market Quiet as Futures Open Higher in Liverpool

The mixed upland and Sea Island market shows steady spot demand at 54 3/16 to 54 5/16 pence per pound for mid uplands and Orleans. Liverpool futures opened and closed quiet with May to September series quoted around 54 64d and 56 64d, while sales reached 12,000 bales and receipts 19,000 bales, including 13,800 American.

Uplands Gulf Liverpool Mid Uplands Orleans Mié Neiles Belmont Porto Rico New Crow Cuba Centennial Beacon Light New York St Louis Minnesota City Chicago Canada English Islands United Western Steam Tierces City Continent S. A State Western Flats Silesian Mobile Savannah Charleston Memphis C. Delrouit Michigan

Market notes on provisions and meat prices

Wednesday May 26 market tone shows healthy demand and ample supplies. Fresh meats are steady with beef quotes strong and veal buyer favorable due to heavy arrivals. Mutton prices remain unchanged.

Prices for livestock and meats from a 19th century market

The list details prices for oxen, cows, calves, yearlings, hogs, sheep and lambs, hides and skins, and fat stock. It includes ranges by weight, quality grades, and notes on cattle classifications and market context from Emery Hodges and Ward letters.

Chicago Grain Market sees weak opening as shorts sell

Chicago report notes smaller than expected decline in visible supply. June wheat prices hover near 75 cents while sellers like Lester & Co and Schwartz push offers amid heavy shorts from Cudahy and McGeoch. Afternoon slump closes at about 74? with 84 000 bushels wheat and 115 000 bushels corn moved. New York export bids show modest activity.

Emery & Hodges State Street Chicago New York Lark Cco s.Osse Ccoress Ose Ece Crete C. S. Lee Brewer & Wilkins Congress Street Lester & Co Brega Schwartz Stantree & Carr Cudahy Young & Co Bears McGeoch

Cotton and grain markets report from New York and Chicago

New York reports a weak cotton market with bids: Upland and Orleans grades steady to mixed. flour demand rising but prices soft. wheat and corn futures show volatility with spot declines in some grades. Chicago notes tighter flour supplies, mixed grain futures, and cattle and hog receipts and prices shifting amid ongoing export demand.

Cotton Market Report May 25 With Net Receipts and Stocks

The report lists net receipts and gross figures for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Norfolk Wilmington Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville. It shows exports to Great Britain and the continent, coastwise sales, and stock totals with price tones ranging from steady to dull across ports. Consolidation totals four days show national stock at all US ports and exports to Britain France and the continent.

Augusta Galveston New Orleans Continent Mobile Stogk Wilmington Philadelphia Baltimore New York Great Britain Cincinnati St. Louis Louisville France United States

Wheat and corn markets mixed with steady wheat and firm American corn

Commercial London reports show quiet wheat shipments with firm Russian and American corn. Liverpool quotes breadstuffs with steady winter wheat and firmer corn, notes showery weather, and quotes for pork bacon cheese lard and tallow. Cotton in Liverpool remains steady with active demand and multiple futures levels listed.

Financial Market Update From London and Havana

London prices show Consols at 101 13 16, Atlantic and Great Western shares 40, Erie 25, Illinois Central 140, Mexican currency 26, St. Paul 91, New York Central 103 5, Reading ille. Havana reports Spanish gold at 2214 2213 and a quiet exchange with weak sugar.

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Port Antonio to New York Banana and Cargo Shipments

Cargo listings detail the Lorenzo D Baker steaming from Port Antonio with 11 400 bunches of bananas and 175 bags of coconuts, plus 12 bbls. The Antwerp steamer Jan Breydel carries asphalt and multiple firms report shipments of glass, window glass, mineral water, steel, cocoa, wine, and toys. Several Nova Scotia schooners export live lobsters and mackerel from Barrington Pubnico and surrounding ports.

Port Antonio Jam Lorenzo D Baker James Boston Fruit Co Antwerp Jan Breydel Bradbury Paper Marshall Sons & Co Sherburne Glassware Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Wise, Rowan & Co H Quimby & Co Alizatine E Shilo Horace Partridge& Co Heyer Bros Gton Minnie Davis Barrington Adeline Adams L Clements & Co Sarah B. Hyde Sanborn Pubnico Hannah Eldridge

Foreign Exports Include Thousands of Goods from Liverpool to Various Ports

The list from multiple ships details outbound cargoes from Liverpool and other ports. Highlights include Scythia with machinery, leather, beef, pork, bacon, books, machinery parts, furs, clocks, and telegraph items. Pubnico schooners carrying flour, cotton, and cement. Mabel Purdy shipping cotton and Graham flour. Dexter loading flour, meal, oil, beef, and seine. Julia and Hannah Eldridge with fish barrels. Waldensian from Glasgow carrying flour, cattle, rubber, paper, and canned beef.

Liverpool Eng Scythia Pubnico Bessie Williams ST John Mabel Purdy Dexter Figueira Porto Azores Julia 2d Hannah Eldridge Glasgow Scot Waldensian Bates

Receipts of Staple Products May 5 by Railroads

A historical receipt summary lists staple goods shipped by several lines. Entries include Boston and Albany Railroad with cotton and wool totals, cornmeal and corn bushels, oats malt millfeed and more. Tand Junction Railroad with cotton sacks flour and lard. Providence Railroad with cotton wool meat dairy and leather. Old Colony Railroad with cornmeal tea butter and hides. New York and New England Railroad with cotton wool butter and malt.

Boston and Albany Providence Railroad Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Railroad Bates Boston Maine Lowell Railroad Express Bates Foreigns Wool

Cameo holders boost cigarette appeal and cleanliness

The piece lauds cigarette smoking as a refined art and notes discomfort from smoke on lips and teeth. It introduces Cameo mouthpiece holders from W. Duke, Son & Co. as a cleaner, tastier option, claiming less nicotine inhalation and preserved tobacco flavor. It credits a physician supporting mouthpiece protection for teeth.

W. Duke, Son & Co Durham N.C Central Golden Belt North Carolina Cameo

Train Schedules for Boston to New York and Nearby Towns 1886

Weekday and Sunday train times for Boston to New York via Fall River Line and return, plus numerous intermediate stops including Newport Taunton Brockton New Bedford North Easton Stoughton Randolph Middleboro Plymouth Cohasset Hingham and Worcester area routes. detailed departures and returns by line, with service notes and limits.

Boston New York Fall River Newport Taunton Brockton Annton New Bedford Raunton Cental Dean Street North Easton Stoughton Randolph Middleboro Return Plymouth Abington Duxbury Duxpury Whitman Cohasset Hingham EDGE South Braintree Quincy Nepomet Harrison Square Wext TAS Hey Oie Pfilton Neponset Cottage City Woods Hall Nantucket Woods Ad New Tedford Cape Cod Provincetown Wil Vay Yarmouth Pau Reeturn Wig Stations Weymouths Marsh- Held Scituate Oxbury Milymouth J. Kendrick

Train timetable highlights for Boston to Vermont and New Hampshire routes

Listings show service from Boston to towns including Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans with morning and evening departures. Montreal via Central Vermont and Passumpsic Rail lines offer Pullman sleeping cars. Local Boston Manchester Concord services and connections to Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Milford Nashua and Greenfield include multiple daily departures with exact times varying by line.

Montreal Ottawa Ogdensburg Pullman Palace Fitchburg Causeway Street Boston Wincendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam del Fall Falls White River Junction Central Vermont R. R Ayer Junction Concord Neshua Lowell Old Colony R. RR New Bedford Providence Keene Ashuelot BR Titt Ct Che Ogdensberg Vickets Washington Street A. Faxon WFEM Tilton Laconia Lake Vilage Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St. Albans Warren Haverhill Woodsville Newport St. Johnsbury Sherbrook Quebec Bristol Claremont White Mountain Northern Division Pullman Central Vermont R.R Montress Manchester NW. H Hillsboro Het Htet Peterporo Eienere Witton SUN

Concord R R and Branches Schedule Update 1886

Train departures from Boston B and L depot to Manchester and Concord NH start May 24 1886 with multiple daily times including 7 30 am 8 30 am 12 pm 1 pm 3 pm 5 80 pm and 7 pm Excluding Sundays 1 pm from 8 amd M depot and return times 7 45 pm 5 05 pm 6 27 pm Ex Sundays at f i KR ORAMBESLIN Supt

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