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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 09, 1883

Page

3

Market dull as western rails show mixed moves

Stocks drifted with limited gains and some declines. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe weakened early then closed higher while Chicago Burlington and Quincy rose. Union Pacific traded around 183. Directors Ames Adams and Baker joined GM Clark on a Boise City tour endorsing the valley route. Central Iowa and Indiana Bloomington and Western reported October earnings up from last year. Flint and Pere Marquette extended to Houghton Lake, boosting timber traffic and log shipments. Diversified gains and losses across rails reflected a cautious market tone.

Western Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Ames, Adams and Baker Clark Boise City Oregon Boise Valley Caldwell Central Iowa Railroad Lowa Sioux City Mexican Central Toledo Cincinnati St. Louis Sandusky Cleveland Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway Company Pere Marquette Flint and Houghton Lake Harrison Branch Flint Saginaw Eastern Fitchburg Old Colony New York New England Ogdensburg Lake Champlain Sonora Coxheath Mining Company

Boston Stock Exchange Sales at Brokers Board

Boston stock market activity is reported as sales at the brokers board for November. The brief notes trading volume and price movements, highlighting key securities and broker participation on a typical session.

New York Market Report Encouraging but Mixed

New York on November 8 reports money easy at 2 percent on call and prime mercantile paper at 6 to 7 percent. Bar silver quoted at 1104. Subsidiary coin discounts at 4 percent for buying and selling par. Foreign exchange firm at 491 for long and 44 for short sight. Government bonds down slightly, state bonds quiet, railway bonds generally strong. Stocks show strength and higher as trunk line representatives at Commissioner Fink's office announce a satisfactory conclusion to their meeting and adjourn.

New York Prime Mercantile Commissioner Fink Canada Boston Seta Aera Florida Palermo Liverhorst Eh Ged Gullats

Fort Wayne and Pacific rail lines in 19th century stocks list

A dense OCR fragment lists railroads and mining stocks with quantities and prices, including Fort Wayne, Pacific, Hannibal & St Joseph, Houston & Essenausses, Missouri lines, and other regional lines. It reads like a market page with percentages, dividends, and stock names, interspersed with abbreviations and partial notes.

Fort Wayne Lous Island Kb Granis Tite Ald Socce Obio Morris & No Eee St Pan Mutual Union Tel So. Pac. Cal Arene Ash Tex. Pac L. G Rio Grande T. Dand Ae Burl Pac A. Cecesenet Land Gr Ohio Mis Legay Oregon Ess- Aah Adams Scabaneweeel Oregon Improvement Co Aiton & Terre Econ Co Panama Cocesseescee BO Pittsburg Pullman Palace Boston Air Live Louis&é Iago & Alton St. Pauls Snieces Par Quincy

Trade and Its Outlook in Grain and Commodities Market

Trade and outlook report notes no sales today at Cail board. Oats and corn futures listed with various delivery months. wheat, mixed grains and starches priced with steamer export terms. Grain receipts today include corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, peas, and flour. Liverpool and Boston cheese and butter prices recorded. foreign exports compared with last year.

Cail S&c Liverpool New York Mercantile Exchange Western Cream Western Canada New York Boston Chicago Norfolk Arive

Flour Prices Drift Across Markets in Quiet Trade混

Market shows steady demand with light British interest. Flour values range widely from western superfine to winter patents, while corn oats and rye follow moderate activity. Butter cheese eggs and other farm staples hold steady with signs of firmer hogs and beef futures ahead.

Great Britain Minnesota St. Louis Indiana Ohio Michigan Tinois Louis Gilain St. Albans Vermont New York Choce Western Western Nova Scotia New Brunswick PE Island Famed

Foreign Exports Take Shipments From Australia to Liverpool and Nova Scotia

Australian consignments include baik agate and woodenware with large counts of pieces, laths, and cases, plus kerosene, canned fish, rosin, books, furniture, and hardware. Also listed are ships from Liverpool and Nova Scotia ports carrying corn, wheat, leather, meats, lard, cotton goods, canned goods, and baked products, with extensive crate and case tallies across multiple schooners and steamers.

Apool Eng Bating Bros & Co Austin & Co Phelps, Dodge Histon, Weston & Co Thos Geeom & Co Baring Bros & Co Lovering & Co Doherty & Co Wooliens Miler, Beal & Co Hogg, Brown & Taylor Hall Warren & Cok Brown, Shipley & Co Crocker Burbank & Co Houghton & Co Mannison & Co White & Co Whiting Oliver Ditson & Co Schlegel & Fester Bates Booth &Co Bray & Hayes Muchener & Co Brown Gros & Co Jere Abbott & Co Great Western Despatch Co Sherwood & Co Ross, Turner & Co Brooks Moises Schwarz Williston Kmebt & Co Hobinson Bros & Co Hewins & Hollis Jacob Whitcem Joss Bolls Bat Iron Smith & Esson Hovey & Co Muse Stone & Downer Trailwall Stone & Downer Harding & Co Burgess & Goddad W & C R Noyes Doe Do Snow & Co Dodo O G Mayer Parker & Co Hl White & Co Jacob Norton E Healey & Co As&j Brown & c Muse Beach & Co Stone & Downe Miise Pacific Mills Boring Bros & Co Muse Pkys Gcapes D&a Tully & Son Baldwin Bros & Co Isley & Co Pierce & Robinson Moors & Co Natal Melbourne Aus Baik Agate Liverpool Iowa Lunenburg Mabel Howard Islands Ralifax

Receipts of staple products by diverse railroads

A long list details quantities of wool, corn, flour, oats, tallow, hogs, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, apples, potatoes, lumber, leather, hides, pelts, and more across Maine, Fitchburg, Eastern, Grand Junction, Hour, By Sea, Peabody and Salem, New York and New England, Old Colony, Boston and Albany, and Providence railroads. Items specify bales, bushels, boxes, sacks, cases, and cars with numerous totals and denominations.

Towell Railroad 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

Total Receipts of Stapic Products at Port November 8

Total receipts by port from all shipment points compare to last year. Values cover grains, beans, oats, flour, pork, lard, leather, hides, tea, coffee, skins, pelts, sugar and more with quantities in bushels barrels cars and bales. The 1882 column notes reduced flour sacks to barrels.

Odibicces Cnanowa

Market Reports From Multiple Cities Show Mixed Cotton Receipts

The report lists net and gross cotton receipts across New York, Louisville, Augusta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Memphis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Mobile. Market tones vary from quiet to firm with mid to high quality prices cited, including specific figures for shipments and stock levels.(Source entities include Good Ordinary, Low Middling, and various regional markets.)

New York Great Britain France Wales Algusta Caveree Baltimurs Stoc Tock Incinnati Memphis SAICE Cccrece Philadelphia Prrook New Orleans NNAH Brock Sé

Boneless fish and shellfish prices from Cape Ann Advertiser

A dense list of seafood price quotes across species and sizes from Cape Ann Advertiser, including haddock cask, codfish, smoked salmon, herring, mackerel, trout, and swordfish. Also reports bank cargo, with medicine and fish oil prices, plus market notes from Chicago and other cities on flour, wheat, corn, oats, pork, and whisky.

Nova Scotia Ova Scotia Labrador Shore Salawn Soo Yoceb Balibet bank &c @ kb Cape Ann Advertiser Chicago Gilgc Park ST. Louis Milwaukee Toledo Cincinnati Detroit

Financial market and commodity report from London and Liverpool

London news notes declines in Bank of England bullion to the week and reserve ratio at 4.34 percent. Consols and various rail and industrial stocks show mixed prices. Wheat and corn cargoes firm, with detailed prices for Liverpool and Manchester markets, along with flour, wheat, corn, pork, lard and cotton futures on various dates and locations.

London Atlantic Erie New York Central Minuow Central Philadelphia Reading Milwaukee St. Paul Common Bank of England Beerbohm Merchants Exchange Liverpool United Kingdom California Loudor Uplands Orleans

Trial resumes in counterfeit money case before Judge Lowell

William C. Phelan stands tried on counterfeit money charges. Proceedings resumed after a Wednesday pause as the case continues before Judge Lowell.

Lowell Wm. C. Phelan

Suite to recover on a note against The New Metallic Packing Co

In a case before Judge Blodgett No 1584 Thomas Tripp sues The New Metallic Packing Co to recover 2000 dollars claimed under a note dated Boston April 25 1881 stating payment upon successful working of a metallic packing. Defendants contend the note tied to Lord's ball and socket patent and that the packing excludes the appliance. Plaintiff argues the patent applies to all metallic packing and shows engines using the device. Closing arguments by Ward Avery and George Hobbs for plaintiff RB Train and Browne for defendants. Second session before Judge Bacon No 1577 Caroline Vianesi v Heroic phaeton Co suit for damages for being run over by defendant carriage continued with F H Hillis for plaintiff A Hemmenway for defendant. Also Eliza Cunningham administratrix v Cambridge Savings Bank tort action over husband’s death from shed collapse. trial ongoing. Jury out in Barnard v Atkins suspended by juror sickness.

Thomas Tripp New Metallic Packing Company Boston Avery George Hobbs Plaintiff Co. RB Train Browne Bacon Caroline Vianesi Heroic Phaeton Company F. H. Hillis A. Hemmenway Eliza Cunnningham Cambridge Savings Bank Marginal Chelsea R. M. Morse George S. Hale W. B. Durant Barnard Atkins

Cambridge defendants sentenced in larceny and shop-attack cases

Judge Pitman presided as Charles McBride of Cambridge received six months to the house of correction for larceny. Patrick Mc Caffrey of Cambridge drew nine months for attempted shop burglary. Frederick M. Lovejoy of Medford was sentenced to six months for vagrancy. District Attorney Stevens plans to dispose of all pending cases Friday before adjournment sine die.

Charles McBride Cambridge House of Correction Patrick McCaffrey Frederick M. Lovejoy Medford Stevens

Justice McCafferty Calls For Gates At Crossing After Arlington Train Injury

No blame was attached to anybody. Justice McCafferty of the munial court has just come the cats 310-y in the case of Bernard Myers, who died in Boston Oct. 17, in consequence of injuries received in Jinne to board a moving train at Arlington that morning. Judge McCafferty says: Although we have already found and stated all that the law requires, it does seem to us that a proper regard for human life, and as a preventive to human recklessness, lives would be saved and limbs preserved by proper gates at the crossing each side of the tracks.

Justice McCafferty Munial Court Bernard Myers Boston Jinne Arlington McCafferty

New Rail Order Reshapes Management Across Lines

General Superintendent Robinson of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroads abolishes several offices and transfers fuel and mine duties to a new Fuel and Mines department led by A. W. Allen. The mechanical department accountant role ends November 1, 1883, with D. E. Gain taking over accounting duties under the locomotive and car department auditor.

Robinson Atchicon, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Department of Fuel and Mines Fuel and Mines A. W. Allen Topeka Mechanical Department D. E. Gain Boston Revere Beach Lynn

Four time standards to govern railroads nationwide

The New Railroad Times outlines how clocks and schedules will align with four time standards Eastern Central Mountain and Pacific on the 18th. The list cites changes for major lines including Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Baltimore and Ohio Boston and Albany Canadian Pacific Central Vermont and more with specific minute shifts. It also discusses Holstein cattle breeds and their history, noting Dutch versus Holstein terminology and the Breeder's Gazette context.

New York Sun W. F. Allen Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Dodge City Baltimore Ohio S. Boston Hoosac Tunnel Western Boston and Albany S. Central Vermont Chesapeake and Ohio S. Chicago and Grand Trunk S. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company S. Delaware Lackawanna and Western S. Fort Wayne Cincinnati Louisville Hartford Connecticut Missouri Pacific St. Louis New York Lake Erie and S. New York Central Hudson River S. New York New England S. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Philadelphia Reading

Substantial Dishes and Preserved Pears Vintage Recipes

A collection of old fashioned desserts and pastries including preserved pears in syrup, Apple Charlotte, Apple Cake, Queens Cake, Harrison Cake, Conway Cake, Tea Cake, and tumbles. Each item lists ingredients and brief method with steps like boiling, mixing, and baking. The recipes reference fruit, flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and spice as core components.

Queens’ Cake Harrison Cake Conway Cake

Visit of Massa chusetts grand council to Cosmos council No 16

Officials from Massachusetts grand council visited Cosmos council No 16 at Chandler hall on a Wednesday evening. Delegates from all state councils attended as O M Shedd of Poughkeepsie New York received a jeweled gift and resolutions from Past Imperial Councillor William H Lee. The jewel and seal-like resolutions marked the occasion.

Grand Council of Massachusetts Cosmos Council No 16 Chandler Hall O. M. Shedd Poughkeepsie N. Y Order of United Friends Ts Council Albany N.Y William H. Lee

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