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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 05, 1886

Page

6

Money Market Stays Firm Amid Clearing House Rate Rise

The Boston money market firmed with borrowing rates at 6 percent on new collateralized call loans. General paper ranged 5 to 6 percent, manufacturing paper around 4 to 5 percent, and New York funds discounted at 17 to 20 cents per $1000. The Boston bank statement forecast a $79,000 reserve loss, with mixed movements in deposits, specie, and legal tender.

Boston New York Lomns New England New York Stock Exchange Wall Street New York & New England Vanderpilt Gould, Sage New York & New Haven Boston & Albany Road Day Gould

Canadian Copper Deposit Seen as Limited Value Yet

An expert reviewing Sudbury copper finds says the ore would not pay to work at current prices. Specimens show copper sulphides low in copper content, with high processing requirements. Lake Superior ore remains cheaper to produce. claims of vast deposits may exist but economics mute immediate impact.

Sudbury Transcript New York Tennessee Vermont Lake Superior Bruce

Boston Stock Exchange and Mining Stocks Auction Notes

A fragmentary Boston market page lists stock sales from the Boston Stock Exchange and varied mining and miscellaneous stocks. Entries include Mexican Central bonds and scrip, American Bell Telephone, Boston Water Power, Boston & Albany rights, and New England lines with prices and quantities, plus a section of bond and scrip notes and a few shipping and manufacturing items.

Connecticut Barnum Housatonic Gould Wall Street Broad Street New York New England Fin Boston Watrous New York & New Haven Clark Bliss Albany York Boston & Albany New York, New Haven & Hartford Post Lambs Eastern Boston Consolidated Street Railroad Boston & Lowell Old Colony Central Massachusetts Common Mexican Central Bell Telephone Boston Land New Y Mexican Central Inc N. X. SN Boston Water Power Atlantic & Pacific Boston & Maine Boston & Leweill Ro American Bell Telephone Esa New Eugland Telephone Bonanza Mining Co Chicago Kan West Top S. Fe

Market Summary From New York Stocks and Bonds Oct 4

Money on call active from 5 to 8 percent. Prime mercantile paper 405. Bar silver steady at 96½. Sterling exchange weak. Government bonds quiet. Railroad bonds firm. Market after 2:15pm moderately active. prices drifted, Western Union and New England led gains then cooled. New England surged then retreated. overall rally, then quiet with small fluctuations.

New York Sterling Exchange Western Union New England Rairoad Atlantic & Pacific New York City & Northern Trust Nickel Plate Trust Chesapeake & Ohio Worteagers East Termenessee Lake Shore Sussouri Kansas & Texas Detroit Mackinac & Iarquette Indianapolis Decatur & Springfield Mackinac & Biarquette Ohio & Mississippi Boston

California mining stocks close in San Francisco

In San Francisco on October 4 the official closing prices for mining stocks were listed. Stocks shown include Bulwer Eureka Consolidated Bodie Consolidated Savage Calico and others with varying bid prices and small decimals indicating market activity.

California San Francisco Bulwer iEureka Cal & Va

London Financial Market Rates Rush Early Trading

London on October 4 saw Consols at 10111 16, United States 4s at 182 percent, Atlantic and Great Western seconds 1714, Erie at 36 3, Illinois Central 1389, Mexican ordinary 54, St Paul common 98, New York Central 11634, Pennsylvania 60 4, with Leading at 13 in active dealings.

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Boot and Shoe Buyers Listings by City and Firm

Baltimore to Wilkesbarre lists of shoe firms and buyers with names and firms across multiple cities including Baltimore Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Memphis and Savannah. Entries identify buyer or firm names and associated companies or partnerships in the shoe trade.

Baltimore Lawrence Lawrence,erry & Co Burghauton H Lester Lester & Co Burlington O Adams A G Adams Ads Bloomington P Smith R P Smith & Sons Cincinnati W Laws Laws & Co B Hickman Hickman, Taylor & Co Charleston Crasdo & Co Craw Havana Cuba Thomas Blanco Indianapolis Ind E Branham MekKee & Branham C. Aincon N M Solomon S& T Coleman & Co Memphis Tenn WJ Goodbar Goodbar Love & Co Pittsburg Penn I S Whitmore WE Schmertz & Co Childs of Fuller, Childs & Co Tre Wilkesbarre E Lowenstein Par

American Missionary Association Meet in New Haven

The next annual meeting of the American Missionary Association will convene October 19 to 21 in New Haven Connecticut at the First Congregational Church. Rev Alexander McKenzie D D of Cambridge Mass will deliver the annual sermon. Prominent Congregational leaders are slated to attend and participate. The association acts as a national benevolent society focusing on education religion and industry among southern white and colored populations and among Indians and Chinese in the West.

American Missionary Association New Haven Conn Alexander McKenzie Cambridge Mass First Congregational Church Congregational

Police Captain Ford faces board hearing over purchases and Sunday closures

Police Captain Ford was examined by the board with representation from Sawyer Bennett. Charges include buying condemned stoves not paid for and obstructing liquor-saloon closures on Sundays. Patrolman Perry alleges interference. Hearing lasted all day with no result.

Ford Board of Police Captain Ford Sawyer Bennett Board of Survey Police Department Perry

South Boston Runaways Arrested in Haverhill

Onna Woodman and Lulu Harrison, South Boston girls who ran away from home a week ago, were arrested in Haverhill yesterday.

Onna Woodman Lulu Harrison South Boston Haverhill

Truthful name for Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery

The passage debates naming Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a truthful term for the medication said to arrest early pulmonary disease and derangements of the liver and blood. It claims broad usefulness across many illnesses and asserts it as a safe specific among druggists.

Pierce S “G Olden

Commercial Market Summary From The Exchange Floor

Flour remains steady in tone and price while corn softens with limited activity. Oats ease and malt and oatmeal stay quiet yet firm. Rye and rye flour hold, millfeed unchanged. Butter and cheese firm, beans and hay steady, rye straw firm. Potatoes dull, sweet potatoes dull and lower. Seeds quiet. apples in good demand. No change in poultry or game. Tallow dull, sugar steady, molasses quiet. Pork and lard demand fair. fresh beef dull. lambs firm. Veal unchanged.

Timothy North Bush West Jersey S&wal Maine New Brungwick Do Hebrons Vermont New York Rose Hebrons Burbanks Virginia

Market Reports Quiet Flour Prices Hold Steady

The flour market remains quiet with prices near last quotes. Corn demand is limited and prices ease to aid sales. Oats soften with lower quotes. on call today 6400 bush October at 86¢, 2760 bush December at 37 4¢, plus other lot sales and settling price down.

Woereign Chicago Oates Coast Barney Ieee Minneapolis Ge SC New York Minnesota Bakers New York Roller Michigan Stone Michigan Roller Ohio Indiana St. Louis Osio Minnesota Wisconsin Canada Superior Canada No 1 New Barney Woyki Wenate Bush

Orchard and field produce and poultry price listings

The notice lists prices for citrus and fruit repacks, seeds and grasses, hay, potatoes and sweet potatoes, vegetables, poultry and game, and tallow. Entries give varieties, weights or units, and price points across multiple regions and categories. The document reads as a commodity price sheet for farmers and traders.

Dairy and fruit prices hold firm across markets

Butter and cheese remain steady with unchanged prices in Chicago and New York. Extra fresh creamery and Northern dairy command firm demand, while Western imitations remain in steady use. Eggs stay firm. beans, hay, and potatoes show little change, though sweet potatoes are lower and oversupplied. Market receipts moderate with strong wholesale demand and higher jobbing prices.

Chicago New York Canton Ogdensburg Liverpool Astern Creamery Vermont Norther Western Choice Alichigan Nova Scotia Island West Bucagi Hubbardston

Provisions of all kinds stay near previous levels

The notice lists pork and lard prices with several cuts and weights, fresh beef figures for various grades and cuts, and mentions other fresh meats like lamb, mutton, veal, and Worcester county prices. Prices are quoted per quantity and vary by cut and quality, with ranges given across categories.

Brighton Worcester County

Cotton and sugar markets show steady prices in cautious trading

Cotton market remains quiet with steady quotes for uplands and middling, futures open flat and close steady across several contracts. Spot demand fair, sales of 1000 bales and total receipts 480,000 bales. Sugar holds steady with refined and centrifugal pricing unchanged, wholesale granulated at 6 cents. Pipeline certificates remark on activity and oil refined at 63.4 cents per gallon.

Liverpool Mid Uplands New York Andtec Manila Doge Pelmont A New York Commercial Bulletin London St. Croix

New York flour market shows mixed endless price reports

Flour prices and receipts move in a volatile pattern as traders glimpse Western extra, Minnesota and other flour types with bids and quotes ranging from 4 to 4.90 per barrel. Wheat and cornmeal figures appear steady amid varied lake and elevator quotations.

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