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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1881

Page

3

The Print Cloth Market and Dividends Report

The print cloth market shows little activity with orders sparse and sales totaling 51 000 pieces. Prices eased slightly as manufacturers sustain high costs and slim margins, closing dull at 315 16 cents cash. Stock on hand rises to 411 000 pieces, up 3 000 since last report. Dividends declared include Putnam Nail Company at 3 per share payable Nov 1, Washington Fire and Marine Insurance at 5 percent semi annual, and Oregon Railway and Navigation Company 2 percent quarterly dividend payable Nov.

W. Il. Markland Edizon United States Electric Light William Englid Sycamore Spring Water Co Chas. W. Lewis Lewis & Hall State Street Marquette Houghtor Ontonagon Iowa Falls Sioux City New Old Colony Worcester Nashua Rochester New York New England Connorion Valley Hartford Erie Mexican Central Massachusetts Central Atlantic and Pacific Prescott Arizona Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Great Colorado Collville Horsehead Crossing Boston Land Strongl Boylston Street American Bell Telephone Pullman Palace Car Company Catalpa Crescent Calumet and Hecla Napa Quicksilver Mendocino San Pedro Boston Belting Cocheco Merrimac Naumkeag Hamilton Cotton de Woollen Washington York Blackstone Central Eagle Exchange Freeman’s Hide and Leather Metropolitan North America Suffolk Continental Monument Pacific Putnam Nail Company Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company

Financial listings from old firms and bonds

Fragmentary OCR shows multiple firm names and financial figures. Mentions include American Watch Co, Waltham, Commonwealth Ins, Bos Equipmnt Co, Gaston Athenium, Grand Belcher Sil Min Go, and various bond or stock sums such as 13, 35,000, and 2,000 across cities like Boston Albany St Louis Cedar Rapids. Overall appears as a historical dealer or investment notice with scattered amounts and entities.

TASF Libty Ee Becesone Cheshire Conotton Valley Chic Ur & Quince Chicago &W Mich R Bua Gin San & Cleve Pmar Flint Mar Towa Central Ra Iowa Walls Mar, Hou NiakKa Nashua Racheste Old Colony Summit Worces & Nash Seeenreee At & Pa At& Pa Vai & Snai Comnotton Val, Rd Hartford & Erie Kan Uy Stdo & UB Kts Sceseee N.Y N. Eng i. US Boston Land Boylston Stree Luna Mining ee.Catalpa Calumet & Beca Crescent Mendocino Am Bell Telephone Sess Pullman Palace CarCo Quick Sullivan Min Co San Pedro Enshaw & Co Old Colony Rd Concord Ri American Watch Go Waltham Commonwealth Ins Bos. Equipmnt Co Gaston Athenium Grand Belcher Sil Min Col Bos Albany St Louis Cedar Rapids

Havana Sugar Market Report Calms Yet Holds Strength

Havana notes a quiet but firm sugar market with Cardemias molasses new crop contracts around 24 to 25 per unit and centrifugal sugars 92 to 6 degrees. Warehouse stocks total 40 750 boxes 35 500 bags 29 600 birds while weekly receipts reach 25 boxes and 15 bags and exports of 4 880 bags 2 089 birds to the United States. Freight and loading terms show US demand with rates 275 to 350 currency per unit and 29 50 per molasses. Tobacco prices for various fillers quoted in gold per cwt with stable exchange.

Havana United States Rts Hemedios Partido Vuelta Abajo

Grain and market reports from Chicago and New York

The report details cheese prices in New York and western creameries, eggs, beans, and meat futures. It covers October to March price movements in Chicago pork and lard, wheat and corn in Chicago and New York, and grain-handling costs, with commentary on England feeding and court opinions on board of trade activities. It notes substantial stock and shipment figures from Union Stock Yards and Cincinnati hog markets.

Boston Western Western Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe New York Vanderbilt Union Pacific Chicago Burlington and Quincy Lake Erie and Liverpool State Creamery State Dairy State Lord Cincinnati Union St. Louis Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean America England Jameson Chicago Grand Jury Board of Trade Supreme Court

Market notes on grain and provisions prices movement

Prices for breadstuff and provisions show little change from yesterday with grains and flour holding steady. Wheat and corn turn to the dearer side boosting trade. flour and meal quotations listed across several regions and brands. butter cheese eggs and cottonseed meal marked steady or quiet with mixed receipts and market activity in Cincinnati.

Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan Ohio Indiana Ilinois St. Louis Good Western

Imports at Boston and Annapolis Shipments Listed

Long list of goods imported in Boston and Annapolis including hardware from Colburn & Baker and tin plates from Phelps Dodge, wool, yarn, cloth, glassware, wine, confections, paper stock, and various perishable goods. Numerous firms such as Baring Bros, Jordan Marsh, and Jere Abbott & Co appear with items like tin plates, woollens, and machinery. Shipping includes steamer arrivals Secret at Annapolis and schooner Julia Franklin at Canso with cod fish, mackerel, herring, and related provisions.

Liverpool Eng Glamorgan Colburn & Baker Saxonville Mills Stone & Downer Moors & Co Fuller, Dana & Fitz Baring Bros & Co W. Hamien & Co Wigarfield & Co AS & J Brown & Co Goodman BB & F King & Co Tigs Baring Bros & Co Chas Norton Annapolis Hale & Co U Kimbal! & Co Ellis & Son Holmes Ellis & Co Delong & Seaman Turnies & Clark & Co Seavey & Co Canso Julia Franklin

Vast British and Atlantic Shipping Goods Auction List

Foreign EKixports outlines a massive cargo manifest across Valparaiso Halifax Liverpool Glasgow and regional ports. Items include nails barrels lard oil sugar seeds bricks mills hardware furniture and a long list of farm and ship supplies with numerous quantities and destinations.

Market reports and commodity prices across multiple cities

Spot quoted at 18 and 18 25 18 50 for October and November. Beef markets steady with India mess at 50, plate 25. Tierce beef firm with extra India mess at 26 26 80. Lard unsettled. varied tierces and months priced up to 12 12 10. Butter, cheese, linseed, flaxseed steady to firm. Fish market in Gloucester shows active trade. codfish and mackerel prices rise. Western flour, wheat, oats firm. pig iron, copper firm. lard and pork markets mixed across St Louis Chicago Cincinnati Toledo Detroit and Cleveland notes.

Chicago Pittsburg Louis Mississippi Kansas City Milwaukee Cleveland Indianapolis Columbus Cincinnati Louisville San Francisco New York Boston Transcript Boston Post Boston Worcester County Ohio St Louis Minnesota West Indies Southern Canada Bright Itic Siyatigc Siya Baeron A Siac New Orleans Porto Rico English Islands Carolina Louisiana United Sige Rosin Lukac Lac Liverpool Gloucest Kings Cape Ann Georges Banks Grand Banks Western Banks Bay Or Fundy Seaeaele Acuma Oee Usaie Haddock Georges Codfih Western Grand Bank Newfoundland Eastport Shore Labrador Ova Scotia Prince Edward Island Gorn Buffalo —Corp Myc Berley Acorn Milwauker Buffalo Toledo Tfe Neat Shippen Sezere Detroit Michigan

Rail expansions and rail company actions across the region

The year sees 5340 miles of new railroad to date vs 4135 last year and 2507 in 1879. Subscriptions for 21600 shares of Penger and Rio Grande stock are closed. Plans surface for parallel lines by Vanderbilt and others, with corporate and legal moves ongoing. Earning reports show Ohio and Mississippi gains, while Louisiana and Missouri River and Southern Pacific progress announce openings and routes toward El Paso and beyond.

Boston Post New York Metropolitan Elevated Manhattan Denver Rio Grande Lake Shore St. Pan Louisville Prime Mercantile Paper Boston, Hartford and Erie Ohio Southern Mobile and Ohio Lake Erie and Western Sandusky Jersey Central Houston and Texas Main Line Kneeland Conner Sears Vanderbilt New York Central Twombly Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company Messrs Foster White Bells Erman Western Union Pacific Chicago Burlington and Quincy Lake Erie Eagle River Utah St. Paul Peaver and Rio Grande Railway Company Penger and Rio Grande Railway Company New York Stock Exchange Milwaukee and St. Paul Chamberlain Dakota Black Hills Shenandoah, Sidney and Pacific Railway Company Iowa Shenandoah Page County Missouri River Republican Valley Union Pacific Capital Southwestern Railroad Association Chicago and Alton Road Kansas City Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad Company Chicago and Alton Southern Pacific Railroad Camp Rice Rio Grande Division el Passo San Francisco Bagle Springs Galveston New Orleans Peco River San Antonio Devils River Sabmal River Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Richmond Toledo Pittsburg

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