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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 01, 1884

Page

3

Trade in Butter Cheese and Eggs Reported

Butter and creamery markets show dull trade with oversupply of poor butter and firm stocks in creameries. Cheese quiet with firm holdings and good Northern Western lots. Eggs steady with strictly fresh stock firm and weekly receipts totaling thousands. Provisions mixed with pork and lard uncertain while cattle, hogs, and sheep markets display varied demand across Cincinnati, Chicago, and St Louis. Market signals from New York and Liverpool reflect firm to steady levels across multiple commodities and regional price spreads.

New York Liverpool P. F Cincinnati St Louis Milwaukee Chicago City Extra Indian Mess Nierces Western Steam Uierces City Steam Continent South America Union Texas Western Express Rio Java Maracaibo Laguira Jamaica St. Domingo New Orleans Cienfuegos Barbadoes Porto Rico Brazil Carolina Olga Patna Rangoon St. Louis Centennial Beacon Light Uplands Do Orleans United States

Pork Corner Break in Chicago Sends Market Rally and Loss

The Chicago pork market opened at 26 but fell to 20 and closed around 23 amid a panic as New York dealers dumped pork to break the market. Armour & Co. held about 12 million in pork, facing a potential 4 million loss, buying offerings to stabilize with final settlements at 2.50. Estimated corner profits range 2 to 3 million while other commodities and harvest reports from Minnesota and Dakota show spring wheat prospects strong and yields variable.

Sant New York Philadelphia Boson Jews Ose Chicago St. Louis San Francisco Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburg Providence Louisville Detroit Milwaukee Kansas City Cleveland Hartford Indianapolis Columbus Peoria New Haveun Portland Worcester Springfield Emphis St. Joseph Lowell Syracuse N. Y New York City New Haven Memphis United States Boston San Fran Kane City N.Y Treasury Chicago Board of Trade Armour & Co Wall Street Armour St. Paul Minnesota Dakota Red River Valley Hillsboro Moorhead D. H. Lentz Albany Ironworks Western Iron Works Fall River Mass Weetamo Union Pee Commercial Exchange

Flour Wheat and Corn Markets Mixed. Prices Steady to firm

Flour markets show little change with broad firm tones across grades from Minnesota to St Louis and Ohio. Wheat and corn futures edge lower to steady. spot oats easing after late summer rally as receipts trend higher and exports moderate, with Chicago and New York activity described as steady to dull.

St L Ohio Ind Ill Minnesota City Mills Milwaukee Chicago St Louis Detroit Toledo New York Wmwc Milwank

Financial and commodity news from London and Liverpool

Financial closing prices show US bonds and Canadian Pacific gains while several utilities and rails trade mixed. The Economist notes discount rates for bank and trade bills, with quiet but steady wheat and corn cargoes. Liverpool winter wheat and corn prices are listed, along with pork bacon and cheese values, and steady bread stuffs.

London Erie Pennsylvania St Paul Common Commercial Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange Liverpool Engand California

Imports at Boston Afloat in Liverpool Steamer Cephalonia

Shipping list records imports at Boston including steel and pig iron bulk cargoes. Notable entries show Cephalonia cargoes with casks drums coils woollen goods glassware hardware cloths and other manufactured items from multiple firms headed by Shhoenhoff Tillotson Combinations and J D Richards & Sons.

Boston Liverpool Eng Cephalonia Shhoenhoff Dodor Arthur P Schmidt & Co Brigham Spiegelesson Naylor & Co Jl&ds Riker Washburn & Moon Manus Co Sam’l Thaxter & Co Geneva Miller Hovey & Co Tillotson & Power P Hollander & Co Cushing & Bliss Daniels Coleman, Mead Thread Robbins & Rowell Dod Mitchell Smith & Co

Large Boston wholesale listing with varied goods and buyers

A dense 19th century ledger of items, buyers, and consignments including bulbs, woollens, carpeting, linings, tin plates, oils, and beverages. Named firms such as Jordan, Marsh & Co and Baring Bros appear with hundreds of boxes and cases, plus vessels and harbor items like codfish, mackerel, and oil.

Hanson— & Co Farquhar Sune & Downer Blanchard Fullens& Co Kendall, Barrows & Co Haber& Co Machinery City Machine Co Saco Machine Co Zenas Sears Sundri Hoswell Stone & Downer Jordan, Marsh & Co Torrey,ht & Capen JS Trier Ric Pp. Jr Briggs Woollers Lane & Hubbard Moise Brigham Frank Messenger T . Vr Kennedy & Murphy Th & Co Baring Bros & Co Hegg, Brown & Taylor Hart & Young Hovey & Co Moody Herrick Cuttery Dame Stoddard & Kendall Macallar, Parker & Co Henry Poor & Son Bernard & Co Noyes & Blakesilee Charles M Slack Shepard, Norwell & Co Callender, McAusland & Troupe Hogg, Brown & Taylor Wheelock & Co Bumstead & Co Hooper Bergard & Co D & M Williams Brown, Thomson & Co White & Co Alex Stowell & Co Bates & Barnet Pubnico Do Herri Hall & Co

Receipts of staple products by multiple railroads

A long, fragmentary list details receipts of staple goods across railroads including Boston and Albany, Providence, New York and New England, Old Colony, Fitchburg, Maine, Lowell, Seaboard express lines, and sea routes. Items cover wool, flour, oats, corn, beans, butter, eggs, tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, lard, leather, hides, lumber, and many more with quantities and car counts.

R. L. Day & Co Exchange National Bank Everett National Bank Salem Fitchburg National Banke Howard National Bank Market National Bank Shawmut National Bank Peabody Mills Newburypor Washington Mills Esessereee Siseuavases Lou Boston & Prov Rd Boston and Maine Railroad Boston & Albany Railroad Chicago, Burlington & Quin Eastern Railroad Nbl IDOL Michigan Central Air Line Massachusetts State Rutland B.gs Francis Henshaw & Co Blecstone National Bank Columbian National Bank Eliot National Bank Globe National Bank Cereereesere Merchandise National Bank Merchants’ National Bank Metropolitan National BK Plymouth Nat Bank Railroad Bank Lowell State National Bank Une Tremont Nat Bank Union National Bank Warren Nat Peabody Androscoggin Mills Fall River Iron Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co Boston & Maine Gegutoeuvens Boston & Providence Cambridge Horse Railroad Eastern N. H Fitchburg Aide Highland Rd Séac Metropolitan Hd Ces. Steamobswde Portland Saco & Portsmouth Veccnvecessse Rutland Railroad American &Lectric and Fl. CO Boston Storage and Ware Ouse Cos Cersseeeceecs Clin Dub N. W Wweee Ldod Ccccsaeerenereee Chicago Burl. & Quincy Magganetensevenee Kansas City Lawrence Quincy Warsaw RBR Boston and Albany Grand Junction Kallrosa Providence Railroad New York and New England Railroad Bates Wool Old Colony Fitchburg Railroad Maine Railroad Lowell Railroad

Railway stocks and track gains amid market chatter

The article reports on railroad valuations and debts, noting total assets of various lines and per mile values. It covers Lake Erie and Western’s 1884 annuals, St Louis and San Francisco expansion plans via Atchison routes, and linked holdings with Jay Gould and Seligman interests. It also lists new track laying records and a New York Broadway streetcar franchise dispute.

Maine Central Eastern Railroad Boston and Albany Boston and Maine Lake Erie and Western Lake Erie and Western Railway Company Hes Ilinois St. Louis San Francisco Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Atlantic and Pacific Stys Indianapolis Journal New York Seligmans Jay Gould Atlantic and Pacific Enterprise Indian Territory Central Division Atchison Goard Wichita Kan Railroad Gazette Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern Dowsin Gainer Cincinnati Sastern Rushtown Portsmouth Louisville New Orleans Texas Porter Bayou Miss Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Baker City la Grande Ore North Carolina Dutchtown Charleston N. C Nantahala River

Total Receipts of Staple Products August 30

Totals of principal staples shipped from all ports for August 30 compare 1884 to 1883. Cotton and corn show strong shipments while many items such as eggs and hides vary. Includes quantities for oleo cheese flour beans oats leather tea bacon and related goods with year over year differences.

Manchester corn merchants fail in string of insolvencies

A flurry of insolvencies spreads from Manchester to Boston and beyond as two corn merchants fail and several others enter distress. Notable cases include George Walton of Boston facing $5000 in liabilities, others like Altman Demelman Fuchs in Boston and Kaward E Rice of Boothbay with substantial debts. The National Water Wheel Co of Bristol and Martine & Cumberson of New York show large liabilities with limited assets. Hotchkiss, Rich, and Pease restructure, while Ladner Brothers face heavy bail as court actions and warrants mount.

Manchester Eng London George Walton Atlantic Avenue Boston Thomas Prince Altman Demelman and Fuchs Broad Street Joshua Benshimol A. W. Thompson Middleboro Mass Cynthia A. Lurley Haverhill Kaward E. Rice Boothbay Calvin A. Tarr Saco Abner Chellis Newfield Samuel Haines Old Orchard Napoleon Bouthellier South Berwick Louis J. Ladner Ellis Second National Bank of Xena Suffolk County A. & H. Myers Philadelphia Frederick S. Wright Fannie Wright Geo. W. Collins Bridgewater Moses H. Schwartzenberg John H. Putnam Revere Mary A. McDonald

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