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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1886
Page
6
An 1886 market summary details New York and Boston exchanges with gains in Atchison and copper stocks. It notes brokerages, currencies, and daily earnings, highlighting copper’s renewed strength and related railroad earnings, with Atchison Topeka Santa Fe reporting July results and a growing market breadth amid cautious optimism.
The Acushnet Mill Corporation of New Bedford declared a sensational dividend of 130 dollars per tare, signaling a bold payout to shareholders.
Private wire message from Walter B Adams to New York era editor or relay, greeting Merry. The readable fragment hints at a personal or staff communication, lacking full context or clear event details.
WOLALIS commission merchants advertise grain and provisions at 35 Congress Street Boston. Orders executed and carried on margin. Private wires in Chicago and New York.
Reports from the Boston Stock Exchange show sales at brokers board with prices ranging from 10 to 16.50. The first board activity indicates ongoing trading and price variation among listed securities.
A dense OCR extract shows a lengthy mix of railroad lines, stock tickers, company names, locations, and percentages. Prominent items include Oregon Navigation, American Express, Pacific Mall, Richmond, Omaha, and Glen names. The text reads like a historical market page with numerous odds and ends, numbers, and place names, lacking a clear single narrative.
A fragmented listing shows multiple goods and prices such as air parts, cushions, ventilators, and assorted items. It references Toledo, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Delphos, Burlington, and Boston Water Power with scattered prices and quantities, indicating a miscellaneous sales catalog or ad page.
New York financials describe money on call unchanged, government and railroad bonds dull, and the stock market closing very dull and heavy after a volatile day. Early gains faded. Pacific Mail rose briefly while Louisville and Nashville fell. Notable moves included Art and Jersey Central strength that later receded and mixed rail and mining issue prices. Trading in street bonds and specific unnamed issues is noted with various small price changes.
Fragmentary OCR lists names and numbers including 101,414 shares and references to Toledo Pecatur Veoria and Tess tres cons. The text is garbled with multiple misspellings and unidentifiable terms, preventing a clean factual summary beyond noting a stock or share count and scattered proper nouns.
The San Francisco market summary lists the official closing prices of mining stocks for today. Entries include assorted companies with varying bid and ask indications, reflecting a mixed short term performance across mining sectors.
The Evening Traveller argues a union between Boston & Maine and Boston & Lowell may occur soon. Internal Boston & Lowell fears over a Concord deal prompted silent discussions with Boston & Maine, while Lowell officials deny plans for leasing the Boston & Maine line.
Discussions outline surveys from Danbury to Westfield Massachusetts and from Westfield to the northern spur of the Hepaug road to link Boston and New York. The aim is a potential via New England lines to save mileage and transfer rail traffic from the Boston and Albany to the New York, New Haven and Hartford network if the Danbury line is built or if a Boston route is chosen.
The Chicago Burlington and Northern line opens for freight. The Burlington and Missouri River extends 79 miles northwest from Grand Island to Broken Bow Nebraska for passenger service Lincoln to Broken Bow. Fitchburg Water town branch second track surveys begin this fall. Samuel Atherton resigns trusteeship of C A Sweet estate to make way for Charles E Sweet heir. E A Barker named assistant general freight and passenger agent of the Richmond and Danville road at Richmond. The Northern Pacific road will have tort wiles.
A fragmented summary notes division completion for government inspection on October 1, a coal field expansion reaching up to 1000 tons daily, and a Philadelphia despatch claiming Gowen defeated in Pittsboro. It records court rulings excluding testimony in the Robinson suit, mixed rail shipment figures, and corporate performance metrics from Vanderbilt lines and the Louisville and Nashville road. A September despatch from Walkie A. Pearce provides regional agency details as repairs after an earthquake restore rail service.
The Transcript notes a sharp advance in copper prices with a Lake company selling a large lot at 1024 cents per pound, up from 10.5 cents two days prior, driven by tight on hand stocks and robust demand from manufacturers. Boston remains copper stock headquarters, with growing inquiry from New York, Detroit, and Chicago as optimism spreads.
A lengthy list records multiple property transfers and mortgages across towns including Shawmut avenue Concord street Terrace street Norfolk place Laurel street and Ruggles street in Boston area neighborhoods. Transactions feature buyers such as Joseph B R Churchill Paulina Green Susan C Sullivan Margaret Huntington Anna Huntington Henry Chandler Benjamin Brintnall and many others with properties on Commercial Street Ashland Street Brighton Avenue Reedsdale Street and Dana Street among others. Dates range from May to August with prices noted like 4500 20000 and 360.
A terse roundup of mortgaged properties and grantor grantees including Myra Richardson to John A Bowman on June 20, 1872 and multiple other 1880s transactions listed with assorted entities such as Louis Curtis, hazard Stevens, Mary Chandler, Herbert J Wittman, Charles Breck, David C Folsom and Ansel Garney among others in a dated ledger format.
A fragmented notice lists multiple buyers and traders acrossPennsylvania Ohio New York Kentucky Tennessee and Alabama with names such as N A Wans Parr Haas Co Cowen McGrath Die Wills son Wilson Pansillie A E Gray and W Richardson among others. It reads like a commerce notices page with business associates and locations including Allentown York Hornellsville Lima Mobile Nashville St Paul Syracuse Toledo and Seneca.
An advertisement extols a beef tonic branded Men s Man s Peptonized Beef Tonic as the sole beef preparation with full nourishment. It claims blood making force generating and life sustaining properties, aiding indigestion nervous prostration and debility, and useful in exhaustion overwork and pulmonary illness. Caswell Hazard Co of New York markets the product via druggists.
Flour and rye hold steady or unchanged while corn oats and mill items show little change. Cheese prices firm and stock demand moderate with good pack meat demand. Potatoes trade brisk while fresh meats peaches and melons vary in demand.
Receipts for week ending Sept 2 show 6029 bales domestic and 46 bales foreign, with August totals listed. The report notes a very strong wool market, rising prices anticipated, Boston buyers active in Chicago, and firm Ohio Michigan and Territory wool demand. Foreign wool remains firm with limited Montevideo and Cape supply. carpet wools and California territory lots show large sales and higher prices expected at September auctions.
Market dull with slow sales in flour as wheat eases. Oats steadier but light demand. cash No 2 white oats 2700 bushels at 37 cents, 2700 bushels October 37 cents. Cort easy with small sales at quoted prices. On call market stronger with food demand.
Pork and lard prices vary by cut with long joints at 14 14 to 14 60 and backs around 14 00. Fresh beet dull with no price change noted. Beef ranges from extra plate 19 210 to family 16 6 13 09 and meals around 5 50 69 00, with other items listed by cut and size.
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