Smuggling Tales From a Boston Custom House Officer
A Boston boarding officer recounts humorous and cautionary smuggling tales from the Long Wharf and Bermudas voyage. He recalls 160 passengers aboard the Halifax all carrying two bottles of Jamaica rum and fifty cigars, including an old lady arguing they were for her and her husband’s use. Other cases involve wealthy individuals, informers, and odd coin shipments, with a mix of lax searches and rigid examinations, ending as night falls.
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Wiiter
Long Wharf
United States
Whitts
The
Fruit Exchange
Halifax
Bermudas
Jamaica
Europe
New York
Boston Press Bicycle Club Dines At Avondale
Boston Press Bicycle Club members twenty three plus guests dined at Woodland Park Hotel Avondale. W W Stall presented a red silk pennant with blue center inscribed Press in gilt. Banner given to J J Thompson as color bearer. ride started at six, headed by Captain Kennedy, looping Chestnut Hill reservoir route and returning via Brighton.
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Boston Press Bicycle Club
Newton
W. W. Stall
C. P. Cudderiy
BE. W. Fisher
Herbert L. Wood
Woodland Park
Avondale
Esfort
J. J. Thompson
Captain Kennedy
Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Brighton
Under The McKinley Law Outbound Books Only
Washington Sept 14 Canadian agricultural reports sent to a California firm are outside the McKinley act free entry provisions for books. The Treasury Department refused a Woodstock Canada firm request to import free horses used in Maine timber work after paying duty on the animals for four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Woodstock
Can
Eeeeetees
Maine
Coast Forts Defence Debate Across Nations
The article analyzes whether harbor defences should shift from army controls to navy in Britain Germany and France. It cites Rogers on European practice noting England keeps army garrisons while some continental states move coastal guns to naval hands. It discusses Germany Austria and France arrangements and concludes America may keep army control but finds European trends intriguing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
C. C. Rogers
Europe
England
British War Office
Admiralty
Rogers
W. Jervois
Royal Navy
Coast Guard
Germany
Lin
Mobil Zalion
Navy
Luis Pla
Kiel
Wilhelmshafen
Elbe
Wesser
Engineer Corps
Army
France
War Office
Marine
Laly
Warine Corps
Austria
Navy Department
Beales Return to Washington From Beverly Farms
General and Mrs E F Beale have returned to Washington after spending the summer at Beverly Farms Massachusetts. They have opened their hospitable house on Lafayette Square. Mrs Beale, once an invalid, is in greatly improved health.
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Beverly Farms
Washington
Sercia
E. F. Beale
Mass
Lafayette Square
Symphony Tickets Auction Brisk Amid Music Hall Bids
A large crowd attended the symphony tickets auction in Music Hall with brisk bidding. Rehearsal seats priced at $760 will be released at auction this morning at 10. Unsold seats go on sale at the Music Hall box office on Wednesday September 16. New York Life policy owners met to discuss forming a committee to investigate company affairs.
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Music Hall
NEW York Life Insurance Company
New York
Farmers Alliance Aims to Halt Wheat Selling in Midwest
Minnesota and Dakotas leaders plan mass mail campaign urging farmers to withhold wheat as market prices fall. Receipts in Minneapolis and Duluth hit 700 to 1500 cars daily, December wheat at 90.4 cents, with claims 160 million bushels may exit farmers' hands before January. Letters promise Wheat Growers Association view of prices rising to 50 to 2 dollars per bushel and urge holding grain to avoid speculators' profits.
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St. Paul
Minn
Farmers’ Alliance
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Minneapolis
Duluth
Alliance
Wabasha Street
Wheat Growers’ Association
Europe
Adventures of poachers raid Russian Behring Sea for 600 skins
The schooner City of San Diego arrived in Victoria with 600 fur skins from Copper Island. Eight other ships joined in raids on the island, boats were disabled, two men were killed, a Russian warship engaged, and the Hamilton Lewis towed the island. Survivors feared for the crews after gunfire in fog.
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Talboat
Webster
Hunter Vairn
Annie
McLean
Hamilton Lewis
San Diego Express
Carriage Crash Injures Boston Postoffice Worker and Family
On Sagamore road a carriage overturned after a horse frightened by a bicycle. Mrs Sanger and Cyrus McClure of Boston were picked up insensible. Sanger suffered a fractured arm and internal injuries, McClure a concussion and facial wounds. Mrs Deverson and her daughter sustained facial injuries and internal trauma. Miss Deverson escaped with cuts. McClure works in the Boston Post Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmounthh
N. H
Theodore Deverson
Sanger
Cyrus McClure
Boston
Sagamore Road
McClure
Chinese Coolies In Mexico Arrive To Arrange Further Labor
C Vogel, a German resident of Hong Kong who imported the first Chinese laborers to Mexico over a year ago, arrived from Hong Kong and travels by rail to organize further importations. He plans to secure capital for a Hong Kong to Mexican port steamship line. He says 1300 Chinese went to Salina Cruz last year, with guaranteed passage home and repatriation if death occurs. He cites Tehuantepec railroad and Olampico harbor projects as creating work for thousands of coolies, more valuable than natives.
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Mexico
San Francisco
Cal
C. Vogel
Hong Kong
Germany
Vogel
Tehauntepec
Olampico Harbor
Bandits Rob A Saloon in Kansas City Me
Four men armed with revolvers robbed Alfred Crandell's saloon in Kansas City Maine early yesterday. They forced loungers to surrender valuables, injured Crandell, and stole the cash from the drawer along with his watch and diamond pin before fleeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Alfred Crandell
Crandell
Yrandell
Flood of Grain at Chicago Elevators Daily
A morning paper reports Chicago elevators operated around the clock to handle a flood of grain. Cars to elevators, then boats, move corn and other grain swiftly. Most grain now moves forward by rail from Buffalo to the seaboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Buffalo
Seaboard
Low Lake and Rail Tariff to Boston
Chicago Sept 14 The lowest lake and rail tariff on freight from Boston to St Paul this season has been announced The route is the Fitchburg the Lackawanna and the Great Northern with rates based on 60 cents first class West bound traffic from New England is light and lines will take any rate to avoid empty cars and vessels Eastbound rates continue to rise.
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Boston
Chicago
St. Paul
Fitchburg
Lackawanna
Great Northern
New England
New Candidate Nominated for Attorney General
The Peoples party executive committee places Herbert McIntosh of Worcester on the ticket after Judge Andrews declined the nomination. McIntosh, a Crown graduate and former classics teacher at Worcester Academy, is described as a rising man at 19.4 years old with a solid legal practice. All hands lost in Yarmouth NS as schooner Georgiana capsized while being towed to Halifax. captain and sixteen crew from Lasket Wedge are reported safe? (Note: source fragment).
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The
Peoples’ Party
Judge Andrews
Danvers
Herbert McIntosh
Worcester
McIntosh
Worcester Academy
Yarmouth
N.S
Halifax
BALMACEDA'S SILVER ON BOARD
Linson reports on September 14 that the steamer Moselle carrying Salmaceda's silver from Montevideo to Southampton has arrived in port.
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Balmaceda
Linson
Moselle
Salmaceda
Montevideo
Southampton
Money and Stocks Easy Rates Persist in Boston Sector
Boston money demand stays light keeping easy rates. New York funds firm and discounts rise. Boston bank statement shows gains across loans and deposits, with surplus up and foreign exchange mixed. Atchison earnings surge 25 percent for first week September, supported by heavy trading in several rails and reined by mixed market sentiment.
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Boston
New York
Corporation
Railroad and utility stock quars and splits list
A compact listing of quarterly quotations and preferred stock par values from multiple railroads and utilities. Entries include issued quantities such as percent and penny values across companies like Boston Albany, Illinois Central, Northwestern, Chicago Gas Trust, Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis, Missouri Pacific, Union Telegraph Co, and others with dates ranging Sept to Oct.
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Am Bett Tet Co
Boston & Albany
Cuicaco & Eastern Illinois RR
Cuicacou & Northwestern RR
Geicaro
Burlington & Quincy
Chicago Gas Trust
Cru, Min & So Paul
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicaco
Louis
MinniInc Co
Colorado Furl Co
Connectticut River RR
Corrugated Wirt Fast Co
Okiaawaree & Hupson Canal Co
Distillers & Cattle Feepers Co
East Boston Lane Co
Lenich Valley RR
Loxponperr
Lithia Spring Water Co
Manuarran RR
Missouri Pacific RR
É Po Mrance Pacific RU
Ld. P. Lonmrarp Co
Wersticks Union Tet Co
Whitebreast Furl Co
Boston Stock Exchange Sales Report of September 14 1891
Official report shows daily high low and closing bids for the Boston market. Total sales reach 271,900 shares with notable totals for Comprigon and Priday alongside principal stocks and their day’s high and low prices.
New York Stocks End Mixed With Distillers Leading Gains
Money on call easy at 2% to 6% with last at 5%. Distillers rose from 50% to 52% and later to 54.00 after trust news. Richmond & West Point and New England advanced, while Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, and Lackawanna fell earlier. Total sales reached $1,639,500.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Wisconsin Central
New York
Union Pacific
New York House
Adams
Ames
Chicago Gas
Mexican Central
National
Boston Water Power Company
Stock Trust
New York Stock Exchange
Gov’t
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Atchison
Canada Southern
Richmond & West Point and
Distillers
St. Paul
New England
Missouri Pacific
Lackawanna
Richmond & West Point
Preferred
Trust
Foreign financial reports from London and Paris
London and Paris money market notes dated Sept 14 report on US tours firsts for New York Pennsylvania Ohio and Canadian Pacific Erie Illinois Central Mexican and New York Central rates. Bar silver Paris advices show 3 percent rentes at 96 francs 70 centimes and 96 francs 50 centimes for the account.
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London
United States Tours
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Canadian Pacific
Erie
Ilinois Central
New York Central
Phondon
Paris
Insolvency Warrant Issued for William Bustle of Cambridge
On September 14, 1891 a warrant in Insolvency issued from the Court of Insolvency for Middlesex against the estate of William Bustle of Cambridge. Debts and property transfers to or for the insolvent are forbidden by law. A creditors meeting to prove debts and appoint assignees will be held September 24, 1891 at Cambridge Court of Insolvency at ten in the forenoon. Deputy Sheriff Juan R. Fairbairn serves notice.
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Massacht
J Setus
Suffolk
Boston
Court Room
Tribate
Court Square
John B. Fitzpatrick
Middlesex
William H. Patterson
Cambridge
Joiln KR. Fairbairn
Massachuear
Sulffolk
Perry Yarkrington
County of
H. Seavey
William v
Juan R. Fairbalry
Probate notice for Kimball estate Virginia Vermont shares
Notice from Massachusetts Probate Court to appear October 5 1891 to show cause why administrator Franklin Moore may sell or dispose of Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad stock held in Suffolk County and to grant license for sale. Publication required weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post. Witness Judge Joan W McKie.
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Franklin Moore
Dees
District of Marlboro
Windham
Bas
Suffolk
Vermont & Massachusetts R. R. Co
Boston
Hoston Post
Sald Court
Joan W. McKie
Esquire
Llivah Gorge
Remater
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Boston Custom House
Behring Sea
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Richmond
Salvation Committee
State Street
Bull
Chen
N. Y
N. E
Westend
West End Railway
St. Louis
Colorado Midland
Flint
Pere Marquette
Louisville
New Albany
Sinve Dun. L
Louisville & Nashville
Louisville, Evansville
Memphis
Birmingham
Zliz2
Boston Stock Exchange
NEW York Stock Sales
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Wis
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Bee
Bost, & Ald
Maas
Canton
Fetou
Sane Fitnt
P.M
Maine Central
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West End
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Eens
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Hutte
Franklin
Napa
Quicksilver
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Detroit
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Stew Lead Trust
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NEW York Financial
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Bae Seks
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C. de Beevers
Yex P. LG. Mob
Tr. Teora
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Shore
Novelty Mfg. CO
Lynn
Universal Cash Register CO
Washington St
W. Prescott & Co
Devonshire Street
Sue
Russ
U.ugl
F. W. Prescott & Co
Fastern Electric Cable Co
Ptd
Thomson-Houston Electric Co
Wayne Electric Co
Westinghouse
Detroit Electric
Cere
Cerca
Massachuser
Ommon Wealth OF
Massachusetts
Commonwealth OF Massach Uwj
Ty Kimball
Newfane
State of
Vermont
Caroline E. Stearns
Brookline
of Norfolk
Lucy M. Stearns
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