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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 25, 1883

Page

3

Money market and Boston bank report dated Sept 24

Boston money matters show modest demand for money with rates near 5 to 6 percent for loans and 4 1 2 to 5 percent on collateralized paper. Bank exchanges at the clearing house reach 10,752,888 dollars with total price 1,455,877 dollars while the Boston bank statement forecasts a reserve loss and a surplus of 995,314 dollars. Foreign exchange and Paris franc and Reichmark rates are given with London discount at 3 1/2 percent and parities for short bills.

Boston Outre Prime Corporation Vere Peint New York Cleary House Associated Banks of London Paris Bank of England

New York Stocks Close Firmer After Afternoon Selloff

New York financial markets opened firm with a midday dip followed by a late recovery. Stocks gained on gains in Reading Lake Shore Union Pacific and Jersey Central amid continued reports of higher government bonds and mixed railroad issues.

New York Prime Mercantile Tennessee Reading Lake Shore Union Pacific Northern Pacific Oregon Fort Wayne Fort Worth Denver City Oregon Transcon Michigan Central Jersey Central Lackawanna Bears Villards Louisville Nashville Oregon Transcontinental Louisville and Nashville Denver Canada Southern Burlington and Quincy Northwest Mutual Union Erie Wabash Manhattan Firsts Colorado Coal Pullman Palace Oregon Improvement Eerchange Bales Hist Canadaa Southern Central Pacific L&pyfa del., L. & West Delaware & Hud Denver & Rio G Han. & St. Joe Kansas Texas Ontsville Nash Lake Erie & c W Manhattan Missouri Pacific Northwestern New Jersey Ific St.l.& Pa Ester Union TPR Oregon Trans No Pacific Duluth South Shore Southwestern Agate Bay Beaver Bay Grand Marias Minnesota America Canada Atlantic Railway Coteau Station Ottawa Alexandria West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company Central Trust Company New York and New England Railroad Boston West Shore Railroad Ridge Hill Woonsocket

Commodity Bid and Market Report for Grains and Stocks

The report lists call bids and seller offers for oats and corn at Boston Commercial Exchange with multiple September October November price points. It covers flour receipts, car inspections, grain receipts today, Liverpool cheese and Canton cheese offerings, New York mercantile exchange specials on butter dairy, eggs, beans, green peas, wheat and oats prices, and stock market figures including shipments, packers, and futures at Chicago and New York levels.

Boston Commercial Exchange Shorts Liverpool Canton New York Mercantile Exchange Western Dairy Chicago Sie Gene Ork New York New Orleans Minnesota Southern Gee Dock English Island United Rosm Lord South America ST. Louis Wyoming Nebraska Texas Milwaukee Toledo Michigan Cincinnati Detroit California London Uplands Orleans Fures Dull

BEANS and PEAS Prices Across Market Lines

The market shows steady demand and varied quotations for beans and peas with Canadian and western sources. Prices run from $1.10 to $4.50 per unit for assorted beans and peas, while other produce and provisions show mixed but largely stable levels, including potatoes, onions, apples, and dried fruit.

Canada Virginias Conan New York Timothy

Freight Goods Passed at Multiple Ports in 19th Century Trade

The listing details imports at Boston and Charlottetown, Halifax, and Boston steamer movements including City of Columbus and Worcester. It notes bales, crates, casks, and cases of hides, lumber, rosin, spirits, mackerel, eggs, potatoes, fruit, canned goods, and assorted textiles. Major firms and ships appear alongside quantities and destinations across ports in Canada and the United States.

Savannah George McQuesten Stetson Moseley & Co Boots Il Newhal Coburn & Co Charles Richardson & Co A& W Bird & Co May Nash & Winslow Cutler & Co Richardson & Dennie Allen, Field & l Lawrence Case Sans Simonds Manufacturing Co Case Sans Simonds Manufacturing Co—1 Do Cigars J J Lappen & Co Franck & Co Roach & Co Sampson & Co Silas Potter & Co Haskin & Matague Luce & Manning Nichols, Dupee & Co Salmore Buckingham & P George Priest Leopold Morse & Co Billings & Eaton Marqueze & Varney Charlottetown P EI Halifax Worcester Arthur & Co Allen, Slade & Co Barclay & Co Raeder, Adamson & Co Mrs_Barnes Cates & Co Bush Brown, Delorme & Co Bowles & Co Beaman Bros Coleman Coxheath Mining Co Carlton & Son Delong & Seaman Ellis & Co Frost & Co James Greenough & Co L. Goodspeed Griffin & Co Miss L Hall Halibut Haskins & Montague Johnson Jones & Co Amos Keyes & Co Lorimer Mead Connor Poole, Gardner & Co Haddock George C Rockwell Junk Whitney, Pousland & Co Sydney Cumminger Odiorne & Co William Jenkins Job & Co Havana Puebla New York Samuels Boston Kemp

Maritime Exports List From Nova Scotia Ports

A compiled list from foreign exports shows at Barrington schooner Dionis carrying soda ash kerosene oil flour meal spars. Metaghan schooner Gen Doyie with flour and meal. Yarmouth steamer New Brunswick shipping cornmeal beef dried apples beans flour ham hats tea coffee sweet potatoes onions walnut boards boots pigs shovels chairs paint iron castings organ material and blacking.

Barrington Dionis Yarmouth N.S New Brunswick

Value of Exports from the Port of Boston Week End Sept 21

Exports list shows Boston port activity with totals for numerous commodities including cotton raw 10,552 bags preserved meats 2,253 and coffee 490, plus sugar and molasses 425,000? and wool 3,425. Also notes wood products lumber 4,893 and leather 43,222 with items like sewing machines 40 and framed ware 500. The data reflects weekly export values across multiple categories.

Porto Rico Secesse Demerara Scotland Dominion OF Canada Raz Surinam Abebees WSSU Uae G Instruments Italy Jamaica Barbados Tike Belgium Kecwana Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Peabody and Salem New York and New England Railroad Boston and Railroad Violence Railroad Arior Ccsaceskennen AE Saks Todacco India England Nova Scotia Danish West Indies Miquelon Langley Scomanig British West Indies Utubuay Bois Ea News Eee

Cotton Market Sales and City Receipts Across States

Cotton market reports show steady to firm tones in major hubs including Philadelphia Norfolk St Louis and Savannah with coastwise shipments and total stock levels rising. Commodity prices span net receipts gross receipts and market steadiness across New York Chicago and other centers, noting mixed bids, exports, and inland demand.

Minnesota Illinois St Louis Indiana Ohio Michigan New York Cossesse S 7Aa Menket Arai Tolga Rmm Nat Galvese Coasuwisc Ros Cbs Sansa Se Neenanees Ilmingto Philadelphia Norfolk Charleston Seneseee C. Mobile Savannah Baltimore Great Britain Cvcseve Louisville United States Continent

Progress of Work on the Canadian Pacific

The Canadian Pacific track lays 35 miles west of Calgary near Padmour gap and advances to the Rocky Mountain summit, with grading within six miles of the summit. Donald Grant leads the track-laying at 2.5 miles daily, aiming to complete by December 1. Settlers are mainly Canadian from eastern provinces, with coal discoveries near Medicine Hat and a planned rail link by Galt to the other mine. Over 1,900 miles of track completed, 984 wires under construction, 25,000 workers, wages about $100,000 daily. The government projection shifts to two years for full completion.

Canadian Pacific Calgary Padmour Rocky Mountains Donald Grant Langdon & Co United States Medicine Hat Galt Alexander Galt Minster

Probate Court Admits Several Wills in Suffolk County

Suffolk County probate court on September 24 before Judge McKim admitted the wills of James Leavitt James Babson Joseph Smith Michael Kennedy Eliza Eaton Catherine Waldron Richard R White Mary Hennessey Ann Finn Roxy Montgomery Luke Vila and John R Bampton to probate Letters of administration were issued for Elizabeth Fowle Fannie L Farar Luke Glennon Richard Welsh Miranda Sanderson Samuel Rea Mary Curtis Maria H Greene Johanna Thornton Ellen Brown Phillip B Phalen Catherine Hennessey Cornelius Riley James H Connolley Elizabeth Leland John Herbert Paul Annie F Freeman Dennis Minchan alias Dennis Mynahan and Joseph Davies.

James Leavitt James Babson Joseph Smith Michael Kennedy Eliza Eaton Catherine Waldron Richard R. White Mary Hennessey Ann Finn Roxy Montgomery Luke Vila John R Bampton Elizabeth Fowle Fannie L. Farar Luke Glennon Richard Welsh Miranda Sanderson Samuel Rea Mary Curtis Maria H. Greene Johanna Thornton Ellen Brown Phillip B. Phalen Catherine Hennessey Cornelius Riley James H. Connolley Elizabeth Leland John Herbert Paul Annie F. Freeman Dennis Minchan Alias Dennis Mynahan Joseph Davies

McKee Arson Trial Faces Long Hearing at Temple Street House

Before Judge Bacon, Thomas W. McKee stood trial for arson in attempting to burn No 48 Temple street owned by Horace M. Fiske and used as boarding house by Caroline Nyberg. The June 10 incident occupied nearly the whole day. Picot was found not guilty in a liquor case and several minor cases were disposed of.

Thomas W. McKee Temple Street Horace M. Fiske Caroline Nyberg Jules Picot

Municipal Court Docket Seated Sept 24 Judge Adams

Summary of Sept 24 cases across Charlestown South Boston and East Boston courts. Fines include $10 costs for assault and $15 fines for disturbing the peace. Several defendants remanded for trial or examination. multiple Drunks and indecent exposure noted. houses of industry terms noted for several defendants. dates through Sept 27 and 28 mentioned.

Adams Stephen Ford House of Industry Cornelius Horeban John J. Cross Angelo de Farrari William J. Henry Joseph Tew Elizabeth Crawford John Duane Frederick Everett Charlestown George A. Rogers John Donahue South Boston Edwin R. Flint East Peter Dixon Paul H. Cunningham William E. Leonard

Boston evening high school opens October first 1883

The evening high school will open in the high school building on Montgomery street on Monday evening October 1 1883 at 7 30 PM for a term of 20 weeks. Registration runs five weeks until Friday evening November 2 after which admission requires a written school committee request. Class work starts October 8 at 7 30 PM open to both sexes with free tuition for Boston residents. curriculum includes Arithmetic bookkeeping penmanship spelling composition English literature history algebra geometry German and French.

Montgomery Street Boston

Marriages in Falmouth Somerville New York and Boston

Notices record marriages by ministers on Sept 20 to Sept 22 in West Falmouth Somerville New York and Boston. Couples include Harry W Hamblin with Elizabeth Small Hattie L Hawkes with William A McLane Charlotte Johnson daughter of Emilius Kitchell Sayre to Thomas Hugh Boorman and Charles H Wilson to Elizabeth Small.

Hamblin West Falmouth JS Gay Harry W Hamblin Elizabeth Small Falmouth McLane—Hawkes Somerville George W Durell William A McLane Hattie L Hawkes Sayre—Bookman New York JS Shipman DD Charlotte Johnson Emilius Kitchell Sayre Thomas Hugh Boorman Wilson—Small

Prepared Milk Versus Adulterated Milk in Boston

A retired Boston milk peddler describes how most milk sold as prepared contains added water and salt to stretch volume, while true adulteration remains hidden. He asserts nine tenths of Boston milk is prepared, detailing water ratios, salt, burnt sugar color, and occasional condensed milk. He condemns the practice as harming nutrition and defrauding customers, especially children and low‑income buyers.

Boston Water Board Mukman Hassall London

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