Industrial metal prices and sheet goods ledger notes
An itemized listing of metal and plumbing materials with prices and discounts. Entries include refined bar iron, American and English rails, scrap iron, nails, pipes with various off discounts, boiler tubes, tin plates, lead products, and zinc alloys. source appears as a historical wholesale price sheet.
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Langivan
Glengarnock
Coltness
Tore
Amerean
New England
London
Straits
Market Reports March 31
Market summaries from the Boston and domestic centers are compiled for a comprehensive outline. Telegraphic reports on each commodity follow the Boston market as part of a unified presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
Boston
Flour and grain prices and receipts for March 31
The article lists carload grain prices and March receipts across flour, corn, wheat, oats, rye, malt, hops and other products. It reports past month totals and compares with 1887 figures, notes market tones in several cities and quotes specific price ranges for flour and other staples, including Minneapolis New York Chicago and St Louis markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Michican Stone
Canada Superior
Canada
Minneapolis
New York
Ohio
St Louis
Milwaukee
Chicago
St. Louis
Detroit
Toledo
Market Receipts and Prices for Farm Products in 1887
Receipts for various commodities in the period show butter, oleo, cheese, eggs, beans, potatoes, hay, straw, poultry, sweet potatoes, and cranberries with large year over year figures. Prices across butter, eggs, beans, potatoes, dairy products, and miscellaneous foods are listed, noting small overall receipts and steady to firm markets with regional variations.
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New York
Vermont
Cincinnati
Ohio
Liverpool
New Hampshire
Choice
Bush
California
West
North
Red Top
Jersey
Houlton Rose
Houlton Hebrons
Aroostook
Aroostook Rose, $1051 08; Aroostook Hebrons
Burbanks
Northern Hebrons
Peerless
Regents
Fruit Market Prices and Receipts Report
The report lists month receipts for apples and Florida oranges with 1887 figures, notes a quiet but steadier market for apples, and provides price quotes for several fruits and boxes. Firm Messina, Palermo, and Valencia fruit values appear, with Palermo and Florida orange ranges, lemons, and various regional fruit prices and sale conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Baldwins
H Harris & Co
Messina
Palermo
Valencia
Aspinwall
Port Limon
Jamaica
Baracoa
Pork Packing Figures and Market Notes from Major Centers
A lengthy report details monthly provisions and 1887 comparisons for pork, beef, lard, hams, and other meats across Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and St. Louis. It notes declines in hog numbers, firm exports to Boston, and varied prices for mess pork, lard, and bacon, with Western markets showing mixed strength and weakness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Cincinnati
Chicago
Boston Packers
New York
Bbis Mess Pt
Western Steam
City Steam
Continent
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Hinds, LLC
Market Prices For Fresh Meats and Lambs
The market remains steady at prior quotes with fresh meals listed. Fancy lambs fetch 10 lice per pound, with common to good at 11 16e. Mutton prices range from 9 8c to 9 10c for choice, with lower grades 7 8c. Eastern mutton and real show 9 10c to 9 10c for good to poor, while Brighton mutton and Chicago mutton are noted at 9B and 9 10% to 9 10c respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vie
Chicago
Brighton
Norfolk boat carries kale and other produce to market
The Norfolk boat arriving Monday brings 1100 barrels of kale 2000 barrels of spinach 700 bags of peanuts and 30 boxes of oranges. Truck prices stay steady with Southern cabbage at 250 per crate Norfolk kale 125 per barrel Bermuda onions 3 360 per crate Norfolk spinach 2 per barrel Florida string beans 1 4 crate Florida beets 125 per crate Morida tomatoes 2 3 per crate Sales of native dandelions 125 per bush native onions 7 per bbl cabbage 225 250 per bbl savoy cabbage 225 per double beets Jie bush squash Hubbards 830 40 ton carrots 40 cents per bush lettuce 26 60e per dot parsnips 1 per bush white French 150 per bbl St Andrews 150 per bbl celery 447 per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Bermuda
Florida
St Andrews
Cotton market report summary from multiple U S ports
The New York Cotton Exchange closed with no market reports. Consolidated seven day receipts 35 693 with exports to Great Britain 31 608 to France 9121 to the continent 15 139 stock at all ports 697 318. Regional figures show varied receipts sales stock and steady to dull tones across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville New York and overall consolidated day receipts 7 061 exports to continent 910 stock 701 660.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Cotton Exchange
Great Britain
France
Continent
United States
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
New York
Consolidated
Sugar and Molasses Prices Steady Amid Quiet Trade
Raw sugar prices remain steady with little activity across Cuba and New York markets. Quotas show minor shifts with refined sugars quoted steady to unchanged and molasses prices largely unchanged, including Ponce Porto Rico at 8.5 cents per gallon and Cienfuegos new crop at 25 to 27 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Barbadoes
Market Summary Steady Prices Across Goods and Regions
Talon A movement noted at old prices with quotes in various markets. New York steady at 4 4 8¢, London at 35s, Rio quiet at 14¢ in New York. Cincinnati steady at 109, St. Louis whiskey at 109, pipe line certificates closed 3 pm March 30. Turpentine and rosin firm in New York with petroleum at 67 7 Yse, RSW 724.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Rio
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Market Notes on Regional Hog and Cattle Prices
Regional livestock markets show prices and receipts across cities. St Louis Hog market steady with mixed packers and butchers at varied rails. Kansas City slower. Chicago reports steady cattle with steers at 3 to 3.50 per cwt and hogs mixed at 5.20 to 6.55. Receipts include St Louis 5000 today and 11700 yesterday. Chicago 4000 receipts and 500 shipments. Cincinnati hogs quiet with 2800 receipts and 1200 shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
Texas Fed
Cincinnati
Shipping cargo manifests and imports listing global trade items
A dense OCR export from March 381, 1888 details ships and brigades across ports including St John PR Aguadilla Vieques PR Calcutta Morant Bay Ja Porto Rico Porto Au Prince Mayaguez Arecibo Beaufot NC Liverpool and more. It catalogs schooners brigantines and steamers with sugar molasses logwood coffee and various commodities, plus quantities like hhds tierces bales tons cases casks and feet of timber, with multiple firms such as Morgan Co Swan Co Baring Bros and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST John
Aguadilla
Morgan & Co
Viequez
Swan & Co
Calcutta
Indian Empire
Morant Bay
Logwood Whitney, Pousland & Co
Porto Rico
L Staples
Walter S Swan & Co
Port AU Prince
Rustic James Stevenson
Mayaguez
Eva Maud
Bbis Do Baring Bros & Co
Arecibo
Hyperion
Goseler & Co
Beaufort
Charles S Woolston
George McQuesten & Co
Sarah Porter
Liverpool
Eng
Snapson & Co
Daitrell & Upham
Noyes Bros
Dodo Williston, Knight & Co
Fuller, Dana & Fitz
Richards & Sons
Dempsey & Co
Cutler Bros &Co
William Bixby & Co
Dame & Co
D & MM _ Williams
Dc Schoenhof
P? Schmidt
Baring Bros & Co
Moors & Co
Holder & Herrick
Moise Hooper, Lewis & Co
Boston Thread and Twine Co
Jones
Zenas Sears
Hovey & Co
Rawson & Co
H Davies & Co
Pray & Co
Holmes
Little, Brown & Co
Roberts Bros
Dennison Manufacturing Co
Stone & Downer
Crosby Steam Gange and Valve Co
Temple
Pierce & Co
William Underwood & Co
Winthorpe
Brown, Durrell & Co
Vast 19th Century Goods List From Boston Firms
An expansive ledger review lists shipments and inventory from numerous firms including Ware Shreve Crump & Low and Stone & Downer. It details cases, bales, crates, and packages of oranges, machinery, lace, leather, wool, and textile goods bound for markets via rail and sea, with hundreds of line items and consignors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collins & Fairbanks
Soule
Hewins & Hollis
Snow & Co
Hollander & Co
Houghton & Dutton
Kennedy & Murphy
Booth & Co
Brigham
Moise Baring Bros & Co
Lyman
Codd & Co
Estes & Lauriat
R Leeson & Co
Leson
Leson—1 Case Lace Shoninger, Moses & Co—4 Do Plants Charles E Mudge
H Spooner
Moise E
Kakas & Sons
P Schmidt
Broderson & Day
Patterson
Pope & Co
Webber
Cunard Steamship Co
Snow’s Express
H Tully & Co
Burgess
AS & J Brown & Co
Holder & Herrick
John F Brooks
John Haigh
EL Beard
Laterm & Frothingham
Hovey & Co
Tuttle & Co
Tissue DeBlois & Co
Cushing & Bliss
Murphy
P Hollander & Co
George Dexter
Davenport
Boston Wall Paper Co
Brown & Co
Exports list from St Pierre March 1888 sprawling cargo
A detailed shipment roster from St Pierre with goods for Halifax Halifax and Port Antonio and several other ports. Items include bread butter biscuit beer fuel coal butter lard and oils, clocks glassware hardware and textiles, plus ships and boats names and cargo counts. Records show multiple vessels including Bessie Louise Cardigan Carroill and Lorenzo D Baker with a wide mix of groceries, hardware, meat, confectionery and farm products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST Pierre
Mig
Bessie Louise
Halifax
Carroill
Port Antonio
Jam
Lorenzo D Baker
Lunenburg
Liverpool
Shelburne
Brig
Saidee
Staple Receipts by Railroads in March 1888
Detailed itemized totals show Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, and other lines reporting bales of cotton and wool, flour, oats, cornmeal, lard, bacon, sugar, tea, coffee, cheese, leather, hides, and various crates. Reads like freight inventory across multiple railroads in a single period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lowell
Express
Sea
Wales
Cqis.s
DUIS
Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Foreign Markets Havana Sugar Trade Slows In Week
The Havana sugar market weakened with limited business and nominal quotations. Molasses sugar priced around 187 144 212 gold per quintal, Muscovado 103 21244, centrifugal 92 96 polarization in hhds bags and boxes. weekly receipts 294 boxes 60 000 bags 1 300 hhds, exports 818 boxes 71 000 bags 4 400 hhds including 50 boxes 63 000 bags to the United States. freight rates steady at 2 25 250 gold per bird for U S loading. 2 56 0 275 for north coast ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Matanzas
United States
Boston and Albany Timetable Highlights for Passenger Trains
The Boston and Albany Railroad issues its timetable with multiple daily departures from Boston to Springfield, Pittsfield, Albany and beyond. Through tickets and schedules are available at 232 Washington Street, Boston. trains run 5 AM to 9 PM with numerous connections at Pittsfield, North Adams, Hudson, Palmer, and Ware River Branch via various daily and Sunday services including dining cars on some runs.
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Washington Street
Boston
Gale
Boston -Cation
Kreeland Street
Springfield
Wittsfield
Albany
Bosteon
Pittefield
North Adams
Chatham
Hudson
Palmer
Ware E River
Bor
G Express
Exp Kork
New York
Ville
Cordavillle
Ashland
Milford
South Framit
Mompreal & West
Central Viermont
Pallman
Trais
Chicago
Fitchburg
Wagner Palace
Central Vermont R. H
Ishcroft
Trect
Si. Bay
LG DI
la Isaio
Ou & Me
Endicott
Ab. Franklin
Kore
Myde Park
Highland Take
Dslington
Panchester
Mattapan
Rt. Bowdoin
Newark
New London
Alr
Vic Hartford
Norwich
Norwood
Norwood Central
Pawtucket
Philadelhia
Providence
Utnam
Readville
River Street
Rockville
Aes
Southbridge
Pistons
Walpole
Washington, DC
Waterbury
Willimantic
Winslows
Webster
Hyde Park
Fall River
OLN
COLON
Maine
Brooklyn
Andersey City
Hoston
Old State House
Old Colony
Union Square
Somerville
Waltham
Sab
Receen Sun
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburn
Worcester
Ayer Junction
SUN
Miller's Fall
Hoosac Tunnel
Boston and Albany Rail Schedule Summary
A dense OCR list outlines train times and routes for the Boston area. It covers weekday and Sunday departures and returns, Needham and Walden divisions, connections to New York Hartford and Philadelphia lines, and notes on special stops and Pullman service. Names of offices and officials appear at the end.
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Philadelphia
Hartford
New Haven
Jersey City
Trenton
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
Points
Norwich Line
New York
New London
Norwich
Danielsonville
Putnam
City OF Boston
Ferry schedule fragments from New England routes
A dense OCR excerpt lists numerous ferry and train times linked to towns such as Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich and Plymouth. It notes Sunday and weekday patterns with connections via Brockton New Bedford Fall River and New York, signed GEO. L. CONNOR as Gen Pass Agent.
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Barnstable
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Hyannis
Braintree
Ottase
New Bedford
Woods
Etry
Newport
RA andRoe
E. Alli
V.wov
Val
North Easton
Ste
Randolph
Return
Scituates
Scituate
South Duxbury
Tan
Central Station
Dean Street
New York
Weymouths
Hingham
Cohasse
Marshfelds
Duxbuarys
Plymouth
Marshfield
Cohasset
Ux Fall River
bBrocston
Tauntor
Taunton
Vila Brockton
Bouat
Raturn
South Braintree
Way
York Junction and Belmont Waverley schedule snippet
Transit timetable fragment lists assorted times for York Junction Belmont and Waverley lines with morning and Sunday entries. Times include early morning 6.30 and 6.55 am, midday spikes, and evening slots around 9 11 pm plus a Sunday note.
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M. Allston
Mrookline
Street
Reservoir
Hiiu
Newton
Dodgeville
M. Attleboro
Attleboro
Foxbere
Sharon
Itom Junction
Lville
Arendon Hills
Filius
Yim
Boylston
Quincy
East Weymouth
Belmont and
Waverley
Sun
Cambridge
Concord
Fitchburg
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