Wool markets face uncertain prices amid tariff shifts and demand shifts
Market readers report wide interest in a new clip show in St. Louis as the season may top prior years. Tariff changes and lower Eastern rates boost buyers, while debates over open prices continue amid uncertain wool and woollen goods conditions, with European price recovery and domestic demand shaping near term trends.
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St. Louis
Tts
Europe
United States
Missouri
Texas
Territory
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Parison
Kentucky
Canada
Delaine
Ures
Michigan
Montana
Pune
Wyoming
Kansas
Nebraska
Medina
Seten Cs Athots
California
Oregon East
Oregon
New Zealand
Bsc
Popeier
Fruit Crop Prospects Mixed Across Regions
A St Louis commission report summarizes nationwide fruit and vegetable outlooks. Peaches show heavy losses in the Midwest and Northeast but strong potential in southwest Missouri, Mississippi, and Texas. Apples should be near average, grapes bloom in Illinois and Missouri, while strawberries drop due to drought and high costs. Florida vegetables suffer 50 percent losses from recent cold.
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St. Louis
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Mississippi
Texas
New York
Ilinois
Florida
Market Reports April 13 Flour Prices Steady
The April 13 market notes mark unchanged flour prices with limited selling effort. Cort remains firm and slightly higher. steamer yellow and steamer mixed values sit around 53to58 cents. On track and by rail, steamer prices rise to mid fifties, with moderate sales and large lots of No 2 white sold on track. Oats and barley activity shows mixed bids, on call sales totaling thousands of bushels, and inspections listing multiple wheat and corn grades. UK imports for the week and prior periods are noted but not detailed.
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Cort
United Kingdom
Grain and flour prices and futures from export markets
The column lists grain prices for cornmeal, rye, oats, and barley, with futures and export terms for Canada and the United States. It notes millfeed costs, cottonseed meal values, and occasional local trade premiums, referring to No 1 New York and New York futures and the year 1885 1886 pricing context.
Fruits and apples market report with varied prices
No note of change for apples. Strawberries by rail sold today at 25 sic, some Louisiana berries at 50c. Apples listed by variety with prices from $2.50 to $4.50, dried apples and evaporated kinds priced per pound. Foreign fruits include Valencia oranges at 5 to 6 per box, lemons, Messina and Palermo, Malaga grapes, Florida oranges by grade, tangerines and mandarins, and bananas from Baracoa Aspinwall and Jamaica with assorted prices.
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Louisiana
Baldwin
Massachusetts
Maine
Spies
Valencia
Messina
Palermo
Malaga
Florida
Aspinwall
Jamaica
Provisions and meat prices from Chicago market report
The Chicago market report shows closing quotations for provisions across multiple items. It lists prices for pork and lard, short cuts, backs, lean ends, tongues, mess, and bacon, along with tierce lard and hog prices, and beef prices for various cuts.
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Chicago
Choice City
Fresh Meats and Lambs Market Quotes and Ranges
The listing shows fresh beef and lamb prices for various cuts and qualities. Notes include choice steers, heavy lambs, Chicago dressed lambs, mutton, yearlings, veal, and Eastern allocations with bid ranges from about 0.46 to 0.21 dollars per unit, indicating a varied market for nearby lots and fresh meats.
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Chicago
Brighton
Cotton and commodity prices in Liverpool and New York markets
Liverpool cotton futures showed firm structure at the open and weak close with April at 6 42-64, May 5 43-64, June 6 45-64 and July 5 47-64. Spot Upland and Orleans middling traded around 5 11-16 to 6 1/4 d. Sales reached 12,000 bales. receipts 16,000. New York spot for middling uplands 105 1/4 to 106 1/2 cents, futures opened steady with bids and asks across April to January contracts. Market closed quiet with mixed bids in Sept and Dec terms. PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES showed various figures. refined oil and sugar markets remained steady with listed price ranges. MOLASSES quoted steady at Ros and Porto Rico 42c, Cienfuegos 24c, Cuba boiling 20c.
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Liverpool
Orleans
New York
Ste
Manila
Belmont
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Brighton and Watertown Livestock Market Report 1887
Weekly market data from Brighton and Watertown lists cattle, sheep, hogs and horse trade. Arrivals across yards include 680 total cars with 2 Boston & Maine and 150 Boston & Albany, while prices show modest variation for beef, store cattle, veal calves and sheep. permits note Libby of Maine shipping stock to Watertown and multiple local sales reflect a slow week with Western cattle driving most activity.
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Brighton and
Watertown
Boston Post
George J. Fox
Maine
Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
New York
Canada
Boston & Maine
Boston & Lowell
Fitchburg
Boston & Albany
Eastern
N. B
Boston
Mass
J . Libby
Burnham
Lryl Stock Bridge
Brighton
Hollis & Co
AN Monroe
P McIntire
JJ Kelley
D Gallagh
B Engrem
Barbe
Mainz
Libby & Son
C Hooper
Breck & Wood
Aldrich & Johnson
R E French & Co
A Pond
C P Burke
Ricker & Son
Hastings
L W Tinker
M G Flanders
J A Sargent
W H_ Kardwell
J Sears
Scattering
W H Elliott
J A
Welch & Hall
JC Libby
Watertown Yards
New England
Markets by Telegraph Illinois and Michigan grain prices
Market report from New York shows Wheat No 2 spring at 92 4 cents, No 1 hard at 95 cents delivered, No 1 red at 92 1/4 to 92 1/2 cents, Rye quiet, Corn stronger with No 2 at 48 1/2 to 49 1/4 cents, Barley steady, Oats quiet, Coffee Rio 15 1/2 cents, Sugar refined firm, Molasses 19 4 cents, Pork $15 15 25, Lard at 77 cents, Potatoes State rose to 120 to 200, Turpentine firm, Rice firm, Petroleum United 64 1/2 cents, Leather prices mixed, Buffalo area ports. Detroit reports No 1 white wheat 82 cents, Michigan red 83 cents. Milwaukee notes flour dull, wheat 77 1/4 cents, oats 32 cents, rye 62 cents, barley 65 cents. Cincinnati Pork $17, Lard $7 16, Whiskey $1 14, hogs $4 50 to $5 75, Toledo wheat 81 1/2 cents, corn firm, Chicago flour quiet, wheat not specified.
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Bakers
Michigan Stone
Canada Superior
Canada
New York
Canada Western
Eastern
St Louis
City Mill
Minnesota
Southern
DAL Ge
Rio
Boston
Petroleuum—United
Tierces
Liverpool
Detroit
Michigan
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Toledo
Lake Shore
Cago
Grain and meat markets report from St Louis and Chicago
Stronger No 2 spring and No 2 red oats firmer corn and rye mixed as prices shown. Mess pork and lard move with dry salted meats while whiskey receipts and shipper activity reflect a steady to firm tone. Flour and grain receipts and shipments indicate active trade across major commodities.
Market Summary of Hog Cattle and Lamb Prices Across Cities
Across St Louis Peoria Kansas City and Chicago markets on April 13 hogs mostly lower mixed packs steady to down with prices around 5 20 to 5 75 per cwt. Cattle receipts at Chicago heavy and dull with steers around 59 0 to 65 0, stockers 2 0 to 4 0, cows and bulls 1 75 to 3 80. Sheep and lambs active but weaker with natives at 83 50 and lambs 45 0 to 57 5. Prices include regional shifts and weekly shipment totals.
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Louis
Chicago
Texas
Cotton markets report for April thirteen eighteen eighty seven
Market bulletin lists net receipts and gross figures for major ports led by New York and New Orleans with exports to Great Britain and the continent. Stocks and daily sales show overall quiet to firm tone with mid price changes across Augusta Galveston Savannah and other ports. Five day totals show United States port stock at around four hundred ninety thousand and change with exports to Britain and the continent detailed.
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Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Continent
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Exere Coastwise
Mid Acs
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
Louisville
Oke Ataris
United States
London and Liverpool Grain and Wool Markets Report
London market notes mixed with Liverpool prices as wheat and corn vary by region and destination. Detailed quotes cover American and Danubian corn, California wheat, and wool sales with figures for London and Manchester reports, plus Havana sugar and global market signals.
Imports and Exports April 13 1887 Glasgow Stir
The Glasgow list records shipper goods arriving by steamer Siberian and multiple firms including Shepard Norwell H Atkins Mackintyre Lawrie Ewing Waldo Baring Moors Williams Train Smith Goulston Stoddard Leigh Nickerson Chipman Ford and others. Goods include mdse bales paper stock rope fire brick flax linens wool and iron scrap with quantities like 38 000 fire brick 54 tons steel scrap 841 bolls and 500 boxes hinges all loaded under consignments to local dealers.
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Glasgow
Scot
Shepard
Norwell & Co
H Atkins &Co
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Mackintyre, Lawrie & Co
Ewing Bros & Co
Waldo Bros
Baring Bros & Co
Moors & Co
Trade goods and cargo listings from Cornwallis NS schooners and steamer
Detailed inventory of shipments and cargoes for Cornwallis and nearby ports including shells of sheet iron granite gum substitute potatoes eggs lumber shingles and various steamer and schooner consignments. Notable consignors include Delong & Seaman Lombard & co Baring Bros Sanderson & Son and J G Hall & Co with goods ranging from lumber iron and dyes to paints textiles and paper stock.
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Cornwallis
Case Music Ware Stone & Downer
Lombard & Co
Linder & Meyer
Baring Bros
Gill & Sootz
Jackson
Bri & Co
Boston Dyewood Co
Pastene & Co
Sanderson & Son
Smith & Dowe
Tyler Bros
Washburn & Moen M& Co
Gosseler & Co
Charles G Lurdell
Horace Partridge
Maritime Goods and Cargo Listings Across Port Names
A fragmentary record details cargoes from multiple vessels and ports including Schooner Luis Grabel at Sagua La Grande Cuba and Steamer Haytien in Haytien ports via New York. It lists quantities of tobacco oil flour meat sugar molasses and various goods along with several Liverpool shipments aboard Steamer Palestine Steamer Iowa and other vessels.
Massive railroad freight list with varied commodity totals
A long, unreadable ledger style record lists cargo totals by multiple railroad lines including Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Boston and Lowell, and by express and sea. It enumerates hundreds of bales of cotton and wool, barrels of flour, corn and oats, malt, bacon, cheese, butter, eggs, leather, hides, pulp and a myriad of other goods with scattered quantities and assorted unit labels. Additional lines reference names and firms in Atlanta and Chicago with a series of agents and companies for various cities, suggesting a wholesale shipment document rather than a narrative article.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Express
Agricultural Produce and Goods Inventory Note
A concise ledger style entry lists various commodities with quantities and units including apples, potatoes, lumber, leather, hides, skins, pelts, and casings. The record combines barrels bags cases and bales with numeric codes and negative adjustments. Useful for adjusting stock levels across multiple categories.
Real Estate Transfers Across Suffolk County Listings
Suffolk County real estate transfers list numerous March deeds including Buffum to Simpson on Commonwealth avenue and Carnes to Allen on West Chester park. Harvard street transfers stamp $3600 mortgage and back mortgage details. Esix Essex street and Cherry street parcels change hands with small dollar sums and $7000 back mortgages. Further transfers involve Sackville street to the city, Oswego street to Hugh Carey, and Blossom street from Harvard College to Jacob Berwin. Additional notes cover Boylston street, Dent street, Neponad avenue, Seventh street, Monument street, Pleasant street, Prospect era transfers, and Chelsea Broadway parcels with various mortgage stipulations and nominal sums.
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Suffolk County
Commonwealth Avenue
Charles Buffum
Frank E. Simpson
East Chester Park
Rollin EH
N. Carnes
Rollin H. Allen
West Chester Park
Harvard Street
Benjamin F. Peach, Jr
Ephraim
Moulton
Eben Hutchinson
Essex Street
George Lamb
Guardian
Edward F. Roth
Cherry Street
William R. Adams
James H. T. Adams
Martha A. Deering
Catherine Lord
Blossom Street
Camden Street
Brice S. Evans
Elmer F. Smith
Boylston Street
Robert Sturgis
Ellen Bigelow Williams
Boylston
Exeter Streets
RoxBuRy
Charles KE. Poue
Sarah, French
Dent Atreet
Dorchyster
James Dean
Thomas Cox
Neponad Avenue
Charles A. Hull
Edward H. Holbrank
Norfolk Street
Sovran
Boston
Mary McCarty
Margaret
F. McCarthy
Seventh Street
Pliny N. Ryder
James Kent
Entow Street
Bain
Charlestown
Georges
Pendergast
Patrick O'Riordan
Monument Street
Richard H. Norton Et al
Hugh P. NeNally
Pleasant Street
Warren Institution
Revere
George P. Gornall
Charles Barbosa
Chelsea
Harlan P. Whitcomb
Edward F. Miller
Mortgages Recorded on Various City Lands and Buildings
A sequence of mortgage filings lists Ellen M. Kenny to Walter Faunce on Dudley street March 31 for 1500, Mary A. Roberts to Charles N. Mellin on Boras ere y ae for 4000, James Hagan John Lythgoe on Marginal street March 25 for 1475, Israel Barron et al to Boston Five Cernite Savings Bank on Salem street March 28 for 1000, Alice E. Frye et al to May C. Wadsworth on Blue Hill avenue March 25 for 1000, John McDonald to William Minot on Jamaica street West Roxbury March 25 for 1001, Ellen M. Ford et al to George M. Hase on Shirley street Winthrop March 25 for 3500, Martha A. Deering to James H. T. Adams on Cherry street March 25 for 1750.
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Ellen M. Kenny
Walter Faunce
Dudley Street
Mary A. Roberts
Charles N. Mellin
Boras
Ames Hagan Ohn
Salem Street
Alice E. Frye
May C. Wadsworth
Blue Hill Avenue
John McDonald
William Minot
Jamaica Street
West Roxbury
Fllen M. Ford Et al
George M. Hase
Shirley Street
Winthrop
Martha A. Deering
James H. T. Adams
Cherry Street
Business Troubles Across New England and New York
David Cady's Sons of Providence have assigned. Doyle Bros. of Pittsfield are reported attached. The Martin V. B. Smith assignment in New York shows liabilities of 459,118 dollars and 43 cents, with nominants 387,322 dollars 02 cents and assets of 123 dollars.
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David Cady
Providence
R. I
Doyle Bros
Pittsfield
Masa
Martin V. B. Smith
Morocco
New York
Experts Testify in Brief on G C Taylor Pare Aye Whiskey
Experts testify that G C Taylor Pare aye Whiskey is absolutely pure and suitable for medical use in consumptive troubles. Frank L. Bartlett, State Assayer of Maine, endorses it for the medical profession. Unbranded cases ship on request from Chester H Graves & Sons in Boston.
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G. C. Taylor
Chester H. Graves & Sons
Boston
Frank L. Bartlett
State Assayer
Maine
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Butler
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Fruit Crop Report
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International Horse Exchange
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Madrid
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Henry
W B Chandler
Wisconsin
Russell
Aale
RS Keys
Fredericktown
J R Simmons
AA Pond
Mr Cummings
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J S Henry
FRR
J C Libby & Son
H Coolidge & Son
JC Libby & Son
Sant RE
J C
Coolidge & Son
New Hampsaine
R Barrett
E French & Co
G H Sprig
A Williamson
P Burke
MG Flanders
Bardwell
New Yorkk
Scotlans
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Niles Bros
Brighton Yards
A N Monroe
Farrell & McFlynn
W Ricker & Son
CP Burke
Gyec
J A Hathaway
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Ind
B Hinkle
Hinkle, Nesteat & Co
Tregene Tex
Aaron Blum
Blum
Kalamazoo
P B Appledorn
Appledorn Sons
Kansas City
J P Sidwell
Kendall B & 5S Co
Craw
Knoxville
Oon E McMillan
McMillas, Hazen & Co
Teo
O A Henson
Haynes, Henson & Co
Tre
Lancaster
Penn
J M Davidson
Long & Davidson
Een
C H Naber
H Darlinghouse & O
Pineville
W Carter
Carter, Dunbar & Co
Tenn
J M Goodbar
Goodbar & Co
Murray
Dibbral
Nashville
A Wray
RK Manier
J W
Manier & Son
E B Wesson
Aaron Claflin Co
T Kelley
Kelley, Goodfellow & Co
A D Brown
Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co
A W Allen
Claflin Allen Shoe Company
Walker
Tennent, Walke & Co
W Bell
R. H Lane & Co
Teres Nees
Tees
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