Wholesale dairy and produce prices dazzle in tight markets
Quotations for butter cheese eggs and beans echo a flat market across New York Canton and Ogdensburg. Receivers' wholesale butter prices hold while jobbing adds slight lift. Cheese sales total around 4 600 pounds at 8 9c, with egg demand fair and supplies not heavy. Potatoes hay and poultry show steady prices amid modest demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
New York
Canton
Newark
Ohio
Ogdensburg
New Hampshire
Bush
California
West
North
Jersey
Jerseys
Bristol
St Louis
Long Island
Banana steamers schedule for bananas to Boston and WW & C R Noyes
The steamer Aguan arrives August 9 from Ja Fad carrying bananas for Boston Fruit. Karl Konow arrives August 8 from Baracoa with bananas for WW and C R Noyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana Steamers
Aguan
Boston Fruit Com- Pat
Karl Konow
Baracoa
WW & C R Noyes
Markets Report On Apples Oranges Grapes And Peaches
The market shows good apple supply and demand for choice lots. Prices are listed for Baltimore harvests and various fruits including sweet boughs and Red Astralans. Bananas arrive from Port Antonio, melons and pears show steady activity, grapes and peaches sell at varied rates, with California fruit auction prices cited and a forthcoming sale of Newcastle fruit lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Palermo
Messina
Port Antonio
G H Harding
Savannah
South Carolinas
California
H Harris & Co
California Fruit Union
Market Report Notes Steady Prices for Fresh Produce
The market shows ample supply with steady quotations for marrow squash at 1.25 per barrel, native peas at 1.50 per bush, tomatoes ranging from 40 to 125 per crate, cabbage 4 to 8 cents per 100, beans and onions with varied per bush or box prices, and green corn in limited supply. Native tomatoes listed at 3 per bush box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Rhode Island
Jersey
Russia
Provisions market mixed with strong pork demand and firm beef
The market shows robust pork with fair demand and steady lard, hams quiet, and other smoked meats moving well. Prices span many items from hogs and sausages to various cuts, with regional quotes in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St Louis. Beef and veal hold steady while dry salted meats and bacons show firmer quotes amid quiet activity.
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Lord
Choice
New York
Cincinnati
Chicago
Brighton
Veal Quality Chart Fragment in Trade Ledger
fragmented OCR shows a veal quality scale with terms like fancy fair to good and poor to fair alongside price or category markers such as 9 10e and 7 8e. The readable portion lists Eastern veal and multiple quality descriptors without a full event or narrative.
Cotton market steadies amid August rush to lift prices
Allan Asher & Co report today’s market as favorable for August short interest, with prices driven to the highest point yet seen. New crop neglected as trading concentrates near the near term position, aided by favorable crop news and a reopening in Liverpool. New York futures opened strong and closed steady, with mixed table data for August through February and widespread firm tones in various ports and markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Asher & Co
Exphenge Place
Felows
Sarr
Liverpool
New York
Hog and Cattle Markets Report From Major Cities
Kansas City stock yards show cattle receipts 4597 with low steady prices. steers 270 to 350, natives 185 to 235, shippers 410 to 480. Hogs receipts 1661 with active demand at steady prices. heavies 625, mediums and lights 610 to 630. Sheep receipts 2894, prices firm 290 to 330. Cincinnati hogs dull, Chicago cattle receipts 9000 with steady trend. steers 360 to 600, stockers 240 to 340, Texas cattle 250 to 370, Western rangers 335 to 495. Hogs Chicago receipts 13,000 with strong demand. mixed 585 to 560, heavy 660, light 650, ships 450 to 605. Sheep Chicago receipts 2000 with stronger tone. natives 275 to 475, Western shorn 340 to 420, Texans shorn 325 to 7712, lambs 34 to 5026.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Cincinnati
Chicago
Texas
Western Rangers
Ogs
Sugar and Molasses Market Summary
Sugar markets remain firm with unchanged prices for raw sugar including Cuba Manila and Java varieties and refined sugars steady with several grade quotes. Molasses prices steady to strong with fresh Ponce Porto Rico, Cienfuegos and Mayasruez quotes, while New York reports a nominal market overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Manilas
Loilos
Javas
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Mayasruez
Miscellaneous Market Report At A Glance
Taviow notes fair demand and steady prices with quoted figures for city and country markets. New York reports a stronger market with sales totaling 50,000 barrels at 44 4c. Cofte indicates dull trade in New York. Whiskey markets in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati hold steady. Turpentine closed at 36 1/4c with resin at 105 1/10 and tar nominal, while petroleum closed at 64 4/6c with RSW at 7 4/10c and cases at 9 4/10.
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New York
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
Imports and Exports August 6 1888 at Catibaren and London
The list records diverse goods loaded at Catibari en route to London and other ports. Items include coffee, hides, wool, leather ware, glassware, chinaware, textiles, ropes, iron, flax, bagging, and a wide array of small wares. Major consigners include J S Morgan & Co, Baring Bros & Co, Gossler & Co, Brown Bros & Co, and Moors & Co, with mentions of steamer consignments and multiple ships including Buffalo Stockholm City Progress and others. The entry also notes destinations such as Hull and Port Antonio, with scattered quantities like 5886 bars iron and 735 bales rope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catibarien
Sugar Standard
Hull
Eng
S$ Morgan & Co
Ros & Co
Moors & Co
Gossler & Co
Brown Bros & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Hame
Stoddard & Kendall
Abram French & Co
Louis Wolt & Co
Commercial Express
Stone & Downer
Jd Bh
Thorp & Adams Manf Co
Lombard & Co
Linder & Meyer
Moise Baring Bros & Co
Lazard Freres
Horace Partridge & Co
Sixonville Mill
Gorham, Rogers & Co
Turner & Co
A Jewell & Co
Noyes
Leonard & Co
Richards & Sons
Curran & Joyce
Atkins & Co
Booth & Co
Utile & Co
Hayes & Co
Baringros & Co
H Tuom & Co
Antonio
Progress
Huarding
Port Hawkesbury
Charlottetown
Pti
Halifax
Pictou
Carroll
Clarlottstown
Koston Consolidated Produce Co
Tbowles & Co
George Bond & Co
Beaman Bros
Barclay & Co
Do Brown
Patch & Roberts
Shipping Cargoes and Goods Orders Across Ports
A ledger of consignments listing partners like Murray & Co and N C Skilton & Co with numerous cases of canned lobsters mackerel eggs and aisles of other provisions from Suffolk Port Hawkesbury Halifax Yarmouth and Savannah. Multiple firms and ships report quantities of bbls cases drums and crates of fish meat and other commodities. includes notes on orders and deliveries to Delong Seaman J Bigelow and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E Shumway & Co
Port Hawkesbury
George Bond & Co
Butler, Breed & Co
Peat Ames Plough Co
John Connolly
Delong & Seaman
Glover & \illcomb
Junk Haskins & Montague
TJ Jones & Co
K_ Lewis & BKros
Mitchell Fish Co
Pickett & Co
Puffer & Co
Revere
Russell & Co
Stone
William Underwood & Co
Yarmouth
Mead & Co
Jones & Co
Johnson
Whitney, Pousland & Co
Tuttle & Son
York & Whitney
Adams & Chalmer
Cheney & Co
Hall & Co
Griffin & Co
Batchelder
Greenwood Bros
Gass, Lee & Co
Butler & Co
Savannah
Gate City
Adams & Co
Brackett
Henderson
George McQuesten & Co
Metzgar Bros
Morrison & Co
Winslow
Pierson & Co
Richardson & Dennie
Stetson
Smith Bros
Chamberlin Bros & Co
Silver Lake Co
Wheelwright & Co
Waltham
Woodward
Wellman, Hall & Co
Trade cargo list from Great Village and Digby and Annapolis
A maritime cargo record details shipments including Flora E with flour cornmeal soap at Great Village and Ns, New Brunswick steamship shipments to Digby Annapolis with meal tiles beef whips hardware marble packing and household goods. A schooner St Croix carries bread flour kerosene oil lumber trunks tobacco and dried fish to St Croix with multiple containers and quantities.
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Digby
Annapolis
New Brunswick
St Croix
Staple Goods Receipts Across Rail Lines in 1888
A compilation of August 6 1888 receipts from multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and Boston & Maine Western Division. Items list wool flour corn oats feed pork lard butter cheese eggs tea coffee lumber leather hides and various sacks and bales with exact quantities. The tallies show broad commodity flows by rail across New England and adjacent markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
England
Nova Scotia
French Guiana
Miquelon
Langley
Australasia
Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Lowell
Trade Goods Totals From Expres and Sen Listings 1938
A fragmented 1938 ledger lists quantities of trade items including leather hides pelts bolls and casks, wool eggs birds molasses lumber beans tea coffee and hides skins. Entries show Expres totals 742 leather rolls 182 wool bales 97 eggs 687 birds 639 molasses 153 lumber cars and 389 bbls beans 267 tea 961 bags coffee 15 and dry green hides 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Scotland
Vsl
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Burgas
Argentine Republic
Nova Scotia
Azores
Porto Rico
Expres
Real Estate Transfers in Suffolk County Highlights June Transactions
A compilation of property transfers across Suffolk County on June 28 and 29, listing buyers, sellers, parcel locations such as Copp's Hill Charter street Albion street Dedham street Piedmont street Beacon street Brook street Hewlett street Fifth street Seventh street Hewitt street Hyde street and Roslindale and Revere areas. Amounts range from 100 to 13 400 with various mortgage backings noted.
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Suffolk County
Charter Street
Robert White
John Gatti
Copp’s Hill
Albion Street
Almira M. Holmes
Edwin Foss
Kenson E. Taylor
Dedham Street
Harlai Stern Et al
Melvin M. Lee
AEC Kia
Piedmont Street
George A. Gardner Et al
Simeon Marcus
Beacon Street
Rebecca T. Hunt
Mary E. Torrey
Roxpury
Albert G.hussey
Axel Gustaff Wahlberg
Brook Street
James Johnston
William Breen
Johnston Street
Roslindale
George Koppman
Walter F. Earle
Hewlett Street
South Boston
Mary Demarks
Anna M B. Foster
Hyde Street
Mortgage transfers on Boston and nearby streets
Several 19th century mortgage transfers are listed with grantees and grantors. Barrett to Burnett on Winthrop Avenue Revere for 8500 dollars. Marcus to Holbrook on Piedmont Street Boston for 900 dollars. Battis to Enterprise Cooperative Bank on Gladstone Street for 2200 dollars. Burbank to Davis on Moreland Street for 800 dollars. Doyle to Gates on Fourth Street for 100 dollars. Martin et al to Paine on Greenwich Street in Boston for 1250 dollars.
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John C. Barrett
Ellen F. Burnett
Winthrop Avenue
Revere
Simeon Marcus
S. Pinckney Holbrook
Piedmont Street
Boston
Martin E. Battis
Enterprise Cooperative Bank
Gladstone Street
George A. Burbank
Joseph C. Davis
Moreland Street
James J. Doyle
Albert Gates, Jr
Fourth Street
Eugene Martin Et al
Robert Treat Paine
Greenwich Street
Boston and Albany Rail Schedule Mixed Trains and Origins
Boston and Albany rail timetable lists fare options and connections for Springfield, North Adams, New York, and various suburbs with sections on express dining service. It notes station offices, ticketing points, and weekend adjustments while detailing daily and Sunday departures, returning times, and special through connections.
Boston and Maine Rail Ticket Offices and Schedules
Boston and Maine ticket offices list routes and departure times from Washington Street and City stations. Services include Augusta Haymarket Causeway and various Maine destinations with listed departures and connections to steamers and other rail lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Maine Railroad City
Washington Street
State Street
Western Division Train Schedules for Boston to New England
Trains depart Boston station for Alton Way Rochester Farmington and Andover with a dense list of daily and Sunday times. Stops include Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Kennebunk Biddeford Saco NorthLawrence SouthLawrence Lowell Melrose Melrose and many others with a complex timetable reflecting varied departure intervals throughout the day and night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton Way
Rochester
Farmington
Andover
Dover
Danvers
Exeter
Great Walls
Georgetown
Kennebunk
Biddeford
Saco
North Lawrence
Cadz Pans Sag
Spio
South Lawrence
Lowell
Realden
Im Medford
Meltrose Fightands
Ty GkGsee
Ielrone
Ene Aoe
Newburyport
Meading
Salem
Waheneta
Eastern Division Trains and Schedules Fragment
Trains to Amesbury Dover Great Falls Branford Boston and many towns listed with numerous departure times and routes. Includes Sunday schedules and through service notes across multiple routes, stations, and branches with extensive timing details.
Boston and New England train timetable excerpt
A dense, partially garbled timetable lists numerous trains with departure times from Boston and connections to destinations such as Nashua Lowell Lawrence Stoneham Way Stations Woburn Winchester Manchester Concord Montreal and more. It names divisions, stations, and notes corrections as of July 22 1888 with frequent entries for weekdays Sundays and intermediate stops along routes to the Northeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashua
Lowell
M. Lawrence
Stoneham and Way
Exington and Way
Woburn and Way
Winchester
Manchester
Concord
Montreal
Expres
Fragmented Schedule Listing of Trains and Times
A dense OCR style timetable lists numerous train times and routes across towns such as Brockton Cohasset Taunton and Mattapan. It includes Sundays and weekday services with varying departure and arrival times and notes additional trains and connections.
Cape Cod Div Leave Schedule Fragment
Fragmented timetable from Cape Cod area listing departure times and places including Buzzards Bay Bourne Bourne He ad Bourne daledale Brewster Cottage City Woods Hall Mar ion West Barnstable and Yarmouth with many unreadable entries and inconsistent times on a Sunday schedule page.
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Cape Cod
Kneeland Street Buzzards
Sharnstabie
Bourne
Bournedale
Brewster
Cottage City
Woods Hall
Kfairh Pamouthe
Toc Yam
Monun Duttapoine Stuntuchet
Bay
Town
Buzzards Bay
Caeratham
Cottage Rods
Palmouth
Hmarwich
Nae Woods Hall
Onset Barh
Sagamore
Spa
Wa' m West Barumet
Providence to New York Shore Line trains schedule summary
Transit fragment shows departures from Providence Park Square Station to New York on Sundays and other days with numerous times including 10 am 11.40 pm and 12.30 pm. The text references multiple stations and inconsistent times, highlighting a dated rail timetable with unclear daily patterns and locations such as Providence New York and Beaulinda.
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Palmer
Ware
Blaven
New Voll
Lipa
Dra York
Goo
Wihand
Ville
An. Cordavatte
Antelianad
Wrest
Brut A
Alintom
Cottage Farm
Brookline
Waita
Newt
Wednes Funaany
Ris
Boston
Worcester
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Hanson
Gen
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Agt
Dover
Baverhill
Lawrence
Manchester
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Rowell
Medford
Portland
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Lewiston
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Tom
Teach
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Sandayas
Quak Island
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Ation
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Amherst
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Rockbottom
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INDAY
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hill-on-Budsen
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Science
Readville
Rockville
Conn
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Livde
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Am & Albany Railroad
Needham
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Walpole
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New York
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