Commodity Prices and Market Reports Across Cities
Grain and livestock markets show varied activity with wheat and oats fluctuating in Chicago Minneapolis and Detroit. Reports note receipts and shipments across cities, alongside prices for pork lard bacon and butter.
Hogs and Cattle Markets Across Major Cities
Market reports from Kansas City, St Louis, Peoria and Chicago show hogs varying in tone with mixed receipts and shipments. Chicago quotes cattle lower with varied steers and heifers, while hogs show sluggish to slower trade with price spread across classes. Sheep demand remains firm with muttons and lambs quoted at several dollars per head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uiet
Vfair
Rio
Petroleum—United
Tierces Western Steam
Tierces City Steam
Liverpool
Cincinnati
Toledo
ST. Louis
Chicago
Minneapolis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Peoria
Cotton Markets Update August 18 Across U S Ports
Market report shows varied receipts and stocks at Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated six day totals. Exports to Great Britain and other regions listed with prices and stock levels amid quiet to firm tones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Coastwise
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
Continent
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
France
United States
Wheat and market news from London and Liverpool
Foreign markets report subdued wheat and corn trade with three cargoes arrived and six waiting for sale. Chilean wheat quotes at 32s 9d, Paris and Antwerp prices easing, British markets steadier amid storms. Liverpool notes weak demand for bread wheat and firm pork, cheese and fats markets with slight price shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
Great Britain
Antwerp
California
Antwerp Wool Auction Quiet Despite Moderate Demand
Attendance at the Wesl sales was fair with moderate demand and a better mood overall. 2200 sales offered including Argentine wool with 728 bales at 80 205 francs and 100 kilos, Montevideo with 13 bales at 180 140 francs washed, and 37 bales at 130 francs. lambs wool was dull and neglected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
Argentine
Montevideo
Imports and Exports August Eighteenth Eighteen Eighty Seven
Shipping list from Liverpool shows Scythia with mdse from Jordan Marsh Co and Marshall Son Co. W Durgin delivers 200 tons pig iron. Baring Bros Co reports 180 cases claret. Numerous firms listed for wine brandy oil paint woollens papers toys and other goods aboard Cunard and other lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Eng
Scythia
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Marshall, Son & Co
Simpson & Co
Fitchburg and Fall River Lines Rail Schedule
Train times from Boston and statewide routes including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Nantucket New Bedford Plymouth and coastal towns. Detailed daily departures and returns across multiple divisions with boats connections and general agents GEO. L. Connor J. & Kendricks.
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Ashmont
Barnstable
Myannis
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Resturn
Hyannis
Braintree
Bridgewater
Return
Barececkton
Buzzard’s Bay
Ouset Bay
Wareham
Provincetown
Shell Fleed
Hinsham
Cottage City
Wood’s Hall
New Bedford
East Bridgewater
Brockton
Abington
East Milton
West Dourncy
West Quincy
East Weymouth
Weymouth
Taunton
Marvrnson Square
Minawshfiel
Mattapan
Mmiton
Neponset
Mileton
Mattapoisett
Sain
Middle
Bore
Nantucket
Wood's Holl
Bewport
North Easton
Stoughton
Randolph
Iketurn
Auede
Mumlyuay
New M Bedford
Bere and
Middleboro
Annes Nantucket
Wood’s Holt
Valmouth
Oaument Beach
Buz‘s Bay
Onset Bay
Wooll’s Hall
Falmouth
Monument Beach
Oase Bay
New York
Fall River
Geo. L. Connor
Kendric
Pass
Goh
Massive consignments of mills goods and metals listed in trade ledger
A long OCR list details shipments and inventories from multiple firms including Felts Morey Co Groom & Co and Frost Adams with items such as woollens, cottons, hardware, glassware, earthenware, machinery, steel, tin plates, and moise. The ledger covers transfers to Yarmouth and London steamer arrivals, with hundreds of cases, bales, barrels, crates, and boxes across ships and partners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felts Morey & Co
Groom & Co
Sherwood & Co
Cundy
Saco Water Power Co
Stone & Downer
Piper
Folsom
White & Newell
Cumner, Jones & Co
Woollens
Neal, Morse & Co
Horswell & French
Frost & Adams
Brown, Durrell & Co
Brigham & Co
Little, Brown & Co
Mora & Co
Austin
Holder & Herrick
Phelps, Dodge & Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Ross, Turner & Co
Whitney & Co
Abram French & Co
Norcross, Mellen & Co
Jones, McDuffee & Stratton
Coleman, Mead & Co
Brown
Durrell & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Davis
Marean & Co
Coleman
Mead & Co
Marsh Bros
Pierce & Co
Gilchrist
Mackintyre, Lawrie & Co
Seavey
Foster
Richards & Sons
Richard Briges
Pierce & Robertson
Partridge & Cg
Rousmaniere
Lovejoy & Co
Kendall, Barrows & Co
Moors & Co
Warren & Blanchard
Riley & Gray
Weil
Dreyfus & Co
Kendall, Arrows & Co
Henry Staples & Potter
J C Haynes & Co
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Beal, Higgins & Henderson
Jordan
Marsh & Eco
Bradford, Thomas & Co
F_ Hovey & co
de Biois & Co
Moise Gregory & Brown
Jones, McDuifee & Stratton
White & Co
H M Burr & Co
John H Pray
Hovey & Co
Stowell & Co
Morocco
French & Co
Schoenhof
Baldwin Bros & Co
Case Stone & Downer
Leigh Co
Hovey
R H White & Co
Thomson Fessenden
Stoddard, Lovering & Co
American Express Co
Grainger
Talbot, Wilmarth & Co
HC Thacher & Co
Yarmouth
S Ellis & Co
TJ Jones & Co
F Hutchinson & Co
Barclay & Co
Delong & Seaman
Batewielder
L Clements & Co
London
Eng
Brown Bros & Co
Milne & Co
Fuller Dana & Fitz
Oliver Ditson & Co
Oolaves
Graves & Sons
Richardson & Dennie
Brigham
Crocker, Burbank & Co
Albion Paper Co
Doherty & Co
Cutler Bros & Co
Maritime cargo listings from multiple ports and cotton market note
Shipping manifests show steamer New York-20 delivering berry crates and perishables to Digby Nova Scotia. Halifax schooner cargo. Belize via New York steamer Hondo with bags. Speranza bark with lumber and desks at Buenos Ayres. Demerara schooner Elbridge Souther with pork and dairy. Liverpool Kansas with wheat and bacon. Weymouth schooner Etta with flour and meal. Liverpool cotton market reports describe uplands and Orleans prices with volumes and futures.
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Digby
Annapolis
New York
Halifax
Belize
Honduras
Buenos Ayres
Liverpool
Eng
Kansas
Weymouth
Etta
Uplands
Orleans
Wool and provisions toll of August 18 1887 across railroads
Receipt listing Staple goods aboard various lines. Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence and Old Colony railroads show quantities of wool, flour, oats, corn, bacon, tea, butter, cheese, eggs, apples, potatoes, leather, hides, skins, beef, and lard. Includes bales, barrels, boxes, bags, and cases with multiple tonnage figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
Teres Co Sc
Real Estate Transfers Across Boston Area Locales
Real estate transfers list numerous properties in Shawmut Avenue West Chester park Catawba Street Chambers Street Roxbury and Dorchester with buyers such as Annie Crowley Micah Dyer Jr Israel A Rich and others. Several parcels note mortgage details to banks including Eliot Five Cents Savings Bank and State Deposited Trust Company with dates July 29 to Aug 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. de Butts
Israel A. Rich
West Chester Park
Eliot Five Cents Savings Bank
Catawba Street
Rebecca T. Whitehouse
Patrick Leach
Catawba and
Laurel Streets
George Curtis
Chambers Street
William C. Wilder
Trinity Church
Boston
George EF. Ambrose
Eva Belle Hobbs
Atherton Street
West Roxpury
Charles J. Page
Theodore Snow
Charles Street
Freight carload ledger of freight by railroad divisions and routes
A detailed ledger lists numerous freight shipments by New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, and Lowell railroads. It includes bales of wool, flour, oats, wheat, corn, leather, butter, cheese, eggs, apples, potatoes, lumber, and other goods with quantities such as bales, bbls, sacks, and cars. The entries also note shipments by express and by sea, and several mortgage notices and property transactions in Dorchester, Revere, East Boston, and Tremont Street areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Western Division
Lowell Railroad
Total receipts August 18 1887 huge agricultural and commodity tally
A detailed ledger style report lists varied totals for 1887 and 1886 across commodities such as cotton, butter, flour, oats, beans, wheat, apples, malt, molasses, and meat products. It enumerates crates and pounds, bush and box counts, and dollar values with many figures showing year over year comparisons.
Mortgage transfers and amounts across Dorchester and Brighton
Mortgage notices show Eugene McEkachern to Henry Humphreys on Dorset Street Dorchester July 29. William Jobbing to Warren Emerson on Payson Avenue July 29 amount 8000 dollars. Josiah B Kendall to Micah Dyer Jr on West Chester Park July 30 amount 5000 dollars. Pierce Quirk to Albert Gates Jr on Arlington Street Brighton July 30 amount 250 dollars. Israel A Rich to Eliot Five Cents Savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene McEkachern
Henry Humphreys
Dorset Street
Dorchester
William Jobbing
Warren Emerson
Payson Avenue
Josiah B. Kendall
Micah Dyer, Jr
West Chester Park
Pierce Quirk
Albert Gates, Jr
Arlington Street
Brighton
Israel A. Rich
Eliot
Boots and Shoes Dealers Listed Across Cities
A long roster of boot and shoe buyers and firms across the United States is led by J P Dill of the JP Dill Shoe Company in Augusta Georgia and includes GH A W Force in Atlanta, A Martin in Craw, Baltimore pairs, M R Creighton in Craw and many others from Chicago Cincinnati Knoxville Detroit Elmira Kalamazoo Columbus and beyond offering a wide range of footwear trade connections.
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Augusta
J P Dill
The
JP Dill Shoe Company
Craw
Atlanta
Austin
Tex
J Martin
Baltimore
J Mullen, Jr
Tucker, Smith & Co
R Creighton
Creighton, Disney & Co
Bowling Green
M Nahm
Nahm Bros
Columbus
Miss
Elmira
M Westlake
Richardson & Co
Huntsville
Ala
S Schiffman
S Schiffman & Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
Appledorn
Appledorn’s Sons
Kansas City
K Green
Knoxville
Tenn
W_ Borches
McNulty & Borches
Boston and Lowell Railroad July 18 1887 Timetable
Through service from Boston to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Levanon White River Junction 8 304am 13.7 pm Local service Boston Manchester Concord Wilton Dewne le rica Wilmington Stoneham West Medford Concord and many stops listed with varied times Sleeping cars to Montreal Mont real and parlor cars 7 pm train daily. GEO. W. STORER Genl Passenger Agent.
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Boston & Lowell Railroad
Boston
Causeway Street
City
Washington Street
Old State House
Wilton
Laconia
Lake Village
Weirs
Meredith
Ashland
Plymouth
Franklin
Levanon
White River Junction
Warren
Maverhill
Woodsville
Littleton
Bethlehem
Fabyans
Mancaster
Jefferson
St. Fjohnsbury
Newport
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Bristol
Claremont
Montpelier
Essex Junction
Burtington
St. Albans
Montreal
R.R
Central’ Vermont R. R
Boston Air Line
Manchester
Concord
N. H
Peterd
Itlinboro
Conceford
Amherst
Direenfield
Boston and Albany trains timetable revision May 30 1887
The Boston and Albany announces new daily and Sunday schedules effective May 30 1887. It lists numerous departures from Boston to New York and intermediate stops including Providence Pawtucket Attleboro Dedham Newton Brookline West Roxbury and Newton Highlands with varied return times and extensions to Springfield Albany Chicago and Buffalo. Tickets available at stations and 232 Washington Street Boston.
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Hoosac Tunnel
Washington Street
Boston
Boston & Providence
New York
Shore Line
Lpm
New Ork
Pe Ag
Steamboat
Stonington
Providence
Pawtucket
Dodgeville
Hebronville
North Attleboro
Mansfield
East Foxboro
Sharon
Readville
Hyde Park
Mt. Hope
Clarendon Hills
Forest Hills
Jamaica Plain
Boylston
Roxbury
Dedham
Spring Street
West Roxbury
Highlands
Stoughton and
Canton
Warren
Bristol
Provdent A. A. Folsom
Boston & Alban
Wast
Springfield
Pitosfield
Iba
Theda
Framingham
Albany
Tingham
Syracuse
Springbany
Neveland
Ayovem Jr Sunany
Newton Lower Falls
Wellesley Mills
Worcester
Newton Highlands
Brookline
Goston
Hanson
Gen. Pass. Agt
NEW
York
Boston & Providence Railroad
Washington
State Street
RK. S
J. W. Richardson
A. A. Folsom
Boston & Providence R. R
General Vermont
Rutland
Montreal
Ottawa
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg Depot
Causeway Street
Ryy
CEX
AT & CO A. M
Winchendong
Cheshire
RK. R
Bellows Falls
White Rives
Central
Vermont
Points West
Rgy
Chea
Pr. M. Hire & Monadnock
Rutland Hk. R
A K. Stewary
Keene, N. H
Central Massachusetts Railroad Opens Monday Service
Fragmented timetable notes routes and stations across West Boylston Rockbottom Sudbury Waltham Wayland Weston Belmont and more with times in the 7.15 to 9.10 range and references to general superintendent Ware and agent alignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jut Ware
Marre
Railay
West Boylston
Oson
Hino
SUS
M. Rockbottom
Sudbury
Waltham
Wavert
SUN
Geo. W. Stor
C.S. Mellen
Ptiuction
Madson
M. Sun
Wav
SUN. Wayland
Weston
Belmont
Pass'g
Trains from Boston and Nearby Lines July 3 1887 Schedule
Corrected timetable lists weekday departures from Boston foot of Summer Street with varied city, town, and regional stops including Norwood Central New York Hartford Providence Danbury and Bridgeport. Evening and Sunday trains noted along with return trips from Norwood Central.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Station
Summer Street
Ashcroft
Balitimore
Bird Street
Blackstone
Danbury
Dorchester
Dudley Street
Ellis
Endicott
Fishkill-on-Hudson
Franklin
Forest Avenue
Hartford
Harvard Street
Hyde Park
Highland Lake
Islington
Manchester
Mattapan
Dlam
Milford
Mt. Bowdoin
New Britain
Newburg
New London
New York
Middletown
Norwich
Norwood
Norwood Central
Pawtucket
Philadelphia
Putnam
Readville
River Street
Rockville
Conn
Southbridge
Tiltons
Walpole
Con Eo P.o
Waterbury
Willimantic
Winislows
Webster
Boston
Boston and Albany trains schedule to Needham and Woonsocket
Train timetable lists departures and returns for Needham, Woonsocket and intermediate stops on Sundays and weekdays. Notes include express trains to New York via Middletown, connections to Hartford and Waterbury, and special dining car services on Boston to Willimantic routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Middletown
New Haven
Pullman
Boston
Hartford
New Britain
Waterbury
Danbury
Fishkill-on-Hudson
Newburgh
Portervis
Chicago & St. Louis Limited
Erie Railway
ST A
NEW England Limited
Air Line
Grand Central Depot
Willimantic
Philadelphia
Exvoevu Press
Jersey City
Trenton
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
M. Norwich Line
New London
Norwich
Danielsonville
Putnam
City OF
Workcester
City OF New York
Washington Street
Samim
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Foreign Wool Market
North Adams
Troy
Pal River
Cituate
West
Cage
Cine
Brattleboro
FP Aale Cambr
Concer
Chiinnati
Llam
Miller’s Falls
Auo
Os Bea Kitchb
Gardner
Greenfield
Lincolna
Mawriboam
Maynard
Ayer Junction
Ae RU BT
Nashua
North Leominster
Somerville
Beau
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburn
Miller’s Fally
South 4
Jonan Adams
J. Whitmore
J.R. Watson
Dean Street
Waitman and
oNlaste
Ltu
Somes
San Cenera
Fomary
Retun
Scituate
Say
Whitman
Symouth
Weymouths
Hingham
Cohaset
Marshfield
Duxbury
Duxybury
Cohasset
Eall Miver
Tauns Mis
South Braintree
Suffolk County
Shawmut Avenue
Arthur P. Delabarre
Annie Crowley
Albion Knowlton
Josiah B. Ken
Gail
Jane Bishop
Catherine H. Keane
Centre Street
Charles H. Williams Et al
James Keefe
Walter Street
Ernest D. Blackwell
Clifford Street
Winslow Goodwin
Perkins Street
Mary W. Whittemore
William Lelander
Linden Street
Warren Veazie
Annie Riley
Crescent Avenue
St. John Street
Gabriel Boos
William A. Lyon
South
Francis R. Cunningham
John ©. Murphy
Second Street
John McClanathan
William P. Carroll
Third Street
David L. Rourke
Honora Collins
C Street
Frank C. Wood Et al
Sarah J. Nolan
Bremen Street
Lewis G. Stanley
Robert Hodson
Bennington Street
James E. Hines
Hannah B. McLean
Charlestown
Ellen If’. Leddy
Ellen M. Sheehan
Ditto
Charles I. Davenport
South Eden Street
Chelsea
James McElroy
Walter B. Snow
Chester Avenue
James Bell
Mary Ann McDowell
Broadway
Revere
John F. Olsson
Emma T. C. Olsson
Orient Heights
Washington G. Benedict
John E. Hayes
Agneous Avenue
Winthrop
Allen Atwood
Arthur H. Atwood
Pleasant Street
Paola Crovo
Michele Ceverone
Salem Street
Henry M. Hyans
Institution For Savings
Tremont Street
Sewall Place
Dana B. Gove
Joseph P. Hamlin
Lexington Street
Eereren OK Steen
Aon Co
Camden John St
Uy Oo
Lowell
Vain
Hae Ware
Lawrence
Fewilmington
Stoneham
West Medford
Bedford
Oan
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Lwinathan
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Esitherien
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Geo. W. Storer
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Weturn
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Arlboro
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Clinton
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West Berlin
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Pratt
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J. R. Kendrick
L. H. Palmer
Academy Or Medicine of Paris
Eae
Fougera & Co
Nomerual & West
Fitchburg
Central Vermont
J.W. Hobart
W. Cummings
Rhian
Linen
Stetson, Moseley & Co
Wharf
Poe
Estreet
Kilby