Boston Post Newspaper Archives, Aug 21, 1888, p. 7

Market report from multiple grains and commodities

The report details closing bids and offers for corn oats and wheat futures across August through May, with settlements around 52c for oats and mixed prices for No 2 white and No 3 white oats. It lists daily sales 83 cars, receipts and shipments for New York Chicago St Louis and Milwaukee, and notes slow trade, firm prices, with quotes for rye flour cornmeal oats and other grains and by products.

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New York Chicago St Louis C. Toledo Milwaukee Bush St.Louis Graham Fieur Canada Choice Eastern

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Wholesale dairy and farm market prices across regions

Butter and cheese quotations hold steady with East and West creameries quoted firm to varied levels. Eggs, beans, peas, and grasses show mixed but largely unchanged prices. poultry steady with Northern fresh kills. Hay and straw markets remain at old prices amid fair demand.

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Vermont New York Cantona Newark Ohio Sage Ogdensburg New Hampshire Michigan Nova Scotia New Brunswick PE Island California Bush West North Jersey Jerseys Bristol Ferrys

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Banana steamer Lorenzo D Baker due August 22

The steamer Lorenzo D Baker is reported to arrive on August 22 carrying a cargo of bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.

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Banana Steamers Lorenzo D Baker Boston Fruit Company

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Fruit Market Report Shows Steady Prices Across Produce

The market remains well supplied with apples at low prices including native Astrachan at 2 25, Williams at 2 25, and Gold sweet at 1 12. Oranges and lemons stay steady with Palermo oranges at 6 7 per box and Messina lemons at 3 6 per box. Grapes, peaches, pears, and watermelons show varied prices as cars arrive. no train Tuesday.

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Palermo Messina Kerre Jersey Norfolks Delaware Moores Ives California California Fruit Union Snow & Co Ako W Mead Farnum & Co Conant & Bean Tuttle

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Market Prices From Local Fair Demand Note

A fair demand is noted at steady prices with several produce items listed. New marrow squash $1 per unit, cabbages $344 per 100 count, native string beans 26 50c per bush, native wax bean 60c per bush, cranberry beans 75c per bush, bunch onions 2 to 3 cents per bunch, Egyptian onions $2 25 per case, Spanish onions $3 per basket, beets unknown, carrots $24 per 100 count, lettuce 40 cents.

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Boxed produce prices and imports listed in rough OCR

The fragment shows assorted agricultural items with mixed pricing such as turnips cucumbers peppers and tomatoes. It notes quantities like 600 P 100 count and prices per dozen or barrel, with units and currencies muddled by OCR.

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Russia Jersey

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Provisions market report with varied meat prices and regions

Pork demand steady with fluctuating prices across cuts. Hogs firm in the West. Listings show long cuts and backs priced from 15 to 19 dollars per hundredweight, various sausages and hams ranges, lard and beef values steady to rising in Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and New York markets. Fresh meat demand mixed with lambs and veal following regional trends.

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Lord Choice Tyautaci Kok South America Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

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Cotton market report shows dull New York sounds and futures

Allan Asher & Co report today’s market with New York dull at 10 3 4 cents for middling uplands and 107 16 for low middling. Futures opened easy and closed steady with detailed opening and closing prices across months. Liverpool and other markets noted lower spot cotton and mixed futures.

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Hog and cattle markets across major cities

Kansas City stockyards report strong cattle receipts with steady top lots and weaknesses elsewhere natives 175 420 steers 2756 290 hogs active at firm prices heavies 590 620 mediums 580 620 pigs 560 580 sheep steady 280 370 St Louis hogs higher light weights 618 630 mixed packers 620 640 butchers 640 650 Peoria hogs light receipts 580 665 Cincinnati hogs firm higher common light 630 650 Chicago cattle steady for good but common lower beeves 610 625 steers 390 600 stockers 230 30 cows bulls mixed 130 300 Texas Western cattle 160 360 hogs receipts 10000 ships 5600 strong higher mixed 590 656 heavy 660 6 60 light 590 660 sheep receipts 6000 ships 2000 slow steady natives 275 450 westerns shorn 340 386 Texans shorn 280 370 lambs 425 4600

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Kansas City St Louis Peoria Cincinnati Chicago Texas Western Rangers Ogs

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Sugar and Molasses Market Report Summary

Sugar markets show quiet steady demand across raw and refined grades. Prices for Cuban and Havana sugars hold firm with modest gains in raw New York markets, while Puerto Rico and Caribbean listings reflect fresh crop quotes and boiling grade baselines.

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Cuba Manilas Lioilos Javas New York Havana Spain Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos Mayaguez

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Market roundup notes steady demand across cities

The report shows quiet demand and steady prices in New York for prime city goods at 4 percent. Chicago whiskey trades at 120 dollars, Cincinnati at 114, St Louis at 114, with varied quotes across cities and commodities including turpentine and petroleum in New York.

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Tal Ow New York C. Cotfe Rio Chicago Cincinnati St Louis

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Petroleum closes mixed with varied odds and chemical prices

Market notes show petroleum closing at 642 6 percent while other commodities like tar and turpentine iron trade around 86 percent and rosin values appear incomplete. RSW quotes hover near 7 percent and 9 6? per case amid a volatile listing of chemical products.

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Imports and Exports Trade Report August 20 1888

A detailed record from Guantanamo Port Hawkesbury Charlottetown Halifax Pictou and other points listing schooner cargoes and steamer imports. Entries itemize eggs mackerel canned lobsters sugar hardware lumber and pig iron with numerous firms such as Barrett Lyman Bowles Mead Russell Rockwell Delong Seaman and J F Brown.

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Guantanamo Port Hawkesbury Charlottetown Pel Halifax Pictou Carroll Brock Barrett, Lyman & Co Bowles & Co Benman Bios Barclay & Co Brown DeLoria & Co Cailér Moise Lawrence Doyle Eustis & Aldrich Vox Planta Fer Puon Cutler Delong & Seaman James Green Jaimes O’hara Delong & Seanan Pias Junk Haskins & Montagne J Hodgson Howe & French Newhall & Co Russell & Co Eggs & Shumway & Co Hunter Cunningham, Banks & Co Cins Chase & Sanborn Dwinnell & Co Biles Yarn S Gray Huckins & Co Lowell George McQuesten & Co Bk Newhall Rico Abb Hall & Co Leonard Prince & Co Biles Cotton M Weld & Co Wellman, Hall & Co George Richardson & Denvie Ross, Turner &Co Sargent Bros Silver Lake Co Stetson & Co Waltham Warren, Wood & Co Wihee& Right & Co Brown Webb Yarmouth Webber TJ Jones & Co Delung & Seaman G Hall & Co

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Exports at Liverpool and Weymouth Aug 1888

Shipping list from Liverpool NS and Weymouth NS shows schooners Dexter Richard Moselle with flour and meal, and steamers New Brunswick Catalonia Vancouvers items. Cargoes include oils glassware rubber goods saws machinery butter cheese cotton lard pork and various boxes and cases.

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Liverpool Dexter Weymounh F Richard Wolpville Blokby Annapolis New Brunswick Kung Catalonia St.oves

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Staples and railroads trade goods August 20 1888

A list of commodities traded by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England and New England Railroads. Entries cover wool corn wheat flour molasses butter cheese bacon lard beef and leather with volumes measured in bushels barrels boxes and tons. The fragmentary ledger-like items outline shipping receipts and stock transfers across lines.

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Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Bacon, Loston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad Pelia New York New England Novism

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Trade and freight ledger of livestock, grain, and hides across railways

A dense ledger lists shipments by Fitchburg Boston & Maine Luston and Maine and other lines. Entries show bales of cotton wool flour corn oats butter eggs apples and abundant hides and leather, with numerous car and bale counts, casks and tubs recorded across routes by rail and sea for various dates and consignments.

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Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division Luston & Maine Railroad Oston & Maine Railroad

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Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool

Cargoes off the coast show wheat firming, corn and flour higher as markets steady in Paris and Liverpool. Wheat futures rise with August and subsequent months quoted, and prices for California wheat listed amid mixed American corn futures. Provisions and breadstuffs hold firm with pork and bacon steady, cheese and lard reported unchanged.

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London Beerhbohm Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Severs Varis

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Boots and Shoes Buyers Listed Across Cities

Augusta Georgia to Salt Lake City Utah crowds of buyers and agents from McKnight Co to Lawrence Berry Co and other firms visit town. The list names J Whittendale J A Lawrence T M Brown D Hall L H Lancashire Rosenburg G Rosenburg Summerfield J Klaus J M Hill A P Connor A Grotz L Rosenbaum A Klaus J E Vaughn Harvey Childs F Auerbach J S Rodgers Friedman Baer among numerous salesmen and firms visiting to solicit customers and orders.

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Augusta J Whittendale Robert McKnight Craw D Hall Hall & Sons Baltimore Johe A Lawrence Lawrence, Berry & Co Binghamton T M Brown Lester & Co Coisicana Lex J T Sullivan Chicago Columbus Miss D Harris Haris & Co Seeus Cincinnati F Thorne Thorne & Co Adolph Meyer Meyer & Co Layt C Arnold Arnold & Son Detroit Mich L H Lancashire Mabley & Co Fulton, Ark G Rosenburg Macon, Miss A Klaus Klaus & Bros Memphis, Tenn L Lehman Linkhauer & Lehman J M Hill J M Hill & Co Muskegon, Mich P Connor P Connor & Co Mobile Ala A Grotz Okolons L Rosenbaum Tre Palestine Tex M Rich Philadelphia Jenn J T Munroe Munroe Bros & 'O Paessolphis Penn J E Vaughn D Sellers Bros 0 Vecmcnes Penn Harvey Childs H Childs & Co Pulaski Tenn J H Cannon Richinni Sanuels Saltake City Utah Rf A Auerbach F Auerbach & Bro Salt Lake City Goldberg J S Rodgers Dewey, Rodgers & Co

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Western Division Train Schedule From Boston Area

Trains depart Boston Haymarket for Alton Bay Rochesser and Farmington at 8:30 am and 1:40 pm with numerous morning and afternoon departures to Andover Dover Danvers Exeter and other towns. Sunday trains list Dover Manchester Lowell Medford Newburyport and several stops with varied times.

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Eastern Division Train Schedules and Stops Published

A dense listing details outbound and return timetables for numerous stations including Amesbury Biddeford Chelsea Lynn Newburyport and Portmouth. The notices cover weekday weekend and Sunday services with numerous departure times and service notes across the northeastern rail network.

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Railroads train timetable shows New England lines and stations

Train schedule lists Nashua Lowell Lawrence Stoneham Way Stations Lexington Wobern Winchester and nearby towns with daily and Sunday services. Includes Boston Causeway foot of Portland Street to Northampton and various stops on the White Mass division plus the Whonssocket division with departures from Boston and Woonsocket. Time entries numerous with morning and evening trains and noted exceptions.

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Historic Transit Timetable Fragment Across Regions

A dense OCR transit schedule fragment lists trains and times for multiple routes including East Sundays, Mattapan, Rockport, and South Dux. The text references buses, boats, and additional trains with varied daily and Sunday frequencies, noting regional stops and times.

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Cape Cod Train Timetables Salient Stops and Times

Cape Cod division schedule lists Leave Kneeland Street Station for Buzzards and multiple stops with times in the morning and afternoon. Included are Brewster Sinsmichel Wellfleet Monuments Beach Nantucket and Hyannis among others with connections via Woods Hall and Woods flo. Sunday trains cover Buzzards Bay Bourne Chatham Hyannis Onset Sandwich Sagamore West Barnstable Wareham and more.

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Providence Division Train Timetable Fragment

A dense OCR based timetable fragment lists numerous routes and times for Providence Division trains to New York Providence Line Shore Line Van lines and many local stations. It contains inconsistent spellings and numbers with Sunday exceptions and a scattered set of departure times and destinations including Canton Avon West Roxbury North Attleboro and Newport via Wickford Point Wharf.

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Boston July 1 1888 train service notice

Serene ieee Wednesdays and Saturdays only. through train service are obtainable in Boston at stations as above and at Old Colony K.R. Office No 8 Old State House. See ee cen Parsages 5.

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Market report from multiple grains and commodities

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Wholesale dairy and farm market prices across regions

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Banana steamer Lorenzo D Baker due August 22

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Fruit Market Report Shows Steady Prices Across Produce

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Market Prices From Local Fair Demand Note

Boxed produce prices and imports listed in rough OCR

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Provisions market report with varied meat prices and regions

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Cotton market report shows dull New York sounds and futures

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Hog and cattle markets across major cities

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Sugar and Molasses Market Report Summary

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Market roundup notes steady demand across cities

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Petroleum closes mixed with varied odds and chemical prices

Imports and Exports Trade Report August 20 1888

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Exports at Liverpool and Weymouth Aug 1888

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Staples and railroads trade goods August 20 1888

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Trade and freight ledger of livestock, grain, and hides across railways

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Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool

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Boots and Shoes Buyers Listed Across Cities

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Western Division Train Schedule From Boston Area

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Eastern Division Train Schedules and Stops Published

Railroads train timetable shows New England lines and stations

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Historic Transit Timetable Fragment Across Regions

Cape Cod Train Timetables Salient Stops and Times

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Providence Division Train Timetable Fragment

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Boston July 1 1888 train service notice

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