Cotton Market Briefs and Price Advances Across Markets
The report shows New York spot prices at 10 1/4 to 10 7/8 cents for various upland grades with futures opening steady. Liverpool futures show dull activity across December to August contracts, while the Liverpool spot closes at mid upland around 5 5/8 pence and Orleans at 6 9/16 pence. Weekly cotton statistics show sales of 63 000 bales, with 41 000 bales by speculators and 27 700 bales exported directly, leaving total stock at 582 000 bales with 392 000 bales held by Americans.
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Belmont
Ponce
Cienmuegos
Barbadoes
New York
Melek Ak Saphee Wiel
Capo Dales
Liverpool
Dall
Uplands
Orleans
Allan Asher & Co Promises Confidential Cotton Quotations
Cotton futures bought and sold in New York on margin with private wire for exclusive customer use. Allan Asher & Co at 22 Exchange Place offers expeditious and confidential facilities, invites the public to call for quotations and information, with reasonable charges competitive with other reliable houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Trade Centre Flours and Grains Markets Report
New York December 9 reports show flour receipts 32978 pkgs and exports. prices steady to firm across wheat, corn, rye and barley with multiple regional bids. Produce values vary by grade with Ohio and St Louis extra flour trading from 3 10 to 5 25 and 38 10 5 25 for winter wheat and Minnesota extra around 310 525. pork and lard prices noted, while oils, sugars, and dairy hold steady in market.
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New York
Western
Ohio
St Louis
City
Minnesota
Milwaukee
Rio
United
India
Tierces City
Liverpool
Lake
Chicago
Toledo
ST. Louis
Minneapolis
Minn
Cincinnati
Hogs Prices Steady Across Cities and Markets
Hogs steady in St Louis Chicago and Peoria with varied quoted ranges. Yorkers mostly 485 to 530, butchers to 630 to 645. receipts cited for several markets while shipments and some figures are incomplete. Cattle and sheep receipts also noted with mixed prices and steadiness across regions.
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ST Louis
Kansas City
Peoria
Chicago
Texas
Cotton Market Summary from Various Ports December 9
Net receipts and grosses listed for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia and Baltimore. Markets show mixed activity from dull to steady with mid prices around nine to ten cents and substantial stock levels reported.
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Augusta
Galveston
Mia
New Orleans
France
Continent
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Great Britain
Charleston
C. Wilmington
C. Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Weekly cotton market report with mixed regional notes
Coastwise and New York receipts show steady to dull activity with midrange price levels. Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated seven day totals indicate varied demand and stock levels, while comparative week figures track gains in receipts and exports across Atlantic markets.
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New York
Cincinnati
C. Fs
St Louis
Louisville
Mid
Dyec
Great Britain
France
Continent
United States
Liverpool
Foreign Markets Update From London and Europe
London reports steady or firmer grain prices with wheat and corn holding firm for English and foreign markets. Paris wheat and flour rise while Liverpool spot wheat weakens. futures show mixed directions across California and American corn markets. Antwerp and Paris publish daily prices for January contracts and spot grains.
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London
Beerbohm
Minnesota
Paris
Liverpool
California
Antwerp
Continental buyers lead steady demand for colonial wool
London reports strong purchases by French and other Continental operators in de cember sales. About 400 American account sales included cross bred lambs and Cape of Good Hope and Natal wool. Prices for scoured and greasy lots across New South Wales Queensland Victoria New Zealand South Australia and Cape of Good Hope and Natal are listed with per bale figures.
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London
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
New South Wales
Queensland
Victoria
New Zealand
South Australian
Imports and Exports from Azores to Pensacola 1887
A detailed list of shipments including brig Energy Energy at Carbonear Newfoundland with mahogany and hides, brig Cleda Belle Labrador herring and salmon, steamer Persian Monarch and other vessels at Hull and Liverpool with china glass wool iron and dyes. Various firms such as Baring Bros Co J B Moors Co Horace Partridge Co and well known trade names document cargoes of lumber, hides, wool, rags, machinery, oils, chemicals, and dairy and farm products destined for Liverpool London and Pensacola.
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Azores
G Hall & Co
Carbonear
T Russell & Co
Crapaud
PEL
Crapaud, Pei
Isaac Watch
Hull
Eng
China
Louis Wolf & Co
Houghton & Dutton
Horace Partridge & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Furness
Cutler Bros & Co
Moors & Co
Washburn & Moon Manf Co
Johnson
Rosbach Bros
Smith & Sons
Hill, Sons & Co
Burch Bros & Co
Brown, Durrell & Co
Liverpool
Moise Baring Bros & Co
Sherburne
Hills, Turner & Co
Waldo Bros
Bacon Bros
Walbaum & Co
Singer & Meyer
Nicholson, Frost & Co
Wing & Evans
Dame & Co
Beecher & Loomis
King & Co
Morey & Co
Birch Bros
Commercial Express Co
Perkins & Co
Dana Estes
Linder & Meyer
Thos Leyland & Co
Leigh & Co
Riley & Gray
London
Lilenberg
Brown Bros & Co
Meyer & Co
Stone & Downer
Oliver Ditson & Co
Roeister & Hasebacher
Doherty& Co
Clark & Co
Carter, Carter & Kilham
R & J Farquhar & Co
Wadsworth, Howland & Co
Lewis
Goodwin & Co
Booth & Co
Oakum Baring Bros & Co
Nash
Hoxie & Co
Andrews, Barber & Co
Thompson & Co
Oilman’s
Hayes & Co
Farley & Son
Richards & Son
Burnett
Phelps, Dodge & Co
Moors & Co—16 Do Jute Yarn 20 Do Jute Cloth 9 Do Do Rags Stoddard, Lovering & Co
Gorham Rogers & Co
Ford
Chase & Co
Weston, Whitmore & Co
Jones
Lovering & Co
Sheldon & Co
Peabody & Whitney
S & J Brown & Co
Gordon
Moise Oliver Ditson & Co
KE Rice & Co
Souris, Pvt
Parisian
Pensacola
Fla
Barkentine Levi S Andrews
Yellow Pine Lumber Wellman, Hall & Co
Exports from Liverpool Istrian Steamer Load
The Istrian cleared December 7 at Liverpool with 34 packages 60 rolls 187 bales of feather and 1087 other goods bound for export.
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Liverpool
Eng
Istrian
Trade Goods and Supplies Listed Across Several Canadian Ports
A catalog of shipments includes apples, linseed cake, lamp goods, pigs, woollen ware, domestics, toy guns, alarm tills, collars, staves, tags, and wooden boxes alongside fresh beef, cattle, wheat, patent medicines, bacon, provisions, hocks, leaf lard, and various other provisions. Shipments mark St Kitts and Barbados connections with Brig Wauban vessels and several Nova Scotia stations including Church Point, Mahone Bay, Bridgewater, Port Williams, and Granville.
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Bar
Total Receipts December 9 1887 Trader's Ledger
A historical ledger page lists total receipts for December 9 1887 across commodities including cotton coffee wool flour butters eggs oats wheat beans apples malt and more. It shows quantities in bales barrels cases and bushels with prior year figures for 1886 and 1887 alongside current totals.
Receipts from 1887 railroad freight lists by line
Freight receipts show Boston & Albany Boston & Maine New York & New England and other lines carrying cotton wool flour corn oats malt wheat feed pork lard butter cheese eggs beans apples hay lumber leather hides and pelts in varying bales barrels sacks cases and cars for December 9 1887 with multiple tonnage totals per line.
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Godoroe
COIS
Bates
Ehige
Boston & Albany
Bworaca Junction
Soston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Itechburg
Boston & Maine Railroad
Trade Goods Shipments and Freight by Rail Sea and Express
A ledger style listing shows varied goods moved by Boston and Lowell Railroad and sea routes. Items include butter and eggs in dozens and boxes, cotton bales, wool bales, flour, leather hides and pelts, lumber, pork products, potatoes, sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, and hides. Car counts and bale numbers indicate large transport volumes across multiple carriers.
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Boston & Lowell Railroad
Express
Medical miracle tale from Swift's S. S. S. cures child
A Indiana family recounts how their four year old Hazel, crippled by a severe illness starting at twelve months, recovered after using Swift's S. S. S. They describe loss of walking, joint and nerve damage, and eventual full restoration to health with a rosy complexion and restored vigor. The letter offers further testimonials and an address for more information.
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Clcrke
Hamilton Co
Boston
Mass
Swift
Ben. F. Swiet
Gertrude E. Swift
Murdock's Liquid Food Praised by International Medical Groups
Historical notice details Murdock's Liquid Food hailed at Congresses in Washington Brighton and Richmond with claims of eight percent new blood weekly. It cites free hospitals opened since 1881 including general, lying in, infants and free surgical beds. Hospital stats show operations rising from 36 in 1885 to 510 in 1887 with 208 in the quarter ending December 1 1887.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Suffolk
Superior Court
Ss Office
Boston
Melvena A. Davis
County of
Boston Post
Melvena A
International Medical Congress
Washington
Murdock
Murdock’s Free Hospital For
Murdock's Free Hospital Claims High Operation Rate
The advertisement touts an average of 100 operations per month with a mortality of nine. It claims extensive use of Liquid Food before and after operations, notes cures without surgery after long use, and mentions injections when stomach retention fails. It lists free beds and facilities in Boston locations and claims medical recognition nationwide.
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London
Boston and Lowell Railroad Timetable October 10 1887
Boston station on Causeway street lists through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville and more with multiple daily departures. Local services from Boston cover Manchester Concord Keene Nashua and others plus Lowell and surrounding towns. Time table notes sleeping and parlor cars to Montreal and through trains via White River Junction.
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Boston & Lowell Railroad
Boston
Causeway Street
City
Washington Street
Old State House
Tilton
Laconia
Lake Village
Weirs
Meredith
Ashland
Plymouth
Warren
Haverhill
Woodsville
Littleton
Bethlehem
Fabyans
Lancaster
Whitefield
Franklin
Brebanon
White River Junction
St. Johnsbury
Newport
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Passumpsic
Wells River
Bristol
Claremont
Montpelier
Essex Junction
Arlington
St. Albans
Montreal
Manchester
Concord
N. H
Sun
Keene
Peterboro
Hillsboro
Wilton
Milford
Amherst
Greenfield
Nashua
Spm
Central Massachusetts R R opens Monday October 10 1887
Central Massachusetts Railroad announces opening starting Monday with initial schedules to Boston Ware Hawke Rutland West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Wadson Rockbottom Sudbury Wayland Weston Altham Waverley Selmont and surrounding towns. Gen Passenger Agent EO W Storer notes multiple daily trains with Sunday service.
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Massachusetts
R. R
Boston
Ware
Hawke
Rutlana
West Boyston
Oakdale
Jefferson
Wadson
SUN
Rockbottom
Sudbury
Wayland
Weston
Altham
Waverley
Aem
M. Sun
Selmont
Through Trains on West Divisions and Eastern Lines
Schedules for Boston & Maine and Maine Central routes dated October 23 1887 list departure times from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations for Augusta Bangor Saco St. John Halifax Lewiston Manchester North Conway Port La Vista and other stops with steamship connections to Portland and Saint John contrasting morning noon and evening services on weekdays and select days for various connections.
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Augusta
Haymarket Sq
Causeway St
Bani
Sargor
St. Wolen
Halifax
Provinces
Eastport
Calais
St. John
N. B
Portland
Kreochland
Castine
Southweet
Harbors
Lewiston- Haymarket Sq
Causeway Gt
Manchester
Concord
N. H
North—Haymarket Sq
North Conway
Portlaudi
Causeway
Maine Central
Grand Cronk
Knox & Lincoln
Western Division Train Schedules from Boston Stations
A lengthy list of train times and routes from Boston stations to Alton Bay, Mochester, Farmington, and other points, including service intervals and various regional stops. The timetable enumerates departure hours across numerous towns, with multiple dots and odd spellings indicating irregular entries. The record preserves the era’s transit patterns and station markings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Division
Boston
Haymarket Square
Alton Bay
Mochester
Farmington
Rover
Axeter
Great Falls
Maverhill
South Howe
Boston to Amesbury and Coast Rail Schedule Revealed
The timetable lists trains from Boston Station to Amesbury and coastal towns including Essex Beach Norton Swampscott and Gloucester with multiple daily departures and Sunday services. The schedule notes city ticket office at 306 Washington Street and Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains under James T. Furber and D. J. Flanders.
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Boston
Street
Amesbury
Dover
Everett
Great Palle
Rochester
Beach
Norton
Rye Beach
Ipswich
Qq al Ik
Lynn and Way
Newburyport
Portsmouth
Portland
Bangor
St. John
Fairfax
Salem
Saugus
South Reading Ranch
Haymarket Square
Washington Street
James T. Furrer
D. J. Flanders
Boston and Shore Line Train Schedule Summary 1887
Long list of train times and routes across towns like Hyannis Quincy Weymouth Mattapan and Braintree. Includes departure and return times with notes on connections and special services for weekends and holidays.
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Allan Asher
Exchange Place
London Wool Sales
P. O. Box
Humphreys
Box
Homeopath
Erinery Weakeo
Humphreys’ Medicine CO
Fulton St. N
Fulton 8T
Morton
East
Canton Street
EF. T. Peabody
Tremont Street
Commonwealth OF
Chelsea
Melvena
A. D
George Davis
Hardock's Liquid: Food CO
Fall River
Qld Colony
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Pilgrim
Bagegage
Old Colony
Crtatian
Oovwainly
L. H. Palmer
J. R. Kendrick
Central Vermont
Pullman
Lowell
Fitchburg
Central
Vermont R. K
J. W. Hobart
W. Cummings
Wyvia
Stonington
Boston & Providence Railroad
Washa
State Street
Boston & Providence KR. BR
J. W. Richardson
Boston & A. A. Folsom
Supt
Beaton & Providence R
Concord R. KR
B. and L
N.H
Railroads
Gawi
Beau
Lawrence
Wilmington
Walnut Foe
Wanda
Winchester
West Medford
College Hill
Winter Hill
Pecadaria
Pussae
Pi Billerica
Bedford
BUN
Aenaee Oes
C. S. Mellen
Geo. W. Storer
Boston & Maine
West Divisians
Bowe Eeme
Y.be
Rieirose
Uae
Riel
Newburyporteres Be
Wwilmington
Pi Lawrence
Aim
Land
Way State
Highlands
Zim
Waliden
Loew
Merrima North Eon
Spee
Eat
Relf
Lewisons
Vy Wes
Va S
Manchenste
Bpevoekavs
Iddeford
Mura
HLU LO
Ehead and Swampscott
Eabody
Danvers
Revere
Mockport
Gleucester
Work Harbor
E.ec
Riddleton
Pias Ach K.À
OOAMR
Gg Sete
Swampscott
Wenham
Wolfeboro
No. 5
Jeston
Fall River Line
Barnstable
Hyannis
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Braintree
Cottage City
New Bedford
East Bridgewater
Brookton
Abington
Brockton
Quincy
West Quincy
Ress Weymouth
Weymouth
East Weymouth
Japan
Milton
Wey
Mattapan
Neponset
Nantucket
Wood’s Hall
Duxbury
M. Hamover
Rockland
M. Return
Hanover
Ashmont
Abe E
Whitman
Return
Wotllaste Heights
Wood’ Bkoll
Bridgewater
Breckton
Buzzard
Buzzard’s Bay
Provincetown
Chatham
Cohasset An Hingham
Cohase
Hingham
Pi Pall River
Taunton
Barrison Square
KROK
Abur Aati
He Ue
Mae OE
We Uy
Pan Veut
Baese
Wandolph
Randol
South Dux
Dean Street
Ath
Awoumae
Aretr
UV Bedford
North Easton
Stough
Scituate
Ste
Weymouths
Cohasset
Marshfield
Axbury
Blymouth
Aeray
Tauntor
Tanton
South Rbtraintree
Sou Braintree
Middleboro
Geo. L. Connor
Gen. Pass
J. KR. Kendrick
New Yorka
Vidence
Matt Road
Edence
Dodgeville
North Attlebor
Wija&m. I
Loxboro
Rpondville
Sue Rab
Ayer
Oad
OU Neturn
Ee Ae
Phe
Aikie
I Dedman
West Hoxby
Ey Denese
Fe “O' Ston
Ig & My
Flighian
Stoughton
Canton
Bosto
Mt. Howe
Jarren
York
M Nutes
A. Folsom
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