Imports and commodity prices in 19th century trade data
The weekly report shows continental port imports at 24 000 bales with a rise versus 1855 but falls against 1884 and 1883. Oil prices, sugar markets, and molasses quotations are listed with refiners, test grades, and wholesale levels reflecting steady to firm market conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Belmont
Porto Rico
Cuba
Cotton and commodity markets across major cities
New York reports quiet cotton sales with varying grades and prices. Flour, grain, and provisions show mixed movements. Detroit, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Toledo, St Louis, Chicago wrap lists of prices, receipts, and shipments. London and Liverpool note steady futures for cotton and wheat while Havana notes firm sugar market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Uplands
Orleans
Ohio
St. Louis
Minnesota
Southern
Milwaukee
Petroleum
United
Long Island
City
India
Western
S. A
Liverpool
Detroit
Michigan
Cincinnati
Toledo
Chicago
Hogs and Cattle Markets Across Major Cities
Hog markets see activity and higher bids in St Louis and Chicago with mixed gains. Kansas City and Peoria report steady hogs with notable receipts and shipments. cattle steady in Chicago with varied classes and through Texas rates. sheep largely unchanged as national market signals hold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Peoria
Chicago
Texas
Print Cloth Markets Fall River Weekly Summary
Fall River reports weekly print cloth statistics with production at 175000 pieces, deliveries 268000, stock 24000, sales 357000, and spot 137000 pieces. The data outlines production activity and market demand for the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall. River
Print cloth market firmer and active in Providence
The Providence market closes with firmer tone at 3 percent trade for 64s and 3 for 56x600s. Sales total 95 000 pieces, up from 29 000 last week, with consignments across 64x64s 45 000 pieces at 3 1 4? sc, 64x? 26 000 pieces at 3? sc, 64AxO4s 2 000 pieces at 35 1 6c, 56x660s 6 000 pieces at 27 sc, 56x60 13 000 pieces at 2 15– Ge, and 8 000 pieces spots and early delivery at 3c. Manufacturer stock includes 36 000 pieces 14s and 4 000 pieces 56x60s.
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Providence
R. L
Maritime Trade Receipts by Port and Stock Levels
Consolidated one day report shows net receipts amounting to 35 892 with exports to Great Britain 18 815 and to the continent 22 923. Stocks at all United States ports total 978 615 as markets indicate steady to firm mid levels across major hubs including New York Philadelphia Baltimore and New Orleans.
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London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Calcutta
California
Liverpool
Orleans
S Sd
Jane
Jiavana
Extravana
Matanzas
United States
Havana
Augusta
Galveston
Midgc
New Orleans
Great Britain
France
Mobile
Memphis
Miid
Savannah
Continent
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Mid Ve
Louisville
Imports at Liverpool February 11 1886 vivid steamship cargo listing
An itemized ledger from Liverpool cites the steamer Kansas with 36 bales wool and 760 drums caustic soda, plus vast consignments for Jere Abbott & co and Baring Bros & co. A wide array of goods follows including iron, pottery, leather, woollens, hardware, and textiles from numerous firms.
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Liverpool
Eng
Kansas
Baring Bros & Co
E & F King & Co
Jere Abbott & Co
Waulbaum & Co
Pierce & Co
Sartwell & Co
Smith & Sons
Dame & Co
Hardy & Co
Clark, Adams & Clark
Dame
Stoddard & Kendall
JB Moors & Co
Barder
Adamson & Co
Pray & Co
Kennedy & Murphy
Houghton & Dutton
Moody & Co
Lovering & Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Macallar
Parker & Co
Stone & Downer
BM Jones & Co
Warren, Salisbury & Nightingale
Brown Bros & Co
Richardson & Gerts
Wellinger
Callahan & Co
Perley
Barder, Adamson & Co
FE & & King & Co
Estes & Lauriat
Tirch Bros
Moors & Co
Wilder
Dily & Co
Iveson
Warren & Co
Canton Bros & Bixby
Ware
Burgess
Pierce & Robertson
Ware Stone & Downer
Vast Cargo Ledger From Multiple Ports Listed
Shipping manifest items from Liverpool Georgetown and Summerside include crates bales and casks of chemicals wool wool waste glass pottery and machinery. Numerous firms such as Chadwick & Chadwick Baring Bros & Co and Wetherell Bros appear with quantities of pig iron leather and sugar. Several vessels listed include Steamer Japanese and Schooner Anastasia with goods ranging from potatoes to lumber and hides.
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Liverpool
Eng
Chadwick & Chadwick
Earle Mans
H Hardy & Co
Cooper
Wetherell Bros
Hinckley Bros & Co
John H Boyle
Baring Bros & Co
Brigham
Snow
Radse Doll & Richards
Stone & Downer
Cumner, Jones & Co
King & Co
Pierce & Co
Bradford, Thomas & Co
Coleman, Mead & Co
Koopman & Co
Moors & Co
Lambert Bros
Brown Bros & Co
Jewell Letting Co
Beach & Co
Fiske, Coleman & Co
Mason, Chapin & Co
John M O'Rourke
Weeks & Potter
Neal, Morse & Co
Ernustic Soda Linder & Meyer
Morey & Co
Georgetown
Pei
Schda Mader
O Russell & Co
Crapaud, Pel
Sch
Chapin Bros
Vizagapatan
Cocanada
Buenos Ayres
Mark Charles R Lewis
Summerside
Billy Brown
H Cutler
Maitland
Anastasia
Katheway & Co
Apalachicola
Albert I. Buller
William Naskins & Sons
Exports from many ports include flour, sugar, and lumber
Shipping list records exports on December 11 1886 from Clementspor Halifax and Bridgewater Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to markets at St Pierre Miquelon Aspinwall and other points. Items include flour sugar rice canned goods lard beef tobacco hardware machinery lumber crates and various farm and household goods. Names of vessels and locations indicate broad midwinter trade and cargo variety across regional ports.
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Clementsport
Halifax
Worcester
Bridgewater
Receipts Detailed by Railroads for December 11 1886
The Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony and New York & New England railroads report cargo tallies including cotton wool flour cornmeal oats malt millfeed and leather among others. Cotton bales range across multiple lines with many bales and boxes of goods listed alongside various perishables and packaged items.
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Boston & Albany
wGrand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Boston Post
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Sy Express
Proposals for 4000 Yards Dark Blue Flannel
The Quartermaster's Office Philadelphia invites sealed proposals for 4000 yards of 114% ounce dark blue wool flannel for blouse use. Bids due January 5 1887 at noon. Preference to domestic and American production. Envelopes labeled Proposals for Flannel. M J Ludington Deputy Quartermaster General U S A.
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Ovor Quartermaster’s Office
Girard Street
Philadelphia
United States Quartermaster’s Department
Pacific Coast
M. J. Ludington
U.S. A
Proposals Sought for Army Supplies by Boston Office
Office of Purchasing and Depot Boston invites sealed duplicate proposals for army supplies to be delivered by December 1886. Bids due December 18 1886 at 11 am in Boston with opening in bidders presence. Items include baked beans blacking brushes and clothes brushes with government right to reject all bids.
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Office OF Purchasing and Depot
C.S
Hion Street
Boston
Mass
Thomas C, Sullivan
CES. Uy
Amy
RAILROADS Schedules to Springfield Albany and beyond
Rail timetable note lists accommodation and express trains from Boston to Springfield Albany Buffalo Cleveland Chicago and New York with through sleeping cars. Local connections at Worcester and Palmer for North Adams Hindson Ware River branch routes and extensive listing of stops, times and Sunday schedules. Officials A S Hanson and H T Gallup sign off as General Passenger Agent and General Superintendent.
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Springfield
Albany
Buffalo
Cleveland
Chicago
Detroit
Chico
Worcester
Springfeld
Toledo
Chiexugoz
Niaare Falls
Brittsfield
North Adams
Chatham
Hindson
Palmer
Ware River
Martford
New Raven
New York
Boston
Millbury
North Gwvatton
Westboro
Oytkovelod
Southville
Wordaville
Ashimwund
Rhilford
South Framingham
Saxonville
Hoo
Natick
Soss
Wellesley
Gag
Wellesley Bills
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Rentov
Auburndale
PSG
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Moe
Boo
Newtonville
Newton
Faneuil
Brighton
Alston
Fe Bay
Deal
Asay Fe Cave
Cottage Farm
Brookline
Reeservoir
Hestnat
Newton Centre
Newton Highlands
TOD
T One
Framiigham Mind
Southhboro
Peco AM
Boke Om
Northboro
Clinton
Leomister
Fitchburg
Phoeee
Berlin
West Berlin
Pratt's Junction
Newton Lower Falta
Wellesley Hills
Washington Street
A. S. Hanson
Hi T. Gallup
Fitchburg Railroad
Annel Kroute
Causeway Street
West
N. Y
St. Louis
Pullma
New York Central
West Shore R. R
No.n
Troy
N.Y
Greenfield
Gardner
Maldwinville
Athol
Grange
Willer’s Falls
Shelburne Falls
Royalston and
Erving
Westminster
Ashburnham
Sunction
West Fitchburg
Wachusett
Ftiver
Wendell
Montague
East Peerfield
West Beerfield
Buckland
Zoar
Bardwells
Charlemont and
Cheshire Wests
N.Y. C
Ottawa
St. Albans
Keene and
Rutland
Nashua
Portland
Boston& Maine
Ayer
Nelusive
Worcester West Sive
Oakdale
Aver
Framingham
Lowell R. BR
Dor Lowell
Pitchburg
Ayer Junction
North Leominster
Shirley
Par Greenville and Townsend Centre
Marlboro, Hudson and Maynard
Concord
Lincoln
Waltham
Belmont
Waverley
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburn
Waitertown
Nike
Fall
River Line
CED
L. H. Palmer
Old State House
Boston to New York and regional line schedules 1886
Rail timetable lists weekday departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and numerous connecting routes to towns such as Barnstable Hyannis Wareham and Provincetown with various return times. The notice details special trains from Fitchburg to Albany Chicago and St Louis and a Shore Line and Providence connection with delays and service notes.
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Boston
New York
Fall River
Ashmont
Kreturn
Barnastable
Myannis
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Hyannis
Braintree
Jon Loo
Bridgewater
Llac Ste
Brocktron
Benezard
Cohasset
Hingham
Cottage City
New Bedford
East
Brockton
Wureepgaasoves
Mt. Hope
Warren
Tristeel
Providence
Mansfield
Shore Line
A.A. Folsom
Business Ads and Representatives Listed Across Cities
A sweep of names and firms in multiple U S cities appears with representatives and firms for ads treasuries and campaigns in Baltimore Buffalo Chicago Chattanooga Cincinnati Dubuque Lafayette Memphis Philadelphia Pittsburg Plattsburg San Francisco St Joseph St Louis Wheeling. Each entry notes a person and firm such as G W R George George & Co and Phelps Dodge & Palmer as well as others in various roles.
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Baltimore
R George
GWR George & Co
Buffalo
H Walker
Ads
Chicago
George
P Dodge
Phelps, Dodge & Palmer
C Brooks
Brooks Bros
Messrs Rosenthal
Goldsmith
Rosenthal
Goldsmith & Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
M Smartt
Smartt Bros & Co
Cincinnati
D Lytle
Lytle & Co
Dubuque
E B Pickenbrook
Lafayette
Ind
David Murphy
Murphy & Comstock
Memphis
Jenn
Miles Standish
Hill, Standish & Co
Philadelphia
Penn
John TT Monroe
Monroe Bros & Co
Tre
Pittsburg
Charles 5 Gill
Gill & Bro
F S Whitmore
Schmertz & Co
Plattsburg
C McDougall
Moore & Co
San Francisco
Cal
Feder
Rosenthal, Feder & Co
W Rosenstock
Rosenstock & Co
St Joseph
A S Smith
Smith-Frazier B & S Co
St Louis
A D Brown
Hamilton, Brown Sloe Co
Wheeling
W Boyd
Boyd & Co
Cloud over Boston title from long mortgage dispute
Suffolk County Supreme Judicial Court equity notice to heirs of Dayton Bolton Lee and Kettell and others. Complainants seek decree to bar further action on a 1804 mortgage to Bolton with improper discharges and a 1808 second mortgage to Austin, plus validation of an unacknowledged 1816 release. Public notice orders heirs to appear by March to challenge or support the petition.
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Massachusetts
Suffolk
Supreme Judicial Court
John Dayton
Philadelphia
Penn
William Bolton
Charlestown
Middlesex
John Lee
John Lees
Boston
Andrew Kettell
John W. Scribner
Oren &. Knapp
Main
Salem Streets
Main Street
C.F. Byam
Said Byam
Said Byams
Thomas Osgood
Osgood
Dayton
John Allen
Bolton
Allen
Byfield
County of
Essex
Middlesex Sc
Cambridge
T. Robert Fields
Ropert
Robert Fields
Lees
Fields
Nathaniel Austin
Andrew Ketéell
Austin
Kettell
General Equity
Boston Post
Henry A. Clapp
Chichester’s English Pills Promoted By Philadelphia Firm
An advertisement touts Chichester's English Penny Royal Pills as the original genuine remedy. Consumers are urged to ask their druggist or mail 4 cents plus stamp for more information and samples. Also promoted is a pocket record book and wallet by Aaron R. Gay & Co at 122 State Street for tea trade use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chichester
Chichester Chemical CO
Philadelphia
Penn
Aaron R. Gay
Stacy Adams firm dissolved and new partnership formed
Boston November 6 1856 notice states the firm Stacy Adams and Co is dissolved by mutual consent. William B Stacy Henry L Adams and Oliver B Quinby form a new partnership Stacy Adams and Co and will continue the business and pay old liabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Stacy, Adams & CO
William BH. Stacy
Henry L. Adams
Oliver B. Quinby
William H. Stacy, Oliver B. Quinby
Insolvency Notices From Boston Court Dated 1886
Warnings issued in Suffolk County Massachusetts for Shaw and Bray gas fitters and for Herbert St. Litchfield insolvent estates. Creditors advised of meetings to prove debts and elect assignees, with dates December 23 1886 and January 7 1887, at Court of Insolvency Boston.
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Massachusetts
Suffolk
Boston
William 8. Shaw
Charles A. Bray
Shaw
Court Square
William D. Martin
Common Wealth
Herbert St. Litchfield
Stephen Thacher
Milk Street
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Sarah F. Kingsbury
Micah Dyer, Jr
Pemberton Square
QSCE
Julius Adelson
Adelson
Meyer Hollander
Elisha Fpf. Cutler
Clarence M. Reed
Copartners
E. P. Cutler & Company
John M. B. Churchill
Devonshire Street
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Financial Chronicle
G. B. St’k
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Amsterdam
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Manchester
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H. Chamberlin
Senate
House OF Representatives
Shawsheen River
Hugh O'Brien
Mark E. Burns
Somerville
Eugene F. Endicott
Chelsea
Water Commissioners
Everett
Thomas Leavitt
Copartnership
Cheshire
Central Vermont Railroads
Montreal
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg Depot
Whie OO
CEX Press
Winchendon
Jaffrey
Peterboro
Fitzwilliam
Marlboro
Keene
Westmoreland
Walpole
Bellows Falls
Burlington
St. Johns
Saratoga
Delaware & Judson Canal Company
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Vermont
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R. Stewart
Keene, N. H
Montreal & West
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Pullman
Central
R. R
Moston
J. W. Hobart
S. W. Cummings
Stonington
GABA
Rhodes Island
Boston & Providence Railroad
Washington, Corner State Street
Boston & Providence RR
J. W. Richardson
A. A. Folsom
R.R
Wrashington Street
Pittsfield
Syracuse
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Doree
Avery St
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