Market bulletin shows mixed steady conditions across staples
Commercial matters report no change in lumber and flour, higher Chestnut coal, easier corn, unchanged oats, firms Butter and eggs steady. Cheese in good demand, potatoes and sweet potatoes in solid demand, hay steady but quiet, straw unchanged, truck dull, and tallow quiet. Pork lard steady with fair demand. light demand for fresh beef. sugars unchanged. molasses quiet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yast
New York
Minnesota
Old Milwaukee
Rio
Petroleum—United
Long Island
Bbis
South America
Liverpool
ST. Louis
Chicago
Detroit
Michigan
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Toledo
Lumber Market Holds Steady as Mills Stay Busy in Snowbound North
Eastern pine activity weak with light receipts as cold weather forces mill closures. Hemlock and Southern pine show steady demand while Western pine remains unchanged. Spruce and white wood demand fair. hardwoods steady with strong stock intake and varied prices. Boston week totals list pine 37912 feet, spruce 207507, hemlock 145317, southern spruce 313785, white wood 127948, black walnut 83041, hardwood 96104, cypress 145866 feet. total 1247980.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Indiana
Anthracite Trade Holds Steady Amid Weather and Demand Trends
The anthracite coal market shows no material change over the week with weather restricting mining yet boosting demand for domestic sizes. Operations may run until Dec 23–24 before year-end suspension. outlook for next year remains bright as manufacturing improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampton Roads
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Market Reports December Flour and Grain Prices
Market notes show stable flour prices with purchases in small lots. Corn prices ease slightly with steamer mixed at 51 51 0c and steamer yellow at 62 521 0c while no grade flour remains around 50 51c. Demand for oats remains steady with no quotation changes.
Grain market notes on bids bids and stocks in Chicago
The report lists closing bids for white oats corn and wheat with monthly bids and settlements. It details inspections of 103 cars including No 2 white winter wheat and No 2 rye plus notable stock in Chicago grain, oats, and barley with visible supplies and Liverpool quotations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bee
Chicago
Liverpool
Michigan
Canada Superior
Canada
New York
Bush
Eastern
Choice
Coe
Butter and dairy market report from Elgin and New York
Fresh Western creamery and Northern creamery markets show firm demand with high prices for extra and firsts. Butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, beans, and potatoes exhibit varied firmness and quiet restocks across Chicago New York and Liverpool markets. notable quotes include Western creamery extra 28 29c, New York butter 27 29c, and cheese firmer with 12 13c cheddar range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Chicago
Elgin Creamery Extra
Western Creamery Extra
New York
Western Creamery
Eastern Dairy
Liverpool
Eastern Creamery
Vermont Creamery
Ohio
New Hampshire
Vermont
Western Choice
Michigan
Nova Scotia
Northern Choice
Island Choice
Kentucky
Rhode Island
Canada
Jersey
Fruit and nut market report with varied prices and demand
In apples Baldwins and greening are firm with light local trade but strong shipping demand. Cranberries firm with some lots up to $9 per barrel. Pears and other fruits show steady or mixed prices. Messina lemons and oranges sold at noted box prices. Dried apples firm. nuts mixed. headlined by Virginia peanuts and hickory. Foreign fruit prices listed for bananas, oranges, Malaga grapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duchess
Lawrence
Sheldons
Messina
Palermo
Florida
New York
King
Hubbardstons
Nol&l
Baldwin
Greening
Tallman Sweet
Northern Spy
Isabella
Virginia
Shelbark
Tbs
Jamaica
Malaga
Meat market steady amid steady pork lard and light beef demand
Prices for pork lard and fresh meats hold unchanged as demand remains stable. Veals dull and mutton quiet with veal especially steady, while pork and lard long and short cuts show slight variations across cuts and packaging across markets.
Watertown Union Livestock Market Prices Dec 14 1886
Report for the Boston Post by George J. Fox shows car counts by road and wholesale prices for beef store cattle swine sheep and lambs hides tallow skins and calf skins. Listings include Boston Lowell Fitchburg Eastern lines and totals with per unit ranges and grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
George J. Fox
Market listings for livestock at Brighton and Boston routes
The notice lists bullocks from 1100 to 1400 lbs with extra first quality including large fat oxen. It notes second and third quality oxen and two to three year old steers, plus sheep including Cossets, and discarded inferior quality stock. Western hogs over the Boston and Albany line are included only in the Brighton market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Brighton
Retail prices at Faneuil Hall Market
Tuesday December 14 market report notes steady overall prices for fresh meats and dairy with a few declines on whole hams and fresh blades. Vegetables and fruits show higher prices amid cautious outlook as supply and demand shift. poultry and game remain steady with venison and quail in notable supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celery. Co
Cigiel
Minnesota
Malaga
Sm & d
Flour Receipts and Prices Across Markets Decline
New York reports firm flour sales with 24 091 bbls receipts and diverse grain pricing across districts. Southern markets show steady demand for common to extra grades, while wheat oats and rye see mixed firmness, with various No 2 and No 1 grades quoted and ample receipts and exports noted.
Hog and Cattle Markets Across Key Cities
Peoria reports hogs steady firm at 340 to 430 with 2500 receipts and 1200 shipments. St Louis hogs higher from 395 to 440 for various packers and butchers. Kansas City hogs firm at 4 for top quality with 10000 expected today. Chicago cattle and hog markets show stronger tone with Christmas steers to 515, shipping steers 325 to 490, stockers and feeders 2 to 4, cows and mixed 135 to 315. hogs 32000 receipts and 7000 ships, market strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
Texas
Mixed livestock values and shipments report
The rough data shows prices for packing and shipping at 41044 42 percent, light goods at 350 405, ships at 250 8 50. Sheep receipts total 6000 with shipments 2000 and descriptions of good strong common and native stock with values around 250 500, Wace 250 3 60, Texans 225 3 25, and lambs at 4 4 75.
Cotton Markets Report December 14 Across Major Ports
Net receipts and grosses listed for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville with exports coastwise to Britain France and the continent. Markets show firm to dull activity with mid to high price quotes and stocks detailed for each port. Consolidated four day totals summarize national receipts exports and stock at all ports.
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Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Mobile
Memphis
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
France
New York
Continent
Mid
Cincinnati
Mid 9Yse
St. Louis
Mid Ve
Louisville
United States
Wheat and wool markets steady in Manchester and London
Wheat in Liverpool and Manchester stalls firm with good demand and moderate receipts. London wool sales total 6100 bales with varied yields across Victoria New South Wales and Cape regions. prices move modestly with several fleece lots achieving higher rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taveerpool
Manchester
Eng
London
Victoria
New South Wales
South Australia
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
Imports and Exports Across Ports in Atlantic Trade
A long list of consignments from Charlottetown Georgetown and Montague detailing bush potatoes numbers of cases bales crates boxes and return cargoes. Entries name shippers firms vessels and goods including flax linens machinery yarn wine fruit and hardware processed through Liverpool Boston and other ports. A montage of 19th century trade activity with numerous firms such as Barclay & Co North America Samaria and Shreve Crump & Low appear alongside quantities of perishables and manufactured goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vharlottetown
Pel
Pierce & Co
John Farley & Sons
Pettee Machine Co
Y & O Harding
Webber
Tully & Co
Phelps, Dodge & Co
Wire Woods
Sherwood & Co
Steel Brown
McClure & Co
Downer
Oliver Ditson & Co
Herbert & Rapp
Baldwin Bros & Co
Sycamore I
Chase & Co
Mnaldi &Co
Barmg
Campbell & Co
Zenas Sears
Nichols & Farnsworth
Barclay & Co
Montague, Pel
Omatus
Russéli & Co
Exports from Halifax and ports show varied goods dispatched
Export list dated December 14 1886 from Halifax Nova Scotia includes kerosene oil dyewood flour and bottles. Arceibo Puerto Rico shipments feature sugar molasses sulphur iron pipe and brick. Clementport and Bear River NS report flour meal and other goods. Weymouth NS lists meal flour kerosene oil. Yarmouth NL steamer Dominion carries duck printing hardware boats rope flour onions boxes chairs and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Fearnot
Arecibo
Porto Rico
Clementport
Gold Hunter
Bear River
Percy Il
Weymouth
Addie John
Yarmouth
Dominion
Staple Shipments Recorded for Several Railroads
Receipts dated December 14, 1886 show Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, and other lines carrying cotton wool flour oatmeal corn oats millfeed lard bacon butter cheese eggs potatoes tea coffee sugar pork hams and various hides skins leather and lumber in bulk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Ios
Sears Go
Massive 19th Century Freight Totals by Rail and Water
A fragmented freight ledger lists cargo tallies for Fitchburg Boston & Maine Boston & Lowell and other carriers. Entries show bales cotton wool hides skins leather eggs lumber flour corn oats wheat and more divided by rail divisions and by sea shipments with hundreds of bales sacks cases and boxes.
Petition in Insolvency Court Seeks Warrant for Rubinovz Estate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County Court of Insolvency notices a petition filed December 7 1886 by Morse Wilson Co Boston creditors of Marks Rubinovz merchant Boston requesting a warrant to take possession of his estate and have it seized and distributed according to law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk
Morse, Wilson & CO
Boston
Arks Rubinovz
Marks Rubinovz
Ube
George Wyman West
Margaret G. Wyman
Admx
Nea
Mary A. F. Kendall
John T. Hurley
Patrick O’bryan
Catherine O’bryan
Ato’erice
Willetf
Ellen Kelley
Mary E. Kelley
TREENEAR'S Adoption Petition for Alfred Edwards Trenear
George M. Trenear and Stella M. Trenear of Boston seek leave to adopt Alfred Ed wards Edwards an unknown parentage child born likely April 7 1883 in Boston abandoned November 16 1883 and supported by the state. They request the child be renamed Alfred Crawford Trenear. Dated April 26 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
George M. Trenear
Boston
Stella M. Trenear
Alfred Edwards
Massachusetts
Alfred Crawford Trenear
Probate Court Order Notice for Child Petition
Suffolk ss Probate Court orders petitioners to notify all interested parties to appear at the Boston court on Monday January 3, 1886 at ten o’clock in the forenoon to show cause why the petition should not be granted. notice by copy or publication in the Boston Post for three weeks. Witness Judge Joan W McKlliot dated December 13, 1886. Elijah George Register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yombon Wealth of
Massachusetts
Suffolk
John W. McKim
John Burbank
Boston
Clarence W. Jones
Frederick Jackson
Boston Post
Joan W. McKim
Esquire
Elwah George
Register
Joan W. McKlliot
Elijah George
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
William H. Barnes
George R. Blinn
Bedford
Middlesex
Joan W. McKix
William V. Hutchings
David W. Foster
Julia M. Pearce
Joun W. MeKis
Edward D. Sohter
J. Theodore
Cambridge
George M. Brooks
J. H. Tyler
Probate Court CITATION HEZEKTAI BOYLES ESTATE
In Suffolk Probate Court Boston Charles E Boyles administrator presents first account of Hezektai E Boyles estate. Citations require appearance December 20 1886 at 10 AM to show cause why allowance should not be given. Publication spanning three weeks in Boston Post. Judge Joan W McKim. Register Elijah George.
Ninth Account of Foster Trustees for James Foster
Massachusetts probate court cites Trustees James Wyman and David W. Foster to present for allowance their ninth account of estate benefits for James Foster. Publication required weekly in the Boston Post for three weeks, last issue two days before court hearing. Court date noted as December 20, 1886 with Judge Johnny W. McKim.
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Rift Trom
South American
West India
Trom
Wading
Lehigh Val
UN. RR
N.S
Penna. Coal
Pei. & Hind
Penn. & N.Y
Cyrfd
Penn
Do Hebrons
Burbanks
Maine
St. Andrew
New Brunswick
Houston
Aroostook
Mid Uplands
Orleans
Sis
Sheek X'S Raitt
Ross Aw
Dod
TINON
Dees
Une
Jans
Isi
Icus
Manila
Belmont
Cuba
WGC
S. Rips
Watertown Union Livestock Market
Boston & Lowell
Fitchburg
N. B
Hampshire
Western
Faneuil Hall Market
Telegraph
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad—Western Division
Boston & Lowell Railroad
By Express
By Sea
Edward H. Perkins
Chelsea
Suffolk County
W. Frederick Kimball
Court Street
Eugene P. Carver
State Street
Yominionwealth
Messenger's
Dedham
Abram C
Paul
Edward H. Ferkins
Vele Undersignee
Albert J. Wheeler
County of
William B. French
Edward Sullivan
Ebenezer S. Colby
Wally Wallet
Osgood Morse
Avaidel Vacallid
James E. Leach
Edward H. Clarke
Frederick C
Herrick
Edmund Jackson
Sassachusetts
Hezektai E. Boyles
Charles E. Boyles
Joan W. McKim, Esquire
Siommonwealth
Probate Court
John H. Foster
James Wyman
James Foster
Jonny W. McKim
Samuel Pearce
Joan W. Trull
Newton
Insaid County
Elizabeth T. Eldredge
H. Setbomeree
Thomas Killion, Jr
Mary F. Killion
Ebenezer Brown Bogle
Ieee
Edw
R. Davis
Admr
Ellen McDowell
Patrick F. Tilrney
Arch Street
Cambridgeport
Augusta F. French
Harles F. E
Maison
Doree
Avery St
Hote
Hienry Vieth
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