Wholesale market quotes on cheese eggs beans and more
New York prices hold steady across produce items with jobbing prices modestly higher. Eggs show tight supply for Eastern extras at 27 to 28 cents, various regional stocks quoted, beans and peas priced with steady demand, grass seeds and potatoes listed with regional variations, and poultry markets firm with multiple listed ranges for chickens turkeys fowls ducks and geese.
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York
North Choice
West
Vermont
New Hampshire
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Michigan
Island
Canada
York State
Timothy
Red Top
Jersey
Houlton Hebrons
Houlton Rose
Aroostook Hebrons
Aroostook
Vermont Hebrons
Burbanks
New York
Rose
Hebrons
Chenangoes
Prince Edward Island
Virginia
Commodity Prices for Produce at Old Quotation Stand
The listing shows current market quotes for truck crops and produce. Items include marrow squash at 20 per ton, Savoy cabbage 74 cents per bushel, red cabbage 150 per barrel, onions 1.20 to 1.40 per barrel, Spanish onions 75 cents per crate, beets 40 cents per bush, lettuce 25 cents per dozen, spinach 60 cents per bush, Norfolk spinach 1.50 per barrel, parsley 1.25 per bush, and parsnips 60 cents per bush.
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Hubbard
Russia
Norfolk
Provisions Market Shifts Across Cities
Pork prices steady in Chicago with gains for lard futures and weaker hog demand. Beef and dry salted meats soften while fresh beef remains well supplied. Cincinnati and St Louis show lower pork and steady lard. Quotes cover pork cuts, backs, ribs, bacon, and entrails with regional price variations.
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Chicago
New York
South America
St Louis
Cincinnati
Brighton
Hog and cattle markets steady with mixed regional notes
Receipts and price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Kansas City St Louis Peoria and Chicago markets. Cattle dull due to oversupply with beets and stockers easing. hogs steady to higher in some cities. sheep firm with varied regional quotes. Key figures include cattle beets $285 to $580, hogs heavy $4 97 to 5 10, sheep natives $2 50 to $4 85.
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Kansas City
Sheen
St Louis
Peoria
Chicago
Texas
Banana Steamer Marmion Due December 20
The steamer Marmion is due on December 20 from Jamaica carrying fruit for the Boston Fruit Company.
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Banana Steamers
Jamaica
Boston Fruit Company
Fruit Auction Notice by Harris & Co
Harris and Co announce an auction Tuesday offering 8000 boxes Florida oranges and 500 boxes dates. The sale lists fruit quantities for delivery and bidding details to be provided at the auction site.
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H Harris & Co
Probate notices from Middlesex probate court
Citations regarding estates of John Stafford of Waltham Abigal hie peel Somerville Caroline P Perham Cambridge and William Leahy final distribution. Court in Cambridge December 1888. Boston Post publication three weeks accordingly.
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Agnes N. Winslow
Boston
Suffolk
The
Boston West
Joan W. McKim
Isquire
Commonwealth OF Massachussetts
Middlesex
John Stafford
Waltham
Charles A. Welch
Cambridge
Boston Post
Lostén
George M. Brooks
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Abigal Hie Peel Late
Somerville
Robert N. Bolton
Esquire
J. H. Tyler
Register
Massachlus Setts
Caroline P. Perham
James B. Billings
Grover M. Brooks
Massachu Setts
Daniel Leahy
William Leahy
Massachussetts
Nancy W. Trumbull
Edwin A. Alger
GornGe M. Brooks
J. H. Lyler
Frederic W. Bliss
Joan W. McKim, Esquire
Fruits and nuts market prices in steady trade list
The market shows ample supply and steady demand for apples grapes and citrus. Prices for common to good apples range from 1 25 to 2 25 per box, stubbardstons up to 1 50, grapes include catawbas 22 2 2 2 cents, concords 22 27 cents, oranges and lemons note Florida demand quiet with Messina lemons 2 25 4 00 per box and Valencia oranges 4 4 50 per box. Cranberries are dull with 7 50 per barrel for choice and 4 7 per case for fair to good. Nuts steady with peanuts 6 6 8 cents per pound and hickory nuts 1 75 2 00 per bushel.
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Stubbardstons
Sweet
Nova Scotia Gravensteins
Snow
Baldwins
Harveys
Taliman Sweets
Almeria
Florida
Messina
Palermo
Jamaica
Virginia
Cotton market steadies as New York futures open steady
New York prices hold steady for middling uplands and other grades with sales of 206 bales. Futures open quiet and close steady. Liverpool spot cotton eases with 10,000 bales traded. Across ports, receipts and stocks vary with mixed demand and steady to dull tones in Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans markets.
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New York
Esees
Viet Ss Diboo
Ws Ccessee Sau
Bunun Isis Case
AUIS
Liverpool
Orleans
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Mid
Memphis
Savannah
Great Britain
Charleston
France
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Continent
Cincinnati
St.Louis
Louisville
United States
Sugar and Molasses Prices in Raw and Refined Trade
Sugar trade remains quiet with firm prices for raw sugars including Cuba and Java consignments. Refined sugars hold steady with various grades quoted. Molasses markets firm with Fancy Ponce Porto Rico and Porto Rico varieties noted, while New York and New Orleans demand persists.
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Cuba
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
New Orleans
Market Roundup Across Commodities and Regions
Tallow shows strong demand with firm prices quotes 642¢ for city rendered, 5c for country, rough 4c. New York markets dull with city at 64.6% se. Coffee Rio weakens with fair car at 16% c. Whiskey steady: Chicago 120, Cincinnati 114, St Louis 114. Turpentine and petroleum in New York mixed: turpentine 46c, resin 10 2/44 at 107% and tar nominal. petroleum 6.60 7.30c, RSW 7.25c, cases 9.50c.
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New York
Rio
Chicago
Cincinnati
St Louis
Savannah Steamer Gate City Imports Across Ocean Ports
Entries list shipments arriving December 17 in Savannah and Charlottetown with numerous cargoes including oranges, lumber, hides, boxes, bags, and pig iron from firms such as Allen & Morse, Billings & Eaton, Chapman Bros, Conant & Bean, and many others. The record names consignors, quantities, and items like oranges, lumber, hides, eggs, potatoes, and seafood, noting destinations Halifax and Port Hawkesbury as well.
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Isss
Savannah
Gate City
Allen & Morse
Dodo J Bigelow & Co
Benjamin
Ballon
Billings & Eaton
Blake & Ripley
Koynton & Co
S & J Brown & Co
Chapin Bros
Morrison & Co
George McQuesten & Co
George E Newhall
C R _ Noyes
Patch & Roberts
Dennie
Rogers & Co
Stetson & Co
Sands, Furber & Co
Shurtleff Bros
Sherman
Spurr & Co
Simmons Bros
Simons & Co
Snow & Co
Sawtell & Pratt
C Townsend
Wellman, Hall & Co
Wadleigh
York & Whitney
Charlottetown
Pei
Halifax
Port Hawkesbury
George and & Co
Egus Barclay & Co
Boston Consolidated Produce Co
Buckley
Seaman’s Clothing
British Consul
Eels
Burns & Co
George Bond & Co
Barclay &Co
Tdwards
Eldredge & Flaley
R Foster
HK Griffin & Co
Edward Harvey
F Hutchinson & Co
Hundrey
Hathaway & Co
Johnson & Co
Morse & Holt
Manning & Co
H Murch & Co
Mead & Co
John McKinnon
McKeever W& Yall
Noyes
French & Fickett
Priest
Rockwell
Rowne
John R Smith
Charles Clark
Slayton & Boynton
WN Thompson
Maritime goods list from Liverpool and Yarmouth shipments
A dense inventory of goods loaded on ships bound for Liverpool and Yarmouth including herring, potatoes, lard, skins, eels, starch, pig iron, books, glass, wool, caustic soda, brimstone, bleaching powders, nails, soda ash, salt, sails, poultry, rabbits, apples, moose horns, cranberries, beef, codfish, haddies, frozen fish and other items. Ship names Bostonian Yarmouth Steamer and Yarmouth are cited with multiple consignors and bulk quantities.
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Robert Thomas
Whittier
Winsor & Son
Wyman
Woodside & Co
Liverpool
Eng
Bostonian
Riley & Gray
Leigh & Co
Indsée
Moors & Co
Moise Thomas Leyland & Co
Lovering & Co
Linder & Meyer
Morey & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Yarmouth
Hall & Co
Clements & Co
Barclay & Co
Webber
Delong & Seaman
Exports from Glasgow and Halifax Dated December 17 1888
Shipping cargo lists from Glasgow and Halifax record Hibernian clearing December 12 with flour ham apples cattle wax and lumber among many items. Carroll clears December 15 with onions wire netting and twine. Havana schooner John Proctor carries gas coke.
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Glasgow
Scot
Hibernian
Halifax
Carroll
Dee
Havana
Cuba
John Proctor
1888 Commodity Receipts Ledger Fragment
Readable ledger fragment lists December 17 1888 receipts by commodity. Categories include cotton wool butter molasses flour oleo cheese cornmeal oats beans wheat barley barley etc with units bales sacks bbls bushels and pounds. Several named items show quantities and accompanying totals reflecting a broad inventory tally from 1888.
Receipts from Dec 17 1888 railroads list cargos and quantities
Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York New England, Fitchburg, and Loston & Maine lines report extensive consignments. Wool, cotton, flour, cornmeal, corn, oats, wheat, malt, feed, pork, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, hay, straw, leather, hides, pelts, and various crates of goods quantified in bales, bbls, cases, tubs, sacks, rolls, and tons across multiple rail routes. Major totals include thousands of bushels of corn and oats, hundreds of bbls of flour and lard, and numerous livestock and dairy products.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York
New England
Fitchburg Railroad
Loston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Boston and Maine Goods and Cargoes Section Summary
Boston and Maine Railroad divisions report varied consignments including bales of cotton wool and leather, potatoes, hay, lumber, and eggs. Additional items include beef pork tea coffee sugar molasses butter cheese beans cheese and hides, with multiple counts of bales and cases listed across express sea and rail shipments.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Lowell
Express
Foreign Markets Report Signals Wheat Firm Worldwide
London markets show firm wheat for cargoes and passage while corn remains slow. Paris wheat and flour firm as Antwerp and Liverpool price levels hold. Futures steady in Liverpool with January California wheat at 73 11141, April 8s Oled, and February mixed American corn around 48 6144d 4s 41d. country markets show upward tendency.
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London
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
California
Antwerp
Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town
Buffalo Buffalo W H Walker of WH Walker & Co Chicago Ill T N Howard of Howard & Hayward Cincinnati O L Bunker of I Faller Sons Co Pa St Joseph Mo C W Noyes of Noyes Norman Co St Louis Mo A D Brown of Hamilton Brown Shoes Am
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Buffalo
H Walker
Walker & Co
Chicago
Ill
N Howard
Howard & Hayward
Cincinnati
L Bunker
I Faller, Sons & Co
St Joseph
W Noyes
Noyes, Norman & Co
St Louis
A D Brown
Hamilton-Brown Shoe So
Western Division Workingmen's Train Sunday Schedules
The notice lists Sunday trains for Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford and nearby stations with multiple departure and arrival times including 6pm 8am 7pm 9pm and service hours across the region detailing Meadings and stations and various numbered times throughout the day.
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Dover
Haverhill
Lawrence
Manchester
Lowell
Medford
Peakland
Beanger
Lewiston
Meadings
Massive Rail Timetable Fragments Across New England Area
A dense roster of station times and routes appears, listing numerous towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Rochester Hampton Beach Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Riddleton Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Salem Swampscott Wenham Wolfeboro and more. The entry seems to annotate daily or Thursday and Saturday service with varied departure times, branch notes, and via routes, plus a note about workers trains and Boston Haymarket.
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Boston Station
Haymarket Square
Alton Bay
Rochester
Farmington
Andover
Mover
Danvers
Exeter
Great Falls
Maverhill
Georgetown
Kennebunk
Biddeford
Saco
North Lawrence
South Lawrence
Lowell
Malden
Medford
Melrose Highlands
Melrose
Teoay
Merrimac
Aim
North Andover
Newburyport
Reading
Satem
Wakefield
North Wilmington
Amesbury
Beverly
Chelsea
Dover
Ova
Everett
Hampton
Beach
North Hampton
Rye Beach
Ipswich
Lynn
Marblehead
Swampscott Branch
Riddleton
North Conway
Peabody and Danvers
Portsmouth
Mevere
Rockport and
Gloucester Branch
Salem
York Marbor & Beach
Swampscott
Wenham
Wolfeboro
Lyon and Way
Portland
Bangor
St. John
Halifax
Cape Cod Bus Schedule Fragments Across Towns
Partial timetable lists departures and arrivals for multiple Cape Cod towns including Bourne Brewster Chatham Hyannis Fairhaven Harwich Provincetown and others. Times show morning and afternoon windows such as 8:15 am and 4:15 pm with variations per stop. Some entries include nonstandard spellings and garbled labels but indicate routine daily service patterns and weekday notes.
Vast Rail Schedule Fragments From Boston to New York and Beyond
A dense list of train times and routes across many towns including Attleboro Canton Junction Dedham Forest Hills and Jamaica Plain. It notes Sunday departures and various irregular times with numerous errors and OCR-like garbles. The piece appears to be an old carriage of timetables with inconsistent formatting and many stray numbers.
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Rostindake
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Spring Street
Canton Junction
Dodgeville
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Foxboro
Forest Hills
Hazelwood
Hee
Angitens
Ky Park
Jamaica Plain
Mansfield
Mt. Hope
Clarendon Hills
Mrth
Sunda
Oxbur
Rumfor Im
Sharon
Sharon Ays
Stou
Abe
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