Watertown Union Live Stock Market Report for Feb 8 1887
Boston Post correspondent George J. Fox details week ending Feb 8 1887 prices and figures for cattle sheep hogs and calves from New England and western states. Includes state totals by stock type road car counts and price ranges for market beef store cattle sheep hides tallow and skins with notes on quality classifications and regional market notes.
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Markets by Telegraph. Farm prices and supplies across five cities
New York reports flour receipts 20 428 bbls and 10 100 sacks with export 1611 bbls. wheat receipts 44 000 bush and exports 170 172 bush. rye flour, corn meal and oats mixed. Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis show varied flour, wheat, corn, oats, and pork values with shipments and receipts noted. prices range from no 2 red wheat around 81 1 8c to pork around 12 75 for old and 14 for new in Pittsburgh areas. Margin shifts include lard and butter prices and freight quotes to Liverpool.
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Petroleum— United
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Hogs and cattle prices drift. hogs mixed across markets
Kansas City reports hogs at 460 to 490 with 8,000 receipts today. St Louis sees hogs steady at 490 to 530. Peoria bids 450 to 530. Chicago cattle steady with shipping steers at 350 and stockers 250, hogs 480 to 525 with lower overall. Sheep receipts 4,000 with natives and Westerns around 340 to 490.
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Cotton Market Totals Mixed Across U S Ports
The report lists net receipts and gross figures for Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, and Philadelphia. Prices range mid to high mids with several ports quiet or steady. exports to Britain and the continent noted for New Orleans.
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Great Britain
Continent
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Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Trade and shipping figures across ports reported
Consolidated net receipts for four days total 62057 with exports to Great Britain 35836, to France 3223, to the continent 10097 and stock at all United States ports 910213. Individual port data include Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville with varied gross receipts exports shipments and stocks and mid 9 ranges noted.
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Market Reports From London and Liverpool Commodities
Telegraph market notes show wheat and corn activity with quiet but steady demand in London and Liverpool. Prices for Danubian corn and wheat futures are given, plus wool sales at Manchester and assorted global spot quotes from Antwerp Paris and other ports.
Imports and Exports Report of February 8 1887
List of import and export cargoes with origins including Demerara Antwerp St John London. Items include brig Hyaline 1900 bags sugar and 46 bags 46 tes. steamer Jan Breydel bacon boxes cider leather pork staves palm oil. brig Kathleen flour beef duck feathers ink hardware oats oil kerosene tar twine walnut boards copper paint. goods cleared London via Halifax and Reb 5 including flour corn bottles show cards leather and canned beef among others.
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New York
Jan Breydel
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Kathleen
London
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British Crown
Staple Product Receipts Across Railroads in 1887
Detailed tally of commodities delivered on February 8 1887 by several railroads Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony Fitchburg including cotton wool flour corn oats barley malt millfeed lard butter bacon cheese beef eggs tea coffee sugar and hides with hundreds of bales boxes tubs sacks and cases listed for each line S1 Boston and Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad Fitchburg Railroad.
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Erie Molasses
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Morton
Old Colony Fall River Line Schedules to New York Start Jan 24 1887
The notice lists weekday and Sunday train times for Old Colony lines from Boston to New York via Fall River, with multiple stopoffs including Ashmont Hyannis Brockton Provincetown Cohasset Weymouth and others. It names the connections and return times, plus notes on special days and service variations. J. R. Kendrick, General Manager.
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Trains Schedules for Boston and Maine and Connects 1887
The notice lists through trains on both divisions from Augusta Haymarket to various points including Causeway Street and Haymarket stations. Connections include St John Halifax and the Provinces, Lewiston, Manchester Concord New York North Conway Portland and stations on Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox & Lincoln Railways with specified departure times.
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Maine Central
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Knox & Lincoln Roaiways
Boston and Area Local Time Tables Excerpt 1886
Rail lines list daily train schedules from Boston for many towns including Danvers Exeter Melrose Newton North Andover and Saco with return times and Sunday variations. It notes through tickets sale at 232 Washington street and station ticket offices. Rigid timetable lines show multiple departures throughout the day and night.
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Brookline
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H. T. Gallup
Fitchburg Railroad Train Schedule Effective October 10 1886
Passenger train times from Boston to multiple western and regional points vary by line and car type with express and local services including sleeping and drawing room cars. The schedule lists departures to Albany Chicago St Louis St Louis via various routes and returns with numerous intermediate stops such as Framingham Lowell Ayer Junction Greenfield and Worcester among others.
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Historic Freight Ledger Fragments Across Rail Routes and Goods
A fragmented OCR record lists commodities freighted by New York and New England, Boston and Maine, Boston and Lowell, and express and sea routes. Entries include bales of wool and cotton, bolls, bales, hides, leather, lumber, flour, eggs, butter, and many numbers, with multiple divisions and carloads noted. The text reads like a cargo ledger with varied units and destinations across 19th or early 20th century rail and shipping networks.
Boston Area Trains Listed From Causeway Street Schedule
Eastern Division timetable details trains from Boston stations to Amesbury Beverly Widdeford Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Rochester Hampton Beach North Hampton Lynn Salem and others on Thursdays and Saturdays. The list names many stops with assorted times and notes Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. James T. Parker General Manager D J Flanders General Passenger Agent.
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Workingman
South Reading
Boston
Haymarket Square
City
Washington Street
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D.J. Flanders
Boston and Lowell Railroad Through Service and Local Runs
Boston station details Causeway Street and 218 Washington Street offer through service from Boston to towns including Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier St Albans Montreal and more 8 30 am 1 and 7 pm for Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville 8 30 am 2 and 7 pm for St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec 8 50 pm Bristol branch Lem Claremont branch 1 pm local White Mountain Division 8 30 am Northern Division 8 80 am and 3 pm Pullman sleepers to Montreal 7 pm Parlor cars to Montreal 8 30 am Local service from Boston Manchester and Concord Keene Peterboro Hillsboro 7 30 am 3 pm Stillsboro via Concord Len Wilton Milford Amherst 7 50 am 3 30 pm Greenfield 7 30 am 3 pm Nash 7 30 8 30 am 12 m 1 3 5 8 30 pm SUN 30
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Boston and New England Rail Schedule Corrections 1887
Updated travel times and routes for Boston area lines including Ashcroft Norwich line and Shore Line. lists departures from Boston foot of Summer Street weekdays and Sundays with connections to Needham Mansfield Providence Manchester Concord and Hartford. notes return times and special Sunday edits.
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W.H. Turner
Boston Post 1887: eight page quarto with new presses
The Boston Post has new ownership and a modern eight page quarto format with upgraded presses and type. An experienced editor leads the staff, promising fearless political, literary, commercial and social coverage, plus expanded departments and a semi weekly vessel list in port.
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