Commodity prices for iron, steel, and metals in 19th century markets
The list details prices and discounts for refined iron, bar iron, puddled iron, and steel products from journals, with ton prices for ingot products and per ton pricing for rails. It includes values for nails, pipes, boiler tubes, tin, lead, and zinc products and notes various off discounts for small lots and special off percentages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eglinton
Summeriee
Gartsberry
Langivean
Glengarnock
Coltress
Etore
New England
London
Straits
Grain Markets Mixed With Steady Flour Values
IMARKET REPORTS details a steady flour market with moderate volume and a firmer corn market, noting firmer oats and steady to firm prices across grains. It lists specific price ranges for flour types, export cereals, cornmeal, oatmeal, buckwheat flour, rye, millet, cottonseed meal, barley, malt, and 1887 New York grades, with carload quotations and notes on bids and sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Michigan
Canada Superior
Canada Roller
Canuana
New York
Canada
Bush
Choice
Eastern
Wholesale market reports on butter and dairy goods quota
The market shows strong demand for butter with firm prices across multiple creamery grades. Prices for cheese eggs beans hay potatoes and poultry are listed with regional variances and jobbing adjustments, noting steady to unchanged quotes and ready sale upon arrival.
Market Notes: Butter Cheese Eggs Beans and More Steady
In New York butter stays unchanged while cheese is steady. Eggs remain as last reported and beans are firm. Dried apples are dull. The Liverpool cheese market remains steady at the Ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liverpool
Fruit market notes idle quiet demand for apples and citrus
Fruit demand steady with Liverpool receipts small. Baldwins bid at 14 to 16s, Greenings 14s. Spy apples quoted at 3 3 56 per barrel. common stock 2 75 to 3 00. Cranberries firm. Cape Cod quot at 1 00 11 per barrel. Oranges varied with Palermo and Florida offerings. Palermo lemons and Messina oranges listed with price ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Cape Cod
Cod
Merpiterranean Prouit
Palermo
Florida
Messina
Valencia
Meat Market Prices Steady Across Pork Beef Lambs and Mutton
Pork remains in good demand with steady quotations across cuts. Prices shown for long cuts 17 50 to 18 00, backs 18 26 to 15 50, lean ends 17 56 to 18 00, prime mess 16 75, mess 14 75 to 16 15, sausages and hams listed. Beef unchanged with various plate and beef tongue prices. Fresh beef and lambs in fair demand, mutton steady, prices for fancy lambs 10c per lb and common to good 7 to 9c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
New York
Vermont
Choice
Ohio Choice
Choice Eastern
Eastern
East
New Hampshire
Oice Western
Southern Choice
Red Top
Jersey
East Swale
Houlton Rose
Houlton Hebrons
Aroostook Rose
Aroostook Hebrons
Burbanks
Hebrons
Regent
St Andrews
Lord
Hanis
Chicago
Brighton
Commodity Market Briefs In Sugar Molasses And Oil
Raw sugar market shows little change with steady prices across grades including 96 test Javas and refined varieties. Molasses and cottonseed oil certificates see mixed results with notes of steady or fair activity. Turpentine and petroleum in New York trade end with several figures. petroleum closes at 7 U.S. cents per barrel with related rosin and tar values noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
Vgc
Ponce Porto Rico
New York
London
Je Co
Flour and grain prices across major markets Feb 11
Reports from New York trade centres show flour receipts and exports with Minnesota and city mill extras priced up to 470 600 and 440 475 per barrel. Wheat, corn, oats and sugar trends noted across Detroit Minneapolis Milwaukee Chicago Toledo Cincinnati St Louis and other hubs with varying bids and steady to quiet demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minnesota
Canada
United
South America
Liverpool
Detroit
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Chicago
Toledo
Cincinnati
ST. Louis
New York Spot Cotton Steady at 105 1 2 Cents a Pound
Spot cotton in New York closes firm with middling uplands at 105 1 2 cents and lower grades up to 10 3 4 cents. Sales total 67 bales. Futures open steady with bids and asks listed for February through January. Liverpool spot remains steady with uplands at 54 pence and Orleans at 6 9 16 pence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liverpool
Orleans
Cotton Market Report Shows Mixed Net Receipts and Prices
The report lists net receipts, gross, exports, and stock for major ports such as Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and Consolidated totals. It notes firm or steady daily markets, with several ports reporting exports to Great Britain and coastwise movement, and provides estimates of American and European consumption and balance for 1888.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
Stoc
Baltimore
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louuisville
Continent
United States
Latham, Alexander & Co
Europe
Russia
Market Report Hogs Cattle And Sheep Across Major Cities
Hogs quoted lower in Kansas City and St Louis with varied bids. Chicago cattle and Texas hogs shown steady to slow, with prices ranging from about 3.75 to 5.70 for hogs and cattle from 3.75 to 4.90 for steers and feeders, plus lamb and sheep figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
ST. Louis
Peorla
Chicago
Texas
Print Cloth Markets In Fall River Slow Week With Steady Prices
In Fall River the print cloth market shows inactivity amid heavy deliveries that ease stock. Production 175000 pieces, deliveries 178000, stock 2000, last week 5000. sales 66000, spot 34000, futures 32000. price 4c for 64x643, 33 1/3c for 60x56s. Providence notes quiet market with 161000 last week’s sales and scant current demand for future delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Providench, R. L
Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool Trade Hubs
London market notes show cargoes off coast with wheat firmer and corn quiet, Paris wheat and flour dearer, Liverpool quotes steady to firm with No 1 California wheat around 6s 9d beacon ranges. Havana sugar market weak but some sales occur amid ample stock and steady freight rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
California
Antwerp
Havana
Matanzas
United States
London Wool Sales Show Strong Bidding At Varied Lot Sale
London wool sales opened with brisk bidding and keen competition led by home buyers. Cape of Good Hope and Natal wools drew strongest demand while 6100 bales from New South Wales were offered in varying sorts including scoured and greasy grades, signaling a robust market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
New South Wales
Scoured Locks and Pieces Across Global Bales
A list of scoured locks and pieces with bales totals from regions including Victoria Queensland South Australia New Zealand and the Cape of Good Hope and Natal. Entries mention greasy conditions and varied prices and weights across 200 to 3400 bales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Queensland
South Australia
New Zealand
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
Imports and Exports. 1888 Halifax Lobsters Fish and Goods
Readable list records imports and exports at Halifax Nova Scotia and Charters. Ships include Worcester Tarban and Catalonia with cargoes of lobsters fish potatoes molasses sugar logs pickled limes and a vast array of dry goods and hardware. Trade entries mention firms such as Dana Delong & Seaman Whit ney Pousland & co and George E Downes along with destination ports like Demerara Antwerp and Demerara with masses of barrels casks and sacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Worcester
Dana
Delong & Seaman
Ellis & Co
Hatheway & Co
Johnson
Jones & Co
Morrill
Russell & Co
Russell & Co—100 Drums Dry Fish 16 Bbls Fish © D Stone
Walter Swan & Co
Whitney
Pousland & Co
Winsor & Son
Wyman
Ponga
Whitney, Pousland & Co
Port AU Prince
Isaac Rich
East Harbor
E H Williams
George E Downes
Matanzas
Barkentine
Arthur C Wade
Nash
Spaulding & Co
Alice
Cyrus Wakefield
ST Jacques
Ocean Star
Port Medway
Fredley
Antwerp
Hermann
George H Leeard & Co
Gill & Lootz
Norway Steel and Iron Co
If Jones & Co
Linder & Meyer
Beach & Co
Sherburne
Sheldon
Richards
Indigo
JA & W
Bird & Co
Wight Bros
Asphalt King & Co
Chromos Este
Demerara
Senconer
Alex Brown & Son
Liverpool
Eng
Catalonia
Macullar
Porjer & Co
Bios & Co
Storer & Co
Moors & Co
Ecard
Davis & Furber Mant Co
J & J Murdock
Hovey & Co
Wooller
Higgins & Henderson
James Lovett & Co
Sears
Conner, Jones & Co
Loveoy & Co
Kendall, Barrows & Co
Charles Pollock
H Roffe & Co
Felton & Co
Wells, Fargo & Co
Gust Lundberg
Exports from Annapolis and distant ports report cargo details
Export list dated February 11 1888 from Annapolis Nova Scotia notes schooner Ethel B carrying flour cornmeal refined oil. Bark Belle of Oregon via Coosaw to Yokohama Japan with coils cordage. Bark Clotilde from Aspinwall USC carries bricks hay lumber poultry oysters and ballast quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Ethel
Yokohama
Japan
Coosaw
Belle
Oregon
Aspinwall
Usc
Staple Purchases and Stock Movements by Railroads
Trade ledgers show extensive receipts of cotton wool flour corn and other staples across lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg and Boston & Maine railroads. Entries record bales of cotton and wool flour bbls corn leather and butter among numerous goods and quantities.
Import Records of Variety Goods and Commodities
List of various goods with quantities including butter 16 bbls hides 2 bbls pelts 16 bags tea 1000 bags coffee 15 bbls molasses 1275 bags sugar 20 pkus beans 1747 bush potatoes 13 rolle 587 bales leather 64 bales hides 4aso0 bolls green hides 408 bales 89 casks skins 49 bales pelts with movements by Express and Sea routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Express
Prominent Dealers Listed Across States in Trade Directory
A long OCR fragment lists numerous merchants and firms with locations in cities such as Alleghany Akron Chicago Chattanooga Charleston Cincinnati Cleveland Gadsden Lorain Maysville Mansfield Montgomery Philadelphia Plattsburg Savannah Toledo and Washington The entries pair individual names with firms like Warner Miller Phelps Palmer Bowers Pratt Schwartz Bro Gore Lord Frank Pollak and Altmayer among others The scattered names and firms imply a compiled directory of business contacts across multiple states and cities with no single cohesive event noted
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alleghany
Penn
J Fielding
Crawoo
C K Hanna
H Blumhager & Co
Akron
E Warner
Warner & Miller
Butler
Huselton
Chicago
P Dodge
Phelps, Dodge & Palmer
Ill
J F Pratt
Bowers & Pratt
Chattanooga
Tenn
H Schwartz
H Schwartz & Bro
Charleston
L Fins
F Lord
Lord & Co
Craw
Massillon
T Frank
J D Frank & Co
Maysville
J J Picor
Mt Vernon
Hull
Mansfield
G H Lowrey
Montgomery
Ala
Pollak
Pollak & Co
Philadelphia
R Lynch
John Wanamaker
Plattsburg
C McDougall
I. G Moore & Co
St Conte Mo
J H Schafer
Schafer, Swartz & CO
Savannah
A R Altmayer
A K Altmayer & Co
Probate Notices from Massachussets Suffolk Court 1888
The Suffolk Probate Court cites heirs in two will trust accounts for Daniel Hammond and Samuel Pearce, with hearings set for February 27 and February 20 1888. Notices require weekly publication in the Boston Post and summarize trustee allowances for child-benefit estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachuse’ts
Suffolk
Daniel Hammond
Boston
Francis V. Balch
William
Pickering
Elizabeth Gorham
Boston Post
Itness
Joan W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
Commonwealth OF Massachus Betts
Samuel Pearce
William V. Hutchings
David W. Foster
Julia M. Pearce
Elwah George
the Post
Post
Boston and Albany Rail Schedule Deep into 1887
Local time tables for Boston and Albany routes show multiple daily departures to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West with through tickets at 232 Washington Street Boston. Express and sleeping car services to New York Worcester and New Haven are listed, with numerous station stops and Sunday variations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheshire
M. Press
Wagner Palace
Rutland
Barlington
St. Albans
Ottawa
Trae
Montreal
Ogdensburg
Washington Street
Boston
A. Faxon
Agi. K. Stewart
Keene
N. T
Boston & Albany
R.R. Dee
Ofive
Kneeland Street
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
North Adams
Chatham
Flndson
Palmer
Ware Hiver
Hartford
New Miaven
New York
Worcester
Mew Blaven
Millbury
North Grafton
Westboro
Southwillie
Jordaville
Pat
Ashland
Milford
South Framingham
Saxonville
Natick
Wellesley
Wellesley Hillis
Newton Lower Falls
Aburndale
West Newton
Newtonville
Newton
Faneuil
Brighton
Allston
Cottage Farm
Brookline
Cyprens Street
Reservoir
Chestnut Mill
Newton Centre
Newton Blighlands
Framingham and
Marlboro
Breturn
Northbore
Clinton
Loomister
Fitchburg
Berlin
West Berlin
Pratt's Junction
Dusaay
Newtons Lower Falls
Wellesle Bains
Gem
Newton Highlands
Lntermediate
Hanson
Gallup
Gen. Pass
Sap
Causeway Street
Troy
Rotterdam Junction
West
Chicago
Niagara Falls
St. Louis
Niagara Falls and
Wabash Western Railway
Erie
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway
Ayer Junction
Belmont and
Overley
SUN
Brattleboro
Miller’s Falls
Union Square
Somerville
Gore
Waltham
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburn
Miller's Falls
Hoosac Tunnel
Vermont
Fullman Carson
Lowell
Pitchburg
Waener Palace
Central Vermont RE. R
J. W. Hobart
W. Cummings
Pass
Comprehensive Early 20th Century Rail Schedule Listing
A dense timetable page lists train arrivals and departures across towns such as Barnstable Hyannis Bourne Quincy Weymouth Brockton Falmouth and Fall River with various service notes. It includes multiple routes via Brockton Taunton Duxbury and Newport and names GEO L CONNOR and J KR KENDRICK as officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weymouths
Hingnam
Cohasse Scituate
Marshfield
Duxbury
Lymouth
Eae
Marefield
Cohasset
Hingham
Brockton
Tauntoc
Tauneton
Newport
South Braintree and
South Bras Tree
Taunton
New Bedford
Middleboro
Rotary
Geo. L. Connor
J. KR. Kendrick
Rail Schedule For Rooston and Providence Trains
On and after Monday May 30 87 trains run to Boston New York and Providence. Timetables include Shore Line Fast Express and Steamboat Line routes with varied departure and return times, noting Sundays and certain services and multiple stops. The schedule covers many towns and connections, with occasional notes on stops and exceptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LD Colony
sProuai
ISO
Boston
New Old State House
New York
Fall River
Fa “Iver
Providence
MONDA
Bear Boston
Shore Line
Shore Ne
Stonington
Breturn
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Imarket
Thomas Ellison
Best
India
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Western Division
Boot and Shoe Buyers
Smith, Simmons & Peabody
Washington
Penni
Henry Hull
John F. Gilroy
Joan W. A. Schaf
Atotice
Mary Shields
Mary Shiels
John A. Duggan
Admi
Court St
Legal Advertising
Railroads
Central Vermont Railroads
York
Cane Corner
Hoosac
Alice Hambridge
Ihio Am
Concord
You Gardner
Ie Greenfield
Firesick Falls
Johnsonville
Lincoln
Yal Marlboro
Hudson and Maynard
Nashua N. H
Saratoga
Shelburne
Poms West
John Adams
J. Whitmore
L Trafic
J.R. Watson
Montreal & West
Old Colony
Bristol
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Fu. Almer Ag
Old Blaze House
J. RB. Kendrick
Concord R. KR
Rancre
Manchester
N. Y
Ashmont
Barnatable
Iiannis
Armouth
Sandwich
Hyannis
Cottage City
Wood’s Holl
Seat Quincy
West Quincy
Ea Weymouth
Weymouth
East Weymouth
Areyne
Milton
Mattapan
Neponset
Mattapoisett
Nantucket
Wood's Hall
Plymouth
Abington
Quincy
Mianover
Kreckland
Hanover
Rockland
Whitman
Wollastons Heights
Wee Bridgewater
Cochesett
South East
Bridgewater
Wood* Hall
Buzzards Bay
Buzzard's Bay
Provincetown
Provicetown
a_m
Bingham
Morrison Square
Aun
Beau
Neture
North Boston
Stoughton Wandolph
North Exeton
Stoughton
Randolph
Scituate
South Duxbury
Pacaton
Central Station
Dean Street
Aes
Bilky Reo
A Weawe
Amy Ag Goo
Sg Ca
Eturn
Zo Ar
Inica
Kpawtucke
la _podgeville
Amd
Rotorn
Oasis Srt
Attleboro
Bero
Neen Il
East Foxbe
Headville
I i
CIA
B.v
vMiaw
Wry Ee
Ron
Slovan
Nutes
Idanes
Ren
Etvurn
Bat i Stongh Veen Bostog
Mand
Fu Ae Folge
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