Wool Market Steady Amid Mixed Demand Across Regions
Wool markets show steady demand with firm prices in Ohio and Indiana while California supply remains small and Oregon reports moderate demand. Texas and New York activity is cautious with ample Western and Australian wools on hand. Boston quotations list varied grades from Ohio delaine to Montana fines, reflecting a generally firmer tone and careful buyer stance.
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Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Kentucky
Texas
Oregon
California
New York
Boston
Market Reports February 16 Flour and Grain Prices Steady
The flour market stays quiet yet firm with large winter roller sales noted. Millers hold firm on prices. demand leans to small lots. Corn, oats, barley, and rye show steady to firm quotes with routine carload ranges. extensive price lists cover exports and domestic flour quotations.
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Minnesota
Michigan
Canada Superior
Canada
V.z
New No 1
New York
Bush
Choice
Butter and dairy market report with varied regional quotes
The butter market is steady with firm quotes and small receipts. Western extra fresh creameries and various grades show mixed prices from 20c to 34c, with jobbing 1 2c higher. Cheese, eggs, beans, grasses, and hay also hold steady or near previous levels amid moderate demand and wholesale quotations.
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New York
Vermont
Ohio Choice
New Hampshire
Choice Western
Choice West
Jersey
Market prices for fruit, poultry, and produce in rural area
The listing shows varied prices for vegetables fruits poultry and dairy items including roses onions cabbages turkeys chickens fowls ducks geese grouse and quail. Prices are given per unit weight crate pound bushel and dozen with notes on supply and demand.
Butter and eggs steady in Chicago and New York markets
Chicago butter inactive and lower with Western Creamery at 26c and Elgin at 29c. Eggs steady with Western extra at 2Ac. New York butter steady with Western Creamery at 24 28c and Eastern Dairy half firkin tubs at 26c. Liverpool cheese market quoted at 58s. Cheese markets described as quiet.
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Chicago
Western Creamery Extra
Elgin Creamery
Western Extra
New York
Western Creamery
Eastern
Liverpool
Fruit market reports auction prices for citrus and apples
Bi Harris & Co sold Catania and Palermo lemons and Messina and Palermo oranges at varied prices. Florida fruit mixed quality sold low. Apples steady with Spy and ing prices. cranberries firm. Citrus quotes for Cape Cod and Florida oranges, Palermo lemons, and Valencia and Naples varieties noted. Norfolk steamer brings 185 boxes of oranges. Liverpool market opened firm then advanced slightly as overall fruit market remained flat except choice grades.
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Bi Harris & Co
Catania
Palermo
Messina
Florida
Baldwins
Cape Cod
Mbpiteerranean
Valencia
A. C. Lombard’s Sons
Apple Cables
Liverpool
Atlantic ports week exports of pork beef and lard prices
The week ending February 14 reports steady pork demand and unchanged lard and hams across the Atlantic ports. Detailed price ranges cover long cuts short cuts backs light backs lean ends pork tongues and various mess and fresh rib cuts with beef lamb veal and mutton prices listed by cut, size and cure.
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Chicago
Brighton
Babe
Miscellaneous market notes on sugar cottonseed oil and more
A condensed late 19th century market brief lists pipeline certificates closing times, sugar prices with refinings and granulated quotes, wholesale grocers’ price, molasses Ponce Porto Rico, cottonseed oil certificates opening and closing ranges, tallow prices in New York and London, and turpentine petroleum figures in New York and related resin tar and RSW cases.
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Manilas
Belloilos
Javas
Ponce
Porto Rico
New York
London
Grain and staples market notes from New York and Chicago
New York market report shows flour receipts exports and various bale prices, with Western and State flour trading around 850 600 and 1400 bbis city mill extra at 440 475. Wheat and corn sections list receipts exports and prices, including No 2 spring 89c and No 2 red around 88 91c. rye, barley, oats, and sugar and coffee prices noted, with pork and beef activity mixed. Chicago brief mirrors weakness in wheat, No 2 spring 76 76 4c, No 2 red about 79c, corn 47c, oats 27 28c, rye 61c, barley 75 17c, and subdued provisions with mess pork referenced.
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New York
Minnesota
Canada
Rio
United
Western
South America
Chicago
Diverse midwest and east trade and price reports
Market and commodity notes from St Louis Minneapolis Milwaukee Detroit Cincinnati Toledo Baltimore Philadelphia Duluth and other hubs. Prices for flour wheat corn oats rye barley pork lard whiskey and various dry salted meats listed with receipts and shipments for Feb 15 16 across multiple cities and ports.
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ST. Louis
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Detroit
Cincinnati
Toledo
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Duluth
Cotton Certificate Market Sways Narrowly Amid Light Demand
Allan Asher and Co report the cotton certificate market holding tight with little price movement. Some southern buying, modest Liverpool gains, and steady tone fail to spark sustained demand. New York futures open quiet and firm while spot cotton in New York, Liverpool, and several U S ports shows subdued activity and mixed price levels. Consolidated five day receipts and exports remain sizable, with overall market tone steady to dull.
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Allan Asher & Co
Liverpool
New York
Uplands
Orleans
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
C. Baltimore
Great Britain
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
France
Continent
United States
Hogs and cattle market roundup from multiple cities
Peoria reports hogs at 485 to 560 with 500 receipts and 475 shipments. St Louis notes hogs weaker with Yorkers at 470 05 to 545 555. Chicago cattle receipts 9000 with steady to lower values for steers at 3.5 to 4.0. hogs slow to lower with typical ranges 5.05 to 6.70. sheep receipts 5000 with natives Western Texans and lambs in the 3.5 to 10 range. Kansas City records steady hogs and 7000 receipts. Chicago lists cattle, hogs, and sheep prices and shipments across several classes.
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Peoria
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
Foreign Markets London Wheat Quiet Amid Shipment Trade
Beerbohm reports cargoes off coast wheat quiet but firm, corn quieter. Mark Lane prices show English flour quiet, American flour weaker. Liverpool spot wheat buyers hold off as wheat dull and corn weaker, with various prices noted for bread stuffs. Havana sugar quiet at 268-274 gold per quintal.
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London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Yaris
Liverpool
England
Great Britain
Continent
California
Paris
Havana
London wool sales show stronger demand and firmer bids
London on February 15 reports a weaker trend turning into better demand with price hardening as buyers return. Continental operators bought while American interest remained light. The Queensland sale lists 2000 scoured lots at 1d 1s 34. The series likely closes on February 25.
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London
Queensland
Imports and Exports. Export ledger February 15 1858
Detailed listing of cargoes arriving and leaving Charlottetown and Liverpool including hides tin plate boxes woollens wool bales and various commodities. Entries show ships Norseman Jennie Cushman and Navarino with quantities of oranges straw hats soap and numerous manufactured goods along with firms Lazard Freres Baring Bros and others.
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Charlottetown
Pel
Aunie T McKie
T Russell & Co
Goree
Wca
Jennie Cushman
Liverpool
Eng
Norseman
Lazard Freres & Co
B & F King & Co
Sugden
Moise Brown Bros & Co
King
Thaxter & Son
E & F King & Co
Washburn & Moon Mant Co
Homer Bros
Perkins
Pierce & Robertson
Whitcomb
Batchelder & Lincoln
Ross, Turner & Co
Sears & Co
Mdise Chace & Co
Bishop
Coleman, Mead & Co
Macallar, Parker & Co
Sawyer
Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Co
Jones
Barny Bros & Co
Moors & Co
de Blois & Co
Cakum
Bering Gros & Co
Charles Lawrence & Co
Seaverns & Co
Curtis & Co
C A Smith & Co
Pkys
Riley & Gray
William Burggess
Jordan, Mars & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Macintire
Lawrié& Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Webber
Bolls Steel BA Jones & Co
Sierra Leone
Mansfield
Exports List From Four Ports on Feb 15 1888
Shipment records from Liverpool Valparaiso Harbourville and Port Natal detail steamer Cephalonia Independence Windsor Packet and Solitaire exports including bullion beef pork lard butter bacon tea sugar hardware tools firearms oil coal and cotton cloth. The long inventory lists cases boxes sacks and bales with hundreds of items such as 83932 bbls leather 959657 cases oils and thousands of feet of lumber alongside firearms and revolvers.
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Liverpool
Eng
Cephalonia
Valparaiso
Chili
Ship Independence
Harbourville
ST John
Windsor Packet
Port Natal
Solitaire
Staple Shipments and Receipts Across Multiple Railroads 1888
Tabulated totals of cotton wool flour oats corn barley bacon grease tallow lard butter cheese apples beans hay straw lumber leather hides and pelts received or stored by Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine divisions including EasternWestern Lowell System and related shipments on February 15 1888 with hundreds of bales and barrels listed by railroad and commodity.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchbur
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lowell
Eees
Ees
Ens
Trade Item Totals Across Transport Modes
The record lists quantities by route: lumber 56 and leather 21 hides 860 pelts and by Express 594 roils 12 boils 8 bbls leather and by Sea 158 bales wool 1 tierce tallow 92 bbls potatoes 68 cases eggs 27 bbls hides 207 bails castskins.
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Express
Probate notices for child petitions in Cambridge and Boston
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex Probate Court orders petitioners to notify mothers and other interested parties to appear in Cambridge on the second Tuesday of March 1888 to show cause why petitions should not be granted. Notices must be served seven days prior or published in the Boston Post for three weeks.
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Middlesex
Caleb T. Southwick
Sherborn
Susan W. Southwick
Harriet Lucey Burns
Ellen Burns
State of
New York
Harriet Lucy Southwick
A. D
Cambridge
The
Boston. Post
Boston
Grover M. Brooks
Esquire
J. S.pyler
Register
Suffolk
Harvey Birch
Hattle Birch
Martin McNulty
Mary McNulty
South Natick
Mass
Thomas Murphy
Glenwood Street
Natick
State Board of Health
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Charles Washington Birch
Harvey Burch
Hattie Birch
Royate Court
Boston Post
Joan W. Mekchim
Joan H. Paine
William Henry Tay
Lucy Catherin Tay
Lizzie Stevenson
James Stevenson
England
Annie
Tewksbury
State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity
Bertha Larcom Tay
Lucy Catherine Tay
Joan W. McKim, Esquire
Ain
John H. Paine
Interest on Certificates and Scrip Dividends Declared
Six percent interest will be paid to holders or legal representatives on outstanding Certificates of profits. Seventy percent of 1880 Scrip Certificates will be redeemed and paid to holders or legal representatives, with interest ceasing on January 1. Certificates must be produced and cancelled at payment. A twelve and a half percent Scrip Dividend is declared on earned premiums of participating policies terminating in 1887.
Scrip Certificates Rules and Forfeiture Notice
Section outlines claim periods for Certificates of Profit and Scrip. Claims must be made within two years after dividend declaration to receive profit certificates. otherwise, they go to company credit. Unpresented scrip redeemable within five years after public notice or forfeited and canceled on company books. Edmund A Poole, Secretary.
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Edmund A. Poole
Train Schedules for Weston to New York and Providence May 30 87
Trains begin Monday May 30 87 from Weston to New Work via Shore Line with Perth Express and Mail service to New York. Return times vary. Sunday schedules included. Additional lines run to Providence Pawtucket Dodgeville Attleboro and other stops with listed departure and return times.
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NEW
Stonington
Boston & Providence Railroad
New York Ga
Washin
State Street
Boston & Providence RR
J. W. Richardson
Boston
A. A. Folsom
Boston & Providence RB
Arrow Ironsp
Old State House
New York
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Quincey
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Mattapan
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Millon
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Rbuddieboro
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