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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 27, 1888

Page

7

Metallurgical Prices and Materials Reported for Iron Steel and Tin

A detailed list of metal markets and prices including copper, pig iron from York and Glasgow districts, refined and puddled iron, beams and channels, steel rails and old rails with regional quotes. Pipe, tin, lead, zinc and related products are listed with discounts for various package sizes and off price tiers.

Gray Forge Eglinton Summerlee Gartsberry Nyloan Glengarnock Coltness New England London

London Wool Sales Close With Varied Demand

London reported a fairly animated and irregular market as wool sales closed. Four hundred thousand bales were expected later, with next series set for April 5. Detailed prices show New South Wales and Victoria leading the day, while New Zealand and other colonies contributed a mix of scoured and greasy lots in varied yields.

London New South Waites Queensland Victoria New Zealand South Australia Swan River Cape of Good Hope Natal Punta Arenas

Print Cloth Market Reports Mixed Gains and Stocks

The Fall River market lists weekly production at 175,600 pieces with 167,000 deliveries and 16,000 on hand, while March deliveries total 136,000 and June remains good. Prices hold at 3 1/8 to 3 1/4 cents for 64x squares and 3 1/8 to 3 3/16 cents for 56x60s, with Providence noting a slight decline and steady closes amid limited supply.

Fall River Providence R. L

Market Reports Highlight January Exports Dip and Grain Prices

January breadstuffs exports totaled $5,122,277, with seven months to Jan. 31 at $81,765,154, down from the prior year. Wheat shipments fell by 5,394,564 bushels, while flour exports rose, reflecting shifts across Atlantic and Pacific ports. Grain markets show quiet, with detailed price quotes for flour, corn, oats, barley, rye, and mill feeds across multiple grades and regions.

Pacific Minnesota Michigan Canada Superior Canada

Grain and flour price quotations for carload lots

The record lists advance prices for grain and flour in carload lots with values for state grown and New York varieties. It notes dull horse prices and provides ranges for domestic flour quotations across wholesale and jobbing markets.

Choice New York

Wholesale Market Quiet as Prices Hold Steady Across Commodities

The botter market shows no notable features with quotations steady. Butter, cheese, eggs, beans, grasses seeds, potatoes, hay, poultry, game, and truck items slide within narrow ranges, listing Western and New York creameries, Vermont and Ohio cheese, green and shell beans, seed potatoes, and fresh killed poultry among current wholesale prices.

New York Vermont Ohio New Hampshire Choice Western Choice Bush California Graass Jersey Houlton Rose Houlton Hebrons Aroostook Aroostook Hebrons Burbanks East Swale Bermuda St Andrews

Produce Market Roundup in New York and Liverpool

Butter and cheese hold steady in New York markets while eggs remain unchanged at 25 2542 cents for Eastern firsts and 25 cents for Western. Liverpool cheese prices slip to 58 shillings.

New York Liverpool

Fruit Market Roundup Shows Florida Strawberries Lead Trade

The Savannah boat arrives Monday with 2700 boxes of oranges while the Norfolk boat brings 233 boxes of oranges and 116 barrels of spinach. Florida strawberries dominate this week’s market as express shipments reach Boston in roughly 48 hours, with about 200 quarts daily and strong demand for sound fruit. Prices posted for various fruits range from 50 to 75 cents per quart for berries, and Liverpool Liverpools hold steady with high demand for sound parcels. Standards and home market prices for apples, cranberries, and other citrus are listed, noting ample common stock and mixed movement in the market.

Savannah Norfolk Florida Express Boston Messrs Jonathan Bigelow & Co A C Lombard’s Sons Apple Cable Liverpools Baldwins Cape Cod Palermo Messina Valencia

Trade in Beef and Pork Exports Report January Declines

The Treasury Bureau of Statistics reports January export values for beef and pork dropped to 6,513,181 dollars from 7,836,699 year over year. Fresh beef, salted and cured meat, bacon, hams, lard, and tongues show varied movements with overall lighter demand for hams and bacon and steadier or unchanged prices across several beef and lamb categories. Specifics include bacon down by 17,069,018 pounds from last January and lard 4,170,017 pounds lower. pork prices and cuts quoted with varied tonnage and regional pricing guidance.

William F. Switzler Bureau of Statistics Treasury Department Washington United States Choice City Chicago Choice Brighton

Piano Instruction Aids And Cheap Practice Pieces

Helps for players and singers alongside major piano methods, with Clarke’s Dollar Instructor for Piano and Beltak’s Analytical Method among affordable practice aids. Highlights include studies, exercises, and “Fairy Fingers” collections, with notices for catalogs and lists of titles.

New England Conservatory Clarke Beltak Boons

Mutton Prices and Quality Notes for Eastern Market

Eastern mutton priced at 7 90 with choice to poor to good at 5b 6c. Eastern real valued 96100 with grades good to poor to good at 6 8e.

Mixed Commodity Prices and Market Notes

Miscellaneous notes on pipeline certificates with bid levels and closing times. Sugar markets show unchanged raw sugar and steady refined prices with various grades listed. Tallow and turpentine markets reported, with New York and London price references for related commodities.

Manilas Lloilos Javas Belmont Ponce Porto Rico New York London

Regional Grain and Flour Market Ledger Highlights

Across major markets on Feb 25 26 price quotes show steady cash wheat around 88 14 to 90 14 cents and mixed corn levels, with Chicago and Detroit reporting firmer wheat and firm to steady oats and rye. Flour receipts and exports noted in New York data, with widespread quiet to steady activity and several price points for mill products and by products.

Baltimore Philadelphia Berea Duluth New York Minnesota Rio United Tierces Western Tierces City Steam Continent South America Liverpool Straits Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo ST. Louis Chicago

Cotton prices and futures in New York and world markets

New York spot cotton closed easy with middling uplands at 109-16 cents and low middling at 101-16 cents. Futures opened quiet and firm with bids and asks listed for March through January next year. Liverpool spot quiet with uplands at 5 9 16d and Orleans 5d. Regional receipts and stocks show mixed gains and steady activity across Gulf and Atlantic ports, with prices and stock levels noted for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile and other cities. Consolidated daily net active exports and stock across ports totaled 49,616.

New York Wees Liverpool Uplands Orleans Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Mobile Memphis Savannah Continent Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St. Louis Louisville United States

Hog and Cattle Markets Report From St Louis Peoria and Chicago

Hogs steady at St Louis with sales workers mainly 4 65 to 5 10 and mixed packers 5 0 to 6 40. butchers' to extra 6 36 to 6 50. Peoria hogs lower with games reets selling 4 80 to 5 45. Receipts and shipments noted, Chicago cattle receipts about 1000 with strong steer prices 3 5 to 4 0, stockers and feeders also listed.

ST. Louis Peoria Chicago

Market Prices for Cattle Hogs Sheep and Lambs

Receipts show cattle cows bulls and mixed at $2 35 to $3 70 per unit. Hogs receipts 1000 shipments 4000 with 5 10c lower, log s heavy and mixed notes. Sheep receipts 2000 down 10c natives Western Texans lambs around $6 6 per unit.

Hecht

Foreign Markets Report From London And Liverpool

London and Liverpool market notes show wheat and corn prices flat to steady with quiet demand. Paris and Havana markets reveal firmer sugar, molasses, and exports progressing, alongside steady pork and cheese pricing in Liverpool. Trade details include California wheat quotes and various futures while Havana reports higher buyer interest and ongoing shipments to the United States.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Michigan Minnesota Havana Matanzas United States Cuba

Card of Imports and Exports from Multiple Ports

Imports and Exports notice lists cargoes and vessels from February 25, 1888 including Barkentine Au Sable with 5503 bags sugar to Nash Spaulding & Co at Port au Prince. Brig Martha J Brady with logs hides goatskins cotton honey to Edwin M Fowle at Georgetown PEI. Schooner Jesse W Loye with 8900 bush potatoes to J G Hall & Co at Caibarien. Schooner Amelia P Schmidt with 2760 bags sugar. and Schooner Florence J Allen with hard pine at Brunswick Ga.

Cardenas Barkentine Au

Exports List From Caribbean and Atlantic Ports, 1888

Export entries from February 25 1888 detailing cargoes at Cardenas Cuba Lunenburg Nova Scotia and Yarmouth and St Andrews New Brunswick including flour feed meal oil pork beet lard tar rubber boots evaporated apples hats birds salt lines puncheons molasses and fertilizer amounts per ship and destination.

Cardenas Cuba Sci Lunenburg Yarmouth ST Andrews

Receipts of Staples from Railroads and Express Lines 1888

A dense ledger list of freight receipts dated February 25 1888 from multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine and others. It records quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats meal and meats with hundreds of bales bags boxes barrels and sacks across numerous carloads and divisions. Data covers Old Colony Providence Providence Boston and Maine divisions and coastal shipping by sea.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division Western Division Lowell Express Sane

Handy Books for Music Learners and Piano Piece Prices

A catalog listing compact dictionaries and musical writing books with prices from Oliver Ditson & Co. It notes Stainer's Dictionary and Kinkel's Copy including collections of First Class and Very Successful Piano Music. Items include Classical Pianist and Young People's Classics with prices per piece and mail order availability in Boston.

Adams Kinkel Stainer

Boston and Maine Rail Service Lowell to Montreal 1888 timetable

Boston station on Causeway Street lists through service from Boston to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodaville and more with multiple daily departures 9 am 1 7 pm and varied morning and evening trains for White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal and other points. Local Boston service covers Manchester Concord Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua and more with numerous daily departures including Sundays.

Boston Causeway Street Washington Street Old State House Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodaville Littleton Bethlehem Fabyans Lancaster Whiteheld Franklin Lebanon White H River Junction St. Johnsbury Newart Sherbrooke Quebec Passumpsic White River Junction Wells River Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St. Albans Montreal SUN Ottawa Ogdensburg Fitchburg Depot Ranye Cexpress Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland St. Johns Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company R. R. Rg Cheshire R.R Central Vermont R. R Points West Ches. R Monadnock White River

Lowell and Billerica Schedule Fragments in OCR Text

The readable items show multiple time snippets and lines like “SUN” and “No. Billerica” with times such as 6.45 7.30 8 8.30 9 and 9.15 10 am 12m 1 2 8 3.45 5 5.30 5.45 6.15 7 10 11.10 pm SUN. 9am 1 5 7pm No. Billerica 6.45 7.30 9.15 10 am 12m 2 3.45 5.30 5.45 10 11.10pm SUN. 9am 1 5 p Dh.

SUN No. Billerica Wilmington Watluut Hill Stoneham Pr Sun Woburn C.ov West Medford Winter Hill Bilea Bedford Lexington Arling LLU Wit Cottage City New Bedford East Bridgewater Brockm Abington Brockton West Vincy West Quincy Eastth and Weymouth East Weymouth Stoughton Stough Wveteu Py Tans Ahh Marlboro Hudson and Maynard Nashua N. HM Ayer Junction Aim Novik Adams Williamstown North Leominster Saratoga—s Shelburne Falls Neag Canton Junction Neod Bui Pi Spring Street Highlands Stoughton and Canton Arko Aaa

Incomplete 19th Century Rail Timetable Fragment

Dense OCR timetable snippet lists station times and travel notes for numerous towns in Massachusetts including Watluut Hill Stoneham Woburn and Bedford. Mentions dates and agents Mellan and Storer with schedules for through trains and connections to Northampton and Westford.

Comprehensive early 20th century rail timetable fragment

A dense OCR of train schedules lists myriad routes and times across Massachusetts and nearby towns. It names Weymouth, New Bedford, Boston suburbs, Brockton, Plymouth, Nantucket, Nantucket and Provincetown, with a Tuesday Friday Friday pattern and Sunday trains. Specific times and connections appear for multiple towns and routes, ending with officials GEO. L. Connor and J. R. Kendrick.

Tae Randolph Scituate South Duxbury Taunton Central Station Dean Street Weymouths Hingnam Cohasset Marshfield Duxbury Plymouth Hingham Fall River Brockton Newport South Braintree Way New Bedford Middleboro Stockton New York Geo. L. Connor J. R. Kendrick Gen

Train Schedules and Fares From Boston Areas 1887

A dense list of railroad timetable times and fare details for trains from Boston to Newton, Wellesley, Brookline, and surrounding towns. Includes departure and return times, Sunday and holiday adjustments, and connections to New York and Providence lines.

Newton Lower Boston Wellesley Hills Worchester Newton Highlands Brookline Hanson Allup Gen Pasa

Fragmentary sports score snippet with unclear data

The readable portion lists times and figures such as 10.53 and 13.5 Ob with partial numbers like 5B 15. 05 and 7.20 7.35, followed by strings including maica and Plain. The text is incomplete and cannot establish a clear event, participants, or outcome.

Slan Maica “Plain

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