Wholesale farm prices show mixed demand and steady tone
Market notes indicate steady demand for treck at 7 v and unchanged. Butter prices vary by creamery and grade with wholesale receivers' quotes and higher jobbing margins. Cheese, eggs, hay, potatoes, and vegetables appear with regional and product-specific quotes, including New York and Vermont creamery lines, while poultry and game show mixed value and occasional higher fractions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler— Western
New York
Vermont
Ohio
Meigher
Timothy
North
Do West
Dracuth
Jersey
Houston Rose
Bush
Fextra Jersey
St. Andrew
Hubbard
Fruit and Nut Prices Steady Across Varieties and Regions
Market notes show apples, nuts, dried fruits, and tropicals offered with steady quotes. Prices listed for Baldwin apples, greening, Northern Spy, dried apples, Valencia oranges, Messina lemons and oranges, Malaga grapes, Florida oranges, cranberries, and Jersey crates, including box and barrel terms. Entities include Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia, New Jersey, Cape Cod, Messina, Palermo, Malaga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Massachusetts
Maine
Virginia
Virginia Farmer’s Marks
Valencia
Messina
Palermo
Malaga
Florida
Cape Cod
Meat market summary shows firm pork and beef prices
Market for pork firm and unchanged lard and hams steady. Demand fair for fresh beef with prices similar to last quotations. Veal lambs and muttons quiet. Chicago closing quotes show varied ranges for pork beef and lamb with long and short cuts priced. fresh beef and other meats listed by cut and quality and including city dressed hogs and Eastern veal pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bev Epics
Lord
Choice
Brighton
Liverpool Cotton and Market Prices Report
Futures opened steady then easy with varied February to October contracts. Spot demand firm for mid uplands and Orleans, 53-16 514d. Sales 8000 bales, receipts 17,000. New York spot closes mixed by grade. Pipeline certificates, refined oil, and raw sugar firm with quoted refiners and granulated prices. Molasses steadiness noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Mid Uplands
Orleans
New York
Nee Cee Ersesees
Manila
Belmont
Porto Rico at Thirty Five Thirty Seven for Fancy
Port of call notes report Port o Rico at 35 37cc for fancy and good to choice at 21 30c while Cuba boiling 50 test nominal at 170.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Cuba
Markets by Telegraph. Grain and commodity prices
New York profits and prices for flour, wheat, cornmeal, oats, rye, barley and sugar. Reports from Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo St Louis Chicago Minneapolis show No 2 spring wheat around 72-75 cents, No 2 red 88-92 cents, corn 33-38 cents, oats 30-36 cents, barley 47-51 cents, pork and lard firmer, flour steady, sugar and molasses softer, freight rates steady. City mill extra and various grades cited with receipts and shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ohio
Minnesota
Rio
United
City Extra India
Western
City
Liverpool
Detroit
Michigan
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Toledo
ST. Louis
Chicago
Minneapolis
Print cloth market dull with steady demand in New England
Fall River and Providence report a dull print cloth market with 175000 pieces produced and 177000 delivered. Sales total 14000 pieces with 8000 of 64x64s and 9000 of 56x60s, stocks held at 48000 pieces. Prices noted at 44 4c and 3c for various counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Providence
R. L
Hogs Steady Prices Across Markets Amid Mixed Pack
In St. Louis hogs hold firm with mixed packers 540 to 570 and Yorkers 520 to 635. Peoria reports hogs steady at 480 to 565 with 300 receipts. Chicago cattle steady with 600 receipts and 200 shipments. steers 350 to 500, stockers 250 to 300, cows and bulls 180 to 320. Hogs nationwide 5.20 to 5.60, packing 5.64 to 5.80, light 4.50 to 5.40. sheep steady with natives 350 to 450, Western 350 to 470, Texans 275 to 425, lambs 450 to 590.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Peoria
Achicago
Cotton Markets Report February 26 1887
Cotton market results show steady to firm tone across ports. Augusta and Savannah log mid nine cents ranges, New Orleans exports to Britain and France large, while New York and Cincinnati post quiet to firm levels with mid figures around 9 9-16c. Consolidated day totals indicate modest net receipts 10,134 with national stock at ports about 852,000 bales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
France
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cincinnati
New York
St. Louis
Louisville
United States
Imports and Exports. Imports February 26 1887 Palestine list
A Liverpool based shipping list details Steamer Palestine cargo imports on February 26, 1887. Goods include whiskey, cottons, mdse, glassware, books, steel, tinplates, machinery, and various commodities from multiple firms such as J S Poyen & co, Bridgham & co, Brown, Durrell & co, E A Snow, Bar ing Bros & co, Stone & Downer, and Baring Bros & co. The roster shows numerous consignments, quantities, and partner merchants across the steamer’s manifest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Eng
Palestine
S Pierce & Co
S Poyen & Co
H White & Co
Richardson & Co
Bridgham & Co
Caton Bros & Bixby
H Brown & Co
Cottons Brown, Durrell & Co
Davies & Furber Machine Co
Howe & French
Bolls
Wetherell Bros
Lowmoor Iron
Jacobus
Baring Bros & Co
E & F King & Co
Fuller, Dana & Vitz
Simons, Hatch
Storer & Co
Pierce & Co
Stanley &Sons
S Bartlett & Co
Walbaum & Co
Abbott & Co
Groom & Co
E Morrison & Co
Stone & Downer
Burgess
Dennison Mig Co
Jones
William Read & Sons
H King
Oranges Snow & Co
Morgan & Co
Moors & Co
Atkins & Co
Blais & Co
Dunn
Trade Cargo Entries and Shipboard Stocks Across Atlantic Ports
A ledger of consignments and stock listings includes JB Tripp Jr & Son with 9 cases moise and 2 dodo, plus carpets, bales of wool waste, calico cuttings, and tinplates from multiple firms. Beverages, fish, and shellfish loads appear at Beaver Harbor, Beaver River NS, and Halifax NS with ships Bonhomie and Carroll delivering or exporting items such as eggs, mackerel, lobsters, fish, and lumber. The Matanzas steamer Caconna carries 12,000 bags of sugar, while Weymouth NS reports Willie supplying 84,185 feet of lumber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripp, Jr & Son
Moise S
Pierce & Co
Dodo Cutler Bros & Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Moses & Co
Baring Bros &Co
Friedlands
Beaver Harbor
Helen M Crosby
Ae Whart Herring Co
Beaver River
JG Hall & Co
Halifax
Carroll
Beaman Bros
Butler & Co
Dean
S Ellis & Co
Junk Haskins & Montague
JI Jones & Co
Russell & Co
Matanzas
Nash, Spaulding & Co
Weymouth
Willie
Exports list from multiple ports on Feb 26 1887
Shipping export ledger from Lunenburg Annapolis St John Sydney Lunenburg NL Haytien ports Antwerp London detailing brig, barque, steamer cargoes with flour sacks oils middlings tobacco sugar kerosene lumber hardware beer meat and various goods at numerous ports and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lunenburg
Annapolis
ST John
Valetta
Sydney
Nsw
Jesse A Loye
Haytien
Haytien Republice
Antwerp
Bel
New York
Pieter de Coninck
London
Eng
Receipts From Railroads on Feb 26 1887
Inventory of freight across multiple lines including Boston & Albany Providence Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg and Boston & Maine. Record lists bales cotton flour wool oats barley meal lard butter eggs bacon leather pelts and other goods with quantities and rail lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Trade Goods List From Expresa Era
A compact ledger style listing diverse goods with quantities and units. Butter and bacon dominate, with butter totals in tubs and rolls, sugar in bags and bbls, hay lumber leather hides and bales, tea coffee flour and lasses. Includes cattle hides calf skins and pelts among varied merchandise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Expresa
Foreign Markets Update From London and Liverpool
Reports from London and Liverpool show wheat and corn markets quiet with mixed American corn for March and May bids around 48 334d to 48 344d. Liverpool notes dull wheat, steady corn, and various prices for bread stuffs, pork, bacon, cheese, and lard. Havana market quiet with declining prices and strong export figures, freight rates firm for US shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
Havana
Matanzas
United States
Proposals for Military Supplies at Philadelphia Depot
Sealed proposals for 56000 Muskrat Fur Caps and 90000 other military textiles and gear are invited by the U S Quartermaster in Philadelphia. Bidders must submit in triplicate by March 28 1887 with 10 percent guaranty. Samples viewable at Schuylkill Arsenal. Preference to domestic production and Pacific coast supply where equal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ginako Street
Philadelphia
Penn
U.S. Quartermaster’s Department
Schuylkill Arsenal
Pacific Coast
Pope
Baeder Adamson & Co Glues and Supplies at 143 Milk Street
Building materials firm Baeder Adamson & Co lists price quotes for glue stock damaged hides cattle tails and other goods. The advertisement promotes products including glue flint sand paper emery paper curled hair plastering hair and cowhide whips with location given as 143 Milk Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Milk Street
Boston and Albany Rail Lines Schedules 1887
A dense OCR of railroad timetables lists Boston to Springfield Albany and West destinations. It includes through tickets from Boston, departures at 5, 7 15, 8 30, and 11, with connections to Syracuse Cleveland Chicago and New York. Sleeping cars, drawing room cars, and through fares are noted, along with numerous station stops and daily versus Sunday services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany
R.R
Washington Street
Boston
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
South Framingh
Mingham
Syracuse
Spm
Pir Adams
Chatham
For &F
River Branch
New Haven
New
New York
Wille
Cordaville
Ashland
Midford
South Framingham
Saxe
Natick
Wellesley
Millia
Falls
Faneui
Brights
Chestnut
Through Trains On Both Divisions Boston And Maine 1887
Train schedules list Augusta Haymarket and Causeway Street stations with multiple daily departures to St John Halifax Eastport Calais Manchester Concord North Conway Portland and Lewiston. Connections include Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox Lincoln lines with times at Haymarket Square and Causeway Street stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UIRV
Wolteboro
Lynn and Way
Newburyport
Portsmouth
aVia Saugus
wWorkingman
South Reading
Boston
Haymarket Square
City
Washington Street
Pullman
Portland
Bangor
James T. Furber
D. J. Flanders
Augusta
Haymarket Sq
Causeway St
Banfor
St. John
Halifax
Provinces
Vain
Heastport
Calais
St.ohn
Causeway
Lewiston
Pi Manchester
Concord
NM. H
North Conway
Causeway Street
Central Vermont
Rutland
Montreal
Ottawa
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg Depot
Winchendon
Jaffrey
Peterboro
Fitzwilliam
Troy
Marlboro
Cheshire R.R
Bellows Falls
White River Junction
Vermont
Points West
Hire & Monadnock
White River
Western Division Train Schedule for Boston to New England Stops
Trains depart Boston at 8:30 am 1 and 4 pm for Alton Mochester Farmington and other towns. Various routes list times for Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maverhill Georgetown Kennebunk Biddeford Lace Lawrence North Lawrence and many others with return trips and multiple daily departures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton May
Mochester
Farmington
Andover
Dover
Danvers
Exeter
Great Falls
Maverhill
Georgetown
Kennebunk
Biddeford
Lace
Lawrence
North Lawrence
South Lawrence
Lowell
Malden
Medford
Melrose Highlands
Stoneham
Melrose
Merrimac
North Andover
Newburyport
Reading
Salem
Wakefield
Wilmington
Train Arrangement for Boston & Providence Railroad 1887
The February 28 1887 timetable lists outbound and return trains from Boston to New York Shore Line and to various Rhode Island towns including Providence Pawtucket Attleboro and Mansfield with mixed daily and Sunday services and numerous stop times. It notes Shore Line Fast Express and Shore Line Mail schedules and a Mansfield linkage for connecting services with shoreline routes and Mansfield until 9 pm if Shore Line 128 A Folsom superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Providence Railroad
Boston
Shore Line
New York
Rteturn
Providence
Hemrn
Pawtucket
Dodgeville
Hebronville
Attleboro
North Attleboro
Mans- Melia
East Foxboro
Bmetuam
Sharon
Canton Junction
Beauville
Beturn
Hinde Park
US AM
Mit
Hope and Clarendon
Forest Bills
Jamaica
Metarn
Boylston
Keoxbury
Dedham
Spring Street
West Krexbury
Highlands
Stoughton
Canton
Borton
Mt. Hope
Arren
Hristol
Mannsfield
Shore
York
Mansfield
A. A. Folsom
Stonington
Massachusetts
Ethode Island
Boston & Providence
Washington
Corner State Street
Boston & Providence K. R
J. W. Richardson
Boston & Providence R
Itchburg Railroad Schedule Change Nov 15 1886
Trains on the Itchburg line start new service Tuesday November 15 1886 with multiple daily options from Boston westward to Albany Chicago and St Louis. Services include Pullman sleeping and drawing room cars and a West Shore route option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hvosac
Stallows
Boston
West Acam
Albany
N. Y
Chicago
St. Louis
Ress
New York Central
Chio
West Shore R. R
N.Y. c. Ping
Boston and Maine Rail Routes and Local Stations List
A dense timetable fragment lists trains and stops for the Boston and Maine system including the Boston area, Nashua, Worcester, Framingham, Lowell, Montpelier, St. Johnsbury, Claremont, and White Mountains points. It notes morning 8:30 a.m. departures, PM connections, Pullman parlor and sleeping cars, and service to Champlain and Vermont routes with various branches and divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman
Central Vermont
Cr.r
Mont
Timetable fragment for multiple routes and stations
A dense OCR style timetable lists numerous times for various stations including Lowell Arlington Lexington and Wakefield. It mentions connections, daily departures, and return times with many numbers and abbreviations, followed by an instruction to obtain further information from George W. Storer Assistant General Passenger Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Storer
Central Massachusetts RR timetable fragment 1887
A dense OCR shows a Central Massachusetts Railroad schedule with numerous traintimes, stops, and connections to Boston and suburban stations. It lists express and local departures, returns, and agents, with many station names and numeric times, reflecting a period timetable.
Transportation timetable for Cohasset Hingham Weymontrees details
Schedule lists outbound and return trains to Cohasset Hingham and Weymontrees with multiple stops including Brockton Taunton New York Fall River and Newport and notes Tuesday Friday Wednesday and Monday exceptions with ownership by J R Kendrick general manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fall River
Boston
J. KR. Kendrick
Concord Braiding and Branches Train Schedule 1886
Trains depart Boston from B and L depot for Manchester Concord and upper lines after Oct 11 1886 with times 7.30 8.80 am 12 m 1 8 5.80 7 pm Sundays 1 pm from B and M depot 7.30 am 12 m 5 pm returning from Concord NH to Boston 5.80 7.80 10.20 am 2.45 5.05 Ex 6.28 pm Sundays. H E Chamberlin Superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Framingham
Marlboro
Southboro
Leomister
Fitchbi
Newton Lower Falls
Boston
Wellesley Hills
Worcester
Newton Highlands
Brookline
Washington Street
H. ST. Gallup
Pass
Amesbury
Heverly
Biddeford
Dover
Everett
Great Falls
Rochester
Hampton
Beach
North Hampton
Rye Beach
Ipswich
Marblehead
Swampscott Branch
Middleton
Newburyport
North Conway
Peabody and Danvers
Portsmouth
Revere
Rockport
Gloucester
Salem
Saugus Wraech
Ore Zeott
Wenham
Kosten
New York
Fall River
Ashmont
Barnstable
Myannis
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Hyannis
Braintree
Bridgewater
Return
Brockton
Buzzard’s Bay
Wareham
Cohasset
Hingham
Cottage City
New Bedford
East Bridgewater
Abington
Milton
Quincy
West Quincy
East Milton
East Weymouth
Weymouth
Tamnton
Retuyn
Taunton
Harrison Square
Larg Ymouth
Lso
South Weym
Wollasten Heights
Awe
Concord BR. R
B. and
Manchester
Concord
N. H
B.and
H. E
Chamberlin
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Bain
M. I. Ludington
U.S. A
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Rimg Reli
Buffalo
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Railroads
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Eruvyeu
Grafton
M. Westboro
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Ss St
Pu. Newtor
Satehburg
Oro
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Northboure
Clintonne
Berlin
Tive
Avuads
Niaga
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Warfield
Hartfo
Bosto
Cva
Wwe
Oan
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Lowe
Boston Station
Omy
Boston & Maine
Haverhill
Meading and Way
Met
Itchburg Railroad
Pala
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Passum Real
Shane
Seway Street
Andington Street
Boston Mia
Lake Village
Weirs
Plymouth
Franklin
River Junction
Mmionta-Tion
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Bailisbore
Copeans Amherst
Oncord, N. M
J. Royalston
Ashbrburnham
Deerfield
Buckland
BNE Eas
Waraner
Baldwinville
Athol
Miller's Palls
Shel Rex
Eas Erving
Ster
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Ash Am
Wachusett
Otterne
East
Bardwelds
Uore
Rome Oye
Brattleboro
Winehe
Voweyy Rhee Yanninas
Jon
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Framingham & Lowell Ritorio
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Billerica
Vdford
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Arlington
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Union
Wee Lee
Wiuy & Or
G. Wilmington
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Central Massachusetts RR
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Las
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Sudbur
Su' Ama
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Weston
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Aily
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Marshfield
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VOU
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Navy
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Newport
Boat
Sacra
Bedford
North Raah
Jt Oan
OLAS
Ares Dian
Pwr Af
Ars Eae
Tory Fee
AM. Burygton Ave
North _ uM
Athtrak View
Tad
Shawmut
Central
A. Whitman
Whitman
the Weymontrees
Pall River
Aunton
Roe
South Braintree
Fitchburg
Cheshire
Gily
Pullman Palace
Relland
Burlington
St. Albans
Ogdenburg
Montreal & West
Central Vermont R. Kk
J. W. Hobart
S. W. Cummings
Ayte
St. Albans, Vt
Ld Colony
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Nash Old State House
Old Colony
J.R. Kendrick
L. H. Palmer
Old State House
Gorham Rogers & CO
Chichester
Chichester Chemical CO
Pelphia
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