Grain and Produce Price List Highlights Market Rates
The document lists fluctuating prices for grains, seeds, hay, potatoes, beans, peas and poultry. It shows regional quotes for timothy, clover, red top, hay, rye and oat straws, various potato grades and origins, beans and peas with per bushel and per pound figures, and miscellaneous items like tallow and margarine. Entities include New York, Canada, Maine, Vermont, Aroostook, Jersey, and Cape Cod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iimed
New York
Canada
Spa
Jersey
Maine
New Brunswick
Houston Rose
Bush
Aroostook
Vermont
Burbanks
Virginia
St. Andrew
Fruit Prices and Quiet Markets Across Dried Goods
The market shows subdued activity across fruit and dried goods with steady prices. New York dried apples and various nuts, evaporated fruits, and foreign fruits list stable quotes, plus Florida oranges and cranberries with premium and ordinary grades priced in.
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New York
Hubbardstons
Baldwin
Tailman Sweet
Northern Spy
Virginia
Farmer’s Marks
Messina
Jamaica
Palermo
Malaga
Florida
Cape Cod
Provisions steady as pork and lard demand holds
The market shows little change in provisions with solid demand for pork and lard at old quotations. Fresh meats remain unchanged and beef values hold. Chicago closing quotes show bid and price levels for pork products, lard, and assorted fresh meats across multiple cuts and months.
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Chicago
FPORK
Hizvest
Sais
Brighton
Cotton and sugar markets steady in New York trading
Cotton closed firm with mid uplands at 9 1 4 c and lows near 6 3 4 c while futures opened quiet. Sugar and molasses hold steady with refined grades and Manila prices noted. pipeline certificates and related figures show activity at year end.
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New York
Sige
Manila
Belmont
Orto Rico
Cuba
Markets by Telegraph. Grain prices and receipts in New York
Wheat and flour markets show higher prices and strong sales with large receipts. No. 2 white and white state oats and corn show varied but steady to firm quotes, with multiple grain categories reported across elevator and steamer deliveries.
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New York
Minnesota
Grain and commodity prices across cities reported
Markets show mixed movements with wheat firm across Toledo Cincinnati Milwaukee and Chicago. Pork prices steady to firm with hogs and lard firm in several markets and cargos of bulk meats and butter cheese holding steady.
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Rio
Rica
United
Tinee Spelter
Toledo
Cincinnati
ST. Louis
Milwaukee
Chicago
Hog and Cattle Markets Report across Major Cities
Hogs demand exceeds supply with rising prices in Peoria and St Louis. Chicago shows large cattle receipts and varied prices for shipping steers and cows, while hogs and sheep also move at steady to firm levels with regional price ranges and notable receipts and shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
ST. Louis
Chicago
Texas
Cotton Market Summary for Jan 3 Across Major Ports
Domestic and export volumes for multiple ports listed with receipts gross exports stock and price levels. Key figures include New Orleans stock 417,340 and exports to Great Britain 45 55. New York exports to Britain 1 616 and France 1 901. consolidated U S ports stock 1 083 937.
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Augusta
Galveston
Great Britain
New Orleans
France
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Ross
Consolidated
Continent
United States
Foreign Markets Report from Liverpool and London
Brief market notes show breadstuffs firmer with good demand in Liverpool as wheat holds at 7s 2d to 7s 9d and corn steady. London signals firmer wheat and improving flour with mixed Danubian and American corn, while Paris notes firm wheat and flour post gains.
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Liverpool
London
Mark Lane
Calcutta Club
Paris
Imports and Exports. Palmyra voyage listing goods
A January 3, 1887 Liverpool shipping record for the steamer Palmyra lists shipments from multiple firms including H B Jackson Clark Sawyer & co Fuller Dana & Fitz and E A Snow. The cargo covers hardware toys linen woollens wines oils china carpets and steel among many other items and consignors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Eng
Palmyra
Jackson
Clark, Sawyer & Co
Fuller, Dana & Fitz
Haley & Co
Houghton & Duttons
Pray & Co
Beal, Higgins & Henderson
Piper
J & J Muardock
D & M Williams
Codman & Shurtleff
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Moors & Co
Warren & Blanchard
Brown, Durrell & Co
Morey & Co
Houghton, Miffin & Co
Pauline A Durant
J H Pray, Sons & Co
Holder & Herrick
Farrar, Simpson & Co
Fitchburg Railroad Passenger Station Schedules
Train times for the Fitchburg Railroad list daily express and sleeping car services to Albany Chicago and St Louis, with departures from various stations including Adams Athol and Greenfield. The schedule notes special Sunday services and West Shore connections, plus detours via Worcester and Brattleboro.
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Albany
N. Y
Chicago
St. Louis
New York
West Shore R. R
West
N.Y
Adams
G Orange
Burne Falls
Ashbuburnham
Turner
Braterle
Trains Schedule Across New England Lines Listed
Eastern Division timetable lists trains from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Middeford Chelsea Dover Everett and surrounding towns with multiple daily departures and Sunday services. Also shows schedules for Concord and Manchester lines and notes about Pullman services and ticket offices.
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Boston
Causeway Street
Amesbury
Beverly
Middeford
Chelsea
Dover
Everett
Great Falls
Rochester
Hampton
Beach
North Hampton
Rye Beach
Trade items and shipments listed across regional wholesalers
A long, itemized ledger of earthenware, casks, cotton, linen, and other goods from firms such as Tilden Thurber Co and Baldwin Bros Co. Sail freight notes cover Savannah Vernon River and Yarmouth with steamer and box shipments of oranges, oysters, rice, cotton, ducks, and fish products alongside tallying suppliers and quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurber & Co
Davis, Furber & Co
Edmonds & Co
Stedman , Fuller Mant Co
Hovey
Booth & Co
Baldwin Bros & Co
Pierce & Co
Holder & Herrick
Savannah
Gate City
Amoskeag
Boston Duck Co
J Round & Co
Bourne & Co
Bigelow & Co
P Bradley
Duck N Boynton
AS & J Brown
Blake & Ripley
Boston Oyster Co
Simmonds & Co
Sherman
Snow & Co
Sands & Co
Sawtell & Co
Seaverns & Co
Simmons & Co
DC Thompson
Worcester Bros
White Bros & Sons
York & Whitney
Vernon River
Pel
Irwin
Yarmouth
Dominion
Clements & Co
Hall & Co
McIntosh & Co
Jones & Co
Exports Reported From Multiple Ports on Jan 3 1887
The listing records shipments from Sydney Maitland and Glasgow with cargoes including flour lard beef cornmeal oats and tobacco. Steamers Cephalonia and Dorian cleared late December carry bbls flour beef apples leather and other goods to Liverpool and Glasgow. From New York additional flour and corn are noted among the bulk export goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Dionis
Maitland
Anastasia
Liverpool
Eng
Cephalonia
Glasgow
Scotland
Dorian
New York
Receipts of Goods Transported by Railroads in 1887
A record of freight receipts dated January 3 1887 from multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Western and Eastern divisions. Totals show large shipments of cotton wool flour corn oats and lard among others with numerous units listed by railroad and destination.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Market Goods Transfer Inventory List
Catalog of shipments and stock moves including butter eggs tea coffee sugar molasses tallow lard beef hides wool cotton and leather. Items are routed by Express and Sea with quantities such as 471 bags sugar 3683 bags coffee 509 bbls sugar 39 hhds molasses 117 tubs butter 251 cases eggs and 13 717 bush potatoes across various units and packaging.
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Fitchburg
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Diivision
Western Division
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Express
Proposals for Cast Iron Water Pipes in Boston 1887
Boston Water Board invites sealed proposals for cast iron water pipes with quantities including 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 inch pipes and special castings. Bidders must file names and residences with a $1000 certified check, bid opening January 13, 1887, delivery by August 1, 1887, at City Engineer office Boston. The Water Board may reject any or all bids.
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City of
Boston
Boston Water Board
Boston Water Works
City Hall
Water Board
Divorce Petition in Middlesex for Desertion by Wilkins Couple
Ella M. Wilkins of Melrose seeks a divorce from Frank G. Wilkins of Boston after more than three years of desertion ending in December 1886. She requests custody of their minor child Mabel R. Wilkins and other orders as deemed fit by the Supreme Judicial Court.
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Supreme Judicial Court
Middlesex
Ella M. Wilkins
Melrose
Frank G. Wilkins
Boston
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Commonwealth
A. D
Mabel R. Wilkins
Libel Case Order Notices Appearance in Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court orders the libellee to appear in Cambridge on the first Monday of March. An attested copy of the order must be published in the Boston Post for three consecutive weeks, last publication at least thirty days before the March date. The clerk THEO. C. Hurd attests the copy.
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Middlesex
Supreme Judicial Court
A. D
Cambridge
Abeland
Boston Post
Boston
Suffolk
Theo. C. Hurd
Theo. C. Htp
Boston and Maine Through Trains to Various Destinations
Train schedule for Boston and Maine divisions lists departures from Haymarket square and Causeway street stations to Augusta Ben Harbor Eastport Calais Portland St John Halifax Mon, Wed, Fri routes. Includes Augusta Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland trains with times and stations on Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox and Lincoln Railways.
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Augusta
Haymarket Sq
Causeway St
Baner
St. John
Halifax
Provinces
Eastport
Calais
N. B
N. S
Portland
Causeway
Lewiston—Haymarket Sq
Manchester
Concord
North- Haymarket Square
North Conway- Haymarket Square
Cannot Street
Haymarket Square
Causeway Street
Maine Central
Grandsreund and
Knox& Lincoln Railways
Trains Schedule North of Boston to Multiple Towns
A dense list of train times from multiple Boston area stations to towns such as Andover Lawrence Lowell Malden Melrose Reading Salem and Wilmington with return and evening trains. Also notes Dover Haverhill and Portland Bangor Lewiston service and various local stops along the line.
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Alten
Dover
Georgetown
Kenneth
Lawr
Gov
South Lawrence
Lowell
Malden
Melrose Highlands
Stoneham
Melrose
Merrimac
North Andover
Newburyport
Reading
Salem
Jakefield
Wilmington
Hiaverhill
Lawrence
Medford
Portland
Bangor
Lewiston
Reading and Way
Boston and Providence Railroad Train Arrangements
Schedule details for September 6 1886 show daily Shore Line departures from New Work and Providence connections. Timetables include morning and evening trains, Sundays additions, return services, and notes on delays, extensions, and peak-hour adjustments across multiple towns and lines.
Train timetable fragment from early 1900s listing arrivals and stations
A fragmented timetable notes train arrivals and departures at multiple stations. It includes station names such as Concord Bedford Nashua Arlington and references to generals and agents, indicating aへ historical railway schedule excerpt.
Boston to New York Weekday Trains By Fall River Line Schedule
On and after Dec 27 1886 weekday trains leave Boston for New York via Fall River Line at 6 p m with returns at 4 40 p m Ashmont and many local stops including Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Barnstable Wareham Cape Cod lines and Brockton system with multiple reverse times and connections. Schedule notes include Provincetown Wellfleet Cohasset Hingham and other South Shore points with numerous outbound and return times and special weekday patterns.
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Boston
New York
Fall River
Ashmont
Arn Stable
Hyannis
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Braintree
Bridgewa Ter
Return
Brockton
Buzzard’s Bay
Wareham
Cape Cod
Provincetown
Wellfteet
Cohasset and Hingham
Cohasset
Hingham
Cottage City
New Bedford
East &Ridgewater
Abington
East Miilton
West Quincy
East Milton
East Weymouth
Weymouth
Taunton
Harrison Square
Marshfield
Mattapan
Milton
Neponset
Mattapoisett
Middleboro
Nantucket
Woods Hall
Newport
North Easton Stoughton
Randolph
North Easton
Stoughton
Plymouth
Duxbury
Quincy
Scituate and Jorth Secituate
Scituate
Sea View
Mingham
Weymouths
Sewport
South Braintree
Way Statons
Boston and New England Train Schedules Corrected
Corrected January 3 1887 timetable lists weekday trains from Boston to Ashcroft Dorchester Endicott Hartford New Britain Middletown and more with multiple daily departures and a separate Boston Albany division schedule. Sunday and midweek adjustments noted with return times and intermediate stops.
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Boston Station
Summer Street
Ashcroft
Baltimore
Bird Street
Boston and Lowell Railroad timetable notices 1886 text
Through Boston service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montreal and more 8 30 am 1 7 pm etc Local Boston to Manchester Concord Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield and other NH MA VT stops Various Pullman and parlor car offerings to Montreal Details include multiple branches and daily SUN schedules with numerous times and destinations.
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Boston & Lowell Railroad
Boston
Causeway Street
City
Washington Street
Old State House
Tilton
Laconia
Lake Village
Weirs
Meredith
Ashland
Plymouth
Frankfin
Lebanon
White River Junction
Montpelier
Essex Junction
Burlington
St. Albans
Montreal
Warren
Haverhill
Woodaville
St. Johnsbury
Newport
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Bristol
Claremont
White Mountain
Northern Division
Pullman
Central Vermont R.R
Passumpsie
R.R
Manchester
Concord
N. H
Sun
Keene
Peterboro
Hillsboro
Hmallsboro
Wilton
M.lford
Amherst
Greenfield
Washua
New England Limited and Connecting Trains Details
Train schedules list the New England Limited from Boston to New York with through service to Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury and Fishkill along with a dining car. The Philadelphia Express runs daily to Hartford New Haven Jersey City Ironton Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington with through Pullman service. Norwich Line connects to New York New London Danielsonville and Putnam with steamer service on City of Worcester and City of New York. Tickets and information available at 222 Washington Street or the depot.
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Montreal & West
Vermont
Boston
Lowell
Chicago
Fitchburg
Pullman
Central Vermont R. R
Washington Street
Stonington
New York
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Boston & Providence
Washington, Corner State Street
J. W. Richardson
A. A. Folsom
Boston & Providence R. R
Fall River Line
Old Colony
Fall River
Beristol
Providence
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Old State Blouse
Washington and
State Streets
J. R. Kendrick
L. H. Palmer
Old State House
Middletown
Newaven
Hartford
New Britain
Waterbury
Danbury
Fishkill-on-Hudson
NEW England Limited
Air Line
Grand Central Depot
Philade
New Haven
Ironton
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
Points
Norwich
New London
Danielsonville
Putnam
London
Worces
Env
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Bertus
Fies
Central Massachusetts rail timetable fragment details Boston lines
A fragmented timetable lists train departures and arrivals for several Massachusetts routes. It mentions stations such as Boylston Clinton Berlin Judson Waltham and Wayland with times including afternoon and late evening runs and notes express services and return times. The garbled OCR preserves station names and rough schedules.
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Telegraph
Railroads
Fitchburg Railroad
Hoosac Tunnel
Way Street
York Central
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Ray
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Helmer
Crown Chemical Company
Arch St
Penn
Gorham Rogers & CO
Dumdee Goods
Federal Street
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