Weird vegetable prices in New York Vermont and beyond
OCR list shows varied produce quotes and stock terms for onions cabbages beets squash lettuce parsnips turnips celery and related items. Prices are given per bush or barrel with regional notes and odd spellings indicating a mid 19th to early 20th century marketplace listing.
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Mont Rose
New York
Vermont
Burbanks
Hebrons
Peerless
Chenangoes
Basrel
Bush
Regent
Champion
St Andrews
Market Report Shows Dairy Stable Across Regions
In Chicago butter and cheese are unchanged while eggs remain tame and trade quiet. New York butter steadies with creamery prices at 25 28 cents, Western creamery at 28 80 cents. New York cheddar 11 34 12 cents, Western flats 11 4 to 11 4 cents. Eggs steady Eastern firsts 25 26 cents, Western 28 24 cents. Beans quiet, dried apples dull. Liverpool cheese market rises to 59 s 6 d.
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Chicago
New York
Eastern Creamery
Western Creamery
Western Flats
Liverpool
Aay Agus
Mt Return
West Quincy
Eas Weymouth
Weymouth
East Weymouth
Matetapan
Milton
Mattapan
Neponset
Millon
Mattapoisett
Bisa
Middleboro
Wood’s Hall
Flymeath
Abington
Duxbury
Quincy
Aanover and Buchhauads
Hanover
Kovkland
Whitsson
Wollatom Bmeighte
Market notes on fruit and nut prices across regions
Choice apples firm demand with prices listed for Baldwins at 275 per barrel and other varieties from Spy to spitz. Cranberries firm with Cape Cod quotations from 7 to 10 per barrel and 3 to 7 per crate. oranges lemons and Messina items show mixed pricing. Nuts and peanuts vary by type with French walnuts at 7 to 10 cents and almonds 15 to 17 cents.
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Spy
Hubbardston
Greening
Spitz
Baldwins
Cape Cod
Messina
Valencia
Almeria
Virginia
Virgina Prime
Virginia Common
Grenoble
Maibot
Tilberts
Castanas
Bush
Cotton certificate market shows mixed activity with gains offset by tame tone
Allan Asher & Co report a fairly active cotton market today with a four to five point rebound and firmer interior and port movements. New York futures opened steady, Liverpool prices ease, and spot cotton in New York closed dull at 10 to 11 cents with 128,200 bales traded nationwide.
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Allan Asher & Co
Liverpool
Eay
New York
Uplands
Orleans
Augusta
Galveston
Great Britain
Continent
New Orleans
Provisions and meat markets show firm prices across regions
The W J Wilcox Company reports stock memoranda for lard and meats dated January 1 and December 1, 1887 with firm prices for Hamburg Bremen Stettin Antwerp Mayre and other ports. Prices are listed for lard in various forms and for pork, bacon, hams, tongues, and beef cuts. Cattle and mutton markets remain steady with demand varying by grade and weight.
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W J Wilcox
Hamburg
Bremen
Antwerp
Néss
Bessy
Tauaseyyib
Favoy Labs
Chicago
Brighton
Pipeline Certificates Close and Open Times Noted
A brief notice records pipeline certificates closing at 3 p m and reopening at 10 am on January 6, 9214 with a high level of activity indicated.
Sugar Market Quiet with Steady Prices and Limited Sales
The sugar market shows minimal activity with steady prices. Raw sugar values range around 53 16 to 56 169 for refining, while granulated and powdered forms hold at 744 to 75 and related grocers’ levels. Monies noted for various grades include Belmon A and extra yellow files, with a 79 sc rate for graded is noted. A fancy Ponce mouasses trade at 3d5c per gallon.
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Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
Co Grocers
World Markets Report: Wheat and Corn Steady to Firm Across Ports
Foreign markets brief notes cargoes off coast and in passage with wheat firm and corn steady. California wheat quoted at 432 3d and near term futures steady. Paris and Liverpool price signals mixed with milder English weather. Havana sugar demand active with higher sales.
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London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
California
Paris
Liverpool
England
Antwerp
Havana
Trade Centre price report highlights mixed grain markets
New York reports show flour and grain prices firming with exports steady. Wheat No 2 spring and No 1 Northern quoted around 94 to 96 cents, corn around 61 to 62 cents, oats mixed, and pork, lard, and butter with varied to firmer trading across Chicago St Louis Minneapolis Milwaukee Cincinnati and Detroit summaries.
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New York
Minnesota
United
Western Steam
Tierces City
Liverpool
Chicago
ST. Louis
Ovisions
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Toledo
Detroit
Hog and cattle markets across major cities
In St Louis hogs sold at 5 15 65, mixed packers 5 15 75, and butchers 5 60 5 75. Peoria hogs steady with sales near 4 90 to 5 0, arrivals 4 00, shipments 450. Chicago reports cattle receipts 11 000 with good steers at 2 85 to 2 16, hogs steady to lower at 5 15 to 5 55, sheep slow with natives 2 75 to 3 80 and lambs 4 50 to 5 50.
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ST. Louis
Peoria
Kansas City
Chicago
Imports and Exports at Glasgow Steamer Scandinavian 1888
List of cargo and consignments on the steamer Scandinavian from Glasgow dated January 5 1888 including pig iron bales wares paper personal effects whiskey dry goods and potatoes among other items with numerous firms such as Baring Bros Curtis Purdy Nicholas EB D Brooks J Wyllie J L DS Riker C I Hovey Jackson Milne and Moors named in the cargo and consignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Scot
Baring Bros & Co
Curtis
Moors & Co
Wyllie
Purdy & Nicholas
Brooks & Co
Hoover, Lewis & Co
L & DS Riker
I Hovey & Co
Milne & Co
Snow & Co
Townsend
Linder & Co
Joel Goldthwait & Co
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Muslins
Bradford
Thomas & Co
Mackintosh
Nickerson & Co
Boston Area Rail Schedule Fragment Shows Wide Train Timetables
A dense OCR of rail times lists departures and arrivals across suburbs including Newton, Brookline, West Newton, and Brighton. It notes multiple lines, weekend and holiday variations, and service to New York and Providence with extensive hourly markings.
Local Trade and Goods Listing with Potatoes and Paper Stock
A dense OCR of a 19th century goods ledger showing numerous firms and items. Entries include potatoes, paper stock, bales flax, fire clay bricks, bricks, tiles, machinery, moise, flax, soda ash, bags, casks, gum, cottons, dyes, oakum, sacks, sheets, grapes, and bbls. Several firms named alongside quantities and item types, including Do Do and Co, Kimball & Co, Snow & Co, Wilder, Larrabee, and Bryden & Esterbrook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler, Conant & Blodgett
Wilson, Larrabee & Co
Chas Kimball & Co
Clark
Bryden & Esterbrook
McDonald
Todd
Exports from Digby and Salmon River in January 1888
Listing of goods carried by schooners Isaac Patch and Borrhomie and by bark Flovence including flour, meal, kerosene oil, ice, fruit and vegetables, butter, codfish, oysters, canned goods, lard, dried apples, beef, cheese, and various hardware supplies. Different destinations include Barbados and Nova Scotia ports.
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Digby
Isaac Patch
Salmon River
Borrhomie
Barbados
Cargoes Listed for Rail Lines in Receipts of Jan 5 1838
The consolidated manifest shows numerous consignments across railroads Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Fitchburg Old Colony New York & New England Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and by express and sea. Items include hundreds of bales cotton wool flour corn meal oats barley and wheat, bacon lard butter eggs beans apples hams tea coffee sugar molasses leather hides and cheese along with vehicles lumber and miscellaneous goods. The list records quantities by rail line with many bales and barrels and crates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad—Western Division
Lowell System
Express
Ats Morice
Total Receipts January 5 1888 Across Commodities
A detailed ledger of market receipts dated January 5 1888 listing cotton sugar flour eggs corn meal oats wheat barley potatoes and other goods with quantities in barrels boxes bushels bags and cords. It records values for 1887 1888 and related figures across multiple categories and items.
Limited Partnership Formed by Hinklen Nickerson in Boston
The holders certify a Massachusetts limited partnership under T Frank Hinkley and T Frank Hinkley as general partner with Augustus Nickerson as special partner residing in Boston. Nickerson contributed fifteen thousand dollars in cash. The venture, to start December 1 1887 and end November 30 1890, will manufacture and trade shoe manufacturer goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
T. Frank Hinkley
Boston
Commonwealth
Augustus Nickerson
Sata
A. D
T. Prank Hinklen
Certificate acknowledgment of T Frank Hinkley and Augustus Nickerson
Massachusetts certificate acknowledgment dated November 30 1887 before Justice Dudley A Dorr witnesses T Frank Hinkley and Augustus Nickerson signatories. Secretary’s Department in Boston notes December 1 1887.
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Sufyolk
T. Frank Hinkley
Augustus Nickerson
Dudley A. Dorr
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Boston
American Art Magazine Company Dissolves in 1888
Boston January 2 1888 the partnership of Frank T Robinson Lyman H Weeks and Charles C Coolidge under the firm name American Art Magazine Company is dissolved by mutual consent Lyman Weeks will settle affairs of the concern Frank T Robinson Lyman H Weeks Charles C Coolidge by his attorney H H CooLimpar
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Boston
Frank T. Robinson
Lyman H. Weeks
Charles C. Coolidge
American Art Magazine Company
Lyman Weeks
Charles ¢. Coolidge
H. H. CooLimpar
Goodale Admitted as Member of Parkinson & Burr Firm
Boston January 2 1888 Joseph M Goodale is admitted a member of the firm Parkinson and Burr marking a milestone in the local business scene and the firm’s growing professional roster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Joseph M. Goodale
Adoption Petition in Suffolk Probate Court Seeks Change of Name
The petition by Orlando W. Gilman and Reedie Gilman of Bellows Falls Vermont seeks leave to adopt Seddie Deloria of Boston born about October 20 1883 and abandoned in Chelsea Massachusetts. They request the child be renamed Burt Orlando Gilman and state the child has been supported by Massachusetts for over two years with no determined parentage.
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Moo
County OF
Suffolk
Orlando W. Gilman
Bellows Falls
Reedie Gilman
Seddie Deloria
Boston
Lizzie Deloria
Chelsea
Mass
State Board of Health
Maes
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Burt Orlando Gilman
Orlando Weed Gilmax
Freedie Gilman
Probate Court notices in Suffolk Mass 1886 87 sequence
Notices warn interested parties to appear in Boston Suffolk Probate Court on January 23 1886 to show cause why petitions should not be granted. Also includes Dora Herrmann vs Henry Gesling libel for nullity of marriage filed December 1887 alleging prior marriage and lack of divorce and asking dissolution of the bonds of matrimony.
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Superior Court
Boston
Suffolk
Dora Berrmanan
Dora Herrmann
Henry Gesling
New Orleans
Louisiana
Henry Gosling
Libellee
Libel Notice in Suffolk Court Case Published in Boston Post
In Suffolk County, the clerk orders libelant to publish the libel and court order in the Boston Post for three consecutive weeks. The notice also requires mailing a copy to Henry Gesling at his last known address and a personal appearance before the Boston court on the first Monday of February 1888.
Desertion Divorce Petition in Massachusetts 1887
Anna M. Belser of Boston petitions the Superior Court for a divorce from Daniel Belser of Raymond New Hampshire, alleging desertion in Boston on December 28 1875 and three years of continuous abandonment prior to filing, with prior cohabitation in Marlboro Hudson and Boston.
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Commonwealth OF Mas
Superior Court
Sl.w. . Ui
Ed Ges
Boston
Sutlolk
Anna M. Belser
Daniel Belser
Raymond
New Hampshire
Northboro
Mass
Commonwealth
Marlboro
Hudson
A. B
Daniel Berger
Anna M, Belser
Libel Filed in Suffolk Court Seeks Defendant Notice
In Boston on December 14 1887 the Suffolk Superior Court orders libellant to publish the libel against Daniel Belser in the Boston Post for three weeks and mail or serve an attested copy fourteen days before the February first Monday hearing. The libellee must appear and show cause why the prayer should not be granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
Boston
Boston Post
Joan W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Superior Court
Henry Gosling
County of
Henry Gesling
Jos. A. Willard
Daniel Belser
Daniel Beiser
Probate Court Citations in Mary E. B. Thom son Will
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex Probate Court issues a citation for the estate of Mary E B Thom son of Somerville. John S Thom son seeks letters testamentary and bond without surety. Court in Cambridge sets hearing for January fourth at nine o clock, Boston Post to publish weekly for three weeks. Judge Grover M Brooks. Register J H M Tyler. 1888.
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Commonwealth OF Massachus
Mary E. B. Thomson
Somerville
John
Thomson
Cambridge
Middlesex
Boston Post
Boston
Grover M. Brooks
Esquire
J. Hi. Tyler
Register
Wallachus
Rye
Matthew H. Bellis
Waltham
Charle
Cole
Morfolk
Proposals for Boston street grading on Commonwealth Ave
City of Boston invites sealed proposals for grading a portion of Commonwealth Avenue between Warren and Washington streets in Brighton. Bidder to state price per cubic yard, remove rock to 1 foot below grade, deliver material to points along Commonwealth Avenue, and maintain at least 100 cubic yards daily. Bond or certified check of 1000 dollars required. bids opened Jan 7, 1888.
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City Hall
Boston
Commonwealth Ay
Massachusetts Ay
Warren
Washington Sts
Brighton
Commonwealth Av
Washington St
Harvard Av
John W. McDonald
NEW England Limited
New York
Air Line
Grand Central Depot
Willimantic
Hartford
New Britain
Waterbury
Philadelphia
New Haven
Jersey City
Trenton
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
Norwich Line
New London
Norwich
Danielsonville
Putnam
City OF Worcester
City OF New York
Washington Street
New York and New England December 11 1887 Train Schedule
Corrected timetable listing weekly trains from Loston Station foot of Summer Street to Ashcroft and multiple other stops including Baltimore Blackstone Branbury Worchester and Norwich with morning and evening departures and special Sunday trains to Norwood Central Hyde Park and intermediate stations.
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Loston Station
Summer Street
Ashcroft
Baltimore
Bira Street
Blackstone
Branbury
Worchester
Butiey Street
Alam
Ellis
Endicott
Pishkill-on-Houdson
Franklin
Forest Avenue
Martfora
Harvard Stre— Ae Ae
Weeoum
Llu MI
Revue Park
Mighland Lake
Islington
Manchester
Attapan
Milferd
Mit
Bowdoin
New Brittain
Burg
New London
New York
Norwich
Norwood
Norwood Central
Pawtucket
M. Providence
Putnam
Breadville
Ockville
Conn
Wiltons
Able
Washington
BB. C
Waterbury
Wwof
Willimantic
Winslows
Ebster
Boston
Hyde Park
Boston and Albany Local and Express Train Notices
Schedule details for Woonsocket division trains to Needham and intermediate stations with departures and returns, special stops, Sundays operations, express service to New York via Middletown and Newtown, and connections to Hartford and other cities. Includes Norfolk ranges, dining, parlor and Pullman cars, and ticket office info.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woonsocket Division
Boston & Albany Railroad
Boston
Needham and Way
Woonsocket
New York
Middletown
Newton
Pullman
Hartford
New Britain
Waterbury
Danbury
Vishkill-on-Hudson
Newburgh
Turners, N. Y
Montreal
West
Vermont
Chicago
Pullmeen
Fitchburg
New
Stonington
Lin York
Boston & Providence
Newark
State Ee
J. Bataor
A. A. Folsom
Meta & Fe
Sako EJP 2 Sato Erie 20 Operation Timings
Train and boat connection timetable compiled by GEO L. Connor shows schedules across Bridgewater Brockton Fall River New Bedford and surrounding towns. The list notes arrival and return times for routes via Taunton Plymouth Cohasset Hingham and other stations with Friday Tuesday and Friday service restrictions.
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Bridgewater
Brockton
Elaznar
Bay
Buzzard's Bay
Provecetows
Chatham
Proveincetown
Hingham
Fall River
Taunton
Harrison Square
GU (Doal
New Bedford
North Easton
Sv Randolph
Stongton
Randolph
Scituate
Verte
South Duxbury
Wauntem
Centr
Dean Street
Ewouen
Weymouths
Cohasse
Arshfield
Duxbury
Pity
Plymouth
Marseld
Cohasset
Pall River
Real
Ia Taunton
Taunea
Newport
South Braintree and Way
South Brains Tree
Middleboro
New York
Geo
L. Connor
Gan
Pass
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Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
France
Wilmington
Norfolk
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R.R
Tims
Kneeland Street
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
Sme OP
Vlelia Lund
SPM
Pittsfield Caer
North AG
LU Uy QO Ud
Hindson
T Palmer
Ware River
Blartford
Worcester
Millbury
North Grafton
Westboro
Samtville
State Tome Cordaville
Ashland
South Fran
Emer Oun
Ewes A
Il. Is
Wewy
Hiam
Saxonville
Paley
Saille
Weat Newton
Newtonville
Welless M
Nes
Ney Neeve Mae
Ey Ny Ree
Faneuil
Aneton
Brookline
Cypress Street
Meese
Chestnut Blu
Newton Centre
Newton Highlands
Iver, Vot
Enamib¢Giam
Maribor
Kayville
Southboro
Northborn
Clinton
Leomister
Em. Berlin
West Berlin
Bolton
Pratt's Junction
Lee
Uyo Warase
Newton Lower Falls
Wellesie Hillmand
Inter“Te
Hanson
H. T. Gallup
Pasa
Aga
Froston
Providence
Berry Heery
Rebronville
Dodgeville
Agttenore
Ae al
North Attlebor
LO i Uy
Fea
Beouy
Syne
Wu Es
Iy Oke
Hho
Foxboro
Sharon
Junction
Readville
Ore
Clare
Wien
Pemwy Savy
Ain
Femig Wap
Meenty
Vd. Sa
Avy
Oetev
Iran
Dou
Atu
Hal
Prk
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Leskiene
Serope
Stoughton
Canton
Boston Warren
Bristol
T. Hope
Weer
J Tueasday
Turday
Folsom
Supe
Sey Ws Fa
Wee Hy
Copartanership Notices
the Commonwealth
Henry J. Coolidge
Parkinson & Burr
Gorham, Rogers & CQ
Dundee
Maine
Joseph Ben
Baldwin
Joseph A. Bent
Cumberland
Suffolk Oe Bank
Elwah George
Mary Murphy
James H. Murphy
Adinr
J.P. J. Warp
Tremont Street
Commie Ember
City OF Boston
New England
Ark An
Mae
Allo
Philadel
Tou
Wummuul Duuuy
A. A. Jackson
Gen’l Sup
A.C. Kendall
L Pass
Hoosac
Causeway Street
Troy
Rotterdam Junction
Niagara Falls Short Line
Niagara Falls
Wabash Western Railway
Erie
Chicago & Eens Trunk Railway
Ayer Junction
Sun
Belmont and Waverley
le Brattleboro
Miller’s Falls
Cane Cambridge
Aih. Gardner
Rbillex
Hoosick Falls
Johnsonville
Lincoln
Hadson and Maynard
Nashua N. Hi
North Adams
Williamstown
North Leominster
Saratoga
Shelburne Falls
Union Square
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburn
Miller's Falls
Aver Junction
Hoosac Tunnel
Naiita
Nohn Adams
J. R. Watson
Gen
Concord R. BR
Branomel
B. and
Concord
N. H
N.H
Ratlboa
Old State House
Fall River Line
Ashmont
Barnstable
Warmouth
Sandwich
Cottage City
East Bridgewater
Brock
M. West
Keluin
Liam
Bowes
Dea
Jd. KR. Kendrick
U.K
Fitchburg, Cheshire
Central Vermont
Rutland
Ottawa
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg Depot
Winchendong Jaffrey
Peterboro
Fitzwilliam
Keene
Westmoreland
Walpole
Burelington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Utland
All Point
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
R. BR
Cheshire R.R
White Rive Junction
I . M.hire & Monadnoc
Sae Rk. K
White His Junction
Hess
Wagner Palace
Burlington
Ogdenburg
C. A. Faxon, Gen. de R. Stewart
Keene, N. H
Oled Colony
Brooklyn
Seneay
Amne
J. R. Kendrick
Baeder, Adamson & CQ
Bussey Farm
Harvard University
Winter Board For Horses
D.T. Hinckley
Roslindale P. C
Aaron E
GAY &_CO
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