Market status notes across commodities and farm products
Copper active, Lead firm, Spelter quiet, Tin quiet, Flour firm, Corn dull, Oats firmer, Cornmeal quiet, Barley steady, Rye quiet, Oatmeal steady, Rye flour quiet, Millfeed quiet, Butter firm, Cheese quiet but strong, Eggs steady, beans in fair demand, Grass seeds very firm, Potatoes moving, Sweet potatoes quiet, Hay fair demand, Straw unchanged, Poultry steady, Game dull, Tallow fair demand, Apples quiet, Florida oranges fair demand, Cranberries very firm, Nuts unchanged, Truck quiet, Pork firm, Fresh beef quiet, Lambs fair demand, Veals steady, Sugars firm, Molasses steady.
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Florida
New York
Minnesota
Rio
City Extra India
Western
Liverpool
Minneapolis
Northern
Milwaukee
Chicago
Cincinnati
Toledo
ST. Louis
Metal Market Sees Steady Prices Amid Unsettling Strikes
The metal market shows no major price changes with steady demand for steel plate and sheet iron, and moderate demand for bars, plates, tubes, and pipes. Reading, Pennsylvania reports mine shutdown risks could force large furnaces to close due to coal shortages. copper exports stay active.
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Reading
Penn
New York Metal Exchange
London
New York
Baltimore
Gray Forge
Eglinton
Summerlee
Garthsherrie
Langloan
Glengarnock
Coltness
New England
Market reports on flour and grain prices January 7
The market for flour and cornmeal remains firm with little trading and few concessions. Quotations cover various flour grades from Minnesota bakers to spring patents, with rye flour oats and barley listed, while cornmeal and oats show steady to firmer prices and active futures trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Michigan
Canada Superior
Canada Roller
Canada Extra
Grain and feed prices for spring sales and barley markets
Prices listed for sacks and tons of bran middlings and cottonseed meal, with prime on spot and new meal prices. Barley remains quiet but steady with Canada and State six rowed and two rowed varieties quoted. hops, rye and flour ranges noted. carload basis applies to grain and flour quotations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Mar
Choice
New York
Wholesale market prices for dairy and produce decline in parts
Receipts of Western creameries sell at 29 80c for Western extra frest, 26 28c for extra firsts, 23 75c for Western firsts. Egg and cheese values hold, butter varies by grade, potatoes and produce show steady demand and wide price ranges across regions and items.
Butter and Cheese Markets Quiet Across Cities
In Chicago butter is tame with stocks creasing. Western extra creameries offered at 23 30c. Cheese is in fair demand at 11 12c. Eggs are very tame. In New York butter cheese and beans are firm. Eggs and dried apples are dull. In Liverpool cheese market steady at 60s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Liverpool
Apple and citrus markets hold with varied prices across regions
The apple market remains steady with Baldwin and Greening values quoted in Liverpool and on the frontier. cranberries firm with Cape Cod and Jamaica oranges showing firm ranges. auction sale by H. Harris & Co. lists numerous fruit lots including Scotch potatoes and Valencia oranges amid steady orange and lemon trade. nut prices vary from walnuts to almonds, with peanut and pecan figures noted.
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Baldwins
Liverpool
Greenings
Newtowns
Spy
Hubbardston
Greening
Spitz
Cape Cod
Ape Cod
H. Harris & Co
Valencia
Almeria
Palermo
Jamaica
Florida
Messina
Virginia
Virginia Prime
Virginia Common
Grenoble
Naples
Pork and beef prices steady in latest market report
The pork market remains firm with steady demand for hams and lard as prices hold across cuts. Quotes cover long and short cuts, backs, lean ends, tongues, and various mess and rib products. beef prices show firm demand for choice cattle and lambs with ranges across several grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ga Bc
Chicago
Brighton
Sugar Market Quiet With Steady Raw Prices
Raw sugar trading remains subdued with no sales reported. Refining grades hold firm while refined sugar advances, with granulated and confectioners' grades showing modest gains. Notable prices include 6 3/16 to 5 16/160 cents for raw, and refined levels around 7 14 to 7 34 cents per pound.
Wholesale grocers' price today for sugar and molasses
Wholesale grocers' price today lists a 7 percent ec increase for granulated sugar. Molasses offers new crop Ponce at 35 cents per gallon and Cienfuegos at 22 cents per gallon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ponce
Cienfuegos
Trade Centre Flour and Grain Prices Across Cities
Reports from New York and other trade centers show flour receipts at 18 526 kgs with exports and sales across white wheat varieties, rye flour, cornmeal, and Minnesota extra flour. Wheat and corn prices move varying by grade, with no single trend, while oats and barley track steady to weaker tones across multiple markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
New York
New York Spot Cotton Steady as Liverpool Finds Mixed Feet
New York spot cotton closes quiet at 10 4 for middling uplands and 10c for low middling with 162 bales sold. Futures open weak. quotations show narrow bid and ask ranges for January through June. Liverpool spot flat with uplands at 5 5 16d and Orleans at 5 11 16d. Liverpool futures steady with varied December to August deliveries. Regional receipts and stocks listed across Galveston New Orleans Savannah and other ports with mixed activity and firm to dull tones.
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New York
Liverpool
Uplands
Orleans
Agusta
Dull
Mia
Galveston
New Orleans
France
Mobile
Savannah
Great Britain
C. Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Aniet
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St Louis
Print Cloth Markets in Providence Report Big Week Sales
The print cloths market in Providence shows active demand with 255,500 pieces sold this week versus 657,000 last week. Prices closed strong with 64 squares at 334 cents and 56x60s at 3140 cents, detailing large lots by delivery month and spot terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Hog And Cattle Markets Report From Chicago
Cattle receipts 2000 strong with gains to 10 cents. beef steers around 8.65 to 26, stockers and feeders 2.85 to 0. Cows bulls and mixed 1.55 to 3.26. Hogs receipts 21000 strong with shipments 7000. prices mix 6.10 to 5.50 for various weights and 3.40 to 4.70 for skips. Sheep receipts 1500 slow. ranges 2.50 to 4.85 for Western and Texans 2.56 to 8.40. lambs 4.50 to 6.76.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Texas
Sugar Market in Havana Sees Higher Prices and Quiet Close
Foreign markets report active demand in Havana with price advances. Molasses sugar set at 2372 275 gold per quintal while Mechvaan and Centrifugal show varied rates. Warehouse stocks total 9300 boxes 20000 bags and 846 hhds with weekly receipts of 12500 bags and 18 hhds. Exports of 17000 bags to the United States. Freight rates listed for sugar loading to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Matanzas
United States
Imports and Exports Jan 7 1888
Trade roundup lists multiple vessels and cargoes across Brunswick Pensacola Havana Jamaica Porto Rico Rosario Portau Prince Gonaives and Port de Paix. Logwood sugar cocoanuts coffee palm oil and other commodities are recorded with shipper firms including Lyon Dupuy Nash Spaulding Wellman Blake J Freeman and Gossler & co. The document notes schooners brig and bark arrivals with quantities in bags tons pounds and feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyon & Co
Lyon, Dupuy & Co
Thackery & Co
Dupuy, Riboul & Co
Brunswick
Lizzie
Haynes
George Mequesten & Co
Pensacola
Fla
John R Stanhope
Jamaica
Blake & Ripley
J H Freeman
Boston Fruit Co
Porto Rico
Gossler & Co
Gustavo Preston
Rosario
Port AU Prince
Green & Son
Gonaives
M C Moseley
Dione
Logwood
Port DE Paix
J F Merry
Staple Goods Shipments From Multiple Rail Lines
A long list details shipments of cotton wool flour corn oats wheat malt barley grease butter eggs beans hay straw lumber leather hides pelts and other staples moving via Boston Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg Boston Maine and Lowell System lines and by express and sea routes. The entries name bales bbls sacks boxes cars rolls bolls and pails with quantities for each commodity across several railroads and routes.
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Halifax
Worcester
Maud Carter
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Jane Adeline
Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
A & Maine Railroad
Lowell
By Express
Commodity Ledger Fragment Shows 1887 1888 Agricultural Totals
A historical OCR fragment lists varied farm produce and goods with quantities, including cotton and wool bales, flour barrels, sacks of sugar and cornmeal, oats, beans, apples, wheat, potatoes, hay, barley, rye, millfeed, peas, tallow, beef and pork, bacon, coffee, lumber, hides, and other commodities with approximate yearly figures for 1887 and 1888, reflecting a multi-item trade ledger.
Proposals for Tools for the Navy Yard Brooklyn
Navy Department invites sealed proposals for tools and materials for the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Bids due January 16, 1888, noon, at Washington. Proposals must include plans or descriptive cuts and be in duplicate. Secretary may reject any or all bids. D. B. Harmony acting Secretary of the Navy.
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Navy Yard
Brooklyn
New York
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Secretary of the Navy
D. B. Harmony
Boston and Albany Railroad Timetable Notice December 25 1887
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany Railroad show trains to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West with several through tickets and connections. Weekly and Sunday schedules list departures from Boston stations to Worcester New Haven New York and many intermediate stops including Plymouth and Framingham. Dining and sleeping car services are noted for various routes.
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Boston & Albany
R.R. Pec
Tims
Washington Street
Boston
Ltatins
Boston Sation
Kneeland Street
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
North Atams
Sunuay
Chatham
Huadson
Palmer
Ware River Branch
Ker
Worcester
North
Ville
Cordaville
Ashland
Puilford
South Framingham
Natich
Guys
Newton Lower Falls
Wellesley Bulls
Newton Highlands
Brookline
Hanson
H. ‘Ll. Gallup
Gen. Pass
Ags
Supe
Union Square
Somerville
SUN
Waltham
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auborn
Ayer Junction
Spm
San
Oom
Miller's Falls
Hoosac Tunnel
John Adams
Gen’l Sapt
Insolvency Notice in Cambridge for Warren G Morse
Court orders public notice and a hearing on January 12 in Cambridge. Debtor Warren G Morse seeks discharge after a prior refusal due to lack of creditor assent. Publication in the Boston Post required on two dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren G. Morse
Cambridge
Middlesex
Boston Post
Boston
Gronar M. Brooks
Esquire
Through Trains On Western and Eastern Divisions
Boston and Maine timetable dated October 23 1887 lists train departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta St John Halifax Eastport Calais Portland and other points with multiple daily departures and connections via Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox and Lincoln lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Maine
Augusta
Haymarket Sq
Causeway St
Argor
St. John
Halifax
Provinces
Eastport
Calais
N. B
Portland
Mreckland
Castine
Southwest
Bar Harbors
Tewiston Haymarket Sq
Marchester
Concord
N. H
Haymarket St
North Janraey
Portland—Slaymarket St
Dam
Central Vermont
Rutland
Montreal
Ottawa
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg
Causeway Street
Boston
Winchendon
Jaffrey
Peterboro
Fitzwilliam
Troy
Marlboro
Keene
Westmoreland
Walpole
Bellows Falls
Burlington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Saratoga
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
R. R
Cheshire
White River Junction
Vermont
Ches
Albany
Rotterdam Junction
West
Chicago
Niagara Falls Short Line
St. Louis
Niagara Falls and
Wabash Western Railway
Seal & Boston
Niagara Falls
Ee Trunk Railway
Boston_Area Train Schedule Listings Across Western Division
A dense timetable lists outbound trains from Boston area stations to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and many others with numerous departure times and stops including Andover Dover Danvers Exeter and Melrose as part of a Western Division schedule. The fragment shows extensive hourly and half hour markings across multiple communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Division
Boston Station
Haymarket Square
Alton Bay
Rrochester
Farmington
Andover
Dover
Danvers
Exeter
Great Falls
Braverhill
Georgetown
Mennebunk
Biddeford
Saco
North Lawrence
South Lawrence
Lowell
Malden
Stoneham
Melrose
Merrimac
North Andover
Newburyport
Meading
Wueves
Salon
Sm. Wakefield
Wilmington
Eastern Division Train Schedules to Amesbury and Nearby Stations
A dense list of epoch style train times for numerous towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Everett and Salem plus branches to Marblehead Swampscott York Harbor and others. The notice lists daily and Sunday trains with varied times and notes Pullman cars for Portland and Bangor routes. James T. Furber is the General Manager and D J Flanders General Passenger Agent.
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Kivuston
Cause _ Street
Amesbury
Beverly
Thiddeferd
Chelsea
Rover
Everett
Great Palls
Rochester
Bampton
Beach
North Aston
Rye Beach
Epswich
Lynn
Marblehead
Swampscott Branch
Newtport
Tom
North Cosway
Peabody Bgt Danvers
Mortsine
Rockport
Glouch Eranch
Salem
York Harbor & Beach
Saugus Branch
Wenham
Wolfeboro
Lynn and Way
Newburyport
Portsamouth
Portland
Bangor
St. John
Halifax
Saugus
South Reading
Boston
Haymarket Square
City
Washington Street
James T. Furber
D. J. Flanders
Train Schedule Changes for May 30 1887 Providence Area
Publication lists extensive rail timetable changes affecting lines to New Work and Providence. It details daily departures and returns across Shore Line Fast Express, Shore Line Mail, and Steamboat Stonington routes, with numerous pickup points including Dedham, Attleboro, Readville, Hyde Park, and West Roxbury. The notice notes special Sunday services, late trains, and adjustments to connections with New York arrivals, signed by A. A. Folsom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rroston
Providence
NEW
Stonington
York Axe
Boston & Providence Railroad
New York Ga.m
State Street
Boston & Providence R. BR
J. W. Richardson
Boston
D. Folsom
Sant Bogiog & Providense
Train Timetable Fragments From New England Routes
Schedule snippets show intercity stops and boat connections including Lewes Newport New Bedford Taunton Plymouth Fall River and Brockton with multiple return times. GEO L CONNOR Gen Pass Agent notes Fridays only and arrival or boat train references clarify service linkage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weymouths
Hingham
Ohasse Scituate
Arshfield
Oxbury
Plymouth
Marshafield
Cohasset
Fall River
Brockton
Taunter
Taunon
Newport
South Braintree and Way
South Bratun Tree
Taunton
New Bedford
Middleboro
Rockton
New York
Geo
L. Connor
Gen. Pass
Transit Timetable Fragments From Van Ayer Area
Readable scraps list bus times and routes for Belmon Ave Cambria Av and Averley area. Entries include morning and evening departures with several misread values such as 8 9 11.35 am and 10.30 pm.
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Ramingham and Marthore
Marlboro
Fayville
Southboro
Northboro
Clinton
Leomister
Fitchburg
Sterhin
West Berlin
Bolton
Pratt
Boston
L.su
O. Vee
Hippe and
Clarendon Iilig
Averley
SUN
la mi
Alle Gardner
Miltler’s
Oe Greenfield
Wioosick Falls
Johnsonville
Lincoln
Erae R Marlboro
Hudson and Maynard
Nashua N. H
Ayer Junction
Illiamstown
North Leominster
Saratoga
Shelburne Falls
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Cyprese M
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Newton Centre
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Court OF Men
J. H. Tyler
Register
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Maverick Lawrence
Land
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IAINS
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Wil
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Ideat
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Foxboro
Sharon
Canton Junction
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Readville
Hyde Park
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Lok
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Oac
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ANION
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Boston Warren
Bristol
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Tve
A. A. Folsom
Sam
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Wagner Palace
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Keene, N. H. Jan
Lowgll
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OC Colony
Faliver
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Sere City
Osten
Old State House
Old Colony
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J. R. Kendrick
Kall River
Ashmont
Barnstable
Warmouth
Sandwich
Hyannis
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Abington
LSS
West Quincy
Ems Weymouth
Weymouth
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Biate Japan
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Neponset
Dattapeoisett
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Thur
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Hanover and
Hockland
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Hanover
A& m
Kockland
I. Whitman
Bridgewater
Cochesett and
South Mastom
Bazzard’s
Bazzard
Um. Keturn
Fail River
Lem
Harrison Square
Lewes
North Easton
Stougate Randolph
Stoughton
Randolph
Seituate
South Duxbury
Kauaten
Centra
Dern Street
Hoosac
Van
Ayer
Belmon
Tine Cambria
M. Bero
Miller’s Falls
Ige
J. Whitmore
J.B. Watson
Concord BR. BR
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B. and L
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