Wool Market Slows Amid Indecision and Mixed Demand
Wool trade shows weak activity with price stability in several grades. Ohio and Michigan lots move modestly, while California and Territory wools remain quiet. Market watchers note indecision among buyers and sellers, with little likelihood of major price shifts soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
California
Oregon
Territory
Exas
New York
Texas
Boston
Flour and Grain Prices Firm in January Market
The market for flour remains firm with better sales for both spring and winter patents. Millers maintain full asking prices across varieties from fine to winter patents and exports. Cornmeal and corn are quiet to steady with modest export interest. oats and barley show limited movement while rye remains dull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Michigan
Canada Superior
Canada
New York
Bush
Choice
Market Prices and Varieties for Creamery and Beans
The report lists wholesale dairy items and beans with varied prices. Western creameries show firsts and specials around 22 to 32 cents, while Eastern and Vermont selections span the high teens to mid-twenties. Bean prices are firmer with steady demand and ranges reflecting market conditions and buyer interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Western
New York c
York
Vermont
Fai Ae Ie
Qhio Choice
Northern Sage
aicGa
Bronawick Oikos
Nova Scotia
Market Report On Butter Cheese Eggs And Dried Fruit
In Chicago butter is steady with receipts down, cheese firm and in fair demand, eggs dull with Western extras 22c firsts 18c. In New York butter firm and in fair demand, cheese quiet and firm, dyes steady. State 22c Western 21 22c. Beans quiet, dried apples dull. Liverpool cheese market steady at 60s 6d, last year same day quiet at 65s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Liverpool
Uplands
Orleans
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Continent
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Great Britain
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
France
Channel
United States
Boston Vegetable and Potato Car to Manchester Route
A vegetable and potato car will depart Boston by the Boston and Maine railroad Lowell system every Thursday at 2 p.m. for Manchester Hooksett Hancock Concord and Pittsfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lowell
Manchester
Hooksett
Hancock, Concord
Pittsfield
Market Roundup: Fruit and Nut Prices Steady Amid Mixed Demand
Apples show slow movement at old quotations with varied figures for Hubbardston Baldwins and spitz stock. Cranberries light with firm prices. Cape Cod oranges and Mediterranean fruit demand noted. grapefruit dull. Florida oranges modest supply. peaches, lemons, and box prices listed. peanuts and nuts steady with regional price ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubbardston
Spitz
Baldwins
Cape Cod
Country
Malagas
Florida
Palermo
Messina
Valencia
Virginia
Virginia Prime
Irginia
Grenoble
Naples
Meat and pork prices hold firm amid steady demand
The market reports firm prices for pork, lard, hams, and beef with strong export demand. Quotations cover long and short cuts, backs, light backs, pork tongues, mess and prime cuts, fresh ribs, sausages, bologna, and various hams and shoulders, plus live hogs and lambs with steady bidding across grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord
Choice
Chicago
Brighton
Miscellaneous Market Items and Sugar Prices
Pipeline certificates note closing times January 17 1887 and opening January 18 1887 with quoted highs and lows. Sugar markets show dull raw sugar with steady prices and no sales, refined and pulverized prices listed, and wholesale granulated at 7 1/2 cents. Molasses prices for New Janey crop Ponce Cienfuegos Barbadoes are provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloilos
Javas
Ponce
Cienfuegos
Barbadoes
Trade Centre Flour and Grain Prices Report
New York January 18 reports show flour receipts exports and sales across grades from common to Minnesota extras with prices from 2.10 to 5.10 per barrel or sack. Wheat and corn markets show varied receipts exports and steady to lower bids, with rye and barley activity and fats in oils and waxes, pork steady and lard firmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minnesota
City
Onis
Petroleum
United
Burbank
Tierces Western Steam Pt
Tierces City Steam
Butter firm and iron markets steady in quiet mid January
Across cities traders report firm butter and steady copper lead tin and spelter while freight to Liverpool remains dull. Wheat and corn move lower in Chicago and St Louis with mixed grain prices and reductions in dry salted meats and pork. Exports and yarn orders show weak demand as spinners hesitate, while china and india fabrics hold modest inquiries for printers goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Liverpool
Chicago
ST. Louis
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Carley
Toledo
Cincinnati
Detroit
Cotton Market Shows Softer Tone and Mixed Freight Data
Allan Asher & Co reports a softer cotton market with Liverpool weakness and slower demand. Port receipts and exports totals are given alongside New York futures bids and spot prices, while multiple U S ports show varied stock levels and firm or quiet tone across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Asher & Co
Liverpool
New York
Hog and Cattle Markets Across Cities Report Jan 18
Across St Louis Kansas City Peoria Chicago hogs were lower with varied bids and sluggish demand. Cattle in Chicago receipts rose while prices ranged from 550 for fancy steers to 305 350 for Texas cattle. Sheep receipts and prices showed slow trade with mixed quality natives and Western sheep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Peoria
Chicago
Texas
London Shipping Wheat and Cotton Markets Attuned to Rates
London reports a mixed tone in grain and cotton markets with wheat firming at sea and Paris, while Liverpool sees quiet wheat futures and steady cotton demand. Manchester notes light inquiry and low offers as cotton prices influence production prospects, suggesting possible output cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
Great Britain
California
Uplands
Orleans
Manchester
The
Guardian
Imports and Exports. January 18 1888 Cardigan PEI
A ledger style list of goods shipped and received across ships and firms. Items include 3950 bush potatoes for Schooner Atlanta, 50 birds by Steamer Palmyra, and numerous consignments of textiles, dry goods, hardware, wines, and machinery from multiple firms such as Wood Pollard, Beal Higgins, Jordan Marsh, Baring Bros, and Frost Adams, with destinations including Liverpool and London. Additional entries note port entries at Montague and Mayaguez with goods like potatoes and molasses.
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Cardigan
Pei
Atlanta
Delong & Seaman
Liverpool
Eng
Palmyra
Pollard & Co
Bigelow
Kennard & Co
Gorham Mans Co
Durrell & Co
C S Sargent
John C Chaplin & Co
Cunard Steamship Line
Brine
Stone & Downer
Zenas Sears
Wright Manf Co
Collins & Fairbankie
Linder & Meyer
Frost & Adatos
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Sandborn, Hain & Co
Piper
Beal, Higgins & Henderson
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Folsom
Nute & Newell
Wheeler, Conant & Blodgett
Moors & Co
Mackintire
Lawrie & Co
Chase & Co
Brown, Durrell & Co
Mackintire, Lawrie & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Coleman, Meal & Co
Robbins & Appleton
Wright
Leeds
Abram French & Co
Houghton & Dutton
de L Sheptee &’*Co
Thayer
Boston Clock Co
R H White & Co
Codman & Shurtleff
Horace Partridge & Co
Pierce & Co
March Bros. Pierce & Co
Bradford, Thomas & Co
Hovey & Co
D& M Williams
Farley & Son
Fielder
Moeldner & Co
P Squire & Co
Truss Stone & Downer
Dexter
Fiske, Coleman & Co
Marcel Riley & Gray
N Brigham
Thacher
Allen & Co
Coleman, Mead & Co
Thompson & Jessenden
Noyes, Campbell & Co
Manger & Avery
Macallar
Parker & Co
Grout
Warren & Blanchard
Wilson, Larrabee & Co
Stevens, Hovey & Co
Webster & Co
Sturtevant, Mills & Co
Little, Brown & Co
Moses & Co
Neal, Morse & Co
Lowell Machine Shop
Frost & Adams
Cumner, Jones & Co
Montague, Pei
Barclay & Co
Mayaguez
Warner & Freeman
Bates & Barnet
Port LA Tour
Staple Goods Receipts On Jan Fifteenth Eighty Eight
A listing of railroad receipts shows Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western and Lowell System movements. Cotton wool flour corn oil lards bacon beef tea coffee sugar oleo cheese eggs leather hams hides and other staples through multiple lines with quantities. The row of figures details bales, bbls, sacks, cases, and carload totals.
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Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchbur
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Western Division
Oston & Maine Railroad
Lowell System
Passengers to Boston and destinations may have baggage checked
Old Colony notice lists baggage check service from hotel or residence to Boston and onward destinations. It provides schedules for weekday trains from Ashmont, Barnstable, Hyannis, Sandwich, and other towns with numerous return times and notes about via Fall River Line connections. The long timetable ends with a signature by GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK.
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Boston
Exports at Picketts Wharf January 18 1888
Shipping list from Pickets Wharf Nova Scotia shows Sch A Anthony with 170 barrels flour 175 bags feed 700 barrels corn meal. Cardenas Cuba reports Megunticook with 713 empty second hand molasses barrels 136 empty second hand molasses tierces. Halifax NS lists Christina with 196 birds sugar Fayval market. Sarah with varied cargo including sugar pine piano linseed oil petroleum farming tools codfish oil stoves and more including lumber tobacco clocks glassware and hardware.
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Pickett’s Wharf
Cardenas
Cuba
Megunticook
Halifax
Christina
Sarah
Grain and supply totals from merchant cargo list
A fragmented ledger itemizes assorted goods and volumes including bbls apples 275 and 18 586 bush potatoes 48 cars lumer 11 rolls 1895 sides leather 618 pales hides 32 bols 35 casks skins with additional entries for Iby Express and Bye Sea conveying numbered bales and bags of leather cotton milk and foodstuffs in transit or storage.
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Bates
Iby Express
Bye Sea
Total Receipts January 18 1838 Cotton Coffeebales and more
The record lists numerous commodities with receipts dated January 18 1838 including cotton coffee bales sugar molasses flour oats cheese oats eggs and beans among others. It notes quantities in bags casks barrels and boxes with values such as 2 582 860 bags 98 52 and 4 440 1 060 birds and mentions categories like beef pork lard hides and butter.
Train Schedules to Boston New York and Providence May 30
On and after Monday May 30 trains run from Boston to New York Shore Line Fast Express at 10:00 am and 11:00 pm with returns at 11:00 am and 6:00 pm Sundays included. Steamboat Stonington Line from Providence and connecting stops list numerous times to Pawtucket Attleboro North Attleboro East Foxboro Sharon and more with varied return times. A. A. Folgman Superintendent outlines complex daily departures and weekend changes with Monday Wednesday Friday and Tuesday Thursday Saturday patterns and note about Mt Hope stop.
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Rroston
Flrovidence Kattroaa
Boston
New York
Shore Line
York
Steamboat
Stonington
Providence
Pawtucket
Dodgeville
Attieboro
Attleboro
West Rexbury
Ing
Stonghtom
Canton
Stoughton
Mt. Hope
Warren
Bristol
Aim
A. A
Concord
B. and
Manchester
N. H
BEG
New
York Hs
Boston & Providence Railroad
Newark
Washi
State Street
Boston and Albany Rail Timetable to Springfield and New York
Local timetable details for the Boston and Albany line show daily departures from Boston to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West with express and sleeping car services to New York Newark and Worcester New Haven and other points. The notice lists multiple departure times, connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer and Marlboro, and mentions dining and drawing room cars on key trains. Ends with signatures Hanson H Tt Gallup and the General Superintendent.
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Boston & Albany
R.R
Washington Street
Boston
Kneeland Street
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
North Adams
Chatham
Hudson
Munday
Palmer
Ware River Branch
New York
Worcester
New Haven
Newark
Ville
Ocordaville
Ashland
Dilford Seuth Rami
Hontrual & West
Central Vermont
Pellmas Carson
Lowell
Chicago
Fitchburg
Wagner Palace
Central
Vermont
R. KR
Washington
Trains Schedules and Stops for Boston and Maine Railways
A fragmented 1887 timetable lists train services on the Western and Eastern divisions. It includes Haymarket Square and various stations such as Market, Causeway, Portland, Rockland, Castine, North Haymarket, and Manchester entries with listed departure times and routes to Halifax, Eastport, Calais, and other ports, reflecting a busy era rail network.
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Boston & Maine
Haymarket Sq
I Way St
Deohn
Halifax
Crewimarket Sq
Western Division Train Times From Heston Station Listings
Trains depart Heston Station Haymarket Square and other stops for Alton Bay Rochester and Porses with weekday and Sunday schedules listed. Times include early morning and afternoon runs, with numerous stations such as Andover Dover Great Falls Lawrence Maiden Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Wakefield Wilmington and others.
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Western Division
Heston Station
Haymarket Square
Alton Bay
Rochester
Porses
Andover
ARA
Dover
Great Falls
Minverhill
Ford and
Saco
Lawrence
Mowell
WLD
Mietrose
Merrimac
North Andover
Newburyport
I. Wakefield
Wilmington
Haverhill
Manchester
Rowell
Medifora
Porteland
Bangor
Lewiston
Reading and Way
Rail timetable for Boston area lines and branches
Eastern Division schedules list trains from Amesbury to Portland and beyond with times for Chelsea Dover Everett and multiple branches. It notes return services on Sundays and workingmen trains on Thursdays and Saturdays, with city ticket office address and Pullman car availability.
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Eae
Ils
Saugus
Swampscott
Wenham
Wolfeboro
Lynn Ant Way
Newburyport
Portsmout
Portland
Bangor
St. Joh
Blauifax
Salem
South Reading
Boston
Haymarket Square
City
Washington Street
James T. Furber
D. J. Flanders
Boston and Lowell Railroad Timetable December 19 1887
Boston station on Causeway street lists local and long distance routes from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth and more with multiple daily departures including 9 am 1 pm and 7 pm for several towns Sleeping and parlor cars to Montreal and local points on Passumpsie and Northern lines. connections to Manchester Concord Nashua Peterboro and other towns with varied morning and afternoon times.
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Boston
Causeway Street
City
Washington Street
Old State House
Tilton
Laconia
Lake Village
Weirs
Meredith
Ashland
Prymouth
Nere Haverhill
Woodsville
Littleton
Bethlehem
Yabyans
Lancaster
Whitefield
Franklin Lebanon
White Rriver
St. Johnsbury
Newport
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Passumpsie
Bet White River Junction
Wells River
Bristol
Claremont
Montpelier
Burlington
St. Albans
Montreal
White River Junction
A. KR
Boston Air Line
Manchester
Concord
N. M
Peterboro
Hillsborne
Weenfield
Nashua
Train schedule fragment for Lowell and Billerica area
A fragmented table lists train times and stations including Lowell and Billerica with multiple numbers and abbreviations. It appears to be a timetable snippet for rail service with entries like 8.30 and 9.15 and mentions of MELLEN Supt and Woburn.
Fragmentary OCR Note on Times and Values
A garbled OCR fragment lists numbers and phrases including 3.40 4.20 peley 63 and references to mor iS pm 5 with unclear names or places. The text offers no coherent event or identifiable entities for a fuller summary.
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Peley
Eller
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