Market Report for Grains and Produce From City Auctions
The note details prices for steamer yellow corn and No 2 yellow lake and rail, with spot quotations for various corn, oats, and white varieties. Receipts and shipments are listed for St Louis Milwaukee Chicago Detroit New York, with prices for rye, flour, hay and seed meals, and fruit auctions. Concrete figures include steamer yellow near 59c on track, 47c spread, No 2 yellow 58 44e, No 3 57 4c, No 8 corn 56 44c, and oats No 2 white around 42 40s. The market tone is mostly steady to dull with limited demand and several on-call bid/ask figures.
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St Louis
Milwaukee
Chicago
Detroit
New York
Albany
Mest
Geshem Dour
Enor
Sac
Canada
Choice
Eastern
Market reports show steady butter prices and strong receipts
Receipts for June 30 totaled butter 121,958 pkgs and 12,906 boxes, oleo 18,460 pkgs, cheese 22,838 boxes, eggs 69 boxes and 155 bbls, beans 3039 bbls, potatoes 172,912 bush, hay 1,175 cars, straw 151 cars, poultry 942 pkgs, sweet potatoes 159 bbls. Last year had lower butter and cheese, higher creameries demand. Prices listed for Western and Vermont creamery varieties, with New York and Liverpool markets steady. cheese prices steady, and various regional quotes given.
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Choice
Vermont
Astern
New York
Canton
Ohio
Liverpool
Ogdensburg
New Hampshire
Michigan
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Island
Veay
California
West
North
Norfolk
Maine
Burbank and Prolifics
Chenangoes
Banana steamers arrive with fruit for firms
The steamer Welhaven is due from Baracoa with bananas for WW and CR Noyes. The steamer Ydun is due from Baracoa with bananas for Seayerns and Co.
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Welhaven
Baracoa
WW & CR Noyes
Ydun
Seayerns & Co
Fruit Receipts and Peach Prospects Reported
Receipts for June end show apples 842 barrels strawberries 66 633 crates watermelons 100 494 and Florida oranges none. Last year apples 1920 barrels strawberries 39 215 crates watermelons 65 277 oranges 214 boxes. Delaware Maryland peninsula peach belt foresees 5 to 6 million baskets crop with prices around 25 cents per basket in Wyoming. Orchards list for speculators. commission merchant plan fading. cash buyers dominate via fruit exchange.
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Florida
Delaware
Maryland
Peninsula
Wyoming
Norfolk boat truck crop rundown with mixed fruit and veg prices
The Norfolk boat arrives Tuesday with 84 crates cabbage 650 crates beans 70 crates shum pers and 70 crates tomatoes. Prices cover marrow squash asparagus native green peas Savannah tomatoes Mississippi Norfolk cabbage Baltimore Long Island greens wax beans onions beets cucumbers squash and other produce with varied per crate per bushel per dozen quotes.
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Norfolk
Baltimore
Long Island
Bermuda
Pork market and hog packing trends amid July provisions
The report tracks June 30 provisions receipts across pork, beef, lard, bacon and related products, comparing this year with last year. It notes improved pork market demand for smoked meats and exports, with various price quotes for pork products, lard, hams, tongues, and dressed hogs, and detailed weekly hog packing figures in the West and major markets.
Sugar and Molasses Market Notes and Hog Prices
Sugar market shows firm prices with limited activity for raw sugars and firm refined sugars, detailing Cuba, Havana, and Porto Rico quotations, freight rates to the United States, and weekly export figures. Slaughter hog and cattle prices appear in the Kansas City, Peoria, St. Louis, and Cincinnati markets with steady to firmer trends and specific price ranges.
Chicago Cattle Receipts and Market Notes
Chicago cattle receipts total 1000 with steady shipments and mixed stockers. Common to choice cattle priced around $1 to $2. Cattle figures show 3754435 dollars value, with Western feeders at $2.50 and Texas steers around $2 to $3.25. Hog receipts 11,000 with 4000 shipments, markets steady to weak and mixed, prices from $5.40 to $6.75 for heavies and lights around $6.40 to $6.60. Sheep receipts 2000 with slow mutton markets and Western lambs at $5, while Texans fetch about $2.75 to $3.75. Lambs reported as read.
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Agtec
Chicago
Tigre Oa Rats Ae Sats Sa Cvese Ll Ogn
Kansas City
Indianapolis
New York Park
USA
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Brighton
Peoria
Butchefmertia
Texas
Cotton market summary with New York and Liverpool quotes
New York cotton quiet at middling 103-16 cents and 9 1/4 for low middling. Opened steady, closed barely steady. futures table shows small changes across June to February contracts. Liverpool spot quiet at 60 3/4 for mids and 69 1/6 for Orleans. sales 7,000 bales. Other ports report mixed receipts, exports, and stock levels with generally firm to steady mid quotations across Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, and St Louis. Consolidated domestic receipts 1,085, Great Britain exports 16,888, United States port stock 271,125.
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New York
Bes
Viekus
Liverpool
Orleans
Uae
Ccc Ce
Isc Ce
Ueas
Esa
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Coastwise
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Real Brittain
Philadelphia
York
Cincinnati
St Louis
Louisville
United
Mixed Commodities and Prices Report from June 1888 Markets
The report notes quiet demand across items including city meat trade at 4c and 2c in various markets, dull New York city trade at 4c, Rio coffee at 160, St Louis whiskey unchanged at 114, Cincinnati prices steady at 114, turpentine and petroleum metrics with resin, tar, and RSW values, and Lips Line Certificates closing at 73%2c with a day range from 73% to 74% across June 29–30 1888.
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New York
Rio
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Receipts of Freight Goods by Major Railroads 1888
A dated ledger of July 30 1888 listings extensive shipments across multiple rail lines. Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Lowell System, and others show quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats beef butter cheese potatoes tea coffee grease lumber hides leather and various bales and cases.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Jostén & Maine Railroad
Lowell
By Express
Imports and Exports in Ocean Trade Ledger 1888
A dense list of goods imported and exported including lobsters bananas earthenware glassware steel wool woollen goods leather and more. The entry names multiple firms and consignments such as Nororogy Mellen Clark Sawyer and others with quantities like cases bale casks crates and boxes across various items. The document outlines a busy port trade ledger with numerous ships and consignors totaling varied cargoes.
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Garacoa
Haven
Bothnia
Wali
Bates
Willian
Rae
Sia Sware Nee
eDiaffe
Glassy Ag
Spram French & Co
Nororogy Mellen & Vo
Hhde Do Clark, Sawyer & Co
Jackson
Norway Steel and Iron Co
W Jones
Benl, Higgins & Hercerson
Cumner, Dones & Col
Stone & Downer
Merve & Co
Charles Pollock
Wright & Litson
Linder & Meyer
Per Odinaly
AH Rolfe & Co
Massive City Warehouse Inventory Listing and Shipments
A dense 19th century ledger style inventory enumerates items from numerous firms including Fuller Dana Fitz, JH Pray & Co, Pierce & Co, Stone & Downer, R H White & Co, Jordan Marsh & Co, and many others. The list records boxes, casks, cases, and bales of goods such as tin plates, carpeting, saddlery, dry goods, silk, lace, wines, machinery, woollens, timber, leather, and hardware, with quantities like 140 boxes, 434 boxes, 1,000 casks, 350 boxes, and hundreds of sacks. It also names carriers and associated colleagues, reflecting widespread consignments and stock movements across departments and merchants.
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Fuller, Dana & Fitz
Pray, Sons
George Bridge
Booth & Co
H White & Co
Neal, Moise & Co
Maculiar
Parker & Co
Brown, Durrell & Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Crompton & Co
Caton Bros & Bixby
Darrell & Upham
Sawyer & Co
Edward Boote
Mackintire, Lawrie & Co
B_ Austin & co
Stone & Downer
H Atkins & Co
Chambers, Calder & Co
Louis Wolf & Co
Boston Clock Co
Shollinger, Moses & Co
Oliver Jamon
Exports Across Halifax Charlottetown Shore Trade 1888
A dated export list from June 30 1888 notes shipments from Halifax Nova Scotia and Charlottetown Prince Edward Island. It includes steamer Carroll with lumber hides beans flour and various goods, plus cargoes from Buenos Aires And Buenos Ayres Barton Port Gilbert and Cabarien Cuba, detailing quantities of lumber flour kerosene pine and more.
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Halifax
Charlottetown
Pei
Carroll
Buenos Ayres
Inveresk
Barton
Schillian
Port Gilbert
RAILROADS Fitchburg Route timetable details and connections
Schedule details for Hoosac Tunnel Route with departure times from Boston stations to Troy Albany and beyond. Includes palace cars, express daily services to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Erie, and connections to Lowell Cambridge Nashua North Adams and Worcester. Notes through tickets from 250 Washington Street Boston and local stop changes at Ayer Junction. JOAN ADAMS J. WHITMORE J.B. WATSON.
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Rotterdam Junction
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RAILROADS Timetables West and East Divisions July 24, 1888
Boston and Maine routes list through trains and connections from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Bangor Calais St John Maine ports and Portland Lewiston Rockland Castine Southwest and Bar Harbor with Pullman cars and steamer links from Portland to Eastport Calais and St John detailing multiple daily departures and stations across Maine and New Hampshire rail lines with noted connections to Grand Trunk Knox & Lincoln and Manchester Concord lines.
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Augusta
Haymarket St
Causeway St
Bangor
Bar Harbor
St. Johna
Mali‘ax
the Provine
Aymarket Sq
Old Drehard
Portland
Poland Springs
Bannor
Haymarket Sq
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Lewiston
Manchester
Concord
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Portland- Haymarket Sq
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Causeway
Eastern Division Train Schedules From Boston to Amesbury and Surrounding Stops
Boston station timetable lists numerous departures to Amesbury and regional stops including Chelsea Dover Marblehead Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Revere Rockport and Lowell corridor connections. Several times appear for weekday and Sunday services with numerous minor lines and observations about branches and workingmen's trains.
Boston and Albany Railway Time Tables Fragment
General notice of train times and station stops across multiple lines. Lists departures, connections, and return times for weekdays Sundays and special services, with operators Hanson and Gallup noted as officials.
Island Leave to Boston and Returns Timetabled Route
Timetable data shows Island Leave services from Boston Causeway Street Lowell System to Oak Island and other destinations with through service to Kitten Lake Village Meredith Ashiana Laconia Weirs Plysmouth Centre Marbor Wolfeboro No Woodstock Pemigewaesett Wailey WBaa neh War ren Blaverhill Woodsville Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster dellerson Beethlehem Profile House Swin Mountain Mabyan's Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St donnabury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and local assumbie Division points.
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Kitten
Lake Village
Meredith
Ashiana
Laconia
Weirs
Plysmouth
Centre Marbor
Wolfeboro
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Wailey
Lisbon
Littleton
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Lancaster
Dellerson
Beethlehem
Profile House
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Mabyan
Assumbie
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Wells River
Bristol
Claremont
Montpelier
Essex Junction
Burlington
S. Albans
Montreal
Northern RR
Boston Air Line
Fabyan’s
Unclear Transit Timetable Fragment With Local Stops
A fragmented OCR passage lists various times and place names such as Mattapai Duxbury Plymouth Abington and Quincy. It appears to be a transit timetable with multiple daily and Sunday departures and partial route names, but many items are garbled.
Providence Line and schedule fragments across stations
A jumble of timetable fragments lists services for Providence and New Work lines, with station names such as Park Square Station, Attleboro, Canton, Beaham, Forest Hills, and Hills. Numerous times are shown, including mornings, afternoons, and Sundays, but many entries are garbled and unclear.
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Providence
Sundial coded entries prompt cryptic listing
Fragmentary OCR text lists numbers and abbreviations like 380 BD sund Uy and 9.25 00 11.4 00. Llé Bidills with several detached figures including 6 12 ms 20 and 5.5 sundays. References to North 4 oat Pr 30 and 10.34 40 appear without clear context.
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