Wool market shows cautious gains with broader demand in West
Receipts in the past week reach 1,528,269 pounds with 649,778 pounds shipped to San Francisco mostly by one steamer. Movement eastward increases slowly while warehouses fill. Buyers gain confidence as holders accept fractional advances and local mills step in. Eastern Oregon grades range from 10 to 11 1 2 cents with firmer tone and higher prices for extra choice. San Francisco trade is active, stocks shrink, and shippers scourers and mills drive cautious optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Oregonian
San Francisco
Oregon
London Wool Sales Show Steady Demand Amid New Operators
At the London wool sales the market held firmer tone with attendance dipping as new operators arrive. Total offering 13 778 bales including 823 Russian mestо not sold. Read highlights cover Victoria New South Wales South Australia Swan River Queensland Tasmania New Zealand and Cape of Good Hope and Natal with varied scoured and greasy prices in old pence and shillings.
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London
Victoria
Swan River
Queensland
Tasmania
New Zealand
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
Boston Markets July 5 Flour and Grain Prices
Price survey notes firmer tone in flour and grain markets with light demand. Lists New York and Chicago receipts and shipments, various flour grades, wheat and corn prices, and spot and futures quotations for multiple regions and carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Market summaries for spring bran and related grains
The report lists prices for spring bran, middlings, and sacks with ton and P ton quotes. Prices range from 17 50 to 23 50 for bran and middlings, with sacks carrying similar levels. Prime live quotes show 25 per ton on spot and 24 50 to arrive. Grains include six-rowed Canada at 1 115 D bush and six-rowed State at 95e, two-rowed State at 90c. Prices described as steady or dull with moderate or unchanged demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sac
Canada
Bush
Uis
Choice
New York
Eastern
Butter Market Holds Firm With Steady Wholesale Prices
Butter prices show little change with firm demand for western creamery and imitation products. New York dairy items are dull yet cheese and eggs maintain steady to firm pricing. various regional quotes show a wide range for butter, cheese, eggs, beans, grasses, potatoes, hay, and poultry reflecting mixed market conditions across destinations and grades.
Banana steamers set for Baracoa bananas in July
The steamer Brattan sails July 6 from Baracoa with bananas for WW and C R Noyes. Gambetta leaves Baracoa July 7 for Seaverns and Co with bananas. Balder due early next week for G H Harding. Lorenzo D Baker due around July 10 with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana Steamers
Brattan
Baracoa
WW & C R Noyes
Gambetta
Seaverns & Co
Balder
G H Harding
Lorenzo D Baker
Boston Fruit Company
Fruit market report with varied fruit prices and banana shipment
The market shows abundant southern apples at 1 1 60 per crate with fancy lots up to 2 half-bbi, early June apples at 8 3 50 per barrel, quiet but firm orange and lemon trading, Palermo and Messina fruit prices, California auction results, and a Marmion banana shipment of 13 000 bunches with mangoes sold at 75 cents per box, plus other berry and pear quotes.
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Palermo
Messina
Valencia
California
Bartlett
Virginia
Maryland
Hudson River
Georgia
Marmion
Snow & Co
Truck Market Prices and Produce Demand Noted
A quiet demand for trucks appears alongside a list of fresh produce and pricing. Items include new marrow squash at 2 dollars per barrel, native greens at 225 dollars per crate, Long Island cabbage at 150 dollars per barrel, Bermuda onions at 1.75 dollars per crate, Long Island wax 1.55 per crate, and Southern cucumbers 2 dollars per crate among many others.
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Mississippi
Long Island
Ong Island
Bermuda
Provisions Market Report for Pork and Beef Goods
Pork market steady with fair demand across cuts. Prices: long cuts 17 17.50, short cuts 15.50 17.75, backs 17.75 18.00, lean ends 17.25 17.75, tongues 18, mess 14.75 16.95, fresh ribs 10 74c, sausages 9 42 10c, lard varying by pack. New York Park steady. mess 15.15 15.25 for new, 14.41 14.25 for old. Chicago and St Louis reports show higher pork and lard, quarter and rib prices listed, with bacon and hams noted. Cincinnati Park barely steady at 14.26.
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New York Park
Bbss
Lord Jess
At &c
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati—Park
Brighton
Meat Price Report Shows Mixed Beef and Mutton Quotes
The market lists corned beef and beef cuts with varied prices from $7.50 to $21.50 per unit, noting quiet demand at old levels. Fresh beef remains steady with choices from 8 to 12 cents per pound, while all kinds of mutton and lambs show firming quotes and higher prices, with Eastern mutton and fancy grades reaching up to 10 cents.
Sugar and Molasses Market Report With Prices
The market for raw sugars remains quiet yet firm with Cuba refining at 413-16 4%c cen trifugals 96 test and other grades listed. Refined sugars stay very firm with active demand. varieties priced from 6% to 7c for A grades and 744c per pound for granulated, while wholesale grocers note 744c for granulated. Molasses trade is quiet at old prices with Fancy Ponce Porto Rico at 36¢ per gallon and Porto Rico common to choice at 26-35¢, Cienfuegos new crop 25¢ and Mayaguez 28-35¢. boiling grades nominal at 20¢. New York markets show strength and firmness for refined, with 19 4/ c bid for 50 test molasses and 19 5/ c bid for 50 test refined.
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Cuba
Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Mayaguez
Market summary of hog and cattle receipts at major markets
Kansas City stock yards report active cattle with steers at 4.80 to 5.85. hog receipts 2,038 with demand higher by 5 to 10 cents. heavy to light hogs 5.60 to 5.70. cows 2. Receipts of sheep 91. Peoria hogs firm 545 to 580. St Louis hogs firm with light weights 54 to 60, mixed 55 to 57, butchers to 58. Cincinnati hogs active 42 to 65, packing 55 to 90. Chicago cattle receipts 9,500 including 3,700 dead Texas stock, cattle steady. best beeves 6.80 to 6.25. stockers 2.25 to 3.70. cows and bulls 1.50 to 3.25. Texas cattle quiet. Hogs receipts 10,000 with prices 5.50 to 5.80 for general. heavy 5.65 to 5.90. light 6.50 to 5.75. ships 4.50 to 5.45. Sheep receipts 4,000 with natives 2.50 to 5.00. Western 3.20 to 3.35. Texans 2.25 to 3.75. lambs 3.75 to 5.50.
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Minnesota
Michigan
Canada Superior
Canada Roller
Canada Extra
New York
Chicago
St_Louis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
St Louis
Detroit
Toledo
Louis
Hoosac Tunnel
Boston & Albany
Dewitt
Grahwim Fklour
Minte+d
Kansas City
Peoria
Cincinnati
Texas
PRI
Cecces
Wimies Srecantane
Liverpool
Orleans
Seveesee Ees
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
West
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Great Britain
Louisville
France
United States
Cotton market shows renewed activity with prices firming
Allan Asher & Co report increased animation and an upward turn in market values for contracts. Liverpool upland middling rises 44 and 1 16d while arrivals edge up. New York prices stand firm at 10 5 16c middling, with 836 bales sold. Futures open dull and close steady as July and August demand elevates old crop, later retreating under heavy selling. Various regional receipts and stocks show mixed firmness across Gulf and Atlantic ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Asher & Co
Exchange Place
Liverpool
Pt Lob Aoe Cp Bn
New York
Miscellaneous market notes and commodity prices
The report cites quiet demand for tallow and mixed New York price tones for city and country markets. It notes New York city prime prices at 315 16c, fair to dull tone in whiskey markets at around 114, Cincinnati steady at 114, and petroleum and turpentine movements with rosin, tar, and related products showing varied quotes.
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New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Imports and Exports. Import List July 65 1888 Hull
Shipping ledger itemizes cargoes for steamers Martello Marmion and Norseman with cotton bales wool iron rivet wire coils rags and skins. Firms include Baring Bros Dost and more. Jamaica Marmion carried limes mangos bananas. Norway Steel and Iron Company supplied steel blooms and hides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
Eng
Bro. & Co
Ik Muller
Irown Bros & Co
F & E Atteaux & Co
Thorpe & Adams Mant Co
Abram
Pedro Tlansen
Baring Bros & Co
Brown Bros & Co
Tiax Baring Bros & Co
Jamaica
Boston Fruit Co
Liverpool
Norseman
Norway Steel and Iron Company
Baring Bbros & Co
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Wholesale Goods Shipment List and Market Notes
A long ledger of mixed consignments including quarter casks sherry, cases of saddlery, wool, tin, and mdse from numerous firms such as Pierce & Co, Stedman & Fuller, Kanawha Despatch Co, and Baring Bros & Co. It also lists bulk items like pig iron, sugar, and salts, plus maritime cargo summaries for ships arriving or waiting, with price cues from Liverpool and Paris markets and brief Wheat and corn futures quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherry P Doherty
Pierce & Co
G Burnham & Co
Joel Guldthwait & Co
Do Steel Belcher & Iwamis
Richard Briggs
Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Company
Ussues C & Hovey & Co
Mercery Jordan, Marsh & Co
Baring Bros & Co
J & J Murdock
Bolls Steel Sone & Downer
du Wetherell Bros
Boll Steel
Jere Abbott & Co
Soap Weaver & Sterry
Do Carter & Meyer
Pray, Sons & Co
Moors & Co
James Skinner
A & W Hird & Co
Jones & Co
Seaverns & Co
Morrison & Co
AS &J Brown & Co
Aitchell
Blakely
Hatch & Whitten
Sagua
Lark Agate
Boston Sugar Efinery
Irinidad
Cuba
Uranus
Clements & Co
Hall & Co
S Ellis & Co
New Gland
Exports July 6 1888 London cargoes and cargo items
A long list of goods shipped from London and other ports including oil clothing books printing presses and numerous related products. Entries note quantities such as cases sacks bales and crates across items like lumber, flour, cheese, butter, canned goods, hardware, and leather. Also mentions vessels at Montevideo St Pierre Bear River Annapolis Melbourne and New Brunswick with various cargoes including lumber, gro ceries, mollasses and machinery.
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London
Eng
Borderer
Montevideo
Brig
ST Pierre
Mig
Newburyport
Brig Niagara
Beark River
Busy New England Railroads Trade Goods in 1888 Receipts
A lengthy list from July 6 1888 catalogs staple items across multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and sea routes. Items cover cotton wool flour oats cornmeal meat butter cheese tea lumber leather hides and many other staples with quantities noted for each line.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lowell System
Expresa
Ser Gan Molasses — SA
Pelis Beene
Gaia Aia
Cargoes Off Coast See Wheat Prices Edge Higher
Cargoes off the coast show wheat with fair demand and prices edging up. Continental demand supports a firmer tone while shipments from London brief the market with cautious optimism.
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the Post
London
Beerbohm
Rail schedules hint at regional service details
Partial OCR lists numerous train times and routes including Greenfield, Ahoosick Falls, Lincoln, Nashua, North Adams, Williamstown, and North Leominster with morning to evening departures. Mentions Hudson Valley style lines and Sun services, but the fragmentary text omits clear dates or operators.
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Vy Cerre Gardner
Miller’s Falls
Greenfield
Ahoosick Falls
Medci Bs Ae Bikes
N. Y
Lincoln
Sen
Mieritero
Bradson
Miagnarda
SIL Pin
SUN
Yai
Nashua
Ayer Junction
North Adams
Williamstown
North Leominster
Saratopa
Boston and Albany Railroad Schedule Fragment
Railroads timetable lists prime trains and connections for Boston routes to Hartford New Haven Jersey City Trenton Philadelphia Baltimore Washington, with through Pullman cars to Washington and steamship links to New York. Local times, offices at 322 Washington Street and depot at Summer Street listed.
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New York
New England
Boston
Summer Street
Ashcroft
Baltimore
Bird Street
Blackstone
Danbury
Dedham
Dorchester
Dudley Street
Ellis
Endicott
fishhill-on-Judson
Franklin
Forest Avenue
Martford
Harvard Street
Miyvde Park
High Lake
Islington
Manchester
Mattapan
Milford
Aim
Mt. Bows
Asa
New A
Norwich
Berwood
Noorwood Central
Pawtucket
Philadelphia
Providence
Putnam
Headville
River Street
Lam
Rockville
Conn
Soubridge
Tiltons
Wasps
Washington
De.c
Waterbury
Willimantic
Winslows
Webster
Norwood Central
Hyde Park
Woonsocket Division
Boston & Albany Railroad
Needham and Way
Woonsocket
Middletown
New Haven
Hartford
New Britain
Fishfill-on-Hudson
Newburgh
Turners
N. Y
Chicago
NEW England Lim
Air Line
Grand Central Depot
Startford
William
Jersey City
Trenton
Richmond
New London
Danielsonville
Tran
Newark
Boston & Albany
R.R. Ane
Washington Street
Baretian
Bieter
Boston Sation
Kneeland Street
Porinesia
Pittsfield
Albany
Novareal & West
Central Vermont
Lowell
Fitchburg
Wagner Palace
Central Division Schedules for Leave Kneeland Station
Timetables list Sunday and weekday departures to East Weymouth Nantasket Beach New Bedford and many towns via Fall River Line. Frequent stops include Ashmont Taunton Plymouth Quincy Rockland Shawmut South Braintree Weymouth and Wollaston Heights with varied evening and Sunday services.
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Central Division
Kneeland Street
Fall River
Ashmont
Brain Ae
Middleborom
East Mouth
East Weymouth
Teunton
Brockton
Marshfield
Mattapan
Milton
Middleboro
Sands
Nantasket Beach
Neponset
New Gedford
Newport
North Easton
Stougite Dolph
Plymouth
Abington
Duxbury
Quincy
Rockland
Shawmut
South Braintree
Sun Taunton
Central Station
Wichita
Weymouth
Wollaston Heights
Ridgewxnter
Cochesett
Cape Cod Train Schedule Fragments for Buzzards Bay Area
A garbled listing shows train times and stops across Cape Cod towns including Buzzards Bay Bourne Chatham Brewster Barnstable Hyannis Nantucket and Monomoy with weekday and Sunday trains. Several entries include times like 9.00 am 4.05 pm and notes via Woods Hall, with many misspellings and partial place names.
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Cape Cod
Kneeland Street
Buzzards Bay
Mainstable
Burne, Bournedale
Brewster
Cataumet
Chatham
Cottage City
Woods Hall
Fairhaven
Jos Falmouth
Hyanni
Starwich
Monument Beach
Mattapoisett
Marion
Nantucket
Dar May
Prowown
Sandwich
Arm
Sagamore
Yarmouth
Bes Nont
Wellfreei
West Barnstable
An. Woods Hall
Warehan
Warmouth
Providence Division Leave Park Square Station for New Work
Fragmented timetable data lists routes from Providence to Attleboro Canton Jamaica Plain Foxboro and other towns with numerous times in the morning and evening, including Sundays. The garbled OCR shows departures and connections across multiple locations, with many inconsistent figures and missing context.
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Providence Division
Park Square
Shore Line
Providence Ling
Attleboro
Andays
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