Grain markets show steady to weak tone across regions
Wheat and corn supplies highlighted with mixed prices and steady to lower tones in Chicago St Louis and New York. Receipts reach tens of thousands of bushels, with No 2 white oats at 36 37c, No 2 yellow corn around 57 58c, and No 2 red wheat near 78 80c. Market activity quiet to dull, steamer yellow and other grades in light stock.
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Milwaukee
New York
Detroit
Toledo
Hoosac
Reguar
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Butter and dairy prices across regions and items
Market notes show quiet butter demand with varied wholesale prices across creameries. Western and Vermont creamery quotes range from 16 to 22 cents, with several grades and jobbing adds. Cheese and eggs hold steady to easier. beans, seeds, and potatoes display modest movement and steady or marginally changing prices across regions.
Market Quiet as Poultry Prices Vary by Grade and Type
Market remains steady with Northern fresh killed chickens at 25 to 80 cents, fair quality 20 to 28 cents, Northern fresh em fowls 16 cents, Western iced fowls 14 to 16 cents per pound. Feedstuffs list rye straw 25 26 and oat straw 10 dollars.
Banana steamers sail to Boston firms this week
The Marmion is due July 26 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Herald is due from Baracoa with bananas for Seaverns and Co. The Amicitia is due Thursday from Baracoa with bananas for WW and C R Noyes.
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Banana Steamers
Marmion
Jamaica
Boston Fruit Company
Herald
Baracoa
Seaverns & Co
Amicitia
WW & C R Noyes
Fruit Market Prices and Auction Fruit Auctioneers
Fruit prices show plentiful apples with steady demand led by Baltimore early harvests at 3 dollars 25 and 350 bbl, and 1 dollar 25 per crate. Oranges and lemons mixed. Palermo oranges 6 to 7 per box, Palermo lemons 3 to 5, Messina lemons 3 to 5. Georgia LeContes pears poor condition slow at 85 to 75 per crate. Maryland Bartletts at 2 per crate. Berries scarce with blackberry market gone. currants fair supply with 8 to 10 cents per quart. blueberries large receipts with York State 12.5 per pail, 12 cents quart, Maryland and Delaware 9 cents quart, Massachusetts and New Hampshire 15 cents quart. Raspberries abundant with 10 to 11 cents per upper quart, 6 to 8 cents pint, 4 cents per half-pint. blackcaps 9 to 10 cents per quart. Delaware peaches small quantity at 20 to 80 cents per small basket. Virginia grapes slow at about 10 cents per pint. California fruits Auction: pears 2.45 to 2.65 per crate, plums 1.65 to 2.10, peaches 2.50, prunes 1.05 per crate. Three cars of fruit planned for Thursday. H Harris & Co auctioneers. Watermelons cleaning up slowly at 30 to 35 cents extras, 25 to 27 cents mids, 20 cents small.
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Georgia
Maryland
York State
Marylands
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Massachusetts
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Virginia
California Fruit Union
H Harris & Co
Truck Market Prices steady on varied vegetables
The market reports quiet demand and steady prices for produce. Items listed include marrow squash at 250 per crate, native green peas 150 per bush, multiple tomato varieties from 1 to 2 per crate, onions from 2.38 per bunch to 350 per barrel, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, cucumbers at 1 per 100 count, and cantaloupes closing at 2.25 to 2.50 per crate. Green corn scarce at 18 to 20 cents per dozen.
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Russia
Meat Market Prices Show Firm Demand and Higher Lenn
Pork and lard firm with active demand. hams and smoked meats steady with upward tone. Detailed quotes list prices for pork cuts, lard, beef, and fresh meats across New York Park, St Louis, and wholesale ranges, noting steady to higher tone in many items and specific bin and tier prices for各 meats.
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St Louis
Siacenat Park
Chicago
Brighton
Sugar Market Refines Yet Maintains Firmness Abroad
The report details sugar prices and grades, noting no change in refined sugar values while wholesale granulated price trends hold. It cites London Statist insights on a firmer sugar market driven by rising prices in Magdeburg and Demerara/Brazil purchases for America, plus import/export shifts across ports and overall consumption.
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Cuba
Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
London
Magdeburg
Liverpool
Demarara
Brazil
America
Board of Trade
Trade dullness noted in New York markets
Cienfuegos new crop prices quoted at 25c and 28 35C boiling grades, with a 50 test basis and nominal at 2042c. The market in New York shows subdued activity amid nominal pricing signals and limited demand.
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Cienfuegos
Maya Aguez
New York
Hog and cattle markets across major midwest exchanges
Kansas City receipts show active demand with cattle trading between 315 and 500 in various classes and hogs rising 5 cents with heavies at 595 to 610. Chicago and St Louis reports reflect firm to higher prices for hogs and broad strength for cattle, with Texas, Montana, and western feeders contributing to mixed but robust activity.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Texas
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Texans
Market Report: Cotton Prices Slip on August Weakness
Allan Asher & Co reports a weak market with August support withdrawn and new crop advices cheerfully optimistic. Liverpool prices fall, New York dull, futures opened weak and closed easy. US and world markets show lower middling uplands and mixed futures across July to January contracts. Overall sales small, global receipts noted, prices easing across regions.
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Allan Asher & Co
Exchange Place
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Wilmington
Philadelphia
Baltimore
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United States
Coffee and commodity markets in New York and Brazil
Market notes from New York show steady prices for tobacco, whiskey, turpentine, and coffee with modest activity. The Rio News reports Espírito Santo exports of 23,006,325 kilograms over eighteen months, with 400,000 bags for the 1888-89 crop and Bahia revenue from a 7 percent coffee export duty. Planters expect strong plantation expansion amid rising labor availability after slavery’s decline.
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Rio News
Espirito Santo
S. Paulo
Amparo
Bahia
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Brazil
Live Stock Market Report for Boston Area July 24 1888
Reports from the Union Market Watertown show lighter cattle supplies with fewer Western shipments and softer bids. Prices for beef and store cattle drift lower while sheep and lambs face declines. notable sales include several steers and oxen by local sellers and agents with prices ranging from about 4 to 8 cents per pound depending on weight and quality.
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Boston Post
George J. Fox
Union Market
Watertown
J A Hathaway
Receipts on July 24 18s Boston & Albany Goods
A fragment lists shipments for the Boston and Albany Railroad including 18 bales cotton 771 bales wool 1176 bushels flour 960 bushels oats 500 bushels wheat 2020 bushels malt 47 tons feed 50 tierces 50 tubs 1 case 20 half barrels 25 packages lard 10 tierces hams 41 barrels pork 90 boxes 6 half chests tea 1003 tubs and more.
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Boston & Albany Railroad
Vast stock ledger of railroad and trade goods listed
A long OCR style inventory lists numerous shipments and consignments by railroad companies including Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern and Western Divisions, Lowell System, and express and sea routes. Entries cover bales wool cotton hides leather cheese eggs bacon flour corn meal oats tea and a wide array of commodities with quantities, carloads, bales, and barrels, plus miscellaneous items and vessels. The fragmentary text preserves named railroads, ship names, and numerous counts and units across several regions.
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Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York& New England Railroad
Fitchburg
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Divis Ton
Western Division
Lowell
Express
Sea
Imports and Exports July 24 1888 Listing Trade Goods
Shipping and trade record from London and Liverpool shows Steamer G W Jones and Milanese imports including mahogany cedar cloth woollens jute and hardware. Numerous firms such as Gorham Rogers Co and Baring Bros & Co listed with iron, tin, cement, wines and goods like books, hardware, machinery, textiles, and dye stuffs shipped or received in this date. Names and firms include J B Moors Co Gorham Rogers Co Baring Bros Co W H Ford Saxonville Mills C F Hovey Co Reed Barton J A Hayes Co Harvard College and many others.
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Jones
Emery
London
Eng
Saxonville Mills
Ford
Gorham, Rogers & Co
Lowell Mans Co
Oakum
Moors & Co
Spurr & Co
Swain, Earl & Co
Snow’s European Express
Alizarine Dye
Beach & Co
Small Bros
Varnish Wood Bros
Estes & Lauriat
Buckram Dennison Manufacturing Co
Richards & Sons
Milliken
Bower & Bartlett
Munroe & Co
Crosby Steam Gauge and Valve Co
Iron Bacon & Co
Cushman & Co
Gorham Rogers & Co
Sheldon & Co
Regulus
Liverpool
Samaria
Pierce & Co
Hovey & Co
Noyes & Cobb
Reed & Barton
Jackson
Belcher & J.oomis
S S Pierce & Co
Potter Drug and Chemical Co
Allyn
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Schoenhof
Simons, Hatch & Whitten
Benjamin Boumont
Compton Co
Macallar, Parker & Co
L&c Chase & Co
L & M Williams
Furniture Stone & Downer
H Stearns & Co
Saco Water Power
Ross
Pope Gregory & Brown
Harvard College
Claflin, Larrabee & Co
Shoninger, Moses & Co
Codman & Shurtlett
Farley, Harvey & Co
RH White & Co
Silks Welch, Margetson & Co
F Hovey & Co
Clarke & Co
Forbes Lithograph Co
Messenger Bros & Jones
Grout
Warren & Blanchard
White
Sons & Co
Collins & Fairbanks
Simons
Hatch & Whitten
Stedman & Fuller Mant Co
Moise Noyes
Exports at Bridgewater and Moncton in July 1838
Shipping cargo lists from Bridgewater Nova Scotia Moncton New Brunswick and Yarmouth and Dunedin and Lyttleton include flour cornmeal beef pork carriage stock hardware organ stock glass rubber goods bales of twine nails tin cans agricultural implements and various cases crates and items with quantities. The record shows multiple ships including the Sch Alice Sch Clara steamer Yarmouth and ship Anahuac and inventories spanning food goods, industrial wares, and household items.
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Foreign Markets. Wheat and corn futures firm at Liverpool
London reports show cargoes off the coast selling since last bulletin with wheat firm and five cargos awaiting sale. At Mark Lane Australian wheat quoted July 31s 9d, River Plate corn July and August 218 9d. Paris Ankara and Liverpool spot wheat firm, futures steady. California wheat July 63 0d, August 63 9%4d. Antwerp firm with No 1 California 19:25. Liverpool breadstuffs demand weak, corn firm, pork 70s, bacon 44s 6d, lard 42s 6d, cheese 4s 5d.
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Paris
Liverpool
Ownes & Pm
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Antwerp
Local Ad Listings and Dividend Notices from 1888
A long list of sales and ads from firms in cities like Allentown Athens and Baltimore followed by late nineteenth century corporate dividend notices. The text includes numerous names and firms and ends with The Asiston Valve Company dividend notice and The American Bell Telephone extra dividend details with payment dates and treasurer signatures.
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Asiston Valve Company
WM. Howell Reed
Boston
Fragmented OCR note on local prices and entities
An unreadable OCR snippet lists multiple numeric values and place names. It mentions Ell Sem OUD and Newtonville with several price like figures such as 6.55 6.10 6.35 7.05 and 9.25. The text is garbled and lacks a clear event or subject.
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Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Schedule Changes
Train timetable details show new June 25 changes for the Fitchburg Railroad routes including departures from Boston West Station to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and the West with limited palace cars and express daily services to Chicago via Niagara Park, St. Louis via Wabash and Michigan Central, plus multiple local stops and varied daily times.
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Fragmented OCR note on schedule times and events
Fragmented text lists times 4.15 and 5.30 with Portuguese fragments mentioning days and events. Names or places are unclear. Likely a timetable or schedule note with incomplete details.
Cape Cod Division Train Schedule Fragments
Fragmented timetable listing multiple Cape Cod division routes with stations and times. Contains many misread names and times such as Buzzards Bay to Wellfleet and Sunday trains to Buzzards Bay and Bourne. Unclear due to OCR errors but outlines station-to-station departure times and connections via Woods Hall.
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Wallet-Compact Record Book for Tea Trade
Printed and indexed record book designed for tea trade needs. Offered by Aaron Br, Gay & Co. at 122 State Street.
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