Market summary from New York and Chicago commodities
Trade in New York remains dull while demand shows pockets of steadiness. Prices listed include fine at 590 dollars, cut at 6 dollars 30 cents per hundredweight, and various grain and feed values with modest activity in millfeed and bran. Cottonseed and hops show steady demand with quoted spot and arriving values. several grain types cited with price ranges and sack measures.
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New York
Gama
Bush
Chicago
Graham Eiour
Wholesale dairy market shows quiet demand and firmer tone
Butter demand remains quiet but prices steady with several high grade lots selling around 19 to 21 cents. Cheese and eggs hold firm with modest tone improvements noted in cheese. various regional quotes given for creamery, Vermont, New York, Ohio, and Canadian products. Potatoes and hay markets steady. poultry demand quiet with price ranges for Northern and Western birds.
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Choice
Vermont
New York
Chicago
New York Extra
Vermont Extra
Oisio
Fiat
Liverpool
Eges
New Hampshire
Michigan
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
California
West
North
Jersey
Houlton Rose
Bush
Houlton Hhebrons
Aroostook Rose
Western Iced
Bananas Arrive on Steamers Hondo and Gwent
The steamer Hondo arrives June 7 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Gwent arrives June 8 with Baracon bananas for Seaverns and Co.
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Banana Steamers
Jamaica
Boston Fruit Company
Gwent
Seaverns & Co
Fruit Market Summary From Inland News Page
Apples demand steady with unchanged prices. Baldwins choice 350 to 400. Oranges and lemons firm with Palermo oranges 350 to 450 per box and Messina 4 50 to 4 50 per box. Valencia oranges 4 50 to 5 00 per case. Strawberries Maryland and Delaware supplies sold 4 to 6 cents. Amicitia steamer delivers 8 500 ban ches bananas and 10 000 cocoa nuts. Bananas 14 74 per box? Clarify: yellow bananas 14 74 per box, red 12 5 per box. Cocoanuts 27 per 1000.
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Baldwins
Palermo
Messina
Valencia
Stawberrie
Maryland
Deaware
Amicitia
Provisions Market Report Highlights Steady Pork Prices
In a brisk market, pork prices remain steady with strong demand for hams and smoked meats. Lard shows firmness, with varied quotes for cuts and trimmings. Beasts and beef sections reflect stable to firm quotations across Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis markets, noting specific figures for mess pork, lard, and beef cuts.
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New York
Western
Continent
South America
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Note in the market for lambs and meats
Lambs are steady and veals firm with quoted prices for spring lambs at 16 to 18 cents, common to good 10 to 15 cents, Chicago mutton choice 8 to 14 cents, choice heavy Brighton mutton 9 to 10 cents, yearlings 8 to 10 cents, Eastern mutton choice 9 9e and common to good 7 to 8 cents, Eastern real choice 9 to 10 cents fancy LLC common to good 6 to 7 cents.
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Chicago
Brighton
Choice
Fancy, LLC
Sugar and Molasses Market Report With Mixed Movements
Sugar and molasses prices show firm raw sugar demand and active retinera notes. Quoted values for Cuba sugars range around 4 18 16 to 4 15 16 cents with various tests and brands listed. New York reports quiet trade, refined quotes 45 to 46 cents, and granulated at 6 3 4 cents.
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Cuba
Mantias
Javas
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Mayaguez
Farm Market Produce Prices and Truck Demand Seen
A newspaper fragment lists ready demand for trucks and a wide range of produce prices. Items include new marrow squash at 250 per barrel, asparagus 1 per dozen, Maryland baskets 260, Florida tomatoes 1 per crate, Southern cabbage 1.25 per crate, kale 0.50 per bunch, North Carolina beans 1 per crate, wax beans 2.60 per crate, dandelions 0.36 per bush, onions varying by variety, grown beets and lettuce around 0.25 to 0.50 per item, cucumbers and rhubarb among others.
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Norfolk
Maryland
North Carolina
Savannah
Bermuda
St Andrews
Hog and cattle markets across Kansas City St Louis and Peoria
Kansas City stock yards report cattle receipts around 2019 with best lots selling 10c higher while others weaken. Hog receipts 6037 with active demand and price gains of 5 to 10c. Sheep receipts 2060 with fairly active market at firm prices. St Louis hog market strong with Yorkers about 5 25 to 5 45 and mixed packers higher. Cincinnati hogs strong with prices 4 74 to 6 0 80. Peoria hog market firmer at 6 35 to 6 70 with 1100 receipts and 1020 shipments.
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Kansas City
St Louis
Cincinnati
Cotton Market Review From Allan Asher & Co Circular
Allan Asher & Co reports a quiet firm cotton market with small business, August contracts leading buying, limited offerings, and a latent squeeze feared. New York prices steady around 10c middling uplands, with several ports showing mixed receipts and stock levels, overall quiet though prices hold.
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Allan Asher & Co
Exchange Place
Indyrces
Liverpool
New York
Market Roundup and Petroleum Production Report
A sweeping summary of commodity markets shows steady tone in tallow and coffee while New York quotes firm tonnage. The Bradford Producers' Protective Association circular details a six month production cut in petroleum, comparing November 1837 to April 1888 results, stock declines, and projected daily outputs amid ongoing curtailment efforts.
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New York
Yepe
Tuygee
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
The
Bradford
Penn
Producers’ Protective Association
Imports and Exports. June 6 1888 Arecibo to Zanzibar list
Shipping ledger itemizes arrivals at ports including Arecibo Baracoa and Liverpool with cargoes of sugar molasses hides lumber coconuts lobsters oranges and pottery. Entries note schooners steamer cargoes and various firms such as Baring Bros Drexel Morgan Kent Kent Rogers Koch Wetherell and Hemenway & Browne with quantities in bales bags cases casks and tons across multiple ports including Matanzas PISAGUA and ZANZIBAR MADAGASCAR.
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Arecibo
Harry White
Goasler & Co
Bates & Karnet
Baracoa
Amicitis
Rice & Co
Baring Bros & Co
James Ward & Co
Cornwallis
Boston Consolidated Produce Co
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Edward Kent
Smith & Dove Man Co
Warren & Co
JS Morgan & Co
Pierce & Robertson
Pray, Sons & Co
Smith & Sons
Matanzas
Charles A
Madagascar
Pratt
Exports from Liverpool and Atlantic steamers June 1888
Cargo summaries from ships including Bothnia Marathon Cleopatra Norseman and others list lard cotton oil flour pork cheese leather staves boxes barrels and various goods with quantities. Entries note destinations, ship names, and June clearance or arrival dates in Liverpool and Newfoundland ports.
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Liverpool
Eng
Bothnia
Marathon
Bridge Water
Lunenburg
Canaing
Schooner
Herald
Staple Receipts Across Rail Lines June 6 1888
Detailed receipts list across Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England fitebourg Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and express shipments. Items include cotton wool flour corn malt oats baskets leather butter eggs cheese hides lumber and multiple carloads of various staples. Names of railroads and quantities reflect extensive trade movement and regional distribution in June 1888.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitebourg
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Boston& Maine Railroad
Lowell
By Express
Foreign Markets Report On Wheat And Wheat Prices
London and Liverpool markets show wheat steady in quiet sessions with limited activity. California and Australia wheat quoted around 6s 60d and 6s 9d, while corn remains inelastic. provisions sides like pork and lard display mixed firmness and price shifts among various grades. Weather in England damp and unseasonable, with large quantities of wheat and corn moving to Great Britain and the Continent.
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London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
California
Australia
Paris
Liverpool
England
Great Britain
Continent
Serious Burlington fire devastates Taft & Morgan mill ruin
Burumaron Vermont June 6 fire started in Taft & Morgan sash and door mill at 8 am. flames spread rapidly through dry house lumber sheds and nearby structures. by 9:30 am fire was under control. total loss around 100000 with 80000 insurance. Taft Bros and Shepard Morse suffer major damage including mills and lumber stocks. other nearby buildings burn or damaged. residents escape with minimal losses.
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Burumaron
Taft & Morgan
Burlington
Bank Street
Shepard & Morse
Baldwin Manufacturing Company
G. L. Lindsley
Taft Bros
Shepard & Morse Company
Henry
J.irby
Frank McKeogh
James Lang
James Beatty
Catharine Michaud
Mararet Denning
New York
Tony Pastor
East Fourteenth Street
Tammany Hall
Academy of Music
Battery
Yorkville
Ceavaianey
St. Louis
Tammany Men
Brock Ton
L. M. McCallis
Bridgewater
Norwood
New York & New England Railroad
Obituary of Robert Weir veteran printer and Post foreman
Robert Weir veteran printer and long time Post composing room worker died yesterday at his son in law's Warren street home. Born Medford September 1816, he moved to Boston at sixteen, apprenticed on the Post, rose to foreman, then ran Weir and White on Cornhill, later returned to the Post until retirement about two years ago. He served forty years with the Post, was cheerful and respected, member and former secretary of the Franklin Typographical Society, and lived with his daughters in Roxbury for seven years. Burial will be from his Roxbury home Friday at 2:30 p.m.
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Robert Weir
Warren Street
Mr. Weir
Medford
Daniel Malcom Wier
Boston
Benjamin White
Weir & White
Cornhill
Cornhill Court
Weir
Franklin Typographical Society
Roxbury
Representative Allen Seeks Higher Fourth Class Mail Weight
Washington June 6. Representative Allen prepares a bill to abolish fourth class mail and raise the weight limit to eight ounces at the same postage rate. The measure would end fourth class and increase eligible mailable matter to boost efficiency in mail handling.
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Washington
Allen
Massachusetts
Central Division Streetcar Timetable to New York via Fall River Line
A dense schedule lists departures from Ashmont and multiple towns including Braintree Brockton Cohasset Hingham Easton East Bridgewater East Milton Weymouth Marshfield Mattapan Nantasket Beach Neponset Newport Plymouth Quincy South Braintree and more. Times span Sundays and weekdays with numerous morning afternoon and evening slots, plus special via Taunton Brockton and Duxbury routes.
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Kneeland Street
New York
Fall River
Ashmont
Braintree
Brockton
Om Cohasset and Hingham
Easton
East Bridgewater
Abington
East Milton
Quincy
East Weymouth
Weymouth
Taunton
Harrison Square
Marshfield
Sea View
Mattapan
Piliicon
Middleboro
Nantasket Beach
Neponset
New Edford
Newport
Moat
North Easton
Stoughton
Randolph
Plymouth
Duxbury
E.x
Rockland and Hanover
Scituates
Shuawinut
South Braintree
South Duxbury
Paunton
Central Station
Dean St
Whitman
South Weymouth
Wollaston Beightis
West Eridgewater
Cocheseit
South Easton
Providence Division Train Timetable Fragments
A dense list of station stops and departure times across many towns and lines including Providence, Pawtucket, Readville, Roxbury, Sharon, Stoughton, and West Roxbury with scaled schedules and notes on Sundays and weekdays. The fragmentary OCR shows varied times and destinations without complete coherence.
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Providence
Park Square
New York
Stonington
Atsieboro
Boylston
Central and
Roslindale
Canton Junction
Dedham
Dodgeville and
Mebroville
Enet Fexbors
Wiyde Park
Dama En Ptain
Bansfield
Hope and
Clarendon Hills
Aim
North Attleboro
Pawtucket
Readville
Roxbury
Humford
India Point
Sharon
Spring Street
West Roxbury
Migband
Cape Cod Division Bus Schedules Across Towns
Bus times listed for Buzzards Bay Bourne Bourne dales Brewster Chatham Falmouth Provincetown Sandwich Sagamore Wellfleet and Wareham on weekdays with morning start around 8 15 am and afternoon 4 15 pm through various Cape Cod towns via New Bedford and other routes. Additional times include 3 15 am 4 15 pm and 11 40 am departures noted among Cottage City Vineyard Haven Edg e town Nantucket and others.
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Kneeland Street
Buzzards May
Barnstable
Bourne
Bournedale
Brewster
Cataumet
Chatham
Cottage City
Vineyard Mlaven
Edgetown
New Bedford
Fairhaven
Falmouth
Myannis
Marwich
Rionument Beach
Mattapoisett
Mavion
Nantucket
Eonset
Provincetown
Sandwich
Sagamore
Wir
Remont
Wellfleet
West Burrnstabie
Wennumet
Woods Hall
Wareham
Warmouth
Northern Division Boston Area Train Timetable 1888
Time table notes local and through train service for Boston area lines. Lists stations including Framingham Marlboro Southboro Fayville and Clinton Leominster Fitchburg with multiple crossings and Sundays only and Wednesdays Saturdays restrictions. Officials J R Kendrick and Geo L Connor issued May 30 1888.
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Northern
Boston & Albany
Kneeland Street
Framingham and
Marlboro
Ali
Fayville
Southboro
Botton
Northbore
Clinton
Leominster
Fitchburg
Pratt's Junction
Boston
Old Colony
K.R
Old State House
J. R Kendrick
Man’r. Geo. L. Connor
Pass’r
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