Wheat and grain markets show weakness across multiple hubs
Corn and oats quoted lower with quiet activity in Chicago Milwaukee and Detroit. No 2 white oats and No 2 red wheat prices ease while futures edge down from Thursday. Reports of steady spot bids and a dull trade frame the broad market tone with varied regional receipts and shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Detroit
Toledo
Sears
New York
St Louis
Chicago
Moore
Minneapolis
Butter and dairy market report shows firm prices across regions
Receipts for creameries remain large but demand is strong, leaving little stock. Prices hold steady with Northern creameries at 21-22c and imitation creameries around 15c. Western and Vermont varieties show mixed quotes while egg and bean markets vary. Note: receivers’ wholesale prices noted with jobbing costs higher in Chicago and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Chicago
New York
New York Extra
Ohio
State
Liverpool
Ermont
New Hampshire
Michigan
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
PE Island
California
Bush
Market Prices for Citrus Fruits and Bananas in Boston
Palermo oranges priced at 6 to 7 per box while lemons run 5 to 7 per box and Messina varieties at 5 to 6 50 per box. Valencia oranges at 7 to 8 per case, large and extra large 8 to 9 per case. Strawberries around 11 to 16 cents. Bananas on the Carol Konow at 12.6 per bunch. cocoanuts 25 per 1000. California fruit items listed with mixed prices. auction of the Pontiac cargo by H. Harris & Co. fetching brisk bids with Palermo oranges at 31 244 to 625 per box half-boxes at 18 734 3 8 30. Watermelons around 35 cents. Savannah steamer bringing 29 230 melons expected Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palermo
Messina
Valencia
Delawares
Marylands
Fancy Express
H. Harris & Co
Pontiac
Boston
Savannah
Bananas aboard Samana for Boston Fruit Company
The steamer Samana is due June 18 from Jamaica carrying bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana Steamers
Jamaica
Boston Fruit Company
Savannah steamer carries crates of cucumbers and tomatoes
The Savannah steamer arriving Monday brings 240 crates cucumbers 150 crates tomatoes 280 barrels potatoes 771 crates squash and 60 barrels pine apples. Market steady with good demand and varied prices for produce including new marrow squash at $2 per barrel and multiple regional price quotes for vegetables and fruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Maryland
Long Island
Florida
North Carolina
Bermuda
St Andrews
Provisions Market Report Highlights Steady Pork Prices
The market shows pork at steady prices with firm hams and smoked meats. Lard demand remains strong though quoted ranges are uneven. various pork cuts and by products list prices from $15.75 to $18 per hundredweight, with regional quotes in New York Chicago St. Louis and Cincinnati and fresh beef showing higher, tighter supply, and a likely price uptick next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Market Summary of Hog and Cattle Markets at Major U S Yards
Kansas City receipts show 4582 cattle with demand active for corn-fed and weak for grazers. hogs 7986 with active trade at steady prices. steers 5 6. hogs in Chicago and Cincinnati show strength, while St Louis and Verona report firmer hogs. Cattle and hog prices vary by city with mixed outlooks across markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
St Louis
KSO
Cincinnati
Chicago
Cotton Market Mixed as Liverpool Declines and New York Holds
Allan Asher & Co report a light local move with no standout features. Liverpool opens lower, New York prices show firm middling uplands, while futures open dull and close steady amid large weekly cotton statistics and weekly sales of 63,000 bales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Asher & Co
Exchange Place
Liverpool
Chronicle
New York
Cotton markets show varied receipts and stocks across ports
Across markets, net receipts and gross vary by port with totals in the thousands. Major stocks include American and total afloat figures at New Orleans and Savannah, while consolidated data show weekly exports to Great Britain and France, and overall United States port stock approaching 25 million dollars in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PUNO
Cicccctecaeee
Iec 'E Gs
Maton Cies
Liverpool
Orleans
Dung Se vi Conces Séeueat Co-Oed
Pscaian A
Gan Ceks
United States
Uniad States
Great Britain
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Continent
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Port Royal
Wilmington
Wortolick
West Point
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
Cincinnati
St Louis
Louisville
France
Sugar and Molasses Market Quiet at Firm Prices
Sugar and molasses trade shows quiet firm activity with Cuba refining at 4 13-16 to 4 15-16 c per lb and Cen trifugals at 61c. Retinera sugars firm with active demand. various forms priced from 53 due to spec reader. New York raw sugars firm. molasses trade quiet at old figures. Porto Rican and Caribbean grades quoted with narrow ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
Belmont
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Mayaguez
Miscellaneous market report with mixed commodity prices
The market shows a steady to firm trend across commodities. Cotton and oils are quoted with varied cents per pound, coffee notes a fair New York market, whiskey and turpentine prices steady, petroleum at mixed rates, and regional quotes from New York Philadelphia Chicago St Louis Cincinnati.
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New York
Philadelphia
Rio
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
Turpentine
Imports June 165 1888 Steamer Carl Konow and Lobster Cargo
The record lists arrivals at Arrington NS including the steamer Carl Konow with 110 000 cocoa nuts and 7 boxes merchandise, the Sch Amanda with 7 000 lobsters, and the steamer Electra carrying 332 boxes of lobsters, all associated with Barclay & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baracoa
Carl Konow
Arrington NS
Barclay & Co
Barrington
Electra
Vast 19th Century Cargo List From Multiple Ports
A detailed export cargo listing dated June 15, 1888, includes Urban B at Belliveau Cove with flour, meal, feed, sheet iron, drugs, tarred rope, saws, glass, cotton, rubber belting, lumber, hardware, soap, and various empties. Yarmouth ships carry feed, beer, and domestic goods. Pandy at Manila Iloilo Ceru shows petroleum, carriages, stove fittings, drills, and tobacco. Jan Breydel steers bacon, cotton waste, leather. Mary P at St Pierre Mig reports alcohol, anchors, butter, beef, biscuits, coffee, chocolate, canned beef, dories, domestics, drugs, furnishings, oils, oranges, oars, nails, pork, paints, pipes, and more.
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Belliveau Cove
Urban
Yarmouth
Pkus
Manila
Iloilo
Ceru
Antwerp
Bel
New York
Stearer
Jan Breydel
ST Pierre
Mig
Receipts Record Of Cotton Wool And Provisions In 1888
Busy ledger of June 15 1888 shows receipts across multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western Lowell and Lowell System, detailing cotton wool flour lard butter cheese eggs leather hides and meats with numerous bales bales, cases, tubs, and tons. Major items include 676 bbls flour, 218 bales wool, 1018 pkgs butter, 485 bags leather, and 14,680 bush corn across lines.
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Wales
Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Baron
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg
Humber
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Western Division
Lowell
Trade Goods Shipments Preserve Stock Totals
Lists of shipments and quantities for butter eggs cheese leather cotton wool flour lard sugar molasses potatoes hay and other goods. Entries show units by Express and By Sea, including boxes bales cases barrels and hides with various counts and repeated items. No narrative present, only inventory tallies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
By Express
Foreign Markets Show Wheat Firmer Along Coast
London reports cargoes off the coast and firmer wheat with higher prices. Marks Lane quotes quiet markets for wheat corn and flour, with California wheat prices for June to December. Liverpool notes dull wheat with poor demand, steady futures for some grains, and steady pork cheese lard and tallow prices.
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London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
California
Antwerp
Probate notices from Massachusetts courts in 1888
Heirs and interested parties are summoned in Norfolk and Suffolk counties for probate actions. Citations name ANN M. DAVIS and WILLIAM WATERS estates, with will copies, executors, and accounts N.B. dates point to July court sessions in Quincy Boston and Cambridge.
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Ernest M. Disley
Suffolk
Norfolk
Ann M. Davis
Frederie County
Virginia
Quincy
Boston Post
Boston
Genard Wuhr
Jonathan Cobb
Register
Ommon Wealth OF
Massaci
Setis
Robate Cov
William Waters
James C. Davis
Bitin
Joan W. McKim, Esquire
Elijah George
Commonwealth OF Massachleu Seits
Middlesex
Joseph L. Perry
Cambridge
Massachiu
Tamzen Knowles
The
Boston West
Joan W. MeKim
Train Schedules Include Many New England Stops
A dense OCR timetable lists Western Division trains from Moston Station to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and many other towns. Weekday and Sunday departures cover towns such as Andover Dover Exeter Great Falls Braverhill Kennebunk Biddeford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Wakefield Wilmington and surrounding areas with varied morning afternoon and evening slots.
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Western Division
Moston Station
Hayma Square
Alton Bay
Rochester
Farmington
Andover
Dover
Bane Rers
Exeter
Great Falls
Braverhill
Georgetown
Ami
Kennebunk
Biddeford
Saco
North Lawrence
South Lawrence
Malden
Edford
Belrose Mighlands
Stonehall
Melrose
Merrimac
North Andover
Wewburyport
Reading
M Wakefield
Wilmington
Boston and Maine City Ticket Office Schedule Notice
The Boston and Maine Railroad advertises city ticket office at 218 Washington Street with list of through trains to Augusta Haymarket Rockland Calais Eastport St John Halifax Portland and other stops on Western and Eastern divisions. Services show departures from Haymarket Square and Causeway Street stations with various times on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and from Portland connections. The ad includes multiple stations and routes across New England with Lincoln Knox and Grand Trunk lines and mentions Maine and New Brunswick destinations.
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Boston & Maine Railroad City Ticket Ofice
Washington Street
State Street
Augusta
Haymarket
Causeway St
Aangor
Sttar Marbor
St.John
Analifax
Eastport
Calais
St. John
Halifax
Portland
Haymarket Rq
Rockland
Castine
Southwest
Bar Harbors
Haymarket Sq
Lewiston- Haymarket Sq
Causeway
Anchester
Coneword
N. H
North—Iaymarket
Pakin
North Conway
Haymarket St
Mains Central
Grand ‘Cunk
Knox
Lincoln Railways
Eastern Division Train Schedules from Keston Station
A dense list of hourly trains from Keston Station to Amesbury and many coastal towns. Includes times for Beverly Ipswich Rockport Gloucester Salem Swampscott and more with Sunday services and branch lines noted.
Lowell System Boston Station Schedule on Causeway Street
Boston station on Causeway street through service to Pilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Hiaverhill Woodsville 9am 1 and 73 m for Littleton Lancaster Whitefield a ce pin For Bethlehem Junction bwin Mountain and Fabyans 9 am For Franklin Lebanon and White River Junction 8.50 am 1 3 and 7 pm For St Johnsbury New art Sherbrooke Quebec etc 9am 7pm for local points Passumpsic Division between White River Junction and Wells River 8.30 am and 7pm For Bristol branch 3.30am 1pm For Claremont branch 8.30am 1pm For Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans and Montreal via White River Junction 0.30am 1 7pm For local points on Northern K R 0.30am 3pm Sleeping cars to Montreal on 7pm trains Parlor Cars to Montreal on 8.30 am and 1pm trains For Montreal via Montreal Boston Air Line 94% 7 pm with parlor and sleeping cars
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Lowell
Boston
Causeway Street
Bostor
Pilton
Laconia
Lake Village
Weirs
Meredith
Ashland
Plymouth
Warren
Hiaverhill
Woodsville
Littleton
Lancaster
Whitefield
Bethlehem Junction
Bwin Mountain
Fabyans
Franklin
Lebanon
White River Junction
St. Johnsbury
Newart
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Passumpsic
Wells River
Bristol
Claremont
Montpelier
Essex Junction
Burlington
St. Albans
Montreal
K.R
Boston Air Line
Providence Division Timetable Excerpt for Sh line and Connections
A dense OCR of a regional timetable lists train times and fares between Providence, Boston areas, and New York lines with various stops including Attleboro Readville Roxbury and Pawtucket. It mentions Sundays and exceptions, plus multiple fare amounts and hourly patterns, reflecting a historic intercity network.
Cape Cod Bus Schedules Span Coastal Towns and Times
Bus timetable for Cape Cod division lists routes from Kneeland Street Station to Buzzards Bay Bourne and multiple towns including Chatham Falmouth Hyannis Nantucket Provincetown and Wellfleet. Weekday services show morning departures around 8.15 am and afternoon runs at 4.15 pm with additional midsay times on select legs.
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Kneeland Street
Buzzards Bay
Barnstable
Bourne
Bournedale
Brewster
Cataumet
Chatham
Cottage City
Vineyard Haven
Echartown
New Bedford
Fairhaven
Falmouth
Hyannis
Harwich
Beaument Beach
Mattapoisett
Marion
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Burbank
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Medical
Swift
S.S. S
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18Th Street
New York City
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Vienna
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Drawer
Atlanta, Ga
Broadway
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St. N.Y
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
Fulton St
Massachussevts
Ss.—Court OF Insol
Sam’l Jacobs
Sam’l
Jacobs & Bros
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Boston Evening Record
Joan W. McKim
John H. Paine
George A. Smythe
Grenark M. Brooks
Esquire
J. He Tyler
William Merriypy
William Merritt
Admr
Toston
Commonwealth OF Amassach
Superior Court
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Martha G. Guyot
Illinois
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Ames
Old State House
Connectin
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Concord
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Lewiston
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Beach
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Ipswich
Yan
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Middleton
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Tom
Peabody and Danvers
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Hevere
Rockport
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Salem
York Harbor & Beach R.er
Pam
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Swampscott
Wenkam
Otfeboro
Lynn
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Étation
Haymarket Square
N. M
Dim Meene
Peter Areo
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Hillsbere
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Lam
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Hill
Him
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Mass
Mation
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Ran Wedaws
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Lexington and Way
Woburn and Way
Winchester and Way
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Concord i
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Portland Street
Hadley
Amherst
Belchertown
Handsville
Ware
Gilbertville
Barre
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Merlin
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Way
James T. Furber
D. J. Flanders
Ger
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Mingham
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LLY Aru Rowlearunter
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Attieborn
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AIK
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Deatam
Sully
Enone
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Reo
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Kas
Aman Bsraee
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Ayveu
Roxbury
Ras Dile Seek
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Stoughton
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Lim
Cape Cod
Framingham
Marltbeare
M. Fayville
Bolton
Northboro
B.R
Nas Old State House
J. R. Kendrick
Man’r. Gev. L. Connor
Pasa
Providence Line
Gioup
Renassachusectts
Rhodes Stags Reeves
Washington Streets
J. W. Richardson
J. W. Miller
Briggs
Wagner Palace
Central Vermont
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