Commercial Matters: Steady to firm market notes
Leather steady and hides dull. flour firm but quiet. corn quiet yet firm. Oats quiet, cornmeal steady, oatmeal quiet, buckwheat unchanged. Rye steady, barley quiet, malt unchanged, millweed dull. Butter firmer, cheese easier, eggs higher. Beans in quiet demand. hay, straw steady. Potatoes unchanged. sweet potatoes firm. Trucks unchanged. poultry quiet. Game moderate demand. apples quiet. Cranberries light supply. Florida oranges and Mediterranean fruit in demand. Pork firm, lard fair demand, hams steady. Fresh beef firm. veals unchanged, lambs fair movement. Sugars steady, molasses unchanged, tallow fair demand.
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Florida
Chicago
Brighton
Leather Market Faces Steady Prices Amid Ample Supply
The leather market remains quiet with steady prices as factories stay busy for supplies. Demand shows activity in wax and hip leathers, brown and buff soles, and finished calfskins with varying weights. hides weaken amid thin Western and Southern demand, while hemlock sole leather outlook improves and union crop leather stays active.
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New England
Brighton
Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
Rio Grande
Entre Rios
The Chicago Markets Decline With Bearish Grain Provisions Mood
Despatches report a bearish feel in grain and provisions with markets closing weak. Wheat and corn futures show declines while pork lard prices drift lower. Visible supplies indicate wheat down 853,547 bushels and oats down 324,532 while corn rose 60,457 bushels.
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Farnum, Reardon & Co
Boots and Shoes Trade Faces Spring Delays and Tight Supply
The storm disrupts boot and shoe trade with few new orders since Monday. Factories rush spring goods to finish season, while jobbers run on lean stocks. Demand stays firm for buff and split goods, brogans, and women’s grain shoes, but overall orders lag behind last year as shipments proceed slowly.
Flour Market Steady Amid Storm Standstill
Market reports note a firm flour market with business halted by a recent storm. Prices are high for scarce supply including fine flour at 250 per barrel and superfine at 275, with extra and seconds at 390 and bakers’ grades ranging up to 485 per barrel.
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Minnesota
Michigan
Grain Market Report with Wheat Corn Prices and Stocks
The corn market remained quiet yet firm with sales of steamer yellow and other grades at mixed prices. Oats futures were active though spot oats were dull. various barleys, rye, flour, and meal quotes follow for export and domestic use, with visible supply and Chicago stock data shown.
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Canada Superior
Canada
Gsc
New Nel
New York
Choice
Chicago
Market Report on Butter Cheese Eggs Beans and Produce
Stormy weather trims butter receipts while demand stays firm for creamery and lower grade lines. Prices for Western and New York creamery range from 20 to 31 cents with various grades steady. cheese and eggs show cautious buyers and higher quotes for Eastern fresh eggs. Bean and grain markets ease, with foreign shipments and domestic beans quoted. grasses, potatoes, and hay mixed but steady under storm impact. poultry supplies moderate with firm prices for choice stock.
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New York
Vermont
Ohio
Eaas
New Hampshire
Michigan
California
West
North
Red Top
Houlton Rose
Houlton Hebrons
Aroostook
Aroostook Hebrons
Northern Rose
Urbanks
Bush
Hebrons
Peerless
White Brooks
Rys& Straw
Market Prices for Vegetables and Produce
Truck is quiet at steady prices. Native spinach priced at $1 per bush with Norfolk lots at $3 350 yp bbl. Bermuda onions quoted at $3 per crate. Native onions $450 per p (bbL). Beets 75c per bush. Carrots 40c per bush. Lettuce 25 50c per dot. Parsnips $1 per bush. Turnips fat 50 60c per bush. St Andrews and white French celery $150 per bbl etc.
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Norfolk
Bermuda
St Andrews
Market summary of butter eggs and cheese across cities
March market notes from Cincinnati St Louis Chicago and Liverpool with Butter firm across markets at 31 32c in Cincinnati and 14e March 14 with 25 Sle in St Louis and Elgin creamery extra 29c in Chicago Cheese quiet light receipts Lugs 14c and rising. Liverpool demand for finest white and colored. New York prices unchanged while eggs vary from 19 20 in Eastern and Western firsts.
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Cincinnati
ST. Louis
Chicago
Elgin Creamery Extra
Liverpool
New York
Fruit and Produce Exchange Morning Transactions
Eastern extra eggs sold at 18¢ Cape eggs offered at 20¢ Southern eggs offered at 18¢ Baldwin apples at $3 Fancy Newburyport onions sold at 475 lb Dark soil Magnums offered at 75¢, choice 80¢ Bush Houston Early Rose at $3 per barrel Fancy improved yellow eye beans offered at $290 per bush Terse cranberries offered at $350 per crate Maple syrup 11 beans offered at 50¢
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Newburyport
Houston
Soc
Southern vegetables receipts and prices
The article lists small receipts of southern vegetables with prices for Florida string beans Florida beets Florida cabbages Florida tomatoes Norfolk kale Norfolk spinach Baltimore spinach Bermuda onions and related crate or barrel sizes and price ranges.
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Florida
Norfolk
Baltimore
Bermuda
Fruit Market Prices and Auction Notice
FRUIT. Harris & Co will auction 250 cases Valencia oranges and remaining cargo of the steamer Peconic. Apples receipts light but ample supply. Mediterranean fruit scarce. Orange market firm due to low supply and strong demand. Palermo, Florida, Messina oranges and lemons quoted with varied box and price ranges. Cranberries light supply with moderate demand. Strawberries arriving with sales 0.38 to 0.50 dollar range. outside for choice fruit.
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H Harris & Co
Valencia
Baldwins
Tallman Sweets
Florida
Palermo
Messina
Cape Cod
Provisions and meat prices hold steady across pork and beef
Pork markets show steady prices with quiet ham sales and firm lard. Beef moves slowly at old prices with firm demand despite tight supplies. Fresh beef, veal, and lamb values remain strong for select cuts while mid ranges soften little.
Market Summary of Sugar and Related Goods
The sugar market shows steady raw sugar prices with 55 cents for raw refined as a baseline and various grades listed for Manilas Javas and other refinings. Refined sugar commands quiet demand with granulated at 67 cents per pound and other refined forms like Pulverized Powdered and Confectioners' A at similar rates. Molasses Shippers report Ponce Porto Rico at 40 cents plus gas boiling 60 test 20 21 cents and Cienfuegos new crop at 27 cents. Tallow prices remain steady with city rendered at 44 cents and country 41 4 to 44 cents. rough at 24 cents. Pipeline certificates yield a quote of 97.142 at 12:15.
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Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
Ponce Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Trade centre grain and flour market reports
Reports from New York and Chicago dated March 15 and 16 detail flour receipts exports and varied prices for wheat corn oats and more. Notable figures include Minnesota extra and city mill extra flour prices, No 2 Milwaukee and red wheat values, and pork lard and butter price levels amid steady to weak market signals.
Wheat and grain prices slip across midwest markets
Milwaukee Chicago St Louis and other centers report mixed grain moves with flour dull or steady. Wheat prices ease to 75 75 and 82 83 cents, corn 45 to 46 cents, oats firm around 30 cents, rye weak around 58 to 59, barley firm near 77 cents. Receipts and shipments listed at each hub alongside whiskey and pork/lines in other notes.
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Milwacker
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Cincinnati
New York Cotton Exchange Suspends Business
The New York cotton exchange will suspend business until telegraphic and mail advices are fully restored.
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New York Cotton Exchange
CATTLE MARKET REPORT FROM CHICAGO
Cattle receipts reach 10 000 with shipments around 4000. steers 3.30 to 6.35, stockers and feeders 240 to 370, cows bulls and mixed 210 to 360. Hogs receipts 21 000 shipments about 6500, prices 5.10 to 6.55 for various grades. ships 5.50 to 5.00. Sheep receipts 5600 shipments 1000 steady natives 4.60 to 6.10, Western 5.59, Texans 3.30 to 5.0, lambs 6.60 to 6.0.
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Chicago
Staple Goods and Receipts Across Railroads in 1888
A dated inventory from March 15 1888 lists stock movement and receipts for multiple lines including Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine with Eastern Western and Lowell divisions. Items cover bbls flour beans eggs lumber leather hides wool pork lard butter and more, with volumes by railroad and division.
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Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Western Division
Lowell
Express
Imports and Exports in London and Liverpool 1888
Shipping ledgers list diverse imports and exports with Brown Bros and Co, Baring Bros & Co, Lazard Freres, J A Hayes, Oliver Ditson, and others. Goods include iron bars, wire rods, potatoes, cheese, gin, glassware, china, beads, wool, cement, beans, dates, tobacco, and many farm and sea products. Entries show quantities like 400 bags of potato products, 701 cases of china, 116 bolls of wire, and 16114 tons of ecannel coat, reflecting extensive trade between London and Liverpool with multiple firms.
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London
Tieg
Brown Bros & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Lazard Freres
China
Ames
Masseware Oliver Ditson & Co
Toys
Heyer Bros
Lowell Mans Co
Hoxie & Co
Moors & Co
Moors
Pearse
Kimball & Co
Ford
Lovering & Co
Gossler & Co
Webber
Oakum
Oliver Ditson & Co
Marbles Peabody & Whitney
Abram French & Co
Aricot
Liverpool
Eng
Kansas
Drexel, Morgan
Bolls Steel Gore Abbott & Co
Black & Co
Norway Steel
Lron Co
Dennison Mans Co
Ross
Fran & Co
de Blois & Co
Hovey & Co
White & Co
Hawley, Folsom & Martin
Cottons
Stone & Downer
Coleman, Mead & Co
Bolls Steel Stone & Downer
Bolls Steel Wetherell Bros
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Davis & Furber Co
Trade ledger of shipments from Pubnico Nova Scotia
A detailed list records cargo items and quantities from various firms including Stedman & Fuller Mans co, Stone & Downer, Cross hardware, Read & Son, Morey Churchill & Morey, Merchants' Despatch Transportation, Norcross Mellen, C F Hovey, Riley & Gray, Torrey Bright & Capen, J H Pray Sons, G H Harding, E A Snow, Jordan Marsh, Caton Bros Bixby, Warren Curtis J B Moors Baring Weston firms, and others. Items include machinery, bales wool and leather, packing, earthenware, potatoes, paper stock, bags, glassware, tin plates, flax, skinned hides, and assorted commodities bound for Pubnico NS aboard schooner Uncle Sam and other consignments.
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Stedman & Fuller Mans Co
Stone & Downer
Read & Son
Morey, Churchill & Morey
Merchants’ Despatch Transportation Co
Norcross, Mellen & Co
Hovey & Co
Riley & Gray
Torrey, Bright & Capen
Pray, Sons & Co
Weston, Whitman & Co
Curtis & Co
Rockwell & Co
Seaverns & Co
Mnoise Coller & Newhall
Warren & Co
Hollings & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Pubnico
Exports Report from Annapolis NS in March 1888
A dated export list from March 15 1888 in Annapolis Nova Scotia records the Schooner Canning Packet carrying 585 barrels of flour 11 tons of feed 20 barrels of pork 10 barrels of beef 150 barrels of cornmeal 10 bales of oakum 5 barrels of oil 5 barrels of zinc paint.
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Annapolis
Boston and New England Rail Timetable Corrected Feb 1858
Boston to New York and regional routes listed with numerous departure times from Boston foot of Summer Street and other hubs. Includes Norwood Central Hyde Park Needham Woonsocket and Worcester divisions with daily and Sunday schedules, connections to Norwich Line and City of Boston steamer, and notes on express trains and Pullman cars.
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New York
New England
Boston
Summer Street
Norwood Central
Hyde Park
Middletown
New Haven
Pullman
Hartford
New Britain
Waterbury
Danbury
Wishkill-on-Hudson
Newburgh
Turners
N. Y
Chicago & St. Louis Limited
Evie Railway
NEW England Limited
Air Line
Grand Central Depot
Willimantic
Willimor
Philadelphia
Jersey City
Trenton
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
Pulman
Norwich
New London
Danielsonville
Putnam
City OF
City OF New York
Washington Street
Jackson
E.P. Vining
A.C. Kendall
Fall River
Old Colony
Bristol
Providence
Brooklyn
Old State House
Sunday and weekday rail schedule fragment in 19th century Boston area
Train timetable text lists routes such as Taunton Brockton Taunton via Taunton via Brockton and Newport with numerous times and returns. It includes Sunday trains to Weymouth Cohasset Scituate Marshfield Duxbury Plymouth and other South Shore towns and notes connections at Brin ton Marlboro Fitchburg and Boston with general managers names and station details.
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Weymouths
Bingham
Cohasset
Scituate
Marshfield
Duxbury
Plymouth
Hingham
Wall River
Brockton
Ps Mam
Taunton
Newport
South Braintree
New Bedford
Middleboro
Kerockton
New York
Fall River
Geo. L. Connor
Gen. Pass. Avent
Boston and Shore Line trains May 20 schedules
Rail notice lists Boston to New York departures at 1:4 am and 1 pm with returns
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Boston
Shore Line
Stoningto Iys
Concord &%. R
Manchester
Concord
N. H
N.H
Ak H. FE. Ghamuerlin
Fragmentary OCR Summary of Local Notice
Fragmentary text from a historical newspaper page shows numeric codes and stray tokens. There is no clear event or named entities to identify a specific news item or notice for a concise headline and summary.
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Patan
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Medical
Fred’k. F. Moora
Harvard Medical College
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Hancock Street
Mass
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