Market Summary of Staples and Vegetables in Rural North
Prices for potatoes, sweet potatoes, hay, rye straw, and poultry noted with variances by region. Several vegetable items show mixed quotations from commodities like onions, cabbage, beets, carrots, and greens. minor regional differences appear across shipments and crates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogsiac
Red Top
Jersey
Houlton
Aroostook Hebrons
Bush
Regents
Norfolk
Bermudas
St Andrews
Produce markets report from Chicago and New York
In Chicago butter is strong with light receipts and a clean market. Elgin creamery quotes 2912c. Cheese is inactive. Eggs firm at 14c. In New York butter and cheese unchanged. Eggs firm for Eastern firsts 1544 to 154 1 2c, Western 1b4i4c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Elgin Creamery
New York
Southern steamers schedule cargoes for Monday arrivals
The Savannah steamer due Monday carries 1000 boxes of Florida oranges and 10 refrigerators of strawberries. The Norfolk boat due Monday reports 150 barrels of ruck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Steamers
Savannah
Florida
Norfolk Boat
Fruit cargo reports steady market and firm prices
The steamer Kenisov arrives with 2100 cases Valencia oranges 2400 boxes Palermo oranges and 6000 boxes Palermo lemons. Apples are quiet. Liverpool notes strong demand for Baldwins and russets. Oranges and lemons hold firm with Palermo oranges $2 34 a box and Valencia $5 56 to 6 00 per case for regulars. Cranberries and strawberries show steady to moderate activity with varied quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenisov
Mediterranean
Valencia
Palermo
Liverpool
Cowmon
Choice Baldwins
Tallman Sweets
Florida
Messina
Cape Cod
Provisions and Meat Prices Reported by Local Packers
Local packers report moderate demand for pork and quiet hams with steady lard. Exports valued at 75 000 dollars this week vs 90 000 last week and 75 000 year ago. Beef and veal supplies small with firm prices. fresh beef, mutton, and veal quotes given for various cuts and weights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Brighton
Sugar Market Steady with Mixed Refining Prices Reported
Raw sugar prices hold steady while refined and pulverized sugars show active demand and full prices. Granulated sugar stays at 6 cents. wholesale granulated at 7 cents. A Willet, Hamblen & Co report details 1887 US sugar consumption and refinery flows, noting trust-controlled refineries produced about 78 percent of refined sugar. Molasses and tallow markets are steady with modest movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manilas
Lloilos
Javas
Willet, Hamblen & Co
United States
Trust
San Francisco
Nontrust
Philadelphia
Beston
Ponce Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Trade Centre Market Reports From Milwaukee Chicago and Cincinnati
Reports from Milwaukee and Chicago show flour and wheat steady to dull with mixed price ranges and sizable grain receipts. Cincinnati notes provisions on a damp note as markets list uneven prices and limited activity.
Wheat, whiskey price moves and market notes mixed
Toledo reports wheat dull and steady receipts and shipments. St Louis notes flour firm and grains lower or steady with various price ranges for whiskey pork bacon and lard. New York cotton and flour markets show mixed activity while metals and fuels list steady to weak prices.
Cotton Markets Show Mixed Stays Across Global Trade
In New York spot cotton held steady with middling uplands at 1011⁄2 cents and low middlings 95. Good ordinary 11 to 14 cents and ordinary 744 cents. US and international markets report varied receipts and stock levels, with 7000 bales sold in Liverpool and American shipments influencing prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liverpool
Orleans
Great Britain
France
United States
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Continent
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
West Point
Philadelphia
Baltimore
C. Cincinnati
C. St. Louis
Shipae
Corsonnets
Conese Coe
Hog and Cattle Markets Report Chicago March 17
Cattle receipts 2000 with steady shipments. steers $3.40 to $3.90, stockers and feeders $2.56 to $3.60, cows bulls mixed $2 to $2.35. Hogs receipts 13000 with strong tone. mixed $5.10 to $6.50, heavy $5 to $6, light $5 to $6.30, ships $3.50 to $5.00. Sheep receipts 1000 strong. natives $4.60 to $4.10, Westerns $5.60 to $6.00, Texans $4 to $5, lambs $5.50 to $6.36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Texas
Foreign Markets London Report on Wheat Corn and Flour
Cargoes off the coast wheats and corn at Mark Lane and Paris markets quiet. Liverpool spot wheat and corn easier and futures weaker for wheat while corn futures hold. Havana sugar quotes nominal and cargo freights to the United States steady at $260,275 gold per hold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
California
Havana
Matanzas
United States
Cuba
Imports and Exports Figures From Liverpool March 17 1888
A Liverpool shipping record lists cargoes aboard the steamer Catalonia including 915 bags of potatoes for Crockett Bros and Sanborn 170 boils of books for H B Jackson 650 birds for EK H Green 8 bars steel for Wood Pollard & co and 610 bags of potatoes for Congdon Carpenter & co 118 casks of bleaching powder for Stone & Downer 2 blocks of marble for Riker 100 cases wine 20 cognac 10 casks for Puffer & Sons 6 casks for Pierce & co 2 cases for Sheppard Norwell & co 2 for Cumner Jones & co 3 for Neale Morse & co 1 for Wilson Larrabes & co 1 case writing paver Whitcombe.
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Liverpool
Eng
Catalonia
Crockett Bros & Sanborn
Jackson
Enormous Shipments Reported in Boston Dry Goods Sale List
A long OCR list details numerous consignments to Boston merchants including Baring Bros Co Adams Taylor Co J H Pray Sons Co and Jordan Marsh Co. Goods span woollens linen lace books mohair yarn harness machinery hardware and vegetables with quantities and partner firms repeatedly cited. The page notes varied items from pig iron and tin plates to oranges potatoes and glassware alongside railway and shipping references, reflecting a bustling early 20th century wholesale market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Brunt
Briggs
Crowley
French & Co
Stetson & Co
Moses & Co
Brown, Durel & Co
Woollens Merchants’ Despatch Co
Hovey & Co
Butler
Wright Mtg Co
Warren & Blanchard
Moise Morey & Co
Weil, Dreyfus & Co
Furness
H Davis & Co
Boston Public Library
John W Barlow
J B Moors & Co
Talbot
Wilmarth & Co
Nathaniel Tutts
Prost & Adams
A H Roffe & Co
Lace Stone & Downer
Snow & Co
H Brown & Co
Moise Stoddard
Lovering & Co
Leyland & Co
Stone & Downer
Y Jones
Bigelow, Kennard & Co
Estes & Lauriat
AS8
J Brown & Co
Imachinery
Leigh & Co
Riley & Gray
Beckhard
P Hollander & Co
Webber
Crockett Bros & Sanborn
Power
Messenger, Jr
Austin & Co
Curtis & Co
Morgan & Co
Brown, Durrell & Co
White & Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Macallar
Parker & Co
Neal, Morse & Co
Albert Cushman
Baldwin Bros & Co
Holder & Herrick
Amherst College
Cumner, Jones & Co
A Sawyer & Co
Noyes, Campbell & Co
H White & Co
Schoenhof
Davenport
D & M Williams
H Jones & Co
Holden & Herrick
RUM Cay
Melissa D Robbins
Exports Reported From Halifax and Liverpool Steamer Cargoes
On March 17 1888 Halifax Nova Scotia and Liverpool England ports show cargo lists for Steamer Worcester and Steamer Roman. Worcester carried hardware dry goods marble confectionery hams oil clothing patent medicines copper paint paper and many other goods in dozens of boxes cases bales and bags. Roman cleared March 12 loaded with wheat beef canned goods oil cake leather bone cotton ware and a wide range of merchandise totaling thousands of units.
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Halifax
Worcester
Liverpool
Eng
Receipts Reported by Railroads for March 17 1888
The Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Ola Colony, New York and New England, Panbarg and Bourg Road lines list extensive consignments. Wool, cotton, flour, lard, bacon, eggs, oil, leather, and beef appear across bales, boxes, cases, and bags totaling hundreds of units and several tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Ola Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Balbourg Road
Trade Goods and Rail Freight Lists Across Regions
A dense catalog of preserved meats grease pork tlerces hams and other commodities alongside rail divisions Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and Express and Sea routes listing bales wool tallow butter cheese eggs apples potatoes lumber leather hides pelts and bags. The fragmented OCR notes multiple transport and storage entries with varied quantities and units across companies and routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Western Division
Icea & Maine Railroad
Lowell
By Express
Slander Refuted by Boston Wholesale Druggists on Murdock's Liquid Food
Boston wholesalers and publishers denounce a counterfeit article’s slander and affirm long term use of Murdock's Liquid Food. They cite hospitals and works cleanliness, rising sales, and expert endorsements from major medical associations in the United States and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Monthly
Monthly
Boston
Murdock
Geo. C. Goodwin & Co
Weeks & Potter
Gilman Brothers
Carter, Carter & Kilham
Cutler Bros. & Co
Rust Bros. & Bird
Doolittle & Smith
Otis Clapp & Son
Indorse
Free Surgical Hospital
Womes
United States
Annual meeting notice of American Bell Telephone Co
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the American Bell Telephone Company will be held at the Metropolon 88 Tremont Street Boston on Tuesday March 27 1888 at eleven o clock in the forenoon. Items include election of officers and other business. Transfer books closed March 24 to 27 by order of the Directors Charles E Hubbard Clerk Boston March 15 1888.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bell Telephone Company
Metonaon
Tremont Street
Boston
Oy Niles Apea
Charles Eustis Hubbard
Boston Protective Department Annual Meeting Scheduled in 1888
The Boston Protective Department will hold its annual meeting at the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters rooms on March 29, 1888, at noon. It will determine whether active duties continue for the coming year and set the maximum expenditure. Corporators meet to elect three directors for three years and to conduct other lawful business. Osborne Howes Jr., Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Protective Department
Boston
Boston Board of Vire
Milby Street
Osborne Howes, Jr
Forest Hills Cemetery Annual Meeting Notice 1888
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Paper of Forest Hills Cemetery for the year 1888 will be held at the office of said corporation No. 31 Pemberton square Boston on Monday the twenty sixth day of March Instant being the fourth Monday of said month at eleven o'clock a m for the core of electing a trustee in the place of the trustee whose term of office then expires and for the transaction of such other business as may legally come before them By order of the Board of Trustees ARTHUR R POTTER Secretary pro tempore
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Hills Cemetery
Pemberton Square
Boston
Board of Trustees
Arthur R. Potter
Boston and Albany Railroad Timetables and Connections
Timetables show daily through trains between Boston and Albany with express services to New York and connections at Pittsfield and Hudson. Sunday and holiday schedules list multiple local stops including Brookline Newtonville and Wellesley Hills, with through tickets available at 232 Washington Street. Officials Hanson and Gallup note through-ticket options and station offices.
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Isee
Ocal
Washington Street
Isoston Station
Kneeland Street
Wingfield
Pittsfield
Albany
Spm
Hudson
River Branch
Igfield
Hartford
New
Boston
New York
Tio Rew
Boston & Albany R.R
Lick
Washington
Fitterels
North Adams
Chatham
Palmer
Ware River Branch
Springfield
Fiaven
The
Dunauy Kwains
Newton Lower Fall
Wellesley Hills
Worcester
Newton Highlands
Brookline
Hanson
T. Gallup
Gen. Pags. Ag
Gen. Sup
M. Press
Wagnoce Palace
Rutland
Burlington
St. Albans
Ottawa
Montreal
Ogdensburg
C. A
C. A. Faxon, Gen. . Ge R. Stewart
Keene
N. HL
Stonington
York
Boston & Providence Railroad
Newark
State Street
Boston & Providence R. R
J. W. Richardson
A. A. Folsom
Boston & Providence R
Boston & Providence
J. W. Bipese
Comprehensive railroad timetable slip reads like a city map
Dense schedule lists dozens of lines from Milton to Nantucket with numerous departures and returns. Names include GEO. L. CONNOR and HANSON, detailing weekday and Sunday trains, via Neponset, Brockton, Plymouth, Taunton, and Cape destinations, reflecting a sprawling era of rail service.
Boston and Providence Rail Train Schedule T
Rail timetable effective May 30 1887 lists trains from Boston to New York Shore Line Fast Express and Shore Line Mail with multiple daily departures and returns. It includes connections to Providence Pawtucket North Attleboro East Foxboro Sharon Readville Hyde Park and other stations with varied times on weekdays and Sundays.
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Boston
Providence
MONDA
New York
Shore Line
Stonington
Suneays
Oreath
Pawtucket Beet Rex
Im. Hteturn
Bdoedgeville
Hebronville
Ec North Attleboro
I Ag m
Im. Ee Field
Doe
East Foxboro
Sharon
Wary le
Wit
Onue
M. Hyde Park
Mt. Yi
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Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Toledo
ST. Louis
Barney
Ward
Detroit
Minnesota
SOO
Rio
United
City Extra
India Mess
Western Steam
Spot
City Steam
Massachusetts
Boston Daily Advertiser
Record
Ss Transcript
Forbes’ Lithograph Co
L. Prang & Co
Rockwell & Churchill
International Medical Congress
Causeway Street
Free Hospital For
Murdock’s
Liquid Food
City OF
Board OF Street Commissioners
Dorchester
Bowdoin Av
Union Av
Maple Grove
Bullard St
Bullara St
J. H. Jenkins
J. H. Kerrison
48 Mile Street
Boston & Albany
R.R
Bec
Gale
al Tor Nor
Pal
Qumuay, Hiaven
Eer Diawin
Aevu
Ashlana A. South
Fim
Ouy Sou
Millbury
Eas
Vraften
Yesthoro
Tugar
VM. Oy
Mery Bekuy
Me Saxonville
Omavick
Eau
Gllesley
iM.s
Vecu. Bey
Wellester Imills
Geu
Adel Aburndade
West Newton
Newtonville
Newton
Faneuil
Alliston
Cottage Farm
Meservoeoir
Bata
Newton Centre
Newton Pre
Wary Ry
Cp Geavy DeiPi
Cypress
Chestnut
Al-Aute
Framingham
Marlboro
Mayville
Southboro
Northboro
Clinton
Leomister
Fitchburg
Berlin
West Berlin
Pratt's Junction
Heeturn
Bitchburg
Newton Lower Falls
Gym
A. S. Hanson
H. ‘St. Gallup
Pass
Railroads
Old Colony
No. S Old State House
Fall River Line
Neponset
Milton
Braintree
New Bedford
East Bridgew
Abington
Brock
Penn
West Quincy
Eastth and Weymouth
East Weymouth
Ter
Eton
Eurney
Barnetable
Hyannis
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Return
New Bedtforton
Rhetu
Weyman
Weymouth
Lom Japan
Piattapoisett
Nantucket
Wood's Hall
Aneussss Vo
Prymouth
Duxbury
Quincy
Hanover
Rockland
M. Return
Whitman
Brockton
Wellaston Heights
West Bridgewater
Cochesett
South Easton
Wood’s Moll
Bridgewater
Buzzard’s Bay
Provincetown
Cohasset and
Bingham
Cohasset
Hingham
Fall River
Taunton
Harrison Square
M. Neponset
Newport
Neb Randolph
Nor
Randolph
Seituste
South Duxbury
Central Station
Dean Street
Ip WU
Ene
Mats
Mattawan
Wey
Avery
Haydaoko
Easton
Stoughton
Th Easton
Stough
Weymouths
Hingnam
Cehausset
Sciturte
Arsh
South Braintree
Way
Middleboro
Geo. L. Connor
Gen. Pass
J. KR. Kendrick
Orpee
AL AM
Antsbury
North Grafton
Westbory
SR Hee Minke
Laeue
Atich
Wendesley
Wellesle
Ween
Bee
Eer A
Theatre Estee
Vewton
Funeuil
Alistom
Oftop Street
Reservoir
Tonville
Renrary Tro As
TA Wien
Teekoy
Salarnteag
Kraminghaw
Fayville
Northbore
Beertin
West Merlin
Bolton
Pratt
Central Vermont Railroads
Fitchburg Depot
Winchendon
Jaffrey
Peterboro
Fitzwilliam
Troy
Westmoreland
Walpole
Bellows Falls
St. Johns
Saratoga
Potata
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
KR. R
Cheshire R
White River Junction
Central
Vermont
Points West
Petor
Chesal
M.hire & Monadnock
Montreal & West
Wagner Palace
Central Vermont
Fitchburg Railroad
Hoosac Tunnel
Ont and Waverley
SUN
Lla
Ip m
Neces
Miller’s Falls
Rotterdam Junction
West
Niagara Falls Short Line
Niagara Falls and
Wabash Western Railway
Erie
Niagara Falls
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway
Rer and
Atleld
Hudson and Maynard
Nashua N. Hmi
Ayer Junction
Williamstown
North Leominster
Saratoga—s
Shelburne Faithe
J. Whitmore
J.B. Watson
Union Square
Somerville
Aem
Waltham
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburn
Miller's Falla
Ayer Fic
Attleboro
Canton Junction
Ares
Maica P Aon
Fou
Uw Sa
Reduy
E and
Clarendon Hillme
Forest Mi
Maal
Is Ag
Bebe
WBS
Ong
Ouse
Roxbury
Dedham
Spring Street West Roxbury
Mighlands
Canton
Bostor
Mt. Hope
Warren
Bristol
Pencey
Proveidence
Suat
Ize
Ramrn Min Zim
OL Colony
Maistol
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Bmeston
Ling
Old State House
L. H. Palmer
Agt
Concord RE
Concord
N. H
A . E. Chamberlin
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