Market Notes Mixed on Commodities and Farm Produce
In New York cheese is steady while Philadelphia shows firm cheese demand but Chicago remains firm. Egg markets vary by city with New York and Philadelphia easing or steady and Chicago unchanged. Beans, seeds, hay and potatoes show firm to dull tones with light to moderate supplies. Butter prices vary by region with wide ranges. poultry demand steady. Fruit and veg pricing mix with oranges bananas and apples listed. truck items show light supply and steady or rising demand for specialty produce. A Norfolk boat carries asparagus peas radishes and spinach among other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Liverpool
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Hebrons
Butyer
Vermont
Michigan
Nova Scotia
Pavents
Timothy
North
West
Jersey
East Swale
Houston
Aroostook
Savannah
Elsa
Jamaica
Seaverns & Co
Powhatan
Napier
New Yorker
Baldwin
Massachusetts
Maine
Spies
Valencia
Messina
Palermo
Florida
Baracoa
Aspinwall
Bermuda
Norfolk
Market stays steady as pork and beef quotes hold firm
Pork and lard markets are quiet with no price change. Fresh beef remains quiet but firm, veals lambs and muttons unchanged. The report notes fair supply with steady quotations and lists detailed prices for pork cuts, beef, lamb, and veal across various categories and packaging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cotton Futures Opened Firm In Liverpool Market
Liverpool cotton futures opened firm and closed steady with May at 5 42-640, May and June 5 42-64d, June and July 6 44-64d, July and August 6 46-64d, August and September 5 48-64d, and September 5 42-64d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Cotton market and commodities report notes
The bulletin lists price quotes for cotton middling uplands and Orleans, futures bids and asks, and weekly market movements with global comparisons. It also covers refined oil, sugar prices including raw and refined, molasses quotes, and freight-like figures such as pipelines, runs, shipments, and charters from late April 1886. Strong entities include New York spot and futures, Liverpool prices, and various commodity terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
New York
Orleans
Manila
Belmont
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Markets by Telegraph Apr 30 Cotton and grain prices
New York reports firm cotton with large sales and varied grades. Flour, corn meal, and wheat values hold with mixed receipts and exports across major mills. Chicago and Detroit show mixed flour and grain quotes, pork and lard steady to lower, and regional price moves across Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo and St Louis markets.
Market Report Highlights Hog and Cattle Prices Across Cities
In St Louis on April 30 hogs sold mostly at 5.10 to 5.30, with mixed packers 5.30 to 5.45 and butchers up to 5.55. Kansas City hogs steady around 5.05 to 5.50 with 6,000 receipts estimated today. Peoria reported firm hogs with prices around 4.65 to 4.70. Chicago cattle receipts 2,000 with weaker shipments, steers 4.60 to 4.90, stockers 2.90 to 4.40, cows and bulls 2.00 to 4.00. Hogs in Chicago 6.10c higher with rough and mixed 5.05 to 5.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pera
Suor
Kips
Genae
Lord
Choice
Chicago
Brighton
ST. Louis
Kansas City
B. Peoria
Texas
Paris
Liverpool
California
Havana
Spain
Matanzas
United States
Market Notes From A Scrambled Page
Sheep receipts and shipments show a stronger market with lambs and sheep prices cited. Texans and local buyers engage in trades with quoted figures such as five dollar and four dollar ranges, indicating demand despite inconsistent formatting. Logs indicate production terms and pricing references like S405 and UU codes.
Cotton Markets April 30 1887 Ledger Highlights
Augusta net receipts 16, sales 364. Galveston net receipts 224, exports to Great Britain 1908, stock 12,553. New Orleans net receipts 756, exports to Great Britain 1908, stock 38,348. Mobile net receipts 44, stock 2014. Memphis net receipts 822, stock 25,313. Savannah net receipts 202, stock 6952. Charleston net receipts 15, stock 1553. Wilmington net receipts 23, stock 2192. Norfolk net receipts 27, stock 9718. Philadelphia net receipts 1143, stock 23,015. New York net receipts 205, stock 216,862. Cincinnati net receipts 513, stock 254. St Louis net receipts 106, stock 19,503. Louisville firm. consolidated net receipts 3085, exports to Britain 2010, stock at all ports 418,717.
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Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
C. Consolidated
United States
Imports And Exports April 30 1887 Varied Steamer Cargoes
The report lists numerous steamer cargoes and consignments across ports including Porto Rico St John New Brunswick Lockeport Nova Scotia Hamburg Antwerp Palermo Matanza Liverpool. Items include sugar, potatoes, eggs, leather, poultry, flour, lobsters, ochre, mdse, gin, whiskey, steel billets, fruit, maccaronia, salt, soda ash, pig iron and other goods. Multiple firms and shippers are named alongside vessel names and cargo quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Norrona
Gossler & Co
ST. John
State of Maine
Davenport
Fales & Lehy
Mead & Co
Butler & Gibson
Green & Co
Johnson & Co
Lockett
Stimpson
Murray & Co
Gray & Co
Noyes
French & Fickett
Nash, Spaulding & Eco
Liverpool
Eng
Samaria
Jones & Co
Byrnes
Bolls
Vast 1887 cargo list from North American port trade
Export records from April 30 1887 show numerous vessels loaded with flour lumber machinery and dry goods across Spencer's Island Sydney St John Yarmouth Halifax Caldera Arighat and other ports. Entries name ships brig schooner steamer and cargoes including flour cornmeal lumber coal oil leather hardware and groceries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer's Island
Sarah F
Sydney
Blanche M Thorbourn
ST John
James
Buenos Ayres
Trojan
ST. Martin's
Dwi
Woodbury
Yarmouth
Halifax
Worcester
Arighat
North America
Freight ledger of staple products by rail lines in 1887
A detailed record lists Staple products received on April 30 1887 by multiple railroads Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern and Western Divisions. Entries cover cotton wool bales flour oats oats butter cheese eggs leather hides pelts etc with quantities including bales bbls sacks boxes and cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Cora Lumber
Boston & Lowell Railroad
By Express
Wales
Cotton and commodities adquirido across rail and sea
A long list of cargo and freight activity across rail and sea routes. Cotton bales butter eggs tea tallow leather and hides, wool and flour shipments, beefs and cheeses, and marine market notes from Liverpool Havana and Paris. Prices for wheat, corn and sugar detailed with monthly and port observations.
Foreign Markets Report From London Early Afternoon
London market summary reports wheat cargoes off the coast quiet with two cargoes sold since the last report. One cargo awaiting sale and one cargo of corn sold. Wheat shipments slow while corn remains firm. Mark Lane and English country markets quiet. French country markets firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Trade agency listings for multiple firms across states
A dense catalog of names and firms from Atlanta to Wheeling listing partners at law and mercantile houses, including Moore, Marsh, Grambling, Draper, White, Brooks, Dixon, Carnahan, Willis, Bertsch, Sidwell, Barton, Huiskamp, Comstock, Warren, Sutcliffe, Witt, Knox, Hill Standish, Hef flefinger, Stern, Wollner, Hollins, Cushing, McDougall, Wingo, Gotzian, Foot Schulze, Smith Simmons, Dewey Rodgers, Tallman, French, Vance, and more. The notices map affiliations and locations from Georgia to Illinois, Texas to New York, indicating firm members and associated firms in the era’s commercial network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
S G Cushing
Manning, Lawrence & Cushing
Pittsburg
Penn
A C McGowen
J H Borland & Co
Ad. Rere
C McDougall
E G Moore & Co
Ad. Partion, Ore
F S Aiken
Aiken, Selling & Co
Germond
C E Wingo
Wingo
Ellett & Cromp
St Louis
J B Desnoyers
Brown
Toledo
Rodgers
Dewey, Rodgers & Co
Utica
Tallman
Tallman & Hurd
Wilmington
French
French & Sons
Wheeling
Hughes
Vance, Hughes & Co
Rail lines schedule details for Boston to New York and local stops
A dense list of weekday and Sunday train times from Boston to New York via Fall River and Shore Line routes, with numerous stops including Ashmont, Barnstable, Hyannis, Cohasset, Hingham, Quincy, Taunton, Newport, New Bedford and others. It also notes return times, special holiday and weekday adjustments, and connections with steamboat lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New York
Fall River
Ashmont
Barnstable
Hyanoais
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Hyan
Braintree
Bridgewater
Brockton
Buzzard’s Bay
Wareham
Cohasset
Hingham
Cottage City
New Bedford
Wood’s Hall
East Bridgewater
Abington
East Milton
West ¢Quincy
West Quincy
East Weymouth
Weymouth
Taunton
Harrison Ey
Marshfield
Mattapan
Milton
Neponset
Mattapoisett
Middleboro
Nantucket
Newport
Return
North Easton
Stoughton
Randolph
Smouth
Duxbury
Quincey
Scituate
North Scituate
Sea View
Shawmut
South Wauxbury
Central Station
Dean Street
Whitman
South Weymouth
Wollastum Heights
Wood's Hall
Fall River Line
Weymouths
Symouth
South Braintree
Way
J.R. Kendrick
Boston and Albany Rail Way Timetables Lowered to All Points
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany Railroad list departures to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West with multiple daily Express and Sleeping car services. Connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer Worcester and Newton areas noted. Tickets sold at stations and 232 Washington Street Boston. Hanson H T Gallup Gen Pass Agt Gen Supt.
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Pullman Palace
Rutland
Burlington
St. Albane
Ottawa
Montreal
Ogdensburg
Washington Street
Boston
D. A
FAXON
Gen
Stewart
Keene
Montreal & West
Vermont
Lowell
Chicago
Fitchburg
Pullman
Central Vermont
R. R
J. W. Hobart
S. W. Cummings
St. Albans
Boston & Albany
R.R
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
Framingham
South Frasmingham
Syracuse
Roester
Buffalo
Cleveland
Toledo
Chiscago
Kbuffalo
Nia Ara Falls
Detroit
North Adams
Chatham
Hudson
Palmer
Ware River
Hartford
New Haven
New York
Worcester
MuMbury
North Grafton
Westhearo
Vy Ulb
Sabhi
Pon Cordaville
Ashland
Milford
South Framingham
Saxonville
Natick
Wellesley
Welleste Hills
West Newton
Newtonville
Newton
Faneuil
Brighton
Allston
Cottage Farm
Brookline
Cypress Street
Reservoir
Chestnut Hill
Newton Centre
Newton Highlands
Basavan Framingham
Marlboro
Faryville
Bertin
West Berlin
Belton
Pratt's Junction
Newton Lower Falls
Wellesley Hills
Interstate
Loston
Hanson
H. T. Gallup
Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Route Schedule
Boston CAUSEWAY STREET station timetables list early morning departures to North Adams Troy Albany and the West with multiple through trains including sleepers to Chicago and St Louis. The notice names stations such as Marlboro Hudson Maynard Nashua and Watertown and concludes with sales info for through tickets and signatures of JOHN ADAMS J. WHITMORE and J. R. WATSON.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Ottawa
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg Depot
Causeway Street
Boston
Winchendon
Jaffrey
Peterboro
Fitzwilliam
Troy
Marlboro
Keene
Westmoreland
Walpole
Bellows Falls
Rutland
Warlington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Saratoga
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
KR. R. Rvy
Accomodation
A. J
Cheshire R.R
Bellows, Falls
White River Junction
Central
Vermont
R. K
Vast Express
P. Ma Tires
Mtonadnock
Rutland R
White River
North Adams
Albany
West
Chicago St. Louis
Chicago
St. Louis
de Belmont
Aversey
Prasae
Hudson and Maynard
Nashua
N. HM
Ayer Junction
North Leominster
Troy and
the West
Nion Square
Somerville
Waltham
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburn
Burlington
Worcester
Hoosac Tunnel
Washington Street
John Adams
J. Whitmore
L Trafic
J. R. Watson
L Pass
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Financial Chronicle
G. B. St’k
Hamburg
Bremen
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Havre
Marseilles
Trieste
St'ks
St’ks
India
Egypt
Brazil
S’k
U. S
Europe
U.S. Inter
U.S
Telegraph
Western and State
Minnesota
Petroleum
United
City Extra India
Mindies
Tierces Western Steam
Tierces City Steam
Milwaukee
Lake Shore
Louis
Atlanta
J A Smith
Moore, Marsh & Co
John R Grambling
Grambling, Spalding & Co
W W Draper
Draper, Moore & Co
T White
J J White & Co
Craw
Baltimore
D G Rogers
Brooks, Rogers & Co
E Culter
Miller, Culter & Co
Dallas
Tex
J S Howell
the Blankenship & Blake Co
L Dixon
Dixon, Mackey
Wayne
Ind
L Carnahan
Carnahan, Hanna & Co
F Breath
PJ Willis & Bro
Grand Rapids
Mich
C Bertsch
Rindge, Bertsch & Co
J P Sidwell
Kendall B& 8 Co
K L Barton
Barton Bros
Vo. Keokuk
Huiskamp
Huiskamp Bros
Lafayette
Comstock
Murphy & Comstock
Keith
Neale, Keith & Baron
A Warren
Warren & Co
J Streng
Bamberger, Streng & Co
Anna Louisville, Ky
G A Owen
J H Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe & Owen
Lynchburg
D Witt
Witt & Watkins
Brun
Leavenworth
Kan
A Knox
Catlin & Knox
Tenn
H Vogel
Hill, Standish & Co
Minneapolis
Minn
Hefflefinger
Cheshire
Central Vermont Railroads
New
York
Phil River
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Old State House
Kendrick
L. H. Palmer
Railroads
Boston & Providence Railroad
Shore Line
Meturn
Stoningin Line
Providence
Pawe Tucket
Dodgeville
Hebronville
Attleboro
North Attleboro
Mansfield
East Foxboro
Sharon
Readville
Hyde Park
Mt. Hope and
Clarend
Amaica Pisin
Retu S
Rexbury
Dedham
West Roxbury and Mightand
Hreturn
Canton
Borton
Mt. Hope
Warren
Bristol
Seteedaw
Arrivi
Dence
Mansfield Unii
Boylston
Keorn
St Hills
Street
Ya Ondas
Wa Oeuss Samy
Sturday
Provios
Hag
aehEh Sy
Pas Piembridge
Sburg
Gardner and
Miller’s Falls
Greenfield
Lincoln
Stonington
Washington
State Street
Boston & Providence R. BW
J. W. Richardson
A. A. Folsom
Boston & Providence R. R
Concord Br.ef
L. Re
Manchester
Concord
N. H
Upper Seas
M. Ilepot
Hi. E
Chamberlin
Atent Solicitor
R. H. Eddy
Sat
Unitet
Es State Electrotype Foundry
Arend St
FuEsir Iture
Deake & Omen Ae
Paine’s Manufactory
SPES
Damon Safe and Iron Works
Cewtle
Sudbury St
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