Boston Post Newspaper Archives, May 3, 1888, p. 7

Wool Market Report From Across The Nation

The report surveys wool trading in California, Texas, Cincinnati, Louisville, Philadelphia, New York and more. Prices for unwashed, fleece-washed and tub-washed wool vary by grade from 10 to 37 cents, with limited activity noted in several regions and particular interest in Kentucky and Ohio lots.

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California Texas Cincinnati Ohio Barry Louisville Philadelphia Pennsylvania West Virginia New York Michigan Indiana Western Delaine Canada Oregon Aferican Colorado St. Louis

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London wool sales report shows firm market and strong attendance

At London May 2 the wool sales attracted full attendance with active bidding. Total offerings reached 13,101 bales including Victoria 6100 bales and New South Wales 2700 bales with varied prices for scoured greasy and locks and pieces. Other consignments came from South Australia Queensland New Zealand Swan River Cape of Good Hope Natal Hilver Plate and Spanish and Italian lots with diverse price ranges.

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London Victoria Vicoria New South Wales South Australia Queensland New Zealand Swan River Cape of Good Hope Natal

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Boston Markets Flour and Grain Prices May 2 Report

Boston markets show flour and grain prices for carload lots with firm demand and small sales. Minnesota and Michigan flour lines top at around 4.25 to 5.25 per barrel. New York receipts and Chicago trade steady to firmer. oats and corn markets mixed with steady spot tones, higher on some wheat futures. rail and river shipments noted across Detroit, Milwaukee, St Louis, and Toledo with varying demand.

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Market notes on Rye Flour and allied commodities

Rye flour holds steady at 83 75 4000 bbl. New York demand quiet and steady. Millfeed spot goods steady with good demand. spot spring bran 21 76 22 75 per ton in sacks. sack winter 23 60 2400 per ton. Middlings in sacks 223 60 24 50 per ton. Ship‑to markets steady. sack spring bran 2075 175 per ton. sack winter 23 23 50 per ton. Middlings 22 24 50. Cottonseed prices steady moderate demand. prime in sacks 26 26 50 per ton. prime arriving 24 26.24 75 per ton. Barley quiet six‑rowed Canada 90 95c. six‑rowed State 90c. two‑rowed State 80 82c. New York dull. Chicago receipts 9000 bush. shipments 15000 bush. No 2 quoted 77 78c. Malt quiet. six rowed Canada 1 115 bush. six rowed State 95c 1. two rowed State 85 90c. New York demand quiet. Hops markets dull. choice 1887 New York 12 15c. New York common 8 10c. choice 1887 Eastern 8 10c. common 6 6c. old lots 3 5c.

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Butter and dairy markets steady with mixed regional quotes

Butter supplies are light and demand quiet as prices ease or hold across regions. Western creameries report fresh rates from 22 to 26 cents for various grades while eggs cheese beans and potatoes show mixed activity. markets in Chicago New York Cincinnati and Liverpool reflect steady to unchanged tones with selective price adjustments.

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Banana Steamers Carry Bananas to Boston and Norfolk

The steamer Samaria is due May 6 with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Hertha is due May 4 with a cargo of bananas for W. W. and R. Noyes.

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Banana Steamers Samaria Boston Fruit Company Hertha W. W R. Noyes

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Fruit Prices and Market Notes on Apples Oranges Lemons

Demand quiet at steady prices for Baldwins Russets Common stock apples and assorted citrus. Palermo oranges 350 to 450 per box Palermo lemons Shab L box Messina oranges 2 50 to 4 00 per box Messina lemons 8 4 4 per box Valencia oranges 5 per case regular large extra large 5 50 to 6 60 per case Sananas Gauanas unchanged Jamaica fruit jobbing 1 2 with Baracoas at 1 150. Gwent steamer cargo sold at 1 bunch for red and yellow. Tennessee strawberries about 0c quart.

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Baldwins Palermo Messina Valencia Sananas Jamaica Gwent

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Pork Prices Steady Amid Good Demand Across Markets

Pork prices hold steady with a strong demand noted in steady lards and hams. Quoted ranges cover long and short cuts, backs, lean ends, pork tongues, mess pork, and various cured products, with regional shifts from New York to St Louis and Chicago reflecting firm or rising tones.

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Market Prices For Fresh Produce In Florida

Florida market notes list bbls and crates with prices for beans beets onions cabbage lettuce carrots and other vegetables. Prices include 83 crate for beans 1 254 crate for beets 3 bush for onions and 66c per bush for turnips with various units and regional labels such as St Andrews and Chicago rhubarb.

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Florida Bermuda St. Andrews Chicago

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Sugar and Molasses Prices Steady Across Markets

Sugar trading remains quiet but firm with Cuba and Javas quoted in the 59 16 to 59 5/tec range and refined grades steady from Pulverized to Extra A. Havana reports 1300 bags centrifugal at 97 polarization and 1500 bags for Spain at 3, molasses markets unchanged, and New York quiet with 50 fast at about 200 cents.

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Cotton market report shows mixed futures and global factors

Allan Asher & Co report active cotton certificates market with fluctuating prices. Liverpool notes a 1-16d rise for spot and 1 3-2d for arrivals, New York opens firm and gains on Southern buying, then slips 1 4d on Greek Turkish rumors. Port receipts and stocks climb. Liverpool and other U.S. markets show firm mid to high grades with notable Norfolk and Savannah activity.

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Hog and cattle markets across major grain markets

Kansas City hog market steady with receipts about 10 000 and shipments 536. Peoria hogs eased with receipts 1500 and shipments 1485. St. Louis hogs mixed. Yorkers costly around 510 to 540, packers 580 to 655, butchers 645 to 565. Cincinnati hogs active for common and light at 445 to 476, receipts 1000. Chicago cattle receipts 8000, hogs 15000. steers 380 to 490, stockers 260 to 370, cows and bulls 150 to 360. Hogs slow but slightly higher. mixed 686 to 655, heavy 640 to 665, light 520 to 550. Sheep receipts 3500, ewes firm 550 to 660, native and shorn 450 to 580, Western 525 to 616, Texans 390 to 590, lambs 506 to 675.

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Miscellaneous market notes and closing prices 1888

A quiet movement noted at previous prices across sectors. Turpentine and petroleum closes shown with New York resin and tar figures, and related bids. United markets in New York Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati exhibit steady or unchanged price levels for listed commodities.

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Cattle Market Prices at Brighton and Watertown May 2 1888

Weekly live stock values report for cattle sheep and swine with price ranges by quality. Includes store cattle prices milch cows working oxen and hogs and notes on arrivals and sales at Brighton and remarks on pace of trade.

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Cattle and Livestock Market Reports from New England Fairs

A broad market summary notes steady prices with firm demand across cattle, sheep, and veal. It details Western cattle arrivals, sheep lots from Robert French, and varied horse trades at Combination and Welch stables, plus milk cows, veal calves, pigs, and live poultry markets and export cattle movements from Boston to Glasgow and Liverpool yards.

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Imports and Exports Haul on Atlantic and Caribbean Routes

Readable ledger of vessels and cargoes from 1888 trade routes listing steamers and schooners docking at ports including Baracoa Cienfuegos Kingston Porto Rico and Liverpool with goods such as bananas sugar lobsters herring cigars hides oil and textiles. Notable entries include Steamer River Ettrick carrying sugar to Boston and vessels like Neptune Yuba Andrew Burnham and Nota Bena delivering cargoes to Kingston Porto Rico and Barbadoes.

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Baracoa Seaverns & Co Barbadoes Barrington Annie Davis L Clements& Co Cienfuegos Neptune Grand Manan Nrb Andrew Burnham Kingston Porto Rlico Stafford Mills Chicopee Mant Co Stark Manf Case Haberdashery C Chaffin & Co Indigo Agents Bank of Montreal shea‘King Felt H Sears & Co Baring Bros & Co Moors & Co Wool Baring Bros & Co Helps Dodge & Co Curtis & Co Chas Lawrence Stoddard & Kendall Marat d Co Kimball & Loring Dreyfus & Co F Mullen & Co W & C R Noyes Snow & Co Latimer Moors & Go Moise Birch Bros Odo Stoddard Lovering & Co Brown Durrell & Co Dabney Bimmons Tully & Co Old Ropes Baring Bros . Co Wales Sing Uri Jennie Parker

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Train Arrangements for Boston & Providence Railroad 1887

Schedules show trains from Boston to New Work and Providence with nightly and weekend variants. Lists numerous destinations including New York Steamboat line, Attleboro, North Attleboro, Canton, East Foxboro, Weymouth, Roxbury, Forest Hills, and Stoughton with return times and adjustments on different weekdays. Details include many times, lines, and route notes for transfers and nonstops with explicit Sunday exceptions and late-evening departures.

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Exports May 2 1888 from Antwerp and Nova Scotia ports

Maritime cargo listings show the Pieter de Coninck sailing from Antwerp with 700 boxes bacon 29 maple logs 22 bales leather 25 boxes dyestuff. Weymouth with Windsor Packet 10 barrels oil 35 casks cement. Mahone Bay Jessen schooner 300 sacks feed 250 barrels flour 140 do cornmeal. Baddeck West Bay Fleetly schooner 510 bbis flour 66 oatmeal 125 shorts 125 bbis cornmeal 5 refined oil 3 beans. Digby Annapolis Cleopatra steamer 1 plano 1 bale netting 7 bags bread 2 bundles paper hangings 21 packages household goods 2 bags seeds 4 pkgs hardware 74 pkgs trees 6 pkgs glassware 10 ducks bags 12 pieces marble 3 cases boots and shoes 8 barrels oll 200 egg carriers.

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Wool, flour and provisions tally across multiple railroads

A detailed May 2 1883 inventory lists Staple products receipts for Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and sea deliveries. It records wool bales flour oats corn oatsmeal beef lard bacon tea coffee butter eggs potatoes hay lumber leather hides and pelts across rail lines with counts such as 53 bales wool 1075 bbls flour 1900 bush corn 1400 bush oats and - overall totals by railroad and division.

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Concord and Branonmes Rail Schedule 1888 Update

Trains depart Boston from G and L depot to Manchester and Concord after February 20 1888 with unavoidable delays. Morning departures at 7 30 and 8 30 am and evening options at 5 30 and 7 pm Sundays include special express services. Concord NH to Phonton leaves at 10 20 am 2 45 pm 3 35 pm with Sunday runs at 5 6 and 7 98 pm.

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Boston & Maine Railroad City Wicket Office Timetable 1888

Railway notice lists multiple through trains from Boston and Maine stations on May 1, 1888 to Augusta Haymarket Causeway St Bangor St John Halifax Eastport Calais Portland Rockland Castine Bar Harbor and other points. It specifies departure times from Causeway and Haymarket stations, with connections to steamer routes and Maine Central Grand Trunk Knox & Lincoln lines.

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Western Division Train Schedule Fragments and Times

A list of trains and departures for the Western Division from Boston and surrounding stations. Includes daily and Sunday trains with numerous times for Andover Exeter Lawrence Melrose Wakefield and others, plus workingmen’s trains and intercity stops.

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Consolidated Rail Timetable From Geston Station City

Timetable lists frequent departures for Eastern Division routes from Geston Station to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls and Rochester with numerous daily trains including morning midday and evening slots. Includes connections to Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Salem Newburyport Portsmouth and more via Saugus and York Harbor branches and occasional workingmen and South Reading branch services.

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Geston Station Callas Street Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea M. Dover M. Everett Great Falls Rochester Brampton North Mampto Ye Beach Ipswich Lynn Ener Marblehead and Swampscott Branch Middleton Newburyport North Conway Bpeabody Danvers Portsmouth Hevere Bockport and Gloucester Salem York Harbor & Beach K.R Saugus Branch Swampscott Wenham Otfeboro Lynn and Way Portamouth Portland Bangor St. John Halifax Saugus South Reading Boston Haymarket Square

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Through Service From Boston for Northern New England

Local and through schedules list Boston station routes to Manchester Concord Nashua Lowell Billerica Bedford Lexington Arlington Winchester and more with numerous daily departures and connections to Montreal via different lines. It notes parlor and sleeping cars and specifies through service to White River Junction St Johnsbury and northern branches with multiple daily times and a city ticket office at 218 Washington Street.

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General Massachusetts Division Now Open to Northampton Trains

Time tables announce service from Boston Causeway Street to Northampton Hindley Amherst South Amherst Belchertown Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Jefferson’s Oakdale West Bolton Worcester 258 mi and more with listed departure times for select stations. Full local and through train details available at stations per Gent Manager Ames T. Furber D. J. Flanders.

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Old Colony Way Baggage Checks and Boston to Provincetown Schedules

Passengers holding tickets on this road may have baggage checked from hotel or residence to Boston to destination. Baggage calls may be left at No 8 Old State House after April 22 1888. Weekday trains from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and return via Father Line with numerous daily departures to Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Beavrnye and other towns. Sunday trains to New York Fall River Line and various coastal stops. End with GEO L CONNOR and J R KENDRICK signatures.

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London wool sales report shows firm market and strong attendance

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Boston Markets Flour and Grain Prices May 2 Report

Market notes on Rye Flour and allied commodities

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Butter and dairy markets steady with mixed regional quotes

Banana Steamers Carry Bananas to Boston and Norfolk

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Fruit Prices and Market Notes on Apples Oranges Lemons

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Pork Prices Steady Amid Good Demand Across Markets

Market Prices For Fresh Produce In Florida

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Sugar and Molasses Prices Steady Across Markets

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Cotton market report shows mixed futures and global factors

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Hog and cattle markets across major grain markets

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Miscellaneous market notes and closing prices 1888

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Cattle Market Prices at Brighton and Watertown May 2 1888

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Cattle and Livestock Market Reports from New England Fairs

Imports and Exports Haul on Atlantic and Caribbean Routes

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Train Arrangements for Boston & Providence Railroad 1887

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Exports May 2 1888 from Antwerp and Nova Scotia ports

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Wool, flour and provisions tally across multiple railroads

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Concord and Branonmes Rail Schedule 1888 Update

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Boston & Maine Railroad City Wicket Office Timetable 1888

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Western Division Train Schedule Fragments and Times

Consolidated Rail Timetable From Geston Station City

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Through Service From Boston for Northern New England

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General Massachusetts Division Now Open to Northampton Trains

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Old Colony Way Baggage Checks and Boston to Provincetown Schedules

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