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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 06, 1888

Page

7

Pork and beef market notes from New York and cities report

New York pork prices firm and quiet with term rates for tierces and loins. Beefs show dull trading with steady to rising primes and various cuts listed by city markets including St Louis Cincinnati and Chicago amid steady lard and dry salted meat quotes.

Eixtra Choice City Western New York City India St Louis Cincinnati Fair Emand Chicago Choice Brighton

Market Prices for Fresh Produce Listed

The notice lists current prices for many vegetables and produce items. Items include marrow squash at 50c per barrel, Bay State turban at $1 per barrel, Savoy cabbage at 50c per barrel, red cabbage at 125 per barrel, onions at 150 per barrel, lettuce 25c per dozen, and celery at 250 per box, among others.

Bay State Russia

Market Texture: Fruit and Produce Prices and Demand

Market notes show slow demand and large supply for fruit with buyers favored on prices. Grapes and apples steady at old prices. oranges lemons pears cranberries and nuts priced with varied grades. Specifics include Catawbas 2 4 3c and Delawares at 250 per case, Messina lemons 150 400, Florida oranges 3 per box, Beurre d Anjou 4 6 per bush, pecans up to 8c, and assorted bbl prices.

Hubbardstons Nova Scotia Concords Niagaras Isabellas Almeria Messina Palermo Sorrento Jamaica Florida Louise Bonne Yor Virginia

New York and Liverpool Cotton Markets Report

Cotton prices ease in New York and Liverpool with steady to dull futures. Opening and closing figures show mixed results across futures contracts, while regional port data indicate steady demand and varied stocks for U S states and major markets.

New York Evecsees Genoa Alton Bodkee Liverpool Orleans Dull Say Cove

Sugar and Molasses Market Quietly Holds Prices

Sugar markets show no change in raw sugars as trade remains quiet at weak prices. Cuba refining runs 41 5 to 41 6 cents, various sugars listed with stable to steady tones. Pulverized 8 1 2 cents, granulated 7 2 3 cents, wholesale granulated 74 cents. New York raw sugars dull and nominal with refined lower and quiet.

Cuba Belmont New York

Market Report: Coffee and Molasses Steady in New York

Market notes show molasses firm with prices held steady and notes on Fancy Ponce Porto Rico and related grades. New York reports the market as nominal with limited activity and unchanged levels.

Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos New York

Hog and Cattle Markets Notes From Kansas City and Chicago

Stock Yards Kansas City cattle receipts 7297 with slow trade and weak prices native cows 155 265 steers 220 275 hog receipts 4081 strong prices heavies 5355 rise to 5 55 mediuns and lights 580 550 sheep receipts 260 steady 245 370 Cincinnati hogs active prices 440 550 packing and butchers 525 555 Chicago cattle receipts 10000 dull and slow steers fancy 6650 westerns 304 Texas cattle 125 325 stockers and feeders 250 380 hogs receipts 12000 active mixed 550 655 heavy 560 565 light 550 560 sheep receipts 9000 steady westerns 330 355 natives 304 515 lambs 4124 600

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago

Miscellaneous Market Highlights and Prices

Market notes show tallow steady with quotes for city and country grades. Coffee from New York to Rio remains quiet at firm prices with fair cargoes. Turpentine and petroleum markets in New York hold steady with resin and tar noted, RSW and cases pricing listed.

New York Rio

Imports 1888 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Cargo Summary

Maritime steamer listings show Charles town PEI Halifax NS Port Hawkesbury CB and Yarmouth NS arrivals with mixed goods. Entries include potatoes eggs mackerel cod lobsters berries and various groceries from W H Ring A Winsor & Son Slayton & Boynton Woodside & Co Benedict & Burnham J B Moors & Co to Boston Consolidated Produce Co. and others. Totals indicate vast shipments of foods, textiles and hardware.

Charlottetown Pei Halifax Port Hawkesbury Winsor & On A & OW Mead & Co Slayton & Boynton Davenport Seaver & Spailing Winsor & Son Benedict & Burnham Simons Knowles Ellis & Co Hull Eng H & L Chase J & Moors & Co Kidder, Peabody & Co Bkrog & Co Becher Bres & Co Ewander & Co Baring Bros & Co Oods Stone & Wdowner George Kendall Old China Thorp & Adams Manufactarme Co Mclaffee & Stratton Louis Wolf & Co Linder & Meyer Lombard & Co Baring Bros &Co Brown Bros & Co C Haven Moors & Co Jackson K_ Gardner Baring Bros Yarmouth

Inventory of goods and supplies listed by firms

The fragment lists items such as potatoes turnips woollen cloth butter cranberries codfish herring apples twine and paper stock with quantities and associated firms including J G Hall & co A & 8 W Mead FL Clements & co WP Ryder L F J Davis ES Ellis & co Delong & Seaman TJ Jones & co and B D Webber.

Hall & Co Webber Clements & Co Ryder Davis ES Ellis & Co G Hall & Co TJ Jones & Co Delong & Seaman

Vast Atlantic exports list from multiple ships and ports

A long 1888 export ledger notes cargoes from Annapolis Nova Scotia St Pierre and Adelaide including flour timber lumber pork provisions and hardware aboard vessels such as Canning Packet Joseph W Foster Acacia Hop and others. Entries detail quantities in bbls crates cases and crates with destinations Montevideo St Pierre Maitland Adelaide and Bear River among others.

Annapolis Montevideo Joseph W Foster ST Pierre Mig Bear River Maitland Parsboro Adelaide

Staple goods receipts from multiple railroads 1888

A dense record of commodities shipped or stored including cotton wool flour cornmeal oats corn beef butter cheese eggs beans apples potatoes hay leather hides pelts and lard. Rail lines listed include Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Western Lowell and others with numerous bale and car counts.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Division Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell Sy Express

Foreign Markets Report London and Liverpool Trade Trends

Foreign markets show wheat quiet but firm and corn firm with steady to higher prices across London and Liverpool. Danubian and American wheats mixed. Paris and Antwerp markets steady. British farmers report 61,912 quarters of wheat deliveries at 32s 6d, with futures on wheat and corn subdued yet firm in spots.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool Great Britain California Antwerp

Albany R R Time Tables Reveal Dense Passenger Runs

A historic timetable shows Albany and connected lines with multiple daily departures to Pittsfield Worcester and New York. It lists express and local services with connections at Lea Adams Palmer and Boston paths, including dining car and sleeping car options.

Ilbany R.R Washington Street

Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Route Schedule

Train departures from Boston and successors reach Troy Albany Chicago via multiple lines and parlor or sleeping cars. timetable shows extensive daily and Sunday runs to Cambridge Concorda Krattleboro Marlboro Nashua North Adams North Stamford Saratoga Shelburne Falls with specific times and car services.

Fitchburg Hoosac Tunnel Boston Causeway Street Troy Aran Rotterdam Junction West Albany Binghamton Chicago Niagara Falls Erie Louisa Michigan Central Palace Grand Trunk Carter Troy Kingarmton Belmont Waverley Krattleboro Miller’s Falls Cambridge SUN Concorda Lipim. Sun Pitchburg Gardner and Miller’s Fathe Srecasels Hoosick Falls Johnsonville Lincoln Marlboro Madsen Ay Eare Daim Nashua N. H Ayer Junctilen Ami North Adame Williamstown North Seeminater Saratoga Shelburne Falls

Train Schedules and Express Services for New York Route

The notice outlines several railway services to New York with connections through Hartford Middletown and New Haven. It lists a day express train with through car service to Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudson Newburgh Turners New York and western connections via Erie Railway. Also details a morning express to New York via Hartford with through car service and a daily New England Limited to New York via the Air Line Route ending at Grand Central with a dining car between Boston and Willimanc.

New York Middletown New Haven Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudson Newburgh Turners, N. Y Chicago New England Air Line Grand Central Depot Willimantic Boston Willi Washington Street Summer Street A. A. Jackson L Sup T. HE. P. Vining A. C. Kendall Gen. Pass

Railroads Notice at Haymarket Square Station

Fragmentary text shows a railroad station notice mentioning Haymarket Square and a time or position reference with numerous garbled names. The readable items indicate schedule or event details limited to the Haymarket area and nearby lines. The source is too damaged to extract clear entities beyond the location.

Boston Rail Timetable Highlights from 8:30 to 11:15 Daily

Train departures from Boston stations to towns including Andover Dover Danvers Exeter and Haverhill are listed with multiple times across morning and afternoon windows. Sunday trains run to Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Sowel Merrimac Reading Way Stations and Portland Bangor Lewiston with additional afternoon and evening options.

Boston & Albany Railroad Boston Weedham and Way Woonsocket Ate Tiven Haymarket Square Alton Rochester Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Georgmowe Taeens Biddetora Saco North Law South Lawrence M. LF Heal M. Lowell the Malden Medford Melrose Highlands Melrose Merrimac North Andover Salem Liguam Akeffield SAS Ib Osigge Lawrence Manchester Sam Sowell Meaford Portland Banger Lewiston Reading and Way Lynn and Way Ieey Newburyport Portsmouth Bangor St. John and Haifax Concord N. H Meene Peterboro Hillsboro Witton Milford Ambherst Greenfield Nashua No. Billerica Wilmington Nim Walnut Hill Stonewew Woburn Lam Winchester West College Mill Concern Maass Hreformator Billerica Bedford Wam Lexington Arlington Lowell Stoneham and Way Lexington and Way Woburn and Way Winchester and Way Manchester and Montreal C Express

Trains Schedule Lists City to Coastline Destinations

A dense OCR of a Boston area train timetable lists departures to Amesbury Beverly Skidde ford Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls North Hampton Ipswich Marblehead Swampscott Middleton Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Revere Salem Rockport Gloucester and more. Notable notes include workers trains via South Reading and Haymarket.

Amesbury Tym Beverly Skiddeford Everett Great Falls Wochester North Hampton Marblehead and Swampscott Aevaneh Middleton Newhryport Speed North Conway Peabody and Danvers Portsmouth Revere Rockport and Gloucester Branch Salem York Harbor & Beach E.E

Boston and Maine Train Timetable Excerpt Details Numerous Routes

Local and through trains depart from Causeway Street for Boston suburban points and long distance lines. Timings cover Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Maverhill Woodsville North Woodstock and end at Montreal via White River Junction and Fabyans. Central Mass and Providence divisions shown with dozens of stations and hourly to reverse patterns. Timetables indicate a dense, multi-branch service with frequent daily trains and through connections.

Union Square Somerville SUN Watertown Union Market Mt. Auburn Worcester Ayer Junction Miller's Falls Senton Causeway Street Boston Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Maverhill Woodesville North Woodstock Pennigewassett Valley Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Fabyanm S and Jefferson Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St. Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Annebec Wells River Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St. Albams Montreal Northern RR Boston Air Line Northern Division Boston & Albany Kneeland Street Framingham and Marlboro Fayville Southboro Bolton Northboere Clinton Leominster Fitchbowrg Pratt’s Junction Old Colony R. X Old State House J. R. Kendrick Geo. L. Connor Pass’r

Central Division timetable fragment with city routes and stops

A dense list of train times and stops across the Central Division including New York via Fall River Line, Ashmont, Bridgewater, Nantasket, Newport, Plymouth, Weymouth, and more. The fragment shows passenger trains, Sundays and weekday patterns, and notes for special routes and seasonal variations.

Kneeland Street New New York Fall River Sunfiaya Ashmont Brain Sea Ba Bay Bridgewater Breckton Bastion East Bridge Mattapanan Iddileboro Nantasket Neponse FLU aNew Godford aNewport North Easton Stoughton Randolph Plymouth Abington Duxbury Quinney Keckland and Hanover Uates Shawmat Braintree South Duxbury Central Station Whitman and Sa Weymouth Wollaston Heights Wridgewater Cochesett South Eaw

Cape Cod Bus Schedules From 8.15 AM to 4.15 PM

A listing of multiple Cape Cod area bus routes with departure times ranging mainly from 8.15 in the morning to 4.15 in the afternoon. Stops include Bourne Bourne Dale Brewster Cataumet Chatham Conner City Fairhaven Falmouth Myles Marion Monument Beach Mattapoisett Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Wellfleet West Barnstable Woods Hall and Wareham, with variations in times and transfer notes.

Kneeland Street Bouzeards Bay Barnstabie Bourne Bournedale Brewster Cataumet M. Chatham Conner City Park Sq New Bedford Fairheam Walmouth Myannis Merv

Boston Concord Manchester Trains Schedule 1888

Concord and Boston line announces weekday and Sunday departures from Boston to Manchester Concord and upper railroads with multiple daily times from 7.30 pm to 7 pm and return trips from Concord to Boston in morning and early afternoon slots.

Concord E H. KR Boston B. and L Manchester Concord N. H N.H BE. Chamberlin

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