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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 08, 1886

Page

7

Market Prices and Picks for Birds Beans Seeds and Potatoes

An itemized market rundown lists prices for woodcock grouse and partridges along with quail. Beans include small hand-picked NY peas and larger Vermont selections with various prices. Seeds cover Timothy Northern and Western and red top Western hay. Potatoes feature extra Maine and New Brunswick spuds with by-bbl prices and regional varieties. Reports also show sweet potatoes Virginia yellow and assorted truck crops.

Canada Choice Jersey East Swale Maine New Brunswick Houston Bush; Do Thebrons Aroostook Do Hebrons Vermont New York Northern Buarbanks Maine Do PE Island Chenangeoes Virginia St. Andrew St. Marrow

Apples Grapes and Nuts Market Report Summary

Market notes show apples in limited supply with steady demand and dull quince. Grapes including Catawba and Concord offered. nuts feature Virginia peanuts and pecans with mixed prices. miscellaneous fruit prices cover oranges lemons and bananas with varied jobbing rates.

Concord Isabella Pisa Virginia Jamaica Florida Stas Bex Sicily Malaca

Market Digest Shows Steady Pork Demand And Flat Beef

Pork and lard remain in steady demand with prices unchanged. Fresh beef is largely dull with no price changes. Mutton and lambs are plentiful as trade remains slow. Veal shows no notable change. Detailed pork and lard prices cover lone cuts to lean ends and various forms, while beef prices list extra plate beef, mess, and beef tongues.

Pete Gravensteim Hubbardstons de Saas Baldwin Ereenine Harvey Taliman Sweet OU Inces Nork State York State Lord Choice Sane

Cotton futures and sugar prices mixed in Liverpool market

Liverpool cotton futures opened and closed steady with varying November to May spreads, spot market steady to firm, New York opened easy, and imports to continental ports reported at 36 000 bales. Sugar remains steady with refined prices easing slightly, granulated and confectioners’ totals listed.

Liverpool Mid Uplands Orleans L. New York Bates Manila Vandaga Bates Bates Bates Londonu Bremen India Egypt Brazil U. S U.S

Wholesale grocery and molasses market brief with figures

The item lists wholesale prices for disc and pranulated sugar at 6c, molasses quotations for carload lots with Ricoat So0a57e fancy and Cuba boiling at 17e nominal, pipeline certificates with dates and activity, and refined oil at 682c per gallon.

Pai Ricoat Cuba

New York Cotton and Corn Markets Mixed Amid Steady Wheat

Cotton dull with 179 bales sold as Upland and Orleans grades show modest changes. Wheat, flour, and corn futures traded with varied receipts and exports. metals and oils steady to down as rosters of city and regional prices appear across Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati and Chicago reports.

New York Orleans Goa Minnesota Canada Barney Dull Cotes Quiet Sul al Ene Suvar Gos Bhds St. Vincent United Goose Sio Western Agto State Liverpool Lake Detroit Michigan Milwauker Jisge Cincinnati Toledo ST. Louis Chicago Minneapolis Augusta New Orleans Great Britain Continent Mobile Memphis Los Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore Louisville United States

Print cloth market steady with firm tone this week

Fall River reports production 175000 pieces deliveries 158000 stock 72000 sales 136000 spots 37000 futures 99000. Prices 64x64s 31sec 60xdbs 31 64x64s market quiet firm. Providence notes printscloth market firm quiet at 64x64s 31 16e 56x68s 3e. Sales 11060 pieces last week. Stock held by manufacturers 25000 pieces 64s and 7000 pieces 56x60s.

Fall River Providence

Cattle and Hops Markets Report From Chicago Trade

Cattle markets steady with 250 receipts and 700 shipments. Steers fetch 3.40 to 9.0 dollars, stockers and feeders 150 to 330, cows bulls and mixed 125 to 275. Hops decline with 30,000 receipts and 80,000 shipments. rough and mixed 340 to 376, packing and shipping 310 to 405, light 340 to 405. Sheep and natives bring 23 to 70, Western 310 to 350, Texans 230 to 300, Lanhe 3425.

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Wheat and grain markets report from London and Liverpool

Foreign markets bulletin shows wheat on coast and passage steady, corn firm yet quiet with limited shipments, and weather heavy with rain. Liverpool quotes for winter and spring wheat, corn, and provisions, with pork and bacon prices listed. London board of trade October imports drop by 620004 pounds. Havana sugar markets say buyers hold off on centrifugal, with specific prices and weekly export/stock figures.

London Beerbohm Walla Walla Liverpool Board of Trade Havana Spain Quintal Matanzas United States

Vast Imports From Across World Reported in One Ledger

The ledger lists shipments arriving at Georgetown and Summerside including potatoes from Barclay & Co and Joseph Richardson, sugar and hemp from Cecefa A Fidatoo, nitrate of soda from PISAGUA, and a vast array of goods from Zanzibar to Azores. It details steamboat cargoes, bagged goods, and cargoes to and from London and Boston lines, with dozens of merchant names, quantities, and destinations.

Georgetown Pel Barclay & Co ST Andrews Joseph Richardson Summerside P&i General Gordon Chapin Bres Orwags Bay LS Kimball Surinam George K Hatch Bixby &Co Annapolis New Brunswick UWF Hammond Cebu Harriet Campbell Pisagua Howard Hemmenway & Brown ST Martins Ariadne Bussgalt George B. Downe Zanzibar Tamatave Essex Arnold Hines & Co New York Azores Sarah A Adams & Co Joseph Zarvas Joseph Liaos Stimpson, Huntley & Co Dabney John F May Whitney & Co Maria J Jacinthoe Daniel Winsor & Son Livexeypool Eng Abram French & Co Clark, Adams & Clark Jones, McDuffee & Statton Alerchants’ Despatch Transportation Co Sonle Wright Sros Wright Nouyes Harding—lease J Whitcomb & Co de Dame, Stoddard & Wendall Moors & Co Wilder Baring Bros & Co E& J Jacobs Iren H Walbaum & Co Isaac Loche & Eco Brown & Griffiths Jones & Co E& F Wing & Co Stone & Downer John M O'Rourke Lamet & Son LA Salmon & Bros Brown Bros & Co Riley & Gray Bush & Co O Dame & Co Mdise Thayer & Lincoln Brashes Prange Educational Co Linder & Meyer Mareetson & Co Houghton & Co JW Rodocanachi & Ceo Thacher London Stockholm Iron Baring Bros & Co JD & M Williams Dodge & Co

Exports from Halifax and ports list vast 1886 trade

Shipping notices detail cargoes from Halifax Port Hawkesbury Pictou Charlottetown and Yarmouth NS to Liverpool Eng and Annapolis Digby NS. Items include foodstuffs lard flour beef pork butter oysters canned goods shoes hardware oil tobacco and many other commodities aboard vessels Brig Edward H Williams Schooner Mystic Nina Belle New Brunswick and Conquest among others. But heavy emphasis on barrels bbls cases and crates of goods shipped and listed by port and vessel.

Halifax Port Hawkesbury Pictou Charlottetown Worcester Edward H. Williams Yarmouth Mystic Port Latour Annapolis Digby New Brunswick Isoo Liverpool Eng Istrian

Staple Products Receipts November 6 1886 Railroads

Record lists quantities of goods shipped by the Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Presidence railroads. Items include cotton wool flour corn meal oatmeal corn oats wheat malt barley millfeed lard grease butter cheese eggs beans apples potatoes hay straw lumber leather hides pelts and more with exact bale and bushel counts.

Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division Western Division Boston & Lowell Railroad Hales Wool Baes Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Presidence Railroad Seevnwe Baless Ieee Dolor Arabe Elie

Business Troubles Hit Firms Across Cities

A crowded insolvency list notes George Barry & Co of Montreal facing $150000 in liabilities after boot and leather supplier failures. Numerous creditors, banks, and retailers including John Burbank & Co and Sidney Wilkins' store closures are listed with asset gaps and court actions across Boston, New Haven, West Virginia, and other towns.

R. M. Copeland & Co Grocers Chelsea John H. Durgin Biddeford William Garrison Restaurateur Houston Boston Billerica W. W. Winchester New Britain John Burbank & Co State Street Sidney J. Wilkins Newsdealer Bennington George Turner Brattle Square Hiram Blaisdell Sanchez & Soledad Gold and Silver Mining Company Consumers’ Boot and Shoe Company Boot and Shoe Manufacturers and Dealers’ Mutual Benefit Association Hiram Blaisdell Manufacturing Company George J. Lacey Dale New Haven Conn Kiers, Key & Co Memphis Tenn S. W. Cox Stamford Herman Drake Carpenter and Builder East Clark & Millbury New York City LE. S. Nevins S. E. Graves & Co Hartford

Real Estate Transfers in Suppoler County

Real estate transfers reported across multiple Boston neighborhoods listing buyers and sellers, parcel locations on streets such as New Seaver Tremont Devonshire Chapman Rich Milton Brook Sheridan Princeton Carter Yale and others, transfer dates in Oct Nov 1915 and mortgage details including sums like 400000 and 2500.

New Seaver Street Joln Sweetzer James Sudgebury Sego Tremont Street Sarah W. Allen Stephen G. Allen Devonshire Street Mozes W. Richardson Et al Gevores Wilbur Chapman Street William A. Davis William H. Meagher Gor Theodore R. Glover Said Davis tHligh Street Julia A. Cotting John Foster Rich Street Norton Street Granville F. Seaverns Gran- Vill S. Seaverns Norfolk Street Dores Ester Ida M. Cunninghaim Elizabeth M. Davidson Ind Milton Avenue de Coe Ea Gas Mortg Aed Harold Weston Bee Dorchester Martha M. Clapp Maria A. Weilbrock Dorchester Avenue West Roxbury Thomas B. Hall Thomas J. Whittem Sheridan Street Home Savings Bank Georrge Hitmers Jacob Stressenger Willow Street John FE Blackmore Marsha Mulier Brook Street Ditto Alfred F. Herser Mary M. Horn Salem Albano Streets Boston George W. Uargrave George W. Bennett Princeton Street Ella J. Turner Said Bennett Charlestown Edward Fesim John H. Sherburne Pene Hill Street Morrill Oki ‘Yurner Ten Street Revere Dustin Lancey A. M. Coverly Franklin Place Edward Turner Joseph C. Walbourn Crescent Avenue Squire Fee Oet Erminie L. Dumas Winthrop Avenue Winthrop John A. Day Edmund S. Read Dallas W. Belcher Charles Mayo Riverview Street Hermann G. Shannock Chelsea John M. Varnum George A. Parks Carter and Bloomingdale Henry Bower Willian Stolp Yale Street

Mortgage transfers and details from early November list

A ledger shows several mortgage transfers with dates in October and November. Notable entries include William H Bowdlear to Theodore M Clark for 810000, James Jackson to Benjamin Haigh for 825000, and Warren Harford et al to the Institution for Savings in Roxbury for 85000. Other names appear with amounts ranging to 55000 and 1500.

William H. Bowdlear Theodore M. Clark Sarah Harris David Silverman James Jackson Benjamin Haigh Edward R. McLaren Eliza S. Graves Mayer J. Cohen Leopold Freedman Joseph €. Walbourn David Folsom Warren Harford Et al Institution For Savings In Roxbury

Trains from Boston to Manchester Concord Begin Oct 11 1886

Schedule from Concord R R and branches notes departures from Boston and depots for Manchester and Concord New Hampshire. Lists multiple times including 7 30 am 12 m and 1 3 5 30 7 pm and Sunday trains and return times from Concord with several ex day conditions. Superintendent I E Chamberlin signs as official.

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Fitchburg and West Ferry Lines Train Schedule 1886

Trains depart Boston for the West starting November 1 1886 with service to Syracuse Chicago St Louis Albany and beyond. Daily routes include sleepers from New York Central Sleeping Car via West Shore for Albany and Chicago connections. Schedules list numerous stops including Greenfield Gardner Shelburne Falls and Worcester with varying AM and PM times and special Sunday services.

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