Market Summary of Commodities and Agricultural Goods
Pig iron shows fair demand while steel rails are unchanged and copper rises. Tin and tin plates stay firm as lead remains easy and zinc sees fair demand. Flour and corn firm, oats steady, oatmeal quiet, rye steady, malt unchanged, millfeed in good demand. Sutter firm, cheese quiet, beans moving fairly, grass seed steady, hay in fair demand, straw unchanged. Potatoes plentiful and quiet, sweet potatoes steady, poultry quiet, apples dull, cranberries steady, pork and lard unchanged, fresh beef quiet, lambs dull and plentiful, veal in moderate demand, tallow steady, refined and raw sugars steady, molasses quiet.
Metal markets show steady demand amid price fluctuations
The Pittsburg Post reports mixed activity across metals with strong demand for pig iron and plate iron, while coke iron and steel rails reveal weak to unsettled pricing. Copper, tin, lead, zinc markets rise and trade remains active. two steel associations form to harmonize crucible and open hearth sectors.
Boston Exports by Week to Nov 19 1886
Week by week export totals show Boston shipping butter cheese oleomargarine pork bacon hams beef lard flour wheat corn cornmeal oatmeal apples cattle and tallow. Totals for Nov 12 19 and 20 1886 list volumes in barrels sacks bbls boxes and heads for each commodity.
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Boston
Market Reports November 19 Flour and oats firm with dull business
The flour market shows firm demand with higher miller prices and few spring patents under 5.05. Corn, oats, and white oats quotes are listed with various grades and contract months. Cash, calls, and future bids are given for No 2 white oats and Chicago No 8 white cats in transit.
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Chicago
Market Quotations and Inspections Reported for Grains and Commodities
Inspections today show 134 cars with various wheat and corn grades including 3 cars No 2 white winter wheat, 12 cars No 2 spring wheat, 19 cars 3 spring wheat, 9 cars white corn, 38 cars steamer mixed corn, 8 cars no grade corn, plus oats and rye. Prices cover flour, cornmeal, rye, oats, malt, hops, and millfeed with ranges for domestic and export markets. rye and oats values reflect quiet trading.
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Minnesota
Canada Rollers
Canada
New York
Eastern
Market Demand Stronger With Export Uptick In Beef Reports
Export demand climbs to 145000 this week from 135000 last week and 128000 year ago while fresh beef supply tightens. Week receipts total 141 cars including 60 export. prior week 154 cars with 48 export. Quotations steady as mutton and lamb show improved demand. ape decline reduces supply. Beef and pork item prices listed. fresh belt and other meats show varied per-pound rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord, Choice
Chicago
Brighton
Market report shows firm butter and steady beans
Butter markets are firm as creamery prices range from 20 to 28 cents with Western and New York lots. Beans stay very steady with small receipts and strong demand while eggs and poultry markets show mixed activity and large future receipts. Sugar and molasses prices hold firm with wholesale levels noted and pipeline certificates quoted.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Cienfuegos
Barbadoes
Cuba
Cheese and Dairy Markets Across Cities Report
Montreal dairy prices steady with higher inquiry for top lots and depleting surplus stock. Chicago butter firm with smaller receipts. Western creamery extra at 26c. New York butter steady, cheese and eggs quiet. Liverpool cheese market steady at 59s. Weekly receipts reported for butter cheese and eggs across cities.
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Montreal
Chicago
Western Creamery
New York
Liverpool
Fruit market notes from Harris & Co and regional imports
Harris & Co to sell 1000 boxes Florida oranges and 11 cases damaged Smyrna figs on Monday. Ships bring several thousand boxes of oranges, with strong demand for Florida fruit and firm apple and cranberry markets. Prices shown for oranges lemons and nuts, with multiple regional varieties and wholesale ranges.
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H. Harris & Co
Florida
Savannah
Norfolk
Boston
King
Hubbardston
York State
Harvey
Baldwins
Cape Cod
Pirate
Country
Aspinwall
Port Limon
Jamaica
Palermo
Virginia
Virginia Prime
Virginia Common
Grenoble
Naples
Market Prices for Vegetables and Produce Items
A list of vegetable prices including onions Maltas cabbages beets squash carrots spinach and lettuce with varied unit terms and regional price quotes such as onions and cabbages at multiple per basket or per barrel measures and several dollar and cent values. Units include bbl bush box and per bunch with regional tags like Western St Andrews and Hubbard.
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St Andrews
Pork market stays firm with prices near last quotes
Provisions report shows the pork market firm with prices about the same as the last quoted level. A large volume influences trade as buyers and sellers hold steady.
Trade Centre Market Reports for Flour and Wheat Prices
The report from New York trade centers lists flour receipts and prices across grades from common to choice white wheat Western extra, Ohio, St Louis, with sharp activity in pork and lard markets. It notes wheat and corn futures, cash prices for No 1 hard old No 2 red, rye and barley, and regional quotes from Chicago Cincinnati St Louis Minneapolis Milwaukee Detroit Toledo.
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New York
Ohio
St Louis
Minnesota
Rio
United
City Extra India Mess
Western Steam
Tierces City
Continent
S A
Liverpool
Chicago
Cincinnati
Navy
ST. Louis
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Detroit
Toledo
Chicago Market Receipts and Prices for Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Cattle receipts 2600 beeves priced 275 375. stockers and feeders 230 to 130. cows bulls mixed 175 to 280. Texas cattle 2235. Westerns 33360. Hogs receipts 20000, shipments 5000, prices 455 to 490 for varying weights. Sheep receipts 8000, natives 250 to 425, Western 290 to 870, Texans 210 to 360, lambs 376.
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Chicago
Texas
Cotton Market Report November 19
Augusta net receipts 2135 cross 2135 sales 752 quiet mid 99 16c. Galveston net receipts 6001 gross 6991.
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Augusta
Galveston
Consolidated Net Receipts and Trade by US Ports
A historical nationwide daily report shows net receipts and gross figures across ports including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and mobile units. It records exports to Great Britain and continents, coastwise exports, ship ments, and stock levels with market tone notes such as quiet steady and at stand.
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Continent
Coastwise
Aemia
Memphis
New Orleans
Great Britain
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
C. Cincinnati
St Louis
Louisville
United States
International Market Notes Wheat and Sugar Prices
Foreign markets report mixed grain values with wheat weaker in Liverpool and Paris prices for November and December. Havana sugar markets stay quiet yet firm with nominal quotes and large weekly import/export movements including shipments to the United States.
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Liverpool
California
Paris
Havana
Matanzas
United States
Cuba
Imports and Exports Nov 19 1887 Port Morant to Savannah
Shipping list itemizes Steamer Flamboro with 1435 barrels of oranges and 4351 banana bunches among Jamaica imports. Yarmouth with codfish and mackerel. extensive Madagascar and Liverpool consignments including hides rubber beeswax pianos and machinery. fortunes of Bark Joseph A Ropes George Ropes and W H Spooner and many firms listed with diverse goods and quantities. A Kay Savannah schooner Harry Prescott and others noted with values.
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Port Morant
Flamboro
Seaverns & Co
Yarmouth
Clements
Jones & Co
Delong & Seaman
Barclay & Co
Batchelder
G Hall & Co
Madagascar
Joseph A Ropes
Baring Bros & Co
George Ropes
Liverpool
Eng
Pollard & Co
Pierce & Co
Wrylands & Co
Harwood & Beardsley
Hardware Educational Supply Co
Homer Bros
Nichols & Farnsworth
Sears
Thairlwall
Earle Manut Co
Noyes, Campbell & Co
Cumner, Jones & Co
Abram French & Co
Houghton
Booth & Co
Stowell & Co
H Stearns & Co
Spooner
Tilden, Thurber & Co
Davis, Moreau & Co
Richard Briggs
J T Brooks
Riley & Gray
Bridgham & Co
Kendall, Barrows & Co
Thomson & Fessenden
Brown, Durrell & Co
Shoninger, Moses & Co
George Ashworth
Stevens, Hovey & Co
Field, Bullivant & Field
Thornton V Lothrop
Matthew H Calvert
Messenger Bros & Jones
Stone & Downer
Frank C Norton
T Adams
Clarke, Adams & Clarke
Pray, Sons & Co
Raiff
Frank Knowles
C L Perkins
Walter M Lowney
Mellen, Bray & Co
Charles E Haley & Co
Bigelow, Kennard & Co
White & Co
S$ Pierce & Co
Frost & Adams
Schoenhof
Salt Day
Charles L Davenport
Savannah
Harry Prescott
Turner
George McQuesten & Co
Staple Receipts by Railroads in Nov 19 1887 Ledger
Albany, iand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, Boston and Lowell, and By Sea railroads report vast consignments. Cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, apples, potatoes, beef, hides, and leather appear in hundreds of bales, barrels, bags, and boxes. Dates and place names reflect extensive freight tallies across multiple lines.
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Albany
Iand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Express
Sea
Exports Reported Across Atlantic Ports November 19 1887
Shipping list records from Halifax to Charlottetown and multiple world ports. Cargoes include flour peat tobacco oatmeal hardware glassware clothing oil soap and foodstuffs aboard several schooners brigantines and barks with quantities in barrels bags cases and feet. Also notes on ships Swift Carroll Canning MP Linara Glide Skobelefi and others with assorted goods and livestock.
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Halifax
Charlottetown
Carroll
Annapolis
Advocate
Bridgewater
Linara
Tamatave
Madagascar
Trinidad
Inventory fragment lists varied groceries and supplies
A dated inventory itemizes items by quantity including cheese, crackers, oils, extracts, freezers, hops, butter, hams, pears, beans, evaporated apples, beef, kits, fish, stationery, canned vegetables, water coolers, straw, baskets, perambulators, marble dust, gasoline, hay, oats, bran, shooks, pork, live poultry. It reflects a broad rural store or market stock list with multiple units and packaging.
Total Receipts November 19 1887 Summary
Inland trade totals list commodities and quantities for 1887 and 1886 across staples. Includes cotton molasses wool butter flour cornmeal oleo cheese oats eggs corn wool apples malt potatoes hay millfeed beans barley rye wheat and other items with year comparisons and unit counts. The table records daily receipts and stock figures for diverse goods and measures.
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Sabes Pa
Uae
Mls
Drdo Ios
Boston and Providence Rail Trains Timetable May 30 1887
Rail timetable lists outbound and return departures for Boston to New York Providence Pawtucket Hebronville East Foxboro Sharon Canton Junction and many stops with scattered times and daily adjustments. It notes Monday start and occasional one hour fifteen minute delays and connections with 8:30 am from Providence.
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Boston
Providence
Mattreaa
New York
Shore Line
Il Stinaage
Steamboat
Pawtucket
Hebronville
East Foxboro
Return
Sharon
Canton Junction
Headville
M. Hyde Park
Mt. Hope and
Clarendon
Maica Fiain
Retu
Boylston
A Ley
Roxbury
Dedham
Spring Street
West Roxbury
Mighlands
Gehoy
Stoughton
Canton
Mt. Hope
Warre
Bristol
A. A. Folsom
All River Line UAVs Reported by Palmer and Kendrick
L. H. Palmer, agent at 3 Old State House, and J. R. Kendrick, general manager, are identified in the record as involved with the All River Line UAVs project or listing.
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New York
Fall River
Boston
Old Colony
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Annex
Pilgrim
Bristol
Old State House
L. H. Palmer
Rail schedules from Boston to many towns via Fall River Line
The notice lists weekday trains from Boston to New Work via Fall River Line with numerous stops including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich and more. It shows departure times from Boston and return times, names GEO L Connor and J R Kendrick as officials.
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Boston
Fall River Line
Fall River
Ashmont
Barnstable
Hyannis
Yarmouth
Sandwich
Braintree
Cottage City
East Bridgewater
Brockton
Abington
West Quincy
East Weymouth
Weymouth
Japan
Ilon
Return
Mattapan
Neponset
Milton
Mattapoisett
Middle¢boro
Nantucket
Plymouth
Duxbury
Quincy
Whitman
Wollaston Heights
Wood’s Hall
Bridgewater
Buzzard’s Bay
Provincetown
Cohasset and
Hinham
Cohasset
Hingham
Taunton
Harrison Square
Weymouths
Scituate
Marshfield
Flymouth
Wenger
Outh Braintree
South Braintree
New Bedford
M. Middleboro
Middleboro
New York
Koromagr
Geo
L. Connor
J. R. Kendrick
Gen. Pass
Boston and Albany R R Timetable Listing Lines and Stations
Local timetable notices show Boston and Albany routes with trains to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West. Daily and Sunday departures from Boston Kneeland Street include various morning afternoon and evening times. Connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer and other points link to New York New Haven and Hudson.
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Gentral
Vermont
Rutland
Montreal
Ottawa
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg
Causeway Street
Boston
Winchendon
Jaffrey
Peterboro
Fitzwilliam
Troy
Marlboro
Keene
Westmoreland
Walpole
Bellows Malls
Burlington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Saratoga
All Pointe
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
R. R
A. M
Cheshire
H.R
Bellows Falls
White River Junction
Central Vermont
Ches
Hire
Sanday
Pullman Palace
Moontrest
Ogdensebueg
Washington Street
C. A. Faxon
R. Stewart
Keene, N
Montreal & West
Reliable Central
Wagner Palace
Central Vermont St. R
J. W. Hobart
W. Cummings
Albans
Gunton Square
Somerville
Sun
I Waltham
N. Poe
EC Ry
Ater Town
Union Market
Mt. Au-2a
War Center
Ayer Junction
Miller’s Falls
Hoosac Tunnel
John Adams
Boston & Albany R.R
Ticke
Kneeland Street
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
North Adams
Chatham
Hudson
Palmer
Ware River Branch
Wartford
New Haven
New York
New Kor Water
Dyaks
Koo Alerth Graf
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Pittsburg Post
Bessemer
Rcene
New York Commercial Bulletin
National
Bessemer Steel Association
Merchants’ Steel Association
London
London Cables
Gray Forge
Eglinton
Glengarnock
Summerlee
Gartsherrie
New England
Shell
Northern Choice
Ohio Choice
Ilse
New Hampshire
Choice
Jersey
East Swale
Houlton Hebrons
Aroostook
Aroostook Hebrons
Burbanks
Northern
Hebrons
Island
Rose
Chenangoes
MacIntires
Orleans
Ween
Ee Ogrse
A.B. C
A. B.C
Cereals
ALE
M'f’g CO
Murray ST
N. Y
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Railroads
Concord HR. BR
B. and
Manchester
Concord
N. H
N.H
Chamberlin, Sane
JMO
Dodgeville
Attleboro
North Attleboro
Forest Hite
ALL River Line
New
Stonington
York ‘Ie
Boston & Providence Railroad
New York Ga. m
Sonne
State Street
Boston & Providence R. R
J. W. Richardson
Boston & Providence R
Hoosac
Rotterdam Junction
West
Niagara Falls Short Line
Niagara Falls and
Wabash Western Railway
Erie & Gaston Line
Niagara Falls
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway
Kbelmont
Waverley
Ete
Py Abbe
Cambridge
Suni
Gardner and
Greenfield
Zroosick Falls
Johnsonville
N.Y
Lincoln
Su N
Hudson and Maynard
Ashua N
Arnty J
North Dams
Williams _ notem
Oun
North Leominster
J. Whitmore
J. R. Watson
Pass
Nepe Ee de
Wwe
Lu, Ly
Lavoy Llb Wy Aga Ly
Newport
North Easton
Randolph
Sciturate
South Duxbury
Central Station
Dean Street
Wes
Ovedavurr
Ashland
Wilton South Brae
Wellesley
Erilte
Goede San
Peide
Ville
Dous
Scare
Gov
Vung Oy
Westbor
Eke
Ry Oo
Aed
Bmw
Murs
Kaneuil
Lvens Ees
Co Bo
Brookline
Sai
Wee
Reservoir
Newton
Aeva
Meery tFe
Ce Carmi
Maz 2d
Latoy
Ypress
An- Naar
Carey
Yyeres
Newton Hughlanas
Framingham and
Fayville
Southbore
Northboro
Clinton Leomister
Beekin
West Berlin
Pratt's Junction
Newton Lower Falls
Wellesley Hills
Worcester
Newton Highlands
Hanson
H. T. Gallup
Qarre
PROOP
Damon Safe and Iron Works Co
Sudbury St
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