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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 27, 1888

Page

8

Market quotes for grains and commodities across the Midwest and New York

The report shows mixed demand and firm to easy prices. Wheat remains steady, corn and oats vary with modest demand, rye prices ease in Milwaukee and St Louis, barley quiet, millfeed firm, cottonseed meat strong, malt dull, and hops soft with various vintage quotes from New York and Canada.

New York Milwaukee St Louis Canada Michigan Ew York

Market Report From The Butter To The Potatoes Row

Butter and dairy markets are steady with quoted Western creamery 30 32c, Western extra firsts 27 29c, Vermont extra creamery 30 31¾c. Eggs and beans show firm pricing. potatoes, poultry, and hay markets hold steady with regional variations in quotes.

Vermont Ermont Vermont Dairy Getty New York North Choice West Sage Liverpool New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Runswick Michigan Island Canada York State Burbanks New Brunswick Chenangoes Prince Edward Island Virginia East Swale

Pork and Beef Prices in Chicago and US Markets

In Chicago, pork and lard markets show steady to firm prices with long cuts at 18 to 18.50 dollars, backs 18 to 19 dollars, and various items like fresh ribs and sausages listed. New York and St Louis signals indicate quiet pork, firmer lard, and steady bulk meats. Cincinnati notes steady pork at 15 dollars with firm lard. Fresh beef remains steady with mixed steer prices and strong demand for spring lambs and mutton across regions.

Chicago Iiss Choice City New York Park Forces City South America St Louis Cincinnati Brighton Eastern Real Choice Fancy, LLC West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Great Britain Britain Continent Louisville Galveston Charleston Wilmington France United States

Trade notes on old figures for squash and cabbage

A compact market note lists prices for various squash varieties such as jarrow squash at 50 cents per barrel and turban squash at 7 cents per barrel. Cabbages are priced with Savoy at 50 cents per peck and red cabbage at 125 dollars per count, reflecting a quiet trading tone.

Bay State

Market Prices for Fresh Produce in Various Bins

Listed prices include onions at 1.25 per barrel and 0.50 per bush for bush onions. Beets 0.40, carrots 0.50, lettuce 0.25 per dozen, turnips 0.75 to 1.00 per barrel, Russia yellow turnips 0.75, rutabaga 0.75 per barrel, white French turnips 1.00, cauliflowers 1.25 per dozen, celery 2.00 per box, parsnips 6.00 per bush, spinach 0.40 per bush box, pumpkins 0.75 per barrel.

Russia

Banana steamers Marmion due November 29

The Marmion steamer is scheduled to arrive on November 29 carrying Jamaica fruit for the Boston Fruit Company.

Banana Steamers Jamaica Fruit Boston Fruit Company

Fruit market sales and prices in weekly grain and produce report

Snow and Co and H A Harris Co plan Tuesday sales of large grape lots, Florida oranges, hickory nuts, and foreign beans. Prices list for grapes, citrus, dates, cranberries, quinces, and nuts shows steady markets with specific bid ranges for Isabellas, Catawbas, Dianas, Jamaica and Messina lemons, Almeria grapes, and Virginia peanuts, chestnuts, and hickory nuts.

Snow, & Co H A Harris & Co Almeria Oe Hubbardstons Almeria Messina Jamaica Florida York State Virginia

New York Cotton Prices and Global Market Summary

New York cotton prices ease with middling uplands at 9 9 9 and futures opening easy then steady. Liverpool and other markets show mixed receipts and exports with London and Augusta reports, including 475 bales traded in New York and 8000 bales in Liverpool, while consolidated U S port receipts total 558 854 across all markets for the period.

New York BOSS Os Ues Sbc Bony Ecae Sss Liverpool Orleans Auugusta New Orleans Great Britain France Continent Memphis

Hog and cattle markets across major cities

Stock yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts at 9801 with steady best lots and weak common, hog receipts 6066 with active demand and slight gains, sheep 307 steady. Cincinnati hogs light supply firm at 450 to 530, receipts 11 200. Chicago cattle receipts 15 000 shipments 5000, cattle firm for good but others weak. hogs 17 000 with higher open, gains later erased. sheep 6000, slow with mixed classes trading from 3 25 to 4 25._mentions of price ranges and shipments across cities._

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago

Sugar and Molasses Market Notes

Sugar markets show firm demand with steady prices for raw sugars from Cuba Manila and Java grades. Molasses demand is strong with firm pricing, including Ponce Porto Rico enfuegos and Porto Rico varieties, while New York reports steady prices for New Orleans demand.

Cuba Manilas Iloilos Javas New York Ponce Porto Rico Enfuegos New Orleans

Miscellaneous market updates on tallow coffee whiskey and turpentine

Tallow markets steady with city rendered at 6c and country at 4 to 5c. New York reports strong tone with city bids around 6 1/2c and 40,000 ths sold. Coffee Rio gains as fair car hits 1642c. Turpentine and petroleum notes show NY close 46 1/4c turpentine and $102 4 1/2c resin with tar and petroleum activity.

New York Rio

Staple Goods Receipts From Railroads Nov 26 1888

Boston and Albany and Boston and Providence railroads list extensive stock received including 20 bales cotton 400 bales wool 2115 bushels flour 2180 bushels corn 7070 bushels oats 480 bushels cottonseed meal 4700 bushels malt 42 tons feed 4 barrels pork 41 tierces 100 tubs lard 70 tierces hams 6 boxes bacon 3 barrels grease 200 tubs 3 boxes butter 380 boxes cheese 23 barrels 499 cases eggs 5066 barrels beans 876 barrels apples 2 cars potatoes 2 cars hay 2 cars straw 10 cars lumber 173 rolls 305 bundles 224 bags 60 bales 20 boxes 25 cases 402 sides leather 9 bales hides 9 bales skins at Land Junction 1800 barrels 850 sacks flour 295 sacks oatmeal 3900 bushels corn 650 bushels barley 4400 bushels oats 1600 bushels cottonseed meal 5 tierces lard 26 tierces 119 boxes provisions 65 tons malt 17 tons bran 160 busheans beans.

Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Railroad Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell Express England Nova Scotia Hemlock Darby Scotland Rowibo Ste Ee Ee Germany Africa ALY Buenos ST. Martin’s Boston India British West Indies British Wwe Eas Norway

Freight Yard Ledger Of 1907 Rail Lines And Goods

A dense ledger lists freight items across multiple railroad divisions including New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, and others. Entries cover bales of cotton and wool, flour, oats, corn meal, tea, butter, cheese, eggs, apples, potatoes, lumber, leather, hides, lard, beef, beans, and numerous box and tub measures. The data appear as a cargo inventory with quantities and unit types, reflecting early 20th century rail freight.

Exports and imports aboard Glasgow and Buffalo steamers in 1888

A historical imports and exports list shows Glasgow steamer Scandinavian cleared November 22 with flour apples corn bacon lard canned goods beef wax and more, Buffalo cleared November 23 with cotton waste apples lard hams dyestuff and other items, plus Greytown Kingston steamer Hondo carrying stores groceries and soap.

Glasgow Scot Ilull Eng New York Buffalo Greytown Kingston

Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool

Wheat markets show dull to inactive trading across London and Liverpool with steady corn. Paris and Mark Lane offer softer or quiet conditions as British farmer deliveries reach 54,932 quarters at an average price of 31 shillings 9 pence. December No 1 California wheat listed.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool Great Britain California

Eastern Division Train Timetable Rush Boston to New England

Regional timetable lists trains from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Middeford Chelsea Dover Everett and many towns with daily and Sunday departures including morning noon and evening slots. It notes numerous stations on York Marina Beach and Saugus branches and lists special services via the Saugus branch on certain days and a workingmen's train timing.

Boston Summer Street Absheron Baltimore M. Keira Street Blackstone Danbury Wedham Aim Dorchester Sea Dudley Street Ellis Hadicott Fishkill-on- Rendson Pan Franklin Movest Avenue Las P Im Hartford Trarvord Street Highland Lake Islington Manchestr Japan Milford Mt. Bowdoin Newbury London New York Air Line Norwich Norwood Norwood Secteur Pawtucket Philadelphiaa Rockville Conn Southbridge Pistens Walpole Washington D. C Waterbury Willimantic Winstons Webster Norwood Central Slyde Vark Maee Hyde Park Franklin Statons Woonsocket Division Boston & Albany Railroad Needham and Way Breturn Sh&lo A Woonsocket Ireturn Middletown New Haven New Britain Fishkill-on-Hudson Newburgh Turners, N. Y Chicago New England Grand Central Depot Pt. M Philadelphia Express New Lliven Jersey City Trenton Philadelphia Dallimore Richmond I. M. Norwich New London Danielsonville Putnam Cilly Worcester Washington Street A. Jackson J. P. Vining A. C. Kendall Pass Montreal West Vermont Lowell Fitchburg Toot

Trains Schedule From Boston and Nearby Towns

vast list of hourly train departures from Boston stations to Andover Dover Danvers Exter Great Falls Haverhill Lawrence Malden Medford Melrose Reading Wakefield North Andover Newburyport North Wilmington and Sunday services to Dover Haverhill Manchester Portland Bangor Lewiston with multiple daily times for each location and Sunday trains through evening.

Lynn and Way Newburyport Poritsmouuth Portland Bangor St. John Halifax Salem Boston Station Haymarket Alton Bay Heachester Yee Andover Dover Spmn Exeter Great Falls Heverhill Vila Georgetown Menvebunk Shindeford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell Malden Medford Bietrese Highlands Mérrinac North Andover Satem Wake Field North Wilmington Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Sowell Lewiston Breading and Way

Taunton Briefs Show Fragmentary OCR Item

In this readable fragment from Taunton late edition, garbled OCR text offers limited detail. The snippet includes stray times and unclear identifiers, showing a broken news fragment with no verifiable people or events to verify.

Cape Cod Division Bus Schedule Fragments

Partial timetable shows Cape Cod routes with times for towns including Buzzards Bay Bourne Hyannis Nantucket Wellfleet and Yarmouth. Entries list morning 8.15 am or 8.15 am to 4.15 pm patterns with several misread spellings and inconsistent marks.

Kneeland Street Buzzards Bay Barnstabe Bourne Beournedale Brewster Cataumet Chatham Cottage City Wark Sq New Bedford Fairhaven Almouth Hyannis Kmarwieh Rienamens Beach Mattapoisett Marion Nantucket Woods Hall Provincetown Szaznié Steamore DI So Yarmouth Tremont Wellfleet West Barnstable Weeds Hall Warmouth

Historic Rail Timetable Fragments From Providence Division

Fragmented OCR shows a dense list of train times and routes including Providence Division, New Work, Park Square Station, various towns such as Canton Junction Dedham Readville Readville Readville, West Brookfield, Jamaica Plain, and multiple Sundays schedules. The text mixes departures, arrivals, and prices with inconsistent punctuation.

Providence Park Square Stonington Bkedale Central Highland West Bex Spring Street Canton Junction Dedham Dodgeville Foxboro Meath Whedronville Myde Park Jamaica GOD Marsfeld Atv Lumiavs Iarendow Ebily FAR Bia Bextberg Rasafor Kadia Moimt Sharen EAT Pe Samosa Sharan Somdays Stergehtean Central Orton ELIZ Santuys Warree and Fristet West Mianmsfield Taurten Weedtford Norton bNewpert Vu Fridiver New Jvondon Newpert Wickforn Jenction

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