Market Report On Fruits Poultry And Hays Prices
A regional market summary notes steady demand and firm prices for sweet potatoes, Virginia yellow, Jersey yellow, and bulk varieties. Poultry shows good demand with quoted ranges for chickens, fowls, ducks, and turkeys across Northern Eastern and Western regions. Hay and straw demand remains good with varied price bands for prime hay, hay types, and rye straw across the East and West.
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Osa
New Brunswick
Virginia
Fair movement notes fluctuating farm produce prices
Fragmented pricing list records a range of vegetables and produce with varied prices per bush or box including cabbage turnips onions and cucumbers. The garbled OCR shows quantities and unit names with inconsistent punctuation but indicates market quotes rather than a single item or sale.
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Bay State
Russia
Provisions Market Rates and beef pork prices report
The market for pork and pork products remains firm with steady demand. Prices listed include long cuts 19 19 25, short 19 19 26, backs 19 60 20 00, light backs 19, lean ends 20 50 21 00, and various other pork items. Beef, lard, and other fresh meats show strength or steadiness across Chicago New York St Louis and Western markets with specific values for mess pork, lard, corned beef, and various cuts.
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New York
Tierces City
Continent
South America
Chicago
St Louis
Choice
Brighton
Steamer Lorenzo D Baker Brings Bananas From Jamaica
The steamer Lorenzo D Baker is due from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit ee. WWR&CR Noyes expect a steamer with bananas from Baracoa about the 15th of this month.
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Lorenzo D Baker
Jamaica
Boston
Wwr&cr
Noyes
Baracoa
Fruit Market Report Shows Mixed Apples And Grapes Prices
The market for fruits is well supplied with apples at old prices including common to good at 1 150 a barrel and specific varieties such as Hubbards 150, Grav ensteins 250, pippins 150, and Porters 150. Liverpool trade is flat with prices down, oranges and lemons vary by vessel, grapes are well supplied with Delaware 4 4% ec and Concords 3c, pears steady with Bartletts 350 700 per barrel, quinces scarce, file notes 2 25 2 50 for York State keys.
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Hubbardstons
Liverpool
Halifax
London
Messina
Palermo
Jamaica
Delawares
Wardens
Concords
Niagaras
Hartfords
Marthas
Salems
Brightons
Louise Bonne de Jersey
Sheldons
York State
Hog and cattle markets across several cities show firmer hogs and slower cattle
Hogs firm in St Louis and Peoria with prices up to 6 85 in St Louis and 560 to 665 in Peoria. Stock Yards Kansas City reports slow cattle with prices 50 lower. hog trade active with heavies around 6 36 and 6 90 for ships. Chicago cattle lower with natives 2 10 to 6 40. hogs firmer with packers 6 15 to 6 90 and heavy 6 85. Sheep mostly steady around 2 50 to 5 00.
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St Louis
Peoria
Kansas City
Chicago
Western Rangers
Sugar Prices and Quotations in Raw and Refined Markets
Sugar markets show quiet old prices for raw varieties with Cuba and Java grades listed. Refined sugars rise in activity with granulated and confectioners' types quoted. New York raw remains dull, refined steady and unchanged on several grades. molasses demand steady with Ponce and Porto Rico prices noted.
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Cuba
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
New Crop Prices and Bird Trades Reported
Barbadoes and Mayaguez quotations with new crop pricing show 28 27c and 30 365c for boiling grades. Cienfuegos and Mayaguez cited at 26 30c and 28 27c on a 60 test basis at 22c nominal. New York trade quiet with sales of 336 Trinidad birds at 29 cents.
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Barbadoes
Cienfuegos
Mayaguez
New York
Trinidad
New York Cotton Quiet as Prices Hold Steady
In New York cotton prices remain quiet with middling uplands at 106-16c and low middling 9%sc, sales total 701 bales. Liverpool spot cotton steady in favor of buyers while futures show a firm to quiet tone. exports and receipts across major ports reflect subdued activity.
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New York
Eeccesees
Ssovess
Cuwks
Savas Eerce
Pedoruaty Csc
Ecceucee Oolc
Liverpool
Uplands
Orleans
Augusta
Ross
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Great Britain
Wilmington
Norfolk
Vyru
West Point
Baltimore
St Louis
Lousville
Philadelphia
France
Continent
United States
Oil Market Report From 1888 Certificates Note
J E Carter & Co supply the latest on PIPE LINE and COTTONSEED OIL CERTIFICATES with openings and closings listed for October 1888. Market bulls cite tight supply and rising demand, predicting a dollar oil surge soon. Hathaway Higgins & Co note bullish field signals and expect the next advance to occur promptly.
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Caesar Rives
Messrs. Hathaway, Higgins & Co
Market News Briefs Across Commodities
Tallow shows firm demand with steady city and country figures. New York notes softer prices for prime city and large sales. Coffee markets in New York and Rio remain strong with fair roasters. Whiskey markets in Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis unchanged. Turpentine and resin in New York steady with tar nominal. petroleum mixed with varying prices and freight notes.
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New York
Rio
Cincinnati
Chicago
St Louis
Cattle Market Report From Watertown and Brighton
The Boston Post by George J. Fox details the week ending Oct 3 1888 with live stock totals for sheep cattle lambs and swine, price ranges for market beef store cattle sheep and hogs, and late arrivals and sales at Brighton and Watertown yards. It notes wrecks near Wilmington delaying livestock and exports with several consignments to Liverpool and Boston shipments aboard Borderer Prussian and Michigan.
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Watertown
Brighton
Boston Post
George J. Fox
Liverpool
Borderer
England
Boston
Iowa
Michigan
Liverpol
J A Hathaway
Cattle Auction Highlights At Watertown and Brighton Yards
Stock from HC Burleigh and George Coolidge leads a bustling market with two and three year old beef cattle drawing high bids. Buyers include J H Gillan Coffin Co and W W Hall & Son who dressed cattle at 7c and 8c per pound, while new milch cows and springers sold well from Merrow Pulsifer and L Libby & Son. Fat hogs and veals commanded steady demand as Boston butchers contracted for cattle shown at fairs. Watertown and Brighton yards report varied cattle qualities, with light export trade affecting prices and a mix of store and feeder stock moving to Connecticut and beyond.
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Passumpsic
Montreal
Vermont Central
Wilmington
New England
Maine
Brighton
Boston & Albany
J S Henry
W Scollans
Merrow & Pulsifer
Hall & Son
J Db Hosmer
Thontpaon & Son
Libby
J B Remick
J Melloy & Son
F H Coolidge & Son
Sic
Whipple & Farnham
Bloc
P Burker
G Townsend
Gosselyn
Vy Covell & Son
F Libby
Richards
HC Burleigh
George Coolidge
Josiah Morrill
W Libby
Bud Morrison
Eldridge
Ricker
Libby & Son
Merrill
Coffin & Farrington
F Lawrey
Vermont
Watertown Yards
Boston
Burletzh
Watertown
Brighton Yards
William Scollans
Connecticut
Colorado
N Morris
Imports Oct 3 1888 Barabadoes and Barbadoes Sugar Trade
A fragment from a trade ledger lists Barbadoes sugar shipments to Standard Sugar Refinery and a long sequence of consignments from various firms. Items include codfish, cotton, rags, glassware, earthenware, paper stock, leather, rope, and other sundry goods valued in bales, cases, casks, and bundles. Names cited include Delong & Seaman, Baring Bros & Co, J Bb Moors & Co, Abram French & Co, Louis Wolf & Co, Brown Bros & Co, J H Rosbach & Bros, and Jones McDuffee & Stratton taking cargos at Hull Eng and other ports. The entry ends with a directive labeled order.
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Barbadoes
ST Plerre
Mig
Marguerite
Delong & Seaman
Hull
Eng
Ao Rays Baring Bros & Co
Sykes & Sweet
Bb Moors & Co
George Kendall
Jones, McDuffee & Stratton
Abram French & Co
Louis Wolf & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Moors & Co
Stoddard & Kendall
Kidder, L’ Abody & Co
Moors &Co
Brown Bros & Co
Rossbach & Bros
Walker & Co
Thorp & Adams Manf Co
Hollow Glass
China Jones, McDuffee & Stratton
Stone & Downer
Sanderson & Son
W Jones
Lewis
Nichols
Dexter Isros
Manila
Maritime cargo totals from Atlantic ports and Caribbean notes
Long list of vessels and freight during transit including Pangonia at Liverpool with sweeps and foodstuffs, Canning Packet at Annapolis, Bark Louise at Arichat, Harry White and William Jones at Gonaives, and multiple consignments in Bearbadies with sugar, rice, meat, butter, and hardware. Details names ports ships cargo units and quantities.
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Liverpool
Eng
Pangonia
L Case Machinery
Annapolis
Arichat
Port Castries
St Lucia
Bwi
Harry White
Gonaives
Hayii
William Jones
Bearbadoes
Brig Golconda
Carboys Vitros
Staple Products and Totals by Year in 1880s Receipts
A fragment lists staple goods across years 1883 to 1888 including cotton molasses bales, wool butter boxes and pkgs, oleo flour cheeses eggs oats and wheat, beans apples hay tallow straw hides and various meats. It shows fluctuating receipts with many item counts and unit measures such as bbls, boxes, pkgs, and bales, but readable totals for several categories.
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Mt Hhads
Hesieace Ec
Novewe Biaie
Peter
Mecca Gee
Receipts Oct 3 1888 Boston Albany and Connecting Lines
A dated ledger style listing receipts from multiple railroads for Oct 3 1888. Items include cotton wool flour corn oats malt feed meat butter eggs beans apples hay straw lumber hides and other goods, with quantities given in bales sacks barrels cases and cars. Railroads cited are Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence Old Colony and connecting lines.
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Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
Old Time Freight Ledger From Rail Lines and Goods
A fragmented OCR list details shipments and quantities for various consignments across multiple railroads including New York & New England, Fitchburg, and Boston & Maine. Entries mention bales wool, flour, corn, oats, wheat, butter, eggs, apples, leather, hides, and shipped goods in bbls, boxes, cases, rolls, and cars with numerous negative and positive tallies.
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New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Lowell
Ly Express
Foreign Markets Trade Notes From London and Liverpool
London and Liverpool market wires report wheat firm and corn quiet with strong import demand. Wheat prices rise in Mark Lane and California, Australian, and Chilean cargos on offer. Futures show strength. Paris notes firm wheat and flour with quiet French markets.
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London
Mark Lane
Calcutta
Liverpool
California
Michigan
Paris
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Boston Fest
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