Flour and grain prices steady across major markets
Reports show Chicago Milwaukee and St Louis grain trades firm with higher prices for wheat corn and rye. Receipts reach 24 000 bbls of flour and breadstuff demand holds steady with active markets in New York Philadelphia and Detroit. Prices cited for patents superfine and other flour types vary by region with notable rye and oats movements.
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Minnesota
Chicago
St Louis
Milwaukee
New York
Detroit
Toledo
Minneapolis
Baltimore
Butter Market Steady as Prices Hold Firm Across Regions
Butter prices remain unchanged with choice lots selling readily. Advancements in oleo margarine lift some lower grades, while Western creameries show 24 25c for quotable creamery, mid range for other grades, and New York markets firm with steady cheese and egg demand across regions.
Market Prices Report for Seeds Potatoes Poultry and Hay
The grain and produce market shows steady grass seed prices with Northern timothy at 275 300 and Western timothy 255 266 while clover moves with 11 12 cents per pound in the North and West. Potatoes show large supply with Houlton Hebrons 60 68 cents per bushel and Jersey 310 325, sweet potatoes smaller with Virginia yellow at 1 62 44, poultry prices steady with chickens 18 20 cents per pound and turkeys 16 18 cents for young stock, hay and straw demand fair with rye straw 15 50 16 00 and catstraw 9 10, game partridges at 1 1 25 per pair.
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Jersey
Seney
Houlton Hebrons
Bush
Houlton Rose
Aroostook Hebrons
Aroostook
Vermont
Rose
Hebrons
Burbanks
New York
Nevada
New Brunswick
Virginia
Lveuyu Uuu
Eeu Ee
Marshfik
Mattapan
Iutdleboro
Sun Nantasket Beach
Neponset
Plymouth
Abington
Duxbury
Quincy
Rockland
Hanover
Scituate
Shawmut
Braintree
South Duxbury
Kaunton
Central Station
Dean St
Whitman
South Weymouth
Wollaston Heights
Westridgewater
Cochesett
South Easton
Market Report On Fresh Produce Prices
The market is well supplied with steady demand. Prices include new mare row squash 60c per barrel, turban squash 75c per barrel, Bay State turban 1 dollar per barrel, Savoy cabbage 50c per barrel, red cabbage 1 dollar per barrel, Lima beans 2 dollars fifty cents per bush box, onions 1 dollar seventy five cents for 200 barrel, Spanish onions 2 dollars per basket, beets 35c per bush, carrots 50 cents per bush, lettuce 26 cents per head, turnips 40 cents per box, Russia yellow turnips 1 dollar per barrel, rutabaga turnips 1 dollar per barrel, white French turnips 1 dollar per reen corn per barrel, native tomatoes 76 cents per ush box, green tomatoes 35 cents per box, peppers 1 dollar per bush, cauliflowers 1 dollar per dozen, celery 1 dollar per dozen, parsnips 60 cents per bush, egg plant 1 dollar 25 cents per dozen, citron melons 75 cents per box, spinach 18 cents per bush box, native cantaloupes 2.3 dollars per box, pumpkins 75 cents per barrel, barberries 1 dollar per bush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay State
Russia
Provisions Market Report on Pork and Beef Prices
Market remains firm with steady demand across pork products. Quoted prices cover long cuts to bacon, lard, hams, and bacon allied items, with regional notes from New York, Chicago, St Louis, and Cincinnati. Beef and veal also inch higher or hold steady, while dry salted meats and tripe show varied activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
City Extra India
City
Continent
South America
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
Brighton
Fruit Market Report From Steamship Arrival
The Lorenzo D Baker brought 15000 banana bunches and 71850 cocoanuts with bananas priced by grade. Apples, oranges, grapes, pears, and other fruits are quoted firm with varied grades and next-week supply noted. Delawares, Concords, and Isabellas appear among crate and case pricing, while Lemons, Messina, and Palermo Sorrento varieties show steady demand. A large next-week supply is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorenzo D Baker
Hubbardstons
Porter
Baldwins
Harveys
Messina
Palermo
Jamaica
Delawares
Wardens
Concords
Niagaras
Moore’s
Hartfords
Dianas
Isabellas
Marthas
Salems
Brightons
Almeria
Louise Bonne de Jersey
Sheldons
York State
Oil Market Update From 1888 Pipelines and Cottonseed Oil
Hathaway Higgins reports narrow moves in the oil market with near‑closing manipulation by Standard brokers. No bearish signals from late oil news. purchases at low figures may yield profits. Closing prices show minor shifts across pipeline and cottonseed certificates with volumes about 1,247,000 barrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cere
Bowg Lowoe
Ccs
Elsk
Clita
Ceee Eee Renee En
Messrs Hathaway, Higgins & Co
Sugar and Molasses Prices Seen Steady in Raw Sugars
Sugar markets show a slight softening in raw sugars but little price movement overall. Cuban fair to good syrups around 542, centrifugal 96 test at 6 1/2c, Manilas 4%s 5c, Javas Nos 10 toll 644 AC, refined sugars unchanged in tone and prices, Pulverized quoted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Sugar Prices and Market Report from New York
Wholesale grocers report mixed sugar prices with refined grades steadier. Raw sugar is nominal while molasses remains firm. Fancy Ponce and Porto Rico offerings range from 28 to 38 cents per gallon equivalents, with Barbadoes and Cienfuegos quotes around 23 to 30 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
Barbadoes
Cienfuegos
Mayaguez
Hog and cattle markets across Kansas City and Chicago
Market reports show fair activity and weak prices across hogs and cattle. Kansas City receipts reach 6679 cattle and 6809 hogs with steady to weak quotes, while Chicago sees 11 000 cattle and 19 000 hogs with generally steady prices and varied classes.
New York Cotton Markets Steady as Futures Open and Close Quiet
The market shows steady cash prices with middling uplands at 10 5 16 cents and low middling at 9 3 4 cents. Futures in New York opened steady and closed quiet, with detailed opening and closing figures for October through March and comparing against Liverpool spot trends. Shipments, receipts, and stocks across major U S ports, including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, and Savannah, show mixed activity amid a broad week ending report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ccsccvess
GUO
Nun
Jung civ
Oken Aed
Ska
Umlom
Liverpool
Uplands
Orleans
United States
Great Britain
Augusta
Galveston
Britain
New Orleans
France
Mobile
Memphis
Brunswick
Savannah
Continent
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Mid Lodge
Market report shows firm tallow demand and mixed commodity pricing
Tallow markets firm with fair demand. city prices 542 5 46, country 442 4%¢, trough 3c. New York trade dull lower prices. prime city 5%/sc. sales 50,000 ths. Coffee New York Rio stronger. whiskey markets steady in Chicago St Louis Cincinnati. Turpentine New York closed 44 45c, resin $1 105 and far $220. petroleum closed at 6% 7%sc with RSW 7 %sc and cases 9%ec.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rio
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Turpentine and Petroleum
Imports and Exports October 5 1888 Port Antonio Jamaica
A freight list from October 5 1888 records imports and exports in Port Antonio Jamaica and Yarmouth Nova Scotia. It itemizes cargo for the steamer Lorenzo D Baker including bananas cocoa oranges and other produce bound for Boston plus multiple consignments aboard the Yarmouth and other shippers listing potatoes butter berries apples eggs herring codfish kerosene oil and fresh fish. Ships Homeward bound and consignors include J G Hall Co Endicott Macomber Whitney Pousland and others. Demands and volumes are given as cases bbls drums and crates across numerous firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Antonio
Jam
Lorenzo D Baker
Boston
Fraltco
Yarmouth
G Hall & Co
Griffin & Co
Clements & Co
Endicott & Macomber
Exports Oct 5 1888 Annapolis to Digby NS
Shipping report from October 5 1888 lists schooner Anna with 494 barrels flour 125 barrels meal brigantine Jane Ainslie 500 barrels on Tignish PEI schooner Lady Franklin 30 barrels molasses 350 barrels flour 25 barrels meal 25 bags beans 10 bales oakum 1 barrel twine 20 barrels kerosene oil 2 barrels cranberries 100 barrels pails. Alice S 20 tons pig iron 180 barrels beef 20,000 feet hard pine. Gransyar refined petroleum. Yarmouth steamer with assorted goods including 3 bales lines 18 pigs carriage stock and 131 packages hardware.
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Annapolis
Digby
Anna
SI John’'S
Jane Ainslie
Tignish
Pei
Lady Franklin
ST Joen
Alice S
Grinsted
Yarmouth
Steamer
Staple Products Lists By Railroads
A fragmented ledger lists staple goods moved by multiple railroads including Batson Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg and Boston and Maine. Totals cover wool flour cornmeal oats malt cattle hides leather and assorted foodstuffs with vehicles cars bales and sacks noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batson & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Inventory of Goods by Service Route and Totals
A fragmented list details quantities of groceries and commodities by transport mode and origin. Entries include grease butter eggs apples oil leather hides bales wool flour corn oats tea coffee tea and related boxes cases bbls sacks rolls and cars with numerous numbers and measures across Express and Sea shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bates
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lowell System
Express
Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool
Cable dispatch notes wheat and corn markets in London and Liverpool with quiet firm trends for wheat and steady futures. It records prices for No 1 California wheat and mixed American corn, weather in England, and spot and futures quotations in Liverpool and Antwerp with various receipts and currency equivalents.
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London
Mark Lane
Paris
Liverpool
California
England
Antwerp
Western Division Train Schedules From Boston Area
Train schedule listing for Western Division trains from Boston stations to Alton Bay and destinations like Andover Dover Exeter and beyond with numerous hourly and half hour departures and Sunday trains noted. Includes times for Melrose Malden Medford Reading Sagas and many East Coast towns and regions.
Eastern Division timetable trains from Boston station
A dense list of train departures from Boston to Amesbury and numerous connected towns such as Chelsea Pymi Dover Portsmouth Rochester Hampton Beach and North Rye Beach with varied times including early morning 6.05 am and late evening 11.15 pm. The printed schedule includes numerous branches Saugus South Reading and York Harbor Beach connections and notes Workinemen’s trains on Thursdays and Saturdays from Haymarket Square.
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Augusta
Kaymarket St
Causeway St
Beaugeor
Kar Marbor
St. John
Halifax
Provinces
Haymarket Sq
Eastport
Calais
N. B
Wialifax
Portland
Causeway Street
Haymarket Square
Breckland
Castine
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Scar Tarberns
Siemer
Wortland
Statlion
Mewiston
Manchester
Concord
Nertte—haymarket Sy
North Conway Haymarket Sq
Portland Haymarket Sq
Pan
Maine Central
Grand Wrank
Moox & Lincoln
Amesbury
Everly
Bidddeford
Mor
Chelsea
Pymi
Dover
Speci
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Peabody and Dar
Portsmouth
Weveen
Eck
Gloucer
Oacen
York Marbor
Wenalaim
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wWorkinemen
South Reading
Boston
New York & New England Cor
Summer Street
Baltimore
Blackstone
Danbury
Dudley
Lis
Endicott
Fishwie
Franklin
Lowell to Montreal and Atlantic Division Local Service Schedule
Local and through service from Boston via Causeway Street lists trains to Otton Lake Village Meredith Lehuang Dam and many others with times from morning to evening. It includes connections to Nashua Lexington Arlington Bedford Nashua and Montreal, with numerous daily departures and special through routes to Fabyan’s.
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Boston
Causeway Street
Otton
Lake Village
Meredith
Lehuang
Dam
Lacentia
Venus
Plymouth
Jemntere Biaurbor
Wolfeboro
North Weoedstock
Pemigewuansett fanNley Wennehk
Waren
Haverhill
Weoedsville
Lisbon
Littleton
Whitefield
Lancasey
Deflersaen
Bethlehem
Profile House
Simpsic
White River Junction
Wells River
Bristol
Northern RR
Montreal
Boston Air Line
Central Mass Division Train Times Reported Amid Rains
Rail timetable details list departures from Boston stations to Northampton and towns including Belchertown Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Worcester South Clinton Bertin Pludson Sudbury Meckbottom Wayland with multiple morning and afternoon slots such as 7.45 am 1.30 pm 3.40 pm and later 4.85 6.25 pm frequenting several stops across central Massachusetts under wet conditions.
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Central Mass
Boston Station
Causeway Street
Portland Street
Northampton
Batiey
Amherst
South Amhert
Belchertown
Bondsville
Ware
Gilbertville
Barre
Rutland
Jefferson’s
Oakdale
West Registon
Worcester
Clinton and
Bertin
Pludson
Sudbury
Meckbottom
Wayland
Woonsocket Division
Boston & Albany Railroad
Boston
Needham and Way
Woonsocket
Boston and Albany Trains Timetable Listing
A dense OCR timetable listing Boston station departures and numerous routes to Philadelphia New York Willimantic and more. It includes daily and Sunday trains with times and connections, then Woonsocket division details and notes on express trains and dining cars. Names listed: A. Jackson E. P. Vining A. C Kendall.
Boston and Albany R R schedule details printed
Local time tables show trains on all divisions with departures from Boston stations. Through tickets to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West available at 232 Washington Street. Daily and Sunday services listed with connections at multiple stations and branches including Worcester and Providence divisions.
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Fitchburg Depot
Causeway Street
Boston
Warter
To Albans
Winchendon
Jatirey
Peterboro
Fitzwillian
Troy
Marlboro
Keene
Westmoreland
Walpole
Bellows Falls
Rutland
Burlington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Montreal
Ogdensburg
Saratoga
Velaware & Studson Canal Company
R. R
Ches
Boston & Albany
R.R. Bune
Asss
Washington Street
Boston Stalon
Kneeland Street
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
West
Central Vermont
Pullman
Lowell
Chicago
Frere
Wagner Palace
Central Vermont R. R
Anon We
W. Cummings
Gen. Pass, Agu
Wasa
Vin
OLD COLONY TRAIN SERVICE SPECIAL NOTICE
Passengers with tickets via the Fall River Line Shore Line or Providence Line may have baggage checked from their hotel or residence in Boston to destination. A sea for baggage may be left at No 3 Old Stone House.
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New York
ALL River Line
Fall River
Boston
Old Colony
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Annex Boat
Pilgrim
Bristol
Old State House
J. R. Kendrick
Geo. L. Connor
Gen'l Pass
L. H. Palmer
Fall River Line
Shore Line
Providence Line
Old Stan Ouse
Boston to numerous rail routes timetable fragment
Fragmentary railway timetable listing Central DI likely Boston area routes with Fall River Ashmont Brockton Quincy Bridgewater Weymouth Fall River Plymouth and other towns. Contains numerous times for Sundays weekdays via various connections, including Scituate Nantasket Beach Quincy and Brockton, with partial city station references and intercity links.
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Central
Kneeland
New York
Fall River
Ashmont
Cape Cod rail schedule fragment on service hours and stations
Partial timetable notes Cape Cod Division with stationary details for Kneeland Street Station to Luzzards Bay Bourne Bourne Zournedale Brew er Cataumet Chatham Hyannis Harwich Wellfleet Mashpee Sandwich Yarmouth Tre vent Wellfleet West Barnstable Woods Hall Mashpee and other stops. The legible entries show morning departures at 9.00 am and various return or later times with inconsistent OCR data.
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Cape Cod
Kneeland Street
Luzzards Bay
Jarnstabie
Bourne
Zournedale
Brewer
Cataumet
Chatham
Lity
Sandwich
Savamore
So Yarmouth
Trevent
Wellfleet
Kein
West Barnstabie
Woods Hall
Sham
Armouth
Train Schedules for Liba Wednesdays and Saturdays
Timetables detailing local daily through train service are available in Boston at designated stations and at the Old Colony K.R. Office No 3 Old State House. J R Kendrick General Manager and Geo L Connor General Passenger Agent issue notice dated September 30, 1888.
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Boston
Old Colony
K.R
Old State Mouse
J.R. Kendrick
R. Geo. L. Connor
Pass’r
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