Wheat and Corn Prices Across Markets Report
Market notes show wheat in store with varying No 1 and No 2 Northern bids from Baltimore to Philadelphia, with cash quotes around 116 to 127 cents. Corn futures and spot quotes steady to firmer, steamer and yellow varieties traded on track and in elevator, while oats, rye, flour, and millfeed markets display mixed firmness and modest activity across New York Chicago Milwaukee St Louis reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Hiladelphia
Shipping Co
New York
Chicago
Milwaukee
T Louis
Peoria
New
State
St Louis
Michigan
Canada
Choice
York
Wholesale Butter and Produce Prices Across Markets
A comprehensive rundown of wholesale prices for dairy and produce. Butter quotations hold steady with Western and Vermont grades listed, while cheese, eggs, beans, grass seeds, potatoes, sweet potatoes, poultry, and hay show firm or steady demand. Notable entries include Western creameries 24 25c, Vermont extras 24 25c, eggs Eastern extras 22c, Western 21 2c, beefs varied, peas and beans with multiple regional price points, and potatoes and hay priced to current market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Vermont
Vermont Dairy
Eastern Creamery
New York
Liverpool
North Choice
West
New _Hampshire
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Michigan
Island
Canada
York State
California
North
Jersey
Oae
Houlton Hebrons
Houlton Rose
Aroosk Hebrons
Aroostook
Vermont Hebrons
Ermont Burbanks
Newark Rose
Hebrons
Burbanks
Nova A
Virginia
Ad Jersey
Trade is Quiet as Markets Quote Old Prices for Produce
Trade activity remains muted with quotes for produce at previous levels. New marrow squash 60c per bushel, turban squash 60c per bushel, Savoy cabbage 50c per bushel, red cake onions 75c per bushel, 750 bush Spanish onions, beets 35c per bush, carrots 50c per bush, lettuce 40c per box, white French turnips $1 per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ussia
Local Produce Prices and Quantities Listed in Brief
A fragment lists produce items with prices and package sizes including corn at 1 per barrel, native tomatoes at 75 cents per small box, peppers, cauliflowers at 1 dollar, eggplant at 1.25, citron melons at 7.50 per box, spinach at 1.86 per box, pumpkins at 7.50 per barrel, and barberries among others. The text resembles a market inventory or advertisement from a newspaper page.
Provisions Prices Across Pork and Beef Markets
Pork demand remains firm with varied cuts quoted from long cuts at 19 19½ to lean ends 20 50. Hams and bacon show steady prices while lard and sausage products also trade, with Western hogs at 7 12 to 7½ cents and city dressed hogs around 8 50. Beef markets mixed with quiet pork in Chicago, dull provisions in St Louis, and steady fresh beef pricing across cuts including steers at 9 32 to 10 cents and loins at 12 to 20 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sermonae
Choice City
New York
Western
City Steam
South America
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
Brighton
Banana steamer Hondo arrives with Jamaica bananas
The steamer Hondo is due Thursday carrying Jamaica bananas destined for the Boston Fruit Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana Steamer
Jamaica Bananas
Boston Fruit Company
Fruit prices and market notes for apples oranges grapes pears and more
Price quotes for apples Hubbardston shades and Gravensteins, with bbl and bush pricing. Oranges and lemons steady at Messina Palermo and Jamaica lines. Grapes Delawares Con cords Niagaras and Tokays priced per cwt and per case. Pears Bartletts Louise Bonne de Jersey Sheldons and common lots listed. Plains and cranberries with firm demand and varying per basket and per bbl quotes. Quinces receipts rising while staying steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubbardstons
Baldwins
Harveys
Messina
Palermo
Jamaica
Delawares
Wardens
Concords
Niagaras
Moore’s
Hartfords
Dianas
Isabellas
Marthas
Salems
Brightons
Almeria
Louise Bonne de Jersey
Bush
Plains
York State
New York Cotton Prices and Futures Report
New York middling at 105-16e with varied grades and 715 bales sold. Futures opened quiet and closed steady, with a long closing table showing Oct to Dec movement and odds for nearby months. Spot markets in Liverpool and American ports show mixed activity, with sales around 8,000 bales and receipts near 8,000, while other regional markets report steady to easy tones and mixed stocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New_York
Éiaee
SDRC
Dales
Liverpool
Midding
Uplands
Orleans
Cronin
U S
Era
Wg Peels Ee
Dou Durton
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Sugar market remains steady with varied quotations
Sugar markets show little change with Cuba refining at 542 cen trifugals and 96 test, Manila and Java prices noted. Refined grades hold steady with pulverized 84, powdered 8, granulated 75. Havana buyers stay aloof, receipts zero, exports to US 1100 bags, freights listed for Havana to US.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Belmont
New York
Havana
Matanzas
United States
Unitedates
Molasses Prices Hold Steady Across Markets
Market tone remains unchanged as prices list for Porto Rico 836 88c per gallon, Porto Rico common to choice 28 36c, Barbadoes 26 30c, Cien Fuegos new crop 23 27c, Mayaguez 30 85c, boiling grades based on 60 test nominal at 22c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ponce
Porto Rico
Barbadoes
Cienfuegos
Mayaguez
Market roundup of hog and cattle prices at major cities
Stock Yards Kansas City reports slow trade with cattle and hog prices slipping. Hogs receipts 6618 with heavies 6 15 to 6 25, mediums 5 75 to 6 20. Chicago cattle dull steady receipts 6000, hogs 11000 weak 6 00 to 6 40, lambs 3 75 to 5 25. St Louis hogs steady to 6 85, Peoria hogs steady at 5 65 to 6 25. Cincinnati hogs lower for common and light, 4 75 to 5 00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
St Louis
Peoria
Chicago
Texas
Cincinnati
Miscellany of market reports and commodity notes
Tallow markets firm with fair demand quoting city rendered 642 534c country 44e 4%4c trough 3c New York dull at lower prime city 56 16c sales 150 birds Coffee New York Rio quiet easy fair cargoes 15%4c Whiskey markets steady at old prices Turpentine and Petroleum New York Turpentine 44 45c resin 97 percent tar 220 petroleum 6 4 7%sc RSW 7c cases 9%sc
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rio
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Turpentine and Petroleuam
Imports and Exports October 7 1888 Antwerp
A detailed list of cargo items aboard the steamer Danmark from Antwerp to Liverpool, including steel ingots, window glass, chemicals, arms, leather, textiles, wines, cocoas, machinery, and numerous cases and barrels. Names of firms and agents such as Baring Bros & Co, J P Lovell Arms Co, Cobbs Bates Yerxa, and J Schwendemann appear throughout the manifest. Destination is Liverpool, with many consignments to U S and European traders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
Danmark
Norway Steel and Iron Co
Farnham & Co
Bird & Co
Cummings & Co
Tufts
de Bary & Co
John P Lovell Arms Co
Lambert Bros
Baring Bros & Co
Eneva John Conlon & Co
Richards & Sons
Doherty & Co
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa
Houghton & Dutton
Harvard College
Wellington & Co
William Read & Sons
Ultramarine
Morey & Co
Schwendemann
Wilcox & Co
Lowe
Horace Partridge & Co
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Boston Clock Co
Arms Page & Co
Louis Wolf & Co
Gannet Bros
Window Lass J B Moors & Co
Morton, Bliss & Co
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Boson Manf Co
Little, Brown & Co
British Hosiery Co
George W Beardsley
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
P Schmidt & Co
Koopman & Co
Brimmer
Train
Wilson, Larrabee & Co
B& Crocker & Co
Cumner, Jones & Co
Noyes, Campbell & Co
Nichols & Farnsworth
Haberdashery Beal, Higgins
Sumac Beach & Co
Washburn & Moon Manus Co
Hartley & Co
Paine
Stone & Downer
Dame
Stoddard & Kendall
Whittington & Co
Hinckley Bros & Co
Tin Fuller, Dana & Fitz
Ory
Clement & Soule
American Express Co
Kennedy & Murphy
Baldwin Bros & Co
Saco Water Power Machine Shop
Ateshian
Sultanas Ateshian & Penteya
Iron Bacon & Co
Case Sewing Machine International Button Hole Co
Case Leather White, Son & Co
Tully & Co
Do Snow & Co
AS & J Brown & Co
China
Farley & Son
Brown, Durrell & Co
Jordan
Marsh & Co
Parker & Co
Lovering & Co
Riley & Gray
Richardson & Barnard
King & Son
Allen & Co
Boyen & Co
L Andrews
F Norton
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Coleman, Mead & Co
F Hovey & Co
Exports At Halifax And Annapolis In 1888 Freight List
Shipping record lists cargoes from Halifax to Charlottetown and Digby to Annapolis including flour cornmeal books hardware glassware oil and lubricants, oranges lemons oysters tobacco and more. The detailed items cover dozens of cargo lines and quantities with kilns of packages, cases, bales, and boxes aboard multiple steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Charlottetown
Digby
Annapolis
New Brunswick
Port Antion Shipping Listing From Lighthouse Ledger
A fragment from a Port Antonio ledger notes cargo aboard the steamer L D Baker including 30,000 shingles 1 barrel paint 6041 feet of lumber 200 bushels corn 2 blinds 1 bundle furniture and stove 60 sacks butter 1 dozen Mellin’s boxes 1 rubber braces 20 boxes groceries 1 can 4 barrels oil 2 bags 1 barrel potatoes 1 half barrel sugar 1 keg beef 2 cans crackers 2 bales stoves 200 bales hoops 10 000 orange boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Antonio
Jam
Mellin’s
Staple Products Receipts Oct 6 1888 Boston & Albany RR
Extensive tabulation lists shipments and quantities of cotton, wool, flour, oats, corn, oats again, feed, tallow, lard, grease, bacon, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, apples, potatoes, hay, straw, lumber, leather, hides, and related goods by railroad lines including Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, and Boston & Maine Eastern and Western Divisions, with hundreds of bales, barrels, sacks, and carloads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Grand Juction Railroad
Boston & Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Boston & Maine Railroad—Western Division
Express
Pelta
Foreign Markets. Wheat firm. corn quiet in London and Paris
London cargoes show wheat firm with sales and waiting cargoes. Liverpool wheat firm with fair demand. corn firm. Prices quoted for No 1 California white and red winter wheat, Michigan white, and various corn lots. Paris wheat quiet but dearer. flour firmer. General tone: British and continental markets edging higher on wheat while corn steadies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mark Lane
Liverpool
California
Michigan
Paris
Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town Fashion Goods Firms Listed
A long list of boot and shoe buyers and sales firms from across the United States appears, detailing names and firms from cities including Atlanta Baltimore Chicago Cincinnati Columbus Cedar Rapids Davenport Fort Wayne Galveston Indianapolis Keokuk Lynchburg Philadelphia Savannah St Louis Omaha Reading St Paul Toledo Terre Haute and others. The item reads like a directory or advertising column, naming buyers such as EK Bates & Co Moore Marsh & Co Fox & Curtis J J Magruder & Co and many more, with dozens of firm attributions and city locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
LI Kingsbery
EK Bates & Co
J A Smith
Moore, Marsh & Co
Altoona
Penn
G Fox
Fox & Curtis
Baltimore
L Magruder
J J Magruder & Co
J Mullin, Jr
Tucker, Smith & O
E D Nixon
Allnutt, Nixon & Goldsborough
Craw
M Hess
Hess & Bro
Columbus
O Jones
Reed, Jones & Co
Cedar Rapids
George
George, Weeks & Co
Charleston
M Drake
Drake & Sons
Cincinnati
H Melis
Metis & Co
J Thorne
Inthorne & Co
Coen
Galveston
Tex
A Blum
L. H Blum
Indianapolis
Ind
J_ Rt McKee
JicKee & Co
Ad.ee
Ind—E Branham
McKee & Branam
Keokuk, Ja
H W Huiskamp
Huiskamp Bros Co
Central Massachusetts Railroad Company Annual Meeting Notice
The annual meeting of the Central Massachusetts Railroad Company was held in the stockholders room on the fourth floor of Boston & Lowell Rail road Passenger Station in Boston on Wednesday October 1 1888 at 1 o clock p m to elect directors and transact other business. The stock transfer book will be closed on and after October 4 1888 until the eve of the meeting. By order of the Board of Directors George F Seymour Clerk Boston October 4 1888.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Massachusetts Railroad Company
Wlre
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Boston
Horge F
Beymour
Probate citations and notices from Massachusetts courts
Notices cite heirs and interested parties in multiple probate actions. Trustees William Minot and William Minot Jr present accounts for Carlota I. de Bullet and Lola T. Kayley. Cambridge, Arlington and Waltham estates are listed with citations to appear in October. Benjamin B. Whittemore appointed administrator of Mandana B. Whittemore with demands and debts to be presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusesetts
Charles P. Traub
Boston
William Minot
Carlota I. de Bullet
Lola T. Kayley
Suffolk
Boston Post
Joax W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
William Minot, Jr
John Gray
Cambridge
George M. Brooks
Hayler
Georgre M. Brooks
J. H. Tyler
Commonwealth OF Massetts
Middlesex
Probai Ag Guun
George Lawton
Waltham
Speman
George M. Brooke
Mandana B. Whittemore
Benjamin B. Whittemore
Admr
Fragmented Rail Schedule Snarl Across New England Routes
A dense OCR list of train times and routes shows schedules across numerous towns including Fall River Taunton New Bedford Newport Plymouth and others. The records include Sunday times and special notes such as via Brockton Duxbury and East Westmouth with frequent references to additional trains and service variations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lekv
BYU
Ays
Brockton
Ton
Blarrsen Square
Lopur Marshfield
Sea View
Mattapan
Milton
New Bedford
Newport
North Easton
Stoughton
Edolph
Plymouth
Abington
Duxbury
Kmeckland
Hanover
Seit
Shawmut
South Braintree
South Duxbury
Taunton
Central Station
Dean J
Whitman
South Weymouth
Olaston Heights
Shaeym
West Ridgewater
Cochesett
South Easton
Cape Cod Ferry Schedules by Lexne Kneeland Street Station
Cape Cod division timetables list stops and daily transit times for Buzzards Bay Bourne Bourne, Barnstabie, Chatham Wellfleet and other towns. Schedules show 9.00 am to 4.15 pm windows with 12m and 15m markers, some via Woods Hall and New Bedford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Square
Seomerville
SUN
Waltham
Watertown
Union Market
Rt. Auburn
Worcester
Ayer Junction
Sinu
Miller's Falls
Hoosack Tunnel
Washington Street
Boston
Whoere
Middick
Bridgewater
Brockton
Hingham
Ays
Easton
East Mbridgewater
Mms Oaon Aen K.qf
Lexne Kneeland Street
Buzzards Bay
Barnstabie
Bourne
Bournedale
Brewater
Cataumet
Chatham
Cottage City
New Bedford
Fairhaven
Fairmouth
Hyannis
Biarwich
Kkonument Beach
Mattapoisett
Marion
Mantucket
Woods Hall
Provincetown
Sandwich
Saxamore
Yarmouth
Tremont
Wellfleet
West Barnstable
Northern Division
Boston & Albany
Kneeland Street
Framingham and
Marlboro
Frayville
Southboro
Molton
Northboro
Clinton
Leominster
Fitchburg
Pratt’s Junction
Old Colony
K.R
Old State House
J. RK. Kendrick
Man’r. Geo. L. Connor
Pass’r
Providence Division Train Schedules and Stops
Providence division timetable lists trains from Park Square Station to New Work and Providence Line with numerous stops including Attleboro Boylston Canton Junction Dedham and Readville. Sundays and weekdays show varied times and additional services with notes on central division connections and Fox Point wharf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Square
Shore Line
Attleboro
Boylston
Central and
Hollindale
Dedham
Dodgeville
Foxboro
Forest Mills
Brazelwood
Hebronville
Hyde Park
Jamasca Plain
Mansfield
Mt. Hope
Diarendson Hills
North Attleboro
Providence
Pawtucket
Readville
Moxbury
Rumford
India Point
Sharon
Sharon Beights
Spring Street
West Roxbury
High- Lasmal
Stoughto Central
Canton
South Walpole
Wrentham
Walnut Hill
Stonehaven
Warren and
Bristol
bTaunton
bNew Bedford
Norton
Newport
Wickford
Fox Point Wharf
Central
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Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
Louisville
France
Railroads
R.R. Lune
Springfield
Pittsfield
Albany
Pittsfiel
North Adame
Hudson
Palmer
Ware River
Mbranch
Mday
Martford
New Haven
Sreester
Millbury
Lycas Wie Vna
Ews
Smedil
Mba Dalian
Ve. O
Al.ous
Suaxoaville
Lick
Winriig
Lab
Ywest Newton
Wes
Newton Rae
Ramee Orn
Kk Mers
I.wey, Ville
Cypre
Alston
Cottage Far
Ebrookliine
M. Bmutewood
Reill
Newton Centre
Newton Enghlands
Bunany
Riverside
Main Line
Jeave Loston
Wellesley Bvins
Newton Highlands
A. & Hanson
dH.f. Gallup
Pasa
J E Carter & Co
Ross Ska
de Lynchburg
John W Craddock
Craddock, Ferry & Co
J Streng
Bamberger, Streng & Co
Louisville, Ky
W Rosenberg
Rosenberg, Flexner & Mendel
Memphis, Tenn
J M Goodbar
Goodbar & Co
W Jackson
Stern & Jackson
Macon
S T Coleman
E B Harris
Coleman, Burden & Co
Natchez
Miss
C Moore
H Frank & Co
Omaha
A K McKoneoff
Morse & Co
F P Kirkendall
Kirkendall, Jones & O
Orlando
Fla
E Hudnall
E Hudnall & Co
A M Belknap
A Shamway Co
J T Graff
Graff, Son & Co
Brun
F Monroe
Monroe Bros & Co
Re. Wittsburg
I Scott
Scott & Co
Reading
F W Curtis
Curtis, Jones & Co
A Einstein
Einstein’s Sons
Las
A T Kelley
Kelley, Goodfellow & O
Tret
Louis
A W Allen
Clafiin-Allen Shoe Co
A H Clark
J M Vimont
Clark Shoe Co
J H Schafer
Schafer, Swartz & Co
Pipane
D B Lindsley
Orr & Lindsley Shoe
T Gauss
US St Paul
Min
Toledo
BR Lee
Childs, Lee & Dunlap
J S Rodgers
Dewey, Rodgers & Co
Terre Haute
K Haven
C D Griffiths
Terre Haute Shoe Co
Central Massachusetts Railroad
H Souan
Ue Ten
Aaron BR. Gay & CO
State Strest
Massachusetts
George H. Gray
Arlington
Said County
Testate
Georgian E. Homer
Massachus
Joan W. McKim
Commonwealth OF Massaom
Setts
Charles Thayer Reed
Sophia E. Reed
Achuron
Edward M. Cary
of Norfolk
Alice Forbes Cary
Ceares
Stoamer
Fall River
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Pilgrim
J. R. Kendrick
Geo. L. Connor
Gen’l Pass
Agt
H. Palmer
Philadelphia & Reading R. R
C. Rt. R
N. J
Liberty St
Amerias
Boston Connect
Boston Donats
A. A. McLeod
Ruiada
Cess l
C. G. Hancock
Gen. Pass
Philada
Movergal & West
Pullman
Lowell
Wagner Palace
Central Vermont
J. W. Hobart
J. W. Cummings
Vasa
Gt. Albans
New England
East End
Union Depo
Providence & Worcester RE
Trenton
Bound Brook
Philadhlpmea
Depot Central R. R
New Jersey
Foot of
Liberty
Depot Philadelphia
Reading K. Krth and
Greenests
Concord BR. BR
Manchester
Concord
N. H
N.H
H, E, Ghamberlls
Hoosac Tunnel
Causeway Street
Troe
Rotterdam Junction
Troy
Binghamton
Niagara Falls
Michigan Central
Palace
Grand Tranuk
Kinugharmon
Belmont and
Waverley
Brattiebere
Miller’s Falls
Fitchberg
Lipm. SM
Gardner and Miller's Falls
Greenfield
Moosick Falls
Sie N
Lincoln
Eee
Nashua
North Adams
Williamstown
North Leominster
Saratoga
Shelburne Falls
Pulels
USLO
John Adams
J. Whitmore
Gen'l Trafic
J.R. Watson
Gen’ Pass
Central Vermont Railroads
Rutland
Montreal
Ottawa
Ogdensburg
Fitchburg Depot
Eapress
Hire
C. A. Faxon
A KR. Stewart
Keene, N
Providence Line
Park Square Station
Apsachusetts
Rhode
Reeves
Richardson
J. W. Miller
C. H. Briggs
W Gee
Gen
Pass
Suna Aa
Crauvy
V.ue
Ili
Ibington
Quincy
Nyvy
Bee Ee Baet Wowmanth
Ues Os
Alud AM
Benen, Sn
Wwe
Ney
reAu
Fall River Line
Old State Oust
Cape Cod
United States Engineer Office
Mass
G. L. Gillespie
U. S
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