Sluggish pork and beef markets with steady prices in 1900s style notes
Prices for smoked hams and pork products hold at current quotations while fresh beef shows little change. Cattle demand remains steady for heavy stock but light stock is plentiful and slow. Veals arrive freely with quiet trading. Lamb receipts large with prices lower. Fresh meat listings cover beef, pork, mutton, and veal with varied cuts and weights across explicit price ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord
Choice
Choice City
Chicago
Brighton
Fruit market report from Cape Cod to Delawares and Jerseys
The fruit trade showscranberries first arrival from Cape Cod at 3 560 a box with steady peach demand. Receipts over the past six days total 47 cars vs 111 last year, season total 111 cars vs 262 previously. Delawares and Jerseys vary in price per basket, apples and grapes abundant, pears and plums mixed demand, watermelons slow at low prices, and numerous early market listings for melons, peaches, and citrus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis & Co
Cape Cod
Kolb
Delaware
Hudson River
Moore’s
Jersey
Ives
Pth
Bradshaw & Quackenbos
Damson
Bartlett
Clapp
Sorrento
Palermo
Aspinwall Arifl
Port Limon
Jamaica
Baracoa
Cotton and sugar markets steady with mixed futures
Liverpool cotton futures opened steady and closed firm with September at 226 64d and November at 5 7 64d. New York spot firm at 9 1 2c to 10 1 2c for middling. futures also firm. Trade shows 137,100 bales in pipelines, sugar refined sharply firm with various grade quotes, and molasses steady across cargo lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Orleans
New York
Jung
Manila
Lloilos
Belmont
Orto Rico
Barbadoes
Cuba
Flour and grain prices in New York trade center report
Reports from Trade Centres New York Sept 1 show flour receipts 42 252 pkgs exports 7449 bbls 21115 sacks steady sales 16600 bbis and various price ranges for Western State city mill extra and Minnesota flour plus No 2 Chicago and other grades. Rye corn oats coffee sugar molasses petroleum rosin potatoes turpentine pork beef and lard markets noted with receipts and shipments in Milwaukee Cincinnati and other hubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minnesota
Chicago
Rio
Petroleum—United
Western Steam
Tierces Western Steam
Terces City Steam
Continent
South America
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Boston & Albany
Grand Junction Railroad
Providence Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Lowell Railroad
Express
Pelte
Dblegis
Rhos
Kips
D Bolls
Wheat and grain prices move across Chicago Toledo and St Louis
Market reports from Toledo Chicago St Louis Minneapolis show firmer wheat and corn, mixed oats and rye, with receipts and shipments across regions. No 2 products price ranges and pork lard and whiskey values are noted amid active flour demand and steady to higher markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Chicago
ST. Louis
Minneapolis
Hog and Cattle Markets Across Major Midwest Centers
Hogs steady to firm with Yorkers around 400 to 520 dollars in St Louis and mixed packers at 490 to 520, butchers firm to 580. Chicago reports cattle receipts at 11 000 and hog receipts at 18 000 with steady to higher prices for shipping steers 3 5 to 25, packing and shipping 5 516 to 640, hogs 475 to 515 rough to 470. Sheep and lamb markets show natives 8 to 44, Western 8 3 70, Texans 3 365 for sheep and 4 5 for lambs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Peoria
Chicago
Texas
Western Rangers
Cotton Markets Sept 1: steady levels across major ports
Augusta to New Orleans to New York show mixed activity with steady to firm prices. Net receipts and ship ments are reported, with stocks ranging from thousands to over forty thousand bales and exports to Great Britain and the continent noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
Mobile
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
Continent
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
United States
Foreign Markets Report From London and Europe
Cargoes off the coast with wheat quiet and corn steady in London markets. California and Australian wheats quoted with varied prices. Paris and Liverpool scenes show wheat and flour steady, corn quiet, prices listed for No 1 and No 2 grades. Antwerp and Paris spot and futures prices noted for September and October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Beerbohm
Mark Lane
Calcutta
California
Walla Walla
Paris
Liverpool
Antwerp
Imports and Exports at Global Ports 1887 Record
Large ledger of imports and exports dated Sept 1 1887 listing ships Black River Gonave Glasgow London and Yarmouth entries. Details include logwood pig iron dry goods machinery cases samples and various commodities with firms L C Chase & co J R Leeson & co Baring Bros & co Abram French & co and more. The long inventory names ships goods quantities and trading partners across New York Glasgow London and Yarmouth areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River
Logwood J Wessels & Co
New York
Gonaves
Alert
Logwood Lyon & Co
Glasgow
Scot
N & N W Curtis
W . Townsend
Stoddard, Lovering & Co
Shepard, Norwell & Co
John Shields
Grattan, Blaisdell & Horan
Bridgham & Co
Joel Goldthwait & Co
Henderson
Starkweather & Williams
Naylor & Co
L&d
H & A Atlan—L& Bales
White & Co
Ford
H White & Co
Nickerson & Baxter
Waldo Bros
Baring Bros & Co
Lorraine Mfgco
London
Eng
Peabody & Whitney
J H Buckman & Co
Abram French & Co
Jones, McDuffee & Stratton
Toys
Conway Bros & Co
Boston Thread & Twine Co
Yarmouth
Clements & Co
E . Ellis & Co
Delong & Seaman
Hutchinson & Co
Batchelder
Griffin & Co
Adams Bros
Walter S Swan—J
Boston and Albany Railroad Timetable Excerpts 1887
Depots and daily trains noted for Needham Woonsocket and Boston routes with many intermediate stops. Special schedules include New York via Middletown and Hartford, New Haven and through services to Albany, plus Newport and coastal steamers. Also Concord and Concord Branch lines with monthly through tickets and station offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Boston
Needham and Way
Eturn
Woonsocket
New York
Middletown
New Haven
Pullman
Hartford
New Britain
Waterbury
Danbury
Fishkill-on-Hudson
Newburn
Port Jervis
Chicago & $ L
Erie Railway
Pilgim
Bo Aais
Providence
OLD Coi
Old Colony
Wil
Isuva
Fall River
Boston and Maine Through Trains to Maine and Bar Harbor
Train schedules show Boston and Maine services to Augusta Haymarket and Causeway street with multiple daily departures. Routes include Bar Harbor St John Halifax and the Provinces with connections on Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox & Lincoln lines. A special limited express from Boston and Portland to Bar Harbor departs in the morning and returns via Mount Desert and Bangor with daytime arrivals in Portland and Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Haymarket Sq
Causeway St
Rockland
Dastine
Southwest
Kar Harbors
Portland
Sewiston
Manchester
Concord
N. H
North—Haymarket Sq
We. m
North Conway
Bkportland
Haymarket
Maine Central
Grand Trunk
Knox & Lincoln Railways
Haymarket Aq
Bangor
Bar Harbor
Poifman
Boston
Railroads Schedule Details for Boston Providence Line
Train timings and connections begin May 30 1887 for Boston Providence routes. Listings cover departures from Boston to New Work Newark Providence Pawtucket Attleboro and suburban stops with return times, noting reduced service on certain days and mixed daily frequencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Providence Railroad
Ofton
Shore Line
Newark
Shorelins
Stoni
New York
Providence
Pawtucket
Local Goods List Summary
A combined shipment lists 56 barrels of potatoes 67 crates of berries 11 cases of onions 2 crates of fish 33 cases of codfish 47 bales of duck and twine ordered along with other named items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
French
Exports Report from Ports and Vessels on Sept 1 1887
Trade items listed include New York shipments from Digby Annapolis and surrounding NS ports with shoes hardware books pictures marble eggs peaches and a mare. Clementspot schooner Gold Hunter carry flour lumber and meal. Weymouth Belmont sails with meal. Church Point Donna Bell with flour and meal. Antwerp via Baltimore reports steamship Alabama Y cargo of acon boxes cleared Aug 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Digby
Annapolis
New York
Clementsport
Gold Hunter
Weymouth
Belmont
Church Point
Donna Bell
Antwerp
Belg
Baltimore
Alabama
Veterans of Company A Hold Marblehead Reunion
About fifty veterans of Company A, Fourth Heavy Artillery, met in Marblehead for their annual reunion. Officers elected for the coming year: President Samuel Foss, vice-presidents J A Barren and S M Munroe, adjutant J C Spaulding, quartermaster W T J Litchman, surgeon T D Crowley, and chaplain William G Dickey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Heavy Artillery
Marblehead
Samuel Foss
J.A. Barren
S. M. Munroe
J. C. Spaulaing
W. T J. Litchman
T. D. Crowley
William G. Dickey
Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Route Schedule
Train times and routes from Boston to North Adams Troy Albany and western points via Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Route. Lists daily, Sunday and special service with various stops including Belmont Waverley Cambridge Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield Marlboro Nashua Worcester and Union Square Somerville. Tickets sold at Hoosac Tunnel Route office 250 Washington Street Boston. JOAN ADAMS Genl Supt.
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Boston & Albany
R.R
Washington Street
Boston
Kor
Sanauy
Newton Lower Falls
Wellesley Rmills
Worcester
Newton Highlands
Brookline
Hanson
Pitt
Cambridge
SUN
Concern
Fitchburg
Gardner and
Miller’s Falls
Greenfield
Lincoln
Marlboro, Hudson and Maynard
Nashua
N. H
Ayer Junction
North Leominster
Saratoga
Union Square
Somerville
Waltham
Watertown
Union Market
Mt. Auburna
Miller’s'Fally
Southeton
Hoosac Tunnel
Joan Adams
Montreal
West
Vermont
Pullman Cave
Rouge
Lowell
Chicago
Pullman
Vic Fitchburg
Trains Schedules Touch Boston to New England Towns
Trains depart from Boston including routes to Alton Rochester Dover and beyond with a dense timetable listing multiple stops and daily and Sunday departures. The schedule features numerous times across destinations such as Newburyport Melrose Andover Lawrence Manchester Lowell Portland Bangor and more with morning afternoon and evening trains throughout the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton
Rochester
Andove
Dover
Great Falls
Ren
Saco
My Lawrence
Melrose Hughlan Ads
Melrose
Newburyport
Salem
Wakefield
Acn
Wilmington
iLlbau
Minaverhill
Lawrence
Manchester
M. Lowell
Nedford
Portland
Bangor
Lewiston
M. Reading and Way
Comprehensive Rail Timetable Fragment Covers Many Cities
The clipping lists numerous train departures and arrivals for Boston area stations with times across Beverly Chelsea Middeford Epswich Newburyport Rockport Lynn and others. It mentions connections to Portland Bangor Halifax and St John and includes early morning to late evening slots with varied frequencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pear CS
M. Beverly
Middeford
Chelsea
Bover
Beveret
Beach
North Hama
Epswich
Middleton
M. Newburyp
M. North Conway I
Rockport
Glouce
Saugu
Wienham
Wolfeboro
Oak Island and Point of Pines Train Schedule
Public timetable for routes to Oak Island and Point of Pines with multiple departure times from Boston and return options via Gak Island and Point of Pines. Notes mention Saugu s Branch workingmen's train and South Reading Branch with limited stops and Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. James T. Fur er is general manager and D. J. Flanders is general passenger agent.
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New York
Fall River
Weyymouths
Hingham
Cohasxset
Seituate
Piarshield
Duxbury
Pig¢mouth
Plymouth
Marshfield
Scituate
Cohasset
Weymouth
Kall River
Brockton
Taunton
Newport
South Braintree
Braintree
Eturn
Bedford
Tipm
Riddlesboro
Joan’s Hall
Falmouth
Monument Beach
Hyannis
Yarmouth
Barnstable
Sandwich
Buzzard’s Bay
Onset Bay
Wareham
Ars
Geo. L. Connor
J. & Kendrick
Gen. Pass
Ton
Oak Island
Point OF Pines
Boston
SUN
Gak Iisland
Saugus
South Reading
Haymarket Square
City
Washington Street
Portland
Bangor
James T. Furer
D. J. Flanders
Boston and Lowell Railroad Timetable Highlights 1887
Extensive through service from Boston Causeway Street with local and long distance trains. Key routes include Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Plymouth Franklin Bebanon White River Junction St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal and various Northern Railroad locals. Sleeping and parlor cars to Montreal. Local Boston service to Manchester Concord Keene Henniker Hillsboro Nashua and surrounding towns. Daily operations with numerous departures and complex schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Boston
Causeway Street
City
Washington Street
Old State House
Wilton
Laconia
Lake Village
Weirs
Meredith
Ashland
Plymouth
Franklin
Bebanon
White River
Warren
Haverhill
Woodsville
Littleton
Bethlehem
Fabyans
Lancaster
Jefferson
St. Johnsbury
Newport
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Bristol
Claremont
Montpelier
Essex Junction
Burlington
St. Albans
Montreal
R.R
Vermont R. R
Air Line
Trains Schedule Details for Boston and Nearby Cities
Train times listed for Boston Station and connections to Ashcroft Endicott New York and surrounding points. Weekend and weekday departures, with oblique references to various cities and transfer options across multiple lines and stations.
Central Massachusetts Rail Commences Monday June 27 1887
Central Massachusetts R R announces new train schedule from Boston to Ware Barre and Rutland with multiple daily departures and listed stops including West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Rockbottom Sudbury Wayland Weston Yattham Waverly Belmont and others. General Passenger Agent GEO W Storer and General Superintendent O Mellen sign the notice.
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Batdy Daze
Levely Ronee A
Bias
Pee
Sells Rat
Sun
Ariington
Jos Mj
Bedford
Mellen
GEO
W. Storer
Boston
Ware
Barre
Rutland
West Boylston
Oakdale
Jefferson
Huson
Belmont
Geo. W. Storer
Pass
G’r Agt
Mellen Gen
Fragmented OCR Note from Duxu 1a Abingt
An OCR fragment mentions a location Duxu 1a Abingt and a number 6.48 with unclear context. The readable text presents an incomplete note likely from a local record or notice. No clear event date, names, or organizations are extractable.
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Boston & Providence R. RR
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Boston & Providence R. R
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L. H. Palmer
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