Market Ends Firm After Lake Shore Bond Sale Rally
New York stocks opened weak on London worries and bear activity, with Jersey Central and Manhattan dipping. Afternoon strength followed Lake Shore’s 50 million bond issue plans boosting Western issues, pushing Lake Shore to 171 1 2 and others higher before a slight pullback. total volume 148,003 shares.
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New York
Stock Exchange
London
Jersey Central
Manhattan
Lake Shore
Burlington and Quincy
Qmilia Compion
Vanderbilt Railway
Suyvar
Washington
Waw Congress
Brooklyn Union Gas
St. Paul
Wheat Market Fluctuations Mark Chicago Trade
Chicago March 2 Wheat prices showed sharp swings with a brief rise of about 14% cents above the prior close before fading to no net gain. St Louis led the boom and the break, corn trading modestly with buyers strongest, and provisions steady at open and then heavy as hoe prices declined.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Grain and meat prices from the market report
The excerpt lists commodity quotes including No. 2 red and No. 3 corn with prices 84% 86c and 23c respectively, No. 2 oats at 164c, mess pork at 7.95 to 8.00, lard around 3.95 to 4.00, sides and shoulders in the 4.10 to 4.75 range, S.C. sides at 4.37 to 4.50, and whiskey at 1.17.
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S.C
Norfolk
North Carolina
Smithfield
Western Dairy Sc
New York State Dairy
New
Western
Commodity price report from New York market session
Market notes from March 2 on flour and wheat futures with mixed movements and firm spot tones. Corn and oats show dull trading with modest advances, while beef, lard, and butter quote steady or firmer, and coffee and sugar prices mostly unchanged or only marginally moved.
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New York
Western Steam
City
State
Cotton market report with New York and Liverpool figures
New York on March 2 reports quiet cotton with net receipts 17 bales and exports to Great Britain 2b bales. Week totals show 40,700 net receipts and 27,04 bales to Great Britain, with Liverpool futures steady and prices in favor of buyers.
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Great Britain
Dales
Colton
Stenudy
Mareh
Trisday
Liverpool
Provisions Market Notes From Norfolk 1897
Norfolk Virginia March 2 1897 market report lists prices for Pish Mackerel herring bacon lard l3 etc. It covers meats dairy oils sugars coffee flour rice and grain with specific per unit prices and market direction for each item and region.
Grain and feed market quotes from Michigan Ohio Indiana
Offers for oats mixed and white oats steady to firm. Mill feed and bran ranges given with prices per quantity. Timothy hay wholesale and mixed forage prices listed. Bulk standards and shell medium quotes for various selects and extra count grades. Clam pricing per 100 units also noted.
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Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Timothy
Fresh Fish Prices Per Pound and Per Hundred
A list of assorted fish prices per pound and per hundred. Gray trout seven cents, croakers seven cents, taylors seven cents, pan fish eight cents, baking fish seven and a half cents, spots six six. Inshore species include mullet six and a half cents, flounder six cents, sheephead seven cents, minckarel fifteen cents, blue fish ten cents, speckled trout eight cents, red snapper four and a half cents, roe shad Florida thirty one cents, buck shad Florida twenty cents, herring two dollars twenty five cents per hundred.
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Taylors
Florida
Live Stock Market Shows Strong Demand for Cattle and Hogs
Market reports robust demand for cattle with choice heavy Western cattle at 34 to 34 4 cents per pound and common to fair at 3 7 to 4 cents. Eastern North Carolina best cattle at 2 03y to ?, milch cows priced per head around 20 to 35, dressed hogs at 4 cents per pound, hogs dull in demand.
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North Carolina
Fruit and Produce Prices in Southern Markets
Listing of fruit and vegetables with prices in Southern markets including bananas at 1.00 to 1.25 per bunch, oranges 4.50, coconuts 3.50 per bag of 100, lemons 2.50, cabbage 1.75 per bar, onions 3.00 per sack, and beeswax 22 cents per pound. Poultry market shows glut with spring chickens 16 to 18 cents and wholesale price steady at 12 4/4 cents. Truck vegetables priced at 1.25.
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Rio
Mibc
Laguayra
Java
Orto Rico
Erade
New Orleans
Liverpool
California
Messina
Local Prices Quoted For Goods At Saval Stores
Saval Stores lists prices including Rootn at 1.00 per barrel and tar at 1.70 per barrel. Turpentine is priced at 0.40 per gallon and ligion at 2.50 per barrel.
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Saval
Noisy Market Notes and Odd Grain Listings
Fragmentary market item lists various grades and prices for produce and commodities. Mentions Spanish shelled items and Virginia references with mixed numeric codes, suggesting a local buyers guide or price sheet rather than a full story.
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Virginia
Arrivals at Lambert's Point and Norfolk coal cargoes
Shipping news from the Port of Norfolk on March 2, 1807 lists arrivals including Schr Maine Bennett bound for Lambert's Point to unload iron at joint port. Harges Nos 4 and 5 bound for Wm Lamb Co with coal. Barkentine Darwin earn Basarlo from River Parana by Norfolk and Western railway with 838 tons cannel coal. Sdr Florence Chea Abbott from New York with lumber. Tug Asher J Hudson Causey to Amore with barge Minnie Smithers.
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Maine
Bennett
Lambert's Point
Jond
Harges
Wm. Lamb & Co
Barkentine
Darwin
Earn
Basarlo
Milford Harbor Bell Buoy Status Update
The Light house Board reports a bells buoy in Milford Harbor remains in place due to shallow water. The buoy, black and white striped with no number, was established February 14 1887 in thirteen feet of water about 200 feet south of Entrance Buoy for the Wepowage river entrance from Long Island Sound.
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Lighthouse Board
Wepowage River
Milford Tlarbor
Long Island Sound
Sherman’s Memory Lapses Tied to Spain Prisoner Case
Baltimore report claims Mr. Sherman went to see Mr. Olney on important business and forgot the purpose. It alleges he possessed letters from Olney stating Spain would release Sanguilly, while a release debate raged. The new Secretary of State joined calls to go to war as Sanguilly prepared to be freed, and Sherman knew this.
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Mr. Olney
Spain
Sanguilly
Trains Set to Run Local Express Service
Local railroad officials announce start of a new express service linking key hubs. Crews prepare schedules and stations for the faster trips, promising reduced travel times for commuters and travelers throughout the region.
Norfolk and Southern passenger and freight schedule notice
Norfolk and Southern announces daily mail and express departures from Polk for Elizabeth City Edenton Mackey's Ferry Roper Pantego Belhaven and connections at Edenton with steamer for Plymouth Jamesville Windsor and Chowan river landings. Evening express and connections at Norfolk and Elizabeth City with ferries and rail lines. Freight received daily until 5 pm for prompt forwarding. General offices Norfolk Virginia.
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Merchals and Miners Transportation Rates for Routes
Advertises passenger and freight services by Merchals and Miners to Boston Providence and Savannah with schedules on various days and classes. Includes first and second class passenger options with meals, berths, and perishable freight handling via Providence and Boston schedules. Listed agents include H Wright Norfolk, Ald Stebbins Asst, W P Culner, J C Whitney Baltimore.
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Clyde Line Steamship From Norfolk To Philadelphia Schedule
Lyde s regular line steamer for Philadelphia sails direct from Norfolk to Philadelphia on every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 p m with return trips from Philadelphia on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday through bills of lading to South and Southwest via Seaboard Air Line Southern Railway Norfolk Southern roads James W McCarrick general southern agent Norton Way Omaha Clyde Co agents Philadelphia
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