$50 Million Lake Shore Bond Issue Lifts Markets
New York March 3 The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway planned refunding may raise investor confidence as Vanderbilt led gains push railroad stocks higher. Sugar refining and other industries continued to attract buyers while bonds remained strong and money markets showed firm conditions.
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New York
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Speyer
Vanderbilt
Lake Shore
London
Levant
St. Paul
Louisville
Nashville
Devon
H. O. Havemeyer
American Sugar Refining Company
Shorts
Pullman
Omaha
Jersey Central
Manhattan
Okmaha
Nickel Plate
Consolidated Gas
Burlington
Northwest
Wheat and grain market dull with gradual price decline
Chicago market reports lower prices for wheat, a steady overall tone, and light trade activity. Declines were tied to Liverpool weakness and European political anxiety, with a late rally from puts and a firming on lower English Consols. Oats saw little interest and provisions were slow.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Europe
Market Summary From New York March 1 1900s
Prices on Wheat Corn and Beef held steady amid dull trading. Coffee and sugar markets showed slight declines or steadiness with options drifting as buyers and sellers awaited clearer directions. Beef hams lard and pork markets remained firm while butter stayed active with creamery and dairy varieties quoted.
Grain and market quotes from Baltimore trading desk
Baltimore, Md March 3 Flour unchanged Wheat unsettled spot 89¾ bid May 244 82¾ Cent Southern by sample Vowne do on trade. Corn easy spot 26¼ March 25? July 26 7/8. Steamer mixed 2W? Southern white 24 27c do yellow Onts firm No 2 white 24 24c No 2 mixed 23 4 23¾.
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Baltimore
Cotton market reports across New York and international quotes
New York on March 3 notes quiet middling cotton at 7 1/16 cents with total receipts 9,955 bales and exports to Britain 12,049. Continent 1,474. stock 875,103. weekly totals show 59,708 receipts and 30,058 exports to Britain. Futures close steady with March near 6.97 and New Orleans prices range 6.02 to 6.82 across months.
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New York
Great Britain
France
Liverpool
New Orleans
Wholesale Provisions Prices From Norfolk Market
Norfolk Va March 38 1897 Wholesale quotations list prices for fish meats and lard across grades and pack sizes. No 2 fish Munckerer kegs 7 00 new small 12 50 medium 12 00 No 3 fish in kegs 8 50 Herring Family Roe half barrel 2 60 North Carolina Herring 3 85 Eastern in barrels 2 05 Provisions market strong mess pork 1 00 ham pork 9 25 Bulk meats steady clear ribs 41 4 4 ac size cut fat backs 41 4 4 c bellies 41 4 4 c pork plate 41 c Shoulders sugar cured 6 c Bacon Shoulders c Breast sugar cured 7 14 c Hams Smithfield 14 4 16 c 8 C slip hams 11 5 12 c Lard Pure lard herees 84 c cases tubs c over price of tlercesa per pound ilc tlerces in cases and tubs ac higher full line of dairy and other items listed
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North Carolina
Smithfield
Hiher
Ee Ea Sry
Western Dairy, Lle
Market Prices Reported for Butter Wheat and Sugar
The bulletin lists dairy and grain prices including Butter Market strength New York State dairy fresh creamery 22q24c Western 18q220c. Keresone Oil-Firm figures 112 degrees 74c 60 degrees 10c Red 150 degrees 10%4c Grocerica Colee-Steady prices for Laguayra Java and syrups Molasses with varied grades New Orleans Molasses Flour Market steady and higher Best Patent Family 35.25 Winter Wheat Best Patent 5.40 Choice Straight Family 4.65 Good Family 4.65 Fair Family 4.45 Good Extra 4.00 per bag 100 lbs Salt Firm Liverpool Fine 50c 1.00 Rice Milled 4% 6 14c rough 45 60c Sugar Market steady with town prices for cut loaf powdered granulated confectioners’ standard A American off A etc. Grain Peas steady with black-eye new crop 1.46 1.50 per bag White Corn 35c Mixed corn 32c Oats steady Mixed 26c White 30c Mill Feed steady bran 12.50 13.00 ships tail or middling 13 Men white bolted net 60 pounds 40c Michigan Ohio Indiana No.1 Timothy Kay 15.00 No.2 14.00 mixed 11.00 12.00
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Minnesota
Western
City
Stite
Elgins
New York State Dairy
New
Keresone
Grocerica
Colee
Laguayra
Java
Porto Rico
New Orleans
Liverpool
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Timothy Kay
Market Prices For Ocean Goods And Livestock
Oysters priced by grade and gallon with rates from 80 to 1.40. Shell mediums list prices by barrel and per hundred for various shellfish and fish. Live stock market reports show strong demand for cattle and hogs with specific prices for Western and Eastern North Carolina cattle, heifers, bulls, cows, and dressed hogs.
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North Carolina
Commodity Prices and Market Notes From Agricultural Trade
A scanned market listing shows Southern fruit prices with bananas at 1.25 per bunch and oranges at 4.50, Messina at 2.50, cocoanuts 3.50 per 100, lemons 2.50, cabbage 21.75 per barrel, potatoes haymens and yellow types, onions 3.50 per sack, poultry market glutted with spring chickens 16 to 18 cents and small ones undesired, eggs wholesale steady at 10 to 11 cents per dozen, beeswax 22 cents per pound, and Irish potato shipments priced at 1.25 per unit.
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California
Naval Stores Prices and Pitch Tar Turpentine Rates
The notice lists naval stores prices including rosin at $1.00 per barrel pitch at $1.25 per barrel tar at $1.75 per barrel and turpentine at $2.50 per barrel forty cents per gallon for other products.
Market Note on Warmers and Shelled Nuts Prices
The notice lists prices for warmers and assorted nuts including No 1 Spanish shelled at 44 cents and No 1 Virginia at 8 cents with No 2 Virginia at 2 cents. It references hand picked fancy grades and third grade mixes along with grading qualifiers 2c and 1 2c.
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Virginia
Lumber Market Wholesale Quotations Inactive Demand
Cypress Lumber reports a dull market with no demand for boards 1x6 to 16 feet priced at 12.50 to 15.00 and rough boards 1x6 to 16 feet at 9.00 to 10.00. Also listed is boards 1x12 to 18 inches for 10 feet. Continued on Wighth Page.
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Cypress
Virginia Beach Southern RR Timetable No. 1
Norfolk Virginia Beach and Southern RR runs daily with exceptions. Timetable shows departures from Norfolk and Virginia Beach at 7 00 am mixed, local and express services, with stops at Oceana Lynnhaven Kempsville and Rambleton among others. Through express trips take about thirty five minutes while local express runs about forty five minutes. A chair car is attached and seats cost 24 cents.
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In A. Me
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R. HW
Pannill
Isss
Norfolk and Southern Express to Elizabeth City and more
The Norfolk and Southern Express departs at 4 10 p m daily except Sunday for Elizabeth City Edenton and intermediate stops. It connects at Elizabeth City with the steamer Neuse on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday for New Bern Morehead City Kinston and Goldsboro via A and NC Railway and to Jacksonville Wilmington and all stations on the WN and N due.
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New Orleans
Merchants' and Iners Transportation Co Service Notice
Notice for a transportation company detailing schedules from Providence to Boston with various classes of travel and perishable freight timing. Includes agents and routes via Norfolk Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland with names of Wright, Bring, Turner, and Whitney.
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Wright
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A.D
WP. Turner
J.C. Whitney
Cenernal Otlees
Baltimore
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