Wilmington Market Report October 1869 Prices
Market notes from Wilmington and Witurecrox dated October 6 1869 show turpentine sales 90 barrels Virgin and Yellow Dip at 250 dollars, Hard at 150, spirits turpentine 150 casks at 41 cents, rosin 650 barrels with Good Strained 165 No 2 180 Low No 1 250, tar 82 barrels at 250 per barrel, cotton 162 bales at 24 25 cents, and wide variety of farm goods with prices for beef mutton veal pork eggs oysters and many fresh produce items.
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Witurecrox
N. C
Ubl
New River
Sea Side
Wholesale Prices List From Current Market
A dense catalog of wholesale costs for beeswax, sugar, candles, peanuts, potatoes, bacon, molasses, kerosene, linseed oil, tallow, yarn, pork, herring, codfish, butter, flour, cheese, salt, soap, shingles, lard, peas, rice, corn, sugar, coffee, tobacco, whiskey, rum, tobacco, lumber, and plaster. Entries show varied prices by weight or measure across items and regions.
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St. Domingo
New Cuba
N. C
Ivrring
Nova Scotia
City M’ss
N.C. Roe
Havana Brown
Liverpool
M. Se
North
Eas Co
N. Carolina
Cuba
Porto Rico
Millard'y
Apple
Averaging Expenses and Financial Independence
The piece urges caution in life and business, arguing many venturers fail from vanity, luck, or neglect. It advises diversifying income through secure investments, living within means, and funding acquisitions to guard against downturns, sickness, or inactivity. It promotes strict personal budgeting as the path to competence and wealth.
Democratic Reign of Terror in Philadelphia Described
The Philadelphia Post reports a violent riot tied to Keystone Club parade and Republican mass meeting disruptions. It cites gunfire along Chestnut and Fifth streets, attacks on officers, and a breakdown of police response amid Democratic and Invincible factions.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Post
New York
Baltimore
United States
Post
Keystone Club
Second Ward
Jefferson Avenue
Washington Street
Invincibles
Clark
Fifth
Library Streets
Fifth Street
Chestnut Street
The
Keystone
Archibald Potter
Central Station
Crowl
Wisconsin Bloomer Girls Farm Hard Work on Chippewa Frontier
In Eau Claire two New Hampshire immigrant sisters, now eighteen and twenty, farm twenty acres of wild land with no male help. They plow and harvest, handle teams, build roads, and pack hay, earning a reputation for grit and self reliance in a male dominated frontier.
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Wisconsin
New Hampshire
Eau Claire
Eau Clare
Chippewa Valley Girls Win Seats Among American Industry Queens
The piece extols Chippewa Valley women for rugged labor and self reliance, noting their 20 acre corn effort, home building, parties, and driving teams. It lauds them as strong, sensible, unnoise about rights and politics, earning recognition in Western industry.
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Chippewa Valley
Miss Anthony
L Stone Blackwell
American Indust
New York City Loyalty and Civic Power in War Years
The piece extols New York City as a moral and financial core of the Union during four years of Civil War. It praises civilian virtue over military might, cites the Chamber of Commerce as a global influence, and urges citizens to uphold duties, purify courts, and banish knaves.
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New York City
Our Union
Republic
Governayor
New York
Consion
Zion
Minerva
Wislora
Tan
V Vottian
Adriatic
Genoa
Florence
Tolland
Manhattan
Chamber of Commerce
Solon
Lycurgus
Citiees
City Fathers in New York Under Fire for Tax and Rule
A historical column denounces New York City governance, likening officials to mob rulers and demanding records from twenty years of municipal rule. The piece contrasts past and present tax burdens and mocks modern city leaders, suggesting corruption in local finances and franchises.
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New York City
Rome
Nast
New York
A Stonewall Cotton Mill Expands and Prospects Rise
A correspondent from Stonewall Mississippi describes a brick cotton mill on the Mobile and Ohio line. The facility, with a 180 by 55 foot main building and two wings, runs 52 looms and 2016 spindles and employs 73 women and girls, mostly widows. The manager claims higher wages than elsewhere and profits estimated at 75 to 100 dollars daily. The owners plan to double the building, increase capital stock, and add fivefold machinery with a 50 percent rise in daily costs.
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Memphis Appeal
Stonewall
Mississippi
Mobile
Meridian
Mobile and Ohio Road
Cotton Manufacturers
South
Stonewall Mills
Watch Screws and the Gold Pinion Trade In Watches
The piece details tiny screws used in watches, noting they number forty four or more than a quarter of all parts. It describes automata making screws, threading up to 500 threads per inch, polishing, tempering, and the gold compensated balance from punching rooms, with thousands of operations per wheel and high precision. The balance uses a brass rim, steel inner rim, and is drilled with twenty two holes. A single worker bores wheels at high speed, completing about one hundred wheels per day.
Blanks on Sale at Post Office South Front Street
Local note announces availability of low price blanks in any quantity printed to order. Orders can be applied for in person or mailed to the Post Office on South Front street near Exchange Corner.
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South Front Street
Rum Exchange Corner
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the Wilmington Post
Wilmington
WN. C
Wilmington Market
Wild Man
Mark Twain
Shep
Cain
Bezar
Mecca
Mahomet
Godfrey
Jerusalem
Columbus
America
Charles I
London
Warren Hastings
American
Lexington
Cornwallis
Washington
Paris
Napoleon
Elba
Sumpter
Richmond
Kansas
Sam
Quack
Tam
Ocean Bank
Pacific Railroad
New York Papers
Anil
Julius
Dauphin
Nahant
Museum
Sun
Herald
Tribune
Pic
Bynon
U.s.j
Mak Twain
Chippewa
M's
Wouyen
God Children's Wear
GEO. RB
French & Sun
North Front St
WM. HH. Bernard
Sud Proprietus
Ziras
Marshall
Court House
Wiltwingston
District Court of the United States
District of North Carolina
Bo Ke. Moore
el Vin Artis
Juln AL Sanders
Duud
Midde Sound
Willi IL
Costin
Willineston
Lund
Middle Sound
J. J. Orrell
N. Fowler
Masvavero’ Sound
Teash
S. PT. Carrow
J. W. Neff
N. G
Lou
North Carolina
Hls Dawoud
Seaboard
Roanoke
Wilmington and Weldon
Baltimore Stewan Packet Company
5. E. Winants
KY Amining Burg
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Pension Bureau
Suen
Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company
Act of Congress
Basing House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Vth Street
Washington, D. C
H.C
Dock Street
s.Greenbacks
Geo. Kk. Frenci
Clu
Genjamin Areneecretary
WM. Wil Vt Lely
Custer
Ilu
First National Bank OF
United States Depository and
W. H. McRang
D. Wallace
Eui Muxuay
Epwin E. Burruss
Asa K. Watkek
Caslucr
Wm. Largma
Teller
H. M. Bowren
Te Bank
Nean
United State
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