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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1887
Page
7
The report lists price grades for yearling mutton and heavy Brighton mutton, with numbers for choice heavy yearlings and Eastern mutton. It notes veal prices with levels described as fancy to poor to good, and mentions specific price ranges such as 4 6c and 9 10c in Eastern veal.
The auction notes firm apple prices while Florida oranges bring 75 to the box and grapefruits fetch 2.12 per unit. The Andrea Lovico cargo sold oranges at 150 a box and lemons at 170 per box. Welhaven arrives with 6696 banches of bananas and 10,000 coconuts. bananas1 26 to 174 for colors, coconuts 35c. Jona Bigelow & Co to receive strawberries and rhubarb from Louisiana tomorrow.
Liverpool cotton futures opened firm and closed easy with prices across months from April to October. Spot Upland middling and Orleans at 55 1/16d and 6 11-16d respectively. New York spot firm with middling uplands at 105 1/16d and other grades listed. New York futures opened steady. several month bids and asks shown. Reports include receipts 23 000 bales with 15 600 American, and sales 10 000 bales with 7 200 American.
Boston Post correspondent Beare J. Fox offers the Watertown market data for the week ending April 12 1887. It lists totals by species cattle sheep hogs and calves with state breakdowns Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Western Canada and a summed total. It also records cars over roads Boston & Maine Boston & Lowell Fitchburg Eastern and totals 521. Prices for market beef store cattle hides tallow and skins are given along with a classification note for cattle and sheep.
Markets by Telegraph details mixed grain and commodity activity across New York Chicago Cincinnati and Toledo with flour receipts exports and prices for wheat rye corn barley oats and other staples. Notable figures include No 2 spring at 78 1 4 81 0c No 2 red 34 0c in Chicago and pork prices around 17 in Cincinnati along with steady to quiet movements in flour butter and oils.
Steady demand for flour with wheat dull and unsettled at No 2 red about 79 to 80 cents. Corn active around 35 4 3 1/4 cents, oats firm near 27 1/2 to 28 1/4 cents. Provisions firm with pork around 315 old mess to 18 new mess. lard near 72 1/2 cents. various salt meats and bacon prices listed. Receipts show flour 2000 barrels, wheat 14 000 bushels, corn 11 000, oats 18 000, barley 1000. shipments include 11 000 barrels flour and 129 000 bushels corn. Detroit reports wheat at 82 to 82 1/2 cents for No 1 white and Michigan red at 82 1/2 to 83 cents. No 2 red at 82 1/2 to 84 cents. receipts include 4700 bushels wheat.
Peoria reports hog prices at 490 680 with 500 receipts and 450 shipments. St Louis notes hogs higher with mixed packers up to 50 cents and butchers' to 570 590. Chicago shows cattle receipts 4000 shipments 1000 strong but slow, hogs 10000 receipts with rough mixed values, sheep receipts 6000 and lower prices for natives Western Texans and lambs around 3 5 to 5 90.
Cotton markets across ports show firm tone with net receipts totals for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville. Consolidated four day totals report 12750 net receipts 13361 exports to Great Britain and 500852 stock across all United States ports.
Markets show wheat and corn generally slow on coast cargoes but firmer for shipments. At Mark Lane and Paris, wheat and flour held steady while English and French country markets stay firm. Liverpool reports dull wheat, firm corn with good demand. receipts include substantial American wheat and corn. Manchester notes quiet cloths and firm yarns. LIVES reports steady wheat and firmer mixed American corn. imports tallied for the week.
A condensed ledger of shipments and cargoes across ports including Antwerp Port Williams Nova Scotia Apalachicola Chittagong andaux Cayes listing steamer schooner and brig cargoes such as bbls mdse casks wine champagne steel glass iron rods cocoa logs lumber and jute with quantities like 4028 bushels 6030 feet lumber 451000 ths logwood 8788 bales jute and 255000 feet yellow pine and Cypress lumber.
A dated export summary lists shipments from Hayti Yarmouth Newfoundland and European ports. Items include pork and flour at Hayti, cotton and oranges at Newfoundland, and large quantities of bacon oil wheat and leather goods in Antwerp and Hamburg.
Receipt roundup dated April 12, 1887 lists cargoes for Boston & Albany Providence Grand Junction Old Colony New York & New England and Fitchburg railroads. Cotton, wool, flour, corn and oats dominate, with numerous bales, barrels, and boxes of foodstuffs and leather goods recorded alongside lumber and hides.
A long list of commodity totals and shipment details appears, detailing bales wool sacks flour cornmeal oats wheat peas millfeed malt grease beef lard tea butter cheese eggs potatoes hay straw lumber apples leather hides skins by entities including Boston and Maine Railroad Eastern Division Western Division and Boston and Lowell Railroad and By Express By Sea with quantities in bbls sacks cases rolls bales cars and other units.
A long list of names and firms across several cities shows agents and reps for major shoe and boot companies. Buyers and representatives from Atlanta to Toledo are cited, including firms like Mason Bros & Perry, Greensfelder Florsheim & Co, A Meyer & Co, Reed Jones & Co, Hinkle Nesbet & Co, L & H Blum, Leederman & Marks, and Kelley Goodfellow & Co, among others.
The Boston Probate Court issues a citation to heirs creditors and interested parties regarding the probate of a deceased person’s will and the administration of another estate. Public notice requires weekly publication in the Boston Post and the Logton Lost for three weeks before the April 18 1887 hearing.
A dense list details weekday and weekend train departures from Boston to many destinations including New York via Shore Line and Fall River lines. Times cover morning and afternoon runs, with numerous returns listed for each stop from Ashmont to Wood's Hall, along with notes on service changes and exceptions.
Boston to North Adams Troy Albany and beyond with daily and Sunday schedules. Includes express and sleeping car services to Chicago St Louis and Albany, various local stops such as Belmont Waverley Cambridge Concord and Watertown. Through tickets and station office contact details listed with general superintendents.
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