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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1888
Page
7
The London market reports varied commodity pricing. Lead and tin are listed with several grades and prices such as lead pipe and sheet lead, tin plates, coke, and zinc-spelter, with prices in pence and pounds per ton or per unit.
The Post presents domestic and general market reports for April 14. Telegraphed and cable despatches from commercial centers accompany local market coverage. The Boston market report is followed by telegraphic reports on the same commodities to give a complete, integrated view.
Local market report shows firm demand for winter wheat patents and steady to rising prices across commodities. Notes on flour, oats, corn, rye, millfeed, barley, and hops include specific bid prices and regional variations from New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, and St Louis.
Butter prices hold steady with varied quotations across Western and New York creamery grades from 20c to 31c. Chicago and Liverpool show tame to steady activity, with Elgin creamery at 26c and Northern cheese at 18 19c. Jobbing prices run 12c higher on cheese, with overall soft demand in Chicago and easier tone Saturday in the Beea market.
The supply is limited with fresh hasterns at 21c and multiple regional bean and pea prices mixed. Eastern firsts around 1840, Western near 1814c, domestic beans firm while foreign lots ease. numerous price quotes for New York New Jersey Nova Scotia Vermont and Maine varieties. grass seeds steady with good demand. potatoes quiet with varied regional prices. hay and straw demand improving. poultry steady with regional buy prices for turkeys chickens and fowls. game market unchanged with modest values for grouse quail ducks geese.
The steamer Unita arrived from Baracoa with bananas for Noyes and Samana from Jamaica with bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Prices divide by fruit: apples quiet, light receipts, steady readiness. oranges and lemons steady with fair movement and varied box prices. strawberries ample with Saturday sales at 40 to 50 cents. bananas abundant with Baracoa and Jamaica prices for Aspinwall Port Limon and Baracoa bids.
The Bureau of Statistics reports March export totals for bacon ham pork and lard with year over year comparisons. Prices and quotes across Boston New York Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati St Louis reflect firm to higher markets for meats with note of stronger indication and weekly export values around $100,000 versus $50,000 prior week.
The notice lists multiple produce items and their quoted prices including asparagus at 4 5 dot, green peas 2 3 crate, Florida tomatoes 33 4 4 crate, cabbage 2 2 75 per crate, Nor folk kale 75c per barrel, and onions at 350 400 per crate. Other items include beets, squash, beans, lettuce, parsnips, turnips, celery, rhubarb, radishes, and more with varied units and per unit prices.
Sugar markets steady with Cuba refining at 4 4 1/2 to 4 1/2 cents and Javas Nos 10 to 11 at 59 1/2 to 60 1/2 cents. Refined sugars firm with pulverized 7 1/4 cents and granulated 6 1/2 to 6 3/4 cents. Havana reports prices advancing, polarizations at 2 1/2 to 2 4/5 dollars per quintal. stock and export movements noted with United States shipments and varying freight rates.
New York shows uplands mid dling at 9 1/4 to 9 5/8 cents with futures opening steady and closing dull. Liverpool spot mostly dull with varied upland and Orleans bids. futures steady across delivery months. Domestic receipts and stocks updated. widespread market activity noted across Augusta Galveston New Orleans and other ports with mixed daily results.
Hog and cattle markets show higher hog prices and steady to higher receipts. Hogs receipts 7000 with shipments 6000, prices 5 60 to 6 5 with heavies near 90, lights 5 40 to 5 75. Cattle receipts 1000 in Chicago and shipments 680 with steer values around 3 30, stockers and feeders 220 to 60, cows bulls mixed 170 to 3865. sheep receipts 2000, natives 8 75 to 6 00, Western 4 50 to 6 10, lambs 55 to 45.
Tallow and London, New York prices steady for various commodities. Pipe Line Certificates closed and opened with April dates. Turpentine petroleum and rosin with fixed quotes. Whitey and Cincinnati markets steady. Coffee Rio quoted quiet and steady in New York.
A long shipping list from April 14, 1888 shows Steamer Bonavista carrying 76584 bags of sugar to Boston Sugar Refinery, Steamer Gwent with 11000 bunches bananas, 400000 tbs logwood, and numerous consignments from Aux Caves to Liverpool and other ports. The record details vessels, cargoes, quantities, and firms like Lyon Dupuy & co, Seaverns & co, Bates & Barnet, and Holder & Herrick among many others.
A Halifax Nova Scotia shipping record from April 14 1888 lists cargo on the steamer Carroll including 40 packages hardware 68 packages glassware 120 cases shoe blacking 16 packages rubber goods 356 pieces white wood 5 cases tobacco 1 case books 2 cases dry goods 10 cases shoe blacking 2 cases tages 50 boxes mucilage 3 boxes bladders 185 barrels cornmeal 86 packages chair stocks 65 boxes stove polish 19 bushels lines 13 barrels fabricating oil 1 case corset jeans 11 tolls range 1 case suspenders 2 barrels paste 10 cases boots and shoes 25 cases soap 14 bundles hemp 8 barrels roofing 62 rolls roofing paper 11 cases cutlery.
Long catalog of consignments from multiple rail lines dated April 14 1888. Entries show quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats feed grease tallow bacon pork ham tea butter eggs beans straw lumber leather hides and more allocated to Boston and Albany Grand Junction Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine divisions with numerous bales boxes casks cars and sacks.
Passengers may have baggage checked from one terminal to Boston via the Old Colony. Weekday trains from Boston to New York via River Line depart at 6 p.m. and return at 5 p.m. Numerous stops listed with varied times include Ashmont, Barnstable, Hyannis, Yarmouth, Sandwich, Braintree, Quincy, Weymouth, Mattapan, Milton, Middleboro, Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Plymouth, Hingham, and more. Gene ral manager guidance by GEO. L. Connor and J. R. Kendrick.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Superior Court orders publication in Boston Post for defendant Charles A. Boardman to answer a contract claim of Seth S Gerry for two thousand dollars. Defendant not residing in Commonwealth. publication to run three weeks prior to May first sitting. James W Newell listed as administrator de bonis non.
Train departures from Boston Passenger Station on Causeway Street bound for Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and west at listed times, with express services to Chicago via Niagara Falls Short Line and Wabash Western routes, including sleeping cars. Also lists times for Belmont Ghana routes, Miller's Falls lines, and Sunrise schedules with multiple daily departures and Sundays.
A dense OCR compiled timetable lists departures and arrivals across multiple towns in New England. It notes trains from Boston to Dover Exeter Haverhill Lowell Medford and beyond with varying morning afternoon and evening slots and Sunday services including Dover Haverhill Manchester Lowell Medford Port land Bangor Lewiston and Reading Weymouth stations.
Rerai leogads offers through trains from Haymarket and Causeway stations on April 2 1888 serving Augusta Haymarket St station East and West divisions with multiple daily departures to Portland Rockland Castine Lewiston Manchester and Concord via Haymarket Causeway and St John ports and connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Maine & Lincoln railways with steamer links from Portland on select days.
A detailed listing of rail departures from Boston Causeway Street to numerous New England destinations. Timings cover Amesbury to Portland with multiple daily trains, branches to Lynn Salem Swampscott and other towns, plus special notes on workingmen's trains and limited Thursday and Saturday service via South Reading and Haymarket.
Local and long distance departures listed for all destinations from Boston and surrounding stations. Route coverage includes Tilton Laconia Meredith Plymouth and Montreal via White River Junction with multiple daily departures and parlor or sleeping cars. Local service spans Manchester Nashua Keene Hillsboro Greenfield and Essex Junction with extensive time options.
Time tables list trains from Euston and Causeway Street to Northampton and towns including Hadley Amherst Belchertown Bondenville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland and Clinton. Services run various daily departures with times such as 7.25 am 12.05 pm 3.40 pm and 5.25 pm, notes James T. Aber and D. J. Flanders as general managers offering full information at stations.
Local time tables show bans on all divisions and tickets at offices 262 Washington street Boston. Through tickets to all points for sale. Train departures from Boston various lines at early morning and night hours. Detailed stop lists include Newton, Brookline, West Newton, Dedham, Stoughton, Canton Junction, and more. Returns and Sunday/holiday variations noted. A A Folsom Supt.
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