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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1887
Page
7
The notice lists oats barley and malt prices, quality grades, and regional references. It notes quantities in sacks and tons, with bids for cottonseed meal and varied hops pricing. The data include No 1 to No 3 white oats, six rowed Canada barley, state and Canada malt prices, and hops ranges for different regions.
Butter shows little change overall with mixed notes by city, notably unchanged in St Louis and Philadelphia, lower in Chicago, and steady in New York and Cincinnati. Cheese also unchanged in St Louis and New York, firm in Philadelphia, and in light demand in Chicago. Eggs and beans show firm tempo with ample supply. several markets report steady quotes and light receipts, while seeds and hay buck trends upward slightly amid light receipts.
Market remains firm with prices unchanged for most fruit. Bulawins reach 450 dollars, good russets in demand, oranges ample, bananas steady, apples cited by variety and grade from Baldwin to russets. A Savannah boat arrives Monday carrying 1400 boxes of oranges and 30 refrigerators of strawberries along with other fruit listings and regional price ranges.
A compactreport lists market quotes for cabbages onions and vegetables. Prices include onions firm at 350 per barrel Bermuda onions 82 per crate Havanas 225 per crate peas 225 per bush beans 4 per crate and various items such as spinach kale turnips squash lettuce and radishes with specific prices and a Norfolk boat despatch noting 1775 barrels of spinach and 40 barrels of kale arriving.
Market notes a steady demand for pork with firm prices and unchanged ham prices. Lard shows good demand with fully sustained prices, fresh beef remains quiet with steady prices, and other fresh meats little changed. Closing Chicago quotes list varied pork and lard values and long cuts pricing ranges across multiple months.
Prices for fresh beef and other meats listed with various cuts and weights. Beef items include steers, hams, tongues, bbis, and loins with prices from 22 to 23 cents. lamb and mutton offerings show Chicago dressed lambs and Brighton mutton with varied per pound rates. Reading notes show ranges for quality from poor to excellent and several weight measures alongside conditional terminology.
In Liverpool dull opens and closes quiet with May July August and September futures quoted between 5 39-34d and 6 46-64d with spot at 511-16 for middling uplands. New York spot firm at 10680 for middling uplands and 104% for low middling. Futures opened quiet with varied yields. pipelines show April crosses and April 16 readings around 64% with April 16 1886 closing 76%. Refined oil and sugar markets steady. Manila and Lloilos notes given. molasses steady with cargo notations from Orto Rico to Cuba. Continuous sales and receipts reported for cotton and sugar as markets adjust.
New York markets show cotton steady with mixed grades and large flour receipts at $3.70 per barrel for best Western and State. Wheat weak to lower across No 2 spring and No 2 red, with mixed state oats and rye firmer. Regional quotes list pork, lard, bacon, and oils with varied futures and cash sales across Chicago Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo St. Louis markets.
Reports from St. Louis Kansas City Peoria and Chicago show firmer hog prices with mixed packers and butchers selling at various mid 80s to 90s. Cattle receipts around 2000 in Chicago with steady shipping steers and mixed cattle values. hog receipts near 5000 with strong demand for heavy and mixed grades. sheep receipts steady with natives Western Texans and lambs priced in the 38 to 56 range.
City by city receipts and sales for cotton with net receipts, gross, exports, stock totals, and price levels. Augusta, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati show varied but steady activity, prices around mid 10 cents, shipping and stock changes noted.
Consolidated net receipts for one day in 1889 show exports to the continent totaling 4836 with stock at all United States ports reaching 466,853. In St Louis net receipts and shipments are steady with stock at 26,514 while Louisville reports firm mid 10 percent. Spinners and sales figures hover around 160 to 105 with overall firming sentiment.
Foreign markets report quiet trading across London and Liverpool with wheat firm and corn slow, prices held in Paris and Havana showing steady or mixed activity. Wool sales at London show continued buyers and steady prices across Victoria New South Wales and other regions amid variable ship and export data.
Import entries list extensive goods shipped from Liverpool by multiple firms including Baring Bros & Co, Jordan Marsh & Co, and others. Items cover tin plates, earthenware, linens, woollens, pig iron, wines, books, fabrics, machinery, and thousands of crates, bales, and cases bound for various destinations.
Inventory list of cargoes including casks, cases, bales, and boxes from numerous firms such as Earle Mfg Co, Baring Bros & Co, Wetherell Bros, Davis Mureau, Goring Crocker, Stone & Downer, Burgess, Moors, Everett, Talbot Wil marsh, Cumner Jones, King & Co, Pettingill Everett, Atkins Co, and others. Items include steel wire, cottons, carpets, preserves, wine, moise, earthenware, woollens, worsteds, paper stock, tin plates, tinware, flax, charms of champagne, pelt pieces, duck stock, and various mdse. Reports also note ships and ports like SAGUA, ONCE PA, PORT LA TOUR NS, with cargoes such as sugar, molasses, pine lumber, codfish, pollock, rope, metal, and lumber quantities.
A long list of cargoes loaded at Bear River Nova Scotia St John New Brunswick Canning New Jersey Bridgewater Nova Scotia Digby Annapolis Nova Scotia St Andrews New Brunswick Havana Cuba Yarmouth Nova Scotia Saltfish Newfoundland St Johns Newfoundland and other ports. Shipments include flour meal oats middlings kerosene oil lard beef pork lines pails oil clothing and other goods. Several schooners and a bark carry cargoes of coal coke iron tin plate hardware and dry goods with numerous boxes sacks bales and cases listed.
Receipt listing from April 16, 1887 shows Boston & Albany, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Vermont, and Boston and Maine railroads handling vast quantities of staple commodities. Cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, beans, bacon, beef, lard, leather, hides, tea, coffee, butter, eggs, cheese, lumber, and other goods recorded with bales, barrels, boxes, and cases. Major volumes include 82 bales cotton and 1275 barrels flour at Boston & Albany. large flour and corn totals at several lines. extensive lumber and leather shipments among others.
Local time tables list weekday and Sunday departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and to West via Hoosac Tunnel Route with connections at Ashmont Marnstable Greenfield and many other stations. Through sleeping cars to Chicago and Buffalo, drawing room cars, and express services highlighted with multiple daily departures and return times.
A fragmented 1900s ledger lists cargoes by rail and water routes including potatoes, lumber, butter, eggs, leather, hides, pelts, and bales. Entries cover Boston and Maine Western Division, Boston and Lowell, and By Express and By Sea consignments with quantities in cars, bbls, boxes, cases, and bundles.
Rail schedule details list multiple through trains for Boston and Maine lines. Times and stations include Augusta, Haymarket, Causeway, Portland, Lewiston, Manchester, Concord, North Conway, and various Maine Central and Knox & Lincoln routes. Steamship connections to Saint John and Halifax noted.
Train times listed for Western Division routes from Boston to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Munverhill Keanebunk Biddeford Saco Lawrence North Lawrence South Lawrence Return Malden Medford Melrose Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Bending Salem Wakefield Wilmington Haverhill and Portland Bangor Lewiston with numerous departures and returns throughout the day to multiple New England towns and stations.
A fragmented OCR shows numerous time stamps and station names across Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Mover Everett Great Falls Rochester Hampton Lynn Marblehead Newburyport Peabody Portsmouth Reedville and more. The garbled list reads like a travel schedule with multiple times per location, suggesting a historical transit timetable with inconsistent punctuation and stray numbers.
A passenger rail notice outlines through sleeping car from Boston to Rutland Burlington St. Albans and Ottawa with connections to Montreal and Ottawa, tickets at 223 Washington Street Boston. Concord line trains run from Boston to Manchester and Concord NH with multiple departures and returning service from Concord to Boston.
Train times listed for service from Boston to New York Providence and nearby towns. Frequent departures to New York via Shore Line Fast Express and Shore Line Mail with varied return times. Detailing multiple local stops and special notes on Mansfield waiting for connections and Shore Line delays.
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