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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1887
Page
7
The report notes no improvement in the flour trade with dull business and generally steady prices. Corn and oats show light sales with firm spot prices for steamer yellow and advised calls. Butter, cheese, eggs, and other commodities are quoted with widespread firmness or softness depending on grade, while the overall tone remains cautious and steady.
Special to fruit and produce exchange items include 25 bbls kale 1125 bbls spinach 20 crates asparagus. Prices vary for summer squash wax beans Norfolk boats spinach and multiple other vegetables with units in barrels crates bush pints and dollars per unit.
Liverpool futures steady with April to November quotes from 5 36 64d to 6 28 64d. Spot dull at 56 1 16d for middling uplands and Orleans. Sales 8,000 bales. receipts 15,000. New York spot quiet steady with middling at 105e, low middling 103c, good ordinary 9 4 4c, ordinary 75c. Futures open steady. bids and asks listed for April to March. Cattle market at Watertown and Brighton shows totals, prices, and state receipts. store cattle, milch cows, veal calves, hides, tallow, and sheep/lamb trends. heavy Western supply and exports to Liverpool and London. Sample sales and yard totals provided. milch cows and springers in demand. export cattle rising with West shipments.
Sugar prices stay steady as raw and refined grades hold. quotes include 49-16 4 11-16e tb for refining and 514 6 3-16e for centrifugal. Refined sugars steady with near 6 13-16c for granulated and various A grades. Molasses market flat with cargo lot notations. Rico fancy crop at 42c, Cuba boiling 50 test nominal 20c. Oil refined at 65¢ per gallon. shipments total 57,802 units, charters 45,604, exports 38,706.
New York notes dull flour receipts and steady to higher wheat and corn markets. Prices quoted for No 2 spring and No 1 hard wheat, various fall and extra grades, and steamer and elevator delivery terms. Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Chicago St Louis report similar swings in flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and pork with mixed activity and futures-like figures.
London and Liverpool report steady wheat and corn prices with mixed demand. Cargoes of Chilean wheat offered for shipment. English and foreign markets show quiet or steady tones as Paris and Antwerp reflect wheat and wool sales activity.
Kansas City reports hog prices down 5 to 10 cents with receipts around 10,000 and shipments at 1924 levels. Peoria notes hogs easier with sales near 460 to 665, receipts 700, shipments 550. Chicago lists cattle receipts about 7,000 with steady shipping steers around 4.50 to 5.10 and hogs weak at 5.10 to 6.70, with sheep receipts near 7,000 and prices lower.
Western and Atlantic market activity shows varied net receipts and exports. Augusta and New Orleans report strong exports to Britain and the continent, with steady or quiet tones. several ports list stock levels, shipments, and prices, highlighting overall market consolidation and regional demand.
A long list of outbound and inbound goods across multiple ships and ports. Cargoes include gin, iron, window glass, steel, coal, seeds, coffee, ginger, wine, chemicals, horse feed, and bales of various fibers and textiles. Named firms, steamer and schooner calls, quantities in bales and crates, and numerous consignments to London and other hubs.
A dense catalog of assorted consignments and shipments includes hides, flax, tinplates, earthenware, glassware, wines and brandies, oils, paper stock, moise, fishing tackle, cigarettes, wires, leather, and various casks and boxes. Notable entries list Walbaum, Baring Bros, Clark Sawyer, F A Walker, J B Moors, Henry Brown, D Warren, John Farnell, and many others with quantities ranging from single cases to hundreds of boxes. The list features ships logs, stock items like steel billets, timber, wool, leather, and numerous bulk goods awaiting processing or sale.
Cargo and provisions catalog from multiple vessels including Schooner Lillie G-80 arced at St John Fredericton and Arichat with cottonseed meal lime pork flour tar paper and lumber. Brig Jane Adeline Sierra Leone with beef flour cheese and tobacco. Liverpool Steamer Venetian detailing flour wheat butter lard and dyes. Trinidad Bark Sentinel with sugar lumber beer and oysters. Dorchester NB F and E Givan carrying sulphuric acid.
A detailed ledger of goods received by several rail lines on April 20 1887 including Boston and Albany Providence Grand Junction Ola Colony and New York and New England railroads. Items range from cotton wool flour corn oats and malt to lard butter eggs cheese sugar tea and hogs with quantities in bales boxes barrels feet and cars.
A dense ledger style record enumerates shipments by railroad divisions and by sea, detailing quantities of bales, bushels, bbls, boxes, cases, and sacks. Items include wool, cotton, flour, cornmeal, butter, eggs, potatoes, leather, hides, pork by products, tea, sugar, and various byproducts. Named lines reference Fitchburg Boston & Maine and Boston & Lowell railroads with division flags and multiple consignments across dates and routes.
A sweep of property deals across Suffolk County lists transfers on Shawmut, Staniford, Isabella, Merrimac and Winchester streets plus parcels in East Boston Dorchester Chelsea Charlestown and Winthrop. Notable moves include Lamb to Berwin and Eddy to George W ason with varied prices and April dates, some mortgaged back.
A series of April mortgage filings record transfers of land and buildings in Roxbury Charlestown East Boston Brookline Chelsea Dorchester and other locales. Notable listings include Fraser to Prescott and Brown to Mann Mortgages to banks and savings institutions tied to properties on Vin ton Holborn Weldon Russell Webster Brookline Shir ley Fourth Kenilworth Mozart and Withington streets along with church property in East Boston and Dorchester.
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