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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1887
Page
8
A dense wholesale market summary lists oats, white and mixed grades, cornmeal, rye, flour, and barley prices, with bid and offer notes. Butter, cheese, eggs, beans, seeds, hay, and potatoes are quoted with regional variations, plus fruit shipments, steamer arrivals, and export figures.
Prices for Messina and Palermo fruit boxes vary from 2 to 2.50 dollars with Florida oranges bright at 3.50 to 4. The market lists bananas from Baracoa and Jamaica around 1.25 to 1.75. Cabbages are scarce and summer squashes appear at 1.50 per crate while southern tomatoes run 1.60 to 2.75 per small to large crate. Dandelions, beet greens, asparagus, Bermuda onions, spinach, cucumbers, beans, beets, onions, lettuce, radishes, parsnips, and rhubarb show a range of prices per bush, crate, or dozen with several specific local lots and regional origins noted.
The pork market remains quiet with prices near last quotes. Lard shows no change while fresh beef stays firm amid fair demand and light receipts. Veals, pork, and mutton remain steady with subdued demand. price listings for various cuts and future months are provided, reflecting a cautious market.
Liverpool cotton futures opened steady and closed steady with various late April to October pairings. Spot Upland Middling prices firm at 59 16 55 1 2 dPI. American sales 7 000 bales. New York spot steady with middling at 10 5 6 c and low/mid grades noted. Futures quotes shown for April to January contracts, market closed steady. Pipe line certificates figures and oil metrics reported. sugar and molasses prices listed with several refined sugar grades and prices.
Market data for cattle sheep hogs and calves at Watertown with totals by state and road counts. Prices listed for beef store cattle hides tallow and skins with classifications for cattle and sheep and note on western hogs and rail transport.
Market brief from New York dated April 26 shows flour receipts and exports with firm sales across categories. Prices for St Louis mill extra, common to choice, and superfine ranges are listed, including specific bbl and sack quantities and varied prices for extra No 2 flour.
Grain prices and receipts across Chicago Milwaukee Detroit St Louis Cincinnati Toledo and Minneapolis show steady to firm wheat and rye demand with mixed corn and barley movements. No 2 spring and No 1 Northern values highlighted, alongside barrel and stumpage prices for flour, pork and lard, plus steady coffee and molasses indications.
Kansas City reports hog sales mostly at 5.10 to 5.40 with receipts around 9,500 and shipments 113. St Louis notes hogs higher with Yorkers at 5.20 to 5.35 and mixed packers at 5.40 to 5.50. Peoria records hogs steady at 4.65 to 5.65 with 400 receipts and 325 shipments. Chicago shows cattle receipts 5,000 and hogs 10,000 with higher prices for light and heavy, cattle and sheep strong with lambs 4.50 to 6.00 and wool products quoted.
Net receipts and stocks listed by port with prices and firm tones. Augusta to New York show mixed quotings and steady demand. totals include four day consolidated figures with exports to Great Britain and the continent and national stock around 483 thousand bales.
London reports cargoes off coast and weekly wheat shipments from India to Britain. Prices rise for wheat and corn as shipments, futures and European markets show firmness or slight gains. Liverpool Warsaw Paris quotes list American and British wheat, corn and flour, with weather, receipts, and regional price shifts.
A list of vessels including Schooner Amanda and Brig Solario reports imports and exports dated April 26, 1887 at ports Bport La Tour NS Havana St Jago Arroyo PA Antwerp and Norway. Items include lobsters sugar molasses logwood coffee lumber rags glass and steel products shipped by companies such as Silay Sanborn Bay State Sugar Refinery and Baring Bros Co. The record notes specific cargo tonnages bags cases and container counts for multiple ships and routes.
Shipping list itemizes exports and cargoes from St John New Brunswick Port William Nova Scotia Yarmouth Nova Scotia Liverpool England Glasgow Scotland and other entries. Cargo includes water, flax, glass, bales, flour, oats, beef, pork, lumber, cornmeal and many other commodities with vessel names and quantities.
An 1887 record itemizes shipments for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western and more. It details bales of cotton wool flour corn oats beans and various meats fats and dairy products, plus leather hides lumber and other goods, alongside numerous broker and merchant names with addresses across the United States.
A ledger style entry lists multiple merchants and firms across Atlanta Augusta Baltimore Cambridge Charleston Chicago Bloomington and New York. Names include James Jones & Co Edwin Bates & Co Moore Marsh & Co M C J F Kiser & Co William Mulherin & Co J B White & Co Lester Bros & pe yk c Selz Schwab & Co Goldsmith Rosen thal & Co among others with locations Georgia Maryland New York Illinois and Indiana.
The Honorable Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court sit in Boston to hear Marietta Writer of Boston seeking a divorce from John W. Writer of parts unknown. She alleges marriage in Gloucester on November 25 1878 and desertion since November 26 1878 lasting over three years with failure to provide support. The petitioner asks for a divorce and related orders.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Supreme Judicial Court orders libellant to publish an attested copy of the libel and this order in the Boston Post or similar paper once weekly for three weeks. The respondent John W. Writer must appear at Boston on the first Monday of August to show cause why the libel should not be granted.
Detailed weekday and Sunday timetable listing departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line, with return times, and numerous intermediate stops including Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Cohasset Hingham and many others. Also includes Hoosac Tunnel Route and connection details.
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