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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1887
Page
7
A fragment mentions Western bogs and the Boston and Albany railroad, noting their inclusion only in the Brighton market. It implies regional real estate or market coverage tied to railway access and local geography. The text is sparse, with no clear events or dates.
Historic market data from New York and other cities outlines flour receipts and prices, wheat and corn values, and varied commodities. Notable figures include No 2 Chicago wheat at 79 7 94c, Minnesota extra at 315, and No 2 white oats around 37 41c, with broad activity across flour, cornmeal, rye, barley, and pork markets.
Prairie market update shows hogs steady in Kansas City with 8500 receipts today and 6629 yesterday, while St. Louis reports higher bids around 5.10 to 5.35 per Hundredweight. Chicago notes 9000 cattle and 11000 hogs received, with steers at 3.25 to 4.55, hogs 5.30 to 5.55, and sheep markets steady with natives 8 to 14.50 and Texans 2.50 to 4.60.
The Daily Commercial Bulletin reports a moderate week in commission and importing circles due to extreme heat. Demand remains steady in staple cotton and woollen goods, dress fabrics, pegs prints, hosiery, and related items while jobbing trade improves with large firms expanding package deals in domestics and prints.
Augusta net receipts four, Galveston receipts thirty one, New Orleans exports to Great Britain four thousand three hundred seventy eight, stock three hundred eighty seven, Savannah offerings moderate, mid nine and a half cents. Consolidated four day receipts eight hundred sixty six, exports to Great Britain ten thousand three eighty three, to the continent one thousand seven hundred forty one, stock nationwide one hundred sixty six thousand seven hundred twenty seven.
August market notes from London show cargoes off the coast slow for wheat with 2 sold and 12 awaiting sale. Paris and Liverpool markets quiet, with wheat steady to very net and corn steady, receipts listed for the week including American cargoes. Prices given for wheat, corn, and provisions across Liverpool Antwerp and Paris.
Brig Tasma 417 holds 4 bbls sugar Standard Sugar Refinery Accra WCA Bark White Cloud 712 pkgs palm oil 0 do gum copal 1 do gold dust 1 bag specie 2 boxes N Mansfield Co.
Export record from Yarmouth Nova Scotia noting schooner Eureka carrying 80 barrels of meal and steamship Yarmouth transporting 35 barrels of flour one case of hoop skirts two cases of shoe black. Names NS region and vessel references listed.
A dense listing of passenger boat and train times across coastal routes including New Bedford Nantucket Cottage City Wood's Hall Falmouth Hyannis Yarmouth Barnstable and Wareham. Schedules show daily departures returns via multiple connections with entries for towns such as East Weymouth Scituate Marshfield Plymouth Taunton and Brockton and emphasize transfers via Taunton and Brockton.
A transcriptioned ledger item shows Staple Products receipts dated August 2 1887 for multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western and Boston and Lowell. It lists wool flour oats mill feed lard butter eggs lumber apples potatoes leather and hides among many other commodities with quantities. The report also records several July 16 mortgage actions and property transfers in Dorchester Jamaica Plain and South Boston with amounts and street references.
A historical ledger style summary lists cotton butter wool oleo flour cheeses and many farm products with figures for bales boxes barrels and bags across numerous categories. It includes prices and quantities for corn meal eggs beans apples oats wheat hay and more with totals and unit counts.
Suffolk County real estate transfers recorded across multiple towns list property buys and loans dated July in Yarmouth Boston and nearby areas. Transactions include Patrick Smith to Linnehan Virginia Tucker to Hollings Kerrigan to McGrath Means to Matthews Burke to Daly Lord to others Goldthwait trustees to Cutler Friese to Noyes Keeley to Hagan McDonald to Fawcett Wellington to Schaaf Keane Bank to Crief Jackson to Crieif Estabrook to French Hurd to Frye Hatheway to Kelly Harding to Weston Underwood to Hawkes Gillis to MacDonald Alc3arthy ONeill to McKinley Ryan to Schuler Allen Jones to Gooding and other entries with amounts and dates.
Lewis L. P. Atwood and co applicants convey a mortgage to Mary S. Magennis on land and buildings with a westerly frontage. The instrument secures an indebtedness and outlines the legal description and filing details for the real estate loan.
The Suffolk probate court cites all interested parties in the Levi Brighay estate to appear August 15 1887 in Boston to show cause why Erasmus J Andrews surviving executor’s twenty third account should not be allowed. The citation to be published weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post with the final notice at least two days before court. Witness Judge Joan W McKim July 18 1887.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk probate court cites heirs and interested parties in the estate of James Flynn of Boston to appear August 15 1887 to show cause probate of a will. Edward Corbett seeks letters testamentary without bond. Also notice appoints Henry A Whitney as administrator of Parker Fall estate with claims to be filed at 209 Washington Street Boston.
In Suffolk Massachusetts all interested parties are cited regarding William Minot Jr’s petition to appoint a trustee in place of Abraham C. Bigelow for damages land taken by the city of Boston for Washington street extension. The land was devised to S. Warkman Tuckerman for life with contingent remnant. Publication in the Boston Post for three weeks is required, last date two weeks before court. John H. Palne, Assistant Register.
Boston and Lowell Railroad timetables list through service from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Branklip Lebanon White River Junction and more. Local Boston service covers Manchester Concord Nashua Keene Peterboro and surrounding points with morning and afternoon departures and sleeping car options to Montreal.
A scattered schedule listing dozens of train times for multiple locations including Concord, Arlington, Stoneham, Lowell, Lawrence, and Winchester. The document reads like a time table showing daily and Sunday departures with numerous numbers and abbreviations, largely unreadable in places.
Boston to Ware Barre and Rutland trains begin June 27 1587 with multiple daily departures and listed stops including Boylston Oakdale Jefferson and Rockbottom. schedule shows morning and evening times across several towns with Sunday runs and special stations. George W Storer general passenger agent and Mellen general superintendent sign the notice.
A historic timetable fragment lists numerous train departures and returns from Boston and surrounding towns including New York shore routes, Providence connections, and Concord lines. It includes varied times, Monday through Sunday patterns, and notes on delays and special cases for multiple stations and branches.
Local timetable notes for Boston and Albany lines list express and local trains to Springfield Albany Chicago Detroit and Buffalo with multiple connections. Fares and through tickets available at Boston offices 232 Washington Street. Daily and Sunday schedules include Worces ter Newton and Brookline branches, with return times and special Sunday trains to Newton and Wellesley.
Boston and Maine schedules list through trains July 25 serving Haymarket and Causeway stations with multiple daily departures to and from Portland Bangor Bar Harbor and Mount Desert area. Special vestibule express runs from Boston Haymarket to Portland Bar Harbor with connections and a return via Mt. Desert Ferry and Bangor.
A dense OCR list shows Western Division trains leaving Boston stations for Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with numerous times for Andover Dover Exeter Great Falls Haverhill and other towns. Sunday and weekday patterns include a mix of morning and evening departures with many numeric minutes and multiple stations listed.
Timetabled departures from Boston stations to Amesbury and coastal towns. Listings include multiple trains daily with varied times to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls and Rechester Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Salem Saugus and Swampscott branches plus Newburyport Ports mouth Portland Bangor Halifax and Montréal routes.
Schedules show the Oak Island to Point of Pines route with multiple daily departures and returns, via Saugus Branch and South Reading Branch. Thursdays and Saturdays only. Boston station at Haymarket, city ticket office 306 Washington Street, with Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. James T. Furber is general manager and D. J. Flanders is general passenger agent.
North Adams Troy and Albany area travelers may use Causeway Street as a main route across the western corridor. The text notes connections to western destinations including the West.
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