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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1887
Page
7
The page lists beef, pork and lamb prices with weights and grades. Items include smoked shoulders corned shoulders smoked ribs rib breakfast bacon boneless breakfast bacon dressed hogs beef hams tongues tripe and various fresh beef cuts. Descriptions show prices per hundredweight and per pound across multiple categories.
Liverpool cotton futures opened flat and closed steady with varied August to February spreads. Spot middling and lower grades in New York mixed. sales and receipts reported. Upland futures in New York opened easy with multiple bid and ask levels. Pipeline certificates and refinery activity noted. Sugar and molasses markets described with prices for raw and refined sugars and Caribbean cargo trades.
Reported for the Boston Post by George J. Fox for the week ending Aug 3 1887. Live stock totals show cattle 2180 sheep 14183 swine 18628 with comparisons to last week and a year ago. Arrivals at Watertown and Brighton yards listed by cattle sheep veal and milch cows, with prices for beef, store cattle, hides and milch cows. Western cattle, New England supply, and regional remarks indicate a moderate market with steady prices and cautious demand.
Market notes describe 75 head sold at Combination Horse sale, western loads from Iowa and Wisconsin, and prices for drivers. Sheep and lamb trade sees over 10 000 head with firming, lambs at 6 7c and sheep around 4 4c. Cattle, milch cows, veal, and oxen across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts, with western cattle valued around 400 per head and specific lots from J C Libby Son and others sold at various prices.
Flour dull with steady rye flour and cornmeal. wheat prices slip amid large receipts of 192 380 bushels and exports of 23 400. No 2 Chicago wheat at 78 1 2 79 cents, No 1 hard 86 1 4 4 cents, No 2 red 80 3 4 0 cents delivered. Barley and oats mix, coffee Rio 19 cents, sugar steady, molasses steady, turpentine 82 1 2 cents, pork steady, beef and butter prices firm in New York market briefing.
Markets in Milwaukee Toledo Cincinnati St Louis Detroit Chicago Minneapolis show mixed moves with flour and grain prices steady to weak. Wheat ranges from 68 to 72 cents for No 2 and No 1 varieties, corn around 40 to 44 cents, oats near 24 to 28 cents, rye around 43 to 49 cents, while whiskey and pork markets hold firm in Chicago and St Louis. Receipts and shipments vary by city with notable wheat, flour, and barley totals.
Hog prices steady with buyers and sellers at several markets. In Chicago cattle receipts reach 11,000 with strong demand for good stock, while hogs total 12,000 with mixed grades and packers paying up to 5 25. Sheep and lambs show dull demand, with natives and western types selling around 2.50 to 4.15 and 4.45 for larger lamb lots.
Market notes show varied activity with Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile and other ports reporting receipts exports and stock levels. Prices drift in mid to upper cent range with general quiet conditions at many hubs, while London and British exports noted in Consolidated figures.
Beerbohm notes cargoes off coast and on passage show wheat quiet with buyers holding off while corn remains steady. Paris and Liver pool quote mixed, wheat and flour subdued, corn firmer, pork and lard steady, with various prices listed for American and British grades. Weather in England described as brilliant.
Maritime trade record listing steamship Venetian and多 imports from multiple firms to Liverpool including spiegel iron, plate glass, sardines, conserves, wool, caustic soda, and other mdse. Also notes cargoes at Algoa Bay Havana Matanzas Mobile Palermo St John NB Moncton NB and other ports with vessels and cargo details.
Export entries from Weymouth Nova Scotia and Windsor Nova Scotia list ships and goods including Schooner Belmont with meal, Bark Hattie with meal flour lard soap corn, Steamer Hermann with old coins and bacon, Steamer Bulgarian cargo from Liverpool with beef bacon leather organs printing press and machinery. Includes Antwerp via New York and Liverpool to England routes with multiple boxed and bagged cargoes.
A fragmented OCR inventory lists varied goods including butter, staves, cattle, logs, flour, wheat, rum, cheese, nails, grease, tongues and lard. Quantities are inconsistently formatted with old units such as tierces, half-pbls and puncheons, indicating a damaged historical record.
A compiled list details receipts by railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Boston and Lowell lines. Items cover wool flour oats bran malt coffee bacon cheese eggs butter beef and lard with dozens of bales bags cars bbls and cases.
The record shows agricultural and commodity receipts for August 3 1887 with figures for 1887 and 1886 across items. Key entries include eggs flour cornmeal beans apples corn potatoes oats malt hay millfeed leather hides beef pork lard coffee sugar molasses butter and related goods with quantities in bbls boxes and tons.
Aberdeen Mississippi to Wheeling West Virginia list buyers and agents for boots and shoes. The notice names firms and representatives in multiple cities including R Paine Yo Austin W B Smith Akron C A Miller Dresden Chicago J T Sullivan and many others.
Rail schedule notes July 25 detailing through services on Boston and Maine lines including Augusta Haymarket and Causeway Street stations with multiple departures to Bar Harbor Eastport Calais Halifax Saint John and the Provinces. Special limited aerate train with Pulman vestibule cars departs Boston at 9.15 am and Portland at 12.18 pm arriving Bar Harbor at 5.55 pm and returning Bar Harbor at 8 am Bangor and Portland the next day.
Public notice lists through Boston service from various stations and branches to Montreal Vermont and New Hampshire towns with multiple daily departures and sleeping car options. Local Boston area service connects Manchester Concord Nashua and Greenfield with times noted for mornings and afternoons.
A dense timetable lists minute by minute train times for multiple towns including Concord, Bedford, Lexington, Arlington, Woburn, and Stoneham with through services from Boston areas. It notes station information and requests standard schedules obtainable at stations.
Western Division lists train departures from Boston stations to Aston Bay Rochester and Farmington with numerous daily times and Sunday services. Includes Andover Malden Melrose Medford Reading Salem Wilmington Lawrence Newburyport Merrimac North Andover and more with varied morning afternoon and evening slots.
Readable portions list departure times from Boston and neighboring stations such as Amesbury Chelsea Lynn Salem Swampscott and Portland for various routes. The text enumerates many time entries including mornings afternoons and evenings across multiple destinations.
Train times listed for Oak Island Point of Pines and Gak Jaland with via Saugus and South Reading branches. Workingmen's train runs Thursdays and Saturdays only. Schedule notes include Boston Haymarket pickup and city ticket office 306 Washington Street with Pullman cars on Portland and other trains.
Rail timetable notes service from Boston beginning June 27 1887 to Ware Barre Rutland and many local stops with morning midday and evening departures. Full listings include West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Belmont Waverly Newton and others with numerous return times and Sunday adjustments. A. A. Fom Supt Boston & Providence Railroad and G. W. Storer Gen Pass Agent announce May 30 1887 train arrangements with扱 various city connections and special later days.
Dated notice outlines weekday trains from Boston to New York via Fall River Line at 7 p.m. and return at 5.30 p.m. plus extensive listed departures and returns for Ashmont Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich and many coastal towns, with multiple stop and return times. GEO. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK sign as agents.
As of July 1894 timetable shows Boston departures from B and L depot to Gester Pengent and North Hy rail corridors. Ex trains run at 30.4 9.80 am and 1 1 ri 1ne s. Sunday services include 7 am and 8.27 am routes. Superintendent E Chamberlin notes schedules and deviations.
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