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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1887
Page
7
Market notes show steady quotations for cargo molasses with Porto Rico fancy crop at 36c, Cienfuegos 28c, Barbadoes 26c and Cuba boiling 50 test nominal 19 20c. Pipeline certificates indicate shipments, charters and refinery output alongside closing times and rates.
Market summaries from New York and cities including Cincinnati St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Chicago Minneapolis. Reports cover flour receipts exports prices for wheat corn oats rye barley and related commodities with notes on mills and freight costs and current bids and sales across regions and ports.
Market roundups show hogs steady in Kansas City and St Louis with firm Chicago cattle, hogs and sheep demand. Peoria reports varying hog sales and arrivals while Chicago notes strong but mixed quality with shipping and packing prices. Cattle and lamb figures span feeder, stocker, and native to Western and Texan lots with mixed cattle activity.
New York reports net receipts none with exports to Great Britain at 2899 and sales 61. Augusta shows quiet, steady with 48 shipments and 4 sales. Cincinnati records net receipts 79 and 12 sales while St Louis notes 23 stock. Baltimore and Norfolk list minimal activity with steady to nominal prices. Consolidated totals show exports to Great Britain 17,057 France 13 and the continent 3,106 with U S port stocks around 155,537. Weekly and year comparisons indicate subdued yet persistent demand across ports.
London and Liverpool quote weak to steady trading as cargoes move and futures dull. Wheat prices ease in some markets while California wheat and Walla Walla values hold with limited demand, and corn remains steady to quiet amid broad market uncertainty.
Short and clear pricing for cheese and tallow is given with stable weekly cotton figures. Sales show 44 000 American and 84 000 bales overall with speculators and exporters taking small lots. Total stock stands at 638 000 bales with American holdings at 376 000 and total afloat 94 000 bales, of which 34 000 are American.
Ledger style listing of goods, quantities, and trading firms across ships and ports including Bothnia at Liverpool with vast consignments of woollens, cottons, and dry goods. Notable names include Baring Bros, Shoninger, Hovey, Ward, and Stedman Fuller. Entries cover multiple firms, warehouses, and vessel destinations in 1887 Atlantic trade.
Trade brief lists German bark Gamen with refined petroleum and shipments from Yarmouth to Liverpool including cornmeal organ material fish lines beef cement oil crates and produce. Also mentions schooner On Time carrying flour cornmeal from Liverpool Newfoundland.
Inventory summary from Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, and Boston and Maine lines listing tonnage, bales, boxes, bbls, sacks, and various goods including flour, oats, wheat, bacon, butter, cheese, apples, potatoes, leather, hides, and skins. Includes quantities by railroad and material, reflecting a busy freight day across New England routes.
List of Boston and Maine railroad schedules with multiple routes and stations from Haymarket and Causeway streets to Augusta, Portland, Bar Harbor, Bangor and other destinations. Includes special express from Boston to Bar Harbor with connections through Mount Desert Ferry and arrivals in Portland and Boston.
Boston and Lowell Railroad schedules show through Boston service to Tilton Lacenta Lake Visage Weirs Meredith Ashlon Plymouth Hanklin Lebanon White River Junction and Saint Johnsbury with multiple daily departures plus connections to Laconia Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville Littleton Methichem Fabyans Lancaster Jefferson and Montreal. Local Boston to Manchester Concord Hillsboro Nashua and Greenfield service offered with sleeping and parlor cars to Montreal and via Central Vermont.
A fragmentary list shows various times and places such as Lowell, daily and Sunday schedules, and venue mentions Bleachery and Keij lebien. The entries include morning to night time slots including 6.45, 7.30, 9.30 and 11.10 pm across several days.
A timetable shows local and through train times for multiple towns including Winchester Bedford Concord Arlington and Lexington. It notes that full information is available at stations and lists C Mell en and Geo W Storer as general superintendant and general passenger agent.
Local time tables show train times for the line with departures to New York Worcester Marlboro Southboro and Newton. The notice lists daily and Sunday trains with stops at Framingham Grafton Westboro Northboro Leominster Fitchburg and Boston arrival times and sale locations at 232 Washington Street Boston. HANSON H. T. GALLUP Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt.
A dense OCR style listing details items by railroad lines and transport terms. It enumerates quantities of butter eggs apples potatoes leather hides pelts wool flour tea lumber and more, including lines for New York & New England Railroad Boston & Maine Lowell and Kitchburg among others with bundles like bales, cases, rolls, inches of sacks and barrels.
A long list of boot and shoe buyers and reps from multiple states including Aberdeen Mississippi Yo Austin Texas Akron Ohio Chicago Illinois Cincinnati Ohio Decatur Texas Denver Col. and more. Names include Paine Smith Marks Miller McLaughlin and many others with firms and locations.
A 1 500 page book on treatment of animals offers stable chart mounted on rollers and free on application. It lists cures for fevers inflammations lung issues strains lameness founder spavin and joint diseases serous ailments and digestive issues. Includes prices for bottles and the stable case with manual sent prepaid by Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine 109 Fulton Street New York.
The notice promotes Chichester's English Medicine with claims of being the original and genuine preparation. It urges readers to ask a druggist for Chichester's English and not another product, or send stamps for details by mail. Agents listed include Keaton, Maas and Gro. C. Goonwig & Co. in Philadelphia, PA.
Publicized weekday rail departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and return via Pal Met Line with numerous stops including Barnstable Hyannis Scituate Wareham Taunton and Plymouth. Lists complex schedules, multiple routes, and agent names GEO L. Connor J K Kendrick with service details by date and region.
Comprehensive list of trains leaving Boston stations for Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with numerous stops including Andover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Haverhill via Georgetown and North Lawrence South Lawrence and beyond. Sunday trains to Dover Lawrence Manchester Lowell and Bedford with connections to Portland Bangor and Lewiston.
Train times listed from Boston to Beacham and Amesbury with stops including Chelsea Beverly and North Hampden. Service shows departures in morning and evening with multiple daily slots and late night arrivals.
An OCR readout lists numerous train and bus times, routes, and destinations including Lynn, Danvers, Revere, Salem, Swampscott, Lynnfield, Newburyport, Portsmouth, and Halifax. It references schedules by station and route codes with varied hourly and half hour markers across multiple towns.
Schedule listing multiple daily departures from Boston to Oak Island and Point of Pines with specific times, branches, and notes. It mentions the Washington Street ticket office, Pullman cars on Portland trains, and identifies James T. Furbear as General Manager and D. J. Flanders as General Passenger Agent.
The Central Massachusetts railroad announces a new route to Ware starting Monday June 27 1887 with trains from Boston to Ware Barre and Rutland and various westward and sun schedule times. GeneraI agents and station stops include Mellen and Storer with passenger operations managed by the Superintendent.
Trains from Boston to New York and New England points list July 1887 schedules. Includes departure and return times, Sunday services, connections to Providence Worcester Hartford and other cities, with notes on special routing and late-evening trains.
Daily Boston Needham and Way Stations departures with multiple morning and evening times and prices. return times listed. Weonsocket and etarn routes with intermediate stops and notes on Sundays and special stops. New York via Middletown and New Haven express and New England Limited daily to Grand Central with through connections. Philadelphia Express and Norwich Line Express details at 322 Washington Street office.
Trains depart Boston and Providence stations for Stonington and New York with a 6 30 p m departure from Boston arriving Stonington at 9 20 p m and New York by 6 a m next day Tickets and staterooms available at 214 Wachington street Boston agents K J W Richardson and Folsom, Supt, Boston and Providence Railroad Delays noted after July 24 1887 with additional schedules for Manchester Concord and Billerica areas.
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