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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1887
Page
7
A compact listing shows prices for squash marrow and native varieties, carrots lettuce native cucumbers parsnips and bunch quantities. Items include prices per 100 or per box and per dozen, indicating a regional wholesale market.
The market for pork stays firm with good demand for hams at old prices. Fresh beef also firm, with quiet demand and ample supply in Boston and export channels. Weekly car counts show 136 total in Boston, export, and suburbs, down from 142 previous week. Prices for hogs and beef vary across centers, with notes on supplies, swine plague absence, and expected seasonal trends.
Liverpool cotton futures held steady with bids around 5 28-64d for August and fluctuating weekly ranges. Spot Upland prices opened quiet at 544d per 480 pounds, with 6000 bales sold, including 4000 American. New York spot closed steady, while sugar and molasses markets showed firm to steady pricing across several grades and regions.
Reports from Minneapolis New York Detroit Cincinnati Toledo St Louis show mixed price moves for wheat and flour. No 1 hard and northern grains hold gains while receipts and shipments rise. flour and rye flour prices hold firm. provisions and lard vary in regional quotes.
Flour steady in Milwaukee and quiet in Chicago. Wheat and corn firm to higher with varied basis. Oats and rye mixed with barley rising in Milwaukee. Provisions generally firm with pork lard and short ribs quoted. receipts and shipments detailed for flour wheat corn oats rye barley across both cities.
Peoria, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago market notes show hogs steady with varied prices and shipments. cattle receipts around 2000 with steers to 3470 and feeders to 300. hogs at Chicago 470 to 520 for good to rough grades. sheep and lambs listed with price ranges.
The weekly print cloth market report from Fall River shows production at 140000 pieces and deliveries of 141000 with stock at 135000. Spot sales reach 49000 pieces while futures total 33000. 60x56s and 64x64s quotes adjust down slightly as market remains quiet. Providence market closes firm at 31 4 cents cash for 64x64s8 with strong demand and limited supply. weekly sales include 1000 pieces 64x64s extras spots and 8000 pieces 64x64s extras spots with stock at 146000 pieces 64x64s and 7000 pieces 56x60s.
National net receipts total 1048 with stock at all US ports 616240. Augusta and Savannah show steady quotes around mid 10 cents per pound while New Orleans notes large stock of 4268 with sales 450. Cincinnati reports 353 net receipts and 256 sales with stock 5569. St Louis 33 net receipts and 68 shipments with stock 4997. Philadelphia and Baltimore show quiet activity with modest stocks.
Market notes from London and Liverpool show wheat and corn prices steady to firm amid quiet demand. Wheat futures in Liverpool unchanged while sugar and Cuban exports trend down due to weak foreign news and high outports prices. Major price levels are cited for red winter and Australian wheats, and Cuban sugar trade remains slow with steady freight rates to the United States.
List of goods and quantities traded at Bear River NS Hull St John’s and other ports. Items include piling eggs paper stock rope iron coal pigments oil and hides with numerous firms names and vessel entries such as Steamer Buffalo Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring and brig Eugenie and schooner Bessie Carson and Navarino data.
The list records shipments from Charlottetown, Halifax, Annapolis, Smyrna, Parrsboro, Charlottetown, Smyrna and Melbourne by steamer and schooner. It notes quantities of flour, meal, oil, beef, lard, pork, canned meats, and various goods including machinery, dry goods, and hardware. Specific vessels include Worcester, Canning Packet, Melinda, Jeanie, and Electra with thousands of barrels and cases.
The shipment manifests show extensive consignments including spirits turpentine and sugar in large bbls and cases, tobacco, kerosene, iron bolts, shovels, feather, syrups, staves, hardware, shoe pegs, sand paper, hats, lubricating oil, car wheels, woodenware, dried goods, machinery, saddlery, canned seafood, corn, typewriter, catalogs, organs, nails, books, reaper fixtures, wagons, and various hardware items. Additional items include rosin, lumber, knives, duck, beef, bacon, lard, cheese, flour, cotton, wheat, lithographs, wood and hardware, leather, oil paper, and other miscellaneous staples. The list combines shipments from Liverpool, England aboard Steamer Pavonia and other consignments, with quantities specified in cases, bbls, pounds, or pieces.
Receipts listing quantities of wool cotton flour malt bran seed butter lard hams eggs lumber apples potatoes oleo leather hides and more for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Providence Old Colony Boston & Maine and Lowell. Entries show bales boxes cars rolls and bbls with totals by line.
Totals of receipts dated Aug 6 1887 and 1886 show cotton bales 6578 and 862 for 1887 and 1886 respectively, with extensive figures for flour, cheese, cornmeal, oats, wheat, potatoes, hay, leather, beef, lard, hides, tea, coffee, sugar and more across multiple units and packages.
A compiled array of names and firms from cities including Allentown Pensacola Corsicana Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Greeley Denver Eau Claire Hopkinsville Kansas City Macon Montgomery Mobile Milwaukee Pittsburgh San Antonio Wetumpka Yankton and others. The list features traders and agents such as Krause Sullivan ONeill McLaughlin Kreissman Daum Laws Simon Rogers Murphy Armsby Cutter Bush Green Strong Witkowski Haunn Curtis Bears Lang Piles and more.
Beatrice C. Fletcher of Boston files a divorce case in Suffolk Superior Court alleging her husband William S. Fletcher of Newport New Hampshire committed adultery in Boston around December 1885 after their marriage in Cambridge in 1879. She requests a divorce and to resume her maiden name.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Superior Court in Boston orders libellee to appear on the first Monday of October by publishing the libel and order in the Boston Post for three weeks. Last publication at least 30 days before the appearance to show cause why the petition should not be granted. Clerk signatures.
Public notices detail weekday trains from Boston to New York via Fall River and Fell Line with multiple return times and connections. It lists departures from Ashmont and various Cape and island stops including Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Barnstable Scituate Wareham Weymouth and Nantucket with numerous return windows and transfer points.
Train schedules list multiple Boston and Maine through services from Haymarket and Causeway streets to destinations including Portland Bar Harbor Rockland and Lewiston with varying departure times. Special limited express via Bar Harbor runs from Boston to Bar Harbor with return from Bar Harbor to Boston.
A jumble of train times and stations lists Boston and towns like Andover Dover Medford Melrose Reading Wilmington and Lawrence with numerous arrival and departure times across am and pm and notes such as Sunday trains and workingmen's trains. The OCR shows schedules for multiple routes including Bow Pere RnEs Exeter Great Falls Haverhill North Lawrence and more with inconsistent formatting and stray figures.
A long OCR list shows train departure times from Boston Causeway Street to multiple towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Lynn Revere Newburyport and more. It also lists return times and notes on specific rail lines Fitchburg and Oak Island branches with varying daily and weekend services.
The notice lists Boston station on Causeway Street and the City Ticket Office at 218 Washington Street. It details through trains from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction and more with multiple daily departure times and sleeping and parlor cars to Montreal and Montpelier. Local Boston service includes Manchester Concord Keene Peterboro Hillsboro and Nashua with varied morning and evening runs.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered times and numbers across days and subjects. The legible items include mentions of Sunday activities, morning and evening times, and various partial figures, but no clear events or names to anchor a full report.
Full timetable lists local and through trains for Concord Massachusetts and surrounding towns with multiple daily departures. It names stations and officials C. S Mell en Ge o W Storer gen supers De tails include morning and afternoon slots and through connections at various points.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad announces new service from Boston to Ware and beyond starting Monday June 27 1887 with departures at 7 15 am 12 05 pm and 3 50 pm to Ware Barre Rutland and connections through West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Wayland Weston Belmont and surrounding stations.
A dense schedule listing multiple train routes, stations, and times across towns including North Attleboro Sharon Canton Junction and Roxbury. The document details return trips, delays, and special notes about service adjustments and connections with Providence trains.
Choi An 43 and V B He are listed in a compact score or result line with times and numbers. The fragment references a pair of entities and several numeric entries, suggesting a race or competition results snippet from a sports or event page.
Local time tables showing all divisions of this road can be obtained at ticket offices and at 232 Washington Street Boston where through tickets to all points are on sale. Return and onward schedules include Boston to Springfield Pittsfield Albany via express and local trains with several daily departures. A S Hanson Gen Pass Agt.
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