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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1887
Page
7
Market receipts reported 4000 bales with 3100 bales American. New York spot closed steady for middling uplands and other grades, with futures showing varied bids and asks through August to December contracts. Pipeline certificates activity noted with daily high and low prices, shipments, charters, and refined oil metrics.
New York market notes mixed receipts and steady demand with No 2 Chicago wheat around 78 44 to 70 54 cents, corn higher, oats active, rye and barley varied. Chicago and St Louis show flour and wheat activity, while Minneapolis records firm No 1 hard and No 2 Northern bids amid large wheat stocks.
Hog prices hold steady in St Louis Peoria and Chicago with mixed packers firm and butchers steady. Cattle receipts total 12 000 in Chicago with steady good cattle and lower common stockers and feeders and varied Texas cattle prices. Hogs in Chicago slow with wide range and mixed grades, natives and Westerns higher or lower by category. Lamb prices range 4 25 to 4 75 with steady shipments across markets.
A compiled report shows Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Withington, Charleston, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, St Louis and Louisville markets with net receipts, gross totals, exports coastwise or to foreign destinations, sales and stock figures. Notable items include New York gross receipts 4418 with exports to Great Britain 5424 and stock 93034, and consolidated three day totals of 3515 with port stocks at 151348.
London reports freight and market shifts with wheat heavy and corn steady as shipments from Calcutta Bombay and Kurrackes rise to Great Britain and the continent. Liverpool and Antwerp show quiet to steady price tones with notable figures for wheat varieties and corn. Havana notes sugar quiet as molasses polarization prices lapse.
A dense ledger from Antwerp and Atlantic ports lists steamer Gothenburg City and multiple ships docking with Billets, steel bars, alizarine, papers, oils, canned goods, and fresh produce. Names include Jere Abbott & co, Baring Bros & co, J B Moors & co, W W & C R Noyes, Delong & Seaman, Brown Bros & co, and many regional firms. Cargo spans Norway to Halifax, Boston, Savannah and beyond with hundreds of cases, bales, crates, and barrels.
A dense inventory of goods and cargo from ships including the Steamer Austrian the Schooner Mignonne Brig C C Sweeney the Steamer New York the Bark Saturn and the Schooner Muriel. Items range from flour and cheese to beans coffee and meat plus tools furniture and hardware across ports Glasgow St Pierre Trinidad Annapolis Bear River Adelaide and Adelaide area.
A fragment notes an 8 pack lead pencils and a mention of 13,000 units or words in a price-laden context. No clear event or names are identifiable.
A detailed tally of farm and commodity receipts including butter cheese flour eggs oats cornmeal beans corn potatoes wheat malt hay straw cottonseed meal lumber leather hides beef pork lard and other goods with figures across bales barrels cases bags and bushels. The list names several commodities and quantities reflecting warehouse and market activity on that date.
A detailed ledger of shipments across multiple railroads listing bales wool flour oats sugar tea apples butter eggs and other commodities. Entries cover Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine divisions Lowell and more with totals and item counts.
A fragmented 1995 trade summary lists 4 cases 53 bags plus 1995 side items and numerous hides bales palls skins calfskins cars hay and related quantities including 4293 dry hides 105 bales 66 balls and 42 calfskins.
Regular schedules for Boston and Maine lines list Augusta Haymarket and Causeway Street stops with morning and afternoon departures. Connections include steamer services to Saint John Halifax and Bar Harbor, plus extended routes to Portland Rockland Castine and Knox Lincoln lines. A special Limited train from Boston to Bar Harbor with intermediate via Portland and Bangor departs at 9.15 am and arrives Bar Harbor 8.55 pm, with return Bar Harbor 8 am and Portland 1.57 pm.
A long, dense list of train departures and arrivals across many towns including Moston Dover Medford Melrose Reading Salem and Wilmington with numerous times and routes. The bulletin appears to map frequent daily services to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and other destinations.
Reading shows an extensive list of departure times from Boston to destinations like Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Marblehead Rockport and beyond. The fragment includes multiple branches and notes express trains and Sunday service along with station mentions and official headers.
A chaotic OCR fragment shows a dense list of train times and routes with many unreadable portions. It references stations such as Norwood Central, Harvard Street, Baltimore, and Washington, with numerous departure and arrival times, but the text is heavily garbled and inconsistently formatted.
Boston station on Causeway Street offers through service from Boston to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction and St Johnsbury with multiple daily departures for different branches and local points. Sleeping cars to Montreal and parlor cars available, plus connections to Manchester Concord Keene Nashua and other towns.
A fragmentary timetable lists multiple train times and routes among Lowell Arlington Lexington West Medford and related stations. It mentions through connections and local departures with a note that full information is available at stations. Officials listed include Bell, George W. Storer, General Superintendent and General Passenger Agent.
The Old Colony announces a Monday start for a revised schedule with expanded Boston to New Work and Providence connections. Times include morning and evening departures from Boston, with return options to Boston and New York, plus special Sunday trains and pier-to-hotel baggage handling.
Boston to Ware Barre Rathund and other towns with morning and afternoon departures listed. Times include 7.15 am 12.05 pm 3.50 pm and varied Sunday stations. Stations mentioned include Weet Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Budsen Belmont Waverly and others. General Superintendent S Mell en and Geo W Storer as officials.
After July 1 1887 Weekday trains depart Boston for New York via Fell River Line at 6 and 7 pm Return via Fall River Line at 6 15 am and 9 30 pm Timetables list numerous intermediate stops including Hyannis Yarmouth Barnstable Wareham and Nantucket with varied connections to Rockland Brockton and other hubs. GEO. & CONXND J. R. KENDRICK General Passenger Agent General Manager.
Beatrice C Calvert Fletcher of Boston petitions the Superior Court for a divorce from William S Fletcher of Newport New Hampshire alleging adultery committed in Boston on or about December 1 1885 and asks to resume her maiden name.
The Massachusetts Suffolk court orders the libellant to publish the libel and order in the Boston Post for three weeks, detailing the October appearance date and the cause to show why the petition should not be granted. Also Massachusetts Middlesex Probate Court cites Gardner Colby estate executors to appear September first for account allowances, with publication in the Boston Post.
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