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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1888
Page
7
The notes outline varied quotes across regions for cheese, eggs, beans, grasses, potatoes, and poultry. New York levels are steady with several price bands for cheddars and extras, while Eastern and Northern markets show firmer tone on certain dairy and cheese grades. Sugar, molasses, and grain markets move modestly with steady demand and smaller supplies in some areas.
The steamer Aguan from Jamaica is due with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company and the steamer Ydun from Baracoa is due with bananas for Seayerns and Company.
The market stays steady with a fair trade noted across many vegetables and fruits. Native green peas and Jersey tomatoes show 60c to 150p crate ranges, Norfolk onions listed at 325 bbl and beets at 2.8 per 100 count, while vast quantities including grapes, squash, potatoes, and cucumbers are slated for Friday delivery as inventories remain robust yet some items in limited supply.
The daily market survey shows steady pork demand at firm prices with varied cuts and multiple price levels. New York reports dull pork and beef markets with steady lard, while Chicago notes active provisions but weak and lower overall. Prices for fresh beef, mutton, and veal range across several grades and regional quotations.
Sugars and molasses markets show quiet activity with raw sugar holding firm prices. Cuba quotations are described as fair, with trade notes indicating stable sentiment and limited price movement in the current session.
Allan Asher & Co report sugarcoated weakness in today’s cotton market with Liverpool gains offset by selling. New York futures opened firm and closed steady, while Liverpool spot holds 656d for middling uplands. Regional receipts and stocks across Augusta to Louisville show varied activity, with overall cautious sentiment ahead of bureau reports.
Stock yards Kansas City receipts 6152 cattle slow at steady prices shippers 425 490 steers 2330 native cows 140 250 hogs receipts 4983 demand slow prices 5c lower heavies 625 640 mediums and lights 6 30 6 30 sheep receipts 474 market steady 250 370 Cincinnati hogs steady Chicago cattle receipts 11000 shipments 5000 strong for good others lower 6 6 20 steers 3875 590 stockers and feeders 223 50 cows bulls and mixed 125 3 25 Texas steers 190 840 Western ranges 370 4265 hogs receipts 14000 shipments 6000 weak and Owens mixed 5 90 6 50 heavy 6 10 6 65 ships 4 10 5 90 sheep receipts 5000 shipments 1000 shade lower natives 2 50 4 80 Western shorn 3 70 4 10 Texas shorn 2 70 4 10 lambs 4 50 5 85
Taliow shows demand steady and prices unchanged with 4c bids in city markets. New York notes firm 4 ac bid and 4c asking for prime city. Coffee remains fair in New York with Rio firm at 14c. Whiskey markets mostly unchanged with Cincinnati and St Louis around 114 and 1.14 respectively. Turpentine and rosin close near firm levels in New York while petroleum and related products show mixed figures.
For the week ending Aug 8 1888 George J Fox reports totals for sheep cattle lambs and swine at Brighton and Watertown with arrivals at both yards and prices. Cattle and sheep counts rise and fall versus prior weeks. hog prices steady near 7 4 4 cents per pound. veal calves mixed. milk cows and store stock sell slowly. late arrivals include multiple milch cows and working oxen with varied bids and prices.
Weight details and prices for cattle, veal, sheep, and hogs across Maine and Watertown yards. Notes on Western and Northern supply, tender prices, and sales by brokers such as Lehman bros and J A Hathaway. Includes lamb sales, milch cows, and store pig trends with regional yard observations.
Shipping list entry detailing bananas and diverse cargoes from Karl Konow and numerous consignors to Liverpool and Singapore. Notes extensive goods including woollens wool waste waxes chemicals metals and brandy among hundreds of crates boxes bales and cases. Named firms appear with quantities and destinations in a dense port records style.
A condensed shipper ledger cites Cephalonia cleared Aug 3 with 21 packages leaf tobacco and varied cargo including machinery, printed matter, 8400 staves, rubber goods, foodstuffs like lard beef butter cheese flour corn pork skins and sacks, plus wood, hardware, bacon and oil cake. Additional entries note Nina Page at Barrington with flour and meal, and shipments to Guysborough and Harbor Au Bouche tallying oil, cement, kerosene and corn.
Ledger of goods shipped and received lists wool flour corn oats malt feed lard hams butter cheese beans straw lumber leather hides green hides pelts calfskins and tubs butter for Boston and Providence Railroad routes including multiple railroad car counts and commodity totals from August 8 1888. Other entries show tubs and boxes of dairy products along with bales of wool and bbls of flour totaling several thousand units across the two lines.
A fragmented ledger lists numerous railroad era consignments including wool bales, bbls of grease and syrup, pork and beef pork, butter, eggs, cheese, tea and coffee, flour, lumber, leather, hides, and various agricultural products across multiple railroads such as Grand Junction, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, and Boston & Maine. It records quantities by bales, bbls, sacks, cases, boxes, barrels, and rolls, with many line items per railroad and region, reflecting a broad mix of commodities transported and stored in preparation for distribution.
Foreign markets report from London and Liverpool notes wheat prices firm but demand weak, corn steady to quiet, and holders restricting supply. Prices quoted: winter wheat 6s 11d 7s, spring 6s 11d 7s, club wheat 7s 1d 7s 2d. corn mixed Western cheaper, pork 71s 3d, bacon 49s short clear 48s long clear, cheese 46s 6d, tallow 23s 6d. Weather in England described as brilliant.
A dense list of one way and Sunday train times for many stations including Ashmont Braintree Hingham East Weymouth Quincy Rockland Scituate and Plymouth with frequent daily and Sunday departures and noted via lines and specials.
Train times listed for Cape Cod division including Buzzards Bay Bourne Barnstable Barnstable Wellfleet and Nantucket routes with 9.00 am to 4.15 pm windows, various notes via Woods Hall and Oceanside stops. Sunday trains include Buzzards Bay Bourne Chatham Onset Sandwich Sagamore and Yarmouth with morning departures.
A historical timetable lists Providence Division routes from Park Square Station to New York and various local stops. It includes Sunday exceptions, multiple departures with complex hour readings, and notes on Rex tolls and additional services to Joliet and nearby towns, reflecting a dense period transit schedule.
Time tables list local and through trains between Boston and Framingham Southboro Northboro Clinton Loomin ater and Fitchburg with 7.15 and 11.05 am departures, 4.30 5.25 6.30 pm ex times, Sundays 6pm, stations include Knee land Street Fayville Bolton Prate's function and references to Old State House office. Official notice signed by L Connor and GEO en, July 1, 1888.
Boston and Maine announces through trains on Western and Eastern divisions from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. Listings include Augusta Portland Bangor Calais St. John Halifax Eastport Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland and Maine Central lines with departure times and limited express service with Pullman cars and steamer connections from Portland on select days.
Train schedule lists Western Division departures from Boston stations at 8.30 am and later for Alton Gay Rochester and Farmington with numerous commuter stops including Andover Dover Exeter Great Falls Haverhill and many Lawrence Malden Melrose Reading Wakefield Wilmington per Sunday service, detailing times for weekdays and Sunday trains.
A dense list of hourly train times from Boston Causeway Street and surrounding stops. Includes routes to Ameasaburg, Chelsea, Dover, Ipswich, Lynn, Marblehead, Newburyport, Rockport, Swampscott, Wenham, and more. Also notes Lowell System through service to Tilton Lake Village Meredith Ashland and connections to Montreal via White River Junction and Fabyan's.
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