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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1887
Page
7
Wholesale quotes show higher jobbing prices across goods with butter and fats firm. Sweets remain abundant with Norfolk sweet oil barrels and various staples listed. butter prices vary by grade and region. eggs, poultry, beans, hay, rye straw, tallow, and potatoes appear with mixed movement and regional ranges.
Prices for pears 1 1 37 per box, peaches 2 2 10, plums 2 60 2 65. Harris & Co plan 200 pears, 250 peaches, 50 half crates grapes, 150 boxes plums. Peaches and watermelons priced, cantaloupes glutted, olives and berries cited, oranges lemons quoted, North Carolina pears noted, sales terms 4 5dc.
A list of produce prices shows onions at 175 per case for Egyptian, Maltas at 3 a basket, tomatoes and olives at 75c to 1, cabbage from 10 up per 100, wax beans at 1 per bush, green beans 1 per bush, shell beans 150 to 175 per bush, native corn 10 12 14 per dozen, beets 40c per bush, turnips Long Island 75c per bush, squash 1 per 100, marrow 1 per barrel, carrots 32 per 100, lettuce 30 per dot, cucumbers 50c per 100, parsnips 75 cents per dozen bunches.
The market shows steady provision prices with small rises in rumps and loins. Beef and pork cuts list varied quotes from fresh ribs to sausage, with hogs and lambs priced by size and grade across multiple entries.
Liverpool futures opened firm then closed easy with August to February ranges listed. Spot market rose on improved demand with Lee and Orleans at 54 4d per lb. New York spot steady with middling at 91 3 16 cents. Futures quotes mix with active bid and ask, market quiet but steady. Pipeline certificates and sugar markets included with prices and volumes.
The Norfolk steamer Dye Friday carried 0 barrels of apples 200 barrels of cantaloupes 1000 barrels of grapes 90 barrels of potatoes and 17000 watermelons.
Reports from trade centres indicate front receipts totaling 25 684 packages, exports 1291 barrels, and 16 276 sacks in New York on August 10.
Market notes show steady to firm sentiment in flour and wheat with quiet cornmeal and rye. Pork and lard active in Chicago and Cincinnati reflect strong protein oils while butter and cheese hold firm. receipts and shipments vary by city as oats flour and barley trade steady to weak.
Market quotes from St. Louis Peoria Kansas City and Chicago show hogs steady with mixed packers and butchers steady in St. Louis and Peoria while Chicago reports firmer cattle but lower hogs. Receipts range with total shipments and prices listed for steers cows and lambs across regions.
Commodities mixed across cities with receipts, exports, and stock tallies. Prices show quiet to steady movement with mid to high fractional cents noted, including Great Britain exports and several port totals. Consolidated five day figures posted for nationwide stocks.
A detailed ledger of cargo movements listing ships Steamer Kansas and partners Baring Bros & Co and others. Items include hides, tin plates, pig iron, caustic soda, woollens, carpeting, mdse, earthenware, champagne, olive oil, brandy, wax, and numerous cases and boxes. Multiple firms and consignors appear, with quantities ranging from a few cases to thousands of boxes and bales.
Train times list for the Boston and Providence routes with departures to New York Providence Pawtucket and other stops. Includes return times and service notes from A A Folsom Superintendent, plus various one hour adjustments and Saturday schedules.
The notice outlines weekday trains from Boston to New York via Fall River Line starting July 1 1887 with numerous stops including Ashmont Barnstable Sandwich and Hyannis plus return times. It lists departure 7 pm from Boston and 6 15 pm return via Fall River Line, detailing dense timetable figures for many towns and connectors.
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany line list daily departures to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West from Boston with multiple morning and evening options. Through tickets to New York Worcester Marlboro and other points are sold at Boston offices. General agents Hanson and Gallup sign the notice.
The record lists varied goods including salt and soda crystals, bleaches, onions, wool, carpets, and bagging. It notes ships and crews at Trinidad Cuba Bark Merriticook 551 hhus 68 tierces 820 bags sugar and the schooners Syanara Riverdale with cargoes of railroad ties and spruce scantling along with Alexander Foster & Co.荷
Shipping and cargo briefs show the schooners F and E Givan Annie Fairfar with vitriol bread flour kerosene tobacco and other goods from Moncton Cape Verdi Islands and Liverpool. Items include 200 bbls bread 160 bbls flour 200 cases kerosene 10 boxes tobacco 10 boxes Florida water 500 cases canned goods 100 boxes herring 60 oars 12 cases paint and 12 mattresses among others.
Summary of total receipts and quantities by product for August 10 1887 including cotton wool cornmeal beans oat meal and other staples. Lists figures in bales sacks barrels boxes and pounds across categories such as beef lard butter tea coffee molasses and hides with totals for 1885 1887 and 1887.
A detailed ledger of consignments dated August 10 1887 across multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Western Lowell and others. Items listed include bales wool flour oats corn bran butter cheese beef lard bacon pork leather hides skins and lumber with numerous cargo quantities.
The report details cargoes and prices across Europe and Britain, noting wheat heavy off the coast, corn firmer, and flour slipping in Paris. Liverpool prices show quiet wheat and firm corn, with Manchester noting cautious buyers and expectations of lower prices amid cotton fluctuations.
A brief note promotes Pyle's Pearline as an easy efficient and economical soap option for use in hot weather. It emphasizes practicality and value for cleaning tasks during heat.
A compiled roster lists buyers and firms from Allentown to Yankton, naming L Krause Qu Bayou Sara French Pa Bayou Sara Hartson Pa Baltimore MD L McCleary Gunby Bets worth Co Am Corsicana J T Sullivan and many others including O Neill Sons Friedman UK De Muth C McLaughlin Selz Schwab Chicago Kreissman Ad Daum Laws Co Laws & Co Dohan Ranch Decatur Murphy Gabell Krushka Fort Worth Lampton Bros Edwards Bush McCulloch Bears Becker Hanford Roemhild Lang Parks Cantrell Fleischman Kellogg Cohen Sullivan Hohenberg Piles among others.
Special limited express service departs Boston Haymarket at 9.15 am for Portland and Bar Harbor with connections to Mt. Desert and Bangor. Bar Harbor to Portland and Boston schedule returns Bar Harbor 8 am, Bangor 10.30 am, arriving Portland 1.67 pm and Boston 6 pm.
Train times listed for Boston�s Back Bay and surrounding lines to Dover Lewiston Portland and more with weekday and Sunday departures. Includes numerous stops such as Lawrence Malden Medford Melrose Wilmington Haverhill Andover and Reading and notes public schedule variations.
A dense tabulation of eastern division train departures from Boston to Amesbury and other locales. It lists numerous stations including Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Great Balls and Lochester Hampton Beach North Milford Marblehead Swampscott and Newburyport with varied times across morning and evening periods.
Timetable details for trains between Oak Island Point of Pines and Boston with leaving times and return options. Notes include service on Thursdays and Saturdays only, branches via Saugus and South Reading, and station mentions in Boston with Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains.
Trains leave Boston Passenger Station for North Adams Troy Albany and the West with numerous daily departures including sleepers to Chicago and St Louis. Local times, through tickets, and change at South Station. Offices at 250 Washington Street Boston. John Adams general superintendent J Whitmore traffic manager J R Watson passenger agent.
Boston station details on Causeway Street and 218 Washington Street list through service to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Wells Meredith and more with varied times. Local shervior from Boston and Lowell lines include Manchester Concord Keene Peterboro Millsboro via Concord and other towns with multiple daily departures and evening sleepers to Montréal and Montpelier.
Open to Ware with new schedule from Boston including stations West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Rockbottom Sudbury Waverly Belmont and routes to Ibarre Rutland and Weston Rail official W. Stor er and C S Mellen announce start of service with multiple daily departures and return times June 27 1887
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