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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1887
Page
7
Prices listed for hay rye straw and oats straw with varying quality estimates. Jersays Long Islands Bristol Ferry and Norfolk yellow potatoes priced per barrel or bushel with regional note values. Jobbing price increases noted and city country pricing distinctions included.
The Florida orange crop is expected to be unusually large in Waldo while peach prospects across the peninsula weaken. Official reports from the Pennsylvania Railroad cite a 20 to 26 percent deficit from a typical crop, with 3500 to 4000 cars expected to move its share. Milford traders report rising peach prices as growers withhold shipments, and about 80,000 baskets have been sold under contracts.
The listing shows prices for onions, tomatoes, beans, corn, beets, turnips, squash, marrow, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, and parsnips. Items include native and Long Island varieties with per basket, per box, per bush, per dozen, or per 100 counts pricing, such as onions and tomatoes at multiple dollar levels and greens around 50 to 75 cents.
Demand remains strong for hams sausage meat and pork lard unchanged. Fresh beef firm with fair demand. week’s receipts total 116 cars. Western hogs total 3,755,000 year to date down from last year. prices retreat 25-30c Chicago 10-15c Cincinnati. Drought limits pasture water prompting marketing into other districts. exports fair but below last year. Listings cover hog and beef prices and regional packer figures.
The column lists pipeline certificates with numbers and dates, sugar prices for various grades, refined sugar firmness, molasses quotations for cargo lots including Rico and Cuba notes, and cotton futures in Liverpool with weekly price ranges. Names of commodities and levels appear with dates and percentages reflecting market activity.
The piece covers cotton prices and market activity for December through May, noting dull to irregular opening, sales totaling 5000 bales with 8609 bales American, and no receipts. New York spot closed quiet with varied middling upland and other grades, while futures opened quiet with multiple bid and asked quotes across a calendar of months.
Across Minneapolis and New York markets on August 13 wheat for No 1 hard and Northern grades traded firmer with cash and near contracts higher. Receipts topped 67 750 bush in Minneapolis with shipments 22 400 bush while New York saw flour and grain prices steady with ongoing activity and notable spot sales of No 2 Chicago at 79 cents fob.
Market notes from Kansas City Chicago and St Louis report hogs firm and steady with varied receipts and prices. Chicago shows cattle receipts 15000 with no shipments and hogs higher at 475 to 525 with packing and shipping at 5 to 6. Lambs reach 4 to 5 while sheep traders hold steady.
The Providence print cloth market closed firm at 35 1 16 cents minus 1 percent for 64 squares with moderate demand. Weekly sales totaled 16 500 pieces including 64x64s at 35 1 16 cents, 31 4 cents for early deliveries, and 216 16 cents for car deliveries, while manufacturers hold 165 000 pieces 64s and 8000 pieces 56x60s.
Net receipts and sales varied by port with overall dull to quiet tone. Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Savannah and other hubs posted modest figures and stocks, while consolidated U S port totals show 130 798 stock.
Beerbohm reports cargo activity off the coast with wheat quiet and three sales while nine cargos await sale. Prices quoted in Mark Lane and at Liverpool reflect mixed activity with wheat firm in places and English markets dull. Paris and other markets show quiet demand.
Beatrice C. Fletcher formerly Calvert of Boston petitions the Suffolk Superior Court for a divorce from William S. Fletcher of Newport New Hampshire. She alleges adultery in Boston on or about December 1 1885 and prays to resume her maiden name. An order directs the libellant to notify the libellee to appear October 1 next in Boston and publish the libel and order in the Boston Post.
Schedule lists multiple routes from Boston and Maine railways with through trains to Augusta Haymarket, Causeway Street, Bangor, Halifax, St John, and Bar Harbor. Includes departure times from Haymarket and Causeway streets, with connections to Portland and Bar Harbor, and details on a special Bar Harbor limited service both directions.
Havana and Matanzas records show sugar markets quiet amid holder patience. Prices for molasses sugar and muscovado steady. exports for the week totaled 18 300 boxes and 67 000 bags with 60 000 bags and 600 hhds to the United States. Freight rates and exchange firm with Spanish gold quoted at 23434 2 35.
Maritime cargo notes from St Vincent Fernandina Yarmouth Baracoa Haytien ports and Liverpool list schooners and steamers with cargoes including skins lumber eggs mackerel bananas and pine wood plus companies and consignors such as J G Hall Co Smith Crowe Whitney Pousland Co Davenport Peters Co and George McQuesten & Co
A consolidated export summary lists multiple vessels and cargoes across Canadian ports including Schooner AG Blair with 181 bbls itch at St John New Brunswick, Schooner Ethel Emerson with 10 bbls cornmeal at Rockport, and E Raymond with 125 bbls flour 30 bbls meal at Plympton Nova Scotia. It also details the Carroll steamer’s long Halifax to Charlottetown run with flour, hardware, glassware, fruit, vegetables and many other items. additional cargoes include Arizona with flour and acid at Halifax, Vaillant at St Pierre Mig with alcohol butter and groceries, and a Halifax NL spread with flour acid roofing material pitch and various goods.
A dated ledger from August 13, 1887 catalogs staples and shipments across multiple railroads in Boston and New England. It records wool, flour, oats, meal, rye, feed, coffee, bacon, butter, cheese, eggs, lumber, leather, and many other goods, with quantities by Grand Junction, Boston and Albany, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Ejtchburg, Boston & Maine, and Boston & Lowell railroads, plus by express and by sea deliveries.
A OCR ledgers style record lists receipts and quantities by product and unit for August 13 1887. Cotton butter cheese eggs oats corn wheat apples malt potatoes and more appear with bale, bush, box, bag, and barrel counts, reflecting a broad domestic trade tally.
Bridget Ryan of Boston petitions for letters of administration with the will annexed for John P. Ryan, deceased. Heirs and kin are cited to appear at the Suffolk Probate Court on September 5, 1887, at 10 AM to show cause. Public notice to be published weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post.
The notice lists weekday train departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and returns via similar routes, with numerous stop stations including Ashmont Barnstable Sandwich Hyannis Braintree Plymouth Scituate Weymouth and more. It also mentions connections to Nantucket Cottage City Wood's Hollow and other coastal towns, plus agents GEO L CONNOR and J R KENDRICK.
Western Division lists numerous daily departures from Boston stations toward Alton Hay Hechester Farmington Andover and many others with varied times. Sunday trains include Dover Maverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Stedford Portland Bangor Lewiston and other stops with multiple daily runs.
A dense OCR listing details train times for multiple lines and stations across the eastern division. It lists departures and arrivals at Boston Station Causeway Street and peripheral towns like Beverly Revere Lynn Newburyport Swampscott and Gloucester with various morning afternoon and Sunday schedules.
Train timetable details for Boston lines including Shore Line and Providence routes. Lists departures and returns with varied minutes, days, and connections, plus notes on service changes and stations from Albany to Canton Junction and Dedham to West Medway.
Local and regional service from Boston covers routes to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Jericho Ashland Plymouth Franklin White River Junction Montreal and Montpelier with 8.30 am 7 pm and multiple daily departures. Parlor and sleeping car options noted for Montr eal with diverse stops including Manchester Concord Nashua and Lowell areas. Sunday times listed for select runs.
A dense timetable lists local and through trains for Concord, Arlington, Lexington, Woburn, Winchester, and other Massachusetts stations. It includes daily and Sunday departures with varied times, winter schedules, and notes the availability of full timetable information at stations.
A dense numeric timetable from Boston shows through tickets to Albany Springfield Pittsfield and New York with multiple departure times and sleeping car connections. It lists offices at 232 Washington Street and notes ongoing operations of trains to Manchester Saybrook and Chicago with various express and local services.
Readable timetable snippets list routes to Oak Island Point of Pines Saugus Branch and Boston via Haymarket. Mentions Workingmen's trains on weekdays and Saturdays, Pacific General Manager and agents, Pullman service and ticket offices.
Fragmentary ad from a historical page promotes CHICHESTER CHEM with a request to ask a druggist for this product or send 4c stamps to CHICHESTER CHEM, Gro. C. GOODWIN & CO.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad announces a new service starting Monday June 27 1887 linking Boston with Ware Barre and Gosland with multiple daily departures and station stops including West Boylston Oakdale and Southville. Officials GEO. W. STORER and CS MELLEN supervise the expansion and timetable.
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