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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1888
Page
7
Grain and seed prices show no change with Northern timothy at 3 and Western timothy 2 85 3 00, red top 0 50 and clover around 7 8c. Potatoes firm with Jerseys 1 75 1 87 ½, New York sweets 2 4, hay steady 14 18 up to 20, poultry quiet with Northern chickens 25c and fowls 13 16c.
The Marmion is due with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Victoria is due Thursday from Baracoa with bananas for Seaverns and Co.
Market reports show ample supplies with steady demand for native apples and specialties. Oranges and lemons hold steady quotes, with Palermo oranges at 6 to 7 per box and Messina lemons at 8 6 per box, while Rodi oranges fetch 5 50 to 6 00. Berry receipts are fair with blue berries at 8 12 cents and black berries 10 12 1/2 cents. Watermelons and cantaloupes abundant though quiet, and pears remain well supplied with lower prices. California Fruit Union auctions peaches at 95 cents to 1 55 per crate and prunes at 60 cents to 1 20 per crate. two cars to be sold this week with daily sales planned.
Prices listed for marrow squash to native cucumbers and greens peas to onions. Items include Egyptian and Spanish onions, carrots, lettuce, turnips, beets, cucumbers, corn, tomatoes, peppers, with varied units such as bush, bunch, box, and case and prices ranging from 12.5 cents per dozen to several dollars per bush or case.
Regional price quotes for pork, lard, beef and veal show overall steadiness with varied cuts. Pork across many items ranges from 7 to 19 cents per pound, lard around 8 to 10 cents, beef around 7 to 13 cents for various parts, and fresh veal and mutton listed with mixed demand and values in Chicago and other markets.
Sugars hold firm at old prices with various grade quotations for Cuba Manila and refined sugars. New York offers sparingly with strong tone and higher refined values across several sugar categories. Molasses quotes unchanged and trade quiet. Cotton market notes a Liverpool advance drawing buy covering, with Texas rains lowering fall and winter prices and a cautious mood prevailing.
Weekly output 1000 bales in Britain and 1000 on the Continent, total 148000 weekly versus 146000 last month. New York futures open firm, close steady, with mids around 11% to 10 cents and varying futures. Liverpool dull at 5% 5d for middling. stock and receipts listed for Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, West Point, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and Augusta. consolidated four day receipts 11,685 with Britain and Continent exports 2,293 and 1,643 respectively. Stock at all US ports 176,902.
Kansas City cattle receipts 6395 steady to slow with steers 240 to 320 and natives 190 to 265. Hog receipts 8441 active trading. heavies 605 to 616. mediums and lights 610 to 635. Sheep receipts 3148 steady at 250 to 346. St Louis hogs firmer lights 620 to 635. Boece firm 625 to 640. Cincinnati dull 590 to 640. Chicago cattle receipts 10000 strong for good. steers 380 to 600. hogs receipts 8000 slow. mixed 570 to 630. lambs 425 to 575.
The report shows quiet demand with unchanged prices across markets. New York notes light offerings and bids for prime city. Cincinnati and St Louis quote steady levels around 114 dollars. Chicago lacks a quote. Turpentine and petroelum round out with mixed prices: turpentine near 36 42 or 37 cents, rosin around 105 107, tar nominal, petroelum at 64 26 or 6 cents with RSW 74 2 cents and cases at 9.
Market summary from Watertown shows larger cattle run with improved buyer activity. Prices held firm on quality cattle with oxen, heifers and fancy cows selling around 7 to 8 cents per pound dressed weight. sheep and lambs steady with numerous lots from Canada and Vermont.
On August 14, 1888, Grand Manan New Brunswick reported Schooner Porpoise with 8130 boxes of herring for Debutts and Daggett. At Port au Prince brig Matilda Buck carried 500 000 tens of logwood, 37 barrels limes, 8 bags coffee, and an order.
A ledger line lists various cargo items with quantities including tierces of drillings and tallow oil, boxed organs, rubber boots, dowels, paint, ivory keys, cattle, duck and bolls, whalebone, skates, lard, asbestos, walnut lumber, tobacco, cake, flour, dyestuffs, leather and related sacks or bags. The items are shown with large counts and mixed units such as cases, sacks, bags, and feet.
Detailed ledger of goods receipts by rail lines including Boston and Albany Grand Junction and other routes. Items listed cover wool, flour, cornmeal, oats, wheat, butter, eggs, pork, beef, coffee, beans, hay, straw, leather, hides, pelts, tea, cheese, potatoes, lumber, lard, and many other staples with quantities and car or bale counts. Named lines include Boston & Albany, Boston & Providence, Qld Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine divisions, and Express and Sea shipments.
London and Liverpool markets show wheat and corn steady to weak amid light demand. Cargoes off the coast report nine arrivals with two sales and ten awaiting sale. California and Chilian wheats quoted around 36s to 33s 3d. Liverpool prices list mixed wheat and corn values with pork and bacon prices steady. Weather in England fine.
Heirs and interested parties are notified in Suffolk Probate Court Boston to appear September 3, 1888, at 10 am regarding the will presented by Charles E Powers. Public notice to be printed weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post, final publication at least two days before court. Judge Joan W McKim. Assistant Register John H Paine.
An old advertisement urges restoring a baby’s health by adding three or more drops of Murdock's Liquid Food to each meal. It claims the product suits all ages and, in adults, four tablespoonfuls four times daily boosts nutrition, blood quality, and vitality.
A dense list of train times and stations across Amesbury Beverly Dover Lynn Rockport and many others with numerous inconsistencies and garbled entries. The fragment appears to catalog departures arrivals and branch services with odd symbols and misprints.
A dense listing shows Augusta Haymarket and Causeway Street stations with multiple daily departures to Portland Bar Harbor St John Halifax and Montreal routes. It notes the Boston and Maine Desert-Limie Express with Pullman cars and extra fare, steamer links from Portland to Eastport Calais St John and Lewiston, and frequent departures from Haymarket and Causeway Street to Maine points and Concord North Conway Blanchester and Grand Trunk lines.
Western Division schedules from Gaston Station Haymarket and surrounding towns. Times list departures for towns including Rochester Farmington Andover Haverhll Georgetown Khennebunk Battleford Saco North Law rence South Lawrence Lowell Malden Melrose Reading Satem Wakeeneta Wilmington and others with numerous early and late day options.
Train times list Cape Cod division stops from Leave Kneeland Street Station to Buzzards for weekday and Sunday services. The schedule includes towns such as Barnstable Woods Hall Chatham Falmouth Hyannis Ost or Warwick and Nantucket with various 9.00 am 1.00 pm 4.05 pm windows and special via Woods Hall routes.
Disjointed timetable notes list various travel times and fares for Sunday services and special days. Mentions routes from Park Sai Cork Shore Line, with multiple departure and arrival times, and scattered prices.
A jumbled list of train times and routes from the Providence Line with numerous errant characters. The text reads as a timetable fragment showing departures and arrivals across multiple stations and days, but many entries are garbled or incomplete.
Wednesdays and Saturdays only. Time tables with full local and through train service information available in Boston at stations above and at Old Colony B&R Office No 3 Old State House. J Br Kendrick Gen Manr and Geo L Connor Gen Pasa r Agent Boston July 1 1888.
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