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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1887
Page
7
Grain markets across Milwaukee Detroit Toledo Minneapolis report dull to higher movements. Wheat prices ranged from 68½ to 78¾ cents, corn 40 to 45 cents, oats 26 to 28 cents, rye up to 64½ cents, barley near 60 cents. receipts and shipments detailed for each city with specific bushel and barrel figures.
Hogs firm with varied receipts and prices in Peoria Kansas City Saint Louis and Chicago. Cattle strong with shipments and price ranges across steers cows and Texas Wyoming and other regions. Sheep and lamb markets steady with regional price spreads noted.
The report lists net receipts, gross totals, exports, stock levels, and mid ranges for multiple ports including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and overall United States totals. It shows firm quiet nominal and steady conditions with new bales, exports to Great Britain and the continent, and comparative year figures for the week and year to date.
London and Liverpool market notes show wheat quiet to steady with firm corn and flour. At Mark Lane English and foreign wheat quiet. American Danubian corn firm. Paris and Liverpool supply and demand mixed with modest gains in corn and steady pork and cheese prices. Weather showery in England and fine in Liverpool accompanies price quotations for various grains and fats.
A historical ledger style listing imports and exports dated August 19 1887 across multiple ports including Porto Rico Pictou Ingonish Neil's Harbor Yarmouth Barbados Antwerp Glasgow London St John. Items cover birds molasses sugar kerosene oil flour meal paper hangings hats lumber and meat dairy products leather hardware and various goods on vessels such as River Avon Blondel Laura B Yarmouth Vauban Pieter de Coninck Stockholm City Friendship.
A ledger style list records shipments across multiple railroads including Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Witchburg and Boston & Maine. Items cited cover wool, flour, corn, oats, rye, malt, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, leather, lumber, hides, tea, apples, potatoes and other commodities with quantities.
Lists quantities by item and unit across Boston & Maine Western Division Lowell and Express and Sea routes including wool bales flour butter eggs apples lumber leather hides pelts tea and various breads and meats with totals per category and carriage method. The fragmentary OCR reads like a compilation of stock and consignment tallies for multiple transport lines.
Suffolk County records show transfers on Aug 1 to Aug 3 involving Shawmut avenue Bainbridge Albany Washington Regent Adams Wyoming George Clarence Gut Dorchester South Boston and Weston streets. Purchasers include Nathan Rosenfeld Jane Wood Marks Berwin Louis Abrams Augusta Abrams Joseph Green Hannah Webber Catherine Sheedy Herbert Crich e t and Ellen Birchenough with prices from 1 to 2300 dollars and mortgage backs noted.
Train schedules list through services on two divisions from Boston and Maine lines via Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Bar Harbor St John Halifax and provinces with connections to Portland Lewiston Manchester North Conway and Portland. A special limited train with Pullman vestibule cars departs Boston at 9 15 am and Portland at 12 13 pm arriving Harbor 6 55 pm with return legs to Bar Harbor Mt Deseret Bangor and Boston.
The readable content lists numeric times and partial tokens such as 10pm 9am 6.45 7.30 9.10 and place hints like Wilmington and Lab. It appears to be an incomplete timetable or log with unclear headings and many garbled entries.
A dense timetable appears with train times for multiple towns including Concord Arlington Lexington Bedford and Billerica. Names Mell en and Geo W Storer as general superintendent and passenger agent are shown along with notes about full information at stations.
Listings show multiple August property deeds across Chelsea and East Boston. Transactions include mortgages and sales on Kemp street Gardner street Park street 7 street and M street with values ranging from 400 to 5500 dollars and dates August 1 and 2 involving various individuals and lenders.
A sequence of mortgage filings dated Aug 1 and Aug 2 records transfers of land and buildings in Boston area neighborhoods. Notable entries include Peter Schneider to Germania Cooperative Bank on Boston Street South Boston for 1000 dollars and Phebe Buck to Chelsea Savings Bank for 5000 dollars at Broadway and Third Street.
The Free Surgical Hospital for Women, aided by the Murdock Liquid Food Company of Boston, publicizes a national reach as capital-case surgeries are performed nationwide. The June 1 1887 quarterly report lists patient origins across Texas Colorado Montreal Alabama Prince Edward Island Rhode Island Connecticut Vermont Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts with 97 from MA from 20 towns and cities. Doctors with surgical cases may arrange beds by notifying the hospital.
A facility announces a Septic Hospital unit with 12 free beds dedicated to surgical cases.
The text touts Liquid Food as a universal raw food for all ages able to heal wounds in 30 to 60 days and sustain life for days when not eaten. It claims injections work, a baby’s vitality can be rebuilt by drops at feeds, and a home for homeless boys uses 50 beds at 1 to 21 Causeway Street with 200 large bottles produced.
The notice lists weekday trains from Boston to New York via the Fev River Line and returns via the Far River Line, with times at Ashmont Hyannis Barnstable and many stops including Duxbury Brockton Taunton Norwood and Cape Cod towns. It names GEO. L. CONNOR and J. Kendrick as officials.
The Central Massachusetts Ri R announces new rail service opening June 27 1887 from Boston to Ware Barre Rutland and other stops with multiple daily departures including 7 15 am 12 05 pm 3 50 pm and evening runs to Weston Oakdate Jefferson Sun schedules and connections via Hudson Belmont and Sudbury. George W Storer general passenger agent and Melllen general superintendent oversee the line.
Railroad notices detail MONDAY start for Shore Line Fast Express and New York connections with listed departure and return times to Boston Providence Pawtucket Attleboro and other towns. Additional notes specify Sunday runs and adjustments for specific routes and stopping patterns including Mt. Hope and Stoughton connections.
Western Division timetable lists trains from Boston stations to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and other points. Includes numerous departures from Andover Haverhill Malden Reading Salem and Wilmington with Sunday trains to Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell and Portland Bangor Lewiston and midweek/Way Station stops.
A dense timetable lists departures from Boston and transfers to Amesbury Beverly Chelsea and other towns with multiple daily times. It includes notes on branches and special services, plus general managers and schedule notes.
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