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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1887
Page
7
Market notice lists prices for cucumbers and pickles. Native cucumbers 30 cents per dozen, pars nips 50 cents per 100, parsley bunches 75 cents per dozen, pickles 15 cents per 100, and coarse bush items at $1 per bush.
Provisions remaining near previous quotes with detailed beef pork and fresh meat prices. Long cuts pork and lard hover around 17 to 18 dollars per unit, hams and shoulders listed with varied cures, beef prices for extra plate, mess, and fresh beef reported, and lamb mutton veal rates given with quality spreads.
Liverpool cotton futures opened irregular and closed barely steady with varied August to February contracts. Soot market shows hardening prices and 14,000 bales sold. New York spot prices for middling uplands steady to firm. Pipeline certificates and sugar and molasses markets quoted with steady to firm tones and multiple grade prices listed.
Reports from New York Chicago St Louis and others show flour receipts and exports with prices for Western white and Minnesota extra. wheat receipts and spot bids steady to firm. oats, rye and barley mixed with firm pork and lard in various markets. Mississippi river and Detroit notes include No 2 white wheat and corn prices.
Peoria reports hogs weak with sales mainly 480 56. Kansas City notes firm hogs with receipts 3000 and shipments 3450. St Louis shows firm hogs with Yorkers around 495 6 10 and mixed powers at 496 5 165. Chicago cattle receipts 10 000, steers to 320 45, stockers 175 43 30, Texas and Montana prices listed. Hogs receipts 12 000, shipments 4 000, prices 470 5 05 up to 510 5 40. Sheep receipts 6 000, markets steady natives 2 76 4 40.
Market notes show Augusta Net receipts 54 and 55 sales for mid ves, Galveston 642 receipts with 560 exports coastwise, New Orleans 2908 receipts 2024 gross and 1786 exports coastwise, mobile 100 receipts, Memphis 25 receipts with 4687 stock, Savannah 497 receipts 173 sales, Charleston 5 receipts with 40 sales, Withington 2 receipts, Norfolk 4 receipts 24 sales corrected, Philadelphia none with 20 gross, New York none with 1761 sales and stock 63347, Cincinnati 48 stock 4662, St Louis 11 stock 3883, Louisville firm, and Consolidated three day totals 5685 receipts with stock 103,369 across US ports.
Foreign markets update from London and Antwerp notes wheat quiet or steady in London and Paris, corn firm or dearer in some regions, flour quiet, and country markets dull. Liverpool reports steady wheat and corn with price quotes for various wheats and fats. Antwerp wool sales see moderate attendance with prices broadly unchanged from prior averages and specific bale figures and francs per 100 kilos.
Readable trade ledger lists ships and cargoes across multiple ports including Gonaives Maracaibo Pictou Halifax and Antwerp. Entries name vessels such as brig Amy A Lane schooners Dione Jennie Rosalene ship Magellan steamer City of Macon and steamer State of Alabama with cargoes including salt logwood nitrate soda mackerel canned lobsters eggs hides and lumber. Numerous firms and shippers cited across locations.
Shipping export summary detailing vessels and cargoes from Digby Annapolis Weymouth St John Moncton Georgetown Lunenburg Liverpool St Johns Newfoundland and Newfoundland Island including steamship New York 1 carryall 3 packages household effects 1354 feet white wood 2000 egg carriers 1 horse and 4 barrels apples and numerous schooners and brig laden with flour meal cornmeal beef oats oil marble glass and assorted goods.
The item list details goods including feathers glassware hay and rope, with quantities such as 109 bales glassware and 170 cases tinware. It notes cargo aboard the Haytien Republic sailing from New York with flour, rice, pork, codfish, mackerel, alewives, and other provisions.
A detailed ledger listing quantities of agricultural products and goods for 1887 including Cotton bales Wool flour egg packs oat meal potatoes corn oats sugar coffee and more with units such as bales bbls sacks and carloads. The dense OCR shows year markers and extensive itemized tonnage and counts among various staples.
A detailed record lists goods moved by major railroads on August 22 1887 including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg and Boston and Maine Eastern Division. The entries enumerate bales wool flour oats corn meal sacks bacon sugar butter eggs apples potatoes lumber leather and other commodities with quantities.
OCR read lists shipments and quantities across multiple lines including eggs bbls apples rolls leather bales wool flour corn oats malt tea tea and sugar along Boston and Lowell rail lines with cases, carts, and distantly noted tonnage and containers. The fragmentary text records varying deliveries by express and sea connections, indicating extensive commodity movement.
A list of buyers and reps from multiple cities visiting Abilene Kansas for shoe trades. Names include Kaulkner & Co Craw Augusta J D Hall J P Dill Mulherin forces etc with firms from Atlanta Baltimore Cincinnati Detroit Knoxville Kalamazoo Kansas City Little Rock Louisville Nashville Paris and more.
Trains depart Boston for New York via Fall River Line at 6 pm weekdays with return at 5 20 and 6 15 pm. Various schedules include Ashmont Mashpee Barnstable Hyannis and other towns with numerous return times. Concord Manchester and Concord NH service listed with multiple daily departures and Sunday patterns.
A timetable listing multiple origin stations including Haymarket Square Boston Causeway Street and various Maine destinations. Notes show departures at 8:30 am 1:66 pm and connections to Bangor Bar Harbor St John Blairfax Eastport Calais and others with steamer links to Portland and Bar Harbor. A special limited express from Boston to Bar Harbor via Portland and Bangor operates with specific departure and arrival times.
Western Division timetable lists trains from Boston to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and many stops including Andover Dover Exeter Haverhill Maiden Melrose Melrose Highlands Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield Wilmington and nearby towns with weekday and Sunday departures and intercity connections.
Boston schedules show dozens of stops from Amesbury to Oak Island with varied departure times and service notes. Branch lines include Saugus Branch, South Reading ranch access, and special services like Workingmen's trains on Thursdays and Saturdays. City ticket office listed as 306 Washington Street, with Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains.
The notice lists through Boston service from Causeway Street with multiple routes to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction and more including St Johns Barry Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex St Albans Montreal and Northern R R local points. Sleeping cars to Montreal on 7 pm and parlor cars on 8.30 and 1 am trains. Local Boston service includes Manchester Concord Keene Peterborough Hillsboro Nashua Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield and Nashua with various departures throughout the day including Sundays.
A dense rail timetable lists local and through train times for many stations including Lowell Wilmington Wilmington to Arlington and Bedford routes. It notes that a table with full local and through train information is available at stations and is signed by Miels en, Geo. W. Storer, general superintendent and general passenger agent.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad inland service expands from Boston to Ware Barre Rutland with morning departures at 7.15 and 12.05 and afternoon 3.50 and 5.10. Additional sun and regional stops include Hudson Jefferson Brudson Stockbridge Saudbury Wayland Weston Coltham Waverly and Belmont with multiple daily passages.
A corrected July 1887 timetable lists departures from Boston and connections to New York Norwood and many intermediate stops. It details train times from 6 in the morning through late evening including lines to Philadelphia and Washington with multiple daily departures and return times from Norwood Central.
A dense listing shows numerous train times between towns including Pawtucket Attleboro Canton Junction Sharon and Dedham with Return segments and morning to evening departures. The fragmentary OCR captures multiple fare figures durations and service notes across many routes and days of week.
Local time tables show through tickets and train connections on the Boston and Albany line. Schedules list departures from Springfield and Albany with connections to New York Chicago Buffalo and Detroit, including room and express accommodations and car details.
Daily Boston and Albany depot departures for Needham and nearby stations with multiple morning and afternoon times. Return times listed, with Sundays and special weekday adjustments noted. Express and through services include New York via Middletown and New Haven, plus connections to Hartford and Philadelphia with dining and Pullman cars.
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