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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1887
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR notes list prices for Porto Rico 36c Cienfuegos 22c Barbadoes 26c and Cuba 50 test nominal 19 20c with vague references to boiling and oral terms. No coherent event or人物 identified.
Boston Post report by George J. Fox details weekly live stock totals at Watertown market. Cattle sheep and lambs swine figures, state-by-state arrivals, car counts by roads, and price ranges for bees store cattle sheep hides and skins. Includes notes on classifications and regional market distinctions.
Reports from New York to Toledo show flour receipts and exports in the thousands of barrels while wheat and corn prices move firm to higher. Chicago and St Louis note mixed gains for futures and spot sales with varying regional demand and rail deliveries.
Market reports from Kansas City Saint Louis Peoria Chicago cover August 23 24 with hogs steady to higher cattle and hog prices advancing in Chicago buyers seeking shipping and packing lots. receipts and shipments listed for each market alongside price ranges for hogs cattle and lambs including Texans and Westerns.
Augusta and Savannah show steady activity with new bales and strong receipts. New Orleans reports 1529 receipts, 1540 gross, exports to Britain and France, stock 2956, while Mobile and Charleston log modest gains and stock adjustments. Norfolk and Wilmington hold mid level stocks as Memphis records light totals.
Philadelphia and Galveston report steady firm conditions with net receipts and gross values. New York shows exports to France and Great Britain with high stock and mixed channel activity. Cincinnati and St Louis list shipments and stocks with mid level quiet. Consolidated four day totals show overall net receipts and continent exports across ports.
Foreign markets note sluggish wheat and firm corn cargoes off the coast. Wheat and corn prices shown for Chilian and American origins with August and September deadlines. Liverpool and Paris quotations include No 1 California wheat and mixed American corn with provisions and cheese prices also listed.
In Clementport Nova Scotia on August 23, 1887 the schooner Florence Christine carried 50 cords wood 50 pes piling 90 dozen eels 482 boxes herring and 112 quarter-dozen do along with Delong and Seaman listed as owners. In St Simons Georgia the schooner William Hays carried 358 863 feet of hard pine for George McQuesten & co.
Cargo listings show schooners Ocean Star Dexter Eliza Bachel dor and steamer Yarmouth with flour cornmeal fruit vegetables hardware goods and more bound for Liverpool Liverpool Eng Cephalonia Bavarian and other steamers also clearing with diverse goods including butter cheese beef wheat oil cake and leather in bulk across multiple ports including Sidney Harborville Yarmouth and Liverpool Eng.
A compiled receipt lists quantities for staples such as cotton butter wool oleo cheese flour eggs cornmeal oats beans corn wheat barley hay rye straw millfeed and other goods with yearly tallies and receipts from 1886 and 1887. The record enumerates bales boxes barrels and cases alongside weights and prices, indicating broad agricultural commerce activity.
A dated ledger lists ballast goods from multiple railroads. Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine, Lowell, and others report wool bales flour oats corn beer tea sugar butter eggs cheese potatoes leather hides skins pork goods and related shipments indexed by railroad and quantity. The entries detail bales, bbls, boxes, cases, sacks, and rolls dispatched or received.
The Free Surgi n¢ Surgical Hospital for Women, funded by the Murdock Liquid Food Company of Boston, is gaining nationwide recognition. A quarterly report for 1887 notes 132 operations, with patients arriving from Texas to Maine and beyond, and invites physicians to obtain beds for eligible surgical cases.
The facility announces 12 free beds added in September for surgical patients, expanding capacity with a new septic hospital unit.
Local time tables outline Boston and Albany routes with multiple daily departures and connections to Springfield Albany Buffalo Chicago Detroit and New York via Fall River Line. The notice lists sleepings drawing rooms and through tickets from 232 Washington Street Boston with numerous stopovers including Worcester, North Adams, and Plymouth.
Historic rail schedule outlines outbound Shore Line Fast Express at 10 am and 1 pm with returns at 8 am and 1 pm. Shore Line Mail from Newark at 11 pm Sundays included. steamboat line from New York at 6:30 pm Sundays excluded, with multiple city and town connections and varied return times.
A series of traded goods and quantities appears, including molasses, eggs, potatoes, sweets, cars, lumber, rolls, bags, leather, hides, green hides, bales, skins, and calfskins, with varied units and counts. The notes resemble a warehouse or transport ledger without clear dates or destinations.
John Splane a former teamster for Henry Herman was sentenced by Judge Curtis in Municipal Court to eight months in the house of correction for cruelly beating a horse with a four inch square stake. The animal bled from the nose and suffered a fractured skull. a veterinary surgeon said recovery was uncertain. The owner and prosecutor urged full penalties for the act.
The fourth annual Bible conference met at the new Shirley avenue building in Crescent Beach with Rev. J P Bixby of Revere leading the opening services. Rev. J W Erdman spoke on Bible study and Rev Arthur T Pierson of Philadelphia addressed on prophecy and inspiration. Evening gospel service by S M Sayford. Music by A J Smith of Somerville and the Sayford quartet. Sessions continue daily at 10 am through the week.
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The Clinton Yarn Company, led by John R. Frost and Sidney P. Howard, has assigned to Leander M. Brown with liabilities around 65 000 to 70 000 against assets near 45 000. Major creditors include A. D. Brown & Son cot ton brokers in Boston and John M. Peevey of Lowell.
The Surgical Staff at Murdock's Free Hospital for Women are in daily attendance to examine patients and assign beds with Saturdays off.
The text touts Liquid Food as the sole raw food free from insoluble matter and chemicals, usable for all ages and conditions. It cites wound healing without operation, life sustenance via injections, and rapid recovery of skin diseases, plus a home for homeless boys and a hospital supply claim with 200 bottles per batch.
Local and through trains from Boston Causeway Street to Tilton Laconia Weirs Meredith Plymouth and more. Sleeping cars on Montreal line and parlor cars to St. Johnsbury Fabyans. Frequent local service to Manchester Concord Nashua Wilton and Lowell with varied daily departures and a note that full timetable details are at stations.
A dense OCR of railroad schedules shows departures and arrivals across many towns including Norwood Central, Providence, Hartford, New London, Manchester, Milford, Me, and Boston. It lists times such as 9.10 pm 10 pm and 12.15 pm for routes to Norwood and Philadelphia with several intermediate stops and line notes.
Timetable for Fitchburg Railroad trains from Boston to North Adams Troy Albany and west including express and sleeping car services to Chicago with various stop patterns and daily/weekly notes. Change at South Acton. Local timetable offices and through tickets available at Hoosack Tunnel Route Boston. John Adams J Whitmore J R Watson.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad announces new service from Boston to Ware, Barre and Rutland starting Monday June 27 1887 with multiple daily departures from 7 15 am to 8 50 pm serving West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Wadson and other stations with Sunday timings and executive approvals from Geo W Storer and C S Mellen as General Passenger Agent and General Superintendent.
Daily Boston and Albany departures focus on Needham and intermediate stops with morning and evening times. Norwich line express to New York offers through connections via steamers City of Worcester and City of New York with Pullman and parlor car services. Ticketing at 322 Washington Street or depot foot of Summer Street. A A Jackson, General Superintendent.
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