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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1887
Page
7
The notice lists prices for store cattle including working oxen per pair at 1 175 dollars, various cow classes, yearlings and three year olds, as well as hogs, sheep and lamb prices. Also noted are hides, tallow and skins values, with classifications for cattle and sheep quality and regional market notes.
Reports from New York and several Midwest cities show flour and wheat supplies shifting with dull to steady demand. Prices range for No 2 Chicago wheat at 74 44c or 80c delivered, while Minneapolis quotes No 1 hard around 72c and No 2 Northern at 69c.
Hogs show mixed to lower pricing in Kansas City and Chicago with receipts around 8000 to 13000 head. St Louis and Peoria list steady to firm hogs with several price bands. Cattle receipts total about 10 000 in Chicago with weaker prices for common stock and mixed categories. Sheep and lamb markets show varied gains and declines across regions.
The Daily Commercial Bulletin reports the New York jobbing trade remained buoyant and active last week with stronger reorder demand for fair goods at first hands and several spring specialties ordered for later delivery. Staple cotton goods hold steady with agents, woollen goods hosiery and knit underwear unchanged. foreign goods are doing fairly well.
Net receipts and shipments vary across major ports from Augusta to New York. Prices and stocks show a steady or firm tone in several hubs, while others report quiet or active conditions with mixed exports and coastwise movements.
Wheat cargoes off the coast attract hesitation from buyers with no sales and several vessels awaiting orders. Cargoes arrived since the last report show two sold and seventeen awaiting further disposition as markets in London pause for direction.
Worcester August 30 The New England fair opens with about 650 cattle across breeds. Sheep swine and poultry are below prior years. vegetables and plums small but fine. President Dr George B Loring urges prudent farming and notes progress in agriculture. Large cattle exhibitors listed. stalls and judging delayed by absent judges. evening program postponed due to rain. The Free Surgical Hospital for Women benefitting from Murdock Liquid Food Company noted.
Operations were made and patients were admitted from multiple regions including Texas Colorado Montreal Alabama Prince Edward Island Rhode Island Connecticut Vermont Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Physicians with a surgical case can request a bed by informing the facility of the case.
The facility announces the completion of a Septic Hospital unit with 12 free beds allocated for surgical cases.
The notice lists weekday and Sunday train times for Boston to New York and various destinations including Providence Pawtucket Attleboro Mansfield East Foxboro Canton Junction Meadville and more with numerous departures and returns. Also notes July 1 1887 changes and connections with Fell River Line and Provincetown routes.
The notice outlines Sunday departures and returns for a wide network from New York via Fall River Line to South Braintree Taunton Nantucket and coastal towns including Weymouth Hingham Scituate Cohasset Plymouth and Wareham. It credits GEO L CONNOR J KENDRICK as general pass and station managers.
Cargoes shift as corn holds steady and wheat retreats in London and Liverpool markets. California and Australian wheat price levels hold while Antwerp and Paris see quieter activity. London wool sales open Sept 6 with large import volumes reported for Victoria and New South Wales.
Shipping and trade items from various ports listing brig Don Jacinto sugar and molasses consignments, brigantine Delong & Seaman wood, olive oil and marble goods, fruit and canary seed shipments, and miscellaneous effects and orders. Notable firms include Gossler Co. Whitney Pousland Co. Brown Bros Co. and Baring Bros Co.
Shipping list from Bear River to Hull records diverse cargoes including flour oatmeal salt coal hats and caps in NS Nova Scotia and Digby. Yarmouth NL reports tin hardware drugs canned meats vegetables and lard. Trinidad BWI lists rum, lumber, meats, fish, beer, and various goods. Liverool and Liverpool England show butter cheese canned goods and beef. Hull England charts paint, shoe blacking, and cotton waste. Scythia Scythia, Norseman Norseman, and Galileo vessels referenced with multiple consignments.
A dated account catalogs cargo and quantities by railroad lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine and Lowell. Items span cotton wool flour corn oats wheat malt lard butter eggs apples potatoes tea coffee sugar oleo cheese beef pork and leather across multiple railroad divisions.
An itemized list records shipments by Express and by Sea of numerous commodities. Entries include eggs, apples, potatoes, cars, hay, lumber, leather, cotton, wool, flour, tallow, ham, bacon, sugar, molasses, hides, dry hides, skins, and calfskins with quantities in bbls, bales, cases, tierces, puncheons, and other units.
A roundup of real estate transfers across Suffolk County and nearby Boston areas listing buyers such as Edmund T. Mudge, Joseph L. Richards, Jennie A. Moody, Catherine Lord, William A. Prescott, Amelia A. Hyde, Mary Garrity, Daniel Lovering, and others. Properties include land and buildings on Groton, Pinckney, Concord, Cherry, Richmond, Adams, Vernon, Grandview, Washington, Park, Dudley, Tileston, and Oak streets among others with prices and mortgage back details.
A series of mortgage deeds recorded for August 12 show transfers of parcels and buildings in Boston and nearby towns. Names include Joseph C Walbourn Edward Turner Charles H Spaulding Stephen Bowen Eliza V McCormick Massachusetts Title Co William Chadbourne Otis Norcross Louis Levy Jabez A Sawyer Jane R Smith Lucretia Floyd Ditto Edward B Osgood Frederick B Wetherby John Magee Daniel Lovering with values from 500 to 6000 dollars across Cres cent Fourth Street Lamartine Street Lindall Poe Locust Street Woodland Avenue Temple Street Mattapan Dorchester and Charlestown districts.
Michael Hurley aged 35 of 5 Linnet street and worker at J H Butford and Son attempted suicide by leaping from a window onto a railroad track. He was run over by a passing train, suffered a skull fracture and severe arm crush, and is in City Hospital in critical condition. No motive given.
A Cleveland & Marietta freight train on approach to Oldham’s trestle caught fire. Conductor and fireman jumped to escape. fireman William Adams suffered a broken leg and possibly fatal injuries. The engine and most cars survived but the trestle collapsed, with sixty feet of structure and three cars plunging forty seven feet. Cause of the blaze is not known.
The Dominion Rifle Association shooting contests were held at Ottawa on August 30. In the Rideau match 600 yards Private Wilson won with 27 points, Private Harrison scored 26 points for second, and Sergeant Paine had 25 for third.
Mr Edwin D Mead will lecture this season offering single talks on Puritanism Pilgrim Fathers American poets British Parliament Gladstone Samuel Adams Carlyle and Emerson Dante Kant Lessing Nathan the Wise and the Gospel of Toleration His address is 73 Pinckney street Boston.
Governor Buckner was sworn in by Chief Justice Pryor at noon in Frankfort. Mayor Taylor gave a welcome address and ex-Governor Knott delivered his valedictory. A 5000-strong procession followed, with the new cabinet including George M. Adams secretary of state Willis Ringo assistant secretary of state and Samuel E. Hill adjutant general.
The text touts Liquid Food as a universal raw nourishment aiding wound healing and sustaining life without operations. It notes dosing for adults, claims rapid vitality for babies, and use in hospitals with 200 bottles per lot. It mentions a Free Home for Homeless Boys with 50 beds at 1 to 21 Causeway Street and promises cures for scrofula and eczema.
Directory of daily express trains from Causeway Street to Albany Chicago Cincinnati St Louis with sleeping cars and multiple departures. Includes morning and evening times for Belmont Waverley routes and Sunday services to Belmont via Miller's Falls with listed arrival and departure slots.
Local time table excerpt lists Boston and Albany line departures to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and beyond. Notable trains include 5 7 15 8 30 am and 11 pm from Boston with through tickets and sleeping or drawing room cars to New York and Chicago. Frequent connections at Worcester Palmer Whittsfield and Adams.
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