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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1888
Page
7
The market for fresh meats shows steady prices and unchanged conditions. Spring lambs bring 9 10c, common 8 8c, Chicago mutton choice 7 7?2c, yearlings 6 12c. Brighton sales 7?2 8?c, Eastern choice 6 7c with broader ranges 5 6c to 9 10c depending on quality.
Market is steady at anaes ed ih We quote marrow squash turban squash 75c per bushel ba rare turban 1 25 per barrel Hubbard 1 per barrel Western Huboards 1 per barrel Savoy cabbage 50c per barrel cab a 4 5 YP 100 ets To cabbage 1 25 per barrel onions 1 25 per barrel 50c per bush Spanish onions 2 basket beets 40c per bush carrots 50c bush lettuce 25c per dozen turnips 40c box Russia peas Wace 75c per barrel rutabaga turnips 75c per white French turnips 1 cauliflowers ai 125 per dozen celery 3 50 per box parsnips 60c per bush goinach 40c bush box pumpkins 75c per p
The steamer L D Baker is due here December 6 with a cargo of bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
Auction houses report Florida oranges at 1352350 and lemons at 250 312% per half box with mandarins and tangerines listed. Snow & Co plans Monday sales of 2000 bbls Almeria grapes and hickory nuts, while the Bedford cargo and Savannah steamer prospects also loom. Bananas vary by grade. coconuts sold privately. Apples and grapes show quiet demand with frosted lots. orange and lemon receipts rising but prices firm.
Cotton markets show steady tones in New York with middling uplands at 9 1/2 cents and low middling near 9 1/2 cents, sales 1 113 bales. Futures opened and closed steady. Liverpool and other U.S. centers report varied receipts, stocks, and prices with firm to steady tones across spaces, showing broad market balance.
Sugar market reports show strong demand for raw sugars with firm to higher prices, listings for Cuba Issuing various grades and tests. Prices for pulverized and granulated sugars hold, while refined and case assortments vary. regional notes cite Iloilo and Taal markets with prices per picul and shipments to Atlantic ports and San Francisco.
At Cebu on Oct 13 special marine cargo data lists 1950 tons of sugar with 3 Cebu loading, 1000 tons for Boston aboard Euroda, molasses market firm. Quotes include Superior sugar at 3 12 42 with London exchange and Porto Rico rates 38 40c PV gal. New Orleans demand steady in New York market amid foreign nominal activity.
Stock yards report firm cattle and hog prices in Kansas City with bids for shipppers and native cows. Chicago receipts show slow beeves and steady stockers while St Louis and Peoria report firm hogs. Cincinnati and other centers note steady to stronger demand and varied packer bids. Receipts total 9,400 ship ments 2,650.
Commodities futures overview with entries for PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES and COTTONSEED OIL CERTIFICATES. Closing times listed as 3 pm on Nov 28 and opening 10 am on Nov 30. Markets show fluctuating prices with highs and lows noted for November trading.
Taltow notes a firm market with good demand for multiple items. Coffee prices rise in New York Rio, with steady overall market. Whiskey quoted in St Louis at 114 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum markets in New York and Cincinnati show mixed closes and resin values, with related RSW and cases pricing.
Shipping list details cargoes from Messina Palermo and Liverpool including fruit bags olives wine oil and different commodities. Listings cover AS & J Brown & co D H fully & co and many firms with quantities of almonds maccaroni sumac wool hides steel cards and many other goods aboard Steamer Kansas and Hoogly ship stock and varied merchandise from Singapore to Yarmouth Nova Scotia and Saint Martin's Bark Aspatagon and Yarmouth NS port calls with extensive firm names and commodities.
A large historical cargo ledger itemizes shipments across multiple ports including Plympton and Lunenburg in Nova Scotia, Grand Manan, Yarmouth, and Metaghan, then London. It details schooners and steamers carrying flour, cornmeal, pork, pine, salt, beef, lard, textiles, oil, apples, canned beef, furniture, sewing machines, and vast quantities of bales, boxes, and sacks, with numerous counts and units. Entities include Ocean Belle, Andrew Burnham, Maggie Andrews, Algeria, Borderer, and places like Plympton NS, Lunenburg NS, Yarmouth MS, Metaghan NS, Grand Manan NB, London Eng.
A detailed ledger lists November 30 1888 receipts for multiple lines including Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg and Poston Maine Eastern Division. Quantities cover cotton wool flour oats corn barley malt feed tallow butter cheese eggs beans potatoes hay straw leather hides and more. Large totals show thousands of bushels bales barrels and sacks alongside numerous cars and bales transferred.
A long OCR style ledger lists quantities of wool handled by Boston and Maine Railroad Western and Lowell systems, including bales, apples, eggs, cheese, potatoes, lumber, leather, hides, and other commodities. Additional entries cover Express and Hy Sea routes with cotton, lard, tea, coffee, molasses, and various tan goods.
London reports cargoes off the coast and shipments firm for wheat while corn lags. Mark Lane notes quiet wheat and firmer Danubian corn with American corn clearer. Paris wheat quiet, Liverpool wheat firm with demand, receipts 52 000 centals including 2000 American. corn steady with 77 700 centals received. Prices: winter wheat 8s 1d, spring 8s 1d, club 8s 2d. Provisions show fork steady at 82s 6d, bacon 47 8d, cheese 57s, lard 47s 3d.
The listing shows Western Division train departures from Boston stations to Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maverick hill Melrose Malden Methuen Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Wakefield North Wilmington and Sunday trains to Dover Haverhill Lawrence Lowell Medford Portland Bangor Lewiston with multiple daily times including morning afternoon and evening slots. It preserves era style and many station names and times.
A detailed list of departures from Boston stations to Amesbury and numerous regional stops including Chelsea Everett Salem Rockport Gloucester and Portsmouth with varied times throughout the day and notes on branch lines and special services such as the Saugus and South Reading branches and Workingmen's train.
Boston through service lists arrival times for Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Jeredith Ashland Plymouth Warren faverhill Woodsville North Woodstock Pemigewassett Valley Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Fabyan Jefferson Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Wassumpsic Division Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal via White River Junction Montreal Boston Air Line Nashua Lowell Lawrence Stoneham Way Stations Lexington Way Stations Woburn Way Stations Winchester Way Stations Manchester Concord Montreal Express and other local points with 8.30 am and 9 am 1 pm 7 pm and additional late signals. Units include multiple daily departures from several hubs and regional branches to Montreal Nashua Nashua via various lines and connections.
Time tables show departures from Boston Causeway Street foot of Portland Street to towns including Gilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester and others with multiple daily departures. Full local and through train information obtainable at stations. James T. Furber and J Flanders General Manager and General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
Cape Cod division timetable lists departure and arrival times for multiple towns including Bourne Bourne Dale Brewster Cataumet Chatham Cottage City Park Street Station via New Bedford New Bedford Falmouth Hyannis Harwich Monument Beach Mattapoisett Marion Nantucket Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays Provincetown Sandswich Saltamore So Yarmouth Tremont Wellfleet Weat Barnstable Woods Hall Wareham Yarmouth with numerous 8.15 am and 4.15 pm run times and special note for Nantucket service on select days.
Providence Division schedules list numerous routes and times for Leave Park Square Station to New Work and other destinations. It covers Sundays and weekdays with numerous times for towns like Dedham East Foxboro Forest Hills Hyde Park Jamaica Plain Mansfield Readville and more. The OCR compiles a dense roster of departure times across multiple lines and stations.
On and after Oct 8 1885 trains leave Boston from Beacon Street depot for Manchester and Concord at 7 30, 8 38 Ex, 9, 12, 1 Ex, 3, 5 Ex, 5 30, 7 Ex pm Sundays 1 and 7 Ex pm. Returning from Concord NH to Boston at 5 30, 7 35 Ex, 7 40, 10 20 am, 2 45 Ex, 3 35, 5 15 Ex, 6 9 Ex pm Sundays 5 55 Ex, 7 20 am. H E Chamberlin Supt.
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