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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1888
Page
7
Poultry offerings run large while demand stays quiet with prices for chickens fowls and turkeys listed in cents per pound and per dozen. Game items show partridges ducks and quail priced per pair or dozen, while hay and straw prices stay firm with rye straw and oat straw noted among grades.
Provisions show firm pork and lard activity in Chicago with high export demand. Quotes cover long cuts at 18 to 18.50 dollars, backs and lean ends near 18.50 to 19, and various pork products up to 19. Prices for lard and other meats reflect regional variations across New York, Chicago, St Louis, and Cincinnati markets with mixed demand and steady to dull tones.
A list of assorted vegetables with prices per bushel, bush, basket, or dozen appears. Items include squash varieties, cabbage, onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, cauliflowers, celery, parsnips, spinach, pumpkins, and related bundles. Prices range from 25 cents to several dollars per unit.
The steamer L D Baker is due here on December 6 carrying bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
The Savannah steamer due Monday brings 1750 boxes Florida oranges. H Harris & Co auctions the Bedford cargo of 1000 boxes Palermo oranges and 16 000 boxes Palermo and Messina lemons. Apple receipts are large and prices easy. Boston exports about 37 000 barrels, all American ports about 76 000. Grapes scarce, oranges and lemons priced, cranberries abundant but poor quality, various nuts with steady markets.
New York cotton is steady at 9%%c for middling uplands and 9%sc for low middling with other grades quoted. Sales total 195 bales. Openings and closings shown for November through January futures, and a broad outline of receipts, exports, and stocks across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia and Dalamore with mid prices ranging around 9 1/16 to 10 8-16 cents.
Net receipts show 28 983 for one day with exports to Great Britain 11 861 France 9 535 and the Continent 7 682. Stock levels reported for Cincinnati and Louisville with multiple figures and shipments totaling 688 Se 200.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports slow trade with cattle prices down 5 to 10 cents and hogs 5 cents lower. St Louis hogs steady though prices vary by class. Chicago cattle dull with mixed grades. hogs down about a dime. Peoria and Cincinnati show weaker hog markets. receipts total near 69 hundred across several hubs. Sheep markets remain steady in several districts.
Sugar markets show firm demand for raw and refined sugars with varied quotes for Cuban Manila Javas and refiners. Havana and Matanzas stocks include 567 boxes, 40 000 bags, 65 hogsheads. receipts zero. exports 515 boxes and 333 hogsheads, mostly to the United States. Molasses market firm with Ponce Porto Rico at 28 to 40 cents per gallon and Porto Rico varieties 28 to 38 cents.
The report shows firm demand for tallow with varied quotes, strong New York tallows, higher coffee values between New York and Rio with fair cargoes, and unchanged whiskey prices in Chicago and Cincinnati around 114 to 120 dollars. Turpentine in New York closes mixed with resin and petroleum values listed alongside RSW and case figures.
Shipping list shows Demerara vessel Miranda with 10 102 bags sugar Nash Spaulding & co. at St Johns schooner Nellie Parker with cod 865 casks 10 bbls herring E T Russell & co. Savannah steamer Gate City 257 bales cotton Barry Thayer & co. and multiple consignors with oranges boxes live stock hides lumber pitch and other goods totaling 1300 bales cotton 50 bales duck order.
A collage of outbound cargo listings from Cayenne to Canning and beyond details schooners and steamers carrying flour, lard, butter, pork, cornmeal, oil, beef, onions, lumber, and tools. Ships include John A Matheson, Gola Hunter, Timothy Field, Sarah A Townsend, Lily E, Evangeline, State of Maine, Virginian, Iowa, Cleopatra, Marmion, Bessie Carson, and Warry Prescott with varied quantities across ports such as Cayenne, Clementport, Sierr a Leone, Baddeck, Tusk et, Church Point, St John, Liverpool, and Port Antonio.
A historic list records extensive staple shipments and quantities for December 1 1888 on the Boston & Albany line. It details bales of cotton and wool, flour and meal, grains, oats, corn, barley, seed meal, malt, feeds, butter and cheese boxes, beans and apples, potatoes, hay and straw, lumber, and miscellaneous cargo including bales and barrels. The entry conveys a snapshot of commerce and freight at a single date, reflecting regional supply chains and storage needs of the era.
Railroads advertise through trains from Boston to Western and Eastern destinations on November 12, 1888. Listings include Augusta, Bangor, Bar Harbor, St John, Halifax, Provinces, Eastport, Rockland, Castine, Lewiston, Manchester, Concord, North Conway, Portland, and connections via Haymarket and Causeway Street stations with varied departure times.
A dense OCR harvest lists cargoes across railroads and shipments including bbls flour cornmeal oats and pork. It records varied consignments such as bales leather calfskins hides wool cheese and butter, with numerous unit counts and package forms.
London markets report wheat steady despite quiet demand with several cargoes moving and others awaiting sale. Prices for Australian and California wheat quoted. Paris and Liverpool show mixed futures with English and French markets quiet. Provisions and breadstuffs futures steady to firmer, with bacon and lard noted, and prices listed for various wheat and corn grades.
Augusta Georgia J B White & Co. NY Lester & Co. Phelps Dodge & Palmer. Childs Groff & Co. Adams & Ford. Large & Amsden City Missouri Sidwell W W Kendall B Co Louisville Warren Co. Wollner Lowenstein Alabama. J P Cooper Georgia. Oppenheimer California Reuters Osterman Rehfisch. Slessinger Porter Slessinger Co. Cahn Nickelsburg & Co San Francisco. Smith Frazier B & 8 Co Ven St Joseph. Hamilton Brown Shoe Co Wheeling George N Boyd. various regional representatives compile an ad list of trading houses and agents in multiple states.
A series of annual stockholder meetings in December 1888 across eastern railroads includes Eastern Railroad Company Boston Lawrence Boston & Maine Railroad Connecticut River Railroad Jackson Company Neptune Fire and Marine Insurance Nashua Manufacturing Company. Each gathers to elect directors or officers and to consider bylaws and other business. Meetings schedule dates and locations in Boston Lawrence Springfield Nashua with clerks and company officials listed.
In Suffolk Superior Court a motion orders notice to C Drucklieb to appear in the action of Willy Wallach et al vs Maurice Lilienthal et al. to claim $351.83 held by Hooper, Lewis & Co. Trustees. Publication: Boston Post three weeks, last fourteens days before January first. Clerk Jos A Willard.
Court of Insolvency at Hoson to hold a meeting of creditors on December 21 1888 at 10 oclock in the forenoon. Creditors may show cause why discharge should not be granted. Assignee Charles H Sprague to conduct proceedings.
Stephen McKenna administrator seeks final account approval for ANN LAHEY estate Boston. Court in Suffolk to hear objections December 10 1888 at 10 oclock AM. Publication required weekly for three weeks in Boston Post. Witness Judge Joan W. McKim Register Elijah George noted.
Trains depart Boston Station Baymarket Square for Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with listed times to Andover Danvers Exeter Haverhill Malden Melrose and many surrounding towns. Sunday trains run to Dover Lawrence Manchester Portland and Lewiston with Meading and Way Stations noted.
The notice outlines the Eastern Division train departures from Boston stations toward Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Salem Lynn and more with multiple daily times including early morning and evening slots. It also notes branches to Marblehead Swampscott and York Harbor along with special services on Thursdays and Saturdays and a Workingmen's train via South Reading branch.
Boston Station on Causeway Street lists through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village and several towns with times 9am and 7pm. It covers North Woodstock Pemigewasset Valley Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Fabyan s Jefferson Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Paussumpsie Division Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St. Albans Montreal Northern RR Montreal Boston Air Line times include 8.30am 1pm 3pm 7pm with routes via White River Junction and via Montreal.
Incomplete OCR text shows a cryptic line with times such as 1.30 am and 1 10 am and names like Ceordain Ashi and Mild ath F, lacking clear context or actions.
A fragmented schedule lists Cape Cod Division stops with inconsistent times including Bourne Bourne Dale Brewster Cataumet Chat ham Cottage City Park Sq Station Fairhaven Montmouth Steam Hell Salamore Se Warmouth Tremont Wellfleet West Barnstable Woods Hole Wareham Yarmouth with times around 8.15 am and 4.15 pm and various anomalies.
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