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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1887
Page
7
A fragmentary list shows varying produce prices including cauliflower and spinach with unit notes and price abbreviations such as P box and P bush, alongside other items like pumpkins and peppery terms, reflecting a marketplace pricing snapshot.
The pork and lard market remains firm with good domestic and export demand. Week totals show exports at 125000 dollars versus 140000 prior week and 115000 year ago, while fresh beef stays quiet with ample supply. Hog packing across leading points totaled 401000 for the week, below last year, as delays rise from rising values.
Allan Asher & Co reports today’s feature as Bradstreet's crop estimate at 6,480,000 bales, depressing prices by 15 to 19 points on long contracts. Port receipts and exports for today and the season are listed, with New York spot steady and Liverpool futures mixed.
Reports from New York and other centers show flour receipts and exports with firm to steady prices across wheat corn oats and rye. Notable figures include 21 000 barrels of sales and varied prices for Minnesota white wheat and western extra grades, alongside pork and lard values and maritime movement.
Wheat, corn, and oats show firm to higher pricing in Toledo and St. Louis reports. Wheat December at 84 1/4 cents. oats May at 36 to 31 cents. provisions strengthen with pork near 14.75 and lard around 7.15 to 7.20. Receipts and shipments rise across grains and meats, with notable totals for flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, and barley.
Chicago markets show cattle receipts around 8000 with steady prices for shipping steers near 2.10 to 2.50 and Texans around 1.75 to 2.35. hog receipts about 22000 closed 6 to 10 cents lower with mixed hogs from 4.80 to 5.40. sheep receipts about 2000 with natives at 3.04 to 4.80 and Western and Texan lambs around 2.25 to 3.50.
The print cloths market in Providence on December 3 held firm with 64 squares bid at 37 16e and 56x60s at 2 15 16c. Week sales reached 7000 pieces, down from 18,000 last week, including 4000 pieces 64x64s spots at 87 16c and 8000 pieces 56x60s spots with early delivery at Be. On hand stocks totaled 200,000 pieces 64x64s and 2000 pieces 56x60s.
The daily cotton market report lists net receipts, gross totals, exports by region, and mid market quotes for ports including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated totals. Highlights show steady to firm tones in many ports with several regions reporting exports to Great Britain and the Continent and a large total stock at all U S ports.
In Liverpool wheat and corn held steady with prices mixed across contracts. Paris offered high January wheat at 39f 9c with flour futures. Havana reported end of old crop sugar activity and quiet steady pricing with weekly sales to Spain and United States, plus stock and shipment figures.
Large attendance at the London wool sales shows a firm market with a general advance. Detailed breakdown lists Queensland New South Wales Victoria New Zealand South Australia Cape of Good Hope Natal and Jamaica lots with varied prices for scoured greasy and locks and pieces. The current sale series closes on December 10.
Long list of ships and cargoes from Charlottetown and Lunenburg to Liverpool and Sydney. Includes Brig Gertrude with potatoes and fish sounds, schooners Geneva and D A Mader with potatoes, and steamer Palmyra with sherry and casks. Export entries enumerate tin, nails, oysters, lumber, flour, and hardware through Sydney and Liverpool ports.
Through tickets and time tables for the Boston and Albany line are available at stations and 252 Washington street Boston. Trains to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and west depart Boston at 5 7 15 8 30 11 am and 4 0 8 7 and 10 30 pm. Dining and drawing room cars run to New York on express services with various station connections and Sunday schedules noted.
Petition by David H Hurley of Boston seeks enforcement of a mechanic lien for 320 dollars for labor and materials to build cellars on premises near Jones Hill Dorchester Boston. Notice ordered to publish in Boston Post three weeks before January 1883 first Monday date for interested parties to appear and show cause.
A long OCR list details consignments from multiple firms including W H Davis Co and Stone & Downer with machinery, woollens, fabrics, wines, books, preserved fruits, linens, drugs, cosmetics, and foodstuffs. It lists quantities in cases, pkgs, casks and bags, plus numerous items such as sugar, cotton, oranges, raisins, and tobacco among others.
Receipts dated December 3 1887 show Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Colony and New York and New Hogland railroads handling large consignments. The totals include cotton wool flour corn bales boxes and various cargos across multiple lines with numbers and goods listed in detail.
A compiled list shows diverse cargo movements across Fitchburg Boston & Maine and related lines. Cotton bales, wool bales, flour, corn meal, oats, butter, cheese, apples, hay, straw, lumber, leather and hides appear in varied tallies by division and carrier, reflecting extensive 19th century inland trade.
A tabulated financial page itemizes December 3 1887 and 1886 receipts across goods such as wool flour oleo cornmeal oats beans corn wheat barley hay and various meats and fats including pork lard tallow and butter showing tonnage bales barrels and car shipments with regional pricing and quantities. It lists lots of figures for bales tierces sacks boxes and cars reflecting trade in classes and exports.
A list of shoe buyers and firms across the United States including Gramling Spaulding Co in Atlanta W W Draper in Allentown Hass Koch in Ady Burlington H A Brown in Barhydt Co and many others with representatives such as J M Schnadig in Cincinnati W F Thorne Plant & Marks W H Laws Childs Groff Co Plousky Butler Bros Rosenberg of Rosenberg Flexner Co in Louisville L A Knox Callin & Knox Marks Rothenberg Co Cohn Nickelsburg Co Rosenstock S W Rosenstock Porter Slessenger Co and A D Brown of Hamilton Brown Shoe Co among others. The notice enumerates buyers and firms in cities from Atlanta to San Francisco and Philadelphia to Syracuse.
William H Ayers of Newton files for divorce from Mary E Parker, alleging marriage June 28 1884 and desertion beginning November 1 1884. Case dated November 19 1887 in Middlesex County Superior Court.
The libel orders notice to appear in Cambridge and publication in the Boston Post with the libellant mailing copies to the libellee. Petitioners seek an amendment to Forest Hills Cemetery charter allowing annual selection of officers and bylaws, with signatures of trustees and the Massachusetts Secretary.
In the October 1887 Suffolk Superior Court session the Turd National Bank of New York is informed that funds held by trustee B. Gay are claimed by Osgood Welsh and others of New York and England. The court orders notice to Suffolk claimants to appear by January 1 1888 to prove claims to funds and publish this order weekly for three weeks.
Official timetable fragment lists through service from Boston stations to Fort Milton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville and more with multiple daily departures to Littleton Bethlehem Fabyans Lancaster Whitefield Franklin Lebanon White River Junction and St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke and Montreal via White River Junction sleeping car connections. Local Passumpsic Division stops and Bristol Claremont Pelier Essex Albans Monton connections included. Oversized schedule notes many times and lines. summary condensed for readability.
Boston station service shows multiple daily trains to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and the West with various departures including 6.30 8.30 and 11.35 am and express routes to Chicago and St. Louis via Niagara Falls. Additional regional listings include Belmont Waverley Abbe Cambridge and Marlboro with varied morning and evening times.
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