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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1887
Page
7
The report shows inventories across several grains with December November and December stock figures. Wheat and corn supply fluctuates in Chicago and national elevators while inspections report 80 cars including mixed corn and oats. Millfeed remains strong with rising rye prices and various flour and cornmeal price levels.
The butter market is quiet with prices similar to last quotes, western creameries in small supply and prices edging up. Cheese and eggs stay unchanged, beans and hay firm, potatoes steady, sweet potatoes softer, and poultry and game offerings largely unchanged with modest demand.
In Chicago butter remains firm with steady demand and light receipts. New York shows steady butter and firm eggs with varied regional cheese quotes. Canton reports 3060 cheese sold at 11 1/4 cents with 1000 unsold. Liverpool cheese futures lower at 58s 6d. Beans and related produce also noted with price ranges across several varieties.
Snow and Co will auction 1500 boxes Florida oranges 200 boxes dates and 500 bags Scotch potatoes. Harris & Co will auction 2500 boxes Florida oranges and 363 barrels Almeria raisins. Apple quotations unchanged exports totals for the week and season listed by A. C. Lombard's Sons with regional tallies and Liverpool market prices noted.
Mixed fruits and nuts prices by region. York State berries at $1 75 to $1 25 clear, Cranberries Cape Cod dark p bbl $8 50, light $6 50, Pirate $2 75. Bananas Aspinwall Port Limon $1 25 to $2 25 Jamaica 31 25. Oranges Palermo $4 50 6 60 per box, Jamaica $5 6 per bbl, Florida oranges $3 60 choice, $2 56 fair. Lemons Palermo $4 50 per box, Florida lemons $3 50 5 60. Nuts Virginia peanuts 5 6c, walnuts French 7 10c, almonds 5 17c, pecans 9 12c, chestnuts $5 per bush.
A scanned market listing shows onions beets cabbage and lettuce among items with varied but similar pricing. Prices include onions and beets around 40 cents, cabbage 1 to 5 dollars per bag or barrel, and squash, carrots, and spinach offered at modest per unit or per box rates.
The pork market shows firm and active demand with lard also strong. Fresh beef is quiet with stable prices and scarce good beef. Lambs are plentiful and dull. mutton and veal steady. Detailed price ranges cover pork products, hams, shoulders, ribs, sausages, tongues, and city or country dressed hogs, plus fresh beef by grade and cuts.
The Cotton market reports fair activity in certificates with prices near Saturday's close. Port receipts and exports rise while sentiment remains cautious, with London and New York quotes showing modest changes and a generally steady to easy close in futures.
Reports from trade centres show flour receipts exports and varying bbl prices with Western and State grades leading. Corn oats rye barley and rye flour prices noted with firm to quiet demand. pork and lard values cited amid broader commodity movements in New York and Chicago markets.
Wheat and corn rise across Toledo Milwaukee Minneapolis and St Louis markets on December 5 6 with varied oats rye and barley moves. Receipts and shipments show sizable wheat corn and flour flows as prices firm on several exchanges.
Hogs firm in Kansas City with 10 000 receipts and 1748 shipments. St Louis reports Yorkers at 5 30 to 5 66, mixed packers to 5 65. Chicago cattle and hogs steady to strong with beef steers 2 80 to 2 70, stockers 1 75 and hogs 4 85 to 5 66, ships 38 40 to 48. Sheep active with natives 3 48 to 4 80 and Texans 2 50 to 3 50.
London and Liverpool wheat and corn markets show firmness in wheat and steady to firm corn. Prices quoted include No 2 Calcutta wheat about 37s 3d, May futures for California and American corn ranges, and Paris flour at 32s 3d for January. Antwerp spot wheat No 2 red winter at 19 francs, with Paris January flour at 32s 3d.
Attendance remains large at the London wool sales with keen competition and steady advances. Prices listed for Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Australian and New Zealand lots show varied yields and finishes including scoured, greasy, locks and pieces, with New South Wales and Queensland offerings and several regional totals reported.
Maritime cargo list from Port Hawkesbury Charlotte Town Halifax Pictou NS and other ports detailing steamer Worcester schooners brig crews and multiple consignments of potatoes eggs fish lobsters butter mackerel and oranges. Notable shippers include L Arthur & Co J P Brown & Co Beaman Ros Hinckley Ayers Howe & French Hatheway & Co J F Hutchinson Co and York & Whitney with quantities of bales crates cases bags and drums.
A fragmented inventory lists items such as eggs 15 boxes smoked fish 8 barrels potatoes 2 dozen turnips 2 dozen apples 1 case furs 4 barrels grease 1 box preserves 1 dozen mdse J G Hall & co 6 rolls duck 83 boxes haddies 1 package samples 11 barrels mdse B D Webber 37 pkgs paper stock 2 barrels old rubber FS Davis 3 dozen eels 14 boxes haddies 10 cases codfish F S Clements & co 7 dozen Bs 2 dozen mutton EE Putter 14 bolls codfish T f ones & co.
A passage lists shipments from St Pierre Mig Schooner Ontario with flour and provisions, Clementport Gold Hunter Atwood Digby Harbourville Eliza Bach elder Montevideo Canerwick St Johns New Dominion cargoes including flour meal lumber apples beef candles hardware marble and other goods, showing diverse overseas trade.
The notice lists weekday and Sunday rail times from Boston to New York via Fall River Line with numerous intermediate stops including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis and many Cape Cod towns. It provides departure and return times, notes via boat connections, and names GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK as officials.
A record of freight receipts across multiple rail lines listing quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats barley cot tonseed meal seed tallow lard bacon cheese butter sugar molasses tea coffee lumber leather hides pelts and miscellaneous goods. Entries cover Boston & Albany Grand Junction New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Western Division Lowell System and Boston & Maine lines aboard express and sea movements.
A fragmented catalog lists items including lard tea coffee sugar molasses beans potatoes lumber leather hides and dry hides with quantities given in tubs bags bbls bales cars rolls and other units. The brief appears as a stock tally or trade record from an old ledger or marketplace.
Train and ferry schedules detail routes between Boston Portland Halifax Eastport Calais Castine Lewiston Manchester and North Reading. Timings include departures at Haymarket and Causeway stations with connections to causeways steamer services and various coastal towns.
A dense list of train times and routes from Boston Square through multiple towns including Dover Exeter Keats Falls Haverhill Lawrence Lowell Melrose Newburyport and Wakefield with numerous departures and connections noted in a fragmented OCR record.
The All River Line announces a limited first class fare reduction to New York with $3.00 for first class, and reduced rates for other classes. Daily Boston departures at 6 p.m. on weekdays and 7 p.m. on Sundays with 75 minute steamship connections to Fall River, arrivals in New York around 7:30 a.m. Packages can be checked from hotel to destination. Pilgrim and Bristol steamers provide steam heat and on board orchestras. Return sailings depart New York daily at 4:30 p.m. Tickets and staterooms available at No 3 Old State House and Old Colony Office.
Through service from Boston to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill and more. Local connects to Manchester Greenfield Arlington St Johnsborough and Montreal with frequent AM PM times and sleeping or parlor car services.
Passengers bound for Boston Ware Helmont Wayland and Helmont schedules list times such as 3 40 10 6 pm and 9 10 am 2 05 5 10 6 pm. General details show routes through Oakdale Yan mesticite and R R Commmencia with names like W Storer and Gen Pass g r Agt.
Corrected train depart times from Boston Station list summer weekday departures to Ashcroft and multiple stops including Baltimore, New Britain, Norwich, Philadelphia, Providence, Waterbury and Willimantic. Notes include changes of cars, late morning and evening slots, and Sunday shifts for Norwood Central and Readville connections.
Train times show departures from Boston and stops to Needham Woonsocket and Hartford routes. Various daily and Sunday schedules list departure and return times, with notes on express and through connections and seasonal adjustments.
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