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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1887

Page

7

Fruit and Nut Prices From Florida to Virginia Ad Catalog

A catalog-style listing shows variety prices for oranges lemons and bananas in Florida and Jamaica, plus Virginia hand-picked nuts and dried fruits. It includes price ranges for walnuts almonds pecans chestnuts and dried apples with figures like 6 6 and fractions such as 14% and 10e per unit, reflecting wholesale market values.

Jamaica Florida Falermo Virginia Virginia Prime Virginia Common Grenoble

Market Prices for Vegetables and Produce

No change to note in truck prices for onions cabbage beans and beets. Western prices list per barrel or box with varying cents and dollars for cabbages lettuce spinach cauliflower and celery. Targets include native stock turban carrots winter French and St Andrews items with per box or per bush figures.

St Andrews

Meat prices stay steady with mixed cuts across pork beef and lamb

Provisions keep near previous quotes with pork and lard ranges from 16 to 18 dollars per barrel equivalents and assorted cuts such as hams shoulders ribs and bacon listed by size cure and type. Beef shows extra plate and family beef prices around 8 to 9 dollars bibs plate and mess ranges, while fresh meats feature lambs mutton and veal with regional price variations.

Lord, Choice Chicago Brighton

Sugar and Cotton Markets Show Steady Prices and Quiet Trade

The report notes steady raw and refined sugar prices with slight gains for granulated and powdered sugar. Cotton futures in New York and Liverpool open steady with moderate demand. market closes steady as sales reach 10,000 bales and receipts total 33,000 bales, including 16,800 American.

Ponce Cienfuegos Barbadoes New York Poconic Rus Ees Jane Hebei Auli Saab Ochs Uplands Orleans Bates Bates American

Trade Centre Wheat and Flour Markets Across Cities

Reports from New York and Chicago outline mixed activity in flour and grain markets with receipts measured in thousands of bbls and bushels. Prices show steady to dull trading. lard and pork values edge higher in some centers while oats, corn, and wheat vary by grade and region.

Hog and cattle markets rise in Kansas City report

Hogs firm in Kansas City trade as of December 13 with cattle market activity noted. Market observers report steady demand and price firmness amid cautious buying by processors.

Kansas City

Hog and beef market roundups from St Louis and Peoria

In St Louis on December 13 hog prices moved higher with Yorkers and mixed packers mostly at 490 to 540 per hundredweight and butchers at 585.25. In Peoria buyers held flags steady with sales around 450 to 545 and receipts totaling 600 head and shipments 470.

New York Minnesota Chicago United City Extra India Western City ST. Louis Minneapolis Cincinnati Toledo Wiest Detroit ST Louis Peoria

Cotton market report amid brisk receipts and steady prices

The report lists net receipts and gross figures across major ports including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Morphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated data. Exports to Britain and the continent, coastwise trade, and stock totals are noted with steady to firm prices and mid points around 9 to 11 cents.

Augusta Galveston Continent New Orleans Great Britain Coastwise Morphis Shipore Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati C. St Louis Louisvile France United States

Foreign Markets Report From London And Liverpool

Beerbohm notes cargoes off the coast with wheat steadier and corn quiet as December markets in London, Paris, Antwerp show subdued activity. Liverpool quotations mark dull wheat and mixed corn. December through May futures range with California wheat prices around 6s.9d to 7s 4d and pork and lard movements noted.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Antwerp

Imports and Exports December 13 1887 Grand Manan

Shipping report from Grand Manan New Brunswick shows Grover Cleveland with 19 400 boxes of herring and 142 boxes of bloaters loaded by the master.

Grand Manan

Exports Report from Lunenburg and Maritime Ports

On December 13, 1887 ships at Lunenburg Halifax and surrounding NS ports show flour and various goods. Forest Belle sails with 125 bbls flour from Lunenburg while Angola from Liverpool carries flour cornmeal pork beef refined oil. J and J Locke at Barrington report flour pork lard meal and more. May Alice at Cape Island carries 125 bbls flour. Dominion steamer at Yarmouth handles flour cornmeal feed and assorted items including books furniture and hardware totaling numerous regiments of cargo.

Lunenburg Forest Belle Liverpool Angola Barrington J & J Locke Cape Island May Alice Yarmouth Dominion

Total Receipts December 13 1887

Trade totals show extensive commodity receipts including cotton wool flour and oats with figures for 1887 1886 and earlier years. The list enumerates items by type and quantity such as molasses barrels wheat beans apples and hides with dozens of bulk measures and case counts.

Receipts Across Rail Lines for December 18 1887

A detailed ledger of freight receipts from Boston and Maine Eastern Western and associated lines listing cotton wool flour oats corn meal corn malt feed oats lumber leather hides and various perishables by the bale barrel box sack and car, including figures for Grand Junction Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg and Lowell System.

Boston & Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell

Commodity shipment items from express records

A list of varied goods including oats tallow spork dressed hog butter cases cheese beans lumber leather sugar tea coffee grease and hides, with quantities such as 7 barrels oats 1 barrel tallow 145 barrels butter 244 cases cheese 4920 bushs beans 196 rolls lumber and multiple bales hides and dry hides, reflecting a mixed cargo inventory.

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Murdock's Liquid Food Promises Free Hospital Beds

Advertises Murdock's Liquid Food claiming it clears blood with no insoluble matter or drugs and supports all ages. Boasts free beds in multiple hospitals over several years including general disease, lying in, and infants units with specific feeding instructions for infants not thriving.

Murdock

Liquid Food claims and hospital program notes

A promotional piece asserts 953 total operations with a 9 mortality, touting liquid food that allegedly sustains patients before and after surgery and even avoids operations after 30 to 60 days. It mentions 200 large bottles per lot, a single formula for all brands, and injections as an alternative if stomach retention fails. It also advertises a Free Surgical Hospital for Women and a Free Home for Homeless Boys at Causeway Street with beds and skin disease recoveries.

United States Causeway Street

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