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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1888

Page

7

Wholesale market quotes on cheese eggs beans and more

New York prices hold steady across produce items with jobbing prices modestly higher. Eggs show tight supply for Eastern extras at 27 to 28 cents, various regional stocks quoted, beans and peas priced with steady demand, grass seeds and potatoes listed with regional variations, and poultry markets firm with multiple listed ranges for chickens turkeys fowls ducks and geese.

York North Choice West Vermont New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Michigan Island Canada York State Timothy Red Top Jersey Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Vermont Hebrons Burbanks New York Rose Hebrons Chenangoes Prince Edward Island Virginia

Commodity Prices for Produce at Old Quotation Stand

The listing shows current market quotes for truck crops and produce. Items include marrow squash at 20 per ton, Savoy cabbage 74 cents per bushel, red cabbage 150 per barrel, onions 1.20 to 1.40 per barrel, Spanish onions 75 cents per crate, beets 40 cents per bush, lettuce 25 cents per dozen, spinach 60 cents per bush, Norfolk spinach 1.50 per barrel, parsley 1.25 per bush, and parsnips 60 cents per bush.

Hubbard Russia Norfolk

Provisions Market Shifts Across Cities

Pork prices steady in Chicago with gains for lard futures and weaker hog demand. Beef and dry salted meats soften while fresh beef remains well supplied. Cincinnati and St Louis show lower pork and steady lard. Quotes cover pork cuts, backs, ribs, bacon, and entrails with regional price variations.

Chicago New York South America St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

Hog and cattle markets steady with mixed regional notes

Receipts and price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Kansas City St Louis Peoria and Chicago markets. Cattle dull due to oversupply with beets and stockers easing. hogs steady to higher in some cities. sheep firm with varied regional quotes. Key figures include cattle beets $285 to $580, hogs heavy $4 97 to 5 10, sheep natives $2 50 to $4 85.

Kansas City Sheen St Louis Peoria Chicago Texas

Banana Steamer Marmion Due December 20

The steamer Marmion is due on December 20 from Jamaica carrying fruit for the Boston Fruit Company.

Banana Steamers Jamaica Boston Fruit Company

Fruit Auction Notice by Harris & Co

Harris and Co announce an auction Tuesday offering 8000 boxes Florida oranges and 500 boxes dates. The sale lists fruit quantities for delivery and bidding details to be provided at the auction site.

H Harris & Co

Probate notices from Middlesex probate court

Citations regarding estates of John Stafford of Waltham Abigal hie peel Somerville Caroline P Perham Cambridge and William Leahy final distribution. Court in Cambridge December 1888. Boston Post publication three weeks accordingly.

Agnes N. Winslow Boston Suffolk The Boston West Joan W. McKim Isquire Commonwealth OF Massachussetts Middlesex John Stafford Waltham Charles A. Welch Cambridge Boston Post Lostén George M. Brooks Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Abigal Hie Peel Late Somerville Robert N. Bolton Esquire J. H. Tyler Register Massachlus Setts Caroline P. Perham James B. Billings Grover M. Brooks Massachu Setts Daniel Leahy William Leahy Massachussetts Nancy W. Trumbull Edwin A. Alger GornGe M. Brooks J. H. Lyler Frederic W. Bliss Joan W. McKim, Esquire

Fruits and nuts market prices in steady trade list

The market shows ample supply and steady demand for apples grapes and citrus. Prices for common to good apples range from 1 25 to 2 25 per box, stubbardstons up to 1 50, grapes include catawbas 22 2 2 2 cents, concords 22 27 cents, oranges and lemons note Florida demand quiet with Messina lemons 2 25 4 00 per box and Valencia oranges 4 4 50 per box. Cranberries are dull with 7 50 per barrel for choice and 4 7 per case for fair to good. Nuts steady with peanuts 6 6 8 cents per pound and hickory nuts 1 75 2 00 per bushel.

Stubbardstons Sweet Nova Scotia Gravensteins Snow Baldwins Harveys Taliman Sweets Almeria Florida Messina Palermo Jamaica Virginia

Cotton market steadies as New York futures open steady

New York prices hold steady for middling uplands and other grades with sales of 206 bales. Futures open quiet and close steady. Liverpool spot cotton eases with 10,000 bales traded. Across ports, receipts and stocks vary with mixed demand and steady to dull tones in Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans markets.

New York Esees Viet Ss Diboo Ws Ccessee Sau Bunun Isis Case AUIS Liverpool Orleans Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Mid Memphis Savannah Great Britain Charleston France Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Continent Cincinnati St.Louis Louisville United States

Sugar and Molasses Prices in Raw and Refined Trade

Sugar trade remains quiet with firm prices for raw sugars including Cuba and Java consignments. Refined sugars hold steady with various grades quoted. Molasses markets firm with Fancy Ponce Porto Rico and Porto Rico varieties noted, while New York and New Orleans demand persists.

Cuba New York Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos New Orleans

Market Roundup Across Commodities and Regions

Tallow shows strong demand with firm prices quotes 642¢ for city rendered, 5c for country, rough 4c. New York markets dull with city at 64.6% se. Coffee Rio weakens with fair car at 16% c. Whiskey steady: Chicago 120, Cincinnati 114, St Louis 114. Turpentine and petroleum in New York mixed: turpentine 46c, resin 10 2/44 at 107% and tar nominal. petroleum 6.60 7.30c, RSW 7.25c, cases 9.50c.

New York Rio Chicago Cincinnati St Louis

Savannah Steamer Gate City Imports Across Ocean Ports

Entries list shipments arriving December 17 in Savannah and Charlottetown with numerous cargoes including oranges, lumber, hides, boxes, bags, and pig iron from firms such as Allen & Morse, Billings & Eaton, Chapman Bros, Conant & Bean, and many others. The record names consignors, quantities, and items like oranges, lumber, hides, eggs, potatoes, and seafood, noting destinations Halifax and Port Hawkesbury as well.

Isss Savannah Gate City Allen & Morse Dodo J Bigelow & Co Benjamin Ballon Billings & Eaton Blake & Ripley Koynton & Co S & J Brown & Co Chapin Bros Morrison & Co George McQuesten & Co George E Newhall C R _ Noyes Patch & Roberts Dennie Rogers & Co Stetson & Co Sands, Furber & Co Shurtleff Bros Sherman Spurr & Co Simmons Bros Simons & Co Snow & Co Sawtell & Pratt C Townsend Wellman, Hall & Co Wadleigh York & Whitney Charlottetown Pei Halifax Port Hawkesbury George and & Co Egus Barclay & Co Boston Consolidated Produce Co Buckley Seaman’s Clothing British Consul Eels Burns & Co George Bond & Co Barclay &Co Tdwards Eldredge & Flaley R Foster HK Griffin & Co Edward Harvey F Hutchinson & Co Hundrey Hathaway & Co Johnson & Co Morse & Holt Manning & Co H Murch & Co Mead & Co John McKinnon McKeever W& Yall Noyes French & Fickett Priest Rockwell Rowne John R Smith Charles Clark Slayton & Boynton WN Thompson

Maritime goods list from Liverpool and Yarmouth shipments

A dense inventory of goods loaded on ships bound for Liverpool and Yarmouth including herring, potatoes, lard, skins, eels, starch, pig iron, books, glass, wool, caustic soda, brimstone, bleaching powders, nails, soda ash, salt, sails, poultry, rabbits, apples, moose horns, cranberries, beef, codfish, haddies, frozen fish and other items. Ship names Bostonian Yarmouth Steamer and Yarmouth are cited with multiple consignors and bulk quantities.

Robert Thomas Whittier Winsor & Son Wyman Woodside & Co Liverpool Eng Bostonian Riley & Gray Leigh & Co Indsée Moors & Co Moise Thomas Leyland & Co Lovering & Co Linder & Meyer Morey & Co Baring Bros & Co Yarmouth Hall & Co Clements & Co Barclay & Co Webber Delong & Seaman

Exports from Glasgow and Halifax Dated December 17 1888

Shipping cargo lists from Glasgow and Halifax record Hibernian clearing December 12 with flour ham apples cattle wax and lumber among many items. Carroll clears December 15 with onions wire netting and twine. Havana schooner John Proctor carries gas coke.

Glasgow Scot Hibernian Halifax Carroll Dee Havana Cuba John Proctor

1888 Commodity Receipts Ledger Fragment

Readable ledger fragment lists December 17 1888 receipts by commodity. Categories include cotton wool butter molasses flour oleo cheese cornmeal oats beans wheat barley barley etc with units bales sacks bbls bushels and pounds. Several named items show quantities and accompanying totals reflecting a broad inventory tally from 1888.

Receipts from Dec 17 1888 railroads list cargos and quantities

Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York New England, Fitchburg, and Loston & Maine lines report extensive consignments. Wool, cotton, flour, cornmeal, corn, oats, wheat, malt, feed, pork, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, hay, straw, leather, hides, pelts, and various crates of goods quantified in bales, bbls, cases, tubs, sacks, rolls, and tons across multiple rail routes. Major totals include thousands of bushels of corn and oats, hundreds of bbls of flour and lard, and numerous livestock and dairy products.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York New England Fitchburg Railroad Loston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division

Boston and Maine Goods and Cargoes Section Summary

Boston and Maine Railroad divisions report varied consignments including bales of cotton wool and leather, potatoes, hay, lumber, and eggs. Additional items include beef pork tea coffee sugar molasses butter cheese beans cheese and hides, with multiple counts of bales and cases listed across express sea and rail shipments.

Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell Express

Foreign Markets Report Signals Wheat Firm Worldwide

London markets show firm wheat for cargoes and passage while corn remains slow. Paris wheat and flour firm as Antwerp and Liverpool price levels hold. Futures steady in Liverpool with January California wheat at 73 11141, April 8s Oled, and February mixed American corn around 48 6144d 4s 41d. country markets show upward tendency.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Antwerp

Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town

Buffalo Buffalo W H Walker of WH Walker & Co Chicago Ill T N Howard of Howard & Hayward Cincinnati O L Bunker of I Faller Sons Co Pa St Joseph Mo C W Noyes of Noyes Norman Co St Louis Mo A D Brown of Hamilton Brown Shoes Am

Buffalo H Walker Walker & Co Chicago Ill N Howard Howard & Hayward Cincinnati L Bunker I Faller, Sons & Co St Joseph W Noyes Noyes, Norman & Co St Louis A D Brown Hamilton-Brown Shoe So

Western Division Workingmen's Train Sunday Schedules

The notice lists Sunday trains for Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford and nearby stations with multiple departure and arrival times including 6pm 8am 7pm 9pm and service hours across the region detailing Meadings and stations and various numbered times throughout the day.

Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Peakland Beanger Lewiston Meadings

Massive Rail Timetable Fragments Across New England Area

A dense roster of station times and routes appears, listing numerous towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Rochester Hampton Beach Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Riddleton Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Salem Swampscott Wenham Wolfeboro and more. The entry seems to annotate daily or Thursday and Saturday service with varied departure times, branch notes, and via routes, plus a note about workers trains and Boston Haymarket.

Boston Station Haymarket Square Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Mover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maverhill Georgetown Kennebunk Biddeford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell Malden Medford Melrose Highlands Melrose Teoay Merrimac Aim North Andover Newburyport Reading Satem Wakefield North Wilmington Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Ova Everett Hampton Beach North Hampton Rye Beach Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Branch Riddleton North Conway Peabody and Danvers Portsmouth Mevere Rockport and Gloucester Branch Salem York Marbor & Beach Swampscott Wenham Wolfeboro Lyon and Way Portland Bangor St. John Halifax

Cape Cod Bus Schedule Fragments Across Towns

Partial timetable lists departures and arrivals for multiple Cape Cod towns including Bourne Brewster Chatham Hyannis Fairhaven Harwich Provincetown and others. Times show morning and afternoon windows such as 8:15 am and 4:15 pm with variations per stop. Some entries include nonstandard spellings and garbled labels but indicate routine daily service patterns and weekday notes.

Vast Rail Schedule Fragments From Boston to New York and Beyond

A dense list of train times and routes across many towns including Attleboro Canton Junction Dedham Forest Hills and Jamaica Plain. It notes Sunday departures and various irregular times with numerous errors and OCR-like garbles. The piece appears to be an old carriage of timetables with inconsistent formatting and many stray numbers.

Park Square New York Stonington Attleboro Boylston Rostindake Central Highland Sant Roxbury Spring Street Canton Junction Dodgeville East Foxboro Foxboro Forest Hills Hazelwood Hee Angitens Ky Park Jamaica Plain Mansfield Mt. Hope Clarendon Hills Mrth Sunda Oxbur Rumfor Im Sharon Sharon Ays Stou Abe

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