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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1886
Page
7
The listing covers pork and lard prices with various cuts and weights, including long cuts, backs, light backs, tongues, prime and extra prime, mess, and hams. Fresh beef prices show choicest steers, good steers, and heavy beef, with regional notes on city and country hogs and lambs.
The report notes continental ports receiving 27 000 bales. in sight tonight up 52 9558 bales versus last year, yet down 127 814 from 1854 and 360 822 from 1883. Oil, sugar, and molasses prices and shipments are listed with varied figures and trends.
New York reports mixed flour and wheat prices with large receipts and exports across white wheat, extra and merchant grades. Prices hold for No 1 red and white wheat while rye and corn soften. Detroit Milwaukee Chicago notes echo changes with No 1 white at 79 c and 80 c bid on No 2 red. Minneapolis lists No 1 hard wheat at 75 4 c as market softens.
Cincinnati reports pork firm at 1175 with hogs weak and bulk meats quiet. whiskey steady at 113. receipts 1100. St Louis notes flour changes and pork stronger at 1180 to 1175, lard steady at 610. boxed hams and bacon prices firm with varied short rib and short clear values. receipts flour 3000 bbls and wheat 16,000 bushels.
Mixed hog and cattle price reports across St Louis Peoria Kansas City and Chicago with varied quotes for hogs cows and packing grades. Hogs range around 3.60 to 4.55 in different markets while cattle and sheep show steady to firm tones and mixed shipment figures.
Augusta through New York and other ports report varied net receipts, exports to Great Britain and the continent, steady stocks, and dull to firm markets. Consolidated figures: one day totals 37,109 net receipts, 12,424 exports to Britain, 4,216 to France, 13,759 to the continent, stock 1,084,184.
Foreign markets show wheat steady in London and Liverpool with firm corn and limited bids. California wheat quoted mainly at 7s 8d. Antwerp spot wheat improving. Havana sugar quiet with firm hold due to stock scarcity and exports to the United States.
A compact shipping log listing cargoes across ports. Edward L Mayberry brings 9399 sacks sugar from Cebu. Brig BL Page carries 265 casks molasses and 200 bags sugar from Jemerara. Worcester sails Halifax with 158 barrels pickled fish and other firms loadments. Additional items include eggs, herring, mackerel, lamb, butter, lumber, logwood, and mahogany aboard various vessels and firms such as Beaman Bros Emerson & co Hyde Wheeler & co Williams & co and George McQuesten & Co.
A long OCR fragment lists ships and stock from Annapolis Digby Shelburne and Honolulu with flour meal oil coal and numerous commodities. The page details cargoes by vessel and quantity including bbls bags coils screws hardware and various assorted provisions and goods.
A detailed freight tally shows Boston & Albany and other railways transporting large lots of cotton wool flour corn oats wheat malt millfeed dressed hogs bacon boxes eggs butter cheese apples and leather. The record covers Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western and Boston & Lowell divisions with numerous bales sacks bbls and rolls listed by line and commodity.
ORDNANCE OFFICE announces sealed proposals due Dec 29, 1886 for one 12-inch breech-loading rifled mortar. Cast-iron body and hoops steel forgings supplied by the department. Pedestal delivered from South Boston Iron Works. Bids must include price and completion time.
Four sealed proposals will be received until 12 m on Thursday December 25 1886 for altering the counter in Custom House Boston Mass Specifications and particulars may be obtained by application L Saltonstall Custodian bids to be opened at noon on the due date Potential bidders should inspect the site and furnish detailed plans and costs for the work concluding with delivery of services as requested
Advertisement for Chichester's English Pennyroyal Pills claiming to be the original genuine product. Urges readers to ask their druggist or send 4 cents for details by return mail. Presented by CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO. Philadelphia and sold by druggists nationwide.
Massachusetts Supreme Court in equity requests heirs of Dayton Bolton Lees and Kettell to appear by March to address a long disputed mortgage on a Boston Charlestown parcel. Complainants Scribner and Knapp seek decrees barring further action under the 1804 Bolton mortgage and validating a 1816 release to Nathaniel Austin, with clouded record entries and unrecorded powers of attorney cited.
Boston December 16 1886 notice of insolvency issued against Martha A Pickens wife of Adoniram J Pickens. Debts and property transfer forbidden. Creditors meet December 30 1886 at ten in the forenoon in the Probate Court building Boston to prove debts and elect assignees. WM D Martin deputy sheriff messenger conducts proceedings.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk ss In Insolvent against the estate of Adoni R. J. Pickens of Boston the payment of debts and delivery of property to him are forbidden by law A creditors meeting will be held at the Court of Insolvency in the Probate building Boston on December 30 1886 at ten in the forenoon to prove debts and choose assignees.
Suffolk county insolvency proceeding against merchant Mark S. Rubinovi of Boston. Debtor barred from debts or property transfers. Creditors to meet December 30 1886 at ten o'clock in the forenoon in the Probate building Boston Court Square court room for debt proving and selecting assignees. John B. Fitzpatrick sheriff.
James F. Mullen as assignee of insolvent Boston debtor William Meehan announces the second meeting of creditors at the Court of Insolvency for Suffolk County Boston on January 7, 1887 at ten o'clock in forenoon. Creditors may attend and prove claims.
Local and long distance rail time tables for Brockton Boston South Braintree Taunton and connections. Includes return times from multiple towns, Sunday and weekday services, and ticket office details. Main lines note Framingham Marlboro Fitchburg Berlin and Newton connections with station stops and special service notes.
A dense OCR of rail timetables lists daily and Sunday departures and returns between Boston and Providence with stops at Attleboro Mansfield West Roxbury Sharon Stoughton Canton and others. It notes Shore Line Fast Express Shore Line Mail and Park steamboat connections with varying hours and special Monday to Saturday adjustments.
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