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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1888
Page
7
Market notes show ships at 340 510, receipts 4000, shipments 1000 strong natives at 275 515, Western 440 465, Texans 230 350, lambs 4 6. Entities include Western, Texans, and various price points in a compact trade snippet.
Pork and beef markets show little movement with mixed highs and lows. Prices span pork long culls 18, backs 18.50, lean ends 18.50, lard 9.25 10c, hams 11.4 12c, New York pork dull at 14.25 14.75, beef and bacon trends steady, fresh beef values vary by cut, mutton and lamb prices follow steady ranges.
Auction reports show Harris & Co selling Florida oranges at 87 32 500 boxes. Snow & Co to auction 2500 boxes Florida oranges 100 cases Valencia oranges and other fruits. Prices quoted include common to good apples 11 25, Hubbardston 125 1 50, sweet 1 2, Snow 2 25, Baldwins 1 P per barrel. greens 125 1 50 per barrel. grape market steady with Catawbas 8 5c Concords 3 4c. Messina lemons 2 25 4 00 per box. Palermo lemons 2 25 4 00 per box. Valencia oranges 4 50 5 50 per case. Jamaica oranges 3 350 per barrel. Exports for week total 24 248 bbls. season 1 011 821 bbls. last season 432 140 bbls. Cranberries firm for choice stock. nuts steady with peanuts 6 6 1 4c and pecans 5 8c.
New York cotton stays quiet and steady for middling uplands at 944c, with 158 bales sold. Futures opened quiet and closed steady. table shows Dec and nearby closing values, while regional ports report mixed receipts, exports, and stocks with overall quiet market tone.
Sugar and molasses markets show steady to barely steady movement with mixed regional notes. Cuba raws steady to active, refined sugars quiet. New York markets carry barely steady trends, and molasses remains steady with Ponce Porto Rico and Porto Rico varieties cited. An oil market note from J E Carter & Co accompanies the report.
Tal shows steady demand with mixed prices. Coffee in New York is neglected while Rio cargoes reach 17c. Turpentine at 46 4c and rosin around 1.0241. tar nominal. Petroleum closes 6.65 to 7.25c with RSW 4.30c and cases at 9.30c.
On December 24 1888 the ship Cephalonia arrived at Liverpool with diverse cargoes including 18 bales gamels hair tops 4 bales 46 bars 9 cases steel and leather goods. Numerous firms such as Baring & Co Jackson & Co and Belcher & Loomis reported consignments of glassware earthenware wool fabrics oranges and clothing.
A dense inventory from YARMOUTH NS lists numerous merchants and their consignments including machinery, woollens, hardware, oils, chemicals, textiles, glass, paper, and perishables. Named firms such as Koopman & Co, J & J Murdock, Baring Bros & Co, Jordan Marsh, and Stone & Downer appear with quantities like cases, bales, boxes, and casks alongside items like wool, linen, glass tubes, tin plates, and fish products. The document records diverse shipments, partners, and stock in transit across a long inland and coastal trade network.
The document lists numerous goods with quantities and values such as oils, breadstuffs, meat, textiles, metals, and hardware. It also shows regional value by country and province, ending with a total value of 1,242,872.
A dense ledger of import and export values by region listing goods such as lumber potatoes rubber paper stock hides provisions metals and chemicals. It aggregates totals by area including England Nova Scotia Germany Belgium Turkey Manila Shanghai Sierra Leone CUBA Italy and more with grand totals for each zone and an overall global figure.
A detailed ledger of cargo totals across multiple lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Old Colony and other railroads. Items list bales of cotton wool flour cornmeal oatmeal corn oats malt barley feed lard pork butter cheese eggs beans potatoes hay straw leather hides and various bar rels and crates. Entries note quantities by railroad and division with numerous units such as bales bbls boxes and tons.
A historical list details quantities of goods by export mode including feed, peas, cornmeal, hams, lard, beans, butter, eggs, tea, coffee, molasses, butter, eggs, apples, potatoes, lumber, leather, and hides. Items are organized by express and sea shipments with totals such as 22 515 bags of coffee and 316 barrels of various products.
Trustees of the Eastern Railroad invite written bids to sell certificates of indebtedness. Offerors must state amount and price in dollars payable in Boston with accrued coupon interest. Offers may be accepted or rejected in part. Bids due January 3 1889 at noon, and January 31 and February 28 1889 at noon. delivery within ten days of acceptance for US bidders, thirty days for foreign bidders.
Boston to Ashcroft Danbury Hartford and many towns listed with multiple daily departures and special Sunday trains. It notes Worcester Worcester lines, Woon socket division timings, and connections to New York via Air Line and Hartford routes with through cars and dining services.
London markets calm for Christmas week with English and French country markets holding steady. Farmers report wheat deliveries in England for the past week totaling 54,259 bushels with an average price around 30 shillings and 8 pence. Liverpool spot wheat shows inactivity with no California grain trading, quoted around 73 shillings and 6 3/4 pence.
Train times for Boston and Maine routes listed for Augusta Haymarket Causeway Street and Haymarket Square stations. Services include Augusta, Bar Harbor, St John’s Halifax Portland connections and multiple stops such as Rockland Castine Southwest Bar Harbor, Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland. Weekly and daily departures noted with times across stations.
Western Division timetable lists trains from Boston to towns including Andover Haverhill Melrose Malden Medford Newburyport and more with numerous departures, afternoon and evening runs, plus Sunday trains to Dover Lawrence Manchester Lowell and Portland. The dense OCR shows many inconsistent times and station names across the corridor.
A dense OCR of a regional timetable lists many train names, stations, and times across eastern routes. Includes Beeston Station Causeway Street Amesbury Chelsea Newburyport Rockport Lynn Ipswich and Boston connections with numerous irregular time entries and notes on branches and special trains.
Boston area rail timetable lists through service from Boston to towns and cities including Tilton Laconia Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Waverhill Woodsville North Woodstock Pennigeewassett Valley Branch Eisben Litt leton Whitefield Lancaster Fabyan Jefferson Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St Colphamsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and Montpelier with times around 8.30am 9am 1 7pm and routes via White River Junction Montreal and Boston Air Line. Includes local passes Bristol Claremont Montpelier St Albans and Montreal and various nodal towns with frequent departures and connections.
Time tables list early and afternoon departures from Causeway Street foot of Portland Street for multiple towns including Northampton Madiey Amherst Belcher town endsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester and several routes via Clinton Sudbury Rockbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont and more. Full information on local and through trains available at stations from General Manager Tames T Furber and J Flanders General Pasr and Ticket Agent.
A dense timetable lists departures and arrivals across many towns including Ashmont Brockton Quincy Weymouth Abington East Weymouth and more. It notes 6 pm leave from Central Station to New York via Fall River Line with various daily and Sunday trains and special notations such as Sundays and via Brockton.
The snippet lists ferry or train times for Cape Cod Division routes including Buzzards Bay Bourne Cataumet Wellfleet and Provincetown with several stations and times such as 8.15 am and 4.15 pm plus notes on service days and connections, reflecting a historical timetable snapshot.
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