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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1888
Page
7
February 16 market notes show Scotch and other potato varieties quoted with diverse prices. Poultry and game prices are listed alongside vegetables including onions cabbage beets carrots and greens. Demand appears varied with several items fluctuating and others steady across regions.
In Elgin butter stands at 3le with 12 500 ths sold while Chicago sees a quiet market. Elgin creamery extra is 3lc and Western creamery 27c, cheese quiet and easier. Western extra eggs firmer. New York butter quiet and steady with Western extra 28 29c and Eastern dairy half firkin tubs 25 27c. Western dairy 20 23c. Cheese unchanged eggs unchanged top price 21c. Beans firm dried apples steady. Liverpool cheese market steady at 69s oc. year-ago price 45 Od.
Auction prices posted for Valencia oranges at regular, large and extra large sizes with per case figures. Florida oranges and tangerines quoted by box, naval oranges per box, and assorted fruit prices across Palermo, Mediter ranean, and Cape Cod quotes. Apple exports to the United Kingdom show weekly and seasonal totals by port, with Boston New York Portland Halifax figures. fruit demand described as firm with steady demand for select varieties.
Pork and lard prices hold firm with fair demand while hams and sausages show stable to steady values. Beef and veal receipts rise as fresh beef prices range from 7 to 14 cents per pound with various cuts. Lamb and mutton offer steady to unchanged quotes amid overall quiet trade.
PIPELINE CERTIFICATES closed 3 pm February 6 and opened 10 am February 7 with highest at 9044c and lowest 80% gc. SUGAR market steady with raw sugar prices for various grades and refined sugar quoted across Pulverized to confectioners’ grades. wholesale granulated at 714c. MOLASSES offered from Ponce Porto Rico at 35c per gallon and other origins at 22c to 26c. COTTONSEED OIL CERTIFICATES opened 32c and closed at 32c with a high of 32.14c and low 32c. TALLOW firm with city rendered 43.5c to 4 4y ec, country 44 2c, rough 2 24ec.
New York market report shows flour receipts 19 636 pkgs and exports 7083 bbls with sales of 21 500 bbls in various grades from superfine to patent Minnesota extra. Wheat and corn details include No 2 spring at 89 1/2c and No 2 red 88 1/2 to 88 3/4c, oats 38-42c, coffee and sugar levels, and petroleum steady with rosin and potatoes noted.
Prepared Food claims recognition by the International Medical Congress and medical associations in multiple years. It asserts the liquid food produces 8 percent new blood weekly with one tablespoon four times daily. The piece details several free hospitals and rising operation counts through 1887.
The institution reports 953 total operations with a mortality of 9 and about 100 operations monthly. It boasts a nationwide reputation as a Free Surgical Hospital for Women using Liquid Food and a Free Home for Homeless Boys with 50 beds on Causeway Street.
Boston area schedule shows multiple daily through trains to Augusta Haymarket Causeway st St John and Halifax with connections to Portland and Bangor. Last lines note city ticket office and management names.
A large, tangled OCR of train and boat schedules lists routes from Ayer Junction Belmont Waverley to Prov incetown and Plymouth with numerous times. Names GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK appear as general pass agents amid scattered city and regional stops.
Commodities show broader weakness with flour in soft demand. Wheat falls across No 2 spring and No 2 red futures while corn and oats also retreat. Provisions hold steady in multiple hubs as receipts and shipments register notable volume.
Allan Asher & Co report a nervous cotton market with downward drift and liquidations. Port receipts reach 4,622,000 bales since Sept 1, while New York futures open steady before a quiet close. spot prices ease. Worldwide: Liverpool dull. major U S and coastal ports show varied activity with steady to dull demand and notable stock levels.
The Daily Commercial Bulletin notes moderate activity in commissions and quiet jobbing, with steady movement in staple cotton goods and white goods due to back orders. Wool and worsted dress goods are in fair demand while men’s wear woollens see more attention. foreign goods demand remains light.
hogs firm in St Louis Kansas City and Peoria with Yorkers at 4900 to 5200, mixed packers 5150 to 5500 and butchers 3450 to 6000. Chicago cattle receipts 5000 with steers 3625, stockers 210 to 860, cows 190 to 316, Texas cattle 3825. Hogs in Chicago 13000 receipts with mixed 515 to 605, light 535, sows 350 to 400. Sheep 6000 receipts slow and steady natives 325 to 525, Western 440 to 610, Texans 340 to 648, lambs 576 to 26.
Foreign markets report quiet activity in wheat and corn with limited bids. Wheat prices steady in London and Paris while Liverpool notes dull demand and steady corn. No 1 California wheat quoted at 68 8d and No 2 at 6s 6d with mixed Western corn prices around 43 to 34d.
Commodities traded include bacon steady at 41s 6d for short clear and 39s for long clear. Cheese steady at 592. Tallow lower at 27s. Lard unchanged at 398 9d. Wheat easier in Liverpool with varied California futures and English market quiet. Antwerp and Paris show small wheat price shifts on February 7.
London reports strong turnout with aggressive bidding as continent buyers dominate. Cape of Good Hope and Natal trades firm. New South Wales Victoria Queensland and New Zealand lines show varied scoured and greasy lots with prices listed in shillings and pence.
On February 7, 1888 the steamer Procida arriving at Sagua had 17,000 bags of sugar in cargo damaged as the ship leaked. Nash, Spaulding & co. are cited in the report.
A dense shipping manifest lists cargoes and destinations from Liverpool Buenos Ayres Halifax St Pierre and broader freight. Items include steamer Samaria consignments 4 bbis sweepings 78000 pieces staves and 46 bbis game plus leather hams pork flour cheese and rations. Also Kinburn with lumber and harvesting gear. Maud S and Hazel Dell schooners with flour lines oats and other provisions. Jessie M Vogler with sugar cordage various foods and hardware.
Inventory of shipments from multiple railroads listing bales cotton wool flour oats and various staples such as bacon lard butter cheese eggs potatoes beef and hides. Records include Boston Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine divisions and express and sea deliveries with quantities noted for each line.
Fragmentary OCR notes advertise a sale by RS CO Otters Goods at 20 Federal stress with items from Burlaps Cortam Roolis and Con Lunnert. The readable bits show a liquidation style listing and agency names. No date or explicit location is confirmed.
Local timetables show full Boston and Albany line times with departures to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West from Boston station Kneeland Street and frequent connections at Pittsfield Chatham Hadson Palmer North Grafton and Worcester. Through and sleeping car services are listed along with Sunday and weekday variations and station notes.
Boston and Lowell Railroad timetable from Boston Causeway Street to multiple destinations including Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weir Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville and Montreal via White River Junction. Local services from Boston Manchester and Concord New Hampshire with extensive AM PM departures and sleeping car offerings on long routes. GEO. W. STORER, Genl Passenger Agen.
Trains will run on and after Monday May 30 1887 between Providence and New Work Shore Line with multiple daily departures and returns listed for destinations including New York, North Station, East Foxboro and nearby towns. Schedule details include morning and evening runs and Sunday returns.
Iain commands the AV squad during the Alaska trial match, delivering precise plays and steady leadership. AK officials observe as the event unfolds, assessing equipment readiness and team coordination amid field conditions.
A jumble of numbers and currency like entries appears, resembling a financial table. Readable items include ratios and prices such as 5.55 and 8.19 alongside codes like A7 and KRA. The text fragments lack clear context or complete labels.
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