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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1887
Page
7
Readable list shows prices for sweet potatoes cabbage beets onions lettuce celery spinach and squash varieties with bundles and tonnage. Also included are Cape Cranberries margin markets and City rendered tallow with price figures and units.
Shipments of apples for the week ending fer. 10 are listed by J. C. Lombard's Sons with Boston New York Liverpool Glasgow figures and season totals. Portland shipments reach 77,484 bbls this season and Halifax 738,887 bbls. London market firmer with good fruit in demand and detailed price ranges for apples nuts dried fruit and citrus by origin and grade.
The record shows no changes to provisions. It lists Chicago pork and lard prices with several cuts and values, plus beef and fresh meat rates for various types. The column includes opening, highest, lowest, and closing figures alongside May and June entries for multiple pork, beef, and lamb items.
In Liverpool futures opened steady and closed steady with numerous bid prices for February through October. Spot uplands and Orleans quoted steady with gains in mid uplands. New York spot and futures opened steady with varied grades and small rise in refined oils and sugars. Exports and receipts figures noted for several ports with 98 percent of total cotton exports from those ports. Pipeline certificates prices and activity listed along with refined oil and sugar quotations and molasses market steadiness.
Flour receipts total 27 041 barrels and sacks with exports listed at 3 463 barrels and 800 sacks. Heavy sales include 16 500 barrels with varied grades from No 2 to choice extra Western and State at 3 60 to 6 20. Ohio and St. Louis grades show prices from 2 30 to 4 65, plus Minnesota and winter wheat extras around 3 20 to 4 60.
Southern and Great Lakes markets show mixed trends with grains. Wheat No 2 red around 77 to 78 cents, corn 33 to 35 cents, oats around 34 to 35 cents, rye steady, barley quiet, and pork, lard, and butter varying by region with notable volume in Chicago St Louis and Minneapolis reports.
Kansas City hogs steady at 4 40 to 4 76 with 4000 expected arrivals and 5972 on Saturday receipts. St Louis hogs higher with Yorkers 5 05 to 5 20 and mixed packers 5 25 to 5 40. Chicago cattle lower with steady shipping steers 3 50 to 4 05 and bulk cattle around 3 75 to 3 50. hogs receipts 14 000 with price ranges 4 50 to 5 80. sheep lower with natives 3 50 to 5 60 and lambs at 4 45 to 5 50.
February 14 cotton market report shows net receipts across ports with mixed trade. Highlights include Augusta and New Orleans firm prices, Savannah and Memphis steady to firm, and overall three day consolidated net receipts totaling 26 665 with صادرات to Britain France and the continent and total US port stock 861 727.
Detailed ledger of goods shipped and received including fish and eggs from Beaman Bros and Ellis & Co in Halifax. molasses and logs from Gonaives and Demerara. oranges lemons and wine from Mediterranean ports via Albany. Savannah cargoes of oranges cotton and lumber. extensive listings of boxes of oranges bales of cotton and other commodities with numerous firms named.
Shipping list shows cargoes from Yarmouth St John Halifax and Glasgow with flour meal potash kerosene beef pork lumber and oils. Vessels include Ebel K F James Vesper Neptune Norwegian Bavarian Bavarian steamers and more. Cargoes cover sacks beans beef lard oils and miscellaneous goods bound to several ports including St John and Cienfuegos.
A partial OCR town ledger itemizes goods including bales of pads, organs, tales, and tobacco, plus bales of cotton and wheat. It records barrels of oil and beef. boxes of bacon. half barrels of lard. cases of patent medicines. hides and furs. Quantities are irregular with several entries showing negative or unclear values.
A list of shipments for Boston & Albany Providence Old Colony and other lines records cotton wool tea coffee sugar butter eggs and meat products among bales barrels and cases. Totals show major quantities of corn oats flour and cotton across multiple railroad arsenals with minor notes on hides and pelts.
The ledger lists extensive cargo tallies by Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, Boston and Lowell, and other lines. Items include cotton, wool, bales, bbls, flour, cornmeal, oats, wheat, barley, millfeed, meal, leather, hides, beef, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, apples, potatoes, lumber, hay, and seeds. Several divisions and transport modes are noted such as Eastern and Western divisions, express shipments, and sea conveyances with itemized quantities and containers.
London and Liverpool report quiet demand for wheat and corn with mixed firming prices in spots. Wool sales showed better attendance and firm bidding, led by Cape of Good Hope and Natal lots, with several regional price details and large unsold totals.
A long list of names and firms appears detailing boot and shoe buyers and merchants from cities including Athens Baltimore Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh Saint Louis San Antonio Richmond and Wheeling with representatives such as Meyers J Morris George Gore Kreisman Daum Lewis May Shaffer Walker Hull Amick and Bear among others. The clipping reads like a directory of shoe trade agents and buyers across multiple states.
Passenger train times issued for Fitchburg Railroad on Monday November 15 1886 covering departures from Boston to Albany and Chicago and other destinations with various services including drawing room and sleeping cars. The extensive timetable lists multiple routes with stops at Troy Greenfield North Adams Gardner Royalston Westminster Ashburnham Junction West Fitchburg Wachusett Wendell Montague and Ware among others and notes connections with West Shore and New York Central lines. Return times and through cars are indicated for numerous towns including Ayer Framingham Lowell Worcester and Cambridge with special Sunday and weekday variations.
Railroad timetable lists Augusta Haymarket and Causeway stations with multiple daily departures to Eastport Calais St John Halifax Portland Lewiston Manchester Concord North Conway and other Maine destinations. Connections include steamer routes from Portland and various station times across the network.
Western Division timetable lists trains from Boston Station to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maverill Lawrence Malden Melrose Wakefield Wilmington and other stops. Sunday trains run to Dover Maverhill Lawrence Lowell Medford Portland Bangor Lewiston and Reading with numerous daily departures and returns.
Boston station trains list routes to Amesbury and regional stops with varied times and fares. The timetable names towns like Everett Lynn Salem and Portland and notes special services Pullman cars and branch lines under General Manager James T Furber and D J Flandiers.
A dense list of train routes and times for Boston to New York Providence and surrounding towns. Includes departure and return schedules, stations such as Shore Line Fast Express and Steamboat Stone ton Line, and notes on weekdays weekends and special adjustments.
Boston station on Causeway Street hosts various through services to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier and Montreal with multiple departures including 8.30 am 1 pm 7 pm plus sleeper and parlor car options. Local Boston service runs to Manchester Concord Keene Peterborough Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua and more with numerous morning and afternoon departures and Sunday times.
A long timetable shows local and through train hours for numerous towns including Lawrence Wilmington Walnut Hill Stoneham Woburn Medford College Hill Winter Hill Concord Billerica Bedford Lexington Arlington and more. It notes stations hours Sundays and through-service with final staff credits C. Melulen George W. Storer and general superintendent.
Complex timetable lists weekly train and boat departures from Boston to Fall River Provincetown and shore towns. It covers Ashmont Hyannis Wareham Bourne Woods Hall Nantucket and other points with numerous return times and caveats for days, via Brockton Taunton and nearby lines.
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