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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1887

Page

7

Market Prices For Fresh Produce In Local Exchange

Prices show vegetables and fruits with steady to rising rates. Items listed include oranges lemons cabbage onions lettuce cucumbers and apples among others with varying per unit costs and per peck measures.

Malaga Hubbard Colery

Watertown Union Live Stock Market Report Week Ending Feb 15 1887

Report for the Boston Post by George J. Fox covers total cattle sheep hogs at market, state breakdowns, car counts by railroads, and price ranges for market and store cattle. Detailed figures include Massachusetts Vermont New Hampshire and Western stock, with prices for hides tallow skins and sheep.

Boston Post George J. Fox Aera Pas Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts I. Western Boston & Maine Boston & Lowell Fitchburg Eastern

Markets by Telegraph. Wheat and flour prices across cities

Financial report from New York shows flour receipts and prices for various wheat grades, with details for Ohio Minnesota and Western markets. Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Detroit and Chicago notes include wheat and corn prices, oats, rye, barley, pork, lard, bacon, and flour shipments and receipts.

Hog and cattle markets report across major cities

Kansas City hogs steady with demand strong at 5 10 to 5 10s for very good quality. St Louis hogs firm with Yorkers 5 20 to 5 25, mixed packers 5 20 to 5 25, butchers 5 40. Chicago cattle receipts 1,000 shipments 2,000, steers 5 05 to 5 10, cows and bulls 1 80 to 3 30. hogs 5 10 to 5 40, packing 5 25 to 5 65, light 4 80 to 5 30. Sheep receipts 6,000, natives 2 50 to 4 90, lambs 4 50 to 5 50.

Kansas City ST. Louis Peoria Chicago Ville Cordaville Ashlana Milford South Framing Fane Brig Lon Kee Bak Farm Chestn Bratuleboro Winchendon Foeoan Bellows Che R.R Wia N.Y. C St. Albans Keene and Rutland Worcester, Nash Worcester Framingham & Lowell R. BR So Framingham Lowell Fitchburg Haw Oo Se-Su Aim Sa.uv Ayer Unction North Leominster Ayer Junction Shirley Greenville Downsend Centre Marlboro Hudson and Maynard Coord Lincoln Belmont Waveley Sham Waverley W. Town Union Market Mt. Aubuarno Tewds Cambridge Framingham Marlb Southboro Northboro Leomister Berlin West Berlin Bolte Rents Junction Boston Newton Lower Falls Wellesley Hills Newton Highlawas Brookline Washington Street S. Hanson T. Gallup Mit Abele Ay Dak Dar Hae Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Rochester Hampton Beach North Hampton Rye Beach Ipswich Lynam Marblehead Swampscott Branch Middleton Newburyport North Conway Peabody and Danvers Rockport and Gloucester Saugus Swampscott Wenham

Cotton Market Prices and Receipts by Port in February 1887

The report lists cotton net receipts, gross totals, sales, and stock by port including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore and others. Markets are described as quiet steady or firm with middling prices cited in decimals.

Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore

Trade and shipping updates across ports

Consolidated four day totals show net receipts of 46 803 with exports to Great Britain 45 140 and to the continent 11 209. Stock at all United States ports stands at 864 144 while individual ports report varied receipts and shipments including New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville with modest activity and mixed outlooks.

Great Britain New York Cincinnati St. Louis Mid Louisville Midge Consolidated France Continent United States

Imports and Exports. Antwerp and Liverpool Trade Entry

A dense 1887 shipment list from Antwerp and Liverpool details steamer cargoes including gin, whiskey, window glass, potash, steel billets, iron beams, woollens, leather, and vast quantities of mdse. Items are grouped by consignor and firm names with numerous company references.

Antwerp Richards & Sons Flage & Co Wight Bros Dana & Co Schulze, Berg & Koeckle Codman & Hall Hills Turner & Co Quimby & Sons Bartlett & Co Hoadlett & Dunnell Stoddard, Lovering & Co de Lambert ,Bros Liverpool Eng French & Co Hayes & Co Pierce & Co Linder & Meyer Schmidt & Co M Peyser & Co Abram Trench & Co Hovey & Co Manf Co Little, Brown & Co Snow & Co Wright & Ditson Noyes, Campbell & Co Stone & Downer Huguley & Co Noyes Bros Shuman & Co Brown, Shipley & Co Baring Bros & Co Davis, Moreau & Co Brown, Durrell & Co Simons Harch & Whitten Farley, Harvey & Co Hetherston Preston Stedman-Fuller Mans Co Moors & Co Bradford Thomas & Co Noyes Campbell & Co Shepard Norwell & Co Folsom Nute & Newell Kendall, Barrows & Co Macallar, Parker & Co White & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Frost Dupee Simons, Hatch and Whitten Booth & Co Cotton Hadley & Co Horswell & French Pope & Co Stone Warren & Blanchard London Milne & Co Gogssler & Co Baring Brog & Co Boston Sugar Refinery Co J A Hayes & Co Richard & Sons D&m Williams Adams, Taylor & Co Bower & Bartlett Bros & Co EB & F King & Co Bird & Co Wadsworth, Howland & Co Webber Iron Brown Bros & Co Bessemer Lepreaux

Exports Report from Shelburne and Halifax Ports

The Shelburne report lists Schr Clifford with 875 barrels of flour 250 sacks middlings 1000 barrels meal 6 bales lines 48 bars. The Halifax entry notes Schr Susie E with 500 barrels flour 100 drums beef 80 drums pork 25 carboys acid.

Shelburne Schr Clifford Halifax Schr Susie

Staple Receipts by Railroads in 1887 Cash Transaction List

A detailed ledger of shipments dated February 15, 1887 records receipts for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony and New York & New England. It lists quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats meal lard bacon butter oleo cheese eggs leather hides tea coffee sugar and various related products across numerous bales boxes cars and sacks.

Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division Western Division Ieees Earth Dore Wales Boston & Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony New York New England

London and Liverpool Wheat and Corn Markets Mixed Across Reports

London market notes show wheat firm, corn steady with limited sales and cargoes awaiting sale. Liverpool reports bread stuffs firm with good demand, various grades of wheat and corn quoted, prizes listed. Manchester notes cloths steady and yarns quiet with little demand.

London I Beerbohm California Mark Lane Paris Liverpool Manchester

Wholesale house failures cascade from Lafayette to Galveston

The sheriff took possession of J. B. Falley & Co in Lafayette after judgments for about 16000. Failures and assignments followed across the country including Boston Detroit New York and Galveston. Blackie & Co of Galveston a major wholesale house owed 750000, mostly outside Texas, with local creditors secured.

J. B. Falley & Co Lafayette Ind Falley & Hoes Ss. G. Wreeger New Orleans King Bros Manchester N. H Chadbourne Chadbourne, Johonnot & Co Boston J. M. Grant Wellesley Hills George H. Menderson Newburyport Bailey & Co Harpwell W. W. Hargraves Wilson N. C L. Haskins Toledo A. M. Briggs Herkimer N. Y A. Robitschek Tiltonville N.Y J. Will Dick Jefferson L., W. Werthan Eustis Fla Philip Bossert Brooklyn J. W. Conklin Boots Cully Branning & Woods St. John N. B Alverson Poughkeepsie G. M. Douglass Miller Madrid New York City

Second Grand Ball of Ninth Regiment M V M Held at Odd Fellows Hall

The non commissioned officers of the Ninth Regiment M V M held a second grand ball last night at Odd Fellows Hall. About four hundred couples attended including many line and staff officers. The hall featured floral decorations bunting and smart attire with Kratts orchestra furnishing music.

Odd Fellows’ Hall Kratt

New Athletic Club Forms with Broad Boston Interest

Between two and three hundred gentlemen attended the armory of the Boston Cadets to launch a new athletic association. Henry Parkman was elected chairman and C. P. Curtis Jr. secretary. A fifteen member committee was formed to draft a constitution, locate a club site, and raise funds, with reports due after an adjourned meeting.

New Athletic Association The Boston Cadets Lieutenant Heaton Henry Parkman C. P. Curtis, Jr Parkman Lawrence Tucker Laurence Tucker Carter Fenno WG Ee Cabot Colonel Edmunds Arthur Hunnewell John B. O'Reilly A. T P. Martin F. L. Higginson E. R. Morse R. F. Clark Thomas Nelson William Appleton J. Oakes Shaw Mathew Luce C. P. Curtis Juv Dudley L. Pickman H. G. Otis M. H. Richardson George Beales

BOOT AND SHOE BUYERS IN TOWN IN ATHENS GA AREA

A list of boot and shoe buyers and firms from various cities is presented, naming Meyers of Meyers & Co Athens GA, Kohler in Augusta GA, Morris in Baltimore MD, Putzel in Cincinnati OH, Laws in Columbia SC, McCreery in Chicago IL, Gore in Yonkers NY, Kreisman in Chicago IL, Holmes in Cincinnati OH, Daum in Evansville IN, Marker in Eldorado KS, Abeles in Craw Fort Worth TX, H Lewis in Independence KS, Stich in Pittsburgh PA, Powell in Martin's Ferry OH, Hull in Mansfield OH, Keiser in Craw, Morse in Natchez MS, Frank in Newton NJ, Root in Plattsburg NY, and many others across the country.

Athens M Meyers M Meyers & Co Augusta Independence Kan Ads St Louis J H Shaffer Shaffer, Swarts & Co C Walker Tennent, Walker Tre San Antonio Tex

Train Schedules for Old Colony Lines to New York and Coast

The notice lists weekday and Sunday train times from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and numerous local stops including Ashmont Hyannis Barnstable Brockton and Wellfleet with return times and connections. It notes boat train arrivals from New York and Fall River, with details of summer and weekly routing under J R S Endrick General Manager.

New Fall River York Boston Old Colony New York Brooklyn Jersey City Old State House J. R. Kendrick L. H. Palmer Ashmont Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Braintree Bridgewater Brockton Wareham Cape Cod Provincetown Wellfleet Cohasset and Hingham Cohasset Hingham Cottage City New _Bedford Bedford Abington Milton West Quincy East Milton East Weymouth Weymouth Taunton Harrison Square Pat. Marshfield Return Mattapan Neponset Mattapoisett Middleboro Nantucket Woods Hall Newport North Easton Stoughton Randolph North Easton Stoughton Plymouth Va. Duxbury Duxbury Quincy Scituante North Scituate Scituate Sea View Shawmut Nreep Ey South Wey Savweses Ny Rey Whitman Broceston Wollaston Heights Orsno Wood’s Bell the Weymouths South Braintree Way Statons Koron J. R. S&s Endrick

Boston and New England Train Schedules January 3 1887

Corrected timetable listing Boston to Worcester, Norwood, Concord and coastal routes with daily and Sunday departures. Notes include intermediate stops, return times, branches via Saugus and South Reading, and Pullman car service for Portland and Bangor trains. James T. Furber and D. J. Flanders sign as General Manager and General Passenger Agent.

RFORP Saugus Workingman’s South Reading Boston Ay Market Square City Washington Street Portland Bangor James T. Furber D. J. Flanders Genera Rutland Burlington St. Albans Ottawa Montreal Ogdensburg C. A FAXON

Horsford's Acid Phosphate for Indigestion

Dr George W Hall of St Louis reports taking Horsford's Acid Phosphate for indigestion and finding it of decided advantage. The quotation notes personal benefit from the remedy.

Horsford Gro. W. Hall St. Louis

Through Trains On Both Divisions From Boston And Maine

Boston and Maine announces through trains on both divisions with departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Bangor St John Halifax Calais Eastport Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland and connections via steamer from Portland. Regular morning and afternoon services listed for Maine Central Grand Trunk and other lines.

Central Vermont Rutland Montreal Ottawa Ogdensburg Fitchburg Depot Causeway Street Boston Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keena Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Burlington St. Albans St. Johns Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company A. M Cheshire R. R White River Junction Central Vermont Points West M.hire & Monadnock Augusta Haymarket Sq Causeway St Bangor St. John Halifax Provinces Eastport Calais N. S Portland Lewiston Manchester Concord SN. H Haymarket Square North Conway Maine Central Grand Trunk Kunex Lincoln Railways Causeway Strea Statio

Trains Schedule From Boston Area to Numerous Stops

Train times listed from Boston stations to Andover Exeter Haverhill Melrose Malden Reading Salem Wilmington and more with morning afternoon and evening departures. Several lines include return segments and dining or workday service noted as a workingmen's train.

Boston Station Haymarket Square Alton Gay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover Anver Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Georgetown South Lawrence Lowell Malden Melrose Highlands Stoneham Mergimae Salem Akefield Wilmington bWorkingmen Lawrence Medford Portland Bangors Levwiston Reading and Way

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