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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1887
Page
7
Market summaries show varied conditions with reference to Cape Cod items. Prices listed include seven dollars and nine dollars indicating limited demand and mixed quality grades described as fair to good. Specific entities or dates are unclear from the fragment.
Boston port exports for February weeks show beef lard and pork prices steady with ample supply. Veals scarce, lambs dull, mutton steady. fresh meats vary by cut with quoted ranges for beef, pork, and hams across city markets from Boston and Western sources.
Futures opened quiet then closed steady with various bid and asked levels across months from February to October. Spot markets in Liverpool and New York showed quiet, unchanged or slight activity with noted bales, receipts, and bases. Prices for sugar and oil products were listed with steady tendencies and range quotes for refined and raw sugars, molasses terms, and gasoline certificates details.
Live stock arrivals across barns and yards with cattle and sheep totals, state-by-state breakdown, and car movements. Prices listed for market beef, store cattle, sheep, lambs, hides, tallow and skins. Notable entries include Western hogs and several milch cows sold at varied prices, with multiple buyers and yard notes from Boston area dealers and firms.
The report details cattle and sheep movements across New Hampshire Vermont Maine and Massachusetts, noting shipments to Liverpool, Western buyers, and local sales. It cites prices per pound, weights, and totals, with market sentiment improving for sheep and lambs while cattle face varied demand and storm-related shipping losses.
New York Feb 16. Flour receipts 18 196 barrels and sacks exports 1141 barrels 56 076 sacks dull sales 12 500 barrels common to good extra Western and State 3 20 8 60 good to choice do 3 65 5 20 common to choice white wheat Western extra 4 75 4 90 fancy do 5 5 20 common to good extra Ohio 3 20 a 5 10 patent Minnesota extra goods to prime 4 60 4 85 choice to double extra 4 90 5 20 others unchanged including 1400 barrels city mill extra 460 465 750 bbls fine 2 30 315 600 bbls superfine 2 70 8 30 650 bbls extra No 2 3 20 3 60 4100 bbls winter wheat extra 8 20 5 20 5100 bbls Minnesota extra 3 20 5 20 Southern quiet Rye flour steady Corneal steady Wheat Receipts 24 200 bush exports 138 939 bush
Kansas City hogs firm with prices at 6.20 for very good quality and 8,000 receipts expected today. St Louis hogs steady with Yorkers up to 5.10. Peoria 4.75 to 5.65. Chicago cattle and hogs show firm to higher values. cattle receipts 8,000, hogs 22,000 with mix and packing ranges given, plus sheep and lambs priced from 3.50 to 4.90 for natives and Westerns.
Cotton market summary dated February 16 1887 covering Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville ports. Includes net receipts gross exports stock and closing mid prices for each port with notes quiet steady firm or dull.
Imports and exports show on February 16, 1887 from Grand Manan New Brunswick that Sch Mizpah orders 11 325 boxes of herring.
Receipts dated February 16, 1887 list extensive cargo for Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Iedenen, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine divisions, and Boston and Lowell railroads. Cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, wheat, barley, meal, beef, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, tea, coffee, lard, tallow, hams, hides, leather, bones, and various sacks, bales, and crates appear per railroad and yard totals. Strong entities include railroads, cargos, and quantities. numerous items per line indicate nationwide freight activity.
London and Liverpool market notices show wheat and corn prices steady to firm across futures and spot, with English and foreign grains quoted. Parisians and wool sales details accompany global price movements, noting frosty English weather and substantial ship cargoes to the United Kingdom totaling millions of quarters.
Boston City Treasurer invites sealed proposals by Feb 19 1887 for the 500000 Public Park Construction Loan. Bonds issued in 1000 increments, terms thirty or fifty years, interest 3 1/2 percent semiannual, secured by sinking fund. Proposals open in Mayor's office Feb 19 with right to reject. Also notices sealed Feb 23 for four letter carrier cases for building.
J. W. Hobart general manager and S. W. Cummings general passenger agent headquartered in St. Albans Vermont dated August 29 1885.
Train departures from Boston via Causeway Street update on Monday November 16 1886. Morning service to West via Pullman sleeping cars to Albany and Chicago, plus daily express to Chicago and St Louis with New York Central sleeping cars, and additional express and Adirondack routes with partial sleeping car accommodations.
Weekday and Sunday train schedules from Boston to South Shore points via Fall River Line. Listings include Ashmont, Hyannis, Barnstable, Barnstable, Ware River crossings, with varied departure times 4:30 PM to 10:54 PM and returns through late evening. Numerous towns and connections noted. instructions for special days and sections indicate complex intercity links and seasonal adjustments.
Train times listed for various stations including Way Stations Hudson Rockbottom Wayland Weston Belmont Waverly and Waltham with express and pm windows. Names Mellen and Storer appear as officials. The text reads as an OCR fragment detailing departures and schedules with times such as 4:45 pm and 6:05 pm.
Boston and Maine announces limited through trains on both divisions with multiple departures from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. Services connect Augusta Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland Eastport Calais and St John Nova Scotia with schedules on Monday Wednesday and Friday for some routes and varying times for others.
Train times listed for Boston to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington and for many stops including Andover Dover Exeter Great Falls Maverill Kenne bunk Biddeford Saco Lawrence North Lawrence Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield Wilmington and more with frequent departures and returns throughout the day, plus late evening services and a separate Workingmen's train.
Boston station timetable lists hourly and semi hourly trains to Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Ipswich Lynn Salem Rockport Gloucester Portmouth Revere Swampscott and other stops with Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. General Manager James T. Furber and D J Flanders endorse complex schedule across Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine routes.
A detailed timetable outlines mixed rail arrivals and departures from Boston to New York Providence and surrounding towns. It lists Shore Line Fast Express and Mail services, Steamboat lines, and numerous local connections with varied frequencies, Sundays notes, and return times ending with instructions for Mansfield waits and Shore Line detentions. A. A. Folsom, Supt.
NEW via FALL RIVER LINE YORK are ONLY $3 Leave Boston from Old Colony Station daily Sundays excepted at m by Special Express Train connecting with steamers at Fall River in 80 minutes. Annex steamers connect at wharf in New York for Brooklyn and Jersey City. Tickets State rooms and Berths at No 3 Old State House and Old Colony Station. J. R. Kendrick L. H. Palmer General Manager Agent 3 Old State House.
A Boston libel for divorce from Flora Henrietta Wemple, desertion since 1881, requests decree. Notice ordered by the Supreme Judicial Court Suffolk, Boston, with publication in the Boston Post three weeks, last on day sixty before April fourth. George Washington Wemple, petitioner, cites prior marriage in Saint Paul Minnesota and residency in Boston.
The document opens with a formal address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Middle County from a petitioner seeking relief. The language cites jurisdiction and requests consideration or a specific remedy, outlining the procedural posture and authority invoked in the matter.
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