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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1887
Page
7
A dense listing of prices for hams, corned beef, smoked ribs, bacon, pressed hams, city and country dressed hogs, beef cuts, tongues, and various fresh meats. Includes small-quantity bids for near by lots and Western at market, with steers, lambs, mutton, veal priced per pound and per hundredweight.
Liverpool cotton futures opened firm then quiet with varied February to August bids. Spot U S prices mixed for mid uplands and Orleans while New York spot closed quiet across grades. Exports rose to 101573 bales last week. sugar remains firm with refined and raw prices listed and molasses steady for cargo lots.
The Boston Post correspondence shows week ending Feb 25 1887 with 576 cars over major roads. Prices list beef store cattle hogs sheep hides and more with notes on market direction western cattle upper New England supply and recent sales at Brighton and Watertown yards.
A detailed listing shows pairs of working oxen and steers sold at various weights and prices, including Devon and Durham cattle on the Eastern train. New milch cows and springers brought mixed sales, with calves, droves, and export notes across Watertown and Brighton yards.
In New York on February 23 flour receipts and sales rose with in vast totals, Minnesota extra and winter wheat quotes shifting. Wheat futures show mixed pricing while corn and oats move. Southern cash flour steady, pork and lard prices firm or lower, and mixed bread and biscuit markets hold steady into the day with cornmeal and rye flour listed. Local St Louis markers follow with quiet flour, active unsettled wheat, and higher provisions lifting pork and bacon prices.
A 1887 timetable lists weekday train departures from Boston via Fall River Line with multiple lines to Ashmont and surrounding towns. It includes return times, routes to Hyannis Barnstable Yarmouth Sandwich Provincetown Cohasset Hingham Cape Cod division and numerous stops such as Brockton New Bedford Quincy Barnstable Milton Nantucket and Plymouth with varied morning and afternoon slots.
Train schedule listing Sunday departures from Cohasset Hingham and Weymouth areas with return times to Cohasset Hingham Fall River Newport and South Braintree plus notes on connections and days, directed by J. R. Kendrick, General Manager.
Reports show mixed grain activity with wheat receipts rising in Chicago and Toledo while flour holds steady in bulk markets. Corn weak to steady across cities. oats and barley mixed. pork and lard prices firm to weaker. whiskey steady at 118 in Cincinnati with steady shipments and receipts across the plains.
Hogs active with steady quotes in St Louis at 6.20 to 6.35 for Yorkers and 4.60 to 7.0 for butchers. Kansas City reports 5.25 to 6.35, Peoria 4.86 to 5.75, Chicago cattle weak with steers 6.0 to 10.0, stockers 2.65 to 3.90, cows 2.3 to 6.0, hogs 4.80 to 6.60, ships 3.50 to 4.70. sheep slow with natives 2.50 to 4.90 and lambs 4.50 to 4.0.
Cotton market summary for major ports including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile and Philadelphia. Reports list net receipts gross sales stock and price midpoints with notes on firmness quiet dull or steady conditions at each port. Consolidated totals show five day receipts exports and national stock levels.
London reports cargoes off coast and light demand for wheat with some quiet markets in Paris and Antwerp. Liverpool shows brisk breadstuffs trade and firmer lard while Manchester notes overall market quiet with steady yarns and cloth demand. Sugar in Havana remains quiet with modest sales.
Listing of ships and cargoes including Brig Diadem with 198 birds sugar, Swi Ocean Star with 500 barrels herring, Bark Sarah 90 tons scrap, and assorted orders and merchandise handled by Delong & Seaman, E A Adams & Co, John S Emery, Stimson Hadley & Co for New York at Fayal and St Jacques NF.
Detailed export list from St Pierre and Lisbon dated Feb 23 1887 shows shipments of butterine lard beef and beans among others to various ports including Lisbon and Liverpool. The record also lists steamer movements and quantities of commodities such as flour oil and hardware along with ship cargoes and origins.
An itemized record lists various commodities with quantities including bacon beef lard cheese oil paper tin plates bales sacks and fertilizer among others. Locations include New Brunswick and Saint Andrew with numerous units such as cases tierces pails and firkins.
Summary of freight receipts across multiple rail lines on February 23 1887 listing quantities of cotton wool flour cornmeal oats malt millfeed tallow lard bacon butter cheese eggs beans apples potatoes hay and lumber by Boston Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine regions and divisions includingEastern Western and Western divisions with numerous cars bales bags cases rolls hides and leather totals across lines and destinations.
Boston routes to Albany Chicago and St Louis with Pullman sleeping cars. Includes express trains for Troy, Ayer Worcester Clinton Oakdale and Worcester. Local stops list stations from Framingham Lowell to Union Square and Island Pond with varied departure times. Suburban and subsidiary lines show assorted daily and Sunday services.
The notice lists September 6 1886 train departures and returns for Boston to New York Providence Pawtucket Attleboro Mansfield and many other stops. It notes daily Shore Line Fast Express times and seasonal variations with Sundays exceptions and late evening returns. The document includes numerous times for multiple towns and mentions connections with the Shore Line and Mansfield detentions.
Boston and Lowell timetable lists through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Burlington St Albans Montreal and more with 8 30 AM departures and 7 PM land arrivals. Local services include Manchester Concord Keene Nashua and other towns with broad weekday Sunday slots and limited branches.
Train times for the Central Massachusetts Railroad from Brockton and Weston Way Stations begin February 21 1887. Express and multiple daily departures list Hudson Rock Bottom Sudbury Weston Belmont Waverley and Waltham service with 9.10 11.50 am 2.45 4 5.05 pm patterns. General Superintendent Mell en signs off with passenger agent details.
Rail schedule lists Augusta Haymarket and Causeway streets trains to multiple destinations including Ban gor St. John Halifax Eastport Calais and Portland with multiple daily departures. Additional services include Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland and Maine Central routes from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations on various lines.
Boston to Amesbury and nearby towns timetable lists departure times from Causeway Street and South Reading branch stations. It includes arrivals to Ipswich Lynn Salem Rockport Gloucester branch lines and notes Workingsman trains on Thursdays and Saturdays with Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. James T. Furber and Dv. J. Flanders signed as general manager and agent respectively.
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