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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1887
Page
7
A list shows barley prices for Canada six row varieties from 30c to 78c and 74c for No 2 and 7c for No 8. Malt and hops include State two rowed at 65 to 70c and six rowed at State 75 to 80c, six rowed W at 85 to 95c, P bush. Hops priced at 12c for choice 1885 Eastern and New York with 1886 at 20 to 22c and ordinary to medium at 10 to 18c.
Butter tone firmer with modest demand and small lot sales in Chicago and New York. Prices vary by grade with Western creamery and New York creamery quotes showing strength, while eggs and beans display steady to firm trends. supplies remain ample in some lines, tight for others, with on call bids listed and regional variations in prices.
Market prices for pork and lard tabulated for 1886 7 and 1885 6 show long cuts backs tight backs lean ends and various prepared products with per hundredweight figures. Beef and fresh meat prices follow with regional Wheat Corn Oats and Provisions data from New York St Louis Chicago Cincinnati Toledo Milwaukee reports.
Limited demand for apples with no price improvement. Russets are scarce and mostly of ordinary quality. Florida oranges sell freely at low prices. Prices are a touch firmer while the market is glutted with poor fruit and choice fruit remains scarce.
Market notes show dried apples in moderate demand with best grades firm, peanuts steady, and a small pecan supply. Prices are listed for apples including Baldwin, greening, Tallman sweet, and Northern Spy across Massachusetts and Maine, with nuts such as peanuts, pecans, and hickory priced per 50 pounds and per box. Foreign fruits and Florida oranges appear with various box and per box prices, including Valencia oranges, lemons, and Malaga grapes. Cranberries from Cape Cod and Jersey crates are also priced.
Futures in Liverpool opened quiet and ended dull with various price differentials for the upcoming months. Spot market firm at mid uplands and Orleans at 53-16 6 1 4d per pound. NY spot closed quiet with several grades priced. futures opened steady. Pipeline certificates details, refined oil at 65 cents per gallon. Raw sugar firm with multiple grade quotes. molasses steady with orto Rico at 35 87c and Cuba boiling at 17c.
Peoria reports hogs steady at 4.90 to 4.95 with 5,600 receipts and 150 shipments. Kansas City records hogs easier at 5.00 with 7,000 receipts and 2,442 shipments. St Louis notes hogs at 5.15 to 5.30 with mixed packers at 5.35 to 5.50 and butchers up to 5.60 to 5.65. Chicago shows cattle receipts at 10,000 with slow demand and various price bands. hogs at 5.15 to 5.60 with shipments 8,000. sheep steady to stronger with natives 3.5 to 5.0 and lambs 4.50 to 5.75.
Market summaries show steady or firm tones across ports. Augusta reports net receipts 130 and sales 387. Galveston exports to Britain 3888 and coastwise 3179 with stock 55 308. New Orleans receipts 6806 and stock 357 826 with exports to Britain 600 and the continent 730. Mobile receipts 644 and stock 19 847 with quiet markets. Memphis receipts 1016 and stock 99 032 with sales 6700. Savannah receipts 19338 with stock 70 604 and sales 1000.
Consolidated six day totals show net receipts of 82 260 with exports to Great Britain 42 493 and to the continent 90 88 while stock at all United States ports reaches 873 056. Individual ports report varied figures for receipts gross exports and stocks with mixed market tone from firm to quiet.
List of cargoes and consignments arriving at Glasgow Jacksonville Satilla River Fitchburg Boston Boston and Maine divisions Boston and Lowell Railroads and Boston and Maine Western Division. Entries include bricks fire covers paper stock pig iron dry goods tea lumber oranges hay leather hides wool and various commodities with quantities and consignors.
Shipping cargo entries detail schooners brig and steamer consignments across St John s Halifax Port Elizabeth Port Natal Canning Carthagena Liverpool and Liverpool with flour barrels soap grease paint rubber goods fish hardware nails kerosene oil lumber machinery and farming tools among others. Multiple vessels include Berne Osceola Nellie Coleman Kansas and SeH E B Ketchum among others with quantities noted for each item.
The document itemizes cargo and goods received by the Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony and New York & New England railroads. It lists cotton wool flour corn oats meal meat dairy and other commodities with quantities such as bales bbls tons sacks cases and boxes. The fragmentary ledger shows substantial shipments including hundreds of bales of cotton and thousands of bushels of grain.
London and Liverpool report wheat and corn markets in quiet trading. Wheat prices in Liverpool steady to firm with poor demand. corn dull. Futures in California and American corn mixed with small movements. Antwerp and Paris show slight price moves amid holiday and market inactivity.
A sequence of February 16 to 17 transfers involves Holyoke Tucker Shawmut Concord Hayward and other streets. Transactions include outright land sales mortgaged properties and parcels across Holyoke Charter Shawmut Concord Fenno Mermaid Walker Bunker Hill Middlesex Brighton East Second Greenough Chap man Neponset with prices from 1 to 17000 plus mortgagebacks.
Stillman A Tucker and others mortgage land on Chap man Street Dorchester Feb 16 for 400 dollars. Charles Weltin and others mortgage land and buildings on Clarence Street West Roxbury Feb 17 1800. Thomas B Halli to William B Dexter mortgage land and buildings Bowdoin Street Feb 17 10000 dollars. Alice E Stephens to John C Potter mortgage land Elm iss Avenue Feb 18 5700 dollars. Thomas Gatteld to John G Ditter lot on Mozart Street Roxbury 1252 square feet Feb 17 35.
A long string of names and firms is presented, detailing individuals and companies from cities including Atlanta Augusta Baltimore Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Elmira Greensburg Helena Lexington Louisville Mansfield Marshall Milwaukee New York Oberlin Pine Bluff St Louis Scranton Selma Selma Vicksburg and Washington. The entries pair a person with their associated company or firm, spanning diverse industries and locations.
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany Railroad list departure times to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West from Boston with many express and sleeping car services. Through tickets and station details are available at 232 Washington street Boston and at stations, with Sunday trains for Newton and Brookline. Hanson, Gen Pass Agt.
Supt announces Sept 6 1886 timetable with Shore Line Fast Express and Shore Line Mail departures from Boston to New Work and New York, plus numerous return times to Providence Pawtucket Attleboro Mansfield and regional stops. The document lists departures and returns across towns including Hyde Park Jamaica Plain West Roxbury Stoughton Canton and Mt Hope with notes on late trains and delays.
Corrected January 1887 timetable lists weekday and Sunday departures from Boston to Ashcroft Lake Ploat, Norwood Central, Union Square Somerville, and Woonsocket division with numerous stop details and connecting services. Includes Worcester, Fitchburg, and Taunton branches with various times, special weekend notes, and general manager J. R. Kendrick statements.
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