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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1887
Page
7
A fragmented advertisement lists prices and quality for lambs and mutton. Items include choice heavy lambs, Chicago dressed lambs, and eastern mutton with varying quality notes from poor to good. Specific figures appear as 12¢ rounds and 10e to 48e ranges, reflecting regional meat market jargon.
Market report lists fresh fruits and nuts with per unit and per box pricing. Apples from Baldwin Massachusetts and Maine varieties shown. nuts include Virginia peanuts and hickory. dried apples and foreign fruits priced. Florida oranges and Messina lemons listed with box prices. cranberries and Jersey crates also cited.
Liverpool futures opened quiet and closed dull with varied February through October spreads. Spot sales reach 10,000 bales. receipts 28,000 bales, exports and imports show American dominance. New York spot and futures quoted with modest gains. sugar and oil markets also noted with prices and weekly changes. German crop report cites 375,300 ton consumption and 47 million population. field work and harvest timelines outlined.
Nationwide market snapshot with flour, wheat, corn, rye, barley, and pork futures. Reports from New York Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo St Louis and more note price shifts, receipts, exports, and shipper activity across multiple grades and contracts.
An OCR fragment lists grain quantities including 19,000 bush of bush, 1000 bush of rye, and 1000 bush of barley, indicating a summarized stock count.
Kansas City hogs steady at 6 26 5 65 with 8000 receipts and 3152 shipments. Chicago reports cattle and hogs mixed with steady to lower cash ranges, hogs 5 10 to 5 80, cattle 2 50 to 3 90, sheep weaker with natives 3 40 to 4 90. Wholesale activity and regional receipts listed for several markets.
Weekly consolidated cotton figures list net receipts, exports and stocks by port including Augusta New Orleans Galveston Savannah and others. Notable notes include corrected stocks for Philadelphia and New York and a total US port stock of 852 831 with prior year comparisons and far larger inland stocks.
Shipping market notes show wheat and corn trading with slow demand and firm or dull prices across London Liverpool and Paris. Danubian and American corn movement steady while wheat remains quiet. futures ease in later sessions with mixed regional prices and a muted Manchester textile market.
Shipping lists show multiple vessels sailing from Hayti to New York and from LA Have Nova Scotia to London and Hull via New York. Goods include drums codfish flour shorts corn meal oil clothing leather machinery wheat peas bacon provisions beef soap canned beef and other commodities. numerous consignments by ships Lizzie W Matheson Charlotte E C Wetherby Galileo Prussian and Prussian.
Detailed tally of cargo and quantities carried by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Division with bales of cotton wool flour corn meal oats and other staple items dated February 26 1887. Entries list bales cotton wool boxes tubs bags boxes and cases of various goods along with leather hides and pelts across several railroad lines.
Boston and Lowell Railroad announces through service from Boston with routes to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal and more. Local and branch lines detailed with departure times and Pullman parlor and sleeping car notes.
Train times listed for Sunday and weekday connections among Cohasset Hingham Weymouth Fall River Newport and South Braintree routes. Includes arrival and return times with notes on via Taunton Brockton Taunton and boat train connections. General Manager R Kendrick cited.
A fragmented list shows various boot and shoe buyers visiting from multiple cities including Altoona, Augusta, Baltimore, and Cincinnati. Names tied to firms such as J P Dill Boot and Shoe Co and Lester Bros & Co appear among the attendees.
A fragment lists multiple agents from Chicago Cincinnati Charleston Cleveland Columbus Detroit Elmira and other cities with names and firms. It then cryptically notes that an uncovered G O Taylor sour mash whiskey case may be concealed by not branding and suggests mailing orders to Ches ter H Graves & Sons or any wholesale druggist or family grocer in Boston. Un branded cases shipped on request.
The essay notes Dr. Vice President of the American Medical Association discusses the Liquid Raw Road diet from Murdock Liquid Food Company Boston used in about 200 surgical cases. It is beef and mutton in the raw state processed at low temperature with fruits as preservatives. Massachusetts State Inspector reports an analysis in 1885.
An advertisement touts a liquid food with albumen and organic matter claims and cites successes from Connecticut Medical Society reports of 76 operations with only three deaths. It highlights use in Free Hospitals funded by A L Murdock, offers five essays from various cities, and mentions a 150 free beds system and a homeless boys home with 50 beds on Causeway Street.
Boston and Maine timetable lists through trains on both divisions from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations to Augusta Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland and other points. Services include morning, afternoon and evening departures with connections to St John Halifax Bon Portand and Eastport routes on select weekdays.
Train times listed for Western Division service from Boston station to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington plus numerous stops including Andover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Lawrence Malden Medford Melrose Wakefield Wilmington and Portland Bangor Lewiston with multiple daily departures and returns. Some lines note working men trains and Way Stations with varied morning afternoon and evening slots.
Timetable list of train times for multiple towns and branches in Massachusetts New Hampshire Maine and surrounding areas. Dates indicate weekday Thursday and Saturday service along with via branches and city ticket office details. Includes general managers names James T Furber and D J Flanders.
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