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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1888
Page
7
The notice shows prices for wide coarse boards at 13 dollars, planed narrow coarse boards at 11.50, planed wide coarse boards at 18, rough coarse shippers at 18.50, and Vermont spruce 12 ft planed and trimmed at 14 dollars.
A detailed catalog of canned goods and dried fruits with prices per dozen or pound. Items include apples, apricots, beans, peaches, salmon, tomatoes, pears, cherries, raisins, and imports from domestic and foreign sources with varied can sizes and price points.
Market report shows improved flour conditions and firm demand from jobbing trade. Freight rates rose to 65 cents per barrel effective Jan 2. Pillsbury flour sales reported at 8 to 10 thousand barrels. Columbia Mills about 2,500 barrels. Corn and oats tradable with higher spot and futures activity. Prices listed for flour types, corn meal, oats, barley, rye, and millfeed. specific bid and ask ranges noted for No 2 white oats and steamer yellow corn.
The butter market is steady with firm tone and small receipts of Western creamery butter. eggs remain very quiet with choice fresh plentiful and slow sales. Prices for butter, cheese, and eggs are steady or slightly changed, including higher Liverpool prices and strong old quotations for beans.
Market notes show eggs and turkeys with varied rates, plus beans, seeds, hay, and potatoes. Included are prices for Western and Northern fowl, grouse, quail, ducks, geese, rabbits, and vegetables like peas, corn, potatoes, and cabbage with regional deltas and jobbing ranges.
The apple market remains quiet with Baldwins at 2 250 per barrel and exports from Boston totaling 9835 barrels last week. Prices in Liverpool and Newtowns are listed, with cranberries firm and Florida oranges about stable. Imports include Messina and Palermo citrus, various nuts and dried apples showing little change.
The pork market remains largely unchanged with quiet trade and firm prices for fat and lard. Fresh beef shows slight improvements with firmer producers, strong demand for good hinds, and fair demand for other lots. Lambs firm at 10 cents. mutton and veals mixed in softness. extensive pork, beef, and fresh meat price listings follow with varying cuts and package sizes.
Allan Asher & Co report a slow cotton certificate market with few strong bids. Prices eased eight to nine points as demand lagged, later showing only partial recovery after unloads. New York futures opened steady and Liverpool future markets closed firm with steady spot values around 109 to 109 1 16 cents for Upland and lower quotations elsewhere.
Net receipts and gross figures for New York Philadelphia Cincinnati St Louis and other ports show varied results with some markets steady while others dull. Exports to France and Britain rise alongside continental shipments, stocks remain high across United States ports, and overall four day totals sum to 87 407 net receipts 30 274 to France 1549 to Britain 39 274 to Britain 1649 to the continent 12 944 and 1 047 096 stock.
The market for raw sugar remains quiet with prices steady. Refined sugar stays firm with granulated at 7 cents, pulverized and standard brands listed, and grocers noting granulated around 7.44 cents. Molasses and related commodities show small listed prices and regional references.
Foreign markets from London and Liverpool show wheat quiet to firm with steady demand and new cargo arrivals. California and Chilian wheats quoted at various shillings. corn firmer in Western markets. Paris flour and Antwerp wheat reported unchanged. Shipping receipts noted and prices listed for several wheat qualities and provisions.
Reports from New York Chicago St Louis Minneapolis Toledo Cincinnati Detroit detail flour and grain receipts exports and sales. Prices move with No 2 spring and red wheat, various corn and oats figures, and rail side notes on pork lard butter and whiskey amidst steady to lower trends.
Hogs firmer in Kansas City with 6000 receipts and 740 shipments. St Louis notes higher hogs with mixed packers at 6 25 to 6 75. Chicago reports strong cattle with fancy prices up to 60 60 and heavy hogs around 6 70. Sheck market shows slow but steady fat lambs and varied sheep and lamb prices across regions.
The cargo lists steel billets ingots bags beans rags meats arms steel bars and related goods from firms including Naylor Gil Codman Hal Norway Steel and Iron. The Antwerp port entry notes quantities and consignments from multiple firms on January 3, 1888.
A long list details shipments and cargoes from Klipstein to Lovell and many others. Items include steel billets and bars, flax bales, glass, wine, arms, spices, pig iron, oils, mdse, and vast quantities of potatoes, oranges, and tobacco shipped via Charlottetown and Liverpool with numerous firms such as Norway Steel and Iron Co., Brown Shipley, Drexel Morgan, and Baring Bros listed among consignors and agents.
On January 3 1888 the Advocate of Nova Scotia lists Schooner Hale Todd with flour and cornmeal cargoes. Kensett carrying multiple goods including sugar molasses and rope. On Time laden with flour meal and kerosene. Yarmouth and Liverpool shipments noted with varied cargoes from flour to hardware and furniture. Dominion steamer at Yarmouth lists rubber goods and groceries.
Receipts list for Simple Products showing figures for cotton bales molasses wool butter flour oleo cornmeal cheese eggs apples and other items. Totals include 1888 and 1887 columns with quantities across bags barrels bushels cases boxes and pounds. The document records quantities by product, currency not indicated.
A dated ledger lists January 8 1888 receipts for Boston and Albany Grand Junction Old Colony New England and other lines. Entries cover cotton wool flour oats malt feed meal sugar beans apples lumber leather bacon tallow eggs and more in hundreds of bales barrels boxes and sacks with numerous quantities and vehicle counts.
Railroads Boston and Maine announces through train times for Augusta Portland Lewiston Manchester North Andover and other destinations with service from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. Steamer connections listed for Eastport Calais Saint John and Bar Harbor routes. Daily and multiple weekly departures detailed.
Extensive February timetable lists half hourly departures from Boston stations to Alten Bay Rochester Farming and many New England towns. Sunday trains run from Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford and others with varied morning and evening slots.
Eastern Division lists Stations on Work Harbor and Beacan Harbor lines with numerous daily and Sunday departure times from Boston. Stops include Amesbury Chelsea Marblehead Swampscott Rockport Salem and Portsmouth with times across morning and afternoon slots. notes on branches and passenger services follow.
TheHoosac Tunnel timetable lists trains from Boston Causeway Street to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and the West with multiple daily departures and express options to Chicago via Niagara Falls, plus special Sunday and regional services to Belmont Waverley Brattleboro Cambridge Concord Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield and other points. It includes various sleeping car services and durations such as 6.30 am 8.80 Ex and 11.35 am 3 pm departures, with notes on routes via Niagara Falls Wabash and Erie Boston Lines.
On and after Monday May 30 trains run from Boston to New York and to Providence with various departures and returns noted. Services include the Shore Line Fast Express at 10 pm and Shore Line Mail at 11 pm from Boston to New York, plus numerous loops to East Foxboro Sharon Readville Canton Stoughton and other points with return times and weekday variations. Superintendent A. Folsom provides the timetable details.
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany line detail departures to Springfield, Pittsfield, Albany, and the West from Boston stations and Washington Street office. Express and sleeping car services to New York are listed with multiple daily trains and connections at Pittsfield, Chatham, Palmer, and Worcester. Sunday schedules vary with limited runs and return options. notes include specific stations and agents.
DWV in L. H. Palmer agency at 3 Old State House area reported. Alert issued for inspection and potential claims affecting operations and property, with official follow up expected from local authorities.
Old Colony Special Notice lists baggage check availability for passengers traveling from hotels or residences to Boston destinations. Effective Jan 2 1888 weekday trains depart Boston for New York Fall River Line at 6 p.m. with return at 4:80 p.m. Includes extensive schedule details for Ashmont, Barnstable, Hyannis, Brockton and others, with multiple outbound and return times and notes on connections via Taunton and New Bedford. G. L. Connor and J. R. Kendrick as general agents listed.
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