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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 05, 1887

Page

7

Watertown Union Live Stock Market Report 1887

Weekly live stock data from Watertown Union reported by George J. Fox for the Boston Post. Totals show cattle sheep hogs and drives by state with prices for beef, store cattle, sheep, hides and tallow, plus car counts on Boston & Lowell Fitchburg Eastern.

Watertown Union Live Boston Post George J. Fox Sheen Iiston Saeed Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts New York Boston & Lowell Fitchburg Eastern Brighton N. B Boston & Albany

Markets by Telegraph a Wide Ledger of Prices Map

A synthesis of Jan 4 market reports across New York Toledo Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cincinnati St Louis and Minneapolis showing flour and grain receipts exports and steady to firmer or weaker prices for wheat corn oats rye barley and related goods. Currency and commodity quotes include No 2 spring red No 2 red etc with varied bid ranges and freight notes.

New York Minnesota City Southern Alice Rio United Tierces Western Steam Tierces City Steam Liverpool Toledo Chicago Milwaukee Deroit Mich Michigan Cincinnati Louis Minneapolis

Hog and Cattle Markets Across Major Cities

Kansas City hogs steady with packer sales around 440 to 450. St Louis hogs weaker with Yorkers 430 to 450 and packers 440 to 460. Chicago cattle receipts about 8,000 with shipping steers 3 50 to 4 50 and various stocker classes. hogs total 35,040 receipts and 7,000 shipments with prices 4 60 to 4 95. sheep receipts 5,000 with 2,000 shipments.

Kansas City ST. Louis Texas

Cotton Markets Report Prices and Stocks Across Ports

Jan 4 market summary shows receipts and shipments by port with firm or quiet tone. Major ports include New Orleans and Savannah with exports to France and Great Britain, while inventories rise at Charleston and Philadelphia with steady mid to high prices.

Augusta Galveston Continent New Orleans France Mobile Great Britain Coastwise Memphis Savannah Great Britian Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St. Louis United States

Foreign Markets Report From London and Europe

London and European grain markets show wheat firm with limited demand and quiet or higher prices in various ports. Rates for wheat and corn rise or hold, with Liverpool and London quotes, shipments from Bombay and Calcutta noted, and Paris and Antwerp also reported on January prices.

London Beerbohm Paris Liverpool California Michigan United Kingdom Antwerp Bombay Calcutta Kerradu

Exports and imports listing from Londons docks 1887

A dense trade item listing ships and consignments arriving and leaving London with items such as wool hides tea indigo waste paper jute yarn leather and steel billets. The record names firms banks and merchants including Baring Brothers Gilroy Son Knapp Milliken Moody Moors Tully Webber and Union Bridge co with quantities like 347 bales wool 100 buffalo hides 56 do raw hides and 972 steel billets.

Alberton Pei London Eng John S. Bradford Bank of British North America Bower & Bartlett Baring Bros & Co Gilroy, Son & Co Union Bridge Co Norris & Co Norway Steel and Iron Co

Exports Ledger From Jan 4 1837 London Barbados and More

Export list from London Barbadoes Yarmouth and Antwerp Hamburg via Halifax records cargoes and quantities of goods. Includes leather, oil, cheese, fish, crates, bales, crates of oranges, lard, beef and dairy products, timber, hardware, and textiles with vessel names and tonnage.

London Eng Mareca Barbadoes Bwi Yarmouth Dominion Antwerp Hamburg Halifax Baumwall

Merchandise Receipts Across Rail Lines in 1887

A ledger style report details January 4 1887 receipts for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Flitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Boston & Lowell and Boston & Maine entries. Items include flour oatmeal corn oats malt millfeed pork lard butter cheese bacon tea coffee molasses and leather stock assorted by railroad and quantity.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Flitchburg Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division Boston & Lowell Railroad

Inland and coastal cargo tally of cotton, provisions and hides

A mixed ledger lists freight cargoes by route with quantities in bush1 els bales bbls rolls and hides. Items include grease butter eggs beans hay lumber leather dry hides pelts and molasses ordered by Express and By Sea with totals for each category and destination Begen and multiple freight units like rolls bdls and cases.

By Express

Real Estate Transfers Across Marblehead and Adjacent Towns

A compilation of December real estate transfers listing buyers, sellers, property sites such as Marion Gloucester and Pleasant streets, and prices including parcels on Atlantic, Wharf and Temple places. Several transactions involve mortgage details and transfers to corporations or executors, with notable sums and parcel sizes noted.

Mortgage Transfers on Dorchester and Nearby Streets

A list of December mortgage transfers in South Boston and adjacent areas includes Leander E. H. Jones to South Boston Savings Bank for land on Dorchester Avenue worth 600 dollars and Eliza A. Edmunds to Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company for land on Warren Street valued at 8000 dollars. Other deeds cover Boylston Street, Washington Street, Notre Dame Street, State Street and Revere Street with amounts ranging from 600 to 42 100 dollars.

Marion Street James H. Stark Henry Pegler Gloucester Street Hannah G. Sears Mary M. Sears Kimball Street William Sherburne Otis H Atlantic Avenue Oliver Ditson Et al Francis Hatheway Rebecca A. Amory Temple Place Dorchester Alonzo N. Burbank City of Boston Erie Street Rox Boury James H. Hurst Lewis S. Conant Glen Hill Avenue Georgia Avenue Eben F. Brown Thomas Keck West Cottage Street William A. Fairbairn James Devine Heath Street West Roxpury John E. Blakemore James Henry Finch Brook Street Frederick E. Weber South Boston Hiram Emery James A. Roberts Fourth Street Revere James Campbell Charles Fifield Shirley Avenue Winthrop Samuel G. Irwin Charles D. Brown Atlantic Street Mary A. Bisbee Harriet Bartlett John B. Tewkesbury Plummer Street David B. Burnham Mary L. Hull Pleasant Street Boston, Winthrop & Shore Railroad Company Leander E. H. Jones South Warren Street Jessie K. Hiscock Howard Colburn Washington Street Robert G. Soderberg Homestead Cooperative Bank Notre Dame Street Alfred A. Marcus Warren Institution For Savings State Street John C. Murphy Workingmen'’s Cooperative Bank Mand East Second Street John J. McNamara West Roxbury Arnold A. Rand John Tobias Roxbury Institution For Savings Revere Street

Boston and Lowell R R Through and Local Service Guide

Boston station at Causeway Street lists through service from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal and more with multiple daily departures. Local and branch connections include Claremont White Mountain Northern divisions with Pullman sleeping and parlor cars to Montreal and schedules for Nashua Peterboro Keene Concord and other points.

Boston & Lowell Railroad Boston Causeway Street Washington Street Old State House Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Pranklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Exsex Unction Burlington St. Albans Montreal Warren Haverhill Woodswire St. Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Bristol Claremont White Mountain Northern Division Pullman Central Vermont R.R Passumpsie R.R Rutland Ottawa Ogdensburg Fitchburg Depot Winehendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls St. Johns Saratoga Delaware & Fruction Canal Company Accomo Pullman Palace St. Athane C.A. Faxon

Unclear OCR timetable data with multiple times and locations

Fragmented timetable notes list varied times and labels such as am pm sundays ret pa and place names like Billerica and Lowell. The readable items show repeated daily or Sunday slots, prices and initials, but no coherent event or schedule.

Time table snippets show schedules and stops across multiple lines

The page lists numerous train times and stops including Nashua Bedford and Wilmington with morning and evening departures. It names figures like MELLEN as General Superintendent and shows detailed times across weekdays and Sundays.

Webu Fey Mass Ford SUN SUN. Au Bedford Nashua

Boston and Albany Railroad Timetable Highlights

Boston and Albany timetable details show train departures to Springfield Albany and New York with multiple daily options. It lists local and express services, sleeping car availability, and station offices for ticketing and inquiries. Lucius TuttIe, General Passenger Agent, notes full local information at stations.

U. Ie Sun Lucius Tuttle Pass’g’r

Boston Central Pete RR timetable excerpt shows trains

Central Pete RR schedules list departures and arrivals for multiple stops including Boston, Worcester, Belmont, Waltham and Belmont. notes express and local services, special stations, and connections. It documents daily and Sunday times, with some outdated spellings and partial lines.

Fitchburg Railroad Time Tables and Daily Services

Train schedules list daily and Sunday services from Boston to Albany Chicago and St. Louis with Pullman sleeping cars. Details include departure times from Boston, connections via West Shore R R, and return times to Boston. Regional stops include Marlboro Fayville Southboro Northboro Berlin West Berlin and Newton Lower Falls with Sunday patterns and ticket office notice.

Marlboro Fayville Lavy Southboro Northboro Clin Leomister Fitchburg Berlin West Berlin Boston Pratt’ Junction MAID Newton Lower Falls Wellesley Hills Worcester Brookline Washington Street A.S. Hanson H. T. Gally

Boston to Ashcroft and coastal towns train timetable 1887

Corrected January 3 1887 timetable lists weekday departures from Boston Station for Ashcroft Dorchester Danbury New York Norwich and many coastal towns with varied morning and afternoon runs. Sunday and special services noted. includes Woonsocket division and connections to Brockton Taunton Cohasset Weymouth Fall River New Bedford and Providence with return times and exceptions.

Boston Station Sumner Street Ashcroft Baltimore Bird Street kOe M. Dorchester Scituate North Scituate Sea View Shawmut South Duxbury Taunton Central Station Dean Street Whitman South Weymouth via_ Brockton Wood’s Hall Cohasset Mingsham Weymouths Hingham Fall River Brockton Sewport South Braintree Way Statons C¢ Oron New York Oron Boston J. R. Kendrick

Rail Lines and Schedules for New England Trains

Train listings describe six daily routes to New York Philadelphia and Washington with through Pullman cars from Boston to New York and connections to Hartford New Britain Waterbury and Willimantic. Services include dining and parlor cars, steamer connections, and depot offices at Washington Street and Summer Street.

New York Middletown New Haven Pullman Boston Hartford New Bitain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudson NEW England Limited S. J M Air Line Grand Central Depot New Britain Willimantic Phaladelpiria J Press Jersey City Trenton Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Richmond Norwich Line New London Norwich Danielsonville Putnam City OF Worcester City OF New York Washington Street Summer Street W.H. Turner

Boston and Providence Train Schedules in 1886

The notice lists numerous daily Boston to New York and Providence train times effective September 6 1886 with departures from Boston to multiple routes and extensive return times. It details Shore Line routes Steamboat Line and various local stops including Attleboro Canton Brookline and Dedham along with weekday and Sunday variations and special notes on Mansfield transfers and delays.

Boston New York Shore Line Shore Lne Mail Steamboat Stonington Line Providence Paws Tucket Dodgeville Hebronville Attleboro Meturn North Attleboro Anse Field East Foxboro Sharon Canton Dunction Hyde Park Bill. Hove Clarendon Hills Forest Hills Boylston Bury Haan Spring Street West Roxbury and Highland Stoughton Canton Mt. Hope Warren Isvistol Mansfield Manfield

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