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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 07, 1887

Page

7

Commodity price rundown for grain and malt products

The note lists prices for bran, winter wheat, middlings, cottonseed, rye, and malt and hops. It shows per ton and per bushel quotes, with New York and Eastern reference points and varied quality grades labeled No 1 to No 8. Prices range from around 39 to 1355 per unit depending on item and grade.

New York Barbey Canada Eastern

Butter and dairy prices hold steady across markets

Butter quotes steady in New York and Chicago with Western creamery prices unchanged. Eggs and cheese show mixed activity with firm butter demand. beans seeds and potatoes list varied regional prices. Poultry steady amid steady demand as farm goods trade remains cautious.

New York Chicago Liverpool Swan Good Eastern Creamery Choice Vermont Creamery Timothy Northern Jersey Maine New Brunswick Houston Vermont Burbanks Virginia Bush St. Andrew Cape Caddo

Fruit prices and varieties report on apples and dried fruits

The listing covers apples by variety with prices per barrel and box, including King, Baldwin, Greening, Tallman, Snows, Northern Spy, and common varieties. It also lists nuts and dried fruits with Virginia peanuts, pecans, hickory, and dried apples, plus foreign and Florida fruits with assorted box and barrel prices. Cranberries and citrus prices for Cape Cod, Messina oranges, and Florida oranges are given with weights and price ranges.

King Hubbardstons Io i Baldwin Northern Spy Virginia Farmer’s Marks Sears Valencia Messina Palermo Malaga Florida Cape Cod

York Markets Show Steady Prices Across Hogs and Beef

The market reports firm prices for dressed hogs and fresh beef with steady demand. Lambs show fair demand while veal and mutton hold unchanged. Recap of exports lists bacon pork and hams, lard, and other meat products across New York Boston Philadelphia New Orleans and Chicago trading, with quoted ranges for pork, lard, and beef products and city dressed hogs noted.

York New Yorke Philadelphia Chicago DR Walan Wee POU Cso Irs Wes Ates

Fresh Beef and Other Fresh Meats Pricing Terms

Fresh beef and other fresh meats listed with varied grades and prices. Includes choice steers and heifers, light to extra heavy cuts, estimates in cents per pound and dozen terms plus lambs mutton and veal pricing across regions and quality ranges.

Chicago Brighton

Cotton and commodities report shows mixed steady markets

Liverpool cotton futures opened firm and closed higher with various January to August spreads. Spot markets in Liverpool and New York marked firm tones. American bale receipts and sales tallied. Pipeline certificates moved with defined bids and lows. Sugar and molasses markets remained firm with specific price ranges for refining, centricugar, and Manila, while refined sugar prices held steady amid wholesale grocer quotes.

Liverpool Mid Uplands Orleans New York Manila Lloilos Belmont Orto Rico Cuba

Markets by Telegraph. Grain and Livestock Reports

New York Jan 6 bumper market news with flour and wheat receipts and prices across city and Midwest. Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati St Louis reports show mixed movement in flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and pork beef and lard prices with receipts and shipments noted. Major firms and regional prices listed for commodities and meats.

Hog and Cattle Markets Report Across Major Cities

Hogs firm at Peoria with prices 380 to 480 and 1000 receipts. Kansas City reports steady hog sales at 440 to 445 with about 7000 expected receipts. St Louis shows higher bids with workers at 425 to 445 and butchers at 495, reflecting active demand across markets.

Peoria Kansas City ST. Louis

Cotton Markets Sees Mixed Receipts Across Ports

Net receipts across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville show varied firm, steady, and dull tones. Consolidated six day total receipts reach 128,663 with coastwise exports and stock levels noted.

Jan. G Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain France Continent Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Coastwise Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St. Louis Louisville Consolidated

Trade Totals Across Nations Highlight Shipping Volumes

The report lists cargo movements to Great Britain 78 505, France 438 698, to the continent 39 956, stock at all United States ports 1 053 147. The figures reflect national import and export activity across multiple routes and port inventories.

Great Britain France Ae Continent United States

Foreign Markets Liverpool Wheat Wheat Prices Jan 6 12:30 pm

Wheat firm amid weak demand with sparse selling. Corn steady with poor demand. Winter wheat 7s 8d 7s 10d. aprin wheat unchanged at 7s 8d 7s 1d. club 7s 10d 7s 1d. Corn mixed Western 4s 74od. peas 53 6d. Pork 62s 6d. bacon 34s 6d short clear 83s 6d long clear. Cheese American 65 3. tallow 24s. lard 35s 9d.

Liverpool

Imports and Exports. January 6 1887 Manila Bark cargoes

The bark James S Stone from Manila reports 4040 bales of hemp for Brown Bros & Co. The bark G M Stanwood from Demerara carries 6128 bags of sugar for Nash Spaulding & Co. The ship Cecilia from Wolfville Nova Scotia brings 3714 bush potatoes for Hatheway & Co.

Manila Brown Bros & Co Demerara

Exports Listing from January 6 1887 in Nova Scotia and Britain

The report details shipments from Metaghan and La Have in Nova Scotia with flour meal kerosene and beef listed. It notes Liverpool steamers Roman and Glasgow steamer Hibernian clearing January 4 and December 31 respectively with vast cargoes including bacon, lard, cattle, cotton, flour, and numerous goods.

Meteghan Audacieux LA Have Dahlia Liverpool Eng Glasgow Scot Hibernian

Staple Goods Receipts Report January Sixth 1887

A detailed itemized record of shipments by multiple railroads and by sea listing quantities of cotton wool flour corn beef pork lard butter eggs coffee sugar tea beans potatoes leather hides skins and other staples. Railroads include Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Boston & Lowell and Boston & Maine Western Division with numerous bale and barrel counts as well as sacks tiers and casks across stations and routes.

Boston & Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division Boston & Lowell Railroad Warnel Dikendescdarese Apts Dager

Real Estate Transfers in Suffolk County Highlights Multiple Property Handoffs

Listings show transfers in Washington and Dartmouth streets and nearby avenues with prices ranging from $1 to $68 750. Notable deeds include William A. French to Amos D. Lockwood, Nancy Lewis to Silas W. Merril, and Edward Sands to James T. Eldridge dated Jan 1 or Dec 31 with associated mortgage amounts and bank security.

Washington Street William A. French Amos D. Lockwood Dartmouth Street Nancy Lewis Silas W. Merril Huntington Avenue M. Henry Chadwick Eliza J. Dyer Cove Street David S. Simpson Samuel E. Wetherbee Montgomery Place Warren Sherburne Franklin F. Roundy Provident Savings Bank Nathaniel P. Hamlen Brattle Street Edward Sands James T. Eldridge Suffolk Savings Bank Roxbury Mary M. Bowen Edwin Frothingham Blue Hill Avenue Winthrop Street

Business troubles sweep many New York firms

A wave of assign­ments hits diverse businesses led by George W. Laird & Co. with $14,000 liabilities, and others including F. G. Challenor & Co., J. Read & Sons, and D. Lerin. Creditors expect about 60 cents on the dollar as committees settle affairs. some firms faced mortgages and large debts amid a broad wave of insolvencies across the Northeast.

George W. Laird John Cracknell New York George W. Laird & Co W. H. Ottman F. G. Challenor West Indies Frederic Krons Henry Sternan New Yark Thomas Loyd Hardware Peoria Lll J. Read & Sons Port Elgin N. B J. L. Loiselle Dry Goods Worcester Denholm & Mackay Ruth Clapp Boots and Shoes Providence R. I Boston Joseph N. Page Charlestown Peery John E. Gregory Hamilton Grocers Davenport M. Kemp Clothing Belleville Ill IF. Williams General Store Paris Lord Bros Oneida N. Y Laurice Murphy Geneva W. Loebs Buffalo G. W. Bostwick Attica J. Larkin Grocer Kingston Frank W. North Grist Mill Turner Arthur C. Bass Chelsea Hyde Park E. A. Doyle Jeweller Lynn Haverhill KK. W. Emerson Quincy A. Oliver J. L. Credworth & Co W. J. Lindsay Kinston Ont E. Senecal Montreal Que F McGibbon McCalman & Co Lyon & Curtis Sacramento Cal J. L. Brown Keokuk Mil Baurer Terra Haute Ind Ira Foiseit Jeffersonville Ae Tavier Evansville J. Herman Wiebus Lafayette Cigars C. Hedgepath & Co Kittrells N.C Franklin Bien Court of Common Pleas E. Duncan Sniffen New York City Duffy Sniffen

Boston and Albany R R Timetable Arrangements 1886

Local timetables for Boston and Albany R R presented with through tickets at Boston offices. Frequent express and sleeping car services to New York Albany Springfield Buffalo Chicago and other points. Connections at Worcester Pittsfield Palmer Chatham and Framingham with multiple daily trains and Sunday schedules.

Trains to New York Providence and towns schedule 1886

Boston and Providence East road timetable lists daily Shore Line Fast Express departures at 10 00 am and 1 00 pm from Boston to New York with returns at 8 00 am and 2 00 pm Sundays 10 00 am. Shore Line Mail 11 00 am Sundays. Steamboat Stone ton Line 6 80 pm Sundays excepted with various local stops including Providence Pawtucket Attleboro Stoughton Canton and Beadville.

Boston New York Shore Line Shore Lne Mail Stonington Line Providence Puawtucket Heturn Dodgeville Hmebrunvalle Meturn Attleboro North Attleboro Ann Field Foxboro Sharon Canton Junction Sunda Return Beadville Mreturn Hyde Park Clarendon Hills Sumalia Plain stOyintou Bury West Roxbury Mighla Stoughton Canton Mt. Hope Warren and Assistol Moday Mansfield Mansfeld A.A. Folsom Inghilland Lake Manchester Mattapan Ce Erate Nai Milford Bit Bowdoin New Britain Newb Middletown Hartford Norwich Owee Norwood Norwood Central Paw Tucket Philadelph Pig Putnam Headville Lae Priver Street Dad Bas Rockville Conn Southbridge Tiltons Wolpate Washington D. C Wwaterbury Willmantic Concord N. H N.hs

Large Boston and New England rail timetable fragment

Station and timetable notes show frequent trains from Boston to Ashcroft Needan Norwood and many New England destinations. Includes Woon socket Providence Hartford New York routes with 6 pm arrivals and Pullman service. notes Sunday skips and special through connections City of Worcester Norwich Line.

New York Middletown New Haven Pullman Boston Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-studi N&w England Limited Air Line Grand Central Depot Willimantic Jersey City Lrenton Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Richmond Points South Pwlman Norwich Line New London Norwich Danielsonville Putnam City OF Worcester City OF New York Washington Street Summer Street W. H. Turner

Mortgage transfers and land deals across Boston area

The notice lists mortgage and transfer activity on multiple streets including Lawndale Terrace Holbrook Street G Street Rights Street Crystal Cove Avenue and Washington Avenue. Transactions show parcels of land and buildings with small or symbolic sums and dates December 30 31 and January 1. Institutions involved include Roxbury Institution for Savings and Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company.

West Roxspurny Thomas Shorrock Roxbury Institution For Savings Lawndale Terrace Jamaica Plain Chauncey K. Bullock Bentley W. Warren Holbrook Street South Boston John Proctor Ellen N. Locke G Street Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company Joseph F. Wiggin Daniel D. Fisk Second Street Fernando L. Shattuck Gilbert Wait Ida L. Barstow Rights Street Winthorp Herbert T. Whitman John S. Whitman Crystal Cove Avenue Granville L. Turnbull Alice Wadsworth Washington Avenue

Mortgage transfers on multiple Boston area properties in late December

A series of mortgage deeds recorded include Thomas C. Amory to Samuel E. Sewall for Nos. 45 and 47 Temple Place valued at 60000, William Neilson to Boston Five Cents Savings Bank on Melrose Street for 17000, and several other deeds dated December 29 to January 1.

Thomas C. Amory Samuel E. Sewall Temple Place William Neilson Boston Five Cents Savings Bank Melrose Street John C. Franck Frederick C. Herrick James Street William Ryan Elizabeth A. Power Bromfield Street Nathan G. Green Theodore P. Gooding Atlantic Avenue Joseph E. Taylor Henry W. Johnson Dana Place Alice Ethel Harbour Elizabeth W. Newman Abbott Street

Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town

Baltimore buyers include W C Carroll of Carroll Adams & Co and Jacob Preiss of Burlington. Chicago and New York firms are represented by E M Phelps and C McDougall among others, with several treasurers and partners from Florsheim, Moore, Rosenstock, and Einstein listed.

Baltimore C Carroll Carroll, Adams & Co Tre Jacob Preiss Burlington M Allen Savannah Einstein Einstein’s Sons Ads Childs Fuller, Childs & Co

English firms face large fraud claims in U.S. case

Henry and Co of Manchester and Joseph Brooks Co of Bradford claim over 91 thousand dollars in debts. Foster & Co, New York upholsterers, allegedly moved property to defraud creditors and favor relatives. They reportedly bought goods abroad pledged for loans, securing about 532,930 dollars, yet owed over a million when failing.

Henry & Co Manchester Eng Joseph Brooks , Co Bradford Foster & Co New York

Trains Schedule Change at 6 Passenger Station Causeway Street

Railroad timetable issued by John Adams and PR Watson outlines new train runs from Boston to the West starting Monday November 15 1886. Services include morning departures with accommodation and express trains to Albany Chicago St Louis and New York Central routes with sleeping cars and various intermediate stops such as Greenfield North Adams Brattleboro and Worcester. Evening and Sunday schedules also listed with numerous local stops and transfer options.

Rutland Montreal Ottawa Ogdensburg Fitchburg Depot Causeway Street Boston Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Burlington St. Albane St. Johns Ordensburg Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company R. R Ils A. M Cheshire R.R White River Junction Central Vermont Points West Ches Hire St. Albans Pontreal Washington Street C. A. Faxon Gen R. Stewart N. H West Albany N. Y Chicago St. Louis Pullman New York Central West Shore R. R N.Y. C The Alany Greenfield North Adana Gardner Baldwinville Athol Orange Dmiles Falls Shelburne Falls Royalston Erving Westminster Ashburnham Junction Ashburnham Wet Fitchbury Wachusett Otter Shriver Wendell Montague East Deerfield West Deerfield Buckland Zoar Bardwells Charliemont Hovsac Turner’s Falls Brattlebore Winchedon Cheshire M.mm Keene and Worcester Nashua Portland Euston& Maine Ayer Clinton Oakdale Framingham & Lowell R Framingham Lowell Itehburg Ayer Junction North Leominster Shirley Greenville and Townsend Centre Marlboro, Hudson and Maynard Concord Lincoln Belmont and Waverley Watown Mt. Auburn Cambridge Union Square Somerville Ware River John Adams PR Watson

Boston and Coastal Rail and Steamer Timetable Listing

A dense schedule of weekday and Sunday train and boat connections from Boston to New York and numerous coastal towns. Names of towns such as Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Cohasset Hingham Scituate East Weymouth Marblehead and Brockton appear with multiple departure times and return options. The timetable notes operations on specific days and special connect actions by boat or rail with J. K. Rendeick listed as General Manager.

Boston New York Fall River Line F River Ashmont Ps wPn Stable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Braintree Ebidgewater Return Brockvon Buzzard’s Bay Wareham Cape Cod Provincetown Wellfleet Ketur Provincetown Cohasset Hingham Cottage City New Bedford Brockton Abington East Malton Quincy West Quincy East Milton Pan East Weymouth Weymouth East Weymouth Fall River Taunton Harrisos Sanets Todd Pac Marshfield Mattapan Andae Neponset Milton Woods Hall Newport North Eastern Stoughton Randolph North Easton Plymouth Pour Mog Duxbury Scituate North Scituate Sea View Shawmut Sout Duxbury Central Station Dean Street Whitman South Weymouth via_ Krockton Wollaston Heights Pat Wood’s Boll Bingham the Weymouths Fall Miver South Braintree Way Statons J. KR. Rendeick

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