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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1888
Page
7
Fresh egg and cheese markets show buyers in control with firm to rising poultry and bean prices. Grain and hay trades move slowly as supply steady, while potatoes and vegetables hold firm with varied regional quotes across Eastern and Western markets.
In Chicago butter is in fair demand with midiums slow and receipts down. Liverpool shows strong demand for finest white cheese at 58s 60s, colored 56 59s, with higher cable quotes at 60s 6d. year-ago market steady at 63s. Creamery butter the finest in good demand at 106 112s. New York butter quiet and steady. cheese quiet and firm. eggs weak. Western firsts beans steady and dried apples unchanged.
The ArPLE market remains quiet with steady prices for sound stock. Fruit shipments show some frosted apples and large quantities in poor order, while cranberries stay in light supply with firm prices. Florida oranges and Mediterranean fruit move well, nuts hold firm with varied regional quotes.
Pork markets show no change with firm demand for TLakp HAMS and other cuts. Quoted ranges include long cuts 17 75 18 00, backs 18 25 18 50, lean ends 17 75 18 00, mess 14 75 16 75, fresh ribs 9 9lec, sausages V Y1ec, and assorted lards and hams by size and cure. Beef remains steady with extra plate and family beef at 8 50, plate 8 50 9 00, tripe 3 75, and various beef cuts listed. fresh beef firm with specific price ranges for steers, hinds, and loins. Lambs veal and mutton quoted as steady with ranges for fancy lambs, yearlings, and mutton across regions.
Raw sugar prices steady with no sales reported. Refined sugar and pulverized options quoted with multiple cent prices. molasses listed for January shipments from Jamaica and Caribbean sources.
Report from trade centers in New York shows flour receipts totaling 28 949 pkgs, exports 3012 bbis, 43 666 sacks with subdued activity. Sales include 16 500 bbis of various grades. prices span 250 300 for superfinent, 2950 510 for common to choice extras, and Minnesota extra ranges 445 475 to 480 510.
A dense price table reports No 2 spring wheat at 73 to 78 cents, No 2 red 82 to 83 1/4, rye around 62 cents, oats 81 to 92 cents, barley 77 to 87 1/2 cents, corn receipts 115000 bushels with No 2 48 cents, flour values and barrel counts, and spirits and meats with pork around 15.50 to 16.50 per barrel and lard near 7.00. Regional totals include Chicago Toledo St Louis Minneapolis Milwaukee Detroit Cincinnati figures and shipment/receipts data.
Allan Asher & Co reports cotton certificates active yet steady with mild gains and calm after opening losses. New York futures open quiet and easy with prices near 10.3 to 10.8 cents. Liverpool spot dull in buyers favor. Week’s U S port receipts total 145,406 bale. exports 128,717. stocks at ports 1,026,145.
Market reports from Saint Louis Kansas City Peoria and Chicago show mixed hog sales with firmer cattle and steady to weak hogs. Beeves bring 3.20 to 4.00 dollars, stockers 2.00 to 3.80, hogs 5.20 to 5.85, and lambs around 4.60 to 5.46 with strong cattle receipts at Chicago.
London notes wheat and corn firming with foreign grains steady while English and French markets remain largely firm. Liverpool sees dull wheat but firm corn and steady pork and cheese. Antwerp and Paris show quiet or steady wheat prices. Havana reports sugar quiet with regional fluctuations in price.
Ships at St John New Brunswick report cargoes including the schooner Lillie Bell with 375 barrels of flour the schooner Mary George with 250 barrels and the schooner Nell carrying 80 tons of pig iron all bound for markets.
A detailed list records shipments and quantities across lines from Boston & Albany to Fitchburg and beyond. Goods include cotton bales flour oats pork butter eggs lard leather hides and many more, with figures per railroad and transport method by rail and sea and express services.
A compact listing names the Albany firm W F Freeman Ad Addison NY G W Farnam Rd irmingham Perry Mason Co Luffalo T G Ramsdell M Sweet of Raimsdell Sweet Co Brun ane Mda W C Carroll Raams Jo Tre Chicago Al L B Mantonya Rosenthal Goldsmith Co As Chicago 1 R J Prins Craw Cincinnati A Faller J Faller Sons Co Dubuque Vogel US Greenville W C Humphreys Madison Ind C A Stanton Am New York Morse Rogers Co Ad Philadelphia F B Lippincott Son Co Philadelphia W G Grieb Son Grieb & Sons Philadelphia Quincy Getzer Metzer Freiburg C St Louis J Frank Adler Prank Craw St Joseph W E Hosea Tootle Hosea Co Ven Washington F L Wilson J Albert Williams Craw
The notices announce petitions to sell ward estates and probate actions. Citations require publication in the Boston Post for three weeks and court appearances in Suffolk and Norfolk counties in January and February 1888. Named parties include Henry Collins Wesley Ritchie Elliot Ritchie Adeline Hooper Dexter and Robert Hooper with trustees and executors.
Malvina L. Hamblet of Salem seeks to sell two thirds of real estate in Boston tied to Clara B. Martin. Augustus P. Hamblet is named trustee to handle sale for contingent remainders. Citation requires appearance January 30 1888 and publication of notice in Boston Post for three weeks.
George A. Sawyer trustee petitions Suffolk County court for authority to sell Chelsea real estate on Broadway and Woodlawn Avenue by private sale. Hearing set for January 30 1888 in Boston with citation by weekly publication in the Boston Post for three weeks ending at least two days before court. Judge John W. McKim presiding.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex Probate Court requests all interested parties to show cause why the last will of Matthew Wilson deceased of Cambridge should be construed and trust funds terminated. John P Reynolds, sole surviving trustee, petitions the court for a decree. Hearing at Cambridge on the fourth Tuesday of January at nine o clock in the forenoon with service by citation.
Passengers with tickets may have baggage checked from hotels in Boston to destinations. The timetable lists weekday and Sunday trains to New York and intermediate stops via Fall River Line and other routes, with numerous departure and return times for Ashmont, Barnstable, Weymouth, Braintree, Quincy, and more, plus notes on station calls and service changes.
Rail routes listed for Boston and Maine with Western and Eastern divisions. Timetable shows schedules from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations to Augusta Lewiston Portland Rockland St John N B Halifax and Bar Harbor and other Maine and New Hampshire destinations. Includes steamer connections from Portland and varying departure times on multiple lines.
Train schedule lists Western Division departures from Koston Station Haymarket Square to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and many intermediate stops on weekdays and Sundays with extensive listed times and fares.
Underground timetable fragment listing trains from Keston Station to Amesbury and many towns including Chelsea Lynn Salem Rockport Gloucester and Portland. It notes times for multiple routes and branches with references to Pullman cars and city offices. The text ends naming James T. Furier and D. J. Flanders as rail officials.
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