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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1887
Page
7
The report lists pork and lard prices including long cuts and backs with ranges from 13 to 16 dollars, beef figures for extra plate to heavy cuts, and fresh meats with rates for lambs veal and mutton. It cites Chicago dressed lambs and mutton alongside regional price standings and market notes.
Liverpool futures opened and closed dull with varied bids from January to August. Spot uplands and Orleans eased in dull, buyers’ favor trade. sales reached 8000 bales with receipts of 14,000. New York spot closed steady with mid uplands at 97 16¢, futures opened easy and traded in narrow bids and asks.
New York markets show cotton steady with varied upland grades and broad grain, flour, and wheat movements across Milwaukee St Louis Chicago Detroit Cincinnati Toledo Minneapolis with mixed receipts and prices. Major bureaus report Chicago No 2 spring at 78 percent, No 2 red 79 cents, cash wheat ranges, pork futures around 1190 1250, lard around 640 642, and regional flour shipments and stocks.
Peoria noon hogs steady and firm at 375 to 490 with 500 receipts and 225 shipments. St Louis noon hogs higher with unrested workers at 480 to 445 and butchers up to 465. Chicago cattle receipts about 8000 with lower prices. shipping steers 330 to 510, stockers and feeders 240 to 380, cows bulls and mixed trade weaker.
Readable lines show cattle and hog market figures with prices for Texans and natives. Receipts reach 19 000 with shipments around 4 000 amid varied tones and notes of steady or higher trends.
Market report shows varied receipts and stocks across cities from Augusta to New Orleans with most ports steady to quiet, mid 9s. Highlights include large stocks at New Orleans 400,819 and New York 228,219, with exports to Britain and the continent totaling over 60,000 bales, and overall firm tone in several hubs.
London and Liverpool report steady to firm prices across grains and flour with wheat and corn in various markets showing little change. Prices in Liverpool quote winter wheat at 7s 6d to 7s 9d, spring wheat at 7s 6d to 7s 9d, mixed Western corn at 4s 8d, and lard at 35s 3d, while Paris and Antwerp list small shifts in wheat and flour prices amid frosty England weather.
The Baldwinville to Athol routes and multiple lines through Fitchburg adopt new weekday and Sunday schedules starting Monday November 15 1886. Trains run from Boston to Albany and Chicago with drawing-room and sleeping cars, including Pullman services, plus numerous local stops and West Shore connections. Officials John Adams and J R Watson note adjustments across the network.
An 1886 timetable lists hundreds of train times for routes from Boston to New York and many New England points. It includes Fall River Line departures, Sunday trains, and numerous local extensions to towns like Ashmont Brockton Hyannis Scituate Weymouth Plymouth Nantucket Nantucket and Providence with complex return times and notes on special services.
An itemized listing from multiple rail lines including Boston & Maine Western Division and Boston & Lowell Railroad catalogues freight, goods, and quantities. Entries cover bbls, bales, leather, skins, pelts, eggs, apples, flour, barley, pork, lard, butter, hay, straw, wool, tea, coffee, sugar, and other commodities with numerous unit counts and container types. The record reads like a historical shipping ledger detailing cargo volumes by rail and transport mode.
A Jan 17 1887 export list details shipments from Smyrna to Halifax Arichat Hull London Melbourne and Melbourne including petroleum flour kerosene lard bacon sugar cheese and various tools and goods. Notable consignments include 25 000 barrels petroleum and 174 600 ths cheese plus extensive cargoes of flour, timber, hardware, leather, and machinery to multiple ports.
Detailed tally from Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Division lists bales of cotton wool flour corn and various produce and goods by railroad, totaling dozens of bales, casks, cases and boxes with multiple farm and shipper names.
The Methodist Historical Society met yesterday and elected officers for the ensuing year. President is Hon. Jacob Sleeper. Vice presidents include Rev Stephen Allen D D Augusta Me Hon H W Gilman Nashua N H Hon Paul Dillingham Waterbury Vt Rev Lorenzo Thayer D D Newtonville Mass Rev W V Morrison D D Providence R I Hon Phineas Lounsbury Connecticut. Corresponding secretary Rev R W Allen D D East Boston. Recording secretary Rev S A Manning Newton. Treasurer W S Allen A M East Boston. Historiographer Rev Daniel Dorchester D D Natick.
Train timetable notes various through services on Boston and Maine lines from Haymarket square and Causeway street stations to Augusta St John Halifax Eastport Calais Portland Lewiston Manchester Concord North Conway and Portland routes with departures at 7 30 am 8 30 am and 12 50 pm and additional afternoon and evening times on stated days.
Timetables list departures from Boston stations including Haymarket, Andover, Dover, Danvers, Exeter, Haverhill, Kennebunk, Biddeford, Saco, Lawrence, Lowell, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Andover, Newburyport, Reading, Salem, Wakefield, Wilmington, and Portland. Multiple daily times, return runs, and special trains for Workingmen's trains are detailed.
Readable portions show timetables for commutation between Boston and suburbs including destinations like Weston Belmont Waltham and Wayland. Notes include AM and PM departures with express and regular services and reference to stations such as Boylston Clinton and additional details on Sundays and returns. The text preserves old railway nomenclature and station names.
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