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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 20, 1888

Page

7

Cattle and Lamb Prices Move in Tight Market

Cattle prices show varied quotes with steers at 8.31 to 9.10 per hundredweight and light, heavy, and rump cuts listed. Lambs and mutton move strongly with prime and choice lines selling well, veal in tight supply and prices ranging from 5 to 12 cents depending on grade and cut.

Warm car to depart Boston for Brattleboro next week

A warm car will leave Boston next week bound for Brattleboro Vermont. The transfer involves a passenger or cargo movement scheduled in the near future with no additional details provided.

Boston Brattleboro, Vt

Mixed Market Update Highlights Sugar and Oil Prices

Miscellaneous notes show pipeline certificates closed and opened with small ranges, while raw and refined sugar markets stay dull though stable. Prices for molasses and turpentine and petroleum in New York close with minor shifts and notable quotables across various grades and regions.

Manila Lloilos Jayas Ponce Cienfuegos Barbadoes New York Tetac

New York Wheat and Flour Prices Across Markets Jan 19

New York dealers report flour receipts at 20 260 packages and 69 339 sacks, with exports 3407 barrels. prices range from 4 40 to 4 85 for Western extra and Minnesota extras, dull market across flour grades. Wheat receipts 4950 bushels with No 2 spring at 91 79c, No 1 hard 95 14c, No 2 red near 90 9014c. rye dull, oats mixed, corn 28 600 bushels with 26 000 bushels sold. pork and lard prices steady to higher. Multiple Midwest markets show similar softness in flour and mixed movements in corn and wheat.

New York Minnesota City Rio United City Extra India Tierces Western Steam Tierces City Steam Continent South America Liverpool Lake Straits Chicago ST. Louis Minneapolis Minn Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo

Cotton market steady with moderate demand and firm futures

In Sony Allan Asher & Co report the cotton market showed a cautious, steady tone amid small receipts. Futures opened steady with slight gains, cash markets firm in New York and Liverpool, with varied regional receipts and stock levels signaling a cautious but steady overall market.

Sony Allan Asher & Co New York

Port coastwise and net receipts across ports report

Coastwise trade totals show port receipts and sales at several cities with mixed, steady to firm prices. Notable figures include New York net receipts 1056 and stock 228, Delta shipments and exports broken down to continent and Britain, plus six day consolidated totals across ports and international exports, with a large overall U S stock of 976,707.

Cas West Point Philadelphia Fortier Baltimore New York Cincinnati St. Louis Louisville Great Britain France Continent Channel United States

Hog and Cattle Markets Across Cities January Report

Market brief from St. Louis Kansas City Peoria and Chicago shows hogs higher in St. Louis and Peoria with firming prices, steady hogs in Kansas City, and mixed cattle and hog futures in Chicago. Cattle demand strong for good stock with various price ranges, sheep and lamb markets mixed to stronger.

ST. Louis Kansas City Peoria Chicago Texas

Foreign Markets Report From London And Liverpool

Foreign markets update from London and Liverpool dated January 19 reports wheat quiet and firm corn, breadstuffs and pork steady, lard easing, cheese and tallow steady. Prices for California wheat and European grains listed at Liverpool and Antwerp with January quotations and March futures.

London Beerbohm Iwo Mark Lane California Paris Liverpool Antwerp

Imports and Exports at Liverpool Gathers Wide Goods

A Liverpool port list shows steamers and firms loading diverse cargoes across caustic soda pig iron tin cotton wine and oranges. Firms include E F King, Phelps Dodge, Baring Bros, Drexel Morgan, and many others with quantities ranging from a few cases to hundreds of bales and casks.

Liverpool Eng Michigan King & Co George W Stetson & Co Phelps, Dodge & Co Moise Baringros & Co Nichols & Farnsworth Bb Perkins Jones Moise Beal, Higgins & Henderson Thos S Smith & Sons Devereaux & Meserve Clark & Co Webber Richards & Son Bliss, Fabyan & Co J Brown & Co Moise Cumner, Jones & Co Houghton & Dutton Dodo Collins & Fairbanks Norway Steel and Iron Co Baring Bros & Co Norcross, Mellen & Co Abram French & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Caton Bros & Bixby Broderson & Day de Simons, Haten & Whitten Snow & Co Woollens

Maritime cargo listings from multiple vessels

Shipping notices show schooner Lizzie Wharton loading meal oil flour at ports in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, schooner Georgie Harold with flour corningal and refined oil, bark Fantee off West Africa carrying bread beef crackers flour oil lumber matches rum tobacco sugar and medicines, with several other cargo items and quantities noted. The entries list ports, vessel names, cargo types, and quantities in bbls, tons, cases, and pkgs.

Liverpool Lizzie Wharton ST John E H Foster Barrington Georgie Harold West Coast Africa

Total Receipts January 19 1888 and 1887 by Commodity

A táble of receipts dated January 19 1888 listing cotton molasses wool butter flour oleo cheese cornmeal oats apples wheat potatoes malt sweets peas lumber meal and various animal products with quantities in bales barrels boxes cases and bushels for 1888 and 1887, showing year over year totals across many goods.

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Receipts from Several Railroads in January 1888

Shipping accounts list purchases and quantities for Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, New York and New England, and related lines. Entries include bales of cotton and wool, flour, corn, middlings, bran, bacon, butter and oleo, eggs, hay, straw, lumber, feather, hides, tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, cheese, and leather. Counts show hundreds to thousands of units across bales, cases, bags, boxes, and other measures, reflecting vast commodity movements through multiple railroads on that date.

Boston & Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Colony Railroad

Freight and Goods Movements Across Rail Lines and Seas

A listing of packed cargo items from multiple routes including Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, and Lowell System rails, with quantities in bales, bbls, sides leather, hides, wool, cornmeal, flour, pork, butter, eggs, apples, hay, lumber, and other products. The items are grouped by railroad division and by transport mode, noting spirits such as by express and by sea.

Boots and Shoes Buyers Across States Pick Firms

A list of buyers and firms from cities including Newtown Binghamton Chicago Columbus Columbia Craw Philadelphia Trenton and beyond. Notable names include Haas Goff Mantonya Lever Cohen Meily Richardson Morse Lippincott Terry Dowing Adler Cannon Atwood and Vance-Hughes Shoe Company with multiple Am and Ad designations.

Newtown Penn Haas Farr, Haas & Co Binghamton Goff Stone, Goff & Co Chicago Ill Mantonya Mantonya & Co Cincinnati L Bunkel Fuller’s Sons & Co Columbia Lever Lever & Stork, Craw Clinton S Cohen Cohen & Cro Craw Detroit Mich H Fyfe H Fyfe & Co Grand Rapids Richardson Richardson & Co Ee City P Moores W Webster Webster & Briscoe Raw Lexington P Ross Aim Lebanon J Frank Adler, Frank & Co Spartanburg S$ C H Cannon Cannon & Long Trenton

Erratic Rail Schedule Fragments Amid Dated City Lines

A fragmentary OCR of a long train timetable lists numerous station names such as Endicott and Danbury with times ranging from early morning to late evening. The text reads like a dense schedule with scattered numbers, fares, and routes including references to Boston Station, Harvard Street, and Manchester toppled by unclear punctuation.

Boston Asheerott Blackstone O. Danbury Dbdorche Eeens Budie Street Ellis Fishkill-on-Rudson Llam Mart Harvard Stea IK

Sunday Rail Schedules to Newton and Wellesley

Train times announce Sunday departures from Boston to Newton Lower Falls Newton Highlands Wellesley and Brookline with multiple outbound and return trips. Officials Hanson Gallup George Gallup list as general passenger agent and superintendent.

Newton Lower Fallseave Boston Wellesley Bills Worcester Newton Highlands Brookline Hanson Gallup Pass Ags

Transit timetable fragment across many towns and stations

A dense OCR of train and ferry times lists departures and returns for Hanover Rockland Whitman Wolla Heights Bridgewater Hingham Cohasset and many others. It shows various daily intervals with morning afternoon and evening slots, including returns, with scattered numeric errors and typos.

Fase Bae OU Berg Metry Bey Uris Uemiy She Lem Hanover Rockland Whitman Wolla Heights Bridgewater Cochesett South East We Hsell Hkridgewater Brockton Buzzard Buzzard’s Bay Provincetown Chatham Princetown Cham Cohasset An Hingham Hingham Pow Falls River Tanntans Kan Mane

Train Arrangements For Weston to Providence May 30 1887

Rail schedule updates list Weston to New York and Providence routes with specific departure and return times. The mixed entries include multiple stops at Pawtucket Dodgeville Hyde Park and related lines, with daily and holiday variations and notes on morning and afternoon services.

Britain New York Air Line Hartford Norwich Norwood Cen Ov Awtucket Wu Vhia Preessence Kpatnam Meadville River Krockville Cox Southbridge Tiltens Washington D.C Willimautic Winslows Webster Boston Norwood Central Hyde Park Woonsucket Division Boston & Albany Railroad Needham and Way Woonsocket SS & m Middletown New Haven Pullman Sartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Ludson Newburgh Turners, N. Y Chicago & St. Louis Limited Erie Railway Woston & K Providence Ailroac Weston Shore —_ ee Shore Uune Mail Eens Stoning Ays Tel Mt. Hope A. A. Folsom Sapt Vermont Lowell Chicago Fitchburg Wagner Palace Central Vermont A WgaRington Baace T. Genernager W. Cummings Gen. S

Intercity Rail Timetable Fragments to Fall River and New York

Partial timetable data for Weymouth Hingham Cohasset Scituate Marshfield Duxbury Plymouth and other stations shows various departures and returns with times to Fall River Newport Taunton New Bedford Brockton Middleboro and South Braintree. Generated by GEO L CONNOR as General Passenger Agent.

Weymouths Hingham Cohasset Scituate Marshfield Duxbury Plymadouth Plymouth Cohasset Fall River Brockton Tauntor Panneon Newport South Braintree Taunton New Bedford Middleboro New York Geo. L. Connor Gen. Pass

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