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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1888
Page
7
The text details varied cattle lots from H Coolidge & Son and others, with home weights and prices for feeders, workers, and vealers. It reports new milch cows and springers selling up to 155 dollars, firm fat hog and veal markets, wools price quotations, and recent export trade and Watertown yard sales, noting generally steady demand and prices.
Arrivals for home slaughtering indicate no local bullock being sold to Liverpool. Western cattle demand remains firm with high quality on sale. Sample sales include eighteen steers averaging 1618 lbs at 5 1/4c live, other lots around 4 1/2c to 5 1/2c. Brighton slaughtered steers trade at Boston for 6 3 4c.
Wool movement remains brisk with prices near last quotes. Buyers, including manufacturers, hunt for bargains while hold ers expect a brighter future. imports show mixed trends. Tariff debates push proposals to treat worsted cloth as woollen, with officials favoring a revision of the woollen schedule.
The FLvour market is quiet with buyers awaiting lower prices. Spring patents soft, winter patents moderate. corn, oats, rye, barley, and malt present varied steady to dull quotes. Notable prices include spring patents around 4.90 to 5.35 per bbl for exports, corn in the 64 to 65 of a dollar range, and oats bids around 43 to 48 cents for No 2 white oats.
The Butler market shows little change from last report with scarce fresh creameries and varied Western prices. Butter and cheese demand remains fair to firm, eggs steady, and beans and peas markets listing specific pockets of demand and wholesale ranges. hay and straw prices hold with steady trading, while cold weather slows some vegetable movements in the region.
Market notes list numerous fruit stock including bush varieties such as Vermont rose and Aroostook hebrews with prices from 65c to 90c per bush and barrels around $225. Native onions, cabbage, and beets show varied quotes. poultry remains unchanged with turkeys at 12 to 15c, chickens 12 to 15c, fowls 10 to 13c, and game with steady demand. Tallow quoted moderate at 4 3/8 to 4 1/4 cents city rendered.
In Chicago the market is unchanged with rising receipts and moderate trade. New York shows steady butter, firm cheese, and quiet eggs with Eastern firsts at 24 cents and Western firsts at 23 to 24 cents. Liverpool cheese holds at 60 shillings 6 pence, compared with 63 shillings 6 pence a year ago.
FRUIT H Harris & Co sold at auction today Florida oranges at 105 per 4 75 box, navels at 3 75 per box, tangerines at 4 per half box, mandarins at 2 per half box. Florida oranges in fair demand. Palermo oranges 8 2 3 per box. Valencia oranges 4 4 50 per case. mixed fruit quotes and nut prices listed with multiple varieties and pack sizes. Norfolk boat due Friday with 703 boxes oranges.
Provisions hold near prior quotes with pork items steady to up. long cuts to backs range 16 75 to 18 50 per cent, lard and hams unchanged, beef steady with plate and mess prices listed, veal and lamb demands firm, several regional quotations for hams shoulders ribs and tongue among others.
PIPELINE CERTIFICATES closed 3 pm Jan 23 89c opened 10 am Jan 24 89c highest 897% cents lowest 86 Yc closing 3 pm Jan 24 1887 87 Yac Sugar market dull and unchanged prices steady no sales today Raw sugar values for refining centrifugal and Java grades listed with decimals Refined sugar prices mixed with pulverized powdered and granulated quotes Wholesale grocers price for granulated at 7 cents Molasses prices for Porto Rico Cienfuegos Barbadoes listed per gallon
Reports from New York and Chicago on January 25 detail flour receipts and exports, wheat and corn futures, and varying prices. Wheat No 2 spring figures around 76c, corn around 47c, and rye and barley trading lower. soy and other grains show subdued activity with rail and lake deliveries noted.
Minneapolis wheat prices steady as No 1 hard sells at 77 cents while No 1 Northern 75 and No 2 Northern 73. Milwaukee notes flour trade dull, oats and barley rise, Detroit Toledo Cincinnati markets show mixed grains and pork and lard values. Numerous shipments and receipts listed with varied prices and product types across cities, including pork, lard, bacon, hams, and whiskey prices, plus a long inventory of goods and consignments.
In Allan Asher & Co circular the market remains light with limited new deals. Prices move narrowly as outside traders wait, finishing 2 to 3 points above last evening. gains supported by smaller actual cotton receipts and steady undertone. Port figures show arrivals and stocks across key ports, with exports and inland movements detailed for New York, Liverpool, and U S ports.
Hogs firm in St. Louis with light weights mostly 490 to 615 dollars and mixed packers around 510 to 555, butchers to extras easing to 550 560. Peoria hogs steady with most sales 80 565, receipts 1000, shipments 840. Kansas City hogs 256 Jan with 8000 receipts 273 shipments. Chicago cattle demand strong with steers 3510, stockers 2540, cows and bulls 165 810, Texas cattle 285 380. hogs 17000 receipts, shipment 10000, strong and a shade higher with mixed 510 545, heavy 550 585, light 485 530, ships 340 475. sheep receipts 7000, shipments 2000, weak natives 3385, Western 450 600, Texans 8385, lambs 5 6.
London market notes wheat quiet and corn firm with buyers holding off for concessions. Paris and Liverpool show mixed activity as wheat and flour prices drift and port quotations list various futures and spot levels. Antwerps and Havana price snapshots record slight shifts in wheat and sugar markets with specific bid quotes and quantities.
At Antwerp wool sales Jan 25 a healthy turnout and active demand kept prices firm. Of about twenty three hundred bales offered, 1909 were sold including Buenos Ayres 1346 bales at 95 170 francs per 100 kilos Mich. Montevideo 188 bales at 100 185 francs Victoria greasy 156 bales at 129 166 francs scoured 51 bales at 280 310 francs Cape of Good Hope and Natal 103 bales at 140 316 francs.
A ledger style shipping notice details steamers Haytien Repub and Roman with cargoes of logwood cocoa hides steel tin and terne plates along with numerous consignments from numerous firms in Port-au-Prince and Liverpool including Dupuy Laboul Lyon Kunhardt Jere Abbott Baring Brothers and others listing bags bales cases crates and quantities of coffee honey oats hides woollens potatoes and more with destinations and consignors noted.
A compiled list details cargoes for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern and Western divisions and Lowell System. Entries specify cotton wool flour corn meal oats tallow lard butter cheese oleo leather and related commodities with quantities and units.
A dense OCR fragment lists varied trade items with quantities across commodities such as cotton, wool, flour, cornmeal, butter, oleo, cheese, oats, eggs, barley, apples, millfeed, potatoes, hay, straw, lumber, tallow, leather, hides, beef, pork, lard, bacon, calves, dressed hogs, tea, and others. It reads like a warehouse or market ledger showing mixed tons, bales, barrels, and cases, with numerous numbers and unit labels, typical of a trade record from 1887–1888. The fragment preserves named items and units but lacks complete context or dates.
Trains depart Boston from B and L depot for Manchester Concord and northern lines at 7 30 8 30 9 00 12 00 1 00 3 00 5 00 5 30 7 00 with ex entries and Sunday runs 1 00 7 00 pm Returning from Concord to Boston at 5 30 7 30 8 56 10 20 2 45 3 85 5 05 6 36 pm Sunday 5 55 ex and 7 20 pm Be Bn War note
Train times for routes on Western and Eastern divisions include Augusta Naymarket all stations with service from Haymarket and Causeway streets. Connections cover St John Halifax Portland Eastport Calais Rockland Lewiston Manchester North and Portland lines with daily and triweekly departures and listed intermediate stops.
Western and Eastern division timetable lists departures from Boston stations to Alton Bay Andover Dover Banvera Exeter and many others with numerous daily and Sunday train times, including special Workingmen trains. Names listed include James T. Furber general manager and D. J. Flanders general passenger agent.
The notice lists through and local service from Boston and Lowell lines dated December 19 1887 with routes to Dilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill and others including Montreal via White River Junction with parlor and sleeping cars and multiple Boston stations and branch connections. It also announces service from Boston to Manchester Concord Nashua Milford and other New England towns and notes full information available at the stations.
Passengers may have baggage checked at hotels or residences in Boston for travel to New York via the River Line. Beginning Jan 23 1888, week trains depart Boston for New York at 6 p.m. with return at 4 30 p.m. Train times cover multiple branches including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Quincy Weymouth Milton Mattapoisett Nantucket and many others with Sunday trains listed. Schedules include numerous departure and return times for towns along the route, with notes on special boat connections and sequence details.
Train schedule effective Monday shows limited routes with various departure and return times from Boston to New York and other points including New Work and Water lines. The notice lists daily, Sunday, and holiday adjustments, with specific minute details and multiple connections, indicating complicated intercity service and transfer points.
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