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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1888
Page
7
Prices for butter cheese beans and grains show steady or higher quotes with strong demand. Eastern firs whey creamery and Vermont quotes rise while rail blockades limit receipts, signaling improved market prospects for the week.
In New York butter holds steady with prices ranging from 16 to 34 cents across state and western creameries. Cheese remains firm with varying factory quotes, eggs steady at 23 to 25 cents. Beans steady and dried apples in daily supply. Chicago market unchanged as snow blockades receipts hinder shipments.
H Harris & Co to auction 5000 boxes Florida oranges on Wednesday. Steamer Aguan due Friday with Jamaica bananas. Apples quiet at old quotations. Liverpool demand firm for Baldwins and greening prices noted. Various fruit quotes cover cranberries, cod, Cape Cods, Palermo and Messina fruits. Florida orange supply large with 11000 boxes on Savannah boat due Monday and 433 on Norfolk. peanuts and nuts prices listed.
Pork and lard remain steady with firm prices across long cuts short cuts and backs. Beef prices show choice steers at 8 1 4 cents per pound good steers 6 to 6 1 2 cents, light and heavy hinds varied, lamb demand fair with fancy lambs at 10 12 cents per pound and mutton prices mixed by quality, veal ranges 5 8 to 11 12 cents.
Pipeline certificates closed at 3 pm January 28 with 881 cents and opened 10 am January 30 at 89146, highest 905, lowest 801. Sugar market steady with no sales. raw sugar grades listed, centrifugers 96 test 57 6c, Manila and Java notes. refined sugar prices per type shown. Molasses prices given for Porto Rico Barbados and other origins.
Flour receipts total 10 730 pkes with exports 1785 bbis 250 sacks. sales 16 500 bbis range from common to good extra Western and state to patent Minnesota extra 440 465. city mill extra 480 476. West Indies 1200 bbls 2065 265. 1500 bbls superfine 2 45 300. extra No 2 290 345. 4600 bbls winter wheat extra 200 0. 5700 bbls Minnesota extra 290. Southern steady quiet 850 bbls common to fair extra 3 40 400. good to choice extra 4 10a.
Chicago bids show flour steady, wheat weak with No 2 spring around 75 to 77 cents. Corn quiet near 47 percent, oats 29 to 29.5 cents, rye 62 for No 2, barley 88 to 84. Provisions ease with pork near 12 to 14.5 dollars, lard 7.42 to 7.45. Regional notes from Toledo St Louis Minneapolis Milwaukee Detroit Cincinnati and others reference receipts and shipments.
Allan Asher & Co reports a firm underscoring demand for cotton certificates, with the market holding a steady undertone. Liverpool is mixed on public news but cheerful privately, receipts remain ample, selling cautious, and leading months rise about four points. New York futures opened easy then closed quiet and steady, spot prices firm, and regional totals show varied net receipts, exports, and stocks across cities with overall steadiness.
Kansas City hogs steady against 6000 receipts and 106 shipments. St Louis hogs mixed with light weights weak at 56 to 60, butchers firm to 68. Chicago cattle receipts 12 000 lower across grades, steers around 4 60 to 4 20, Texas steers 1 75 to 4 0. Hogs 26 000 receipts, weak to mixed with averages near 5 05 to 5 50, ships 3 50 to 4 00. Sheep totals 6000 receipts, natives 8 5 to 10, Western 4 50 to 5 10, lambs 5 6 25.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat and corn quiet yet steady while on passage and for shipment demand grows firmer. Market reports from Mark Lane Paris and Liverpool note wheat and flour firm or easier with steady or active demand. weekly British deliveries total 62,941 quarters at average price 6 shillings 6 pence.
Spring wheat 6s 8d and club wheat 6s 9d. Western mixed corn 4s 11d. Peas dull at 63 brad. Vaicone pork 67s 6d. Bacon at 41s 6d short clear and 30s long clear. Cheese 6Qs ed. Tal low 27s. Lard 39s. Havana sugar quiet on Saturday 2000 bags centrifugal polarization 95 to 97. gold per quintal listed.
Shipping precincts list stapled receipts for January 30 1888 across multiple railroads. The Boston & Albany Grand Junction and other lines report wool bales, tallow, butter, cheese, hides, leather, timber, and assorted goods by bales crates tubs boxes and rolls. Also listed are cornmeal oats beans and various commodities with quantities indicating extensive freight stock and consignments.
Copper and cocoa shipments form the core of Boston exports for the week ending January 27 1888 with cocoa noted among principal commodities. Shipments to foreign and domestic markets included refined metals and assorted goods through local ports and carriers. The report highlights ongoing trade activity as merchants monitor value trends and order flow.
A detailed ledger style list records imports at Hull and Liverpool with ships Worcester Samaria and Persian Monarch. Items include woollen goods, pulp, rags, linen, glass, machinery, bales of flax, belts of tin plates, fish, canned goods, and numerous consignments from Baring Bros & Co J B Moors & Co and others. Numerous firms such as Otto Paerlin Horace Partridge Louis Wolf Wadsworth Haskins & Montague are named alongside cargo specifics and quantities.
A long list from Savannah records shipments and consignments by steamer Gate City and many firms. Entries cover oranges, hides, cotton, pig iron, hemp, rosin, breading, and numerous box, bale, and case counts with buyers like Alexander Bros, Adams Bros, EK P Brown, J A Bigelow, Conant & Bean, Eaton & Eustis, Far num & co, and more. The page documents diverse goods, quantities, and consignors, reflecting a busy port procurement ledger with numerous local merchants and carriers.
Export items include Sir William with 260 barrels flour 215 barrels meal 1 barrel oil 3 barrels pork 2 barrels beef 1 barrel beans 4 cases lard 3 boxes evaporated apples 4 boxes tin plates.
Boston and New England Limited schedules show daily service to New York via the Air Line Route, with 36 miles non stop to New York Grand Central. Connections at Willimantic on weekdays to Hartford and Waterbury, dining car service on certain trains, and through pullman cars to Philadelphia and Washington via connections at New Haven and New York. Tickets available at 322 Washington Street or 100 Summer Street.
Boston and Maine schedule details for Augusta, Halifax, Eastport, Rockland, Lewiston, Manchester, North Conway, and coastal destinations. Includes Causeway and Haymarket departures, steamship connections, Sunday trains, and signs of heavy intercity service with multiple stations and returns.
Boston and Lowell Railroad timetable outlines station points from Boston to Montreal and local points, listing train times for early morning and daytime departures. It includes connections to Manchester Concord, White River Junction, and Montreal via White River Junction, with parlor and sleeping car options. Notes station agents S. Mellen and Geo. W. Storer.
Train arrangement announced for Monday 197 trains will run on a revised Shore Line route timetable. Details list weekday departures and stop order, noting morning and evening service adjustments and specific arrival times for key stations.
A compact note lists numeric values 30 35 and 10 with references to Org 1.32 0.26 Pa 40d and 6.86, suggesting a terse data snippet rather than a full report. No clear event or entities are identifiable beyond the scattered figures and abbreviations.
Fragmentary OCR showing bus train times and station names including Mt Hope York Bristol Boston, with scattered numbers and days. Reads like scattered timetable notes, not a complete story or event.
A cropped OCR snippet from a Los Angeles area page mentions an event or notice with partial words. Readable elements include a place tag and vague actions, suggesting a brief community item or notice without identifiable names or dates.
A compact note reports a sparing line in cryptic terms, mentioning Riel and an event on an early date. No clear names or places are identifiable, leaving the central action ambiguous and open to verification.
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