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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1887
Page
7
The fragment lists radishes at 1 dollar 25 cents, rhubarb and native cucumbers at 44 4 cents each, crate price 101 dollars 50 cents, with quantities shown as 100. No clear article context or full sentences available.
The market shows mixed fruit supply with strawberries at 12 to 15 cents, apples scarce, raspberries slow at Hudson and Jersey prices, gooseberries and currants uneven, cherries in good demand at 10 to 15 cents, and California fruits including apricots peaches and plums with varied per unit prices. Bananas and citrus show steady levels with regional quotes for Baracoa Jamaica Aspinwall and classic boxes from Messina Palermo.
A dense pricing list shows pork and lard varieties with prices for long cuts to fresh ribs and sausage, ham, shoulders, bacon, and tripe. It also lists beef items including plate, mess, beef hams, tongues, and various cuts with per pound or per unit costs. Fresh beef includes choice steers, good steers, and rumps, loins, rounds with assorted percentages. Lambs and mutton prices follow, including Chicago dressed fall lambs and yearlings, with quality qualifiers.
Liverpool cotton futures opened steady and closed very steady with varied July to September quotes. Spot demand steady at 615-16d for middling uplands and Orleans, 8000 bales sold, 2000 bales received. New York spot closed quiet steady with mixed price levels. London market notes yarns and fabrics steady in Manchester. Pipe line certificates show activity and oil metrics. Sugar and molasses markets steady with refined sugars firm and cargo lot quotations.
July 1 reports from New York and other centers show flour and wheat receipts and exports, price ranges for superfine and extra grades, corn and rye values, oil and fat products, and mixed regional quotes for No 2 Chicago, No 1 hard, and other grades. Includes Detroit Milwaukee St Louis Chicago Toledo and Minneapolis figures with shipments and market directions.
The market lists firmer bids for No 1 hard and Northern grades with cash quotes and August September futures. Receipts total 46 480 bushels with shipments at 29 120 bushels as traders note varied firming across multiple futures lines and cash markets.
Weekly summary shows regional net receipts across ports, with totals for exports to Great Britain France and the continent. Notable figures include Consolidated-Net receipts 8597 and stocks at all ports 272 567, alongside comparative year data and Liverpool stocks. Exports to Britain 0 595 with other rapid shifts in shipments and stock levels across major cities.
Market wire notes wheat and corn movements across London and Liverpool with prices for prompt shipment. Wheat softer in London while Paris markets firm and Havana reports Spanish gold rates and sugar prices at Matanzas. Provisions and dairy items show mixed moves as crude exchange rates drift.
London reports full turnout at wool sales with strong demand for merinos and cross breds. Prices show high activity across New South Wales Queensland Victoria New Zealand Tasmania Natal with scoured greasy lots and varying deductions all selling at brisk rates.
List of cargo movements and consignments including Bark Lyngoer with 700 hhds sugar for Baring Bros Boston Sugar Refinery and 82 hhds molasses, Sir Susan P Thurlow with 698 hhds sugar, logwood orders for Gonaives, brig Riberra with 618 450 tons logwood, and several steamers with logwood, hides, bananas and other goods in Haytien ports.
London exports include the steamship Milanese cleared June 29 with flour beef scraps leather machinery and oil among many commodities. Bear River Nova Scotia schooner Florence Christine and Yarmouth Steamer Yarmouth list oats flour meal piano range corsets and hardware plus numerous bags crates and boxes.
Shipping records from July 1, 1887 show vast consignments across the Boston & Albany Providence Old Colony Fitchburg and New York & New England lines. Items include wool flour corn oats oatmeal malt pork beef tongues hams grease lard butter cheese eggs beans hay straw lumber and leather with hundreds of bales and cases listed.
A fragmented OCR inventory lists various goods by rail and sea routes. Entries include wool bales numbered alongside freight items such as butter, eggs, apples, lumber, hides, leather, flour, corn, oats, and bbls of oil or molasses. Mentions multiple lines for Boston and Maine divisions, Boston and Lowell, Express, and Sea shipment totals with scattered quantities and units.
Time tables and through tickets offered by the Boston Post Railroad list train connections from Boston to Springfield Albany Worcester and New York with frequent departures for South Framingham and Framingham Marlboro Clinton and Fitchburg. The notice includes Sunday trains to Newton Lower Falls Newton Highlands Wellesley Hills and other stations with return schedules and office locations for ticket sales.
A fragmented OCR list shows names of lawyers and law firms tied to multiple cities including Atchison Kansas Nashville Tennessee St Louis Missouri New York New York Savannah Georgia Philadelphia area and others. The snippet reads like a directory of legal principals such as Greensfelder Florsheim Phelps Dodge Murphy Magovern Adler Frank Collat Neely and Taylor among others.
Through service from Boston on Causeway Street with offices at 218 Washington Street. Routes include Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin and more with 8:30 am departures and varying return times. Local Northern Division stops and sleeper/parlor car options to Montreal via Vermont routes. Local Boston service to Manchester Concord Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Wilton Amherst and Nashua with select morning and afternoon trains.
A jumble of times and codes appears for Lowell and Billerica including 8.30 9.9.20 and Sunday 30 pm. Bleach times show sequences like 6.45 7.30 9 10 with notes such as Bas 6 720pm and BML 4 0 pm indicating a damaged or partial timetable without clear events.
Notable full information on local and long distance train times from towns including Lawrence Wilmington Walnut Hill Stoneham Woburn Winchester Medford College Hill Winter and Arlington. Prepared by Mellèn W Storer General Superintendent and Geol Passenger Agent with daily SUN and weekday schedules.
A fragmented timetable lists numerous stations and train times across Boston area lines. It includes departures to Needham, Norwood, Providence, Woonsocket, and New York routes with notes on Sundays, weekly variations, and connections to steamer lines at New London and Hartford.
The notice outlines train and stage connections for the Boston and Providence Railroad and related lines starting May 30 1887. It lists departure times from Boston to New York Providence and various stations including West Boylston Barre Randolph Rockbottom Sudbury Wayland Weston Waltham Belmont and Attleboro with multiple return times and weekday Sunday special services. General managers and officers are named.
Fragmentary OCR data presents a string of numbers and decimals: 6.35, 6.55, 210, 2.40 10.35 pn 10.44, 1 6 with no clear context or identifiable names or events.
A small fragment shows a line of numbers and fractions unclear in meaning. It includes values like 06 and 6.16 with decimals 4.50 and 5.06 and scattered figures 45 50 12.30, finishing with a stray text segment few.
Train timetable for Western Division lists departures from Boston stations to towns including Andover Danvers and Salem with multiple daily times. It notes connecting points like Portland Bangor and Lewiston and lists various stops and hours across regions, including Wakefield Medford Melrose and Lowell with evening options.
A fragmented timetable lists numerous train departures to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea Dover Everett Lynn Middleton Newburyport and Salem with varied daily and Sunday slots. The OCR reads numerous times and locations including branches to Gloucester and Lynn via multiple stops.
Workingmen's train schedule for Oak Island and Point of Pines with departures from Boston via Haymarket on Thursdays and Saturdays. Includes times for Oak Island, Point of Pines, and return legs, listing Pullman Portland Bangor service and officials James T. Furen, D. J. Flanders.
Hoosac Tunnel Route timetable effective June 20 1887 from Boston to North Adams Troy Albany and the West with multiple trains daily including sleeping car service to Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis. Local and through connections listed for Belmont Waverley Concord Marlboro Nashua and other points. Sundays daily operation. agents John Adams J Whitmore and J Watson listed.
Read shows intricate timetable of trains and boats serving Buzzards Bay Nantucket Plymouth Weymouth Cohasset Scituate Marshfield and more. Listing covers weekday and Sunday departures returns with exact times and connections to Brockton Taunton Nantucket and New Bedford. GEO L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK listed as officials.
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