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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 02, 1888

Page

5

Market Report for Grains and Produce From City Auctions

The note details prices for steamer yellow corn and No 2 yellow lake and rail, with spot quotations for various corn, oats, and white varieties. Receipts and shipments are listed for St Louis Milwaukee Chicago Detroit New York, with prices for rye, flour, hay and seed meals, and fruit auctions. Concrete figures include steamer yellow near 59c on track, 47c spread, No 2 yellow 58 44e, No 3 57 4c, No 8 corn 56 44c, and oats No 2 white around 42 40s. The market tone is mostly steady to dull with limited demand and several on-call bid/ask figures.

St Louis Milwaukee Chicago Detroit New York Albany Mest Geshem Dour Enor Sac Canada Choice Eastern

Market reports show steady butter prices and strong receipts

Receipts for June 30 totaled butter 121,958 pkgs and 12,906 boxes, oleo 18,460 pkgs, cheese 22,838 boxes, eggs 69 boxes and 155 bbls, beans 3039 bbls, potatoes 172,912 bush, hay 1,175 cars, straw 151 cars, poultry 942 pkgs, sweet potatoes 159 bbls. Last year had lower butter and cheese, higher creameries demand. Prices listed for Western and Vermont creamery varieties, with New York and Liverpool markets steady. cheese prices steady, and various regional quotes given.

Choice Vermont Astern New York Canton Ohio Liverpool Ogdensburg New Hampshire Michigan Nova Scotia New Brunswick Island Veay California West North Norfolk Maine Burbank and Prolifics Chenangoes

Banana steamers arrive with fruit for firms

The steamer Welhaven is due from Baracoa with bananas for WW and CR Noyes. The steamer Ydun is due from Baracoa with bananas for Seayerns and Co.

Welhaven Baracoa WW & CR Noyes Ydun Seayerns & Co

Fruit Receipts and Peach Prospects Reported

Receipts for June end show apples 842 barrels strawberries 66 633 crates watermelons 100 494 and Florida oranges none. Last year apples 1920 barrels strawberries 39 215 crates watermelons 65 277 oranges 214 boxes. Delaware Maryland peninsula peach belt foresees 5 to 6 million baskets crop with prices around 25 cents per basket in Wyoming. Orchards list for speculators. commission merchant plan fading. cash buyers dominate via fruit exchange.

Florida Delaware Maryland Peninsula Wyoming

Norfolk boat truck crop rundown with mixed fruit and veg prices

The Norfolk boat arrives Tuesday with 84 crates cabbage 650 crates beans 70 crates shum pers and 70 crates tomatoes. Prices cover marrow squash asparagus native green peas Savannah tomatoes Mississippi Norfolk cabbage Baltimore Long Island greens wax beans onions beets cucumbers squash and other produce with varied per crate per bushel per dozen quotes.

Norfolk Baltimore Long Island Bermuda

Pork market and hog packing trends amid July provisions

The report tracks June 30 provisions receipts across pork, beef, lard, bacon and related products, comparing this year with last year. It notes improved pork market demand for smoked meats and exports, with various price quotes for pork products, lard, hams, tongues, and dressed hogs, and detailed weekly hog packing figures in the West and major markets.

Sugar and Molasses Market Notes and Hog Prices

Sugar market shows firm prices with limited activity for raw sugars and firm refined sugars, detailing Cuba, Havana, and Porto Rico quotations, freight rates to the United States, and weekly export figures. Slaughter hog and cattle prices appear in the Kansas City, Peoria, St. Louis, and Cincinnati markets with steady to firmer trends and specific price ranges.

Chicago Cattle Receipts and Market Notes

Chicago cattle receipts total 1000 with steady shipments and mixed stockers. Common to choice cattle priced around $1 to $2. Cattle figures show 3754435 dollars value, with Western feeders at $2.50 and Texas steers around $2 to $3.25. Hog receipts 11,000 with 4000 shipments, markets steady to weak and mixed, prices from $5.40 to $6.75 for heavies and lights around $6.40 to $6.60. Sheep receipts 2000 with slow mutton markets and Western lambs at $5, while Texans fetch about $2.75 to $3.75. Lambs reported as read.

Agtec Chicago Tigre Oa Rats Ae Sats Sa Cvese Ll Ogn Kansas City Indianapolis New York Park USA St. Louis Cincinnati Brighton Peoria Butchefmertia Texas

Cotton market summary with New York and Liverpool quotes

New York cotton quiet at middling 103-16 cents and 9 1/4 for low middling. Opened steady, closed barely steady. futures table shows small changes across June to February contracts. Liverpool spot quiet at 60 3/4 for mids and 69 1/6 for Orleans. sales 7,000 bales. Other ports report mixed receipts, exports, and stock levels with generally firm to steady mid quotations across Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, and St Louis. Consolidated domestic receipts 1,085, Great Britain exports 16,888, United States port stock 271,125.

New York Bes Viekus Liverpool Orleans Uae Ccc Ce Isc Ce Ueas Esa Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Coastwise Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Real Brittain Philadelphia York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville United

Mixed Commodities and Prices Report from June 1888 Markets

The report notes quiet demand across items including city meat trade at 4c and 2c in various markets, dull New York city trade at 4c, Rio coffee at 160, St Louis whiskey unchanged at 114, Cincinnati prices steady at 114, turpentine and petroleum metrics with resin, tar, and RSW values, and Lips Line Certificates closing at 73%2c with a day range from 73% to 74% across June 29–30 1888.

New York Rio Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati

Receipts of Freight Goods by Major Railroads 1888

A dated ledger of July 30 1888 listings extensive shipments across multiple rail lines. Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Lowell System, and others show quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats beef butter cheese potatoes tea coffee grease lumber hides leather and various bales and cases.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony New York & New England Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Jostén & Maine Railroad Lowell By Express

Imports and Exports in Ocean Trade Ledger 1888

A dense list of goods imported and exported including lobsters bananas earthenware glassware steel wool woollen goods leather and more. The entry names multiple firms and consignments such as Nororogy Mellen Clark Sawyer and others with quantities like cases bale casks crates and boxes across various items. The document outlines a busy port trade ledger with numerous ships and consignors totaling varied cargoes.

Garacoa Haven Bothnia Wali Bates Willian Rae Sia Sware Nee eDiaffe Glassy Ag Spram French & Co Nororogy Mellen & Vo Hhde Do Clark, Sawyer & Co Jackson Norway Steel and Iron Co W Jones Benl, Higgins & Hercerson Cumner, Dones & Col Stone & Downer Merve & Co Charles Pollock Wright & Litson Linder & Meyer Per Odinaly AH Rolfe & Co

Massive City Warehouse Inventory Listing and Shipments

A dense 19th century ledger style inventory enumerates items from numerous firms including Fuller Dana Fitz, JH Pray & Co, Pierce & Co, Stone & Downer, R H White & Co, Jordan Marsh & Co, and many others. The list records boxes, casks, cases, and bales of goods such as tin plates, carpeting, saddlery, dry goods, silk, lace, wines, machinery, woollens, timber, leather, and hardware, with quantities like 140 boxes, 434 boxes, 1,000 casks, 350 boxes, and hundreds of sacks. It also names carriers and associated colleagues, reflecting widespread consignments and stock movements across departments and merchants.

Fuller, Dana & Fitz Pray, Sons George Bridge Booth & Co H White & Co Neal, Moise & Co Maculiar Parker & Co Brown, Durrell & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Crompton & Co Caton Bros & Bixby Darrell & Upham Sawyer & Co Edward Boote Mackintire, Lawrie & Co B_ Austin & co Stone & Downer H Atkins & Co Chambers, Calder & Co Louis Wolf & Co Boston Clock Co Shollinger, Moses & Co Oliver Jamon

Exports Across Halifax Charlottetown Shore Trade 1888

A dated export list from June 30 1888 notes shipments from Halifax Nova Scotia and Charlottetown Prince Edward Island. It includes steamer Carroll with lumber hides beans flour and various goods, plus cargoes from Buenos Aires And Buenos Ayres Barton Port Gilbert and Cabarien Cuba, detailing quantities of lumber flour kerosene pine and more.

Halifax Charlottetown Pei Carroll Buenos Ayres Inveresk Barton Schillian Port Gilbert

RAILROADS Fitchburg Route timetable details and connections

Schedule details for Hoosac Tunnel Route with departure times from Boston stations to Troy Albany and beyond. Includes palace cars, express daily services to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Erie, and connections to Lowell Cambridge Nashua North Adams and Worcester. Notes through tickets from 250 Washington Street Boston and local stop changes at Ayer Junction. JOAN ADAMS J. WHITMORE J.B. WATSON.

Fitchburg Hoosac Tunnel Duane Ave Boston Causeway Street Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction West Palace Chicago Niagara Falls Short Line Erie Boston Line St. Laws Niagara Malls Michigan Central Ri Niagara Falls Grand Prank Railway AL. Lows Wabash Western Railway Binghamton Ayer Junction U Pu SUN Aim Kedmont and Waverley Sis Miller’s OD Pu Cambridge Elelo Ain Pie Sun LL Amj T. Concern Lipm. Sun Kitcehburg Gardner and Miller’s Falls Tom Greenheld Lip Hhvosick Balle Founsonville Lincoln Marlboro Madison Maynara—s Nashua N. BE Ayer d Junction North Adams Williamstown North Leaminator Saratoga Shelburne Falie Union Square Somerville Waltham Watertown Union Market Bit Aue Buen Worcester Dun Joan Adams Montreal & West Vermont Pullman Ofton Lowell Pullmar Eoxpress Wagner Palace Central Vermont K. Kk Vgh Washington Street Boston J. W. Wobari W. Cummings Pasa T Albans

RAILROADS Timetables West and East Divisions July 24, 1888

Boston and Maine routes list through trains and connections from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Bangor Calais St John Maine ports and Portland Lewiston Rockland Castine Southwest and Bar Harbor with Pullman cars and steamer links from Portland to Eastport Calais and St John detailing multiple daily departures and stations across Maine and New Hampshire rail lines with noted connections to Grand Trunk Knox & Lincoln and Manchester Concord lines.

Augusta Haymarket St Causeway St Bangor Bar Harbor St. Johna Mali‘ax the Provine Aymarket Sq Old Drehard Portland Poland Springs Bannor Haymarket Sq Kosten Mt. Desert Eastport Calais St. John Monuays Youngs Causeway Street Haymarket Square Erockland Castine Southwest Ar Farbors Lewiston Manchester Concord North North Conway CansewWa St Portland- Haymarket Sq Maine Central Grand ‘Trunk Knox «& Lincolo M Railways Causeway

Eastern Division Train Schedules From Boston to Amesbury and Surrounding Stops

Boston station timetable lists numerous departures to Amesbury and regional stops including Chelsea Dover Marblehead Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Revere Rockport and Lowell corridor connections. Several times appear for weekday and Sunday services with numerous minor lines and observations about branches and workingmen's trains.

Boston and Albany Railway Time Tables Fragment

General notice of train times and station stops across multiple lines. Lists departures, connections, and return times for weekdays Sundays and special services, with operators Hanson and Gallup noted as officials.

Island Leave to Boston and Returns Timetabled Route

Timetable data shows Island Leave services from Boston Causeway Street Lowell System to Oak Island and other destinations with through service to Kitten Lake Village Meredith Ashiana Laconia Weirs Plysmouth Centre Marbor Wolfeboro No Woodstock Pemigewaesett Wailey WBaa neh War ren Blaverhill Woodsville Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster dellerson Beethlehem Profile House Swin Mountain Mabyan's Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St donnabury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and local assumbie Division points.

Lowell Boston Causeway Street Kitten Lake Village Meredith Ashiana Laconia Weirs Plysmouth Centre Marbor Wolfeboro No. Woodstock Pemigewaesett Wailey Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Dellerson Beethlehem Profile House Swin Mountain Mabyan Assumbie White River Junction Wells River Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington S. Albans Montreal Northern RR Boston Air Line Fabyan’s

Unclear Transit Timetable Fragment With Local Stops

A fragmented OCR passage lists various times and place names such as Mattapai Duxbury Plymouth Abington and Quincy. It appears to be a transit timetable with multiple daily and Sunday departures and partial route names, but many items are garbled.

Providence Line and schedule fragments across stations

A jumble of timetable fragments lists services for Providence and New Work lines, with station names such as Park Square Station, Attleboro, Canton, Beaham, Forest Hills, and Hills. Numerous times are shown, including mornings, afternoons, and Sundays, but many entries are garbled and unclear.

Providence

Sundial coded entries prompt cryptic listing

Fragmentary OCR text lists numbers and abbreviations like 380 BD sund Uy and 9.25 00 11.4 00. Llé Bidills with several detached figures including 6 12 ms 20 and 5.5 sundays. References to North 4 oat Pr 30 and 10.34 40 appear without clear context.

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