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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1888
Page
7
The notice lists hay prices from $10 to $26 with grades fair to good and poor to ordinary, Eastswale and Hastern fine, rye straw and oat straw quoted. Poultry trade is quiet with Northern fresh killed chickens at 20 to 23 cents, fowls 14 to 16 cents, Western iced fowls 13 cents.
The Balder is due July 10 with bananas for G H Harding. The Lorenzo D Baker is reported about July 12 with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Samana is due July 13 from Baracoa with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Gwent is due July 13 with fruit for Seaverns. The Samona is due July 13 with fruit for the Boston Fruit Company.
The market is well supplied with fruit and sales largely at old prices. Oranges and lemons show quiet trade. Palermo fruits cite per box and case prices, while strawberries command 9 to 12 cents per quart. California Fruit Union auctioneers Blake & Tiner report pears at 2.50 to 2.87 per box, plums at 3.31 to 3.89, prunes at 2.38 to 2.95, with a batch of fancy fruit to be auctioned July 10. Arkansas and other regions note further fruit sales and upcoming union cars. Watermelons are well cleaned with no Southern arrivals, and cherries and currants show varied demand. Virginia blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, blueberries described with regional price ranges. Bartlett pears and other fruits cited in Snow & Co sales.
A commodity note shows demand for truck with stable prices. Readable items include new marrow squash two dollars per barrel, asparagus one dollar per dot, green peas fifteen dollars per bush, Savannah tomatoes one dollar per crate, Mississippi fifteen hundred per crate, Long Island cabbage sixteen fifty per barrel, native spinach forty cents per bush, and multiple other vegetables with varied per unit or per crate pricing.
Pork products show steady demand with varied cuts priced between 17 and 18 dollars per unit. Lard bacon hams and shoulders quoted across markets from Cincinnati to Chicago with cattle and lamb prices rising. fresh beef remains firm with strong lime of choice steers and varied weights.
Sugar markets show firm or rising prices across grades with active demand for refined sugars. Quotes cover Cuba and Porto Rico sugars, New York and Havana markets, with ranges for raw, refined, pulverized, and confectioners grades, plus molasses trade and related prices.
Allan Asher & Co report steady opening and close in New York futures. Liverpool market quiet with slight rise in August and balance list. July to September activity shows August demand from Eastern buyers, ample September supply, and firmer prices overall. Domestic sales: 4221 bales export, 114% bales home. New York spot quotes: middling uplands 10 3 16 cents, low middling 9 15 16, good ordinary 9 1 16, ordinary 7. Prices and futures closed steady.
The report lists opening and closing figures by month and port, with net receipts gross exports stock and market tones for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated three day totals. It notes firm quiet steady and mid price levels across various commodities and regions with detailed stock and export figures.
Receipts across major markets show active Kansas City and Chicago cattle gains with Texas cattle firm at Chicago. Hogs mixed as St Louis and Peoria report firmer or higher prices, while Cincinnati and New Orleans see firm or steady bid levels. Sheep remain dull to steady with native and western lambs noted.
Tallow prices steady with city rendered at 414¢ and country 344 4¢. New York coffee fair demand Rio at 14-2c. Whiskey markets steady in Cincinnati and Chicago at 120. Turpentine and petroleum mixed quotes with several rosin and tar figures. Lip Line Certificates show July 7 close 78s, open July 9 78 4¢, high 80c, close 3 pm July 9 1888 794s.
A ledger style record of imports at Liverpool and nearby ports detailing woollens cottons linens dry goods toys leather glassware and machinery from firms including Clement & Soule Folsom Nute Newell Spaulding Elms Wheeler Conant Blodgett Baring Bros & Co and others. It lists quantities such as cases bales casks crates boxes and bbls for goods like woollens silk ware tin plates earthenware and beer with sizable totals and multiple consignors.
A long list of shipments and orders from Halifax to Fort Hawkesbury includes potatoes, canned lobsters, eggs, fresh salmon, pickled fish, dry fish, pork, and household goods. Named firms include Rockwell Son, Russell, Delong Seaman, Barker, Cobbs, and others. The record shows numerous case counts and crates, with items such as ships chests, puncheons, bbls, pounds, and crates noted alongside several merchants and destinations.
A detailed list of shipments from Hull England via New York and other Atlantic ports including Martello and New Brunswick steamer cargoes such as waste, sewing machines, canned meats, lard, flour, cornmeal, beef, refined oil, and various goods. Port notes include Liverpool Nova Scotia Digby Annapolis Annapolis Newfoundland Grand Manan Surinam Weymouth Melbourne and Melbourne Australia with vessels like Brigs Saidee schooners Veritas and Elihu Burritt and bark T Remmek carrying diverse cargoes.
The entry lists receipts for the Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, and Boston & Providence railroads dated July 9 1888. It records quantities of wool, flour, oats, malt, feed, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, hay, lumber, leather, hides, cotton, sacks, corn, hams, beef, bacon, tongues, tallow, tea, sugar, molasses, and boxes among others in bales, cases, bbls, and bags. It notes several rail lines and broad goods totals across multiple categories.
Summary of various railroad and sea shipments listing bales wool cotton leather and hides along with boxes barrels and casks across New York New England Iitchburg Old Colony Boston & Maine divisions including quantities such as 972 pales wool 935 vbls tea 30 pkgs oleo and 77 bales leather, 46 bales wool and 20 bales wool in Old Colony, plus 1915 bales foreign wool and 6389 cases eggs by sea.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat steady while on passage and for shipment whet and corn hold steady. Park Lane prices show Calcuta wheat at 31s 6d and Danubian corn at 19s 6d as English and French markets firm. Liverpool spot wheat and corn firm with quotes for winter wheat 6s 7d to 6s 8d and spring wheat 6s 6d to 6s 7d. corn mixed Western at 4s Lld and 1 eas higher at 6d. Provisions steady to higher with pork 70s and bacon 41s 6d short clear, 41s long clear. cheese 41s. lard 40s 3d. tallow 22s 6d. Farmers in Great Britain report 20,239 quarters of wheat delivered in the week at 31s 1d.
A listing of Boston and Maine Railroad routes with stops and times from Haymarket and Causeway stations, including Augusta, Bangor, Bar Harbor, St. John, Eastport, Rockland, Portland, New Bedford, Manchester, Concord, North Conway, and other Maine Central lines. Various daily departures note local stations and car services, with steamer connections and limited express details.
Train times from Boston and surrounding stations to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington plus many local stops including Andover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Malden Medford Reading and more. Sunday trains listed with routes and varying departure times.
A dense list of route times and stations in the eastern division showing schedules for multiple towns including Amesbury Dover Newburyport North Conway Lynn Salem and Boston area connections. The fragment lists arrival and departure times across numerous stops without a single coherent narrative.
Railroad timetable excerpt listing Sunday and weekday trains to Nashua Lowell Lawrence Stoneham Lexington Woburn Winchester Manchester Concord Montreal and lines to Northampton Ware Worcester South and West stations. Corrected to June 24 1888 with numerous station stops and departure times.
Fragmented OCR detailing bus or rail schedules for Providence Division routes. References to Park Square Station, New Work, Sundays, times like 1.30 pm, 8.30 am, 10.30 pm, and various stops such as Central and Koaslinds. includes irregular punctuation and garbled phrases indicating timetable entries and route notes.
Central Division timetable fragment shows departures from Kneeland Street Station toward New York via Fall River Line with multiple stops including Ashmont and Plymouth. The dense OCR lists numerous times, locations, and fares or measurements, reflecting a segmented rail schedule with intercity connections and Sunday service notes.
Cape Cod division timetable lists Buzzards Bay and nearby towns with multiple morning departures at 9.00 am and late afternoon runs. Notable stops include Plymouth areas, Wellfleet, Yarmouth, Sandwich, Sagamore, and Hyannis with variations via Woods Hall and Woods Hall routes. Sunday service shows 7.30 am to 8.15 am starts from several towns and multiple 4.05 pm and 4.15 pm arrivals.
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