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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1887
Page
7
Eastern mutton ranges from 7 8c to 8a with choice heavy and fancy yearlings noted. Eastern veal sells from 5 6c to 7 8c with good to choice quality and some fancy lots while markets show varied demand.
Liverpool cotton futures opened and closed firm with July to September bids around 5 42-64d and October contracts near 6 25-64d. Spot upland and Orleans futures showed a firm, improving tone with 10,000 bales traded and receipts split between American origins. New York spot prices held steady across grades while pipeline certificates and sugar markets posted varied but stable quotes.
Reports from New York Chicago St Louis Milwaukee Cincinnati Detroit and Minneapolis indicate flour and grain prices fluctuating with weak wheat, steady corn, firm pork and lard, and variable receipts and shipments. Notable figures include No 2 red wheat around 72¢, Minnesota flour rates up to 460, and pork around 16 50 at Chicago and Detroit redigits.
Fall River reports weekly print cloth production 165000 pieces deliveries 196000 stock 157000 pieces last week 188000 sales 95000 spot 60000 future 35000 price 3144 cents and 1 percent added for 6488c 60x as market firm. Providence notes improvement with firm prices and good demand closing at 314c plus 1 percent for 64 squares and 3c for 56x60s. Sales week 14000 pieces and stock 167000 pieces 64s and 5000 pieces 56x60s.
Across Peoria Kansas City and Chicago hogs showed firmer prices with higher sales and strong receipts. Chicago reported steady cattle with steady to higher hogs and varied livestock values including Texas cattle and lambs. Market openings rose briefly before closing with some losses in spots.
Augusta net receipts 11, sales 603 in Galveston none, New Orleans exports to Great Britain 3531 and sales 750 with stock 6830 steady. Mobile 5 receipts and stock 383. Memphis shipmen 252 and sales 250. Savannah stock 1043 steady. Charleston no receipts or sales. Wilmington coastwise exports 228 and stock 733. Norfolk receipts 13 and sales 8010 mid 10 percent. Philadelphia receipts 5 and stock 15629 quiet. Baltimore stock 472 nominal. New York sales 440 stock 138114 firm. Cincinnati receipts 106 and ship ments 115 sales 400 stock 6467 weak. St Louis receipts 4 stock 5707 quiet. Louisville quiet mid 1054c. See metric on all ports one day 1468 exports to Great Britain 3631 stock at all US ports 223987.
Train schedules list departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Bangor Calais St. John Halifax and the Provinces with connections on Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox & Lincoln Railways. Additional routes include Portland Morland and North Conway with multiple daily times and stations.
The notice lists weekday train departures from Keaston to New York via Fall River Line at 6 and 7 p.m. with returns in the evening, plus extensive local stops including Ashmont, Barnstable, Sandwich, Hyannis, Weymouth, Brockton, and several coastal towns. It names routes via Taunton, Duxbury, Scituate, Plymouth, and Buzzard’s Bay, with multiple return times and connections to boat trains from Fall River Line and to points like New Bedford, Nantucket, Wood’s Holl, and Cohasset.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat inactive with six sold since last report and 18 awaiting sale. At Liverpool wheat futures weaker, No 1 California wheat for July and September quotes listed. Havana sugar markets quiet with nominal prices and steady exchange rates across port readings.
Long list of ships and consignments including Wellhaven at Baracoa with cocoa nuts pineapples bananas and assorted goods. London York City cargoes feature iron bars boils wires coils wool jute cloth chinaware glassware and textiles tied to multiple firms. Extensive vessel and commodity entries show broad import export activity for that date.
A July 16 1887 export report details shipments from Barrington Halifax Charlottetown Parksboro St John and Glasgow to destinations including Chili Scotland and Montevideo. Entries name ships such as Nina Page Kesmark Carroll Cygnet Arthur Willard Mudgett Riverdale and Scandinavian with cargoes of flour meal nails spirits lumber oil soap and more.
Freight tallies show Boston and Albany Grand Junction and other lines recording wool bales flour corn oats wheat middlings and various farm goods. Entries note bales leather hides bones and dairy products with numerous car and barrel counts across multiple railroads.
A long OCR list details shipments by rail lines including New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, Boston and Lowell, and Eastern Division. Items cover wool, flour, corn, oats, malt, tea, butter, cheese, leather, hides, hats, lumber, eggs, and hides among hundreds of bales and cases with numerous counts and car or bale tallies.
Notices announce administration for Michael Finnegan and probate for Philip Tewksbury with citations to appear at the Suffolk Probate Court in Boston. Debtor Joseph Greenberg and John R. Forbush face insolvency proceedings with creditor meetings scheduled in Boston. Executrices and executors notify creditors to present claims and settle estates in Suffolk counts.
Western Division lists trains from Boston stations to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with assorted times for Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Lawrence Melrose Malden Medford North and more. Sunday trains include Dover Haverhill Lawrence Lowell and Portland Bangor Lewiston.
Local time tables for the railroad line list departures to Albany Boston and beyond. Through tickets to all points are sold at the ticket office 252 Washington Street Boston. General agents A S Hanson and H T Gallup note schedules include trains to Springfield Buffalo Detroit and Worcester with multiple stops and Sunday services.
An unreadable timetable fragment lists Eastern Division connections among Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Ipswich Newburyport Middleton and other towns with numerous departure and arrival times including late night and early morning slots.
Timetables show numerous departures and arrivals for routes to Lynn Newburyport Ports mouth Oak Island and surrounding areas. Notes mention workingmen’s train Thursdays and Saturdays, city ticket offices and Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains.
Schedule excerpt for Causeway Street Boston to New York and New England routes listing numerous departure times, stations and routes. Indicates July 3 1887 as effective and notes Sunday trains from Boston to Norwood Central and intermediate stations with return times.
timetable fragment lists departures and returns for multiple Boston area lines including Hebronville Attleboro Readville and West Roxbury with varied hours and last line notes adjustments to weekday and weekend schedules and a note on connections from New York with several times and placeholders.
Train times and routes for the Boston and Lowell Railroad list through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction and branches to St Johnsbury Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans and Montreal. Local Boston Manchester Concord and Lowell service runs from early morning to evening with various stops including Nashua Greenfield Hillsboro and Peterboro. Sleeping and parlor cars to Montreal are noted on select trains.
A dense OCR of train times lists routes between Arlington Lexington and nearby towns with values like 6.55 and 7.30 pm. The note cites stations such as Belmont West Medford College Hill and Billerica and ends with signatures Mell en, Gen W Storer, and Gen’s Supt. The incomplete data hints at through and local trains with Sunday patterns and full information available at stations.
GEO W. STORER Gen Passs r Agt C S MELLEN Gen Supt Ben Ra. Central Massachusetts R A announces new open to war schedule starting Monday June 27 1887 with multiple departure times from Boston to Ware Barre Rutland and related stops including Hudson Jefferson Sudbury Wayland Weston and Rockbottom and other routes and stations through the day.
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