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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 19, 1888

Page

7

Global Wool Sale Totals by Region and Rates

Regional textile markets report daily sales of scoured and greasy bales across Victoria New South Wales Queensland South Australia Swan River and New Zealand with varied prices in old currency. Highlights include Victoria 1700 bales and New Zealand 8300 bales with mixed scoured locks pieces greasy goods and several price notes.

Victoria New South Wales Queensland South Australia Swan River New Zealand Cape Ofi Natal

The Chicago Markets Reported by Farnum Reardon Company

Wheat traded dull with strong cables noting bad weather ahead and short interest in July and August. Corn firm on shorts covering and a 750000 bushel local purchase, oats dull, hogs firmer. receipts expected and prices listed across futures and cash markets in Chicago and major cities.

Farnum, Reardon & Co Ares

Boston Market Flour and Grain Prices July 15

Market report lists carload prices for flour and grains, noting quiet, dull trading and modest demand. New York and Chicago bids shown for flour, corn, oats, rye, and meal with varied lots and export activity. prices and receipts across Boston, Milwaukee, St Louis, Toledo, and Detroit.

Minnesota Michigan Canada Superior Canada Roller Canada Extra New York City Chicago St Louis Milwaukee Gor Detroit Toledo Hoosac Tunnel Boston & Bio Y Bush Graham Milteed Choice Common

Wholesale Butter Cheese and Produce Prices Reported

Butter quotations show little change with large receipts and fair demand. Prices span creameries to Vermont and Eastern lines, with Western and New York quotes, jobbing prices higher. Cheese trades steady to weak, egg prices steady, beans and peas quoted with diverse regional prices, hay and straw demand soft, poultry market quiet with steady rates.

Western Vermont Chicago Elgin New York Ohio Liverpool Chicago—State Als

Banana Steamers Bring Fruit to Boston Firms

The steamer Hondo arrives from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company while the Carl Konow sails from Baracoa carrying bananas for WW and RNoyes, expected to dock soon.

Banana Steamers Hondo Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Carl Konow R Noyes Baracoa

Fruit Market Report Shows Stable Prices Across Regions

Apples remain steady with Delaware crates at 33 per crate and Southern crates at 150 to 225 per crate. Early harvests priced at 4 per barrel. Oranges and lemons unchanged with Palermo oranges 6 to 7 per box and lemons 5 to 7 per box, Messina oranges 5 to 6.50 per box, Valencia oranges 7 to 8 per case. Berries show mixed demand with blue berries 10 to 12 cents for New Yorks and 16 to 18 cents for natives. blackberries steady 12 to 15 cents. raspberries 16 to 20 cents per quart for Maryland and Delaware and 4 cents per quart for Hudson River one third cups. Red currants 7 to 10 cents per quarter pint. Gooseberries quiet at 3 to 3.5 cents per bush. Pears well supplied, sales slow at 12 to 2 dollars per crate and 4.65 per box.

Delaware Palermo Messina Valencia New Yorks Marylands Delawares Hudson River

Market notes on fresh produce and pricing

The report lists active demand and ample supply for a range of vegetables and fruits. Prices per barrel, crate, or box are given for items such as squash, green peas, tomatoes, cabbage, spinach, beans, onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, rhubarb, cucumbers, and more. Le Loupe closing out slowly at 825 crate.

Baltimore Russia le Loupe

Pork Prices Hold Steady Amid Steep Market Listings

Market notes firm with good demand across pork goods. Long cuts at 17.50, short cuts 15.60 17.75, backs 17.76 18.00, lean ends 17 25 17 75, tongues 18, mess 16 75 14 25, fresh ribs 1042c, sausages 942 10c, lard variants and various pork items quoted with regional movements. Chicago and St Louis show stronger or firmer tones in related provisions segments.

Chicago St Louis Cincinnati New York City Extra India Western Steam

Meat price list from old market rates

A fragmented market listing quotes for various meats. Spring lambs fetch 18 14 cents, common 10 12 cents. Chicago mutton choice 943 10 cents. Brighton mutton 942 10 cents. yearlings 842 p%ec. Eastern mutton 9a9tec or similar. Eastern veal choice 9 10 cents with common to good at lower prices.

Chicago Brighton

Sugar Prices Steady Amid Firm Demand Across Markets

Sugar markets show firm to active demand with steady prices in Cuba New York and Havana reports. Refined and granulated sugars hold firm with quotes for Cuba Manilas Java and refined grades. Molasses trade quiet with several regional price ranges noted.

Cuba New York Havana Spain Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos Mayaguez

Cotton market shows August gains then slight easing

Allan Cotton, brokers at 22 Ex Banes Place, report today’s market with August contracts rising early then easing but closing near day’s best. New crops gained 2 to 4 points while Southern plant selling reduced costs. Liverpool firm, New York quiet but firm with middling at 10 9 16 cents and futures opening steady, closing steady. Various U S and Atlantic ports show mixed receipts and stocks with general firmness across markets.

Allan Asher & Co Ex- Banes Place Bull Clique Liverpool New York Apis Sisa Csv Cieesie Orleans Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Continent Mobile West Point Norfolk Altimore Philadelphia Cincinnati St Louis Louisville France United States

Market Report Hog and Cattle Prices Across Cities

Hogs firm in St Louis with light weights $56 6 and up to $95, Peoria soft $60 585, Cincinnati hogs $45 595, Chicago cattle and hogs active to higher with cattle beves $415 625 and hogs $5 95, sheep $8 415, Western lambs $5 6 25. Receipts and shipments listed for each market.

St Louis Cincinnati Chicago

Miscellaneous Market Quotes and Commodity Prices

Market notes show moderate demand and steady tallow prices with city rendered at 14 and country at 4 2 4 cents. New York tallow firm with 25 000 pounds sold at 4 cents. Turpentine and petroleum figures listed for New York with resin tar and RSW. Coffee Rio dull at 14 2 cents in New York. St Louis and Cincinnati quotes noted at 114.

New York St. Louis Cincinnati Rio

Imports and Exports July 18 1883 Grand Manan NB

Import log from Grand Manan and St John details schooner Porpoise with 7500 boxes herring, steamer Hondo and Michigan cargoes, bananas, coconuts, coffee, tin, hides, woollens, carpets, mdses, and various merchandise. Lists numerous firms and consignee names across shipping routes to Honduras Jamaica Boston Liverpool and beyond. Also notes Kehooner Rettle at St John with 715 bbls ale and goods from Lyon Dupuy Isaac Rich.

Grand Manan Herring DebButts & Daggett Honduras Jamaica Boston Frunco Liverpool Eng Michigan Jere Abbott & Co Baring Bros & Co Steel BM Jones & Co Lewis Drexel, Morgan & Co Washburn & Moon Yverkins Thomoise White, Son & Co Pierce & Co Warren & Wood Tl Walsh & Co Macallar, Parker & Co Joel Goldthwait & Co Thomas Groom & Co Kendall, Barrows & Co Mros & Co Walker, Stetson & Sawyer Cave H White & Co F Hovey & Co H Stearns & Co Indie Beach & Co Do Mackintire, Lawrie & Co Lido Brown, Durrell & Co Hi Leonard & Co Morey Churchill & Morey Do Jones McDuffee & Stratton Abram French & Co Jordan, Marsh, & Co Macallar Arker & Co Cottons Brown, Durrell & Co Houghton & Dutton Go Rich & Co Stoddard, Lovering & Co Murray Kuler, Breed & Co Mallen & Co Brigham Albert Cushman Dennison Mig Co Phelps, Dodge & Co ST John Kehooner Rettle Alewlves Lyon, Dupuy & Co Do Isaac Rich & Co

Exports July 18 1888 at Little Glace Bay

The schooner William C French sails from Little Glace Bay amid export activity on July 18 1888 with a locomotive cargo noted in the harbor trade.

Little Glace Bay William C French

Maritime cargo listings from multiple ports in 19th century diary

METEGHAN NS and BRIDGEWATER NS show schooners Bollan and Cyrene loading varied goods for Buenos Ayres Valparaiso Chile and Lunenburg including pine lumber, naval stores, cotton goods, lard, nails, barrels, grindstones, oars and petroleum. Detailed tonnage and package counts indicate a busy coastal trade with several vessels listed.

Meteghan Buenos Ayres Herbert C Hall J H Marsters Valparaiso Chili Tovacco Bridgewater Lunenburg

Staple Products Receipts July 18 1888 Sanctioned

A detailed list from multiple railroads shows large consignments of wool flour corn oats malt feed lard hams pork butter and leather among others. Entries include Boston & Albany Grand Junction Old Colony Fitchburg and Boston & Maine lines with quantities and items across wool, meat, dairy, grains, lumber, and hides.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Hoston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Oston & Maine Railroad—Western Division Lowell Express Baes

Livestock Market Highlights at Brighton and Watertown 1885

The weekly Boston Post report by George J. Fox details cattle and sheep arrivals at Brighton and Watertown yards, with prices for beef, store cattle, hogs, sheep, and lambs. Western stock dominates arrivals. milch cows and springers show mixed demand. overall market sentiment remains cautiously encouraging amid abundant supply.

Brighton Watertown Boston Post George J. Fox Smouan Elsie Oa Ak Pers Ba WH Monroe Hollis & Co Lear L M Dyer Farrell & Nagle J S Henry J . Remick Liamson Libby & Son Nice Holstein Co F H Coolidge Maine Eastern Solw J W Bean J Meloy & Son

EXPORT CATTLE SHIPMENTS AND WATERTOWN SALES REPORT

Export trade shows four cattle carrying steamers sailing this week with 2485 cattle, the heaviest weekly port total this year. Markets firm, with Liverpool prices expected to dip to a pound within ten days. Watertown yards report 172 carloads in seven days, with mixed Western and local stock. prices range from about 40 to 1600 pounds per head, and notable sales include several steers averaging around 1500 pounds.

Liverpool London N Morris Iown J A Hathaway Gould & Morgan J Rollinger W J McClellan Kansas Watertown Robert French Chester Pike Cornish

Boston & Maine announces June 24 1888 through trains to West and East divisions

Boston & Maine Railroad posts June 24 1888 notices for through trains on Western and Eastern divisions. Listings include departure times from Haymarket and Causeway streets to Augusta, Bangor, Bar Harbor, St John, Halifax steamer connections from Portland, and connections to Lewiston Manchester Concord North Port of Maine lines. extra fare applies on the Westen-Jersey Pullman service.

Augusta Haymarket St Causeway St Bangor Bar Harbor St. John Malifax Haymarket Sq Old Orchard Portland Poland Springs Bay Marbor Kosten Ric. Wesert Eastport Calais N. Is Halifax Causeway Street Haymarket Square Rockland Castine Southwest Naymarket Square Cause Way Street Lewiston Manchester Concord North North Conn

Eastern Division Train Schedules Across Multiple Stations

A dense list of hourly train departures and destinations from Many stations including Amesbury Beverly Middeford Chelsea Dover Eve Brett Great Falls Rochester Hampton North Hampton Epached Newburyport and Portsmouth. The timetable includes varied morning and evening slots with some notes on branches and special services.

Amesbury Beverly Middeford Chelsea Dover Eve Brett Great Falls Rochester Hampton North

Boston to Point of Pines and Oak Island Trains Timetable

Complex timetable listing outbound and return trains from Boston Causeway Street to Point of Pines Oak Island and other destinations such as Wilton Lake Village Meredith Ashland Laconia Weirs Plymouth Centre Harbor Wolfeboro and Montreal. Also notes through service regional divisions Central Mass Division and various local points with daily and Sunday trains and connecting services.

Point of Pines Oak Island Boston Lowelkl Causeway Street Wilton Lake Village Meredith Ashland Laconia Weirs Plymouth Centre Harbor Wolfebors No. Woodstock Pennigewassets Valley Warren, Haverhill Woodsville Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Jefferson Bethlehem Profile House Swin Mountain Fabyan’s P Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St. Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Sim Passumpsie Wells River Bristol Claremont Ranch Montvetlier Essex Junction Burlingtexu St. &Tibans Montreal Boston Air Line Crain Central Mass. Division Portland Street Northampton Hadhey Amherst South Amhert Belchertown Mondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Jefferson’s Oakdale West Boylston Worcester Clinton Berlin Hudson Sudbury Rockbottom Ayland Wes Waverley Belmont Waltham Way James T. Furger Vu.e Landers Gen’l Pas

Special notice on baggage service for Boston to destination

Passenger holders of tickets via this road may have baggage checked from hotel or residence in Boston to destination. Orders for baggage may be left at No 8 Old State House.

New York Boston Brooklyn Jersey City No. & Ola State Mouse Washington and State Streets Old Colony Pilgrim Land P. O Old State House K. Kendrick Glo L. Connor Gen.l. Vass L. H. Palmer Fall River Line Shore Line Stonington Line No. 8 Old State Old Colony K.R J. Fe Vane Man Gen Pass J Wy

Central Division Timetables Mixed with Numerous Stops

A dense listing of intercity departures and arrivals across the central division including Fall River Line routes. The fragmentary schedule names towns such as Ashment Beechton Cohasset Taunton New Bedford Newport and Plymouth with varied times, days, and service notes.

Cape Cod Division Bus and Train Schedules Fragment

Readable fragments list various Cape Cod towns with listed times for buses and trains. Mentions Buzzards Bay Bourne Chatham Falmouth Hyannis Harwich Nantucket Sandwich Sagamore West Barnstable and Woods Hall with multiple morning and afternoon departures.

Cape Cod Kneeland Street Buzzards Bay Barnstable Mourne Bournedale Brewster Cataumet Chathan Wei Tuttapoisett Marion Nantucket Woods Hll Oases Bay Province Town Sandwich Sagamore Yarmouth Wrenone Wellfleet West Barnstable Woods Hall Wareham Warmeouth We Ua Sanda Buzzards Fay Bourne Bournedade Carraumet Chatham Cottaga City Falmouth Hyannis Harwich Wratham Wenaumet Woods Moll

Providence Division Schedule Fragments for Park Square Station

Fragmentary timetable data for the Providence Division from Park Square Station showing departure times toward New Work and Shore Line with scattered entries. It includes Sunday exceptions and references to Attleboro and the Providence Line with multiple times such as 10 am and 6.45 pm, plus garbled notes and nonstandard phrases.

Providence Division Park Square Shore Line

Local Gazette Fragment Teases Aerial Poxls Fore

Fragmentary OCR text hints at a historic event or notice involving authorities and a public matter. No clear names or dates are readable, but the legible bits point to a municipal or regional notice with unspecified action and location.

Fragmentary OCR data from North Attleboro area notice

Incomplete extract lists times and figures near North Attleboro with multiple numbers and labels. The readable items show schedule style entries and fees but no coherent event or action to summarize.

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