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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1887
Page
7
Prices listed for millet dungarian and rye hay straw with quality notes and per unit costs. Tallow and fat prices include city rendered and rough for oleo margarine. Norfolk potatoes and Jerseys offered with per barrel rates, including sums for medium and extra lots.
The market for pork and lard is firm with steady demand. Hams quiet. fresh beef firm at old prices with fair supply and quiet trade. Veals lambs and muttons unchanged. Prices for pork and lard vary with cut and grade. beef items show slight spreads among extra, plate, and mess categories. Fresh beef ranges for steers and hinds reflect mixed quality, with various chucks loins and ribs listed.
Market notes show watermelons sold by size with prices from 15c to 25c and large lots at 80 Bbc. Green apples at 2 to 3 per barrel, Georgia Le Cour pears 1.25 to 1.75 per crate, berries varying from 8c to 14c per quart or pint, evaporated apples firm with 17c to 7c ranges, Messina oranges 7 per box, Palermo oranges 5.50 to 7.00 per box, lemons 2.50 to 6.00, and California fruits including apricots pears peaches and plums with several per-case prices. Steamer D J Foley due July 25 with bananas from Baracoa for G H Harding.
A variety of produce prices are listed for onions cabbages beans corn and other vegetables with per basket crate and dozen figures. The Norfolk steamer is due Friday carrying apples citrons potatoes squash and tomatoes totaling 950 barrels and 650 crates respectively alongside a Tennessee tomato shipment sold at 20 to 25 cents per quarter box.
Liverpool futures opened quiet and closed dull with various July through November bid and ask levels. Spot Upland and Orleans middling firm at 56 11-16d. New York spot steady with middling uplands at 105-16d, low middling 9 1 16e, good ordinary 9 1 4e. Futures opened steady. multiple contract quotes shown. Sales noted 12,000 bales, 10,000 American. receipts 400 bales, all American. Also pipeline certificates activity, sugar and molasses price levels listed with regional quotes.
Reports show flour and grain markets steady with mixed demand. Wheat and rye futures varied, with firmer cash oats and firmer state and western flour markets, while pork, beef, and lard trade moved slowly amid steady to modest demand.
Market report from Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Cincinnati Chicago St Louis detailing wheat prices receipts and shipments. No 1 white bid 77 75c Michigan red 75c No 2 red 75c Corn 41 4c Oats 30 Declines and firm notes across cities with flour shipments and whiskey prices noted.
Kansas City hog receipts 12 600 shipments 4836 official yesterday 12 196. St Louis hog prices mixed packers 32 40 to 40.5. Peoria hogs 5 10 to 30. Chicago cattle receipts 13 500 shipments 3 000 lower with steers 28 5 to 34 5. Hogs receipts 19 000 shipments 5 000 slow lower 5 15 to 5 50. Sheep receipts 4 000 steady natives 2 75 to 4 40 Western 3 3 75. Lambs price per head 1 60.
Consolidated data show varied activity across ports with Augusta and Galveston posting modest receipts and steady demand, while New York reports strong imports to Great Britain and high stock levels. National totals indicate five day receipts at 2842 and overall U S port stock around 217,882 with exports to Britain and France noted.
London and Liverpool report wheat weaker in some districts while corn remains firm. Paris markets quiet as Liverpool futures ease for wheat and firm for corn. Manchester notes a quieter tone with steady prices amid cautious buying. Havana sugar holders firm with recent re sales around $250 to $262.50 per quintal.
Steamer Hugo 15 432 sacks sugar Nash Spaulding co St Pierre Mig Schooner Mignonne 117 750 kilos dry fish Delong Seaman Lunenburg NS Schooner Amanda Newell 6000 lobsters Barclay co
A July 20 1887 export list logs shipments from Liverpool Port Williams Pictou Port Hawkesbury Yarmouth Aspinwall Windsor Weymouth Charlottetown and nearby ports. Items include 52 450 pounds cheese 61 021 bush peaches 7 bbls apples 117 pies 850 watermelons 666 tons ice and 11 974 feet pine lumber plus multiple drums cases and crates of meat dairy oil flour and hardware.
Colonial era ship cargo listings record schooner Iowa clearing July 18 from Liverpool with 7 bbls 2 cases 13 pigs machinery 480 feces lumber 151 boxes 15 tierces bacon 3 bis tongues 20 boxes wood work 21 bales cot ton 66 224 bush wheat 6532 sacks flour 2 cases organs 4736 pieces staves 682 cattle 860 quarters beef 1 case thread 100 hbds lard stearine 560 tierces leaf lard 51 hbhds tallow oil 54 hbhds tallow 147 bales 97 pigs leather 72 bales cotton waste 8 boxes patent medicines 1 box effects 1 case signal machine 1 truss samples 1 truss photographs. Bear River Nova Scotia schooner E Walsh clearing July 18 20 bbis sugar 8 hhds 2 bbis molasses. Basse-Pasperiag Quebec brig Tibbie H 500 bbis old ron.
Summary of July 20 1887 receipts listing quantities of wool flour corn oats malt teed ham bacon grease sugar coffee tea butter eggs beef lard bacon potatoes leather hides skins lumber and other staples carried by Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western Boston & Lowell and by express and sea shipments, with bales sacks barrels and car counts.
A long list of buyers and firms from cities across the United States, names including J R McKeldon Creighton Hibbard Bates Sullivan Faller Ehrlich Bristol Hunt Phelps McLaughlin Gore Shay Fargo Marks Henderson Fife Kaminski Mayhew Murphy Ross Thomas Cook Scott Terry Nettleton Rittenburg Chase Atwood Williams Hull Vila Hoffmaster and others. The item catalogs multiple shippers and brokers in footwear trade with addresses noted, reflecting a regional business notice.
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported 163 cruelty complaints in the month, removed 29 horses from work, and had 67 animals euthanized. It distributed nearly 150000 humane publications, with Bands of Mercy growing to 5717. Bound volumes of Our Dumb Animals will be placed on Boston and Sound steamers and in major hotels.
Elizabeth M Boyd of Boston petitions the Suffolk Superior Court for a divorce from John George Boyde. She alleges five years’ desertion starting 1851, plus repeated cruel treatment and failure to provide support since April 1881. She seeks a divorce and proper orders as deemed fit.
In Boston, Sarah Witherow sues James T Witherow for divorce on grounds of desertion and intoxication. She seeks custody of three children Harry ten Emma May six and Bessie four with alimony and maintenance provisions. The petition requests decree of divorce and support obligations for her and the children.
John B. Witham of Boston seeks a divorce from Emma L. Witham on grounds of misconduct and intoxication after marriage in Boston May 18 1874. Libellant prays for divorce and alimony, with court orders for service and publication in the Boston Post.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Superior Court orders libellee to appear and show cause why prayer in petition should not be granted. Attested copy of libel and order to be published in Boston Post weekly for three weeks, last publication at least thirty days before final date.
The third meeting of the creditors of Henry J. Allen and Walter B. Allen copartners Allen Bros. Newton Middlesex will be at the Court of Insolvency Cambridge on July 28 at 9 AM to prove claims. Wm. R. Munroe, Assignee. Also Alex M. Robinson insolvency Melrose assignee John H. Krey to hold a second meeting at Cambridge on July 28 at 9 AM for creditors to prove claims.
Rail routes listed for Boston and Maine and connected lines with departures from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. Services include Augusta, St. John, Halifax, Eastport, Portland, Lewiston, Manchester, North Conway, and Knox & Lincoln lines. Multiple daily times noted across several divisions and connections on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Train times listed for multiple routes from Boston to towns like Andover Dover Exeter Haverhill Melrose Malden Medford and Reading with numerous departures throughout the day including morning afternoon and evening services. The mixed OCR text shows station names and irregular times across many lines indicating a comprehensive regional timetable.
A dense timetable lists trains leaving Boston and various stations including Amesbury Chelsea Dover Marblehead Ipswich Newburyport and Salem with numerous daily and weekend times. It includes branches to Oak Island Portland Bangor and other destinations and notes on through services and offices.
The city council printing committee opened proposals for one year of printing the board of aldermen and common council proceedings. The Daily Evening Traveller bid 9000 dollars, the Boston Transcript bid 10000 dollars. The Transcript would print the report the day after a meeting of either branch. The awarding of the contract was referred to a sub committee for report.
On and after Monday May 30 1887 trains run from Boston to New York on the Shore Line Fast Express and other lines with varied schedules. Key services include New York Line Mail at 11 pm Sundays, Steamboat Stonington Line 6.30 pm Sundays excepted, and multiple Providence and Attleboro connections with return times, plus occasional delays and timetable adjustments. Connecting with 8.30 am from Providence. A. A. Folsom, Supt.
Boston and Lowell timetable details list through and local trains to towns such as Laconia Plymouth St. Johnsbury and Montreal with numerous departures from early morning to late evening. Parlor cars, sleeping car to Montreal, and a Montreal line connection via Central Vermont and Boston Air Line are noted along with several branch services and station contact points.
GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK disclose a dense timetable of train and boat connections among towns like Ashmont Barnstable Sandwich Hyannis New Bedford Nantucket Falmouth Plymouth and Wareham. The schedule lists departures and returns with many specific times and routes via Plymouth Duxbury Scituate Barnstable Weymouth and Fall River.
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