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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1888
Page
7
A quiet trading day with flour, corn, oats, cornmeal, and rye holding steady. Butter, cheese, hops, malt, and various meats report steady or improved demand while potatoes fall and lambs remain extremely quiet. Sugar and molasses stay firm or unchanged as other staples show little movement.
Providence July 21 The Chicago markets show a quiet week with prices easing to 3 5 8 and 3 8 6 cents for 64 squares and 56x60s respectively. Actual sales total 2000 pieces with 648 sold at 315 16 cents. Manufacturers hold 5000 pieces 64s and no 56x60 5s in stock.
Boston markets report weekly flour receipts totaling 16 850 bbls plus 47 half bbls and 33 368 sacks, down from last year. Grain receipts list corn 75 526 bush, wheat 2 400 bush, oats 119 792 bush, rye 600 bush, millfeed 88 tons, cornmeal 3 588 bbls, malt 6 675 bush, hops 83 bales. Local price ranges for flour and export/ New York/ Chicago markets are noted, with steady to quiet demand, pricing across multiple grades and regions, and detailed spot and futures quotes.
Rye markets vary by city with firm demand in No 1 Old Rye and nominal new rye in New York. Chicago and St Louis show mixed receipts and quiet activity while Milwaukee remains subdued. Flour and meal prices hold steady with moderate demand. oats and hops similarly muted.
Receipts for the past week include butter 37 077 pkgs and 2182 boxes, oleo 3230 pkgs, cheese 5974 boxes, eggs 42 boxes, 98 bbis and 11 241 cases, beans 888 bbis, potatoes 26 cars and 46 928 bush, hay 203 cars, straw 156 cars, poultry 345 pkgs. Last year butter receipts were 22 616 pkgs and 1870 boxes. cheese 2178 boxes. eggs 83 boxes. potatoes 6 cars and 74 045 bush. Butter demand is quiet with a well supplied market for medium grades, sales of choice Western creamery at 2 1 2 to 2 1 2 cents, creameries at 7 1 2 cents. Butter quotations and textures vary by region. cheese market quiet and steady with multiple regional prices. Potatoes are abundant with prices declining. hay and straw markets steady. poultry unchanged with several regional price points for fresh killed birds.
Apples show large supply with quiet trading around $125 175 for Norfolk. Oranges and lemons largely unchanged with Palermo and Messina varieties listed. pears steady with Georgia LeContes at 75c and $125 per crate. Blackberries and currants in fair demand with various regional quotes. blueberries receipts rise. Raspberries and other California fruits see good demand at established prices. peaches prunes plums and Bartlett pears sold by case at set rates.
The Marmion is due July 25 from Jamaica carrying bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Herald is due July 24 from Baracoa with bananas for Seaverns and Co.
Trade notes show quiet activity with steady prices for assorted produce. Items include native greens, tomatoes, cabbage, onions, beans, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, cucumbers, rhubarb, and more priced per crate, bush, box, or basket with varied cash values. Prices reflect closeout at $3.25 per crate for a closing item.
Weekly receipts show pork 805 bbls and beef 462 bbls with varied formats for lard bacon and tongues across multiple containers. Last year’s totals are listed for comparison. Pork product prices are provided with long and short cuts, backs and lean ends, and several cured or processed items priced per unit or weight.
Western dressed hogs quoted at 7 to 7 1/2 cents with heavy activity around 100 bbls mess at 14.25, old. 14.75 new. Beef and lard trends mixed with dull or steadier notes. Chicago and Cincinnati markets show weakness and firmness in various cuts. Fresh beef and lamb values listed for steers, hinds, chucks, loins, and mutton with mixed demand and steady to lower prices overall.
Sugar markets show firmness and quiet demand at old prices across regions. Cuba prices list fair to good reining at 544 5% sc, centrifs at 96 test, refineds varied from pulverized 858c to standard A 7 4c, and wholesale granulated at 8c. New York and Havana trade remain steady with limited activity. receipts for the week include 854 bags and 340 hhds, with U.S. shipments totaling 60,000 bags and 298 hhds. Molasses markets show steady polarization and domestic freight costs rise slightly for Gulf shipments.
Cotton markets show dull to steady trading. New York middling uplands quoted at 1011-16 cents, low middling 107?16, good ordinary 94?16, and ordinary 79?16, with 392 bales sold. futures opened dull and closed steady. Liverpool spot dull in buyers’ favor at 59-16d for middling uplands and 5% sd for Orleans, with 6000 bushels sold and futures closing quiet. Other markets report varied receipts, stocks, and firm to steady phrasing across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, and Louisville, with consolidated U.S. net receipts 408 and Britain exports 1970.
Market tone steady at Kansas City stockyards with cattle receipts totaling 1947. Cows and mixed last quotes around 210 to 415 and 205 to 400. Hogs receipts 3198 with demand active and firm prices. heavy 590 to 600, mediums and lights 585 to 600. Sheep receipts 1079 unchanged. Cincinnati hogs scarcer and higher. common and light 485 to 615, packing and butchers 590 to 625. Receipts 244, shipments none.
Tal tow demand moderate prices unchanged and quotes listed for city and country goods. New York trade quiet at steady levels withTurpentine resin tar and petroleum figures. coffee dull. whiskey steady in St Louis. Chicago and Cincinnati markets steady with listed dollar figures.
Readable fragments show cargo items and quantities for vessels at St John New Brunswick Grand Manan Windsor and other ports. Items include flour fruit vegetables beef cornmeal oatmeal marble stove linings facings furniture and dory along with lumber shoes bales cotton and miscellaneous goods.
A Boston area ledger dated July 21, 1888 tallies staple goods for multiple railways including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western Lowell and Sea routes. It lists bales of wool flour cornmeal oats potatoes butter cheese eggs hams beef lard leather hides skins and numerous other commodities with quantities and carriage references.
Cable report from London July 21 notes cargo activity. wheat firm with sales and waiting cargoes, corn turning dearer, markets quiet in Paris and UK ports. Liverpool bids show bread starts firm with fair demand and sparse offers, corn steady, pork at 70s, bacon higher, cheese steady, tallow steady. Quotations listed for winter and spring wheat, club wheat, and mixed Western corn with prices.
Dividend No 6 declares the usual quarterly two percent dividend on net earnings payable August 15 to stockholders of record August 1. Transfer books close August 1 and reopen August 16. Signed by A S Weinsheimer secretary. July 20 1888. Curiaco.
Trains listed from June 24 1858 include Western and Eastern divisions to Augusta Haymarket St Lawrence and Portland connections with multiple departures from Causeway Street and Haymarket Square. Additional lines cover Portland Maine Central Grand Trunk and other lines with various morning and afternoon departures and steamer connections to Calais Saint John and Halifax. Extra fare applies on the Boston and Mt Desert route Pullman vestibuled cars.
A dense listing of Western Division departures from Boston stations toward Alton Bay, Rochester, Farmington, Exeter, Great Falls, North Lawndale, and many other hubs, with times across weekdays and Sunday trains. The timetable names multiple towns, lines, and services in a single dense OCR fragment.
Time tables list trains from Boston Causeway Street to Northampton Hindhery Amherst Belchertown Isandsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Mulland Jeffersons Oakdale West Brooklston Worcester So Clinton Bertin Hudson So Sudbury Rockbottom Wantland Wrenton Waltham Waverley Belmont Belmont to Northampton. Full information on local and through trains obtainable at stations. James T. Furber, D. J. Flanders. General Manager, Genl Pasr and Ticket Agent.
Local timetables for the Boston and Albany line and offices at 232 Washington Street Boston offer through tickets to all points. Daily trains from Boston to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West run at several listed times with connections at Pittsfield and Chatham. Newark and Worcester routes, plus branches to Framingham and River Branch, are described with multiple daily departures and connections. schedules include Sundays and holidays with service details and agent signatures.
Eastern Division timetable lists trains from Boston stations Causeway Street to numerous destinations with irregular times and numerous garbled entries. Readable items show through service to Boston areas and beyond, including Point of Pines and Oak Island, with through connections and multiple branches.
Train schedule fragment lists express daily routes with palace sleeping cars to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Grand Trunk, and to St Louis via Wabash Western Railway. Stops include Albany Troy Binghamton and Boston Line connections with variable times and fares.
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous transit times and routes including Taunton Central, Mattapan, Plymouth, Weymouth, South Braintree, Duxbury, Quincy, and Wellaston Meigh. It appears as a timetable or schedule snippet with frequent times and via connections, but many entries are incomplete or misread.
Partial timetable listing trains from Kneeland Street to Buzzards Bay and various Cape towns with times for morning and Sunday services. Indicates multiple stops including Sandwich Sagamore Yarmouth and Woods Hall routes, with notes on via Woods Hall and service windows between 9.00 am and 4.15 pm.
Transportation notices list departures from Park Square Station to New York Shore Line and other local routes with times, Sunday exceptions, and stops including Canton Junction, North Attleboro, and Central. The garbled OCR shows multiple trains and fares, with inconsistent hour marks and occasional destinations, reflecting a dense timetable page from a historic Providence division.
A fragment shows Boston local and through train service details with schedules in a dated notice. It lists ticketing points at Boston Stations and Old State House Office, and names J R Kendrick and Geo L Connor as railroad officials. The notice is dated July 1, 1813 and mentions wallet compact printed books for sale by Aaron K Gay & Co at 122 State Street.
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