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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1888
Page
7
The market shows dull or steady tones across categories. Hay prices hold with various grades quoted from 13 to 20 per ton, poultry markets remain quiet, fruits show ample supply with oranges lemons and berries rated steady to active, steamer arrivals from Palermo Baracoa add to supplies, with pricing for bananas and grapes noted and New York markets listing specific lots and crates.
The market is well supplied with very quiet demand. Prices listed include marrow squash at 250 per barrel, native green peas 14 per bush, several tomato varieties at 1 per crate or box, onions of many types from 2 to 3 per bush, cucumbers at 1 per 100 count, and cantaloupes closing out at 225 to 250 per crate. Green corn and native tomatoes also appear with varied pricing.
The market for pork shows no major changes with long cuts at 17 17 50 and backs around 17 75 to 18 00. Sausages and lard prices vary by type, while New York reports firm pork trading and light activity. Beef and other meats remain near quoted levels with limited shifts in lard and dry salted cuts.
Sugar markets show no change with refined sugars steady at old quotations and wholesalers listing 8c for granulated. New York notes quiet but firm demand, while molasses remains unchanged with prices ranging for Porto Rico and Caribbean grades.
Stock Yards Kansas City receipts 7677 cattle slow 10 cent lower with steers 250 to 885 shippers 460 to 510 native cows 225 to 260 hog receipts 4015 demand active 10 cent higher heavies 610 to 625 mediums and lights 646 to 15 sheep receipts 1729 active demand stronger prices. St Louis hogs firmer light weights 6.20 to 6.40 mixed packers 6.30 to 6.50 butchers 6.45 to 6.60. Peoria 5 to 10 cents higher 59 to 64 5 receipts 800 shipments 720. Cincinnati hogs firm light common 46 35 packing 60 65 receipts 1540 shipments ? Chicago cattle receipts 10 000 shipments 4000 strong for good others weaker steers 360 to 2600 stockers 210 to 375 cows bulls mixed 150 to 350 Texas cattle 24. Hogs receipts 13 000 shipments 800 stronger mixed 59 5 to 64 0 heavy 61 26 to 65 light 64 6 to 45 ships 4 25 to 59 0 sheep receipts 8000 shipments 1000 weak natives 27 64 to 4 50 Western shorn 83 50 to 4 10 Texas shorn 3 4 to 10 lambs 5 46
Allan Asher & Co a cotton broker reports a slow market with ful l operations and no clearly defined point for the day. The opening move seemed easy on receipt of the market news.
Liverpool reports a 264d drop in arrivals but gains in prices on sustained orders for August. Rumors of 2000 to 156,000 bales shipped from Liverpool to New York to cover August contracts circulate as futures in New York ease and then steady. Spot Liverpool cotton eases while New York prices hold around 10.11 to 10.63 cents for middling and related grades. a broad set of U.S. and international market figures follow, with daily openings and closings shown for multiple months.
Taliow reports quiet demand and flat prices with modest quoted figures across regions. New York notes a firm market with 140,000 barrels at 4 percent. Chicago Cincinnati and St. Louis show steady trade and prices, turpentine closes at 35 cents with rosin around 105, tar two dollars, and rosin and tar futures enclosing varied quotes.
Live stock totals for Brighton Watertown and West End show 2000 cattle 14481 sheep 18418 with year ago and last week figures. Arrivals include cattle and veal at multiple yards and steady to soft prices for milch cows and springers. Market notes stress limited demand for cows, hogs easing, and export trade building amid over supply of Western cattle.
Prices and sales across Watertown and Brighton cattle yards show a mixed market with Western cattle, Herefords, steers, and beeves. Slaughter weights range 950 to 1500 pounds with prices from 4.5 to 6.5 cents a pound, buyers cautious and prices slipping. Local reports cite overstock and hesitation by butchers, while demand for hogs and spring chickens remains variable and regional supply meets demand differently at each yard.
Maritime cargo records list bark Bark Mariner with 13 055 bags sugar from Bar ing ros co at Barbado s, bark Per sey with 2573 pieces marble 20 casks pumice and 576 barrels bagging from Port Morant Jam, and multiple steamers and vessels loading bananas coconuts fruit sumac sulphur canary seed boxes at Genoa Palermo and other ports.
A dense OCR fragment lists cargoes and vessels at multiple ports including TAKAHUAN Chili, LIVERPOOL Eng, PORT STEPHENS NB, PALVERIAC via Port Hawksbury, WEYMOUTH NS, PORT-AU-PRINCE NC, GREAT VILLAGE WINDSOR NS, AHONE BAY LUNENBURG NS, MONILEVIDEO orders, ANNAPOLIS NS, BRIDGETOWN NS. Entries specify ships such as Steamer Michigan, Schooner Annie Harper, Brig Highlander, Bark Onaway, and Florence Christine with quantities of flour, cornmeal, lumber, pork, tobacco, cinders, tar, and diverse goods. The list reads as a broad, multiport cargo manifest reflecting trade and shipping activity across late 19th or early 20th century Atlantic commerce.
A historical staple goods receipts tally lists cotton butter flour eggs oats corn and other commodities with figures for 1888 and 1887. The entry includes quantities in bales barrels boxes hogsheads and bags across items like wheat rye oats malt potatoes tallow hay leather hides and coffee with varying totals. Names of specific items and their unit counts are provided in a dense column of numbers.
A dated receipt record from July 25, 1888, itemizes shipments across several railways. Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, and other lines show cotton, wool, flour, cornmeal, bacon, butter, eggs, cheese, lard, hides, leather, lumber, and numerous bundles of boxes and packages. Entries mention bales, bbls, tons, sacks, and cars of goods, reflecting a broad freight ledger.
London reports show wheat and corn firm with steady to quiet conditions in various markets. Liverpool notes wheat firm demand, corn quiet, and futures mixed with California wheat for October around 68 shillings and sixpence. Weather across England characterized as very wet.
A lengthy list of boot and shoe buyers from multiple cities and states is presented, naming firms and individuals such as N A Hass of Farr Hass & Co in Allentown, H I Lobe of Grattan Mitchell & Co in Baltimore, J A Lawrence of Lawrence Berry & Co in Yo Canton, and many others across cities including Cincinnati Louisville Lexington Cleveland Philadelphia Chicago and more, reflecting a broad network of wholesale footwear trade advertising.
Notice from Boston Suffolk County announces a warrant in insolvency issued against Frederick Harker. Creditors must file claims. a meeting to prove debts and appoint assignees is set for September 14, 1888 at the Court of Insolvency in the Probate building Boston. John B. Fitzpatrick, Deputy Sheriff, Messenger.
Henry W. Folsom and Alvine V. Kibby announce creditors meetings for insolvent debtors Samuel C. Hopkins of Boston and Thomas D. Gatchell. Hopkins meeting set Sept 7 at 10 a.m. in Boston Court of Insolvency. Kibby’s for Gatchell on Fri July 27 at 10 a.m. in Boston Court of Insolvency. Creditors may prove claims.
Charles W. Claggett of Watertown alleges faultful marriage to Mary C. Claggett by desertion from North Attleboro from February 15, 1883, to filing date, with one son born September 1879 custody with Mary. Requests a divorce from bonds of matrimony. Dated July 20, 1888.
The Middlesex Superior Court orders the libellee to appear before the jail court in Cambridge on the first Monday of September. An attested copy of the libel and court order must be published in the Boston Post for three consecutive weeks and sent by registered mail to the libellee’s residence fourteen days before the last publication. The libellee may show cause why the libel prayer should not be granted.
Trains depart from Boston and surrounding stations with numerous daily times listed for towns including Andover Exeter Haverhill Kennebunk Lowell Medford Melrose Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Wakefield and Reading. Sunday trains feature Dover Lawrence Manchester Medford Portland Lewiston Reading and Wway Stations with varied morning and afternoon slots.
Rail timetable lists departures from Boston Causeway Street and foot of Portland Street for Northampton Hadley Amherst South Amherst Belchertown Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland and other stops with morning and afternoon departures at 7.45 am 1.30 pm 3.40 pm and 5.25 pm plus additional times for several towns. Wine tables at stations provide full local and through train information. James T. Furber bp. J. Flanders General Manager Genl Pasr and Ticket Agent.
Compiled timetable fragment lists numerous station times across New England towns including Amesbury Biddeford Dover Everett Ipswich Salem Revere Portsmouth and Worcester area lines with irregular punctuation and OCR garble. Highlights show frequent morning to evening departures and varied connections without a clear single service pattern.
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