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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1887
Page
7
Dealers complain salesmen deceived them about wear quality. Goods sold cheaply were old stock needing improvements, making them job lots. Calera cannot expect new goods or quality at auction prices. Shipments of boots and shoes have been as was.
The flour market stays firm with unchanged prices and quiet activity as millers hold firm and buyers take only needed amounts. Oats and steamer yellow and mixed grains show varied steady quotes. numerous price details for No 1 white, fancy clipped, and call and bid figures are listed. Produce and dairy shift little, butter and eggs mixed in tone across cities, with steady cheese and sugar markets and active shipping data for wheat and corn exports to United Kingdom and Continent.
The report shows 3000 bales and 1000 American receipts. New York spot closed dull at 117-16 cents for middling uplands, 10 9-16 for low middling, 10 9-16 for good ordinary, and 87-16 for ordinary. Futures opened firm with quotations listed.
From New York to Minneapolis reports show flour receipts and exports, with milled products and sugars steady or dull. Wheat and corn prices move across cities like Milwaukee Detroit Chicago and Cincinnati, with varying bids for No 2 and No 1 grades and notable activity in pork, lard, and bacon futures.
Kansas City reports hogs steady with sales near 455 to 460 dollars. St Louis shows hogs easier with Yorkers at 450 to 460 and packers at 460 to 480. Peoria notes hogs steady at 430 to 500 with shipments, while Chicago records cattle receipts at 6000 and hogs steady with prices from 455 to 495 and tops around 510. Sheep receipts 6600, natives 315 to 450, Western 350 to 445, Texans 275 to 425, lambs 457.
The June 2 1887 cotton market roundup shows net receipts and stocks across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville with mixed firm tones and mids. Consolidated six day totals list 5921 receipts and 349115 stock across all US ports while exports to Great Britain and the continent vary.
London and Liverpool markets show wheat steady with fair demand, corn steady or quiet, and prices listed. Paris and Antwerp quote wheat and flour values, with Havana noting sugar softness. Weather unsettled in England accompanies mixed cargo activity and quiet markets.
The report notes 634 bers molasses sugar and 39 polarization priced at 194 per gold P quintal, alongside 733 bags centrifugal and 9614 polarization offered on speculation at 250 gold P quintal.
A detailed shipping list from Glasgow shows numerous consignments including Manitoban with pig iron and paper stock, Brown Bros and Co with pig iron and coils, and various lines such as J F Townsend Seavey Foster Bowman and Jordan Marsh & Co handling dry goods. Additional items include lime, leather, granite, oats, mackerel, lobsters, and hardware. Several entries reference ships New Brunswick Yuba Pride of the Port and Kansas with cargoes destined for Canada and Barbadoes, plus extensive commodity boxes, bales, and crates from Baring Bros and Co and other firms.
Lunenburg lists Brig Clio with 100 tons salt 197 bbls clam bait 75 bbls meal and 250 bbls flour. Annapolis and Digby note Steamer New Brunswick with 5 bags cotton seed 4 cases dry goods 1 case foundry patterns and 25 prgs household effects 5 bales oakum 120 empty lobster cases 66 edged egg cases. Cape Island schooner Irene shows 375 empty bbls. Yarmouth schooner W E Weir has 241 empty fish bbls. Annapolis schooner A T carries 125 bbls flour 301 sacks shorts 460 bbls meal.
Receipts list extensive freight counts for Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence and Old Colony railways including cotton wool flour oats wheat bran and more. Corrected to January 3 1887, trains depart Boston Station foot of Summer Street with a dense schedule across numerous cities and towns.
A verbose inventory details freight consignments for the New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Boston & Lowell, and Express and Sea routes. The lists include eggs, wool, flour, oats, cornmeal, leather, hides, lumber, tub butter, cheese, potatoes, hay, and bales, with counts like 132 bales wool and 1275 bbls flour among others.
Boston to North Adams Troy Albany and West trains listed with multiple departure times and service classes. Includes Chicago Cincinnati St Louis sleeping car services and through tickets. Local and through timings shown with station lists and office contact.
Rail service details for Boston to New York via New England and Norwich lines. Includes schedules, stops Hartford New Britain Waterbury Willimantic and connections to steamer City of Worcester and City of New York with Pullman and dining cars. Tickets at 322 Washington Street and Boston station.
A detailed timetable outlines new daily departures and returns from Boston to New York and Providence routes effective May 30 1887. The schedule includes Shore Line Fast Express, Shore Line Mail, Steamboat Stonington Line and numerous local stops such as Pawtucket Attleboro Readville Hyde Park Forest Hills and Stoughton with varying AM and PM times and several Sunday exceptions. A. A. Folson, Sup.
Due to Connecticut law changes the 10 am Sunday Boston to New York and New York to Boston trains will be discontinued after May 20. A 10 am Boston to Providence and a 4 pm Providence to Boston Sunday service begin June 5. From May 30 the Shore Line train leaves New York for Boston at 1 pm. Through tickets and local time tables available at Boston offices 232 Washington Street.
Schedule note from R Kendrick General Manager details weekday and Sunday train departures and returns from Boston to New York via Fall River Line across numerous stops including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sand wich Braintree and more with times and return options.
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