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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1887
Page
7
Quotations note cargo lot pricing with Rico new fancy crop at 36 cents in Cienfuegos Cuba. Mentioned items include boiling and test terms, with reference to hominal.
New York market notes show flour receipts exports and varied prices across wheat rye corn and oats with U S river trade figures. Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Minneapolis St Louis and Detroit price reports add batched figures for wheat flour corn oats rye barley pork lard and whiskey with receipts and shipments data.
Hogs steady to firm with mixed packers paying up to 485 and butchers to 485. Hogs in Peoria steady at 430 to 505, Kansas City 455 to 460, with large receipts and shipments. Chicago cattle and hog markets show higher bids, 390 to 490 for steers and 460 to 490 for hogs, lambs around 150 to 300 per head.
The week shows net receipts across ports at 7133 bales with mixed prices and steady to firm tone in most markets. Notable values include New Orleans mid 1053c and New York at 117-16c with exports to Britain 782 bales and to the continent 475 bales. Consolidated totals show 341532 bales in port stocks and 5 200 644 bales received YTD.
London reports indicate wheat steady and corn firmer on cargoes off coast and awaiting shipment. Paris and Liver pool show wheat firm, corn quiet, breadstuffs firm with steady spot prices and mixed Western corn. Prices given in shillings and pence. California and Danubian grains referenced with prompt shipment notes.
Antwerp reports steady spot wheat with No 1 California at 22f and No 2 red winter at 30f. Paris notes June flour at 38f. Havana reports quiet sugar sales with 8500 bags centrifugal and polarization at $256 gold per quintal, plus 151 bags molasses sugar at $1.8742 gold per quintal.
Shipping ledger from Liverpool lists steamer Cephalonia 400 tons pig iron 44 cases etc. many firms including Stone & Downer and Baring Bros & co cover crates, cases, and goods across commodities from clothing to machinery while other ports like Yarmouth and Bermuda log cargoes of lobsters mackerel and onions.
A summary of export consignments logged for June 3 1887 including vessels Graf Eulenburg I G Curtis Elizabeth Ethel Granville Star Bothnia and Yarmouth with cargoes of staves oatos beans flour oatmeal cornmeal bricks and various goods. Ports include Parrsboro Margareville Saint John Yarmouth LIVERVOOL and Windsor with mixed cargoes such as bbls flour oatmeal cornmeal and hardware.
A June 3 1887 tally lists Boston & Albany and other railroads with receipts of wool flour corn oats malt feed tallow ham butter cheese eggs beans hay lumber leather skins and more. Items show numerous bales bbls boxes cases and cars across multiple lines including Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine and Boston and Lowell. Shipping by sea and rail sections also noted with assorted staples and commodities.
A list of property transfers across Charlestown Chelsea Revere Winthrop and East Boston with buyers sellers and parcel sizes noted. Includes mortgages and nominal sums in several transactions dated May with prices ranging from 1 to 3150 dollars and parcels from 1600 to 28000 square feet.
Suffolk Probate Court cites heirs in the estate of Henry I Hyde for account allowance. Appointments list administratrix Cherry McKissick, executrix Mary Fernald, and other executors with demands to be exhibited. Insolvency meeting set for July 8 with Otis Eddy as assignee. Train schedule updates issued for several routes including Boston New York and Providence.
Rail service details for Boston and Maine and connecting lines list daily through trains across multiple divisions. Specifies departure times from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Lewiston Portland St John Halifax St. John Moncton and northern and western connections, with arrivals and connections to Eastport Calais Concord North Conway and Maine Central routes.
Transfers include Gladstone street Lot 3130 sq ft from James O Halway to George R W Battis for 250 mortgage. Salem street Christopher Leonard to Mary Bradley for 1.. Wharton Wharf street Dexter F Mills to John Morrissey for 4000 mortgaged 500. Roxbury Frances V King to Henry J Bartlett for 1. Dorchester Robert Murray to James W Nisbet near Dorchester Ave Ashmont station for 1. Parker Street 2190 sq ft John McCarthy et ux to Francis J Ward for 2100. Loring N Barnes to Charles F Kittredge et al trustees for Bushnell Lombard streets. Harvest street 128 sq ft John R Smith to Henry H Hanley for 1. Norfolk Chipman streets John J Williams to William H Fitzpatrick for 1. Bowdoin street Lucy M Robinson trustee to Theodore L Kanuffer et al for 1212 mortgaged 808. Milton Avenue John M Way to Sarah King mortgaged back 2000. Rockwell street 16601 sq ft Alexander Vogel to Reuben M Pitman May 23.
Multiple property mortgage deeds recorded. Jerome S. MacDonald to Mary A. Fitzpatrick covers Second Street South Boston for 400 dollars. Matthew C. Graham et al to Martha A. Foster on Belden Street Dorchester for 500 dollars. Edward F. Butler to Workingmen's Cooperative Bank on Kimball Avenue Revere for 600 dollars. Willard G. Hollis to Corinna Brown on Cambridge Street Allston for 8000 dollars. David H. MacKay to William Eaton on Montrose Street for 8000 dollars. Joseph R. Churchill guardian to Mary Willard on Dorchester Avenue for 500 dollars. Joseph F. Gray to Augustus Russ on Great Head Winthrop for 500 dollars.
Massachusetts probate notices list multiple estates with executors administrators and heirs named. The notices invite interested parties to appear, present claims, or show cause for allowances or administration actions in Suffolk and Middlesex counties during June 1887.
Owing to Connecticut legislation, after May 29 the 10 am Sunday Boston to New York and the 10 am Sunday New York to Boston trains will be discontinued. A 10 am Sunday Boston to Providence and a 4 pm Sunday Providence to Boston train will operate on and after June 5.
Detailed list of trains from Boston area to Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maverill Kenonebunk Biddeford Saco Lawrence North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell Medford Melrose Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Wakefield Wilmington Wilmington and other stops with departure times ranging from early morning to late evening. Includes return trips and special notes for the workingmen's train.
Trains depart Boston for Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett and many South Shore points with listed weekday and Sunday times. The schedule covers Brockton Newburyport Provincetown Cohasset Hingham Plymouth and more with arrivals and return times, via Fall River Line and other branches. J R Kendrick is the General Manager.
Timetable information for the Boston and Lowell Railroad with routes from Boston Causeway Street including connections to Plymouth St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke and Montreal. Frequent daily departures at 8.30 am with multiple local and through services and Pullman parlor cars to Montreal. Names MEC Mell en George W Storet and station notes.
Boston notice announces George French seeks a fourth class license to sell intoxicating liquors as a wholesale dealer at the Putnam House corner Market Street and Western Avenue Boston with one front room first floor and cellar. Clerk F G Irving signs.
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