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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1888
Page
7
A compact price rundown for Southern summer squash carrots lettuce turnips rhubarb radishes cucumbers and related items. Entries include 60c per crate 50c per box 125 225 and 275 dollar figures per crate or barrel with various counts and names such as white French native cucumbers and St Andrews market references.
Pork prices stay firm with steady hog quotes and strong lard demand. Listings show long cuts at 17 17 50, backs to 18 00, and various hams and sausages priced across multiple grades. New York and Chicago notes reflect weak pork and mixed beef movements with steady gasoline?
Sugar markets show little change with steady prices and weak demand. Raw sugar futures across Cuba and New York drift, refined sugars steady. powdered and granulated varieties vary from 6 to 7 cents. Molasses remains quiet with small regional price differences. New York trade noted as dull with 50 test nominal at 19 34 cents.
Allan Asher & Co report Liverpool prices lower on arrivals selling to weaken the market then recovering as spinners and exporters buy. US spinners covered shorts, demand shifts to better grades, New York futures mixed with steady spot in Liverpool. Other markets show mixed receipts and steady to dull tones across the coast and inland ports.
Stock Yards Kansas City ledger notes active demand with strong prices for top cattle and steady to slow for others. Hogs at St Louis Peoria Cincinnati and Chicago show easier to steady trends with varied ranges, while Texans and Western feeders post mixed prices. Receipts run into thousands across markets, with heavy hogs and cattle pushing higher in Chicago and general weakness in some sheep trades.
City market shows steady demand at firm prices with prime city quoted around 484 cents. Coffee market described as fair, mentioning Bio doll and raminal at Lie amid cautious activity.
Whiskey in Chicago and St Louis remains steady at 120 and 114 respectively while Cincinnati holds at 14. New York Turpentine closes at 86 6c with resin 120 221 percent and tar nominal. petroleum closes at 61 44 64c with RSW 7c and cases at 9c. Pipe Line Certificates close 3 p m June 12 opened 10 a m June 18 bid 77c lowest 76 gc closing 3 p m June 18 1888 76 %c.
Weekly report by George J. Fox for the Boston Post covers live stock totals for the week ending June 18 1888. Arrivals include cattle and sheep at Watertown and Brighton with prices for market beef store cattle veal calves and hides. notes western and northern cattle, dairy cows and springers, and late arrivals with sample sales and export trade.
Shipping and trade items list cargoes and routes including bananas and cocoanuts loaded at Jamaica Matanza s and Ponce on schooners Juan Jacobus Flora Herald and brig Rauick with amounts in puncheons tierces and bbls. Firms Ames Boston Wr Co and S Amstick & Co appear in the record detailing freight and destinations.
Shipping at Bridgetown Granville Ferry Digby Annapolis Windsor Pori Williams and Liverpool England shows schooners Florence Christine Clara E Simpson Sarah Glass and others with flour cornmeal meal lard cranial goods bacon oil and more. The detailed export tallies include quantities such as 500 bbls flour 290 bbls cornmeal and 16 071 bush corn among many items headed to various destinations.
Long roster of freight receipts by various railroads listing wool bales flour corn oats malt feed tallow grease butter cheese eggs beans hay straw lumber leather hides pelts and more. Totals touch multiple thousand units across Boston & Albany Boston & Maine Eastern Western divisions Fitchburg New York & New England and other lines with June 18 as a reference date and large commodity counts.
London reports show mixed cargo activity with wheat and corn trading slowly and prices varying by market. Liverpool notes wheat firm and corn steady with improvements in demand, while Manchester’s Guardian describes a quiet market with cautious sellers and limited transactions amid strong cotton influence.
A fragmented list shows agents and firms in multiple cities including Baltimore Chicago Concordia Detroit Lexington Lillie Rock Meridian New York Pine Bluff Swedesboro San Francisco Savannah St Louis Wheeling and more, with names such as Weinberger Leonard Frank Sutter Bassett Baum Morse McDougall Meyer Williams Collat Powell Schafer Boyd and others.
Sealed proposals for furnishing officers of the Treasury Department with coin bags for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889 will be received at this office until the 27th day of June 1888 at 8 o clock p.m. Blank bidding forms with instructions and bag descriptions printed thereon will be furnished upon application to the secretary of the Treasury.
Boston June 13 1888 notice of a court issued insolvency warrant against the estate of Frank Fuller forbidding debt payments or property transfers. A creditor meeting to prove debts and appoint assignees will be held at the Court of Insolvency in the Probate Building Boston on June 29 1888 at 2 PM. John L Witzpatriotck Deputy Sheriff Messenger signs the notice.
A collection of probate court notices from 1888 regarding estates in Boston Woburn and Dedham. Includes petitions for dower assignments under Dennis Hutchinson lands and will probate for Peter Dale. Also details on a trustee account for George Cabot heirs and a name change petition for William Lawrence Tucker to Lawrence Tucker with publication requirements.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex Probate Court cites next of kin creditors and all interested in the estate of Charles A Alexander late of Waltham intestate. Andreas Blume of Boston seeks letters of administration. hearing set in Cambridge on the fourth Tuesday of June at 9:00 AM. publish weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post. last publication at least two days before court. Witness George M Brooks judge.
Train schedules list departures from Augusta Haymarket and Causeway Street stations to Maine Coast towns, Saint John, Halifax, Rockland, Lewiston, Manchester, North Conway, Portland, and connections via steamer services. Services operate Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays to certain routes, with multiple daily departures and transfer points at Haymarket and Causeway stations.
Western Division timetable lists morning and afternoon trains from Kioston Station to Alton Bay Mochester Farmington and many other stops including Dover Banevers Exeter Great Falls Malden Medford Melrose Melrose Highlands Reading Wakefield Wilmington and surrounding towns with Sunday trains noted.
Dense timetable fragment lists trains from Mesion Station to Amesbury and many other towns with inconsistent times. It includes multiple stations such as Chelsea Dover Revere Gloucester Salem and Swampscott with weekday and Saturday patterns and various branches. The legibility is poor but indicates a broad regional schedule amid OCR errors.
Boston Causeway street line lists through service to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville with multiple daily departures and Montreal via White River Junction. Local runs include Manchester Concord Nashua and Bedford with parlor and sleeping cars to Montreal and Boston connections.
Train timetable lists departures from LBoston Causeway Street and other stations to Northampton Hadley Amherst and towns including Belchertown Woodsville Ware Weston Waltham and Belmont Sunday trains to Ware at 1 15 p m Time tables provide full local and through train information available at stations James T Furber general manager
A dense listing of Central Division train times and stations including Kneeland Street Station for New York via Fall River Line. Numerous stops such as Ashmont, Braintree, Brockton, Cohasset, Easton, East Weymouth, Fall River routes via Brockton, Plymouth via Abington, Quincy, Rockland, Scituate, Taunton central, and Whitman. Many entries show multiple daily departures with varied AM and PM times, including Sundays.
A dense OCR list shows Providence Division schedule notes for Park Square Station to New York and various stops, with times across mornings and Sundays. It records many station names and varied minutes, reflecting a scattered timetable snapshot.
Fragmentary timetable data lists weekday bus times and routes across Cape Cod towns including Buzzards Bay Bourne Falmouth Provincetown Sandwich and Wellfleet with multiple morning and afternoon departures. Names and spellings are inconsistent with several OCR errors. key points show transit patterns between 8.15 am and 4.15 pm across coastal municipalities and Nantucket via New Bedford. The record preserves schedule glimpses across Cottage City Vineyard Haven Edgartown Mashpee Sandwich Sagamore Wellfleet and surrounding areas.
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