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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1888
Page
7
A fragmented OCR entry lists bales from multiple regions including Swan River Victoria South Australia and Queensland. It notes scoured and greasy locks and pieces with various prices and quantities such as 600 bales for Swan River and 400 bales for Victoria, plus Spanish black and salvage items and money amounts like 1s 1d and 7d.
Local prices for flour and grain show a quiet dull market with easier prices. Reports from Minneapolis and St Louis mills note limited demand and curtailed outputs while spot and ship prices across New York Chicago and Boston fluctuate with generally lower trends.
Putter reports a quiet butter market with prices firm and all receipts of choice creameries readily absorbed. Northern creameries maintain demand, while offerings remain balanced as buyers show steady appetite.
The steamer Raider is due June 20 with bananas from Baracoa for George K. Harding. The steamer Lorenzo D. Baker is due June 21 with bananas from Jamaica for the Boston Fruit Company.
Apples scarce with russets at 5.50 to 4.00 per barrel. oranges and lemons steady. Palermo oranges 6.47 a box, lemons 5.47 a box, Messina fruit prices noted. strawberries well supplied with several small lots sold. Watermelon moves slowly at 20 to 28 cents, California fruits fair with apricots plums peaches priced. auction sale postponed to Wednesday. Bananas arrive by steamships Gambetta and Samana with varied prices for different lots.
The market shows ample supply and steady demand with quotes for vegetables. Listings include New narrow squash at 2 dollars per barrel, Maryland cabbage at 3 dollars per barrel, Norfolk beans and onions with varied crate and dozen prices, Southern cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, beets, and other produce priced across crates, barrels, and boxes.
New York markets report firm pork prices and steady beef and lard levels. Prices span long cuts at 17.60 to 18.00 per unit, backs at 17.75 to 18.00, and smoked products around 11.5 to 12.4. Western notes show firmer fresh meats and mixed beef quotes, with Chicago and St. Louis reporting steady to easy trends across pork, lard, and bacon items.
The sugar market shows steady demand and firm quotes for raw sugars with Cuba refining at 41 3 16 to 41 5 16 cents, Manila sugar around 41 4 1/2 to 41 4 1/2 cents, Java Nos 10 to 11 about 5 1/16 to 5 3/4 cents. Refined sugars hold prices, wholesale granulated at 7 cents, with various grades listed. Maltasses and molasses markets unchanged, Ponce Porto Rico quotes at 36 cents per gallon, Porto Rico common to choice 26 to 36 cents, Cienfuegos new crop 25 cents, Mayaguez 25 1/2 to 55 cents, boiling grades 20 cents. New York trade dull. 60 test molasses quoted at 10 1/2 cents.
Allan Asher & Co report a firm market with Liverpool opening higher and closing 1 to 2 points up. New York prices show middling uplands at 95 1 16 cents and a broad list of regional receipts, exports, and stocks. August and September contracts saw widening premiums as shorts covered while bears and outside sellers stayed quiet.
Stock Yards Kansas City receipts show steady best grades and weak common grades for cattle, with steers around 460 to 600, cows 250 to 315. Hog receipts near 7998 with demand up, heavies 550 to 560, mediums and lights 525 to 505, pigs 525 to 526. Sheep receipts 539, market steady to fairly active. Chicago cattle slow and lower, natives around 300 to 315, cows 260 to 375, Texans 405, hogs 14500 with active and strong demand, mixed around 560 to 575, light pigs 565 to 565, sheep 4000 with natives 350 to 490 and lambs 575 to 676.
The report logs steady or unchanged markets in multiple sectors. Cotton and staples list unchanged prices in major hubs like New York Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati. Turpentine rosin and tar trade with modest quotes while petroleum closes varied. Yipe Line certificates show daily highs and lows with June dates and closing values.
A ledger style list of inbound and outbound cargo ships and consignments. Including baracoa steamer Gambetta with 9000 bunches bananas and other goods. Havana and Jamaica trade items. multiple firms such as Nash Spaulding & co and Wing & ivans appear. cargoes feature bananas molasses sugar lucerne china clay bleaching powders glassware and other miscellaneous merchandise.
World shipping list notes Rosario at Bark Gaa-paa-d87.51% feet number. Yarmouth NS shows steamer Yarmouth cargoes including cornmeal crates oranges lemons vegetables fruit and farm supplies. Sydney NS Bark Adam W records beer kerosene oil tobacco nails leather and vast varied goods. Liverpool England Istrian clears with paints food beef beef by products and timber. Annapolis NS Canning Packet schooner counts flour oatmeal cornmeal. Gibara Cuba Herald cargo coal. St John NB Greville schooner with flour scrap iron.
Merchandised totals include 83 bales cotton and 147 bales wool for the Boston & Albany line, 4050 barrels flour, 125 barrels oatmeal, 7980 bushels corn, 6620 bushels malt, 23 hogshead lard, 16 half chests tea, and 1115 packages oleo among numerous other consignments across multiple railroads such as Grand Junction Boston & Providence New York & New England Witchburg and Boston & Maine Eastern Division with quantities listed for cotton wool flour corn wheat oats and various provisions across several rail lines and depots.
The notice lists Boston and Albany railroad timetable details for local divisions with through tickets at Venetian offices in Boston and stations. It notes numerous departure times from Boston to Springfield, Pittsfield, Albany, and connections at Pittsfield, Chatham, Palmer, and Worcester with various branches and dining or drawing room services. This jammed OCR shows extensive daily and Sunday train connections to New York, Worcester, Natick, Newton, and suburban stops, including express and sleeping car options.
June 19 reports show wheat and corn prices easing in English markets with slow demand and ample supplies. Cargoes afloat and awaiting sale, prices for June to November futures listed, Liverpool receipts strong as breadstuffs show dull demand and proactive selling, with pork, bacon, cheese, lard, and tallow prices noted.
Chicago 11 G E P Dodge of Phelps, Dodge & Palmer and Cincinnati O J Bevekenstein of J Bevekenstein & Ad appear in a trade notice. Minneapolis C B Hefflefinger of North Star Boot and Shore Co is shown, while St Louis Jd H Schafer of Schafer Swarts & Co is also named in the same ad.
Boston Park Commissioners invite sealed proposals for building an Overlook Shelter House at Franklin Park. Bid deadline June 22 at noon, with total bid and written figures required. A $1000 certified check to City of Boston, bond if needed, and proper execution within four days of award. Plans available at City Hall Office.
A dense list of train times and station stops across many towns including Ashmont Brockton Cohasset Hingham Quincy Fall River Mattapan Nantasket Beach Neponset New Bedford Newport Plymouth Quincy Rockland North Easton Stoughton and West Weymouth outlines multiple daily departures with Sundays variations and special notes on certain routes and services in a historic timetable style.
A dense listing shows arrival and departure times for multiple stations including Providence Park Square Attleboro Canton Junction Readville and others. It notes Sunday patterns and late evening services with occasional adjustments for weekdays and Saturday operations.
Daily route times listed for Cape Cod division buses serving Barnstable Bourne Marion and surrounding towns. Service runs weekdays with morning and afternoon departures including 8.15 am and 4.15 pm from multiple hubs such as New Bedford Provincetown Wellfleet and Sandwich.
An auction will sell Monday June 25 at 4 pm on the premises. The brick four story building has a store on the first floor and five rooms above at 22 Hudson Street with a Kneeland Street frontage of about 26 feet 10 inches and Hudson frontage about 49 feet 6 inches totaling roughly 1260 square feet. £500 cash due at sale. further terms at sale or at S. R. Knights & Co auctioneers office 228 Washington Street.
Assignee offers two valuable apartment hotels on Auckland street in Ward 24 for public auction on Tuesday June 26 at 5 p m. Savin Hill area includes Savin with six suites and Annette with three suites. Buildings are new, three stories, about a year old, well tenants and near Savin Hill station and horse car lines. Land total about 8764 square feet. Terms: cash on deed delivery or large part mortgage if desired. $500 cash per house at sale. Further details from A J Bamford or auctioneers.
Regular weekly sales at Walker's Morse and Carriage Bazaar 166 168 Portland St Boston present a June 21 auction at 10 30 am featuring 66 acclimated horses. Names include Rubber Boy Belle H Rochester Girl Hamlet Bayard Knox Jr Jimmie Miller Blanche Von Moltke Red Wilkes Florence Tony C Silver Knox Kentucky Belle Tom Jerry and more with several trotting and breeding pairs. Catalogs available from Mr Balch or the auctioneer.
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