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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1887
Page
7
The notice lists malt and hops pricing by grade and origin. It shows two rowed State malt at 65 to 65 tenths of a dollar, six rowed State at 75 to 80 cents, Canada Western at 85 to 95 cents, and hops from 9 to 12 cents per pound for choice stocks with variations for 1885 Eastern and New York and 1886 at 20 to 22 cents, with ordinary to medium at 10 to 18 cents.
Butter prices steady with regional variation in New York Philadelphia Chicago and Cincinnati. cheese dull with slight changes in New York and Philadelphia. Eggs quoted with mixed regional trends as buyers show fair to light demand. Seeds hay and potatoes firm to higher with rain of fruit and produce prices including berries, cherries, peaches, and citrus offered at varied wholesale levels.
Truck cargo to arrive Friday lists 400 boxes peppers 1100 crates cabbage 3250 crates beans 70 crates cucumbers 40 crates onions 2500 barrels potatoes 90 packages squash. Prices show demand for track and beans with cucumbers at 4c each or 1.50 per crate and other produce quoted in daily Norfolk market terms.
A detailed market listing shows current prices for pork and beef products including long cuts, backs, light backs, lean ends, hams, shoulders, ribs, bacon, and various beef cuts. Prices vary by cut, weight, and treatment, with specific rates per hundredweight or per hundred pounds and references to city dressed and Chicago dressed meats.
Liverpool futures opened steady and closed flat amid varied bid and ask quotes for multiple month spreads. Spot dull in Liverpool at middling levels and sales of 7000 bales, 5700 American. receipts 14,000 bales. New York spot closed easy with middling uplands at 11c, and futures remaining steady with modest gains and mixed bid ask movements. Pipeline certificates closed at 3p.
June 21 to June 22 readings show refined oil at 6314 cents per gallon, sugar prices steady with quotes for raw and refined grades, and molasses cargo quotes from Porto Rico to Cuba. Notable figures include shipments 66,526 and charters 103,451, with Manila and other refined sugar grades listed and wholesale granulated price 6 3/4 cents.
Trading notes from New York and multiple cities show flour receipts at 16,226 plgs with 20,400 bbls on sale and varying prices for mill extra, superfine, and winter wheat types. Wheat and corn futures moved amid firming to easing, with spot bids and exports listed. other grains, oats, rye, and barley show modest shifts and quiet demand alongside mixed provisions and oil seed prices.
Across St Louis Kansas City Peoria and Chicago hog prices advanced with firm tones in St Louis and steady levels in other hubs. Buyers moved to mixed packers and butchers saw higher bids while cattle prices softened in Chicago with slow shipments and lower quotes for hogs. Sheep and lambs showed modest activity and steady to higher quotes in some regions.
Net receipts and inventories shift across ports with mixed demand. Augusta Net receipts 13, New Orleans 41, Savannah 9, Charleston 2, Norfolk 3, Philadelphia none, Baltimore none, Cincinnati 287, St. Louis 1, with exports to Britain, France, and the continent and overall U S port stock at 289,507 amid quiet to firm tones.
London June 22 report shows cargoes off coast with wheat and corn in weak demand and inactive trade, while English and American flour prices hold steady. At Paris and Liverpool markets wheat and flour ease slightly and prices for red winter and white Michigan wheat are quoted. Wheat and corn on the passage to the UK and Continent totals several hundred thousand quarters.
Wheat and corn prices mixed with futures data from London and Antwerp. London wool sales showed strong demand for merino cross-breds with notable gains across Queensland New South Wales Victoria Tasmania and New Zealand lots. Strong competition and rising prices highlighted the market activity.
A long condensed ledger from Glasgow shows imports from several firms including Baring Bros and Co Waldo Bros and H L Chase Co. items listed include pig iron bricks fireclay tinplates glassware and tobacco pipes with numerous consignors and destinations across Liverpool Shelburne and Palermo detailing quantities such as 34 000 bricks 275 cases tin plates 7000 lobsters and 10 857 boxes of fruit. The entry also notes Steamer Venetian and other vessels along with assorted merchandise and bulk cargoes.
A detailed cargo summary from June 18 1887 shows shipments across multiple ports. Steamer Stockholm City clears for London with diverse goods including excelsior, leather, machinery, butter, flour, and sewing machines, plus large quantities of oil, tobacco, hardware, and groceries. Other consignments include brig Lily in Windsor NS with flour and meal, Candor in Halifax with corn meal and oatmeal, Bann2 near Melbourne and Sydney with plaster and rosin, and Bark Edward May from Honolulu listing hats textiles hardware glassware agricultural implements and foodstuffs.
A dated inventory lists Staple Products and railroad shipments across several lines. Items include cotton and wool bales, flour, corn and oats, lard and beef, butter and cheese, leather hides and skins, lumber and bales, with quantities and carriers named as Boston Abapy, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, and New York & New England railroads, plus assorted boxes and cases totaling numerous units. The record reflects extensive intra New England trade activity dated June 22, 1887.
A fragmented OCR listing documents 668 rolls and vast counts of bales, hides, leather, and goods across Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, and Boston and Lowell lines. It notes wool bales, flour barrels, cornmeal, potatoes, hay, lumber, and dairy items, with division references and multiple cars, sacks, and tubs, all shown as shipment tallies from 1927 era consignments.
Train schedule details for Fitchburg Hoosac Tunnel Route from Boston Causeway Street station. Lists daily departures toward North Adams Troy Albany and West with multiple time options, sleeping car services, through trains to Chicago Cincinnati St Louis, and various regional connections including Concord and Windsor. Includes staff at stations and through-ticket information.
Railroads announce January 1 1887 through trains on Boston and Maine lines. Service lists times for Augusta Haymarket Causeway St Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland Eastport Calais and Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox & Lincoln connections with Haymarket and Causeway Street stations.
A dense list lists departures and arrivals from Boston stations to towns such as Alton Rochester Farmington Andover Exeter Haverhill Danvers and Malden with varied times across morning afternoons and evenings for weekdays and Sundays. It includes multiple routes via Georgetown and Georgetown area and notes return trips and through services with numerous halts at Lawrence Malden Melrose and Newburyport among others.
The page lists a dense schedule of trains across the Eastern Division with times for Amesware Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Ipswich Marblehead North Conway and more. It notes stations on Saugus and Lynn branches, via South Reading and Portland Bangor lines, plus through trains to Salem Portland and Halifax with Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. James T. Furber and D. J. Flanders credited as general managers and agents.
Boston station on Causeway Street lists through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal 8 30 am and 7 pm Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woonsville 5 30 am 1 and 7 pm St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec 8 30 am 7 00 pm Minatol branch 8 30 am 1 pm Claremont branch nee AM 1 pm Local points White Mountain Division 8 30 am 1 pm Local points Northern Division 8 30 am and 3 am Pullman sleeping cars to Montreal 7 pm Parlor cars to Montreal 8 30 am 1 pm From Boston local Manchester Concord N H 7 30 8 30 am 12 noon 1 3 5 30 7 pm Sundays? Meene Peterboro Hillsboro 7 30 am 3 pm Hillsboro via Concord 1 pm Wilton Milford Amherst 7 50 am 3 5 pm Sundays 1 pm Greenfield 7 30 am 3 pm Nashua 7 30 2 30 am 12 4 1 3 5 6 30 7 pm Sundays 1 pm
Fragmented schedule data shows multiple time entries such as 6.45 7.30 8.30 9 10 11 am and 12 x 1 2 3 93.45 5 5.30 5.45 6.15 7 9 at 10 pm for Lowell and nearby locations including M31 and Bleachery. Entries repeat across SUN with inconsistent AM PM markers and sparse context.
A long list of train times and stations including Lawrence Wilmington Woburn Winchester Concord Mass and others. The timetable notes 8 9 11 AM 5 PM SUN and through train information with station agents C MellEn and George W. Storer.
Trains depart Boston for Jefferson and Way Stations starting May 30 1887 at 5.05 pm express with Sunday 1.15 pm and other listed times. Stops include Madson Rockbottom South Sudbury Way land Weston Belmont Waverley and Waltham with various morning and afternoon departures. George W Stoker general passenger agent and Mellen Geo. Sue.
Extensive timetable details for trains from Boston to New York via the Fall River Line and connections to coastal towns and resort destinations. Includes departure times, return times, and noted stops such as Hyannis Yarmouth Barnstable Buzzards Bay Marshfield Nantucket and Plymouth with multiple through routes and agents GEO. L. Connor and J. R. Kendrick listed as officials.
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