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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1887
Page
7
Wholesale granulated sugar quotes include 6 percent and standard A at 61 16 cents and 55 cents for Belmont A. Molasses market steady with cargo lot notations. Rico new fancy crop at 36 cents, Cienfuegos 28, Barbadoes 27, and Cuba boiling 60 test nominal 20 201 cents.
Trade center dispatches show New York wheat and flour receipts totaling vast volumes with prices ranging across Western and Minnesota flour grades. Chicago and Minneapolis markets quote firm to strong grain prices, with rye, oats, corn, and barley steadier, and provisions like pork and lard holding steady or rising modestly.
Reports from Peoria Kansas City and Chicago detail hogs selling at 465 to 470 per cwt with steady trends. Cattle receipts and prices show varied levels for steers stockers and feeders cows and bulls. sheep receipts large with generally lower tones and different regional prices.
Augusta Net receipts 9, gross 9. Galveston 21, stock 634. New Orleans 143 receipts, gross 633, exports coastwise 8646, stock 86 820. Mobile 6 receipts, stock 302, exports coastwise 8. Emphis 65 receipts, ship ments 45, stock 8815. Savannah 35 receipts, stock 1604. Charleston 12 receipts, stock 105. Wilmington none. Norfolk one none, exports coastwise 34, stock 3017. Philadelphia 556 receipts, gross 2933, stock 14 256 corrected. New York 21 receipts, exports to Great Britain 207, stock 173 870. Cincinnati 367 receipts, ship ments 188, stock 0037. Louisville mid 11, St Louis 23 receipts, stock 8425. Consolidated six days receipts 3505, exports to Great Britain 6333, France 1500, continent 4816, stock nationwide 290 157.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat dull and little sale activity. At Mark Lane Australian wheat quotes for June and July shipments. Liverpool notes quiet demand for bread stuffs and steady corn prices. Wool prices firm with varied bales across Victoria New Zealand New South Wales Tasmania Queensland and other regions. Prices range widely by origin with several regional quotes in shillings and pence.
In Barbados a barkentine Daisy Reed with 12 tierces 83 puncheons molasses for Standard Sugar Refinery. Bark Askey 40 tierces B97 bags sugar for Brown Bros & Co. schooner Isaiah Hart 1025 hhds sugar for Baring Bros & Co. In Mayaguez Puerto Rico brig Wilhelmina 225 bhds 0 bbls molasses for Whitney Pousland & Co and J Wicker & Co.
A fragmented 19th century shipping list records Brig Telos-1997 with cocoa and sugar at Surinam. bark Ella-2800 with salt at Salt Day Tl. Bark. Ponce PR shows Aldine schooner with molasses and sugar orders. Additional vessels include J B Rabel sugar cargoes, Isaiah K Stetson schooner carrying sugar to Boston, and multiple lobster and lumber shipments from Nova Scotia ports to firms like J W Marston, Baring Bros, and Boston Sugar Refinery.
A compiled ledger of cargoes and consignments across Annapolis and Digby Nova Scotia Charlottetown Summerside Yarmouth NS Clementport NS Williams NS and Werp Belgium via New York. Items include steamer cargoes such as boots shoes dry goods boxes groceries hoes marble paint brushes glass bananas lemons cucumbers and lobster carriers. Vessel entries show flour cormes kerosene oil fish barrels and meal with specific tonnages and counts.
Lists of supplies shipped by multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Boston and Lowell and Boston and Maine Western Division. Items cover wool flour oats corn wheat malt sugar tea butter cheese eggs hay leather hides and more with quantities and units. Indicates extensive material flow across regional lines on June 23 1887 via express and sea routes.
A long list of boot and shoe buyers and advertisers from multiple cities including Aberdeen Mississippi Baltimore Cincinnati Chicago Dallas Crawley Philadelphia St Louis and Waco. Names include Stern Bros J Strauss Phelps Hayes Hill Blasland Florsheim Adler Sleeper Solomon and others, with firms like Stern Bros Hayes Bros Florsheim Adler Sleeper and Lessing Solomon Rosenthal.
The Navy Department in Washington invites sealed proposals to contract for five vessels, including Cruiser No. 1 and cruisers 4 and 6 and gunboats 3 and 4, with construction planned in American shipyards. Bids must specify construction location, include plans, meet speed guarantees, deposit five percent, and allocate timelines of up to 24 months for cruisers and 18 months for gunboats.
A Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth call for sealed bids to supply paper for state printing for one year beginning July 1. Specifications include machine finished book paper free of ground wood pulp and linen or flat writing papers of first grade. bids due June 30. Also notices for Department of the Interior stationery proposals due July 11 and an ad from Baeder Adamson & Co. offering glue and paper materials with purchase of damaged stock.
Rail timetable listing departures and stations for Boston and Maine services to Augusta Haymarket Causeway St Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland and other points, with various daily departure times and connections across several divisions and affiliated railways.
A dense, OCR digitized list of train times across Western Division stations including Dover Exeter Melrose Reading Malden Wakefield and surrounding routes with multiple daily departures and Sunday schedules. Details show departures arrivals and return trips with varied timing across cities, lakes and towns, reflecting a broad regional timetable.
Eastern Division timetable lists trains from Boston Station Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls and more with numerous daily and Sunday departures. Includes branch lines to Marblehead Swampscott Middleton Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Salem and other points. notes service days and special via lines. James Furbur and J Flanders sign as traffic managers.
The notice details Boston station on Causeway Street plus the City Ticket and Freight Office at 218 Washington Street. It lists through Boston service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Arlington St. Albans Montreal and more with multiple daily departures. Local routes from Boston to Manchester Concord Meene Peterboro Hillsborough Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua and other points, including Sunday times. Parlor and Pullman car options to Montreal are noted.
The readable portion lists multiple times such as 6.45 7.30 9.30 and 9 AM across days including SUN. and mentions locations like Bleachery Billerica and Cam Pu. The snippet appears as a timetable or roster with partial names and cryptic abbreviations, not a full event narrative.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous rail and station references with multiple times for Lawrence, Walnut Ain, Stenehi, Woburn, Winchester, Arlington, Billerica, and other locales. It lacks coherent narrative but preserves many specific station names and timetable figures, indicating a broad, incomplete schedule page.
Central Massachusetts R R Station at 7 Causeway Street announces weekday and Sunday departures from Boston for Jefferson and Way Stations starting May 30 1887. Express trains run 5 05 pm and 1 15 pm Sundays with multiple intermediate stops including Mudsum Roeckbottom So Sadbury Way land Weston Belmont Waverley and Waltham. General Agent notes Storer Mellen
Corrected January 3 1887 timetable lists daily trains from Boston to New York and New England towns. It covers departure chapters from Moston, foot of Summer street, and the Woonsocket division with numerous express and local services, connecting steamer lines, and Sunday schedules.
Hoosac Tunnel Route timetables list departure times from Boston for multiple destinations including North Adams Troy Albany and the West with numerous express and accommodation trains. The dense schedule includes through cars sleeping cars and connections for Cambridge Concord and other points, plus notes on Sundays Wednesdays and Fridays revisions and a general alert about through tickets.
Detailed timetable lists week day and weekend departures to New York on the Fall River Line and other regional routes. Includes stops at Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Provincetown Cohasset Hingham and more with return times and connections through Brockton Taunton and Plymouth. Names GEO L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK appear as officials.
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