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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1888
Page
7
The report details mixed commodity prices across regions. Oatmeal and flour show steady to quiet demand, with various granary items like bran, middlings, sack goods, and cottonseed listed with spot and delivery quotes. notes include mild activity in New York and Chicago receipts.
Butter prices remain steady with Western and Vermont grades quoted across a wide range. Cheese and egg markets show limited activity and firm prices, while beans grains and hay maintain steady demand. poultry prices hold at steady, modest levels across regions.
The steamer Gwent is due June 25 from Bara coa with a cargo of bananas destined for Seaverns and Co.
Market report shows old apples scarce with russets at 5 50 per barrel. Oranges lemons and berries mixed notes. prices quoted for Palermo lemons 5 7 per box, Messina oranges 5 5 per box, strawberries 15 20 cents native. Bananas arrive from Jamaica for Boston Fruit. truck trade quiet with assorted produce prices listed across vegetables and cucumbers.
The report notes quiet pork demand with steady prices for lard and unchanged tone for hops. It lists long cuts at 17 17 50, backs to 18 00, lean ends up to 17 75, and various hog products with prices. West packing totals reach 2,616,000 hogs since March 1, while Chicago markets show irregular hog prices and export movement remains fair. New York pork quotes are 15 15 25 for new and 14 14 25 for old. beet quiet but prices steady.
Tierced beef quiet and lard dull as Western steam sales reach 400 tierces at 8 5 0 per unit. Cincinnati pork quiet at 14 25 while lard at 7 76. Dry salted meats and bacon steady with varied rib and shoulder prices. Chicago provisions strong with mess pork at 13 60 and lard 38 20. Fresh beef demand quiet with steers at 9 1 2c to 13 1 2c and various cuts listed. Other fresh meats prices largely unchanged for spring lambs, mutton, veal, and calf across regions.
Sugar and molasses prices hold firm with quiet demand in Havana and steady markets in New York. Raw sugar remains strong while refined stays firm. Havana reports limited business due to stock scarcity, with values for Muscovado and various grades listed. Molasses prices show quiet trade and mixed quotations across U S ports.
In New York cotton steadies with middling at 106 16? cents, sales 163 bales. Futures open and close firm. Liverpool spot prices firm at 51d middling uplands and 6 9-16d Orleans, sales 8000 bales. Broad market reports list net receipts, exports and stocks across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Baltimore, Wilmington, Norfolk, West Point, Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and consolidated totals with central port stocks and overseas trade figures.
Market notes show steady to mixed results across regions. Kansas City cattle steady with steers around 5.75, cows near 1.15, hogs up slight at Nog markers 5.60 heavy and 5.35 medium, sheep steady. Chicago receipts 2000 cattle dull, inferior to good at about 8.65 to 5.45 for various grades, stockers and Texans around 2.75, and hogs 5.65 down to 5.30 for pigs and culls. hog receipts 11,000 in Chicago with mixed to lower values and varied weights, sheep receipts 1,000 steady with muttons near 3.30 for Western tethers and Texans at 3.90 to 3.90.
The report lists several markets with mixed movements. Tallow, coffee, whiskey, and pipe line certificates show steady or unchanged quotes with specifics on New York and Cincinnati. Turpentine and petroleum in New York reflect varied quotes and resin and tar values. Trading activity appears subdued across commodities in June 1888.
Shipping list from June 23 1888 showing Worcester steamer cargoes to Halifax and Charlottetown and numerous ports. Goods include hardware, beer, pine boards, patent medicines, harness, barrels, books, oil, flour, oats, and multiple agricultural and industrial items bound for Pictou Port Hastings Belleveau Cove Weymouth and other NS ports. Names of ships and consignments appear with quantities such as bbls flour 3745, bales cornmeal - details of trade routes and item counts listed.
A compact inventory entry enumerates items with quantities: steerer 1, windlass 250 boxes, salt 11 bags, salt 5 barrels, felt 21 barrels, 8 half barrels, lard 15 barrels, 4 half barrels, pork 8 cases, candies 20 kegs, nails 350 pounds, butter 124 pounds, cheese 58 boxes, crackers 3 packages, tobacco 100 cases, off 60 doors, 30 windows, 10 blinds, 9 boxes medicine, stoves 6, coils rope 5 bags, rice 2 crates, machinery 4 barrels, bals 1 case, glassware 8 bales, fishline.
Bark Lidskjall carries 2360 bales of wool to Port Elizabeth CGH. Bark Elieser dispatches 1150 bales of wool via Gillespie Patterson Co. 15 tons of old iron. Baraco a steamer Gwent delivers 10 000 bunches of bananas Seaverns Co.
A dated ledger lists shipments for several rail lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and their consignments of wool cotton flour corn oats rye malt feed lard butter bacon cheese tea coffee sugar potatoes hay leather hides and other commodities. The tallies show hundreds of bales bags rolls and bbls with numerous figures across multiple lines.
Cable report from London notes wheat cargoes off coast and arrivals, prices in Liverpool steady to flat, futures for wheat and corn mixed with July and September figures. Paris wheat July price listed, markets described as slow. breadstuffs and provisions mostly steady or easier, with specific quotes for wheat, corn, peas, bacon, cheese, lard, and tallow.
Dallas buyers Newberger and Pitts of Sanger Bros and Harrisburg agents G W Melly Minneapolis Am North Star Boot and Shoe Co. St Louis J H Schafer of Schafer Swarts Co Vicksburg A Rose Ad.
PROBATE NOTICES direct heirs and interested persons to appear in Boston Probate Court on July 9 1858 to show cause regarding Daniel Cotter estate. Publication order for three weeks in Houston Post with last notice two days before court. Also administrator Christopher Ryder informs creditors to present claims and settle debts for Arthur N Ryder estate in Boston June 16 1885.
Suffolk petitions in equity for dissolution of the Automatic Music Paper Company a Massachusetts corporation formed April 2 1880. Owners George B Kelly Ed ward J Rand Joan L Given Alice G Given and William A Webber allege assets sold to Olian Organ and Music Company in August 1887 and request dissolution to avoid ongoing tax returns and corporate duties. Contingent bond liability of 500 on Kennedy v McTammany remains as pending appeal in U S Circuit Court.
A bill in equity filed June 7 1888 seeks court guidance on funds held by Henry F Coe as treasurer of the Washington Mills Relief Society. The case names the Ladies Union Charitable Society and other Lawrence Massachusetts entities and includes unknown defendants John Doe and Richard Roe. The court orders appearance within six months for those with unknown residences.
Henry R. Groce of Boston files a libel for divorce from Mary J. Groce alleging marriage in 1877 followed by desertion on or about July 1 1884. He asserts over three years of separation and requests a decree of divorce and related orders from the Superior Court in June 1888 Suffolk.
Boston court orders libellant to publish and mail a copy of the libel and order, with due notice to Mary I Grace, to appear before the Suffolk court on the first Monday of August 1885. Publication runs weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post and the mailed or served copy must reach by fourteen days before the appearance.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous rail and ferry times across Boston area stops including Kneeland Street Station Ashmont Braintree Brockton Quincy and several coastal towns. The jumbled data shows daily and Sunday schedules with varied departures and arrival times, suggesting a timetable page rather than a single event.
Cape Cod division timetable lists station stops including Buzzards Bay Ostensibly shows arrival times and service windows from stations like Kneeland Street, Sourne, Brewster, Chatham, Hyannis, Falmouth, and Wellfleet. It includes multiple 9.00 am departures and various afternoon times. several entries are garbled or misprinted.
Readable portions list train times and stations across multiple routes including Providence Division. Mentions Park Square Station New York Shore Line service with varying Sunday schedules and many station references such as Canton Junction Readville Roxbury and Medford.
Train timetables for Boston to Manchester and Concord New Hampshire released June 25 1888. Daily departures from Boston South Station with multiple morning and afternoon slots and special Sunday runs. Returning trains to Boston listed with afternoon and evening options and Sunday service notes. E Chamberlin superintendent.
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