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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 28, 1888

Page

7

Grain and agricultural markets show firmer tone across oats corn and white wheat

Mixed price moves across New York Chicago and St Louis as receipts rise and demand remains moderate. No 2 white oats trade around 41 44c while No 2 yellow corn eases toward 44c. Spot milled products hold steady with export focus. rye and flour markets steady with moderate demand and firm tones across several cities.

New York Chicago St Louis Milwaukee Detroit Toledo Hoosac Albany Lake Barney Canada Bush Choice Eastern

Butter and dairy prices hold steady in wholesale market

The butter market shows no radical change with steady firm quotes for choice creameries. Western and Vermont grades vary from 10¢ to 22¢ per pound, while cheese and eggs also retreat or hold. New York demand remains quiet, and various beans, grasses, and potatoes show stable or modest shifts amid broad wholesale activity. Poultry demand stays quiet with live fowls at 12¢ and Northern killed birds between 22¢ and 30¢.

Choice Western Vermont Extra Vermont New York Chicago Ohio Sage Liverpool New Hampshire Michigan Nova Scotia New Brunswick PE Island California West Jersey Maine Chenaugues

Banana Steamers Arrive With Bananas For Two Firms

The steamer Aguan is due June 28 from Jamaica carrying bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Welhaven is due June 29 from Baracoa with bananas for WW and CR Noyes.

Banana Steamers Aguan Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Welhaven Baracoa Ww& CR Noyes

Market Fruit Prices and Auction of Steamer Cargo State of Alabama

Apples scarce with new crop at 1 per crate. old russets limited at 5 550 per barrel. Palermo oranges 6.7 per box. Palermo lemons 57 per box. Messina oranges 85.05 per box. Messina lemons 5 7 per box. Valencia oranges 7 8 per case. State of Alabama cargo to be sold at Thursday auction. Receipts table shows five season totals for oranges and lemons. Strawberries well supplied with 10 12 cents asks. Warerimeton good supply at 15 20 cents. California fruit auction day sales: peaches 1.06, pears 3.00.

Palermo Messina Valencia State of Alabama Warren I. Knox Fruit and Produce Exchange California

Fruit market report lists assorted produce and prices

The market shows peaches and various fruits with specific box counts and prices. Gooseberries sell slowly at 44 cents per bush, raspberries at 20 30e per quart, alive black cherries at 1244 and 15 cents per Pib, thimbleberries arriving slow, red plums at 2 50 per case, Virginian spt supply, trade quiet at 2q 2 26 per crate.

Norfolk boat freight listing vegetables and prices

A Norfolk boat due Friday carries 360 bags peas 460 bbls apples 650 crates cabbage 2250 crates beans 260 crates cucumbers 2760 bbls potatoes 80 bbls squash 700 crates tomatoes and notes steady demand at current prices. Prices cited include new marrow squash 2 per barrel and various crates and dozens for beans peas onions cucumbers cucumbers and other produce across multiple regions.

Norfolk Florida Mississippi Bermuda Long Island

Market Notes on Pork and Other Meats Prices

The market for pork products remains steady with listed prices across cuts such as long ribs at 17 60, lean ends 17 75, and mess pork around 14 75 16 75. New York and Chicago provisions show varied pork, lard, and dry salted meats with mixed demand. fresh beef remains steady to firmer, while other fresh meats like lamb and mutton show regional price ranges and demand shifts.

Bastec Yale New York Western Steam City Steam St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Brighton

World Sugar Prices Steady Across Regions

Sugars remain firm with steady demand and unchanged quotes. Cuba and Manila grades range around 4 1 16 to 6 3 4 cents per pound, refined sugars hold at old prices, and New York raw and refined markets show limited movement with several grade prices listed. Havana molasses sugar sold at 2 1834 225 gold per quintal. other Caribbean ports quote similar steady levels.

Cuba New York Havana Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos Mayaguez

Cattle Hog and Sheep Market Report from Major U.S. Yards

Kansas City stock yards show steady best cattle and lower others with steers $4.90 to 5.75, cows $1.40 to 3.25. hogs receipts 4,833 up 5 to 10 cents to 5.50 to 5.60 for heavies, medium and light 5.45 to 5.50, pigs 5.10 to 5.30. sheep dull with limited demand. Peoria hogs quiet 54 to 70, Cincinnati hogs active 4.50 to 5.80, receipts 1,530. Chicago cattle 10,000 with wide range 4.80 to 6.05, cows 1.40 to 3.40, Texans 1.40 to 8.60, feeders 2.40 to 3.50. hogs 5.50 to 6.80, pigs 4.20 to 5.40. sheep 5,000 slow with wooled grades 4.00 to 6.40, Western lambs 5.16 to 8.40, Texans 1.75 to 3.75.

Kansas City Peoria Chicago

Cotton market slips as Liverpool weakness drags prices

Allan Asher & Co report a lively yet faltering cotton market with prices down vs last session. Liverpool arrivals slowed and Paris finance woes, plus August deal margins, weigh on sentiment while New York quotes show steady to firm futures and spot ranges. Market breadth remains mixed with long interest still present despite declines.

Allan Asher & Co Exchange Place Liverpool Paris New York

Coastwise and port receipts show mixed activity across ports

A dense list reports net receipts gross exports and stock for multiple ports including Mobile Net Memphis Savannah Charleston Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati New York St Louis Louisville and Consolidated five day totals. Notable figures include New York receipts 2193 stock 173, St Louis shipments 2634 sales 475, and Consolidated exports to Great Britain 15551 to France 26 with total U S port stock 291 5380.

Coastwise Mobile Savannah Charleston Winnington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati New York Great Britain Continent St Louis Louisville France United States

Market reports drift in late 19th century commodities

The dispatch summarizes varied price activity across multiple regions. Tallow and rendering markets show quiet, steady tones with city prices around 444¢ and 44 4c. New York reports dull trade for prime city rendered and coffee, while whiskey and turpentine show mixed or nominal movements across Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis with prices around $114 to $120 and rosin and tar notes.

New York Coftee Rio Chicago Cincinnati St Louis Turpentine Vetroleum Petroleum Ae

Cattle Market Report from Brighton and Watertown

Live stock and cattle trade data for week ending June 27, 1883. Arrivals at Brighton and Watertown yards include cattle, sheep, veals, and hogs with prices for store cattle, milch cows, springers, veals, and hides. Market notes describe demand shifts, price declines, and varied sales by multiple firms.

Imports and Exports June 27 1888 Barks and Goods

A dated shipping list showing imports from Bark A U Bran 663 with 25 tierces sugar and items from Standard Sugar Refinery in Liverpool to various ports. Exports from St Pierre et Miquelon Arichat Newark North America include boots, shoes, confectionery, beans, cider, cement, canned goods, dories, duck, domestics, drugs, furniture, flour, fishing lines, lumber and oils. Glasgow steamer Manitoban clears June 23 with broad ballast of wheat, corn, beef, lard, leather, staves, flour and other goods to various destinations.

Liverpool Barclay & Co Lockport Adeline Adams Silas Sanborn Manila Edward May Bran & Co Trapani Mimi Montevideo Carrie L 'Tyler ST Pierkeg Miq Uie Glasgow Scot

Staple Goods Receipts June 27 1888 Across Railroads

Utility ledger style list records quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats feed bacon beef grease sugar butter cheese eggs beans hay lumber leather and hides by Fitchburg Grand Junction Boston & Maine and other railroads. Totals appear per railroad with bales boxes bbls sacks and barrels.

Fitchburg Grand Junction Railroad Shoston & Providence Railroad Bates Hays Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Walis Kings, Boston & Albany Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell By Express S.recce Hains Ghia

Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool

London and Liverpool market notes show wheat steady to firmer on passages and fairs while cargoes on the move are quiet. At Mark Lane and Antwerp trends are mixed with wheat futures steady and corn firm, prices quoted for No 1 California wheat and mixed Western corn across June to December contracts. Liverpool and Antwerp spot values reflect quiet demand and steady to higher provisions and cheese.

London Leerbohm Mark Lane Liverpool Great Britain California Antwerp

Fragmentary business names listed across states and firms

A sequence of personal names and firm affiliations appears, listing individuals and their associated companies across multiple states including Cincinnati, Eufaula, Lebanon, St Louis, Sand Beach, Yo, San Francisco and others. The lines read like directory or advertisement entries with law, shoe, and trading firm mentions, ending abruptly with A Greenbaum of Greenbaum.

Sand Beach Mich

Equity suit seeks commissions from Greenbaum and Market National Bank

In Suffolk Superior Court Boston, Joseph Heilbrun sues Simon J. Greenbaum and Market National Bank for twenty five dollars and interest under an agency agreement. Greenbaum, a Kentucky resident, has not been served personally. notice is ordered by publication in the Boston Post for three consecutive weeks, with final publication at least fourteen days before the final Monday of August 1888. The case continues until notice is given to Greenbaum as directed.

Jommonwealth Massachu Dust Suffolk County Joseph Heilbrun Boston Said Simon J. Greenbaum Louisville Kentucky Market National Hank United States Loston Greenbaum Commonwealth Greenbunt Suffolk Boston Post Joseph A. Willard Ldwin A Wadleigh

Through Trains on Westen and Eastern Divisions 1888 Schedule

June 24 1888 schedule lists departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Haymarket square and many coastal and inland destinations. Includes Boston line express with extra fare, steamer connections to St John and Calais, and several Maine Central routes. Multiple times show morning and afternoon departures from Causeway and Haymarket stations to Portland Lewiston Rockland Manchester North Conway and other points.

Westen Augusta Haymarket St Boston Mel Desere Hbaseport Calais St. John MN. S Btairfax N.S Portland Causeway Street Haymarket Square Rockland Cascine Southwestlandia Barbers Wortland Unesdays Lewitston Manchester Concord North Haymarket Sq North Conway Haymarket Sq Lynn Causeway St Portland Haymarket Sq Maine Central Grand Tre Binmoxe& Lincoln K¢Aiwiays Lir Sq Crauseway St Wan

Long Atlantic Rail Timetable Fragments Across New England

A dense OCR extract lists numerous train times and stations across New England including Andover Danvers Haverhill Lowell Melrose Medford Newburyport North Andover Salem Wakefield Wilmington and others with weekday and Sunday schedules at various early morning and afternoon hours. The data resembles a regional rail timetable with multiple lines and price-like figures embedded.

Eastern Division Train Schedules From Boston Causeway Street

A dense list of train times and routes from Boston Causeway Street serving Amesbury Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Rochester Kkampten North Kingston Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport to Portsmouth Portland and beyond with numerous departure times and branch lines including York Harbor Beach R.R. and other regional stops.

Railroads timetable fragment with branch notes

Latem 8.20 and 10 am 11 am 1.15 5.15 5.45 6.25 7 7.15 9.30 pm. aVia Sangus Branch Workingmen's train on Thursdays and Saturdays only. Via South Reading branch Station in Boston Haymarket square.

aVia Sangus South Reading Boston Haymarket Square Manchester Concord N. H Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua Lawrence Wilmington Waleut Hill Stoneham Woburn Lam Winchester West Medford College Hill Winter Brin Mass Billerica Bedford Aim Bexington Arlington S V Concord BR. KR K&k N.H E. Chamberlin Supe Kneeland Street New York Fall River Ashmont Bersintree Middleboro Buhdays Bridge Water Vine Brockie Cohasset and Hin « Ham Hingham East Bridgewater Abdayton Breckton East Milton East Weymouth Weymouth Pall River Taunton Brockton Taumeton Harrison Square Marshfield and Sea View Mattapan Milton New Sedford Newport North Easton Stoughton Ranadolph Plymouth Abington Duxbury Quincy Rockland and Hanover Scituates Shawmut South Braintree South Duxbury Faunton Central Station Dea St Whitman and West Ridgewater Cochesett South Easton Park Square Shore Line Central Canton FG & Heny Clarendon TIRE Suni Pawtuck

Trains to Point of Pines and Oak Island schedule

Train times from Boston depart morning and afternoon with numerous listed departures to Point of Pines Oak Island and other towns. Returns show multiple evening options and Sunday trains. Several errors appear in times and station names but main routes include Nashua Lowell H Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester and Concord services.

Daily and Sunday Local Trains to Northampton Area Timetable

Time tables show 1 pm daily trains to Montreal and Fabyan area, with numerous southbound stops from Boston Causeway Street to Northampton Hadley Amherst South Amherst Belchertown Bondsville and Ware and beyond. Sunday runs Belmont Waverley Waltham Madson Wey Stations to Northampton at 1.15 pm. Full information at stations. James T. Furber I J Flanders General Manager Genl Pasr and Ticket Agent.

Montreal Fabyan’s Central Mass Boston Causeway Street Portland Street Northampton Hadtey Amherst South Amhleheast Belchertown Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Jefferson’s Oakdale West Boylaton Worcest Clinton Bertin Hudson Sudbury Kreveckbottom Wayland Weeton Walthoom Waverley Belmont Waltham Madson and Wey James T. Furber I. J. Flanders Gen’l Pas

Cape Cod Train Schedule Fragments Leave Kneeland Street Station

A fragmented timetable lists numerous Cape Cod division trains with stations like Bourne Bourne Dale Cataumet and Chatham. Times include morning departures such as 9.00 am 1.00 pm and 4.15 pm with several via Woods Hall references and Sunday adjustments.

Cape Cod Kneeland Street Buzzards Hay Starnstable Bourne Bournedale Brewster Cataumet Chatham Cottage City Woods Hall Pairhaven Falmouth Mattapoisett Marion Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Melamore Yarmouth Red Moat Wellfleet West Barnstable Yam Warehan Warmouth West Footcats Wareham Wenaumet Woods Moll

Providence Division timing notes and schedule fragment

Fragmentary OCR notes show a Providence Division entry with unclear times around 8 30 and 11 05 pm and mentions a Sunday. Readable elements include a dated or coded reference and partial schedule markers. Details are garbled. no clear event, participants, or location beyond Providence Division context.

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