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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1887
Page
7
Barley and wheat prices vary while pork and lard move in light to firm demand. Receipts and shipments show flour, wheat, corn, oats, and barley volumes across Cincinnati Toledo St Louis Chicago with whiskey and bacon prices and notable changes in pork and fatty goods.
Kansas City reports firmer hogs with quotes 4 50 to 5 50 as receipts rise. St Louis hogs steady to 6 40 with mixeds up to 5 85. Peoria hogs firm near 4 90 to 4 75, receipts 600. Chicago cattle 3 50 to 4 90 for shipping steers, hogs strong 5 20 to 5 65, sheep 3 40 to 4 70, lambs 4 50 to 4 75.
A fragment lists 3 bales and 15 bales domestics along with 12 spare ribs and tierces. The note implies a compact trade or inventory entry without further context or dates.
The report covers multiple port markets with net receipts, gross, exports, shipments, stocks, and price middlings. Notable entries include New Orleans with 10,349 receipts and stock 353,000. Savannah 1,538 receipts. Charleston 620 receipts. Philadelphia 1,060 receipts. New York 2 receipts. and consolidated three day totals showing exports to Great Britain and France.
Commodity prices for wheat and corn show quiet or steady movement with mixed shifts. Paris wheat and flour firm. Liverpool spot wheat quiet but steady. California wheat shipped at 37s 6d and 36s 6d. domestic English and French markets largely steady with some firmer corn and steady pork and lard prices.
Freight tallies show Boston & Albany and Grand Junction lines carrying cotton wool flour corn oats malt millfeed tallow lard butter cheese eggs meat tea coffee sugar and hides across multiple classes. Bostonized totals include New York & New England and Fitchburg lines with extensive shipments of grain, cotton, beef, pork, tea, coffee, and leather amid varied carloads and bales.
The Mareca lists arms and gun barrels from William Read & Sons and John P Lovell's Sons among varied cargo. Also noted are hides, bagging, rags, coffee rings, glass, iron goods, and other items from Baring Bros & Co and J B Moors & Co. Other ports include Demerara with Onaway cargo, Grand Manan with herring, and Mediterranean ports with fruit and essences aboard Peconic.
Trade items listed for Yarmouth and Liverpool include flour, millfeed, hardware, rope, sugar hogsheads, molasses tierces, and second hand goods. The Liverpool entry for the steamer Samaria notes varied cargo such as corn, wheat, beef, canned meats, machinery, rubber goods, feather, oatmeal, oil products, lard, bacon, and cheese with quantities and container types.
A dense OCR fragment lists individuals and firms by city including Augusta Ga and Cincinnati O with roles at various companies. Names include J W Whittendale Robert Mc Knight Craw. J P Pill J P Dill Boot and Shoe Co Craw. A J Gouley Craw. F M Perryman E Bates Co re oohamton NY G H Lester Lester Bros Co Vo. H A Goff Stone Goff Co Am. W H H Laws WHE Laws Co Ad. Kreisman O Kreisman Co Ads. A C McLaughlin Selz Schwab Co Yo. George M Daum J H Laws Co Am. M C O Neill D O Neill Sons Craw. J Berman Craw. L H Lancashire C R Mabley Co US. S Bassett S Bassett Sons Lancaster Penn. A W Shaub Shaub Bro Craw. S Meyer Munroe La Tre. L W Hall Hall Ordway Manufacturing Co Ad. J Eckenrode Arn. A J Scott W E Schmertz Co Qu. D Bainbridge Phil Penn W Bainbridge Yo. W M Bennett Pa Portsmouth Va A Brandt Ad. L Reich UK Sandusky O J A Geideman Geideman Hornegardner US Sumner IJ-k F Hoopes Eckemode Hoopes Am. dJ S Harah Craw.
The Flint estate on Washington street Salem and fronting the Derby extension along South River sold for 21000 dollars excluding the skating rink lot. Essex county commissioners bought the estate between the jail and Ives court on St Peter street for 8000 dollars.
A compact ad items list several patent medicines with prices. Hale's Honey cough cure, Glenn's Sulphur Soap, German Corn Remover, Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, Pike's Toothache Drops, and Beaw's Rheumatic Pills are offered with price tags from 25 to 50 cents.
Daily through service from Boston to Springfield Albany and points west with express and accommodation trains. Through drawing room cars to New York via Buffalo Cleveland Chicago and Albany with multiple departures from Boston including morning and evening runs and connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer and Worcester. Local stops include Worcester North Adams Natick Westborough and Newton.
Hoosac Tunnel Route routes from Boston to North Adams Troy Albany and the West list daily Chicago St Louis express and sleeping car services with varied departure times. Local timetables and ticket office locations in Boston are noted with several station stops and Sunday schedules.
At the Brookline Land Company annual meeting in the Equitable building office, Fred B. Taylor Dwight Braman and Alfred D. Foster were elected directors for the coming year. Thomas N. Hart remains a director as surviving trustee. Jarvis D. Braman was approved as trustee replacing T. P. Chandler. In a following directors meeting Fred B. Taylor was named president and Alfred D. Chandler treasurer and secretary.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk District Superior Court orders notice by publication in the Boston Post for Surat E. Merrow v John W. White and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Defendant nonresident with no known abode must answer by first Monday of April 1887. case continued pending publication.
The notice lists through service from Boston with connections to Tilton Laconia Weirs Meredith Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans and more. It cites stations on Causeway Street and Washington Street with various departure and arrival times including AM and PM windows and Pullman sleeping cars and parlor cars via Central Vermont, along with local points in New Hampshire and Vermont.
A lengthy timetable list shows hourly and half hour train departures for multiple towns including Lowell Bethlehem Arlington Billerica Bedford Concord Mass and Lexington with through and local services. The document names Cc Mell en George W Storer and notes a general superintendent and assistant agent with references to College Hill and Weston stations.
Weekday trains from Boston to New York via Fall River Line start after Feb 8 1887 with multiple departure times and extensive return options. The schedule lists numerous stops including Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Braintree Cohasset Neponset Quincy and more, plus Sunday trains to Portland Bangor Lewiston and other points.
Boston and Maine announces through trains on both divisions with schedules from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. Services include Augusta Haymarket to Ban gor St John Halifax Eastport Calais and Portland connections, plus Manchester Concord North Conway and other Maine Central routes.
The timetable lists trains from Boston Station to Amenbury Merely Weymouth and surrounding towns with numerous departure times across mornings and evenings. It covers branches to Saugus Salem Swampscott Gloucester Portland and more, plus Sunday trains and a Woonsecket division. Also notes on through trains to New York Hartford and Philadelphia with Pullman cars and steamer connections.
A dense listing of rail times, stops, and service notes across routes including West Roxbury Denham Stoughton Canton Mansfield Providence and Shore Line connections. Details cover departures returns and special conditions, with notes on detention and late trains from A A Folsom, Supt. LD.
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