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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1888
Page
7
Leather hides corn and oats show quiet to steady demand with most items unchanged or firm. Eggs beans hay potatoes sweet potatoes cranberries Florida oranges Mediterranean fruit pork lard hams veals lambs sugars molasses tallow and other staples vary, with several items in fair demand or steady movement.
Leather and hides markets show quiet activity with prices favorable to buyers. Demand remains steady for regular lines and certain graded leathers while heavy wax, hemlock buff, calf skins, and goat/sheepskins vary in moderate to brisk demand. regional hides show dull trade with Western buff strong, New England and Southern hides softer.
Market report shows flour steady and quiet with firm miller demands. Corn, oats, and rye trade with modest activity and specific bid and ask levels. prices listed for flour types, cornmeal, oatmeal, buckwheat, and millfeeds. exports noted and inspections recorded.
The report lists grain prices for six row Canada and six row State with per bushel rates and notes dull markets. It also quotes 1887 New York selections and common varieties with cents per pound and carload lot context.
The butter market remains dull with buyers hesitant though small immediate purchases occur. Receipts exceed last year and stocks in first hands shrink as creamery and New York lots vary from 18 to 30 cents per pound for Western and Eastern grades, with imitations and packaged foods priced around 20 to 23 cents.
In Chicago butter tame and creamery rates steady. Elgin creamery 28c, Western creamery 26c. Cheese firm. Eggs easier with receipts up, Western firsts 14 4¢. St Louis butter steady. eggs easier with light receipts 17c. Liverpool cheese dull 58s. New York butter steady, cheese quiet and steady. eggs easier with Eastern firsts 23 23 1/4¢, Western 23 1/4¢.
No 1 apples scarce and prices firm with Baldwins around 2 56 to 3 per barrel. Florida oranges steady with Palermo and Messina varieties in fair demand. Norfolk boat 182 boxes due Friday. Cranberries quiet with Cape Cod grades at 7 to 11 per barrel and 3 36 per crate. strawberries rising 50 to 75 cents. LD Baker steamer due March 5 with bananas and coconuts for Boston Fruit Company.
The pork market shows steady prices across ranges from non cuts to back and bacon products. Fresh beef demand is slow with varied steer and hind prices, while lambs and muttons see fair demand and veal remains steady.
Miscellaneous market notes report pipeline certificates with closing and opening quotes for March 1 1888. Sugar prices steady with raw refined granulated and pulverized varieties listed. molasses tallow and turpentine petroleum figures given for New York and London trading days. Includes terse quotes for rosin tar and RSW cases.
A broad summary of grain and flour markets shows New York reporting steady export shipments and mixed flour prices for various wheat grades, Minnesota and Ohio goods firm, Chicago notes firmer spring wheat and higher red wheat, St. Louis firm flour and higher corn, Minneapolis wheat stronger, Milwaukee mixed, and regional cash prices for oats rye barley and pork.
New York spot cotton ends 1011c middling with 10¢ for low middlings and 7¢ for ordinary as 202 bales sell. New York futures open steady. Liverpool spot unchanged with uplands 69 16d and Orleans 55d. Liverpool futures show mixed shifts across delivery months. Augusta and Galveston activity listed, inclinations toward steady tone amid receipts and sales data.
Net receipts, gross, exports, sales, and stock listed for New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville, and six day consolidated totals. Details include exports to Britain, France, and the continent, with price and quantity notes across commodities.
Hogs dull and steady in St Louis with Yorkers selling near 490 to 515 dollars and packers paying 510 to 540. Peoria shows hogs at 450 to 540 with 700 receipts. Chicago reports cattle receipts around 10 000 with steers 310 to 376 and hogs 535 to 5350 per head, plus mixed and cattle totals. Sheep receipts 4800 with natives at 345 to 445 and Westerns near 450 to 035.
London reports show cargoes off coast with wheat firm and corn quiet while distant demand remains limited. Liverpool notes bread stuffs steady with mixed Western corn lower, futures for wheat firm with March to July prices quoted. Paris and Antwerp markets subdued. No 2 red winter wheat priced and flour and wheat futures listed.
A historical ledger style list records shipments and quantities shipped from Antwerp and other ports. Items include steel blooms billets window glass and paper stock from firms like Naylor & Co and Baring Bros & Co, with vessels Mareca and Grace Davis among the entries and various commodities such as soda ash, rags, and starch noted.
Shipping lists dated March 1 1888 show exports from St Johns Newfoundland and London England. Items include apples, dories, hardware, flour, lumber, oils, pigment, tea goods, and numerous crates and cases bound for markets in Britain and North America.
Long list of staple quantities received by various railroads on March 1 1888 including Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Grand Junction New York and New England Fitchburg and Boston and Maine divisions and Lowell System. Items include cotton wool flour corn oats pork beef grease lard butter eggs beans hay lumber leather hides skins and apples with hundreds of bales boxes casks and cars recorded.
Train schedules list daily departures from Boston stations to Needham, Norwood, Hyde Park, and Worcester with return times, noting Sunday deviations and special lines like the Wharton and Norwich routes. The notice includes connections to New York, Philadelphia, and steamer City of Boston services, with office contact at 322 Washington Street.
An old rail service notice lists baggage checks from hotels to Boston and timetabled weekday trains from Boston to New York via the Fall River Line and return routes, with extensive stop times at Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis and many other stations. It names GEO. L. Connor and J. R. Kendrick as rail executives and notes schedule validity starting February 18 1988.
Fragmentary OCR listing includes numbers and codes such as 6.57 10.538 11.4 3.13 3.38 7.05 7.20 and references to maica Plain and F158 YS tt w bs. Details unclear. item appears to be internal catalog or measurement series rather than a full story.
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