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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1887
Page
7
New York futures opened firm with bid and asked quotes for March and later months. Sugar and molasses prices listed with refiners and grades, noting firm market and varied methyl adjustments. </s>
Prices across flour and grain markets in New York St Louis Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati Toledo Minneapolis show steady to dull demand. Wheat oats corn rye and barley fluctuate with foreign and domestic sales and pork lard beef and butter also reported.
Kansas City hogs meet quiet demand with sales around 5.30 to 5.40. St Louis hogs mixed to higher, Chicago notes stronger cattle and hog markets with receipts and shipments near 8000 and 6000 respectively. Peoria hogs steady at 4.80 to 5.70 with 700 receipts and 530 shipments. Cattle in Chicago show firmer prices across heavy and feeder categories with varied weights. Sheep and lamb markets display steady to higher tones with mixed regional results.
A six day consolidated report shows net receipts totaling 64,786 with exports to Great Britain 40,844 and to the content 49,213. Stocks at all United States ports sum to 797,713 while individual ports report varied steady or firm conditions and mixed exports coastwise and to Europe.
Markets describe cargoes off the coast with wheat prices rising while corn eases. California wheat quoted around 7s 4d to 7s 7d, with shipments pending and markets in Paris and Liverpool showing firmness and steadiness amid quiet activity.
Liverpool reports wheat firm with good demand and corn firmer as traders await orders. No 1 California wheat quoted for March to June at 7s 7d to 7s 9d, mixed American corn for April and May at around 4s 4d, Paris notes dour for bread and stable English markets with steady pork and cheese prices.
Shipping entries from Charleston list firms Bradley Fertilizer Co Goree WCA and Brown Bros Co with goods including phosphate rock hides horn piths goat skins and india rubber. Vessels Clara J Wilbur Lucy W Snow RJ Moulten and others reported with cargoes of leather hides lumber and leewood across several ports.
Record of ships Manitoban British Queen and Sidonian with cargoes from Glasgow and London to North American ports, listing flour bags, meat and beef tonnage, apples, wheat, oil cake, canned goods, leather, timber, crates, and various farm and manufacturing goods, with clear dates Feb 25 to Feb 28.
A 1857 Boston area ledger lists shipments for Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern and Western Divisions, Boston and Maine Western, and Boston and Lowell rails. The tallies include cotton bales, wool, flour, corn products, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, leather, hides, lumber, tea, coffee, tea, and various foodstuffs. The aggregate figures show extensive grain, meat, dairy, and textile movement by rail across multiple lines.
A summarized freight ledger itemizes leaf lumber 1 car leather 22 hides 4 bales by Express 1618 rolls 57 barrels 2 barrels leather. Sea consignments include 1279 bales foreign wool 3000 bags cottonseed meal 19 casks grease 189 half chests 103 boxes tea 2 barrels 404 hogsheads 2123 bags sugar 795 barrels 114 hogsheads 23 tierces molasses 32 tubs butter 259 cases eyes 822 barrels apples 37 cargo cars lumber 7 bales 180 bales leather 67 bales 1 bale hides 81 bales 8 bolls 7861 skins 7674 dry hides.
In Suffolk County Insolvency Court Judge McKim ordered warrants against the estates of Morse Huggins and Ball as F R Morse Co brokers and against Hammond Rice box manufacturers. Whitney claim stands at 64000 with creditors to realize about 75 cents on the dollar. Frost failed in Monmouth Me with 6000 liabilities. Bustine & Co Arlington and others insolvent. Composition 5 percent offered by Hawkins confirmed.
Transfers include Mary M. W. Harris to Robert LinarHis on Utica street for $1 and multiple parcels on Worcester Court Essex Worcester Springfield Beacon Washington Faneuil Hall and other streets. Notable deeds feature Ditto to Lucy Freedley on several parcels, Edward G. Pecker acquiring interests, and various Woolworths-like street addresses with nominal sums.
A list of February mortgage filings shows William B Blakemore to Joseph L Drew on Park street West Roxbury for 1000. Freeman Josselyn to Home Savings Bank on East Fifth street Dorchester for 4000. Rock guardian to Michael Kelly on Circuit street Roxbury for 220. Hennessy to John A Greely on Walnut street Chelsea for 1500. Busiel to Boston Five Cents Savings Bank on Montgomery street for 4500. Adaline Lincoln to George W Brown on Pleasant street Dorchester for 34000. Murray to Kiernan on Second street Chelsea for 200. Catherine Lincoln to Pioneer Cooperative on Chester avenue for 1900. W Elliott Woodward to Francis C Richards on Woodward Park street Dorchester for 1000. Almira Cudworth to Jane Cudworth on Jast Chester park for 3000. Ditto to same for 8000. Benjamin Harris and others to Henry Wyzanski on Salem street for 800.
Samuel E. Locke of Boston seeks a divorce from Emma M. Collins formerly of Cambridge on grounds of desertion since July 27, 1880 after eleven years of marriage and a daughter aged eleven. The libel filed February 8, 1887 with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at Boston.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court orders Emma M Locke to appear in Boston Suffolk County on the first Monday of May. An attested copy of the libel will be published weekly in the Boston Post for three weeks prior to the date, with the final publication at least sixty days before May. John Noble, Clerk.
The notice lists multiple daily through trains between Augusta and Haymarket, with departures from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. It includes services to Causeway, Portland, Lewiston, Manchester, North Conway, Eastport, Calais, St. John, Halifax and the Provinces, and connections with Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox & Heaincotn railways.
Trains begin Monday July 28 87 with routes to New Work Shore Line Fast Express and Mail services to Providence and Stonington Line. Timetables include departures from Boston to New Work Pawtucket and points en route with numerous return times and occasional Sunday exceptions, plus noted connections at Mansfield and Canton.
A dense list of outbound and return trains from Boston stations to many towns including Dover Georgetown Malden Merrimac Wakefield Wilmington Reading and others with numerous hourly and half hourly times for weekdays and Sundays. It records multiple connections to towns such as Dover Saco Lawrence Medford and Portland and notes a Workingmen's train service.
A long list of seasonal and daily train times for Amesbury Chelsea Dover Everett Ipswich Lynn Salem Swampscott and other stops. Notes indicate Workingman's train runs Thursdays and Saturdays with routes via South Reading branch and city ticket offices. General managers James Furber and D J Flanders are named.
Boston and Lowell Railroad FER 21 1887 lists through service from Boston Causeway Street station with offices at 218 Washington Street. schedules show trains to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weis Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier and Montreal at 8:30 am and 8:40 pm with various branches to Bristol Claremont and local White Mountain and Northern Division points. Parlor and Pullman cars advertised for Montreation and Manchester area service with multiple daily departures and connections via Central Vermont and Passumpsic RRs. Local service to Concord Keene Nashua and other towns appears with scattered times.
The notice lists daily and Sunday train schedules for Concord Massachusetts and surrounding towns with times across morning to late evening. It notes through trains via Bedford and the stations at Billerica Lexington Arlington and other locations and directs readers to stations for full time tables.
Central Massachusetts R R Station Causeway Street announces Monday February 21 1887 trains from Boston to Jefferson and Way Stations depart at 5 05 PM with multiple express and local runs listed to Madison Seabrook Rockbottom Sudbury Weston Belmont Waverley and Waltham.Officials W E Storer assistant general passenger agent and C B Mellin general superintendent sign.
Weekday and Sunday train schedules from Boston to New York and intermediate points via Kali River and Fall River Line. Includes Ashmont to Provincetown routes with extensive times and return trips, plus connections through Brockton Taunton and South Shore towns.
Boston passenger station schedules list trains to North Adams Troy Albany and the West with multiple daily departures including dining and sleeping car services. The notice names J Whitmore John Adams and J R Watson as officials and directs readers to ticket office for local timetables and through West tickets.
Boston to New York express services and daily through trains are listed with connections at Albany, Springfield, Palmer, and Providence. The timetable covers branch stops from Worcester to Norwood Central, Newton Lower Falls, Framingham, Marlboro, Needham, and Woonsocket with Sunday variations and through Pullman cars. Details include departure times, express status, and ticket office locations in Boston.
The Boston and Maine Concord Branch announces daily train departures starting October 11 1886 from K and L depot at 7 30 am 8 30 am and 1 00 pm 3 00 pm 5 30 pm 7 00 pm with Sunday 1 00 pm service Also from B and M depot at 7 54 am 12 00 m 5 00 pm and return times from Concord to Boston at 5 30 am 7 30 am 10 20 am 2 45 pm 5 05 pm 6 28 pm Sundays 7 00 am H E Chamberlin Superintendent
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