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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1888
Page
7
Market report shows steady wholesale quotations for butter, eggs, beans, grass seeds, potatoes, and produce. Demand varies by item with creams, eggs, and country beans trading at mixed levels while hay and poultry stay firm to buyers’ favor. notable prices listed for multiple regional varieties and pack sizes.
In Chicago putter, Western creamery extra and Elgin creamery extra sell at 27c, 20c. Receipts are light. Cheese steady, eggs lower with Western firsts at 15.44c. Liverpool demand strong for finest September colored cheese at 56-58s and September white at 58.50s. New York butter and cheese unchanged. eggs steady at decline. Eastern lists 1634¢, Western 164¢c, Southerns 1644¢. Cincinnati butter firm at 3 le, eggs quiet at idc.
The steamer Efficient cargo sold in New Orleans with lemons at 156 505 per box and oranges at 155 3 45 per box. Apple market quiet with Baldwins at 275 300 Wybbs, medium grade selling at 2 250. Common lots plentiful and dull. Prices for various fruits and stock items listed, including Spy, greening, Baldwins, Talman sweets, and Floridian and Mediterranean fruits. Florida oranges firmer as supply grows smaller, Palermo oranges and lemons listed with regional prices. Cranberries in short supply with Cape Cod prices described. Strawberries moderate at 50–60 cents per quart. cold weather hindering trade.
Trade for pork, lard, hams, and beef remains steady with quiet activity. Prices listed include long cuts at 17 25 to 17 75, extra prime pork at 13 75 to 14 25, mess beef 14 75 to 16 75, fresh ribs from 10 to 11 cents, and various hog and sausage prices. Beef and mutton demand steady with ranges for choice steers 8 to 10 cents, lambs 7 to 12 cents, mutton 5 to 10 cents, and receipts moderate.
Pipeline certificates closing prices cited for March 7 and 8. Sugar markets show raw sugar steady with varied grades and refined sugar ranges. Molasses and tallow prices listed with regional quotations. oil and petroleum references appear at the end.
Sarpentine closed at 400 with rosin at 120, tar nominal, petroleum closed above 1,000 with RSW at 4,000.
Reports from tradH centres in New York and multiple cities show mixed grain movements. Wheat and corn demand steady to firm with varying futures and cash bids. rye, barley and oats prices steady to higher. flour and pork markets firm. notable regional quotes include No 2 Milwaukee red and No 1 hard wheat prices and several bbl and tonnage figures across commodities.
New York spot cotton quiet at 103-16e for middling uplands and 911-16e for low middlings, with sales 116 bales. Futures open irregular. bids and asks vary across March to August. Liverpool spot in fair demand with uplands at 57-16d and Orleans at Bed. futures steady after decline. US port totals show varied receipts, stocks, and sales across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, West Point, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Cincinnati, with mixed mid quotes and activity. Consolidated five day net receipts and exports listed.
Market reports from Kansas City St Louis Peoria and Chicago show stronger hogs and higher cattle prices. Chicago notes steady hog receipts 18000 with strong demand. cattle receipts 8500 with mixed buyers and high steer prices. sheep markets also strong with higher lamb values.
Foreign markets report in London and Liverpool notes wheat and corn steady with limited demand. Cargoes entering and awaiting sale, prices for winter and spring wheat quoted around 6s to 6s x d, corn mixed at 4s 7d, pork steady at 6s 8d, bacon easing, and cheese around 59s.
A long list of cargoes and vessels arriving at ports including Schooner Georges K Hatch with 8952 bags sugar Nash Spaulding Co. Schooner Andrew Burnham with 20351 boxes herring and 1 bbl potatoes Ingalls. Steamer Haytien Republic 290000 bs logwood 260 bags coffee Dupuy Riboul Co. many consignors and buyers including Lyon Dupuy Co, Master Liverpool, Baring Bros Co, W H Walbaum Co, and numerous box and case goods, machinery, woollens, leather, and metals. Cargoes bound for Grand Manan NB, Haïti ports, and Liverpool with extensive tonnage and a broad mix of commodities.
From TXPORTS to St John NB various consignments are listed, detailing steamer Palestine with beef, hams, leather, organs, wool, and miscellaneous goods. Pieter de Cormack at Antwerp with bacon and leather. Timothy Field at Goree with bread and dried fish. Lorenzo D Baker at Port Morant with flour, nails, and dry goods. Calabria at Sagua La Grande with birds and tierces. Juno at St John NB with pig iron and cornmeal.
A dense ledger of March 8, 1888 inventories across multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Worcester and others. It itemizes bales cotton wool flour cornmeal oats tallow leather hides lard butter eggs tea coffee sugar beef pork beans apples potatoes and assorted crates boxes and cases. Quantities are given in bales bbls sacks cases and pounds with numerous totals and line items noted.
A listed catalog of items includes half chests tea packages 571 bags coffee 1191 bids molasses 41 tubs butter 384 bags beans 1460 bbis potatoes 8 rolls LOL bdis feather 121 bales 739 hidee 196 bdis green hides 2 bdis skins.
Middlesex and Suffolk probate notices announce administrations and will probates for Henry J. Rounds Maurice Bresnahan Joan Quinn and related executors. Citations require appearance in Boston and Lowell courts with public notices in the Boston Post. Dates cited include March 1888 deadlines and weekly publication requirements.
Advertisers of legal and probate notices should signate the Boston Post as the paper. The Post is recognized as the reading Boston paper giving attention to legal matters and thoughtful court reports. Copies with genuine documents are returned to attorneys on next attachment advertisement. Care in presentation ensures accuracy.
Boston insolvency notice issued for Edward H Burditt and Irwin A J Colby trading as Burditt Colby tailors forbids payments and transfers. Creditors meet March 23 1888 in Boston Probate Court to prove debts and appoint assignees. Additional meetings list MG, Thomas J Barry, and J H Park as assignees with dates in 1858 and 1888 for other insolvent debtors.
Timetables list extensive rail routes and connections including Weymouth Hingham Cohasset Scituate Marshfield Taunton and Fall River services with daily and Sunday departures Return times and through connections noted. Officials G L Connor J R Kendrick announce schedule changes effective May 1887 for Boston Can Vow Want line and connecting routes.
A dense OCR of railway schedules lists numerous stations and times including Baltimore Boston Norwood Central Hyde Park and Providence. It references the New England Limited Philadelphia Express and Norwich Line Express with connections, dining car service, and the City of Boston steamer link, noting offices at 822 Washington Street and depot details.
A garbled OCR stream lists times and routes such as 8.36, 9.3, 10.30, 4.40, and 6.07 pm with scattered phrases like Ode Park and ME nets. The fragment resembles a transit timetable or schedule notes with unreadable place names and numbers, leaving readers uncertain about the exact routes and stations.
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