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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1887
Page
7
Market notes list fresh beef and pork prices by cut and grade, including city dressed hogs, plate and light plate beef, hams, bacon, tongues, and veal. Lamb and mutton prices show ranges from prime to fair, with Chicago dressed lambs and Brighton mutton among listings.
Futures opened quiet and closed firm with price quotes across cotton, sugar, and oil markets. Notable items include March and April cotton futures at 6 24-64d and 5 24-64d, spot cotton mixed with quiet to easier opens, and New York spot steady. Oil pipeline certificates, refined oil, and sugar prices show firming trends with range quotes. Imports and stock levels across New York and Philadelphia ports listed with daily receipts and shipments.
New York markets show flour receipts and exports with dull sales and varied prices for Western, State, and St Louis flour. rye, cornmeal, and oats hold steady or higher amid strong wheat levels. Milwaukee and Chicago notes cover flour, wheat, corn, oats, barley, and pork markets with prices and receipts listed.
A fragment shows quantities for crops including wheat at 49 000 bushels, corn 172 000 bushels, oats 00 bushels, and barley 300 bushels, implying a rough agricultural tally spread across multiple grains.
Market notes show hogs firm in St Louis at about 5.40 to 6.66 with dressed ranges while Chicago receipts reach 14 000 hogs and 7 000 cattle. Cattle selling strong with shipping meat prices around 4.50 to 5.50. hogs average 5.20 to 6.00. lambs and sheep demand mixed with Western and Texan lots cited.
Cotton market report for March 18 1887 shows net receipts across ports totaling 58 201 with exports to Britain and the continent rising. Prices vary by port with mid ranges near 90 to 95 cents and firm to quiet trading. stocks aggregate to over 645 784 at all US ports with Liverpool and inland figures included.
A condensed list of outbound shipments from St John s Newfoundland St Pierre Mig Liverpool and related points detailing schooners and steamers with cargoes including kerosene oil hake codfish herring pork beef lard butter sugar coffee tobacco and various goods and equipment arranged by vessel and port with quantities such as 447 bbls kerosene 165 drums hake 50 boxes codfish 275 boxes herring 100 bales flour 1000 feet lumber 1038 tons ice 62 boxes apples 80 bbls alcohol 8 bbls bread 8000 pounds butter 274 cases fishing gear and other items.
Large 1887 freight receipt list from multiple lines detailing Cotton Wool Flour Corn Oats Wheat Millfeed Tallow Butter Cheese Eggs Beans Potatoes Lumber Leather Hides Skins and more. Railroads include Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine, Boston & Lowell. Records volumes per line indicate vast cargoes moving to markets.
Boston and Maine announces through trains on both divisions starting January 1 1887 with multiple departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Ban gor St John Halifax and the Provinces Eastport Calais Lewiston Manchester North Conway Port Sun Dr etc on specified schedules and connections via steamers from Portland.
London markets report wheat and corn turning dearer as cargoes move, with red wheat dull and white firm. California wheat prices quoted, Paris and Liverpool firmness noted, with wheat steady and corn weaker. Provisions steady to lower and various staple prices listed, reflecting a cautious demand and speculative activity.
Citations issued in Suffolk Probate Court for Boston estates and name change requests. Notices require appearances April 4, 1887, with publication in the Boston Post for three weeks, last issue two days before court. Includes estates of John Gilroy George Wyman West and John Edward Hanson.
Citations issued in Suffolk probate court for Charles E Whittemore and Catherine Falvey estates. Clara A Whittemore seeks letters testamentary with no surety. hearing set April 4, 1887 at 10 am. Robert Grant and Daniel J Shea present first account for Falvey estate. hearing and service by weekly Boston Post publication for three weeks.
Suffolk probate court case directed Nathan Matthews Jr to present first account for the estate of Jonathan Amory of Boston. Hearing set for Monday April 4 1887 at 10 in Boston. Citation to be published weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post with final notice at least two days before the hearing.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts probate court notes the ninth account of Freeborn F. Raymond and Isaac Brewster as trustees under Thatcher R. Raymond will for Caroline L. Hayes and Elizabeth B. Jimha. A citation will require publication in the Boston Post, with a hearing set in Cambridge on the first Tuesday of April at nine in the forenoon to show cause if any.
Massachusetts probate notices cite next of kin and creditors in the estate of Matilda M H Goodrich in Cambridge Middlesex for letters of administration to Jabez A Sawyer with weekly Boston Post publication for three weeks. Executors Wiggin Haley Severance and Dodge file sixth account and must publish three weekly notices in Boston Post with final on or before court dates.
Several probate items note name changes and wills. Olive Maria Hanson seeks a name change to Olive Maria Eldridge in Suffolk from Boston with three weekly notices. A Middlesex probate summons Helen E. Davis as executrix for Silas Davis of Everett, seeking letters testamentary and bond relief. Samuel E. Sewall announces appointment as executor for Charles C. Sewall of Medfield, with instructions to present claims or payments per law, dated March 2, 1887.
Warrant in insolvency issued for George C Tedford and Henry Taylor doing business as Henry Taylor & Company piano case manufacturers. Meetings of creditors to prove debts and assign estates set for March 24, 1887, and March 31, 1887, in Boston Court of Insolvency. Additional notices list Ormsby and Sweeney, Elim Robbins, and John Burbank insolvent debtors with upcoming creditor meetings in April and May 1887.
A dense list shows train departures from Boston and Haymarket to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and many other towns including Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maverhill Kennebunk Biddeford Saco Lawrence North Lawrence Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield Wilmington and more with numerous daily times and a Sunday schedule morning through night services to multiple destinations in New England.
A dense list of train times and routes across New England towns including Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea Dover Everett Lynn Salem Swampscott Marblehead Portsmouth Rockport Gloucester and more. It notes city ticket offices and through services from Boston with numerous departure times and destinations.
A dense timetable lists weekday train departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and returns, including Ashmont, Barnstable, Hyannis, Yarmouth, Sandwich, Braintree, Bridgewater, Cohasset, Hingham, Nantucket, Whitman, Weymouth, Taunton, and other stations with numerous times for departures and returns. It notes the 6 p m outbound and 5 p m return after February 28, 1887, plus connections and special routes, ending with signature of R Kendrick General Manager.
A detailed timetable lists daily trains from Boston to New Work and Providence with multiple return times. It includes Shore Line Fast Express, Shore Line Mail, Steamboat line, and numerous local branches such as Attleboro North Attleboro Dedham Hyde Park and Stoughton. Adjustments note weekday lateness and connections with the New York Shore Line service. A. A. Folsom, Superintendent.
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