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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 20, 1888

Page

7

Grain prices and market update from the corn and oats trading

Prices for spot goods show small quantities with bids for corn oats and flour. Quotations cover Minnesota and Michigan wheat varieties, Canada exports, and domestic oats with bids, asks, and closing prices. Supplies in elevators and visible stocks across wheat oats barley and corn are listed by date and region.

Minnesota Michigan Canada Superior Canada Roller Canada New No 1 New York Bush Choice New York Common

Wholesale dairy and produce prices drift lower amid light receipts

Receipts for Burrpr are light and wholesale price quotes edge down across dairy and produce items. Western creameries, cheese, beans, grass seeds, potatoes, hay, poultry, and game show mixed movements with jobbing prices generally higher or unchanged as markets absorb sparse supplies.

Truce, Southern Truck Goods Arrive in Good-Sized Lots

Southern truck goods arrive in sizable lots with prices for Bermuda onions at 325 per crate and Key West onions at 250 to 275 per crate. Florida tomatoes come in small lots at 175 to 250 per crate, Southern cabbage around 275 per crate, and native produce including spinach dandelions and onions listed with varied prices.

Bermuda New York Key West Florida Norfolk St Andrews

Market Report Follows Quiet Butter and Egg Prices

In Cincinnati butter holds at 32 cents per pound and eggs steady at 14 cents. In St. Louis butter remains firm as Western creamery output steadies amid market quiet.

Cincinnati St. Louis

Dairy and Produce Prices Across Regions

Dairy and produce price notes show Western dairy steady with butter around 24 82c and 23 80c in the State market. Cheese quiet at Brate factory 11 12140, eggs steady near 16420 state figures, dried apples firm at 3 10c. Beans quiet medium at $2.60, peas $2.75, red kidney $1.95 per unit.

Western New York Western Creamery State Brate Fraeh

Fruit auction reports Benison cargo prices and fruit markets

H. Herris & Co. sold the steamer Benison cargo at auction with Valencia and Palermo fruit priced per box and per barrel. fruit in very bad condition. Orange and lemon markets quoted steady with Palermo and Messina varieties listed and berries offered at old prices. Strawberries sold in 25 3b5c per quart box.

H. Herris & Co Benison Palermo Tallman Florida Messina Valencia Cape Cod

Meat prices steady with broad movement across pork and beef

Provisions show pork and lamp hams steady with fair movement at old prices. Long cuts sell from 17 25 to 18 25 per hundredweight, lard and bacon prices listed, along with hams and shoulders. Fresno beer and various beef cuts also quoted with supply rising for muttons and veals though prices ease slightly.

Breer Fresno Chicago Choice Brighton

Mixed Commodity Prices and Markets Report

Sugar prices steady with refined sugar active and wholesale granulated at 7 cents. Molasses and tallow show steady markets, turpentine and resin noted, petroleum prices reported. London tallow at 35s and molasses quotes from Ponce Porto Rico and Cienfuegos included.

Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos London New York

Trade centre grain and flour market reports

Reports from New York Chicago St Louis Toledo Minneapolis Milwaukee Detroit with flour receipts and prices for many grades and commodities. Notes include flour exports and dull sales, wheat oats corn rye barley and pork and lard prices across multiple exchanges and wholesale markets.

Cotton Market Reports From New York and Liverpool

In New York spot cotton holds steady with middling uplands at 10Y e and low middlings at 94 sector. Pool ordinary at 811-15e and ordinary at 714¢. sales total 106 pales. In Liverpool market dull with prices unchanged at 5Yed for uplands and 57-16d for Orleans. Futures steady with March 56 19-64d, March-April 6 18-640, Anvil-May 6 20.64d.

New York Liverpool Orleans

Market Report by Port With Wide Range of Receipts and Stocks

The report lists monthly pairings and market data across ports from Augusta to Louisville, detailing net receipts, gross totals, exports to continents and coastwise shipments, sales, and stock levels. Notable figures include New Orleans receipts of 5910, stock 262,261, Savannah stock 32,842, and Philadelphia stock 19,970 with quiet markets, plus consolidated three day totals: receipts 12,743 and exports to Britain 27,055.

Augusta C. Galveston Continent New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Great Britain Mid Lodge New York France Cinecinnati Midgo St. Louis Louisville United States

Hog and Cattle Markets Report From Chicago and Kansas City

Chicago market notes cattle receipts about 12 000 with weakness in steers and feeders and Texans at 295 to 426. Hog receipts 18 000 with steady range from 5 10 to 6 36 and ships to 8 50. Sheep receipts 3000 with natives and western prices 4 50 to 6 25. Kansas City noon hogs steady with 3000 estimated today and 3961 official Saturday receipts.

Chicago Texas Kansas City

Staple Prices and Shipments in 1888 Rail Freight Listings

Insolent catalog of March 19 1888 freight and receipts across multiple railroads detailing cotton wool flour oats wheat barley malt grease tallow pigs lard butter oleo hay lumber leather and more. Entries show quantities by bale box car and barrel across Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Old Colony Fitchburg New York & New Haven Boston & Maine divisions and sea and express routes.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & Newee Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell System By Express By Sea S.s Eae Osanawe TAG Bolls

Old Colony Railroad Notice Powers Baggage Check Boston Trip

Passengers on the Old Colony line may have baggage checked to hotels or residences in Boston or destinations via the Boston route. Orders for baggage pick up are to be left at the No 3 Old State House after March 5 1868. Weekday and Sunday train schedules cover numerous stops including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich and more with varied return times and connections via Fall River Line and other lines.

Old Colony Boston Old State House Oes Koston New York Fall River Line Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Return Braintree Cottage City New Bedford East Bridgewater Brockton Abington West Quincy East Weymouth Weymouth Mats Japan Milton Mattapan Neponset Mattupoisert Middleboro Rantucket Feta Transife Datursy Ram Fall River Old Colony Station Wrintodm Brooklyn Jersey City

Imports Marine and Inland Trade Ledger for March 19 1888

A detailed shipping and goods list from Calcutta and Nova Scotia ports noting vessels such as Warrior City of Macon and Muagpum with cargoes drawn from 5644 bales of rails to 957 boxes of oranges. Includes firms like George W Preston Delong & Seaman and Chapin Bros reporting diverse consignments of hides lumber fruit vegetables and potatoes. Various consignors and recipients across Savannah Calcutta and Meteghan populate a dense archival inventory of trade items and quantities.

Calcutta George W Preston Meteghan Delong & Seaman N Boynton & Co Chapin Bros Curtis & Co Gillette & Hennigan Hall Harrington Jewell & Co Johnson & Co James & Abbott Kendall Linnell & Co Lathrop Leonard Lyman Mills E Morrison & Co George McQuesten & Co Mansfield W & R Noyes Norfolk Oyster Helon Hides Ceason KE Naurball Co

Trade cargo figures from Yarmouth Nova Scotia listings

A historical commerce fragment listing multiple firms and goods in Yarmouth NS. Items include oranges, cotton bales, eggs, potatoes, boxes and crates of produce, lumber, moss, lard and refrigerators, with quantities such as 604 bales cotton and 489 boxes oranges. Also notes steamer cargoes and shipments of lobsters, codfish, and other perishables.

Perry Pepperell Mills Root & Childs Richardson & Dennis Southwick Skelton & Co Silver Lake Co Sawtelle & Pratt Simonds Bros Smith Smith & Blanchard L W_ Sherman & co Snow & Co Simmons, Amsden & Co Sands, Furber & Co Stark Mills Tilson Yarmouth Barclay & Co Mead & Co Hutchinson & Co Huntress Epps Delong & Seaman H & Griffigt Co Clements & Co Jones & Co

Shipping cargoes in 1888 ports listed in exports report

Export data from March 19 1888 for Liverpool Hantsport Pubnico and Surinam shows steamer Cephelonia carrying 31 pigs 11 organs 387 printed sheets and 640 desks among various goods. Schooner Nellie Blanche from Hantsport reports flour beef and oil while George K Hatch from Surinam ships flour butter and tobacco. Uncle Sam via Pubnico carries flour kerosene and hawser.

Liverpool Eng Cephelonia Sea Island Hantsport Nellie Blanche Surinam George K Hatch Pubnico Grand Manan

World grain markets steady amid mixed cargo reports

London reports cargoes of wheat and corn steady on passage and for shipment while flour eases. Mark Lane notes California and Danubian grain pricing, with English deliveries at 77,277 quarters weekly. Liverpool and Antwerp show mixed wheat and corn movements, with wheat prices fluctuating and tallow and lard changes. Paris cites wheat and flour prices as markets edge lower.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane Minnesota Paris England California Liverpool Antwerp

Boots and Shoes Firms Listed by Cities in Trade Note

A ledger of shoe buyers and firms across numerous cities including Chicago Detroit Milwaukee St Louis Memphis Cincinnati Omaha and more. Names paired with company roles cover Lawrence Barry & Co C H Francis & Co Meson Bros Selz Schwab Co Craddock Torrey Co and others.

J A Lawrence Lawrence, Berry & O Wee Ala C H Francis C H Francis & Co Birmingham Ala Mr Cawthorn Cawthorn & McIntosh Poone T''T Mason Meson Bros Chicago W Marks A@ MacLaughlan J Harry Selz Selz, Schwab & Co Detroit U S Milwaukee Wis Meissner, Craw Omaha Neb St Louis Smith Tre Selina N Kahn Ed Skelheimer & Co Einstein Einstein's Sons Ob Paul Mion H Kellogg Kellogg, Johnson St Paul Minn Foot Schulze & Co Taylor American Hand Sewed Shoe Company J W Amick J W Amick & Co

Boston and Maine Rail Schedules March 1 1888 Through Trains

Western and Eastern divisions list departure times from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Haymarket, St John Halifax Portand Bar Harbor and other hubs. Connections include Lewiston Manchester North Conway and regional lines with multiple daily departures and steamer links from Portland.

Augusta Haymarket Sq Causeway St Anger St. John Halifax Provinces Bastport Calais St. Joan Portland Rrechkland Castine Southwest Briar Harbors Laymarket Lewiston Haymarket Blaine Central Grand Pronk Knox & Lincoln Rrailways Laymiarkes Sq A Lin

Western Division Train Schedules for Boston Area Lines

Trains depart from Boston at 8.30 am and 11 pm toward Aston Bay Rochester and Farmington with frequent stops including Andover Haverhill Lawrence Lowell Medford Melrose Reading Wakefield Wilmington and Portland Bangor and Lewiston among others. Listings show varied daily times for multiple towns and a workers train option.

Lynn and Way Newburyport Portsam South Portland Bangor St. John Balifax Salem Vic Saugus Workingmen South Reading Ranch Boston Haymarket Square Carls Sleryy Manchesterc Sam Hillsboro Concord Herst Nas i Lawrence Wilmington Hill Ian Vbuwn Winelys West Mediora Western Division Aston Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Georgetown Menuebunk Biddeford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell Mialden Medford M. Melrose Highlands Stoneham Melrose Merrimac North Andover Reading Satem M. Wakefield Workinugsmen Manchester Lewiston Reading and Way

Central Massachusetts Train Schedules From Boston and Beyond

Time tables list multiple routes with departures from Boston and numerous Worcester area stations. It notes local and through trains with specific times such as 7.25 am and afternoon slots, and mentions stations like Amherst Belchertown Weston Waverley and Hudson. Published by ESTt. Furber and Tanders.

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