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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1887
Page
7
A fragment lists items like rough and choice tallow for oleomargarine with prices and shorthand codes, indicating a grocery or pantry price note. The exact items are unclear but reflect commodity entries and unit prices typical of a local ad.
Apples steady with last quotes. Strawberries 50 cents, some fancy Jots higher. Steamer Eurypides sails to New York Tuesday with 9600 boxes oranges and 10,400 boxes lemons from Palermo. Prices listed for apples, nuts, dried fruits, and foreign fruits, including Valencia and Messina oranges and Palermo boxes.
The report records firm pork prices with hams and lard unchanged and beets steady. Chicago closing quotations list wheat futures for May and September with multiple price points and a detailed meat section notes firm pork cuts and varied beef and lamb prices by cut and zone.
Liverpool cotton futures opened steady and closed dull with varied March to September bids in the 5 20-64d to 5 31-64d range. Spot prices rose for middling uplands and Orleans, while New York spot closed firm. Futures in New York showed scattered bids and asks around 9.58 to 10.31 dollars, with market steady at close. Other items note Olds pipeline certificates, fuel oil prices, and firm raw and refined sugar with current quotations, plus molasses prices.
New York markets show flour receipts exports and sales around 12 600 bbls with mixed wheat prices and steady corn meal. Rye flour and barley quiet. oats and coffee firmer. pork and lard trade steady. Chicago Milwaukee grain and provisions notes added with price ranges and receipts for the period.
Market reports from Cincinnati Toledo and St Louis on March 21 show pork at 17 560, lard 7 25, bacon 8 56 to 8 50, whiskey 113, hog receipts 39 00, wheat 81 54 at Cincinnati. Toledo notes wheat 81 54, corn weak, oats quiet, large wheat and corn shipments. St Louis lists flour easy, wheat 79 1/2 to 80, corn 34 34 to 35 84, oats slow, rye 54, pork 19 for New mess, hams 14 2 to 14 8, with mixed receipts and shipments across flour and grains.
Hogs steady to mixed across markets with Kansas City listing $5.35 to $5.35 around, St Louis showing hogs $5.30 to $5.90, Chicago reporting cattle weak with steers around $5.50 and $3.10 to $3.25 for others, hogs $5.05 to $5.50, and sheep and lambs trading strong in parts with natives at $3.40 to $4.85 and lambs up to $5.50.
Market summary with net receipts gross exports coastwise and stocks by city including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville Consolidated totals show firm or steady tone with mid quotation ranges and notable exports to Great Britain France and the Continent.
London and Liverpool note steady to dull conditions for wheat and corn with small cargo activity. Prices show English and foreign wheat softening in places while American and Danubian corn hold or ease. Paris and Antwerp report quiet to firm tones with spot wheat and futures quoted in local currencies.
A sustained list of imports dated March 21 1887 records cargoes by berths at Black River Cornwallis Nova Scotia Cagliari Caleta Buena Gonaives Glasgow Ilolio Melbourne Milk River Ponce Savannah and other ports. Notable consignments include logwood roots nitrate soda sugar horses and steel billets with firm names Nash Spaulding & co Baring Bros co J R Leeson & co Jordan Marsh & co and Waldo Bros among others.
Yard report lists quantities of oranges cotton oysters hides rice spirits lumber and rosin from multiple firms in Yarmouth Nova Scotia Manila bark Adeline sugar cargo and related trade items. Notable entries include George McQuesten & Co Norfolk Oyster Co W O Rogers & Co Seaverns & Co York & Whitney and Delong & Seaman among others.
Export manifests from March 21 1887 detail shipments in London Liverpool and overseas docks. Items include crates of fish glue shoes leather butter canned goods linen lards beef pork cheese and numerous hardware goods with quantities and vessel names such as Principia Pavonia Minnie Abbe and Wild Rose listed alongside ports like Port George Nova Scotia Sierra Leone and Harborville Newfoundland.
Record of Boston and Albany Railroad cargo dated March 21 1887 showing 74 bales cotton 309 bales wool 1675 bbls flour and 13325 bush for shipment or transfer.
A long list records freight from multiple railroads including Grand Junction Providence Old Colony and New York & New England. Items span from corn and beans to bales cotton flour leather and butter with quantities in bushs bales cases cars and boxes.
A dense OCR style page lists rail and ship connections with times for Boston and multiple regional destinations. It covers weekday and Sunday trains, divisions for Western and Woon divisions, stops at Providence, New York via Fall River, and numerous coastal towns, with multiple return schedules and notes on special services.
Boston station timetable lists thorough Boston service to Tilton Laconia and Weirs with 8:30 AM and 7 PM arrivals. Local routes to Manchester Concord Nashua and nearby towns with varied daily departures. Central schedules show connections to St Johnsbury Newport and Quebec via Montreal. Timetable notes Pullman and Parlor cars, and stations at Causeway Street 218 Washington Street.
Schedules list train times from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations to Augusta Ellsworth Eastport Calais and Canadian points, with connections to Lewiston Manchester Concord and Conway. Services include Maine Central and Knox and Lincoln routes with various departures and tram stops in Boston MA.
A dense, era style timetable details daily and Sunday train departures from Boston to New York and to other New England points. It lists routes on Shore Line Fast Express, Shore Line Mail, Steamboat Stonington Line, and multiple local stops with numerous departure and return times, including special notes on Sundays and certain connections.
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