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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1888
Page
7
Turnips and celery listed with prices. flat turnips 50 to 60 cents per bush. white French turnips at 150 dollars per barrel. St Andrews items priced at 140 dollars per gubbi. celery priced at 6 dollars 50 cents per box.
The steamer Agnan is due March 22 with Jamaica oranges and bananas for the Bogton Fruit Company. The steamer Brattan is due March 28 with Jamaica bananas for George H Hard.
The Apple market shows quiet trade with ample stock and steady prices including Spy at 2.50 to 3.50 per barrel and greening near 2.50. Florida oranges are in small supply with Palermo and Messina varieties priced per box or case, while Cranberries are scarce with Cape Cod offerings ranging from 6 to 11 per barrel and crates around 8 to 8.50.
Prices hold steady across pork beef and lamb with firm to quiet demand. Ranges include pork long cuts 17 25 to 17 75 and hams 10 to 12 cents per pound depending on size and cure. beef extra plate 8 50 to 9 00. veal and lamb quotes vary by grade and region.
Raw sugar prices hold steady while refined grades advance with broad price lists. Molasses and tallow show quiet or steady movement with city and country quotes. Turpentine rosin and petroleum futures close near previous levels in New York and London markets.
Flour receipts and varied exports reported in New York with prices for white wheat flour and other grades. Chicago, St Louis, Milwaukee, Toledo, Detroit, Cincinnati wholesale markets noted with oats corn and rye values and pork lard and butter movements.
Kansas City hogs steady with 6000 receipts estimated today. St Louis hogs firm with values listed for Yorkers and packs. Chicago cattle receipts about 8000 with slow steady trend. steers around 3.20, cows and calves lower. Hogs nationwide strong and higher with gains across lighter and heavier categories. Kansas City and St Louis market notes include yesterday’s receipts and shipments.
Fragmentary OCR text lists numbers and units with dollars and cents, mentions Western Texans and 500, but lacks coherent events or context to identify a full news item or outcome.
Spot cotton in New York steady with middling uplands at 10, low middlings 9 12e, good ordinary 8 56, ordinary 7 4. futures opened and closed steady. Liverpool spot flat and irregular with uplands 6 6-16d, Orleans 5 ½d. futures listings vary by month. Domestic and port-wise receipts and stocks detailed across Augusta to Louisville, with varying market tones from dull to easy and quiet.
March 21 reports from London and Liverpool show wheat and corn demand weak or steady with mixed futures. Chilian wheat prices hold at 32s 6d to 33s for March and April, while English and French markets soften. In Liverpool bread stuffs quote quiet wheat and steady corn with specific prices for No 1 and No 2 California wheat and various pork, bacon, cheese, tallow, and lard rates.
Shipping list from Liverpool shows the steamer Bulgarian cleared March 17 with 162 barrels oil 13 lamps 8 toilet paper cases 2 crates machinery 15 cases paints 1 case machinery 2 cases wheels 12 spokes 1 case hubs 2 cases books 26 cases perfumery 16 cases organs 1404 quarters fresh beef 4 cases tags 3 cases paper boxes 11 cases wood boxes 3000 staves 3665 staves 1 case fishing lines 2 anchors 2 anchor stocks 3 chain cables 1 vol i pails 2 bales duck 19 coils cordage 8 bbls crackers 3 crates stones 7 bbls beet 60 bbls flour 2 cases canned meats 22 bbls clam bait 3 boxes boots 2 boxes rubber lats 84 pkgs oars 1 pump 1 pump brake 2 iron pump pipe 2 bbls pails 1 de oars 3 bbls pork 2 boxes yeast 3 de dried apples 0 bbls potash 52560 sacks flour 1790 bales cotton 7 cases furniture 269,382 bush corn 1606 bush wheat 10 boxes logwood extract 17 empty iron drums 12 cases troches 464 boxes bacon 25 bbls provisions 31 bbls tongues 18 bbls trimmings 26 bbls hocks 12589 ths cheese 1 case lard 199 cattle 141 reels 14 bales 5 cases sacks 35 pkgs leather
Freight ledgers list March 21 1888 receipts for several lines including Boston and Albany Boston Providence and Fitchburg railways. Entries include cotton wool flour oats corn ham bacon lard butter eggs leather hides beef and various bales sacks cases and barrels across multiple routes. shipments detail volumes in bales sacks barrels and tiers with numerous numerical totals.
A detailed freight list spans Boston and Maine Railroad Eastern Western and Lowell System with quantities of butter eggs apples potatoes lumber leather hides pelts and other goods. Entries show dozens of bales boxes cases and cars by division and transport mode including by express and by sea shipments.
Reprint of multiple probate notices from Suffolk County Massachusetts court. Citations order appearances April 2 1888 in Boston for distribution to next of kin and for probate of will with executors named James Gately Thomas F Concannon and others observing required weekly newspaper publication in the Boston Post.
The Boston Probate Court schedules hearings for two petitions. John Adam Dork seeks letters testamentary with no surety in Suffolk on April 2, 1838. James M Burk es of Somerville asks probate of his will for executor status in Middlesex, also April 2, 1838, at ten in the forenoon.
On March 26 1888 Hannah Bresnahan of Boston filed for probate of a will claiming letters testamentary for the executrix named. The petition asks for issuance without bond or sureties and directs notice to show cause at ten in the forenoon. Public court notice dated March 8 1888 from Elijah George Register.
Rensselaer Tobias guardian for a Suffolk minor seeks license to receive or sell trust fund shares and bonds held by Wm. E. Welch and others with accrued income and a Provident Savings deposit. Hearing in Boston on March 26 1888 at 10 am to show cause. Witness John W. McKim judge. Register Elwah George. Also probate notice for Isaac D. Fances estate with the Quinn executors final account to be allowed March 26 1888 at 10 am. publication required weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post.
Public probate notices announce wills and executors for multiple estates in Boston Massachusetts and nearby Suffolk County. Appeals seek letters testamentary and creditors must present claims by deadlines, with executors named and service via local newspapers.
Train timetables list through trains on Western and Eastern divisions from Boston stations to Augusta Causeway Street Moncton St John Halifax Portland and intermediate points with departures at Haymarket and Causeway Street and connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox and Lincoln lines. Service highlights include multiple daily departures to Eastport Calais Lewiston Manchester Castine Bar Harbor and Portland with week day steamship connections from Portland to Halifax and from Portland to Mockland South West and Bar Harbor.
Western Division lists hourly and irregular departures from Koston Station Haymarket to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with Sunday services to Dover Haverhill Lawrence Lowell Melrose Merrimac Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield Wilmington and other towns. Daily and Sunday times include 6.80am 1.4pm and numerous evening slots.
A dense schedule lists Boston Causeway Street departures to Amesbury and other coastal towns including Beverly Chelsea Dover Lynn Marblehead Newport New Bedford Plymouth and Portsmouth with numerous daily trains and seasonal adjustments. It notes special services via lines to Montreal and Fall River and details weekend and weekday variations.
Time tables outline local and through trains from Boston to Northampton and branches including Worcester Clinton Berlin and Belmont Waverley Waltham Way Stations. Full timetable details available at stations James Forber J. Flanders general manager and other officials announce the schedule.
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