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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1887
Page
7
Fresh beef and other meats listed with varied prices. Choice steers near 734, 814 cents per pound for different cuts. light, heavy hindquarters, rumps, loins priced across a wide range. Fancy spring lambs, fall lambs, mutton, yearlings shown with percentages and regional varieties.
Light demand for apples with prices near last quotes. Florida oranges arrive in poor condition with slow sales. A light supply of strawberries today priced at Sic per quart with fancy lots at 60c. Evaporated dried apples firm, sun dried dull. Various apple grades and dried apple prices listed. Valencia oranges $7 per case, lemons Messina and Palermo box prices, Messina oranges $2.50-$4.25 per box, Florida bright oranges $3.50-$26.00 per crate, fancy russet and ordinary prices noted, bananas listed in several origins.
A newspaper style market report notes demand and price levels for truck, summer squares, dandelions, spinach, cabbages, beans, asparagus, Southern tomatoes, turnips, onions, Bermuda onions and a Bermuda onion cargo expected aboard the brig Alfred. Prices include 40c per bushel dandelions 50c per bushel spinach and various crate and barrel prices for beans squash onions and other produce.
Cotton futures opened steady and closed firm across May to September contracts. Spot markets in Liverpool and New York showed firm demand and higher middling prices, with substantial receipts and sales. futures quotes listed for May through October and unrelated commodity notes included sugar and molasses prices.
New York reports flour receipts 5163 bbls 12523 sacks sales 25400 bbls. Prices rise for wheat while corn and oats steady. State and western flour yields listed with futures and spot ranges. Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Toledo St Louis market notes included for wheat flour corn rye barley oats and pork beef and lard values. Prices shown for No 2 red white cereals pork products and fats with varying delivery terms.
Wheat markets firmed in Minneapolis with No 1 hard cash at 79 5 8 cents, May at 81 cents, June at 81 4. No 1 Northern 78 3 4 cash, May 78 3 4, June 79 4 8. No 2 Northern 76 3 4 cash, May 76 3 4, June 76 4 8. Receipts 71 120 bushels. shipments 6720. Chicago wheat and flour mostly steady. No 2 spring 83 1 4 to 83 3 4 cents, No 2 red 83 1 4. Corn 38 8 4 to 38 9 8, oats 26 7 4, rye 8 8 4, barley 7 0 0. Pork 23. Lard 8 7 4 to 8 9 4. Shipments: flour 11 000 bbls. wheat 63 000 bushels. corn 174 000 bushels.
Market report from St Louis, Peoria, and Chicago shows hogs active with receipts of 4000 in St Louis and 15,000 in Chicago, prices around 5.00 for hogs and 4.60 to 5.35 for cattle. Chicago notes stronger hog and cattle trade with shipments and varied ranges for steers, cows, and stockers. sheep and lambs also moving higher with woolled and shorn categories listed.
Cotton market report lists net receipts gross sales and stock across ports including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville. Highlights show firm markets with varied exports coastwise Great Britain France and the continent, and consolidated six day totals for receipts exports and aggregate U S port stock.
Foreign Markets from London, Liverpool and Paris note wheat prices firming with good demand in multiple centers. Cargoes off the coast and passage show wheat rising while corn remains steady. Paris and Antwerp show firm wheat with various futures quotes. Liverpool quotes list California and Michigan wheats with mixed results and fading gains in pork and cheese.
Shipping list itemizes consignments across Fayal and Flores including Bark Kennard with gin and cases, A A Pinheiro with 11 boxes preserves, W P Gregorio with 1 barrel yams, M F Martins with 3 boxes embroidery, John FE May Co with 1 box park, P A And rade Jr with 2 hampers yams, Rosa Jacintha with 5 cases straw hats, Stimpson Huntley & co with 4 packages willow chairs 1 bag spices 1 package samples, E A Adams & co with 1 box dry fruit, David Amsden Arroyo PA, Brig David Bugbee 631 holds sugar order, HITTAGONG ship Kheadbrightshire 11 340 bales jute order, BARRINGTON NS Sch Adeline Adams 6300 lobsters Silas Sanborn.
A fragmented shipping list notes items from Sch Myrtle at Mahone Bay including flour beef pork lard coal and other goods. Liverpool steamer Kansas. quantities include wheat bacon canned meats and merchandise like pianos and machinery. Weymouth entry lists meals flour phosphite tinplate iron mill glass rim screws and boxes of goods carried.
Receipts dated May 5 1887 list cargoes for multiple rail lines including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Old Colony Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Boston and Lowell and Boston and Maine divisions. Entries cover bales wool cotton flour oats cornmeal wheat middlings beans tea eggs potatoes butter cheese lard tallow pork hams hides leather and more with quantities in bales barrels cases sacks and cars.
A compact stock list records quantities in barrels bags tierces hhds mats cases eyes bbis beans rolls leather bales dry hides green hides and skins. Items include 10 bbls 124 Nhds molasses 175 bbls sugar 60 cases eyes 6 bbis beans 1238 rolls 134 bdls leather 811 bales 2347 dry hides 82 bales green hides 3 bdls skins.
A scan of public notices records multiple land and building transfers and mortgages in Boston area towns. Entries include Norton to the city of Boston for street purposes on Norton street. Bell to Howard A. Doe at No 785 Sixth street. Scribner to Medeiros at Main and Salem streets. Agry to Collar for a Brad street lot. Nichols to Batchelder on Park street. Atkinson to Badger on Tremont street. Amounts range from 1 to 6000 dollars, with dates April 25 or 26.
A long list of boot and shoe buyers from multiple cities including Atlanta Baltimore Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Evansville Galveston Grand Rapids Keokuk Louisville Nashville Natchez New York Ottumwa Petersburg Portland Philadelphia St Joseph St Louis St Paul and Wheeling, with names and firms such as Grambling Spalding & Co Draper Moore & Co Mullen Jr Tucker Smith Blandorf Danial Miller Culter Brooks Ringgold Crane Crane Witt Watkins and others seeking footwear deals and partnerships.
Suffolk County listings detail Bradford street Harriet Harper transferring to George A. Jones on the northeast corner at Bradford and Waltham with mortgaged debt. other transfers include Robert Treat Paine to Robert W. Hennings at Sussex street, Mary Hodges to Isaac J. Wetherbee on Isabella street, and multiple parcels along Riverview and Blue Hill avenues. Amounts range from 1 to 2600 dollars, dated April 25 and 26, with several mortgages and back transfers noted.
A series of April mortgages are filed, detailing borrowers such as John McCarty, Lacina Carpenter, William S Carter, Robert Hennings, Robert Treat Paine, Dennis Medeiros, Orville Armstrong, Patrick O Riordan, Robert Irving, Henry Bartlett, and Mark Silverman. Properties span Norfolk Avenue Roxbury, Thomas Street South Boston, Eliot Street Jamaica Plain, Sussex Street, Main and Salem in Charlestown, Heard Street Chelsea, Monument Street Charlestown, Florence Street Roslindale, Circuit Street Roxbury, and North Margin Street. Amounts range from 4900 to 10000 dollars, with dates mostly April 25 or 26.
Train times across multiple divisions from Augusta Haymarket to Portland Calais and beyond. Services listed include through trains on both divisions, departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations, with connections to St John Halifax and Montreal routes. Also notes Lewiston Manchester ports and Maine Central lines with various daily departure times.
Train departures from Boston and surrounding towns list numerous daily times to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington and other hubs. Numerous towns including Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Gghent Falls Maverhill Keanebunk Biddeford Saco Lawrence North Lawrence Malden Medford Melrose Melrose Highlands Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield minuton Dover Haverhill Lawrence Portland and other linked routes appear with varied morning afternoon and evening slots.
A dense listing of train times for the Eastern Division from Boston stations to Amesbury Beverly Loop and surrounding towns, including Boston to Portsmouth Portland and coastal connections. It notes Sunday trains, through routes, branches, and station details with notes on Pullman cars and office contact.
The notice lists revised weekday and Sunday train departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line, with specific outbound times from Ashmont and other stops, and returns. It includes schedule changes for numerous towns and termini, with notes on lanes via Taunton and Brockton, and instructions about Shore Line connections and Mansfield waits.
Local timetables list departures to Springfield Pittsfield and the West with multiple daily trains from Boston including 5 am express to South Framingham and through cars to Syracuse Albany and Chicago. Connections at Worces ter, Pittsfield and Palmer link to North Adams Worcester Worcester area branches with numerous stops. through tickets sold at ticket offices 282 Washington Street Boston. A S Hanson and H T Gallup sign off as general agents.
Fitchburg and Hoosac Tunnel Route timetable lists daily departures from Boston Causeway Street to North Adams Troy Albany and West with multiple service levels including exp and drawing room car options to Albany and Chicago destinations. The schedule covers Cambridge Concord Greenfield Marlboro Nashua and Saratoga routes with varied times and through tickets sold at 250 Washington Street Boston. JOAN ADAMS J WHITMORE and J. R. WATSON sign off as general superintendent traffic manager and general pass agent.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Probate Court cites heirs and others in the estate of Karl Friedrick Louis Buttner also called Louis Buttner late of Boston. Auguste Buttner petitions for letters testamentary without bond. Hearing May 23, 1887 at 10 am in Boston Probate Court. Notice to be published weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post. Witness John W. McKim judge. Elijah George register.
Daily Boston depot timetable lists Needham and Way Station departures at 7.05, 8, 10.45 am and other times with prices and notes for stops, express and nightly trains. It includes Woonsocket, ecura, and Luston passenger stops with notes on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays changes, and stops on notice. Also describes New York via Middletown and New Haven Pullman service, New England Limited to New York with dining car, Philadelphia Express to Baltimore and Washington, Norwich Line Express to New York and connections at New London with steamship CITY OF WORCESTER CITY OF NEW YORK, plus offices at 322 Washington street and depot foot of Summer street.
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