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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1887
Page
7
Detroit report shows wheat prices for No 1 white, Michigan red and No 2 red with receipts of 3000 bush. Milwaukee market notes firm flour, stronger wheat at 82½, higher corn, oats firm, rye weak, barley down with various receipts and shipments across flour and grains.
Kansas City reports hog receipts around 6000 today with 6962 yesterday and 997 shipments. St Louis notes hogs mixed prices with Packers at 535 550. Chicago cattle and hogs show mixed to weak cattle and strong hogs with various price levels for steers, cows, and lambs. Texan lambs and woolled sheep listed with steady to firm values.
Cotton market report lists net receipts, stocks, and exports for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated week totals. Comparative figures show year over year changes in receipts exports and stocks across ports and regions.
London and Liverpool report rising wheat and corn prices with firmer spot and May to July futures. English and French markets show an upward tendency while arrivals are modest. at Antwerp and Paris prices for wheat and flour also firm. Cuban and Havana notes include foreign exchange and sugar quiet.
Long list of cargo items from multiple ships across Liverpool Jamaica Halifax and Trinidad including Istrian Elsa Worcester Alpha Buteshire and brig Page with bags bales crates cases and tons of goods such as bananas corn cocoa nuts pineapples lobsters fish sugar molasses and machinery. Notable firms include Baring Brothers Jere Abbott CF Murphy and Boston Fruit Company.
Goods and ships listed with cargo details including sugar cocoa gold dust lime pickles and lumber. Vessels Sunbeam Ella Maud Willie Freeman Magnum and Rebecca Crowell are shown with bulks of flour, lumber, wool hides eggs and other items at ports like Lunenburg Lockport Rosario Mete Han and Liverpool.
The Cephalonia cleared May 4 with 21 cases patent medicine and 11 cases fancy soap among varied cargo. Fresh beef, corn, peas, apples, leather, duck, cornmeal, lard, bacon, corned beef, cheese, tallow, furs, and hardware items also listed alongside machinery, thread, and dry goods components.
A listing of freight items by railroad lines and routes detailing bales, barrels, cases, boxes, bags, and various goods. Includes cotton, wool, flour, corn, meat, dairy, leather, hides, potatoes, and lumber with quantities such as bales 1345, bbls 18385, rolls 667, and bags 8436 across Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Boston & Lowell by express and sea shipments.
The Navy announces sealed bids for former vessels Tennessee Powhatan Ticonderoga Shenandoah Lackawanna Wachusett and others, appraised values listed. Bids must include 20 percent cash deposit and a bond for 50 percent, with sale by lot and ships to be removed from yard limits by purchasers.
The Boston Water Board announces sealed proposals for mason and carpenter work on Fisher Hill Gate House. Bids due May 19, 1887, at City Hall. include a certified $1000 check. Plans available at City Architect's office. board may reject all bids.
City invites sealed bids at Boston City Hall until May 9 1887 for resurfacing the westerly side of Columbus Avenue between Holyoke Street and West Cheaster Park with Trinidad asphalt 24 inches thick. Bids must include price per superficial yard and a $1000 bond or $5000 in US bonds with the city treasurer. Successful bidders must sign within 10 days and provide bond for faithful performance. Proposals to John W McDonald Superintendent of Streets.
A U S Department of the Quartermaster in Philadelphia invites sealed bids for 25000 pairs barrack shoes 40000 linen collars 500 ounces of black Chevron silk and one cavalry standard with delivery start June 1887. Samples available at Schuylkill Arsenal. Bids due June 8 1887. Preference to American produced goods if price and quality are equal.
A quarterly report ending March 31 1887 from the New Free Surgical Hospital for Women on Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street, supported by the Murdock Liquid Food Company of Boston. The surgical staff at Murdock's Free Hospital for Women attend daily except Saturdays to examine patients and assign beds.
Advertises Liquid Food as essential pre and post operative aid for safe operations and rapid recovery. Claims thousands of cases yearly with no deaths, improved infant vitality, and cures for scrofula eczema and skin diseases. Mentions a Free Home for Homeless Boys at 11 to 21 Causeway Street and a hospital stock of 200 large bottles per lot.
Boston and Providence Railroad outlines February 28 1887 schedule with Shore Line Fast Express Mail and various return times. Lists departures from Boston to New York Providence Pawtucket Attleboro Mansfield Shaftesbury and other stops with daily and Sunday specifics and notes on delays and shore line connections.
A dense list of train times for routes from Boston to many destinations including Fall River Weymouth Taunton and Plymouth. Schedules show weekday and weekend departures and returns with numerous stops and via connections.
Boston station on Causeway Street offers through service from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Marlington St Albans Montreal and more. Local routes include Manchester Concord Nashua Greenfield Milford Amherst Wilton Hillsboro Peterboro etc. Pullman sleeping cars to Montreal and parlor cars to Montreal on specific trains.
A table with full information on local and shuttle trains is obtainable at stations. Mell en, George W, Storer, Gen. Supt. Asst. Gen. Pass'g r Agent.
The Central Mass R R Station of Boston and Lowell announces train departures from Causeway Street beginning Monday February 21 1887. Express and local trains listed include Jefferson Way Stations Hudson Roeckbottom Sudbury Wayland Weston Belmont Waverley and Waltham with multiple daily departures and special Sunday times. GEO W STORER Assistant General Passenger Agent C B Mellen General Superintendent.
Train times listed for Augusta Haymarket and Causeway street stations with stops including Ban gor St. John Halifax Portland Lewiston Manchester Concord North Conway Portland and various Maine Central lines. Schedule shows departures at 8 50 am 9 am 12 50 pm 7 pm and 8 30 am across multiple divisions with connections to Halifax St. John N B and Knox Lincoln lines.
Long list of Western Division trains from Boston to towns including Andover Danvers Exeter Merrimac Newburyport Salem Wakefield Wilmington and more with times scattered and multiple return trips. Mentions Maine routes to Portland Bangor and Lewiston and Workingmen's train.
Train timetable for Boston stations listing departure times to Amenbury and towns such as Beverly Chelsea Everett Lynn Newburyport Rockport Salem and Portland with notes on branches and operating days. Includes lines to Saugus Swampscott and other stops and identifiers for Pullman service and key agents.
Framingham Marlboro and many towns listed with departure times 7.15 11.05 am ex 4.35 6.30 etc. Return times shown for Marlboro ayville Southboro Northboro Clinton Leominster Fitchburg and others. Weekend and Sunday trains to Newton Lower Falls Wellesley Hills Newton Highlands Brookline with several return times. local timetables and tickets at 282 Washington street Boston via A S Hanson General Passenger Agent.
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