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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1888
Page
7
The report lists steady markets with varying demand and prices for oats, rye, barley, and cottonseed meal across New York Chicago Milwaukee and other cities. It records receipts, shipments, and stock levels for wheat, corn, oats, and barley, with visible supply and Chicago grain stocks figures for May 1887 to 1888.
Butter prices hold firm as New York and Baltimore buyers absorb stock. Receipts thin with creameries selling at full prices. Western and Vermont lots quoted from 20 to 27 cents. Cheese and eggs show quiet demand with steady to lower quotes. beans, grains, and hay report steady trade and notable price ranges across regions.
The steamer Ydun arrives May 9 from Baracoa with bananas for Seaverns and Co. Stamford also due May 9 from Baracoa for W. W. and C. R. Neves. Balder due May 10 from Baracoa with bananas for G. H. Yarding. Lorenzo D. Baker due May 10 with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Company.
The market reports steady demand and unchanged prices for apples and oranges with various grades quoted. Strawberries and bananas showed steady or well supplied markets. Jamaica fruit and coconuts quoted at private or farm prices.
Pork market steady with fair demand and firm lard and hams. Quote ranges across cuts include long at 17 17 50, backs 17 75 18 00, lean ends 17 25 17 75, and prime mess 16 75. Beef follows prior quotations with extra plate and plate at 8 50 to 9 00, beef tongues at 20 21 per barrel, and tripe at 3 75 per half barrel. New York pork firm, 450 barrels of mess beef steady, beef hams dull, tierces noted.
Wholesale meat markets report steady to firm prices for beef and pork across Chicago Cincinnati and regional firms. Cattle and veal show mixed cuts with steers at 7 14 to 11 1 2 cents, hinds and loins varied, lambs and mutton quoted up to 16 25 cents.
The market is well supplied with demand at revised quotations. Readable items include asparagus at 3.50 per 4 dozen, Savannah green peas 1.25 per crate, Florida tomatoes 2.25 per crate, Southern cabbage 3.50 per crate, Baltimore kale 1.25 per barrel, native spinach 0.90, Florida string beans 1.50, Chicago wax beans 3.75 per crate, beets 1.25 per crate, onions priced variously by type, squash Hubbards 0.70 per ton, lettuce 0.50–0.60, parsnips 1.50 per bush, turnips 0.65 per bush, white French 1.75 per barrel, celery 7 per box, rhubarb 0.09 per th, Chicago rhubarb 3 per case, cucumbers priced by crate or count, natives 9 per 100.
Allan Asher & Co report a featureless start to the week for cotton certificates and firm New York prices. Port receipts total 5,268,000 bales since Sept. 1 with strong spot demand, while Liverpool futures open steady and close steady amid mixed regional receipts and stock levels.
Sugar and refined sugars hold steady with dull to firm quotes. Cuba and Jamaica regions report varied percentages for raw and refined grades, while New York shows a firm market with standard and granulated lines near 61 to 64 cents. Caribbean ports list prices for Ponce, Mayaguez, and Jienfuegos with modest gains and quiet trade.
Hogs and cattle markets show mixed to steady trades across St Louis Kansas City Peoria Cincinnati and Chicago with receipts and shipments listed. Chicago cattle and hog figures rise and fall with steers graded at 3 80 to 6 00 and hogs steady to higher. sheep and lamb markets also described with varied prices.
Commodities and prices span London to New York with mixed quotes. Tallow trades at 44 cents per pound or similar in country markets while London and New York report weaker markets. Turpentine, rosin, tar, and petroleum futures show varied closes. Rio coffee demand quiet at 15 cents in New York. whiskey prices steady in Cincinnati around 109 dollars.
Shipping cargo lists show Steamer Cleopatra with 462 bbls potatoes and 114 dodo by Boston Consolidated Produce Co. numerous other consignments include lobster, tin plates, machinery, wine, hemp, leather, and textiles tied to firms in Halifax Digby and Liverpool with destinations in Savanna la Mar and Savannah, reflecting broad Atlantic trade activity on that date.
A concise ledger item lists Dennie with seven packages of vegetables from Seaverns & co. plus eighty eight cases of B8 B Spinney with sixteen peas from Snow & co. one carton of eight duck bales from Waltham bleachery. Webb shipments include eighteen refrigerators from W W Webb. York & Whitney provide twenty five feet of lumber. McQuesten & co. supply two hundred sixty three packages moise, three hundred bbls naval stores, and one thousand five hundred eighty two bales cotton in order.
Shipping export list from Glasgow and various Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports. Items include flour, wheat, meal, beef, lard, hams, bacon, cheese, lumbers, sleepers, glass, silk, and schooners carrying bulk grains and provisions. Each entry notes vessel name port and quantities such as 92 sacks flour and 400 head of cattle.
A dense ledger notes consignments across multiple lines including Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Old Colony Fitchburg New York and New England and others. It records bales wool cotton flour oats and meat products with hundreds of units such as bbls sacks cars and crates bound for various rail segments and divisions.
Market update from London and Liverpool dated May 5 to May 7 shows wheat steady to firm, corn firm in places, with American flour weaker and River Plate corn quoted off and on. Liverpool notes dull wheat, firm corn, steady pork and bacon prices, and futures very quiet. Antwerp and Paris markets also reported steady wheat and firm flour futures.
An old advertisement lists numerous veterinary remedies by letters such as B B Cures Fevers and D D Cures Worms. It references U S government and various owners and Esqs, with prices including a bottle of over 50 doses for 60 cents and a complete stable case with manual for seven dollars.
A mass of probate notices in Suffolk and Middlesex counties announces filings and actions. The documents cite estates of Sereno D. Clark of Medford and Mary Ann Louise Hamill of Philadelphia, with trustees and administrators petitioning for sale or transfer of real and personal property and urging appearances by interested parties in Cambridge and Boston courts.
A dense OCR fragment lists train times and stops across multiple divisions and cities including Boston Norwood Central Providence New York and Washington with numerous daily and Sunday schedules. The chaotic data shows departures arrivals and special notes across divisions like Woon socket Providence and Providence Division, indicating varied frequencies and seasonal adjustments.
Special notice for Old Colony passengers: baggage can be checked from hotel or residence in Boston to destination on Fall River Line Shore Line and Stone ton Line. Orders or baggage may be left at No 3 Old State House.
A fragmented timetable lists train departures from Kneeland Street and stations including Ashmont Malden Braintree Cohasset and Pembroke across weekdays and Sundays. Times vary with many am and pm slots plus notes for Sundays and specific routes.
Disjointed timetable notes list Cape Cod division stops including Buzzards Bay Bourne Chatham Falmouth Provincetown Wellfleet and Nantucket with irregular times such as 8.15 am and 4.15 pm and paths via New Bedford New Ledford and other towns. The garbled entries mention Monu ment Beach Mattapoisett Marion Sandwich Sagamore Wellfleet and Woods Hole among others.
Office of Purchasing and Depot Boston invites sealed proposals for army supplies including pork flour beans rice coffee tea sugars vinegar candles soap salt pepper pepper and many listed items. Bids due June 4 1885 11 am and opened in bidder presence. government may reject all bids.
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