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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1887
Page
7
Market report notes veal pricing from 7c for choice to 10c for fancy with ratings from poor to good. Eastern veal and chalice varieties appear in listings with prices ranging around 4.6c to 8 9c, indicating a mixed quality and value spectrum among sellers.
Liverpool futures opened firm and closed steady at several 64s per pound on May to September contracts, with spot upland prices around 5 4d for middling. New York spot closed firm at 10 1/4 to 10 3/4 cents, while futures in New York opened quiet with varied bids and asks. Market reports include oil line certificates, refined oil prices, and raw sugar quotes with molasses steadiness and regional cargo notations.
Report for the Boston Post by George J. Fox covers the week ending May 17 1887. Includes detailed totals for cattle sheep and lambs hogs by state and road car counts across rail lines, with prices for market beef store cattle hogs sheep and hides and skins and notes on cattle and sheep classifications and regional price ranges.
Market report lists flour and wheat receipts exports and prices across major cities including New York Milwaukee Detroit Minneapolis St Louis Cincinnati Chicago and Toledo. Notable figures include No 2 red wheat 95 140 and No 1 hard bids around 81 82c, pork prices around 16c, lard 65c, and various flour and cornmeal prices with heavy line of receipts and shipments.
Hogs firmer with KC at 4.40 to 4.60 while receipts run 11,000. St Louis bids 4.65 to 4.70 for Yorkers and up to 4.95 to 5.00 for butchers. Peoria reports 3.85 to 4.05, Chicago cattle steady to strong with steers around 4.45, stockers 2.80 to 3.20, cows and bulls near 2.04 to 3.15, Texas cattle around 3.40 to 3.25. sheep at 3.85 to 4.10 for Western natives and 2.50 to 2.95 for Texans. Lambs at 2.40 per head.
Cotton market summary across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville with net receipts shipments stock and prices. Markets show firm tone across most ports with modest activity and varied middling figures. Consolidated four day totals show large exports to Britain and France and overall U S port stock at 375705.
London markets show wheat dearer while corn stays quiet with 66 000 quarters imported to Britain last week. Walla Walla wheat tradable at 36s 6d, Paris and Antwerp firm, Liverpool spot wheat firm, corn subdued. May to August futures quoted for California and mixed American corn, with Britain receiving large weekly grain imports. Liverpool weather fair. breadstuffs and pork steady, cheese down, tallow and lard steady at varied prices.
Maritime trade report listing numerous consignments arriving at Liverpool and London docks on May 17 1887. Items include textiles, metals, chemicals, beverages, hardware, and machinery from firms such as Beach & Co, Stone & Downer, F O Dame & Co, J L & DS Riker, Morey & Co, and Baring Bros & Co. Also details Havana and Canary Islands exports with cargoes including coke coal lumber hardware and glassware.
A fragmented listing outlines cargoes from multiple ships and ports including BOCO DEL TORO, USC via New York. Steamer Hondo. Steamer Yarmouth. Steamer Prussian. and Bark Bessie Markham. Items include tobacco, flour, canned beef, lumber, apples, oats, fish, liquor, and miscellaneous hardware and textiles, with quantities in barrels, boxes, tons, feet, or packs. Locations include YARMOUTH NL. GLASGOW Scot. ROSARIO Arg Rep.
A dense OCR list records cargo tallies across multiple railroads including Staple Products Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Boston and Lowell and Boston and Maine Western and Eastern divisions. Items include bales of cotton wool flour oats and corn, hams and bacon, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, pots potatoes, coffee, leather, hides, teal, and various sacks and barrels, with numerous counts and container types.
A long list of probate notices appears for estates in Boston Massachusetts including CLARA M. SMITH and ANNIE A. FASSHAUER seeking letters testamentary with or without sureties, and multiple others such as FRANCES E. LEWIS HARRIET F. BELL ELIZABETH DALY and MARY COVENEY among heirs and executors. Citations require appearance in the Suffolk Probate Court on June 6 1887 with weekly newspaper publication in the Boston Post and legal filings by the executors.
Rail timetable shows Boston Causeway Street departures to North Adams Troy Albany and the West with multiple accommodation and express services. Through Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis sleeping cars, various local stops from Belmont to Worcester, and return options via Fall River Line after May 18 1887. Official notices list agents JOAN ADAMS and J WHITMORE with through tickets to West points.
A dense list of train times and routes for multiple destinations including East Milton Mattapan Milton Weymouth Nantucket New Bedford Quincey Seituate and Taunton along with return times and weekday patterns. The fragment reads like a transit timetable with numerous departures and returns across coastal towns and inland suburbs.
Train times from New York to various Massachusetts towns listed with departures and returns to Cohasset Hingham Weymouth Plymouth Taunton New Bedford South Braintree and Newport. Schedule flags times for boat arrivals and special service days with J R Kendrick as General Manager.
Falls River line offers $3 fare from Old Colony Station weekdays and Sundays at 7 p.m. Train connects in 80 minutes with steamers Migrim and Moristol. Music aboard. Annex steamers link at New York wharf for Brooklyn and Jersey City. Tickets and berths at Old State House and Old Colony Station.
The notice lists multiple train times from Boston to Newton Lower Falls Wellesley Hills Newton Highlands and other stations with return trips and special Sunday schedules. It includes stations along Shore Line Providence Dodgeville Attleboro Readville and East Foxboro with varied departure and return times and notes operational changes effective Feb 28 1887.
Due to Connecticut enactments, after Sunday May 20 the 104 m Boston to New York train and the 10 a.m. New York to Boston train will be discontinued. A 10 a.m. Boston to Providence train and a 4 p.m. Providence to Boston train will run. After Sunday June 5 the Shore Line train schedule changes. Starting May 30 the New York to Boston Shore Line train departs at 1 p.m. instead of 2 p.m. A. A. Folsom, Superintendent.
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