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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 18, 1888

Page

7

Wholesale dairy and bean market report notes mixed prices

Western creameries quote 22 26c for various grades with jobbing adds 1 2c higher. Cheese and beans show firm to steady quotes, with Western and Eastern creameries listed. Potatoes hay poultry prices range. demand mixed, receipts variable across regions, markets overall quiet to steady.

Western Vermont Vermont Dairy Chicago Elgin Creamery York Cincinnati Ohio Liverpool New York State New New Hampshire Choice Western Choice Michigan Nova Scotia New Brunswick PE Island C. Cincinanati Bush California West North Jersey Houlton Rose Houlton Hebrons Aroostook Rose Aroostook Hebrons Burbanks White Brooks East Swale

Banana Steamer Aguan Due May 15 From Jamaica

The steamer Aguan is due May 15 bringing bananas from Jamaica for the Boston Fruit Company.

Banana Steamers Jamaica Boston Fruit Company

Fruit price report shows mixed demand for apples oranges and berries

The market notes quiet demand for Baldwins and other apples with prices around 350 per hundred pounds for choice stock. Oranges and lemons show steady prices with Palermo and Messina lots listed, strawberries receipts large with Norfolk and Tennessee berries trading 15 to 25 cents, cherries at 3 per crate, bananas arriving in two cargoes from Baracoa with varied prices per bunch and counts, coconuts sold at 27.50 per 1000 count.

Baldwins Ruson Palermo Messina Valencia Baracoa Schweigaard Ecocoanuts Amicitia

Pork Market and Meat Prices Across Cities Today

The pork market remains steady with fair demand and mixed cuts selling at firm prices. Lard and smoked meats show steady movement, with various cut prices listed including long cuts at 17 17½, backs at 17 75 18, and mess pork around 16 75 to 17 42. Prices for New York and Chicago markets are provided, noting unchanged pork in New York and softer beef trends in St Louis.

New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

Market Prices for Fresh Produce Onions and Baskets

The market shows good movement with strong supplies. Prices listed include asparagus at 150 to 175 per dot, Savannah green peas 1 to 1.25 per crate, North Carolina green peas 1.50 to 2.50 per crate, Florida tomatoes 1 to 2 per crate, Southern cabbage 3.50 to 3.75 per crate, kale 1 per barrel, spinach 0.25 per bush, Florida string beans 1.50, Savannah wax 2.50 to 3.50 per crate, Florida beets 1.76 per crate, dandelions 0.25 per bush, onions and lettuce varied, Bermuda onions 1.75 per crate, Egyptian onions 2.50 per case, Hubbard squash 2.75 per barrel, French turnips 1.50 to 1.75 per bunch.

Savannah North Carolina Florida Bermuda St Andrews

Fruit and vegetable prices from a market listing

A market price list shows items including rhubarb at 214c per bunch and 50c per dozen for large and small tor long, Southern cucumbers at 1 3 per crate, native cucumbers at 8 dollars and up for 100 count.

Sugar Market Holds Steady Amid Quiet Trade Across Regions

Sugar markets remain firm with quiet trade and steady quotes. Cuba refined and raw sugars show ranges from 4% to 6% cents per pound with 96 test centris, while New York reports a steady, quiet market for both raw and refined sugars. Havana quotes include 2900 bags at 96 polarization sold at 295,300 gold per quintal and 19,500 bags at Matanzas for 316. Molasses demand is fair with prices steady across Caribbean ports from Ponce to Mayaguez and Cienfuegos.

Cuba Manilas Javas New York Havana Matanzas Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos Mayaguez

Allan Asher & Co Circular Describes Dull Cotton Market

Allan Asher & Co reports a very dull market with no clear direction as bulls or bears act, Liverpool prices opening higher then softening, and local operators restrained by holidays. Upland cotton prices stay quiet in New York and Liverpool, with limited sales and mixed futures, while port receipts and stocks show sizable shifts across multiple ports and states.

Allan Asher & Co Exchange Place Liverpool Esterday New York Cessscese Danuaty 2 Ccesasee Fedimaryiecse Cccvceene Srios So. Cosinie's Pees Saveeereervacerten Uplands Orleans Bates Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Moblie Memphis Savannah Charleston Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville France United States

Hogs and Cattle Markets Report from Major Cities

Hogs market in St Louis showed ease with Yorkers mostly at 5 to 5.60 and packers to lower. Peoria hogs steady around 5 to 5.65. Cincinnati hogs ample and lower with common and light at 4.25 to 5.50 and packers 5.30 to 5.50. Chicago cattle receipts 11,000, weak for cattle and steers 3.80 to 5.00. cows 1.75 to 2.60. hogs 21,000 received, 5.40 to 5.75 for mixed to 5.60 for light, ships 34 to 10. Sheep receipts 4,000, steadier with woolled at 4.06 and shorn 3.50 to 5.00, Texans woolled 4.60 to 6.70, lambs 1.00 to 4.50.

St Louis Peoria Cincinnati Chicago Texas Texans

Miscellaneous market round up from multiple cities

The report notes a quiet trend in Tallow with quoted City prices around 454 to 474 cents. New York lists a steady market with 40,000 ths traded at 45 16e, while Line Certificates close 3 pm May 16 to 3 pm May 17 at 88% with highs and lows around 88%34c. Turpentine and petroleum figures show rosin at 120 126, tar nominal, petroleum at 614246%4 with RSW 742c. coffee in New York fair demand with Rio at 1534 16ce. whiskey in Chicago. St Louis and Cincinnati steady at 112.

New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Imports and Exports from Havana to London and Barbadoes

A fragment listing 19th century trade items from several ports including Arroyo Puerto Rico Habana London and Barbados. Vessels such as Brig A R Stover and Steamer Schweigaard carry sugar cocoanuts bananas and molasses. numerous shipments cover iron, cement, coffee, wool, paper stock, oil, drugs, wines, and various goods. Names of firms include Bates & Barnet Nav Nash Spaulding Co Gossler Co J B Moors & Co Baring Bros Co and others.

Arroyo A R Stover Bates & Barnet Baracoa Schweigaard Seaverns & Co Amicitia W & R Noyes Barbados Miriam Loston Gaapaa Cardenas J Meyer H Emerson Crab Island George Bond Gustavo Wreston Havana John R Bergen Nash Spaulding & Co London Eng Gossler & Co Lewander & Co Gill & Scotz Moors & Co Hoxie & Co Fleming Young & Co Baring Bros & Co Booth & Co Peabody & Co Boston Dyewood and Chemical Co Slabs Steel Norway Steel Ron Co Emmerton & Co Dodo Baring Bros & Co Dodor

Massive Cargo List Reaches Liverpool and Caribbean Ports

A sprawling ledger of goods from Liverpool to Mayaguez P R and transatlantic routes details 715 packages of bottled beer 24 barrels grease 2 cases furniture 189 bales wool 206 skins and many more crates including caustic soda steel rods rum and molasses. The record names Crockett brothers Sanborn E King Co Baring Bros J B Moors Jere Abbott & Co and others, noting ships such as Roman and Wilhelmina and ports like Mayaguez and Ponce with hundreds of inventory items and quantities.

Liverpool Eng Crockett Bros & Sanborn E& F King & Co Washburn & Moon Mant Co Moors & Co Bolls Iron Baring Bros & Co Naylor & Co Amory Mant Co Boston Clock Co Clark, Sawyer & Co Morey, Churchill & Morey Indse Kennedy & Murphy Morgan & Co Storer & Co Thomas & Co Drexel, Morgan E& F King & Co Moora & Co Jas Skinner Bolls Wetherell Bros Jere Abbott & Co Brown Bros & Co Stone & Downer Flovey & Co Whitcher & Emery Tully & Co Dodge, Haley & Co Manila Mayaguez Wilhelmina Whitney, Pousland & Co Port DE Paix Moseley Melissa Fowle & Co ST Michael's Luis I Yarmouth Clements & Co Hall & Co Barclay & Co

Shipping and cargo listing from multiple ports

A dense OCR inventory from London Tignish Yarmouth Goree Sierra Leone and Florida ports detailing steamer cargoes and vessel provisions. Items include beef lard flour cotton goods timber rails canned goods kerosene and milling products with hundreds of boxes cases barrels and bales across ships and destinations.

Staple Goods Receipts from Multiple Railroads May 17 1888

Detailed ledger style list of staples and commodities shipped by Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western Divisions, Lowell System, and by express and sea routes. Items include bales cotton wool bbls oats corn bran flour oats meal tallow butter cheese eggs potatoes beans lumber leather hides skins pelts and assorted packaged goods with quantities such as 548 bales cotton 50 bales wool 1900 sacks flour 12000 bush corn 6010 bush oats 800 bush cottouseel meal 277 tons feed and many more.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell Express Eves

London Markets Report Beerbohm Cargoes Quiet Wheat Edges

Foreign markets report from London May 17 at 12 30 p m with cargoes off the coast wheat and corn quiet. Wheat prices ease on passage while Paris and Liverpool show firming breadstuffs and steady grain notes with specific prices for No 1 California wheat and mixed Western corn among others. Futures in Liverpool rise with May June July and September quotes.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Michigan

Rail timetable fragment for Johnsonville to Worcester trains

Incomplete daily and Sunday time entries list stations including Johnsonville Waltham Watertown Watertown Union Market Auburn Worcester and Ayer Junction with multiple fractional and erroneous times. Mentions changes at Ayer Junction and requests to obtain official local time tables from station ticket offices and Hoosac Tunnel Route office. Prepared by Joan Adams General Superintendent.

Union Square Somerville Sun Waltham Aim Watertown Union Market BMII Auburn Worcester Ayer Junction Miller’s Falls Hoosac Tunnel Belmont Waverley Hudson and Way Ware

Boston to North Adams and beyond time tables from 232 Washington St

Northeastern timetable excerpt shows trains from Boston station Kneeland Street to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West with multiple daily departures. It lists special connections at Pittsfeld and Sundays, along with East Division routes to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford and various coastal towns. Through tickets available at Boston offices, with Saugus Swampscott and Lynn branches included.

Washington Street Boston Kneeland Street Springfield Pittsfield Albany Pittsfeld Pittsfeld _ Sunday). The 5, 8.30 atham Hudson River Branch Mafiela Hartford New York New York New Haven Worcester

Boston and Albany Train Schedules Corrected April 1888

A dense list of Boston station departures and connections to towns across New England and New York including Ashcroft Danbury Norwood Providence Hartford New Haven Trenton Philadelphia and steamer links. It notes weekday trains foot of Summer Street and additional lines via Norwich and Woonsocket with specific times and return services. Also lists Norwood Central Hyde Park Franklin and Washington DC connections with through Pullman cars and on board steamer service information.

York & New England Boston Summer Street Ashcroft Baltimore Bird Street Blackstone LO Aim Danbury Bedham Dorschester Dudley Fitereet Enis Madicott Fish- Kill-on-Brudoon Franklin Forest Avenue Martford Harvard Street Hivde Park Llam Mighland Lake Felington Manchester Mattapan Milford Mt. Bowdoin New Britain Newburg New London New Work Air Line Hartford Norwich Norwood Norwood Central Pawtucket Philadelphia Providence Puatnam Breadville River Street Stockville Conn Southbridge Wiltons Walpole Washington Bc.c Waterbury Willimantic Winstows Webster Fortiyde Park Hyde Park Wouonrsocket Boston & Albany Railroad Needham and Way Ereturn Woonsocket Ssundays New York Middletown New Haven Fishkill-on-Hudson Newburgh Turners, N. Y Chicago New England Grand Central Depot Willi Jersey City Trenton Richmond Wah Danielsonville Putnam Trav City OF New York Hee New York P’nliman Washington Street Swimmer Street Jackson P. Vining A. CG. Kendall Montreal & West Vermont Lowell Fitchburg Wagner Palace Central Vermont J. W. Uwobart G. W. Cummings Lags Ag Rt. Albapa

Boston & Maine City Ticket Office Announces Through Trains 1888

Boston and Maine announces through trains on Western and Eastern divisions from May 1 1888. Schedules include Augusta Haymarket station 830 am to various destinations such as St John Halifax Portland Rockland Lewiston Manchester Concord and connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox and Lincoln Railways. Shown are Haymarket Causeway and North Waymarket square stations with multiple departures daily and steamer connections to St John and Halifax.

Augusta Haymarket St Causeway St Acgor Kar Harbor St.John Malifax Haymarket Sq Eastport Calais St. John Halifax N. S Portland N. H North—Haymarket North Waymarket Sq Portsland Maine Central Grand Peonmk Knox& Lincoln Railways Aymarket Sq Northern Division Boston & Albany Kneeland Street Framingham and Marlboro Fayville Southboro Bolton Northborpe Clinton Leominster Fitchburg Pratt’s Junction Boston Old Colony K.R Old State House J. R. Kendrick Man’r. Geo. L. Connor Pasa

Western Division Train Timetable to New England Towns

A detailed Western Division rail timetable lists departures from Isoston Station Haymarket Square to Alton Bay Mochester Farmington Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maverhill Georgetown Bennebunk Biddes ford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell Malden Medford Melrose Highlands Melrose Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Satem Wakefield Wilmington Workingsmen s train Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Portland Bangor Lewiston Reading Way Stations with numerous daily times to numerous towns and connections reflecting a broad regional schedule.

Western Division Isoston Station Haymarket Square Alton Bay Mochester Farmington Andover Dover Danevers Exeter Great Falls Maverhill Georgetown Bennebunk Biddesford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell M. Malden, &Ie Medford Melrose Highlands Stonehan Melrose Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Satem M. Wakefield Wilmington Workingsmen

Local Service Timetable Across New England and New Hampshire

Boston to Manchester Concord and towns listed with multiple daily departure times. Includes Hillsboro Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua Lowell Billerica Lawrence Withington Waltham Way Stations Lexington Woburn Winchester West Medford Bedford Arlington Nashua Lowell Lawrence Stoneham and more with varied morning noon and evening slots. Express to Montreal noted.

Boston Mannhhester Concord N. H Meene Peter Lore Hilleboros Hillsboro Wilton Milford Almherst Greenfield Neshaa Lowell Billerica Lawrence Whill Woburn Winchester West Medrora Cott Brull Mass Beitannia Y Am Lexington Nashua Stoneham and Way Lexington and Way Woburra and Way Winchester and Way Manchester and Concord Montreal

Transit timetable fragment shows dense schedule data across many towns

A fragmentary timetable lists numerous routes and times across Boston area towns including Newton, Quincy, Brockton, Taunton, Nantasket, Plymouth, Norwell, Scituate, and Whitman with varied weekday and Sunday service. times appear irregular, some marked Ex or via notes. unclear dates and end times included.

Cape Cod Bus Timetable Fragment

A fragmented timetable lists multiple Cape Cod division routes with station start points and times. Entries include Buzzards Bay Bourne Bourne Edam Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Sagamore Wellfleet Falmouth Chatham and details like 8.15 am start and 4.15 pm or 11.40 am end, via New Bedford portions and noted connections.

Kneeland Street Buzzards Bay Barnstable Bourme Bournedale Brewster Catauumet Chatham Vineyard Maven Town New Bedford Whaven Falmouth Yannis Harwich Monument Beach Mattapoisett Arion Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Sagamore Wuth Tremont Wellfleet West Bar Venaumet Woods Hall Ak 'Aveham Oe Nouth

Providence Division Park Square to New Week Sunday Transit Times

A dense list of transit schedules covers the Providence Division routes, showing times for Park Square, Shore Line, and various suburban stops. The document details morning and evening departures, weekend variations, and adjustments for Sundays, with numerous times across Bromfield, Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, North Attleboro, Dedham, Roxbury, Sharon, Attleboro, and surrounding areas.

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