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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1888
Page
7
Commodity prices show mixed movement with some items flat and others adjusting. Notable firmness in rye and rye flour, oatmeal, oats, potatoes, hay, pork, and lard, while beef and veal ease. Butter, cheese, hops, and beef products display weakness or quiet activity. refined sugars rise, raw sugar quiet, and molasses steady.
Wheat opened at 87 56 for July and fell to 85 7/8 amid liberal selling while reports of winter wheat damage sparked a rally. Corn and oats showed gains in futures, hogs and other futures provided varied prices as receipts and commands remained strong.
Fisheries report light catches across mackerel and cod with prices steady to lower. Yarmouth and Halifax cargoes note small hauls while fresh mackerel reach Boston at around 32 cents. May fish trade shows limited packing, delayed cannery starts, and a Boston fish train aims rapid transport.
Market remains firm with active spring wheat patent demand. Canada flour for export higher. Quoted prices cover fine to spring patents, Minnesota and Michigan flours, and national offers. Receipts and shipments noted in New York St Louis Milwaukee and Chicago with mixed activity and price levels across grains and products.
Receipts of creamery butter are large and prices fall across regions. Creamery, Western, and Vermont grades range from 20c to 26c, with higher marks for fancy brands. Eastern and New York quotes show steady to firm tendencies. Cheese and eggs trade shows mixed activity, with firm butter and steady cheese, while beans hold steady at firm levels with foreign beans higher.
The document records varied quotations for seeds and grains, including choice screened peas at 250 to 34310 dollars per unit, grasses like timothy and clover with multiple regional prices, and potatoes with domestic and Nova Scotia stock values. Hay, straw, and poultry markets appear steady or quiet, with fowl prices ranging from 11 to 25 cents and hay notes noting small receipts and fair movement.
The market shows ample truck supply with steady prices. The schooner Gien from Bermuda brings onions for Bennet Rand & Co. The Savannah steamer arrives Monday with 1300 barrels and 3500 crates of vegetables. Prices cover asparagus to cucumbers, including Norfolk green peas at 200 per half-bbl, Florida tomatoes at 1 to 2 per crate, and Bermuda onions at 150 per crate among many listed produce items.
Pork movement remains quiet with steady prices for lard and smoked meats. Reports cover New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago and other markets with firm pork, lard, and dry salted goods, listing multiple cuts and prices, from long cuts at 17 17 60 to hams and bacon specified by size and cure, along with beef prices and fresh meat quotes across regional markets.
The Nubia steamer cargo sale lists oranges and lemons with varied price points per count and per box, apples in small lots at quotes, Palermo and Messina fruit prices, Valencia oranges by case, and a well supplied strawberry market with Maryland sales. Bananas from Baracoa arrive on Viking with red and yellow prices, cocoanuts at per 1000 count, and California fruit noting apricots and cherries with crate prices.
The steamer Samana is due May 27 with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Siotua is due with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns & Co. The steamer Stanford is due May 31 from Baracoa with bananas for W. W. & C. R. Noyes.
Sugar markets show firm demand and steady quotations across raw and refined grades. Cuba and Manila sugars maintain prevailing bids while refined grades move slowly. wholesale granulated price holds at 7 cents. Molasses demand fair, prices steady with diverse regional quotes. New York trade quiet though prices firm at 20 cents for 50 test.
Allan Asher & Co reports active trading in old crop cotton with a cautious, bearish tone. Prices opened lower and closed 4 to 6 points lower, while interior stock drawdowns suggest a plantation move of about 10,000 bales. Port receipts total 6,345,000 bales since Sept 1, with 4,000 bales on the current day.
Last year 5 170 000 bales with port stocks 409 000 and 359 000 bales respectively. Exports 6000 bales. since Sept. 1 4 196 000 bales, 4 104 000 last year. In New York cotton steady at mid dling uplands 10 16c, low middling 9 11 16c, good ordinary 8 11 16c. Futures opened steady, closed barely steady. Liverpool spot dull at 53 6d middling uplands. Comparatives show weekly receipts 23 443 and exports 5 340 570, with stocks and port totals across major markets noted.
Peoria hogs firm with sales 530 to 580 dollars. receipts 800, shipments 740. Cincinnati hogs strong across common to light with prices 425 to 565, packing 550 to 590. receipts 1225, shipments 960. Chicago cattle receipts 5000, shipments 3900, steady. steers 380 to 500, stockers 210 to 415, cows bulls 175 to 360, Texas steers 275 to 426. Hogs in Chicago receipts 20,000 shipments 5500, prices 545 to 570 for mixed, 655 to 690 heavy, 540 to 565 light, skips 425 to 520. Sheep receipts 600 shipments 2000, market steady. natives 375 to 525, Western 405, Texans 176 to 430, lambs 500 to 350 per head.
The notes show steady to unchanged prices across markets for whiskey, turpentine, rosin, tar, and petroleum. New York and Cincinnati report whiskey around 113 to 119 dollars, with Vipe Line certificates detailing opening times and price bands, and turpentine and rosin priced at 3.64 to 3.66 dollars and 1.20 dollars respectively, petroleum near 0.63 to 0.65 dollars.
Records list multiple ships and cargoes across Nova Scotia and nearby ports. Schooner Nellie G Davis carries 9000 lobster sacks from W Marston Bermuda NS. Moss Glen with 8678 boxes. Anehuac ships 11 063 bags sugar for Baring Brothers. Hennett Rand Co Cebu ships and hemp orders. Neal Dow with potatoes. Hannah F Carleton 391 casks. Elva C 4500 bush potatoes. Mary P 8811 bush potatoes. Belmont salt. ships named with cargoes and consignors across Barrington, Cape Canso, Jajardo, Montague, Souris and St Martins.
A fragmented export list from May 25 1888 notes shipments from TUSKET NS ST JOHN NB YARMOUTH NS and LONDON ENG. Items include Libbies schooner with meal and flour. Aurora Borealis pine. Yarmouth steamer with flour pigs hardware soap marble cotton oranges lemons crates and more. Carlotta schooner alcohol boots beef blocks bags fish and groceries. extensive London cargoes of paint cider tallow des...
A dated list from Boston area rail lines details quantities of cotton, wool, flour, cornmeal, oats, malt, pork, butter, eggs, beans, hay, lumber, leather and more. Railroads included are Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, and New York & New England with extensive commodity tallies.
A fragmented ledger lists quantities of commodities and freight across Fitchburg Boston and Maine and other rail divisions. Entries cover oats, corn, grease, tea, butter, coffee, lumber, hides, leather, wool, flour, lard, eggs, potatoes, apples, beans, and more with varied units and dozens of carloads and bales. No narrative, just itemized totals and consignments.
Train timetables for Boston to New York and regional stops updated to April. Weekday departures from Boston foot of Stanmer Street include numerous daily options to Ashcroft Danbury Dedham and Norwich with through connections. Special services include the Night Express to New York via Hartford and the New England Limited, plus through sleepers and dining cars.
Train schedules show New York and Stonington bound express departures from Providence with 3.00 fare noted. Tickets and staterooms available at 214 Washington Street and Park Square Boston. Boston agents and station details listed. service begins Feb 20, 1838 excluding delays.
A dense list of train times and routes across New England. It includes connections through Boston with numerous stations such as Manchester, Concord, Nashua, Woburn, Lowell, Lexington, and Holyoke style notes. The text reads as a timetable fragment with varied hours and destinations, including special services to Concord and Montreal and references to seaside towns.
A dense timetabled listing shows Boston Causeway Street routes to Amesbury Beverly and other towns with multiple daily departures. It includes early morning, afternoon, and evening trains to towns such as Chelsea Lynn North Conway and Portsmouth along with branch lines and Workingmen's trains on select days.
Boston and Maine Railroad timetable for various through trains and stations across Maine and New Hampshire. Schedules show Haymarket and Causeway Street stations, connections to Augusta, Eastport, Calais, Rockland, Lewiston, Manchester, and Portland steamers with times around 8:30 am to 7 pm.
A dense list of Western Division rail departures from Boston stations including Haymarket, with times for Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover Exeter Great Falls and many stops such as Merrimack Melrose Malden Reading and Wilmington. Sunday trains include Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford and Portland Bangor Lewiston routes with multiple daily departures.
Boston station on Causeway Street issues through service from Boston to Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirns Meredith Ashlaund Plymouth Warren Maverhill Woodville with various departures from 9am to 7pm. Also routes to Littleton Bethlehem Fabyans Lancaster Whitefield 9am to 1pm. Connections to Franklin Lebanon White River Junction 8.30am 7pm 1 3 and 7pm. St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec local Passumpsic Division White River Junction Wells River 8 0am 1 and 7pm. Bristol branch Claremont branch 8.30am 1pm. Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal via White River Junction 8 30am 1 7pm. Northern KR local 5.30am 8 38pm. Sleeping cars to Montreal on 7pm trains. Parlor car to Montreal on 8 30am and 1pm trains. For Montreal via Montreal Loston Air Line 9 4am 7pm with parlor and sleeping cars. 7pm train runs daily with Sleeping Car for Sieut real via both lines.
Time tables show departures from Eston Station to Northampton Hadley Amherst South Amherst Belchertown Shrewsbury and other towns with multiple daily slots. Additional trains run to Worcester and Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont and Ware with full timetable details obtainable at local stations. Located under 24MEST. FURBER and FLANDERS sign as General Manager and General Passenger Agent.
Fragmentary timetable lists numerous routes and times across CENTRAL DIVISION including Nantasket Beach Newport Quincy and Taunton with varied daily and Sunday departures. It reads as a dense schedule of departures and destinations rather than a cohesive story.
A patchwork timetable lists early morning and afternoon departures among Cape Cod towns including Buzzards Bay Barnstable Bournedale Brewster Chatham Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Sagamore Wellfleet Wareham and Wellfleet with weekday via New Bedford options and varied times such as 3.15 am 4.15 pm and 8.15 am 4.15 pm reflecting a fragmented OCR read.
A dense OCR style timetable lists connections from Providence to New York Shore Line and multiple outlying stations. It includes departure times, frequencies on Sundays, and various stop names such as Dedham, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Stoughton, and others, reflecting a busy regional rail schedule with numerous prices and times.
Train times for Framingham Marlboro and surrounding towns listed for weekdays Sundays and through service. Stops include Fayville Southboro Leominster Fitchburg Pratt's Junction and Old Colony K R Office. Gentlemen Kendrick and Connor announce Boston area schedule details dated May 7 1888.
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