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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1887
Page
7
Canada turnips and onions and other produce quoted with per barrel or crate prices. Market notes no pork change, steady demand, light beef supply, quiet trade. Chicago quotations list various meats and byproducts with multiple buyers and price ranges for May through Sept futures and spot.
Liverpool cotton futures opened and closed steady across May to November bids with varying cash spreads. Spot lint prices held firm at 6 13-16d per pound middling uplands and Orleans. New York spot closed quiet at multiple grades. Futures board showed firm tones with May to October contracts steady, while raw and refined sugars remained firm with listed quotes. Pipeline certificates closed with May 27 figures. sugar and molasses markets quoted steady for cargo lots.
An extended market bulletin from New York details flour receipts and exports, including city mill extra at 4 7 4 85, and various grain and oilseed prices. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Toledo, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Chicago reports list wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and provisions with bid and sale figures, noting firm or dull trends and key lots such as No 2 Milwaukee and No 1 hard wheat.
The report covers hogs, oats, barley, and other staples with Kansas City and St Louis pricing. It lists receipts, shipments, and prices across cities including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, and Louisville. Cotton market updates note net receipts, exports to Britain and France, stock levels, and weekly comparisons with last year. A consolidated weekly summary shows national receipts, exports, and port stocks, plus a sea-borne commodity tally of flour, sugar, molasses, eggs, hay, lumber, hides, and related items.
London and Liverpool daily market wires show wheat firm in London with mixed American and Danubian corn, Paris quiet on wheat and flour, Liverpool spot wheat firm then weaker, corn steady to dull. Prices listed for English, American, and Minnesota wheat, with consignments and receipts noted, including several month and price points for June to September.loading
Shipping cargo lists from Yarmouth Nova Scotia and Arroyo Pennsylvania detail lobsters, fish, salmon, mackerel, eggs, fowls, sturgeon, crates and hundreds of barrels. Several firms such as Barclay & Co, Delong & Seaman, T J Jones & Co, and ES Ellis & Co appear with quantities including sugar, salt and lumber aboard multiple vessels. Additional entries note schooners and brigantine cargoes with lobster, eggs and sugar, reflecting a busy maritime trade in late May 1987.
A compressed listing from Annapolis to Sydney detailing schooners Montebello Louis Bark Rebecca Crowell and steamer Yarmouth with cargoes of flour meal lard oil salt and coal plus other goods such as fish sugar leather and hardware. The items are itemized by location including Annapolis Lockport Barbadoes Yarmouth and Sydney with quantities.
A detailed ledger lists receipts across multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Lacon Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western and Boston & Lowell. Items include wool bales flour corn oats malt feed hams butter cheese eggs potatoes hay lumber leather hides and various chests and bundles with quantities.
A sequence of probate notices lists Jabez A Sawyer executor, Ernie M Hearn's estate in Boston, and multiple administrators and executrices including Freidrick Louis Buttner Hanora Sheahan alias Wherigan. Notices require heirs or claimants to exhibit demands, with dates and bond requirements.
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