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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1887
Page
7
The listing details pork and lard cuts with prices, plus fresh beef notes. It catalogs varieties from long cuts to tender loins, rib breakfast bacon, and city dressed hogs, with per pound and per barrel or pail quotes. It also lists fresh mutton and lamb prices by grade, weight, and place of origin, reflecting general market conditions.
The report lists global cotton stocks and imports as of May 27, noting decreases in visible supply versus 1886 1885 and 1884. It details Liverpool London Hamburg Bremen Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Havre Marseilles Barcelona and other ports with stock figures and exports. Price quotes for middling uplands and New York rates follow, alongside pipeline certificates sugar molasses and related market notes.
NY reports flour dull with large receipts and exports while wheat and corn move lower. No 2 spring at 87%4c, No 2 red 87%4c, and Milwaukee No 2 at 95c. Oats, rye, barley shift various small amounts. pork, lard, and whiskey mixed. regional prices in Chicago Cincinnati Toledo and Milwaukee reflect overall softer mood.
Receipts show 152 320 bush wheat and 63 000 bush corn with several grains noted. No 1 hard in store and on track steady with varied cash and May to July quotes. Shipments total 108 080 bush including flour and corn with mixed notes on other grains.
May 28 reports show hogs firm with New York and Chicago prices around 4.0 to 5.0 per hundredweight in Kansas City Peoria St Louis and Chicago markets. Cattle receipts near 1000 in Chicago with beeves 4.04 to 5.60 and stockers 2.50 to 4.00. Hogs receipts total about 14,000 with various classes priced from 4.40 to 4.95. sheep firmer with natives and Western types listed and lambs around 2.45 to 4.50.
Fall River reports weekly production 175000 pieces and deliveries 152000 with stock 237000 and sales 67000 while futures at 29000. prices 35-16c for 64x64s and 3c for 60x56s. market dull but firm. Providence notes week closes at 35-16c for 64 squares and 3c for 56x60s with total sales 22000 and stock to 119000 64s plus 3000 x60s.
Augusta to Galveston and New Orleans show mixed receipts and varied prices with firm tone at mid ranges. Savannah and Charleston print steady or firm with modest exports to Great Britain. Philadelphia and Baltimore hold firm or quiet with stocks climbing. Cincinnati and St Louis report steady demand while consolidated figures record one day totals across all ports with 351 656 shipped to Britain and coastwise exports totaling 2790.
Foreign markets report from London and Liverpool notes wheat firmer on some cargoes sold, other cargoes awaiting sale, and quiet markets in Paris and French country regions. Liverpool spot wheat held firm with quiet corn, and prices listed for Winter and Spring wheat, club wheat, and various corn and provisions. Havana molasses sugar and freights described with warehoused stocks and weekly exports.
A detailed freight manifest from the steamer Bothnia at Liverpool lists diverse imports including E T Hardy & co 32 crates earthenware, Abram French & co 1 case grounded paper, Jones, McDuffee & Stratton 11 crates earthenware, and many others across goods such as hardware, machinery, woollens, boats, fabrics, and numerous cases and crates. Notable entries include whiskey 265 crates, silk yarn, cot ton goods, and 650 boxes tinplate, reflecting broad trade activity and commercial ties.
A long OCR fragment catalogs consignments and shipments bound for and from ports including Manchester Lincoln shipping items from various firms such as Manchester Robertson Allison J Finlay Holder Herrick J Moors Williston Knight Jordan Marsh Schoenhof Frost Adams Cowan Hollander Moseley Shoninger etc. It lists cases, bales, crates, and quantities of tin plates leather wool oats salts oils glass china and many other goods, alongside vessel and port notes for Liverpool and Nova Scotia.
A detailed list from Pictou Nova Scotia Charlottetown Prince Edward Island St Andrews New Brunswick St Johns Newfoundland Halifax Port Hawkesbury Pictou Nova Scotia Charlottetown and other ports. The cargoes include flour meals kerosene oil clocks glassware rivalling ships with bales of cotton and numerous goods in transit through Halifax Liverpool and other ports. The record enumerates schooners steamboats and cargo quantities for multiple locations and dates.
A detailed ledger style list records cargo including wool flour corn oats wheat peas malt feed and animal products across lines Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western and Lowell. Entries note bales of wool cotton and leather with counts of bbls hams butter eggs and other staples alongside teas coffees and various sacks and cases.
Notices alert interested parties in Suffolk and Middlesex counties to probate actions for Sarat Leavitt of Hampton New Hampshire and Perkins Boynton of Cambridge. Executors seek authority to handle bank deposits and shares, with hearings set in Boston and Cambridge and required weekly notices. Public insolvency orders name creditor petitions, appoint assignees for Warren Morse and JOB E. Foye, with hearings and meetings scheduled in Boston and East Cambridge.
In a May 24 1887 order of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts the Nantasket Company partners are commanded to answer a bill seeking dissolution an accounting and apportionment of debts among members after the firm formed March 20 1881 to buy and manage lands in Hull Hingham and Boston. Defendants resident in Maine are ordered to appear within months and service published in the Boston Post.
Local timetable shows Fitchburg route trains from Boston Hoosac Tunnel Route with multiple departures to North Adams Albany and Chicago. Through cars and sleeping cars noted, with connections at Worcester and Springfield and Sunday variations. Office contact in Boston for full time tables.
Connecticut enactments discontinue the 10 a m Sunday Boston to New York train and the 10 a m Sunday New York to Boston train. A 10 a m Boston to Providence Sunday train and a 4 p m Providence to Boston Sunday train begin June 5. Starting May 30 the Shore Line train leaves New York for Boston at 1 p m instead of 2 p m. A A Folsom Supt
J R Kendrick General Manager announces May 18 1887 start for Weems trains Boston to New York with Fall River Line connections. Timetables list numerous stops including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Falmouth Cohasset Hingham Weymouth Quincy Scituate Rockland Taunton New Bedford Providence and Newport with multiple morning and evening departures and returns, Sunday trains to New York and via Brockton Taunton and Fall River lines, and notes on boat train arrivals from Fall River and New York.
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