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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1888
Page
7
The report shows mixed activity across cities with oats and flour products. Milwaukee and Peoria note firm No 2 white oats, while Chicago and Toledo show weaker or dull demand. Rye flour, buckwheat and Graham flour present steady or quiet conditions, with various wholesale price quotes and shipment notes.
Butter and creamery items show muted movement due to elections with steady demand for imitation products. Eastern and Western creameries quote prices from 6 27c to 26c, while eggs, beans, and potatoes face varied demand. butter quality varies and jobbing prices rise slightly. Northern timothy and clover seed prices hold firm. potatoes see rising arrivals with Hebrons fairly steady. poultry demand remains modest but steady for high quality lots.
The steamer Lorenzo D Baker is due November 15 carrying Jamaica fruit for the Boston Fruit Company as part of regular Atlantic trade. The vessel’s pending arrival signals ongoing shipments and steady commerce between Jamaica and Boston through this company.
Auction Friday by Harris & Co offers 1300 boxes Florida oranges and 562 bbss Almeria grapes. Apples listings show ample supply and slow movement at easy prices with various regional names and price ranges. Grapes and Tokays priced with case and half‑box notes. Almeria grapes plentiful at $4 650 bbl. oranges and lemons mixed with slow demand and a wide price spread across Messina lemons to Florida items. Cranberries dull with large supply. sales at $7 750 bbl for choice and $2 50 P case. notes on natives and York State prices.
Corrected July 22 1888 schedule details trains from Loston and Boston depots to Ashcroft Baltimore Danbury Dedham Dorchester and many others with daily weekday and Sunday patterns. includes special services Woonsocket division New York express New England Limit Philly Express Norwich Line Night Express and staff and station info.
Timetable fragment lists Boston and Maine service from Haymarket at 12.30 pm, arrival at 1 pm, and routes via Rockland Castine Southwest and Bar harbors with portland steamer on Tuesdays and Fridays. An evening move from Ausewe Street station at 7 pm to Lewiston and Harkianataio Zh Ak appears fragmentary.
Readable text notes Virginia farmers' prices for various nuts and crops. Chestnuts listed at 8c per unit, hickory nuts at 50 cents per bushel, with other items including peanuts and percentages. Reflects market values and local trade terms from the period.
The Chicago market reports hog receipts as light with firm provisions. Pork products show steady demand with prices for long cuts at $18.50 and various pork items listed, including backs, shoulders, lard, and sausages. Regional quotes for New York, St Louis, Cincinnati, and Chicago indicate mixed movement, with overall dull trade in fresh beef and muttons, veals, and lambs at easier prices.
A market note lists assorted vegetables and prices per unit or box. Items include new marrow squash 50c per barrel, turban squash 75c, Bay State turban 1 dollar per barrel, Hubbard 1 dollar per barrel, Savoy cabbage 50c per barrel, cabbages 4 5 100 count, red cabbage 1 25 per barrel, onions 1 50 per barrel, 60c bush, Spanish onions 2 dollars per basket, beets 40c bush, carrots 40 cents bush, lettuce 25c per dozen, turnips 40c per box, Russia yellow turnips 86 per barrel, rutabaga turnips 85 per barrel, white French turnips 1 dollar, caulitioners 1 125 per dozen, celery 2 50 per box, parsnips 60c bush, citron melons 75c per box, spinach 40c bush box, pumpkins 75c per barrel, bar berries 1 25 per bush.
Market summaries from Kansas City St Louis Peoria Cincinnati Chicago detail cattle receipts and price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep. Kansas City cattle and hogs show active demand and firm to weak prices while Chicago reports stronger cattle and steady hogs with high receipts. other cities note steady to active hog markets and varied sheep values.
In New York cotton is quoted steady at 9 1 8 9 6c for middling uplands and 9 6 for low middling with 85 16c for good ordinary and 6c for ordinary. Sales total 287 bales. Futures opened firm and closed steady with Tuesday to Wednesday close. Liverpool spot cotton is unsteady at 584d for middling uplands and 5 1 4d for Orleans with 10,000 bales traded and 8200 American. Futures mixed across the market with naval futures showing small gains and losses. Other markets show varied receipts and exports.
Market bulletin from J E Carter Co lists oil market figures for pipeline and cottonseed oil certificates with opening and closing times on November 7 and 8, 1888. The report includes highs, lows, and closing values, plus miscellaneous notes indicating tallow market steadiness.
The market shows mixed quotes across commodities. New York coffee and chemicals trade firm, New York turpentine and petroleum close varied with resin tar prices and RSW cases noted. Cincinnati and St Louis report firm or steady levels in bourbon whiskey and related markets.
Readable portions list ships like Etta E Tanner Levi S Andrews Andrew Burnham and Samaria with herring lobsters sugar and many others, detailing cargoes, quantities, and consignors across Campobello Grand Manan and Savannah ports. Entities include Demerara sugar, Port Liverpool, and multiple listed firms and goods.
Detailed export cargoes listed for steamers Milanese Michigan Pavonia and Prussian plus Hull Galileo and other vessels, including apples bbls flour beef butter lard cotton cattle sesame items from London Liverpool Glasgow Yarmouth Parrsboro Sydney and more. Broadly notes quantities and various goods from painting to machinery to groceries with dates in November 1888.
Detailed freight tally from multiple railroads listing quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats malt lard pork butter cheese eggs apples hay lumber leather and other commodities in bales barrels sacks boxes and cars across Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England and Webburg Railroads.
The column lists local time tables for the Boston and Albany line with through tickets available at 282 Washington Street Boston. It details departures from Boston North Station through trains to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West with multiple daily times and connections at Pittsfield Palmer Chatham and Worcester. It also notes express and dining car services to New York and frequent service to Newton and Riverside and various suburbs with Sunday trains and return times.
London reports cargoes off the coast and firmer wheat with limited sales. Liverpool firm wheat with strong corn and futures, listed prices for California wheat and mixed American corn. Antwerp and Paris show steady or quiet wheat and flour markets amid robust breadstuffs demand and higher pork and bacon values in Liverpool commodities.
Dividend No 101.amount four dollars per share payable at the Treasurer's office in Boston on Thursday November 15 to stockholders of record at close of business October 25 1883. Amos Blanchard Treasurer Boston October 24 18328.
Trains depart Boston at Haymarket for Alton, Rochester, Farmington and many towns including Andover, Dover, Danvers, Exeter, Great Falls, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Merrimac, North Andover, Newburyport, Wilmington and more with Sunday departures listed. times vary by station, including early morning and late evening runs.
A partial, OCR like list shows train times from Boston to multiple coastal destinations including Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Everett Hampton Beach North Hampton Seabody Salem Swampscott Lynn Wolfeboro and others with varied morning and afternoon departures. The snippet notes notes Thursday Saturday service and a Workingmen's train via South Reading branch from Haymarket.
A dense timetable lists trains from Boston Station on Causeway Street to numerous towns. Regular and Sunday services include destinations such as Tilton, Laconia, Lake Village, Weirs, Meredith, Ashland, Plymouth, Orren, Haverhill, Weedseville, North Weedstock, Pennigewassett Valley, Lisbon, Littleton, Whitefield, Lancaster, Tam, Fairyarn's, Jerviereen, Lebanon, Whitever Junction, St Johnsbury, Newport, Sherbrooke, Montreal, Montpelier, Essex Junction, Burlington, St Albans, and Manchester, with multiple daily departures starting around 8am and continuing through 7pm. Local Passumpsio Division, Bristol and Claremont branches, and Northern RR routes are included with varied 8.30am to 7pm slots. Sunday service shows Nashua, Lawrence, Stoneham, Lexington, Woburn, Winchester, Medford, and Arlington connections with express Montgomery-like options toward Montreal.
Timetables show departures from Boston Causeway Street for Northampton Hadhey Amherst Belcher town Hondeville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester and other stops with various morning and afternoon times. Additional services include So Clinton Bertin Hudson So Sudbury Rockbottom Wee on Waltham Waverley Belmont and Way Stations to Northampton. Full timetable details are available from the Gen Iamest Furber Ayo General Manager Gen Past and Ticket Agent.
A dense listing of Central Division train times and routes from various stations including Fall River Line via Sundays and weekdays. It enumerates departure times, destinations such as New Bedford Newport and Quincy, with notes on service via Brockton or Duxbury and additional trains on Sundays and holidays.
A garbled timetable lists Cape Cod division towns with inconsistent times for travel or collection. Entries include Bourne Brewster Cataumet Falmouth Hyannis Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Wellfleet and others with irregular 8.15am 4.15pm patterns and unclear annotations.
Readable schedules list departures and destinations across multiple lines. It names Boston areas Providence trains and numerous stations with varied frequencies and times, reflecting a dense regional timetable.
Time tables list train departures from Boston including Kilndland Street to Framingham Pearlboro Fayville Southhorse Bolton Northboro Clinton Leominster Fitchburg Pratt's Junction with multiple daily times and Sunday limits. Full information available at Boston stations and Old State House No 3 Old State House office Gen Manager J R Kendrick and Geo Pass r Agent Boston November 1 1888.
Trains from Boston to Manchester Concord and upper railroads depart from &. and L. depot starting October 8 1888 with multiple daily times including 7 30 8 30 9 pm 12 mj 1 3 6 80 7 pm and Sunday 1 7 pm Returns from Concord to Boston at 5 40 7 35 7 40 10 20 am 2 45 3 35 5 15 3S pm Sundays 7 20 am.
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