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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1887
Page
7
A list of varied produce items with prices per bush or box includes beets 40¢, bush prices for parsnips 31 P, turnips Fiat A0c, lettuce $1 2 P box, celery $8 350 box, pumpkins 75c P bbl, spinach 16 20c bush, and other items such as squash marrow and carrots with associated costs. The fragment suggests a market price sheet from St Andrews with multiple items and denominations.
The pork market shows no major change with moderate demand at current levels. Fresh beef remains quiet with prices unchanged. lambs veals and muttons also steady. Numerous cuts and items listed with specific per pound prices for pork and lard, fresh beef, and other meats across grade and weight categories. Readings cover hams, shoulders, ribs, bacon, tongues, plate and other divisions, plus regional and itemized pricing.
Liverpool opened excited and closed steady with mixed November to July quotes while spot gains faded. New York futures opened steady as prices ranged across middling uplands and clear weekly totals show sales 15 000 bales and imports nearing 113 000 bales.
Cotton futures bought and sold in New York on margin. Private wire to New York for exclusive use of customers with facilities to transact expeditiously and confidentially. Charges reasonable and compare favorably with any reliable house in the city. Call for quotations and general information.
Reports from New York shows flour receipts 18 262 pkgs, exports 2526 bbls, 46 152 sacks with weak demand for winter wheat extras. Wheat and corn prices varied across regions with firm tones in some futures, while rye and barley hold steady or quiet.
Minneapolis Milwaukee and Cincinnati reports show wheat prices firm with No 1 hard and No 1 Northern in demand. Flour prices steady, receipts and shipments tallied for wheat and flour, while oats rye barley and corn moved variedly in price and activity.
Peoria reports hogs steady with $4 25 to $4 55, receipts 600, shipments 700. St Louis hogs up with Yorkers $4 35 to $4 60, butchers up to $4 80. Chicago cattle strong with shipping steers $3 51 to $3 55, hogs $4 40 to $4 70, heavy $4 50 to $4 90, light $4 65 to $4 80, sheep steady to $4 00.
The daily cotton market notes varied activity across ports. Key centers like New Orleans and Savannah report firm to quiet tones, while Boston and New York show ease or firmness with mid prices cited. Consolidated figures include seven day receipts 300,668 and total exports to date 1,358,438, reflecting ongoing global demand and inland stock levels.
London and Liverpool cargo markets show wheat steady and corn firmer with firm prices for prompt shipments. Australian and Chilean wheat quoted, plus notable offers for Danubian corn. Antwerp wool sales report moderate demand with Buenos Aires and Montevideo bale prices listed.
A historical port list records imports and exports from Hull and surrounding ships. Goods include bales rag stock paper pulp and sundry commodities from multiple companies such as Baring Bros Co Lewis and Co and J B Moors Co along with freight of whiskey flax waste iron plates and glass. Shipping actions involve brig Ro ships and schooners delivering cargoes to destinations like Rio Grande do Sul Pinetty Prince Edward Island and Yarmouth Newfoundland with quantities in bales cases drums and coals.
List of 1887 harbor export cargoes by steamer and schooner from Yarmouth Glace Bay Annapolis Clementport Moncton St Thomas including flour beef pork lard onions fruit vegetables feed meal machinery oil copper wire smoked salmon herring oysters apples pears and related quantities. Bulky goods include 625 bbls flour 399 bags feed 250 bbls meal 51 pkgs fruit.
A list of varied cargo and supplies from Port Natal Bahamas and Bark Florence including quantities of quinces copper paint smoked tongues beef and pork products vegetables and staples as well as tools and fixtures. Also notes Bark Florence port activity and Liverpool Newfoundland schooner On Time carrying meal flour and half-barrel lots.
Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western Boston and Maine Western Boston and Lowell show freight tallies. Cotton wool flour oats bran bacon pork lard leather hides skins tea coffee sugar butter cheese eggs apples potatoes and other goods moved by multiple lines with hundreds of barrels sacks bales and cars listed.
Records show varied goods including potatoes, hay, lumber, molasses, hides, flour, grease, eggs, beans, bales of cotton and wool, flour sacks, leather, and skins. Entries list quantities in barrels bbls rolls bales hides and boxes with numerous totals and per shipper notes.
A crowded railroad of boot and shoe buyers and firms appears with names such as W G Everett J F Kiser Co and J M Schnadig of Chicago along with Butterworth Co Cady & Co and Brooks Bros. The list spans Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh and more detailing firms and representatives across the industry.
Advertisement notes that items are available for sale through druggists or can be sent prepaid upon receipt of the advertised price. It emphasizes convenient ordering and prompt delivery through established pharmacy channels.
The Free Surgical Hospital for Women, supported by the Murdock Liquid Food Company, is recognized nationwide for aiding women needing operations. The 1887 annual report shows 310 surgeries, with patients from Texas to Massachusetts and cities across the United States.
The Surgical Staff at Murdock's Free Hospital for Women assign beds in a Septic Hospital ward. Seventeen beds are available daily except Saturdays for patient care and inspection.
Statement extols Liquid Food as sole raw food free of insoluble matter and drugs, usable by all ages to aid healing, sustain life, and boost blood production. It cites home for homeless boys with 50 beds, a Causeway Street address, and hospital use of 200 large bottles per batch as proof of quality and efficacy.
Navy Department invites sealed proposals from bidders for sixteen 16 inch gun lathes and for eleven 6 inch gun lathes plus one slotter. Work to be performed at the Navy Yard Washington with plans and specs available via the Bureau of Ordnance. Proposals due March 1 1888 and January 5 1888 respectively. bids may be rejected.
Through and local train listings from Boston to Tilton Laconia White River Junction Montreal and other points. Includes several daily departures with parlor and sleeping cars, local stops from Boston to Manchester Concord Keene Nashua and more. Contact offices at 218 Washington and Causeway Street for full timetable.
The notice lists the Central Massachusetts Railway timetable starting Monday October 10 1887 with routes from Boston to Ware Marre Rutland West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson and other stations including Belmont Waverley and Sudbury. It provides multiple departure times such as 7.15 am 9.10 am 12.05 pm and 4.45 pm along with Sunday schedules and notes the general passenger agent GEO W Storer.
Boston and Maine announces through trains across Western and Eastern divisions with times from Haymarket and Causeway stations. Services connect Augusta Augusta Haymarket, St. John Halifax Portland steamer routes, Rockland Castine Bar Harbor connections, Lewiston Manchester North Conway and Portland lines with multiple daily departures.
Timetabled departures across Boston areas including Haymarket and multiple towns such as Andover Dover Exeter Merrimac Saco North Lawrence and Medford with numerous times in morning and evening. fragmented OCR text lists routes frequencies and stop names.
Eastern Division timetable lists trains from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Everett and coastal towns with numerous departure times. Sunday trains include Lynn Newburyport Portland Salem and branch services with Pullman cars noted. James T. Furber is General Manager and D. J. Flanders is General Passenger Agent.
Public timetable lists weekday and return trains from Weston and nearby stops to New York via Fall River Line. It includes Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Cottage City East Weymouth West Quincy and other towns with multiple daily departures and returns, noting connections and boat/train arrivals.
The notice lists Monday May 30 1887 as the start for new train arrangements from Boston to New York via Shore Line and mail services, plus numerous regional stops including Providence Pawtucket Attleboro Canton Junction Hyde Park Roxbury Dedham Stoughton and others with specified departure and return times and late additions. It includes variations for Sundays and midweek days, with notes on changes to times and locations and ends with official signoffs from the superintendent.
Rail times from the Boston and Lowell depot to Manchester Concord and upper railroads begin October 9 1887 with daily departures at 7 30 8 30 9 00 12 00 1 00 3 00 5 00 5 30 7 00 pm plus Sunday 1 00 7 00 pm Return trips from Concord to Boston run at 5 30 7 30 8 35 10 20 3 36 5 08 6 35 pm with Sunday service noted.
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