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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1887
Page
7
The advertisement lists fresh beef with prices for steers and assorted cuts, including light and heavy pieces, rounds, loins, and chucks, plus rattles and backs. It also notes fancy spring lambs and Chicago mutton with per pound quotes and quality ranges from common to good.
Liverpool cotton futures opened steady and closed easy with declines across November to March contracts. Spot markets in Liverpool and New York showed dull to steady tones with varied upland and Orleans prices. Futures in New York opened weak and traded within narrow ranges. Pipeline certificates moved at 74 cents, raw and refined sugar prices held firm, and molasses prices listed for several cargos.
The Watertown market shows large supply from the North and East with cattle selling weak to medium quality. Buyers paid 7 7 50 for choice beef and 6 50 67 for extra, while store cattle ranged from 90 to 160 per pair for working oxen and 15 to 32 for cows. sheep and lambs sold at 2 8 to 3 50 per head with higher prices for extra lots.
Cotton Futures advertises buying and selling of cotton on margin in New York with private wire and exclusive customer use. It promises expeditious and confidential transactions, reasonable charges, and invites the public to call for quotations and information at 22 Exchange Place.
Reports from New York trading centers show flour receipts at 33 883 packages and exports at 10 969 barrels with firm demand for both export and home trade. Wheat and corn prices advance with No 2 spring at 85 4 cents and No 2 red at 84 4 87 4 cents, while spot oats rise slightly and petroleum remains firm at 73 1/2 cents.
Chicago and Minneapolis market notes show flour and wheat activity mixed with steady to higher prices. Pork and lard move at firm levels with varying quotes. Butter and cheese steady. numerous receipts and shipments listed for flours grains and pork products across Detroit Cincinnati Milwaukee St Louis and To establish regional price movement and demand patterns.
Högs steady in St Louis and Peoria with Yorkers at 4.55 to 4.65, butchers firm. Kansas City shows hogs lower with 18 000 receipts. Chicago cattle steady with shipping steers at 38.10 and various classes. hogs 440 to 470 on average. sheep weaker with common at 250 to 825 and Western lambs at 375 to 510.
Market update across major ports shows steady to firm tones in Galveston New Orleans and Savannah with varied stocks and exports. Notable figures include Augusta New Orleans Philadelphia and Cincinnati with mixed receipts gross sales and steady to easy or dull tones. Consolidated four day totals reflect 727 647 stock across United States ports.
London and Liverpool cargoes show wheat demand firm with several shipments arriving and futures prices rising. Market notes include Danubian and California wheat quotes, Paris and Antwerp movements, and British imports for the week. Liverpool breadstuffs and provisions hold high prices amid tight supply, while Antwerp wool sales report substantial demand and sale results.
A Glasgow port list records steamer Siberian with pig iron and 21 000 fire bricks among many consignments. Entries include dry goods, pig iron, bricks, skins, wool, paper stock, oakum, tobacco pipes, whiskey, and steel goods from firms such as Baring Bros Waldo Bros Crocker Bros Jordan Marsh Co N N W Curtis and others.
A long shipping note from Liverpool records shipments to Canada and Montague Prince Edward Island. The Palestine steamship carries goods including potatoes, cement, wax, scrap steel, granite, tobacco pipes, dyes, glass, figs, sardines, seaworthy crates, and horsehair among many items. Numerous firms such as Joel Goldthwate & co, Croulet Bros & Sanborn, Waldo Bros, JB Moors & co, Naylor & co, Sargent, Lord & Skillen, J D Flaherty, H White & co, Ek & F King & co, Rodocanachi & co, and Cobb Bates & Yerxa appear. The cargo features thousands of bales, cases, casks, tons, and boxes including salts, soap, soda ash, and hides. A separate list from Montague, PE, and Rosario shows additional exports like potatoes, wool, hides, and skins.
List of cargo exports dated November 15 1887 from Port Williams Nova Scotia and Alverpool England. Items include flour cornmeal beef lard bacon pork and various goods packed in bbls cases crates and boxes for steamers Yarmouth Catalonia and Modena with quantities and commodities such as patent medicines soap wool hosiery machinery preserves and dry goods.
A ledger of commodities received or shipped on multiple railways dated November 15, 1887. Albany Grand Junction Perceidencs Old Colony Boston & Maine Boston & Maine Western Boston & Lowell express and sea routes list cotton wool flour oats corn meal millseed lard bacon tea coffee butter eggs apples hay lumber leather hides and pelts across numerous lines including Albany Grand Junction Perceidencs New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western and other divisions.
Totals of receipts for November 15 1887 list cotton, wool, flour, eggs, cornmeal, beans, apples, oats, potatoes, malt, sweets, millfeed, hay, straw, cottonseed meal, leather, pork and beef, hides, tea, coffee, molasses, and oleo. Entries show yearly comparisons for 1857 1886 and 1887 with bales boxes barrels and pounds across multiple goods.
A parade of buyers from cities including Atlanta Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland Chicago and Dallas visits with firms such as Mc J F Kiser Co Stone Goff Co Eichengreen Halle Spear Bros Nixon Almnutt Nixon Goldsborough Dixon W T Dixon Brooks Pratt Drake Laws Gates Butterworth Benckenstein Childs Smartt Butler Bros Amsden Large & Amsden and Sears Be Tre. The listings show representatives and firms in the boot and shoe trade visiting for deals and orders.
A long OCR fragment lists many agents and firms across Evansville to San Francisco. Names include W Hinkle Nesbet Co Galveston Aaron Blum L & Galveston W F Breath P J Willie Hendricks McKee Braham Indianapolis Braham Jones Jr Jones McKee O Kansas City RG Wallace Louisville White Green Huffner Lexington Bassett Wollner Bears Hefflefinger North Star Dunwody Singleton Adams Thorne Carter Dunbar Manier Hollins Moore Frank Selling Akin Schmertz Gregg Childs Whaere Watking Weiner Nickelsburg Kahn Schneider Einstein Tarbox St Paul Tarbox St Joseph Snait Fraser shoe firms Clafin Allen Baumof Pais Gon
Local timetable pages list through tickets and stations at 232 Washington Street Boston. Multiple daily Boston to Springfield Pittsfield Albany West and New Haven routes with express and sleeping car services to Buffalo Chicago and Detroit. Schedules include connecting trains via Worcester Palmer Northboro and Newton areas with Sunday services and local timetables available.
Boston and Lowell Railroad timetable outlines through service from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Andover etc with daily 9 am 1 pm 7 pm options and Montreal connections Sleeping and parlor cars noted Local service lists multiple towns including Manchester Concord Keene Greenfield Wilton Nashua and more with varying departure times and a timetable notice signed Mell en Geo W Storer General Superintendent and General Passenger Agent at Boston.
Train times listed for Monday October 10 1887 from Boston to Ware Barre and Rutland Weston altham and Belmont and other stations. Times include 7 15 am 12 05 pm etc with Sunday variations and notes from Geo W Storer General Passenger Agent and H MFulen Superintendent.
Complex 19th century timetable notes list train connections from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations to Augusta Portland Concord Boothbay Rockland and Castine with various daily and weekday departures. It mentions steamship connections from Portland Lewiston and Calais with multiple stations and times, reflecting a dense regional rail and steamship network in 1887.
Train timetables list Western Division routes through Haymarket Oya, Farmington, and multiple hubs such as Boston, Newburyport, Reading, Lawrence, Lowell, and Danvers with varied departures during daytime and Sunday service. Details show numerous times for towns like Maid en, Rockport, North, South, and Gorham with connecting services and mid afternoon transfers.
Timetables for trains to New York Philadelphia Hartford Willimantic Norwich and coastal towns list departure and return times with connections to steamers and Pullman cars. Officials include GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK.
Timetable details for May 2 1887 listing trains to New York via Shore Line and to Providence with return times. Includes routes on the Steamboat Stonington Line, station stops such as Roxbury Canton and Boxbury, and adjustments for Monday to Friday departures and specific return times. Managed by A. A. Folsom, Superintendent.
The notice lists numerous train times and routes for different divisions and towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett and Ipswich with Tremendous detail. It notes special trains such as the Roundaway and Workingmen's trains and provides station references and office contact points.
H Palmer, agent, operates from 4 Old State House in a concise historical listing noting official role and location.
Train services depart from Causeway Street Boston for Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and the West with morning and evening departures. Sleeping cars available for Albany Chicago and Cha go via Niagara Falls and Buffalo lines. Additional routes include Belme? and Cambridge with varied times and Sundays listed.
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