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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1887
Page
7
Prices for bran meal middlings and cottonseed meal are listed with sacks and ton rates. Rye, malt, hops quotes show seasonal grades and regional sources with small lots and new arrivals noted. No 3 white corn and other grain quotes are given alongside general market levels and quality breakdowns.
Butter and cheese markets hold firm while eggs and poultry show steady demand. Wholesale butter ranges from 16 to 28 cents with varied creamery and New York quotes. cheese and eggs hold mid ranges. Potatoes, hay, beans, and seeds display mixed but steady prices, with northern and Vermont creameries prominent in listings.
The market notes a bright demand for trucks while listing produce prices: celery 83 50 per box, onions and Maltes at $2 per basket, native celery $3 per barrel, Western celery $250 per barrel, cabbages at $5 7 per 100, red cabbage $2 per barrel, savoy 75c per pound, beets 40c per bush, squash and marrow 75c per barrel, Hubbards $1 25 per barrel, turbans $1 per barrel, carrots 40c per bush, lettuce $1 2 per box, parsnips 5c to $1 per bush, turnips 40c per bush, white and French celery and related items with varied barrel or box prices.
Chicago butter remains steady as receipts fall for Western creamery extra 26c. Cheese holds firm with light receipts while eggs stay firm. Liverpool reports good demand for September cheese at 58 60s with prices rising. butter demand improves. New York markets show steady butter and cheese with fair demand, eggs steady, and dried apples quiet.
Prices from H Harris & Co and Snow & Co show Almeria grapes at 1 62 14 425 per barrel and 150 600 per barrel, Barre de Anjou pears 335 per half barrel, Florida oranges 270 per box, and Jamaica bananas 1 25. Catawbas 4.4 percent, Concords at Babyec. Dried apples quiet. Nuts unchanged. Many specific fruit and nut prices listed for apples cranberries oranges lemons and other varieties with regional markers and box or barrel units.
Pork and lard prices stay unchanged with steady demand. Beef and veal show mixed wholesale quotes from select plate and ribs to loins and rounds, while fresh lambs and mutton range in the low to mid teens per hundredweight. Various cuts and preparations list targets across cities and packing scales.
In Liverpool market trading, cotton futures opened flat and irregular and closed steady with November at 5 5-64d and 5 20-644 for November and December. December and January settled around 1h 28-26d, January and February at 5 27-64d, February and March 6 28-64d, and March and April 5 30-04d.
The article details spot and futures quotes for middling uplands and Orleans, with opening flat markets in London and New York, showing several price levels in d and c fractions. It lists sales, receipts, and futures bids across months including November through August, plus certificates and sugar/moly prices with refinery standards and regional quotes.
Cotton futures are bought and sold in New York on margin with private wire for exclusive customer use. The firm offers expeditious and confidential facilities for transactions and invites the public to call for quotations and information, noting reasonable charges and favorable comparison with other houses.
In New York and Chicago trading, flour demand remains good with firm prices for white and extra grades while receipts and exports shift. Minneapolis and St. Louis show mixed price moves on wheat and flour, with soy no. 2 corn and oats steady to lower as provisions stay firm.
Market dispatches from St Louis Peoria Kansas City and Chicago show hog sales firm to steady with Yorkers $435 to $470 in St Louis and $440 to $490 in Peoria. Cattle receipts in Chicago total 6000 with beves at $3.45 to $15.50 and stockers $2.06 to $4.00. Hogs in Chicago range 4.45 to 4.80 per cwt while sheep and lamb prices hold steady with natives at 4.4 to 20.0 and lambs 5.30 to 5.875.
Cotton markets report from Augusta Galveston and New Orleans with net receipts and totals. Augusta shows 2208 net receipts and 841 exports to continent, New Orleans records 14692 receipts and 1740 net sales. markets described as firm with mixed totals.
The notice lists extensive timetable data for Old Colony trains and boat connections. It includes daily and Sunday services to Fall River Taunton Brockton New Bedford Plymouth and Newport with numerous return times. It names GEO L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK as Gen Pass Agent and Gen Manager respectively.
Net receipts and stocks for Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Baltimore Philadelphia New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and aggregates show weekly and year to date totals. Exports to Britain France and the continent, shipments, and interior stocks summarized with comparative figures.
London markets show wheat firm and corn quiet with modest activity. Calcutta wheat prices listed, Walla Walla wheat quoted, Paris prices firmer, Liverpool breadstuffs mixed but stable, pork and lard steady, cheese and tallow unchanged. Antwerp wool sales close firm with good demand and Buenos Aires and Montevideo bale prices noted.
A summary of shipments arriving and departing including Schooner Donzella with 6393 bushels of potatoes for Chapin Bros at Grand River PEI and Brig Spruit with 15000 ox hides. Mobile Alabama lists Steamer Lorenzo D Baker carrying 68266 feet of cypress lumber and 10243 feet of hard pine lumber for Wellman Hall & Co.
Shipment details list flour cornmeal middlings and other commodities aboard schooners and steamers from Guysboro Wolfville Tusket Maitland Economy Yarmouth Liverpool Mahone Bay Bear River Charlottetown Summerside with quantities in barrels sacks and cases across multiple vessels and destinations including Nova Scotia New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
A lengthy freight list records shipments by multiple rail divisions and routes. Entries include bales cotton wool bones and hides, flour beef lard butter eggs potatoes lumber and leather across Fitchburg Boston and Maine Western and Eastern divisions by sea and express.
Rail timetable for Lu Boston and Providence railroad details extensive daily train arrangements from Boston to New York Newark Providence and other stops. The schedule lists departures and returns with varied times and notes service changes starting May 30 1887.
Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony and New York & New England railroads report extensive freight receipts including bales cotton wool flour corn oats feed pork bacon lard butter cheese eggs beans apples hay straw leather hides pelts and other commodities for November 18 1887. Listings detail quantities by railroad and goods with numerous line items.
A listing of buyers and firms across multiple cities including Atlanta Baltimore Chicago and Philadelphia. Names such as Gramling Draper Beals Jones Reed and many others appear with firms and locations in a dense advertising table of boot and shoe buyers.
A dividend of 70 per share will be paid Thursday to stockholders of this day’s record. Payments are at the treasurer’s office No. 40 Water street. Harcourt Amory, Treas. Boston, November 14, 1837.
Time table provides full information on local through trains obtainable at stations. S. Mellen and Geo. W. Storer, General Superintendent and General Passenger Agent, sign the notice as of Boston area rail timetable.
Central Massachusetts rail line to Ware and surrounding towns lists openings from October 10 1887 with multiple daily trips to Boston Jersey Belmont and Weston along with departure times and agent credits for George W Storer and M Fllen as general superintendent and passenger agent respectively
Partially readable timetable listing Boston and Maine routes. Mentions Augusta Haymarket and Causeway Street stations with morning and evening departures to Eastport Calais Rockland and connected services to St John New Brunswick Halifax. Includes Lewiston Manchester North stations and various arrival times with incomplete lines.
Readable lines show trains from Boston to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with various departure times. Additional stops include Andover Danvers Exeter and Melrose with scattered times and routes across New England area.
Train times list for the Eastern Division from Boston to Amesbury and coastal stops including Biddeford Beverly Chelsea Everett and Salem with multiple daily departures and Sunday trains. Agency notes list James T. Furber general manager and D. J. Flanders general passenger agent.
Boston offices at 232 Washington St offer local time tables for all divisions and through tickets to points including New York Albany Pittsfield and Hartford. Daily trains, Sundays and limited runs noted with departure and return times, with names Hanson and Galoup as general agents.
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