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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1888
Page
7
Truck trade shows steady prices for vegetables and fruit. Items include Marrow squash 50c per bushel, Bay State turban 1.25 per bushel, Hubbard 1 per barrel, Savoy cabbage 50c per bushel, onions 1.25 per barrel, beets 40c per bushel, carrots 50c per bushel, lettuce 25c per dozen, turnips 40c per box, cauliflowers 1.25 per dozen, celery 24 per box, pumpkins 75c per barrel.
The steamer Hondo is due with Jamaica fruit for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Marmion is due November 29 with Jamaica fruit for the Boston Fruit Company.
Snow & Co and H Harris & Co announce fruit auctions with Almeria grapes, shellbarks, Florida boxes, and nuts. Apples, grapes, oranges, lemons, cranberries, and nuts show varied prices. steamer arrivals noted for Savannah and Norfolk. Trades remain steady to slow amid ample supply and quiet market demand.
In Chicago provisions opened weak with free selling. shorts covered as trading remained dull. Prices for pork, lard, and various cuts showed mixed moves across New York, Chicago, St Louis, and Cincinnati markets with steady to modestly firm trends later in the day.
New York cotton remains quiet at 10 3 4 cents for mid uplands and bids slide for other grades as 573 bales trade. Liverpool spot is dull with limited demand at 59 16d for uplands and 5 16d for Orleans while futures open steady and close quiet across major ports and states with varied receipts and stocks.
A short note states that Sucar-Taeio remains unchanged in raw records with no alterations or updates indicated.
The report shows firm prices for refined sugars and strong demand for raw sugars in New York, with quotations for Cuba and other Caribbean origins. Pernambuco notes lower totals in Oct shipments versus last year, while Bahia reports no new crop transactions and potential reductions in exports. Molasses remains firm with steady movement, and Port Alegre prices are cited as stable in New York.
Market reports show steady to weak trends across St Louis Peoria Kansas City and Chicago with hogs easing at several yards cattle receipts high in Chicago and steady in other cities. Cattle and sheep prices vary by class with heavy demand for Texas cattle and mixed lots pressed by supply.
Furnished by J E Carter & Co, 221 Washington Street, the report lists line items for pipeline certificates and cottonseed oil certificates with opening times and closing prices on November 22, 1888. Entries show opening at 10 am and closing around 3 pm for multiple commodities with value figures and price movements.
Tallow markets steady with city prices at 5346c and country 4%4 5c. New York reports stronger trend with city 6 1-16 to 6s 5c and sales 55 hirds. Riois solid at 16e. whiskey in Chicago steady at 120. Cincinnati unchanged. St Louis whiskey steady at 114. Turpentine and petroleum in New York mixed with turpentine 46%4c and resin 102%2 107%. tar nominal. petroleum 63-5 to 74-5c. RSW 74c and cases 94ac.
A dense ledger of imports and exports noting Sch A Thurlow with 18 247 boxes of herring at Grand Manan New Brunswick. Various goods listed by shipments at Harborville Nova Scotia Hull England and Yarmouth NS including cotton, wool, hides, paper, leather, crates, and machinery. Multiple firms such as Baring Bros and co, J B Moors & co, and Brown Bros & co appear with wide commodity ranges and vessel movements.
A long listing from Savannah notes orders and consignments loaded aboard the steamer Gate City including 3 bales hides 176 tons pig iron and 25 bales cotton. Several firms such as Adams Brown & Co Atlantic Cotton Mills Conant & Kean and Hill Gowen report oranges duck lumber silk and other commodities scheduled for export.
Export list details cargoes from multiple vessels and ports including Metaghan Nova Scotia Moyosotis and J and J Locke at Barrington, Newfoundland. Entries cover flour, beef, cotton, lumber, oil, butter, vegetables, oysters, kerosene, and daily bulk items with quantities, vessel names, and destinations such as Liverpool New York Antwerp and Trinidad.
The report lists cargoes for multiple rail lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Ota Colony and New York & New England. Commodities feature diverse tonnages and counts of wool flour cornmeal oats hogs grease butter cheese eggs beans hay lumber leather and hides with numerous bales casks sacks pails and cases.
London and Liverpool reports show wheat steadier with light demand and quiet markets. Spot wheat in Liverpool firmer, corn firmer at 4s 9d. No.1 California wheat prices listed for November to April and mixed American corn for November through April. Antwerp and Paris market notes indicate steady wheat and firm flour.
In Burlington a brown of T W Bardydt Co Tre Jaltimore Md I Halle of 8 Halle Son Ad Baltimore Md a lear of Spearros Ad Baltimore Md W Eichengreen of Eichengreen Weil Ad Baltimore Md
A long OCR fragment lists names of individuals and firms tied to Brooks Bros Treas, M D Wells & Co, Bowen Pratt, Rosenthal, Anderson, Sachs Boot Co, Pritrants, Large & Amsden, Durland Thompson Alm, Sidwell W W Kendall B, Sutcliffe & Owen, Mayer Boot Co, Wollner Lowenstein, Hall Mason Shoe Co, Pincus Lowenberg Hecht, T Ross Hanson Co, Grees Elliott, RG Clark Co, Cahn Mickelsverg Co, Oppenheimer Weil Co, Renfisch Boot Co, Kutz & Murr, Smith Frazier B S Co, and others in cities from Chicago to San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Sarah A. Creque of Boston petitions the Suffolk Superior Court for a divorce from Allen P. Creque of New York, alleging continuous desertion from around January 15, 1874, after a marriage on May 1, 1870, with no issue. Dated November 21, 1888.
Massachusetts Suffolk court orders libellant to publish attested libel and order in Boston Post for three weeks and mail or serve Allen P Creque fourteen days before the January first Monday appearance to show cause why the libel should not be granted. Clerk Jos. A Willard signs. attested by Edward Willard.
Frederick Messinger seeks a court order for notice and decree to quiet possession after twenty years of undischarged mortgage and note on a Clayton Place parcel in Roxbury Boston. He maintains possession since July 3, 1863, with no payments or action on the debt, and Louisa Messinger’s residence unknown.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts orders notice by publication in Boston Post for a petition to be heard in Suffolk Superior Court on the first Monday of February. The case concerns Nellie K C Johnston alleging marriage to Samuel F Johnston and seeking alimony due to intoxication and neglect.
Suffolk superior court orders libellant to publish the libel and order weekly in the Boston Post for three weeks and mail or serve an attested copy to Samuel Fr. Johnston fourteen days before the January first Monday. Clerk Jos. A. Willard signs, with Edward A. Willard attest. Also announces de REASE, A. Turner Harding left business. J. T. Jaques to conduct future dealings.
Railway timetable notes corrected to November 11 1888 listing North Adams and Palmer Ware connections. Includes daily departures and arrivals, express services with drawing room cars, and multiple intermediate stops such as Verdaville Ashland and others.
Boston to multiple cities and towns timetable details with daily and Sunday trains. Includes Ashcroft Baltimore Danbury Dedham Manchester Norwood Needham and Woonsocket departures and return times, plus ONSOCKET division notes and special routes.
Ordnance Office announces sealed proposals due December 15 1858 for about 27 sets of steel forgings for 12 inch mortars trunnion hoops and breech mechanism. Bid forms and details available from Brig. Gen. S. V. Benet Chief of Ordnance.
Fragmentary timetable data lists multiple stops and times including Kneeland Street Station New York via Fall River Line, Ashmont, Weymouth, Brockton, Abington, and Norwood. Entries show various departure and arrival times and connections with incomplete punctuation and garbled figures.
Fragmentary timetable listing multiple routes and stations including Providence Division, New York Shore Line, Attlebor, Boylston, Highland, West Roxbury, and Dodgeville. Contains numerous times with Sundays notes and garbled text, offering partial schedules and fares without clear context.
Cape Cod division times list multiple stops including Bourne Brewster Falmouth Hyannis Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Wellfleet and Yarmouth with inconsistent am and pm stamps and several corrupted entries. Nantucket runs Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays only. Some stations show 8.15 am and 4.15 pm windows. others show 3.30 pm or 4.45 pm and unknown values.
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