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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1886
Page
7
A historic price list shows smoked shoulders and ribs, corned beef, bacon varieties, pressed hams, dressed hogs, and fresh beef items with unit prices. It also lists beef tongues, hams, and various lamb and mutton options with regional markers and quality descriptors.
Liverpool futures opened quiet and closed steady with varied November to June- July spreads. Spot LIberpool mid upland and Orleans prices steady. receipts 25 000 bales, sales 12 000. New York spot closed quiet. futures opened quiet and fell. Futures quotes show mixed bids and asks. sales reach 99 600 bales. Pipe line certificates and refined products show fluctuations, with sugar and molasses markets steady to firm. Manila and Hoilos prices noted.
Fortunes shift across New York Chicago and St Louis as flour, wheat, corn, oats and pork prices move. Reports show mixed receipts and steady to higher prices, with No 2 red wheat at 7 74c and pork around 9 78. Prices vary by city including Toledo St Louis Chicago Milwaukee and Detroit with general firm trends in cereals and meats.
Shipping and port activity across multiple lines show steady domestic receipts and exports to Great Britain with varied stocks and shipments. Notable figures include New York and Baltimore receipts, Norfolk stock, and Liverpool imports. Canada and Atlantic coasts report extensive seafood, lumber, and varying cargo from Halifax, Charlottetown, and port towns with numerous firms listed.
Net receipts at all United States ports for the week 280 237 with exports to Great Britain 128 450 and to the continent 40 063. Stocks at ports total 910 854 and interior 200 822. Liverpool stocks 456 000 and American afloat for Britain 220 000.
Cattle higher with 6000 receipts and 20 none. Hogs steady with 55000 receipts and 11000 shipments. Sheep steady with 3000 receipts and 1000 shipments. Cattle prices range from 2 00 to 3 60 for stockers and feeders, cows and bulls up to 3 15. Hogs report rough and mixed 3 45 to 3 39, packing and shipping 3 70 to 4 00. Lambs at 3 TOR to 4 00. Texans contribute notable totals.
Foreign markets report mixed activity with wheat quiet or firm in London and Antwerp, and corn generally steady. Liverpool notes limited demand but steady prices for breadstuffs with precise figures for January March futures and cash, while Paris and other country markets show quiet conditions.
Shipping details list cargoes arriving and leaving ports including Hull Lepanto and Annie R Storer with lard sugar molasses and nails, Charlottetown Annie F McKie flour, Sidney Mary Agnes flour and canned goods, Digby Sh E Walsh meal and flour, and Western Islands Bark Sarah with flour and codfish.
A compact inventory from Liverpool Nova Scotia lists charcoal irons and other goods including 15 cases of charcoal 175 barrels of blacking 560 cases of petroleum and 85 barrels of tobacco. At Fort Gilbert another ship E Raymond shows 250 barrels flour 125 barrels meal 2 drums kerosene oil and 12 coils cordage.
A ledger style list details cargo items carried by multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England. Items span cotton wool flour cornmeal oatmeal corn wheat peas bacon butter cheese eggs apples leather hides pelts and more with quantities in bales sacks boxes barrels and cars.
A dense ledger of freight items lists cotton, wool, flour, corn, and miscellaneous goods with counts by several railroads including Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern, Boston and Maine Western, Boston and Lowell, plus express and sea shipments. Entries itemize bales, casks, boxes, sacks, cars, and hides, indicating volume flowing through multiple routes.
A dense roster lists agents and firms from Atlanta to Wheeling including Gramling Spalding & Co Adler Cohen Adler & Co and Phelps Dodge & Palmer. Entries note city state and firm pairings with roles such as Re Ads Par Am and Am indicating representation and type of listing.
Regional timetable listing weekday departures and returns for Old Colony lines to New York via Fall River and from Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Barnstable and Provincetown areas plus Cape Cod divisions. Includes mixed routes via Brockton Taunton Quincy Cohasset Weymouth Scituate and Plymouth with numerous times and return options.
Passenger routes from Boston and surrounding points to multiple towns and cities listed with morning departures and evening times. Includes Pullman sleeping cars to Montreal and connections via Vermont and Passumpsic railroads. Local White Mountain and Northern Division stops shown with varying hours.
Fragmented timetable notes list multiple routes and stop times across days. Entries mention Lowell, Bleachery, OREM, and various periods with evening and Sunday references.
Passenger timetable details vast arrays of times and connections for trains from Boston to Albany Chicago St Louis and points west with numerous stops including Adams Concord Ayer Junction North Leominster Shirley Marlboro and Worcester. It notes daily express services sleepers dining cars and changing points with a dense matrix of departure and return times and special Sunday operations.
Timetables show arrivals and departures for Brockton Taunton Newport and South Braintree with return trips to New York and other stations. Notes indicate boat train connections from Fall River and limited Wednesdays schedules. Kendrick, General Manager, signs the notice.
The Delaware & Hudson line offers through service from Montreal and Ogdensburg with connections at Rutland to Saratoga, via Rutland and Bellows Falls. Fast express for Montreal and West stops at Chesterfield and Monadnock routes. Pullman Palace Sleeping Car included to Rutland Burlington St Albans and Ottawa arriving 6:40 AM Ottawa 11:05 AM Ogdensburg. Tickets at LINE OFFICE 225 Washington Boston.
Boston to Jefferson and Way Stations timings listed for weekdays and Sundays. Includes departures and retu rns to Oakdale Boylston Sudbury Belmont Waltham and Belmont and other towns with multiple daily options. General agent LEN and supervisor SUVT.
On and after Monday September 6 786 trains run with many daily departures from Boston to New York Shore Line Fast Express at 10.00 am 1.00 pm and 3.10 pm plus returns. New York Shore Line Mail 11.00 am with Sunday service. Steamboat Stoneington Line 6.80 pm Sundays excepted with returns. Providence departures listed with numerous times and several routes including connections at Mansfield and West Roxbury. The timetable notes special late trains and weekend changes, with Folsom as superintendent.
A dense list shows Boston station and Maymarket Square departures to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Lawrence North Lawrence Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield Wilmington and surrounding stations with numerous times and return trips across morning afternoon and night sessions including workingmen's trains and weekend slots in the era timetable.
A dense compilation of train times across multiple towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett and more with numerous departures and arrivals listed in am pm and fractional times. It notes Sunday trains and special services via branches and Pullman cars and ends with signatures of James T. Furber and D J Flanders.
The Concord Kr railroad and bridge company announces new passenger train times starting October 11 1886 from Boston to Manchester Concord and upper railroads with departures from B and L depot at 7 30 8 30 am 12 m 1 30 3 50 7 27 pm and Sunday 1 pm from B and M depot at 7 50 am 12 m 5 pm Returning from Concord to Boston at 5 30 7 30 10 20 am 2 45 5 00 pm and 6 28 pm Sundays
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