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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1888
Page
7
Prices move upward with mills charging around 670 per barrel for priming pees and 230 per barrel increases. North Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin notes show flour production and exports, with August output exceeding 1.05 million barrels and exports near 350 thousand barrels, while buyers remain cautious amid a unsettled wheat market.
Butter prices hold steady for choice creameries while lower grades ease. Western creameries quote 24 25c, extra firsts 21 22c, fancy imitation 17 18c, seconds 16 16 42c, factory 18 14440c. Vermont ranges 20 23c, Eastern markets steady with scarce fancy lots. cheese demand quiet but firm prices. Eggs firm as small supply persists with Eastern extras 21 22c and Northern 20 21c.
A listing shows steady demand and prices for diverse fruits and vegetables. Items include squash at various rates, cabbage at 50 to 81 cents per bundle, beans such as green, Lima, and string beans, onions priced around 32 to 75 cents per basket, beets carrots and lettuce at modest figures, along with cucumbers tomatoes cauliflowers celery parsnips and pumpkins. Prices are quoted with units like per bush per box and per basket.
The report shows firm pork demand with steady hogs and varied cuts priced widely. Prices include long and short cuts at about 19.19, backs around 19.50, lean ends 20.40 to 21.00, fresh ribs 10.42 to 11 cents, lard around 12 cents, hams and shoulders in the 9 to 13 cent range, and several beef and corned beef items with mixed movements across St Louis and Chicago markets.
The Lorenzo D Baker is due to reach Boston on October 4 carrying bananas for the Boston Fruit Company from Jamaica. The vessel’s arrival is expected to bolster fruit supplies and support local merchants.
Exports for the past week show mixed fruit movement. Apples in large supply with fair demand for choice lots, prices up to 3 dollars per box for some varieties. Oranges small supply with slow demand. lemons and grap es portrayed with varied pricing. plums in small supply with good sale for choice fruit. quinces slow, cranberries fair demand. auctions scheduled for Palermo oranges and Florida lemons.
Cattle receipts 7284 with active demand and firm prices. Shippers 395 to 500 dollars, cows 185 to 245, steers 205 to 305. Hog receipts 2404 with active demand and firm prices, heavies 585 to 615, mediums and lights 570 to 605. Sheep-
The OCR text lists numerous timetable entries for various rail lines and branches. It includes stations such as York Harbor Beach, Rockport Gloucester, Wenham, Swamp Scott, Lynn, Newburyport Portsmouth, Portland Harbor, St John and Halifax, Salem, and Boston Haymarket. Entries show fractional times and notes like workingmen's trains and weekday or Saturday services, reflecting a historic timetable segment.
Receipts total 28,56 cattle steady with beef and steer prices around $630 and $325 875, western ranges $230 425, sheep receipts 10,000 with natives at $3 75 to $4 40. Cotton in New York quiet at middling 107 16, futures opening and closing quiet. Liverpool dull with slight tendencies. nationwide port stocks and exports listed with varied demand and steady or quiet markets.
Sugar markets show quiet sugar raw at firm quotes for Cuba and Manila grades with varied cent values. Refined sugars remain firm with active demand and multiple grade prices, while molasses shows fair demand and steady prices across Ponce Porto Rico Barbadoes and other sources. New York quotes indicate unchanged market tone and price.
The report notes firm tallow with steady demand and New York market strength for city and country grades. Coffee activity rises between New York and Rio, while turpentine and petroleum edges wrap with resin, tar, and RSW figures. Unchanged tones persist in Chicago, St Louis, and Cincinnati markets for whiskey.
A dense ledger style dispatch from Glasgow and Liverpool detailing items shipped and received aboard Steamer Prussian and Samarta and listing hundreds of entries. Goods include brick, pig iron, steel, timber, machinery, wine, woollens, leather, hangings, glassware, books, oils, and more with numerous firms such as Baring Bros & Co J R Leeson & Co and Jordan Marsh & Co identified. Trade appears broad across chemicals, metals, textiles, foods, and manufactured items with quantities and consignors noted.
A dense cargo list records shipments by Marsh & co and many firms across Charlottetown, Halifax, Pictou, Port Hawkesbury and more. It details leather, preserves, dry goods, skins, china, eggs, mackerel, oils, timber, rosin, and numerous containers on steamers and schooners, with quantities and destinations from PEI to Nova Scotia and Maine, noting consignors and consignee firms.
A cargo list from Digby and Annapolis, NS shows the Steamer New Brunswick carrying 52 marble pieces 2 boxes 1 cask 2 barrels moise 5 barrels oil 5 cases cornet 1 case carpet sweepers 8 barrels 6 boxes hardwire 14 hills evel bdls coul hods 4 boxes printing material 86 pkgs household goods 16 boxes tomatoes 7 baskets peaches 200 egg carriers.
A fragment listing October 1 1888 receipts for Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence Old Colony and New York and New England railroads. It details wool bales flour barrels oats malt feed butter cheese eggs beans potatoes hay lumber hides leather and various packing counts. Names of lines and scattered tallies indicate volumes in bales tubs sacks cases and bolls across multiple stations.
A dense 1888 ledger chronicles railroad and express shipments across Boston and Maine divisions, listing bales, barrels, and tones of goods. Notable entries include tea, flour, apples, wool, beef, butter, pork, hides, leather, corn, oats, and sugar, with numerous carloads and sacks noted by division and route. The record also includes monthly receipts and year-end tallies, reflecting extensive trade activity and transport volumes.
London markets show wheat firm and corn quiet with prices rising in English and foreign wheat and flour. Liverpool reports wheat firm with steady corn demand, quotations for winter and spring wheat and mixed Western corn, plus pork bacon cheese and tallow prices steady.
Sealed proposals due by Oct 13 1888 for a life-saving station at Hult near Point Allerton Massachusetts. Plans and forms available from the Boston Collector of Customs East Orleans district and the New York City Construction Office. S J Kimball Hall is the General Superintendent.
Public notice lists through trains on Western and Eastern divisions with mixed station times from Causeway and Haymarket stations. Routes include Augusta Haymarket, Eastport Calais Me, Halifax via steamer from Portland, and stops at St John, Castine, Southwest Wharf, Newburyport, and Concord among others. Frequencies note Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays for some connections and others on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with fares and times shown in old currency and period spellings.
Trains depart from Boston stations at 8:30 am and various afternoon times to Alton Bay Mochester Farmington Andover and Kennebunk Biddeford Lace North Lawrence Merrimac and other towns including Dover Manchester Portland and Lawrence with numerous daily departures and through services listed in a dense timetable.
A fragmented timetable lists numerous train departures from Siessen Station toward Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Lynn Marblehead and other towns with varied times, partial numbers, and garbled lines. The readable entries show morning and afternoon departures across multiple routes and destinations.
The notice details Boston Causeway street through service to Wilton Lake Village Meredith Ashland Dam IL and numerous NH VT MA towns with am and pm departures, plus Sunday trains and Central Mass Division routes to Northampton Amherst Worcester and other points. It lists numerous stations including Manchester Keene Nashua Concord Lexington Arlington Winchester and Montreal with multiple daily departures and a Montreal express.
Special notice states passengers holding tickets via Fall River Line Shore Line and Providence Line may have baggage checked from any Boston hotel or residence to destination. Orders for baggage may be left at 3 Old Staw Oust.
A dense listing of timetable times for numerous stations including Ashmont, Braintree, Middleboro, Brockton, Cohasset, Hingham, Fall River, Mattapan, Quincy, Plymouth, Scituate, Shawmut, Whitman, and South Weymouth. Details cover daily and Sunday departures, special via lines, and additional trains with varied hours.
Cape Cod division lists ferry and boat times for Buzzards Bay area ports including Barnstable Bourne Chatham Cot tage City Fairhaven Hyannis Harwich Monument Beach Mattapoisett Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Sacamore Se Yarmouth Tremont Wellfleet Wareham and Yarmouth with morning departures around 9.00 am and afternoon sailings through 4.15 pm to 5.50 pm for multiple stops or routes.
Providence Division timetable lists numerous stops and train times across stations such as Attleboro New Bedford Readville North Attleboro and others. It notes weekend service patterns with fifteen trains on weekdays and four trains each way on Sundays and provides connections to Central and Park Square and Shore Line routes.
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