This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 26 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1887
Page
7
The notice lists current prices for scrap iron and tank iron, refined and shell iron, flange iron, steel boiler plates and nails. It provides London tin prices per ton, tin plates and terne varieties, lead products including piping and sheet lead, zinc prices for spelter and sheet zinc, with discount noted.
Flour prices firm and unchanged with steady demand for winter wheat flours and limited activity for spring wheats. Corn demand quiet though sales remain high. oats steady to slow. Carload quotations cover flour, cornmeal, rye, oats, millfeed and malts with varied regional prices and exports noted.
Butter remains firm with strong demand and steady tone in New York. Cheese stays firm though trade quiet, demand fairly active. Eggs and beans show steady prices with good demand, poultry plentiful and selling at quotation levels. Staples like hay and straw unchanged, potatoes quiet, sweets abundant with slow sales. Read across Western and New York quotations for butter cheese eggs poultry beans hay potatoes and tallow with varied jobbing uplifts.
A brief market summary notes steady prices for all fruit types with strong demand for choice stock. Peaches are limited as the season ends, apples arriving in large volumes retain firm prices, and grapes remain abundant with quick turnover. Listings detail apples, grapes, and pears with specific prices per barrel and per hundredweight.
The boat due here tomorrow from Norfolk Virginia carries 1800 boxes of bbis sweets.
Truck market remains steady with unchanged prices across fresh produce. Notable items include Maltas 225 per basket, native tomatoes 1 per box, green tomatoes 2 54 per bush, cabbages 7 10 per 100, beets 40c per bush, lettuce 25c per dozen, cucumbers 1 50 per 100, peppers 15c per bush, and Cape cranberries 6 50 per 6 bushels per 4 barrels.
Pork and lard hold steady with very firm prices as trade runs quiet. Fresh beef remains very firm with heavy cattle in demand and some light cattle sought. Mutton and lambs unchanged and quiet. Supplies light with overall subdued activity. Prices for pork, lard, beef, and assorted cuts listed, reflecting stable markets despite limited trades.
Liverpool futures opened steady and closed quiet with nearby months around 4 62-64d to 6 3-64d. Spot markets showed pressure then steadiness. United States sales totaled 64,000 bales with 8,000 bales sold locally and 5,800 American.-New York spot eased to 9.0 cents for middling and other grades varied. Open and close figures, receipts, and pipeline certificates listed alongside sugar and molasses pricing notes.
Trading figures show flour receipts and varying prices across regions. Wheat and corn futures moved firm, with rye, barley and oats steady to quiet. pork and lard prices mixed. Milwaukee and Chicago notices reflect general steady to firm tone in commodities and provisions.
Across Chicago Cincinnati St Louis Kansas City and Peoria hog prices held steady to firm with varied daily receipts. Light hogs 440 to 490 cents, mixed packers 430 to 445, heavy off 5 at 440 to 490. Hogs in St Louis at 445 to 575, Kansas City 4000 receipts, Peoria 450 to 470. Cattle and lean meats mixed, long clear and short ribs firm, shoulders steady, lard steady, market activity dull in most centers.
Augusta Net receipts 2126 gross 2126 sales 1909 dull. New Orleans exports to Great Britain 4050 France 3751 coastwise 1381 sales 2000 stock 38780 weak. Savannah receipts 11217 exports Great Britain 6203 continent 32713 sales 2500 stock 71399 easy. Consolidated daily nets show exports to Great Britain 17603 France 3754 continent 27613 stock 354479 across all ports.
Foreign markets report subdued sugar trading in Havana with 2700 bags sold weekly. Prices quoted for Molasses sugar range around 175 to 200 gold per quintal, Muscovado at 184 to 2 mare? Clarify: 184? Not sure. Supplies long in warehouse include 263000 bags and 2800 hhds. Exports total 165000 bags to the United States. Freights steady, exchange firm at 2575 to 238.
London reports a fair turnout with fluctuating competition for merinos crossbreeds and greasy wools. Australian lots rise while scoured Cape and snow whites weaken, detailing NSW NSW bales pricing Queensland Victoria New Zealand Tasmania South Australia Cape of Good Hope and Natal offerings with per bale and per pound figures.
A detailed list of shipments showing Steamer Santiago with mdse bliss fabyan wood pulp and various goods from Hull, including 864 bales wood pulp and 2 20 cases fancy goods, plus numerous bales, cases, and casks of hides, wool, rope, grease, glass, and machinery for Gill Sootz Adams Ingraham and many firms. Liverpool arrivals on Catalonia account include tapes, earthenware, books, yarn, grease, iron, furs, wines, and perishable goods among hundreds of line items from major exporters Barings Noyes Booth Jordan and others.
A dense OCR style inventory lists numerous goods and quantities including cases, bags, bales, casks, and boxes of grapes wine beer and wool along with references to ak watch jewels boots kegs and sheeps casings. Mentions ports Trinidad and Bay State and steamers Foscolia and Pens with scattered numbers and units.
Cargoes from Windsor Halifax and other ports include schooners J P Blake Emma C S G Irvin Neilie Blanche Annie Gale and A C Watson with flour cornmeal oatmeal bricks oil and other goods. Steamer Worcester carries hardware dyestuff lumber and meat to Halifax Charlottetown and Barbados. Brig Caroline Gray and Sch Pearl deliver sugar and assorted cargoes to St John Digby and surrounding ports.
A detailed list records staple shipments on Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Lowell, and sea and express routes. Items include bales of cotton and wool, flour, corn meal, oats, hay, lumber, leather, hides, tea, coffee, butter, cheese, eggs, pork, lard, and various oils and boxes with quantities by car, bale, box, or barrel.
Comprehensive local and Western division train timetables for Boston and Maine lines, listing departures from Haymarket Causeway and multiple stations, sequence of trains to Augusta Portland Lewiston Manchester and beyond, plus Sunday trains and connections on Eastern and Western divisions with through cars and special services. Includes notices about ticket offices and through tickets from Boston to Springfield Albany and Chicago.
Complex historic timetable details weekday and Sunday trains from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and numerous local stops including Ashmont Hyannis Braintree and Marlboro among many others. It lists departure and return times, various routes, and ticketing office note at 232 Washington Street Boston.
A dated timetable outlines boat and train connections from New York to Weymouth Plymouth Duxbury Marshfield Scituate Cohasset Hingham Weymouth and Brockton with multiple return times and intermediates. Officials GEO L. Connor and J. R. Kendrick are listed as General Passenger Agent and General Manager.
A dense ledger style summary lists 1887 and 1886 receipts by commodity including cotton bales 1347 1253, molasses, wool, butter, oleo, cornmeal, cheese, eggs, beans, oats, potatoes, wheat, barley, hay, millfeed, straw, lumber, tallow, leather, beef, pork, lard, hides, beef, hams, coffee, sugar, pelts, and kaladi. The figures appear in mixed units with cars, boxes, sacks, and bales, showing varied quantities across commodities.
A column lists boot and shoe buyers visiting various cities including Chicago Selz Schwat Co Cincinnati W F Thorne Cedar Rapids Detroit Macon Minneapolis St Louis Reading San Francisco and Toledo with firms such as Selz Schwat Co Hickman Taylor Claflin Allen Shoe Co and R H Lane Co. Names include J P Smith A B George J Prescott N M Solomon J M Dunwoody F A Einstein and C W Bell among others.
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans a special train of Pullman vestibule cars for Southern tourists. The cars will be like those used by the President on his West and South trip, praised as the finest ever built and exceptionally comfortable.
Rail timetable update effective May 30 1887 outlines daily train routes from Boston to New York and Providence via Shore Line Express and Shore Line Mail. Includes departure and return times, noting Sundays exceptions and multiple connecting lines with various stations such as Hebronville Canton Stoughton and Elms.
Rail notices describe the Rutland Route to Montreal and Ogdensburg with connections at Rutland, and include Boston departures from Fitchburg Depot for Winchendon and other stations. Night express to Montreal and Ottawa operates with Pullman sleeping cars, plus Concord and Keene line schedules.
Compact wallet style notebooks for the tea trade offered by Aaron R. Gay & Co. Lia Sta. includes ruvites and adexed books for record keeping and trade use.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.