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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1887
Page
7
Market bulletin notes light cattle and lambs plentiful with fair sales, veals in short supply but fair. Prices listed for various meat cuts: bones, roasts, ribs, lards, tongues, and prepared products. Beef and fresh meat sections show wide ranges for steers, hinds, chucks, rounds, loins, and tripe.
A diverse flea market style list shows foreign onions priced at 90c per crate while native onions sell well at 275 per squashes fetch 20 per nD. Other vegetables like tomatoes cabbage beets and beans appear with varied prices including peppers 1.45 per bush and spinach 0.25 per bush.
The market shows ample apple receipts and rising totals with dull quotations. Cranberries sell fairly while grapes move slowly at low prices to avoid buildup. Quinces are well supplied and pears are plentiful though only select lots move freely. Oranges and lemons priced for jobbing, bananas listed with varied regional origins.
The market shows steady opening for cotton futures with varied October to May spread quotes. Spot activity remains active in middling grades with steady closes. American imports and New York quotes are listed alongside daily sales and receipts figures.
Reports from New York and Chicago detail steady flour receipts and mixed grain prices. No 2 spring and red wheat quotes shown, strong rye and cornmeal demand, pork and lard prices mixed, with several tonnage and stock levels noted across commodities and regional markets.
Market summaries from Toledo Minneapolis Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati and more show wheat prices dull to firm, corn and oats mixed, flour movements, and varying receipts and shipments. Notable figures include Oct 6 values for No 1 hard and Northern wheats, No 2 corn, and rye, plus flour and pork, lard, and hogs notes in several markets.
Peoria reports hogs steady with sales at 410 to 45 percent, receipts 600 and shipments 535. Kansas City notes hogs slow with receipts about 6000 and 84 percent shipments. Chicago shows cattle receipts 11,000 with steers and stockers and feeders prices. hogs receipts 26,000 with varied weights and prices from 38 to 50 for ships. sheep receipts 4,000 with natives and Western prices.
Augusta to New Orleans and beyond show mixed net receipts and firm tonnage. Exports to Great Britain and the continent, coastwise shipments, and stocks vary by port with steady to firm mid prices noted. Consolidated six day totals indicate broad activity and substantial interport stocks.
Foreign markets report from London notes wheat quiet but firm with limited cargo sales, several cargoes sold since last report and more awaiting sale. At Mark Lane and Antwerp, California and red winter wheats quoted, corn prices mixed. Paris and Liverpool quotes reflect firm wheat, steady to firm corn and stable provisions.
Shipping ledger notes cargoes at Havana Liverpool Glasgow and Yarmouth with many vessels names and items. Includes herring salmon sugar bleaching powders pig iron soda ash case glass leather woollens tea and more among numerous firms and consignors.
Insolvency commissioners announce six months for creditors to prove claims against Edwin A. Eaton of Boston and schedule meetings on October November December 1887 at 10 AM in Boston. Also notices of the third creditors meeting for Henderson J. Edwards and Rothenberg Bertobn insolvency with assignee accounts to be presented and claims proven. Edward Appleton Bornstein named assignees in the respective notices.
Boston station on Causeway Street,Boston office 218 Washington Street third door south of Old State House lists through service to Filton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Maverhill Woodsville Littleton Bethlehem Fabyans Lancaster Whitefield. Montpelier Essex Junction Marlington St Albans Montreal. local points on Passumpsic and Northern divisions. Montreal sleepers and parlor cars. Boston to Manchester Concord Keene Nashua areas. extensive hourly and daily runs with many branches and connections. timetable date Oct 10 1887.
Lists of consignments and goods from firms such as Lor & Co and J L & DS Riker including tobacco pipes bicarbonate potash steel billets and slabs bricks mdse and various parcels. Entries show quantities like 80,000 bricks 325,187 feet of hard pine and 3,826,024 feet of pine for shipments to ST SIMONS GA BEAUFORT SC and notes for George McQuesten & co.
Export list from Halifax dated October 6 1887 shows shipments including Sch ET Russell 161 barrels of oil 25 barrels of onions 44 barrels of pitch 30 barrels of beef 400 cast iron pipes and 2 boilers carried in the maritime trade report.
A dense catalog of staple shipments and quantities carried by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Frank Providence Old Colony New York & New England Boston & Maine Eastern and Western divisions Lowell and others. Items cover cotton wool flour oats cornmeal corn beans lard butter cheese eggs tea coffee bacon potatoes leather hides and numerous boxes sacks rolls bbls and bales.
Historical ledger style summary listing commodity receipts in 1887 and 1886 including cotton molasses wool butter flour eggs oats corn oats barley potatoes malt millfeed sweets hay lard beef pork bacon hides tea coffee sugar and molasses with quantities in bales boxes barrels bags and cars across multiple categories and years. Names of specific items and units reflect 19th century trade accounting, highlighting totals and year-to-year comparisons.
A dense, city by city roll of shoe manufacturers and dealers from Altoona to San Francisco, naming firms and representatives such as Fox & Curtis in Altoona US Apalachicola Coombs Bloom, W H Walker in Buffalo, Bloomberg in Trex and many others, reflecting a wide network of shoe trade. The list spans Bloomfield Bloomington Chicago Detroit Fort Wayne Galveston New York Portsmouth St Louis and more, indicating a national market with numerous firms and agents.
On and after Oct 3 1887 weekday trains depart Boston for New York via Fall River Line with multiple departure times and return options. Also listed are numerous connections from Bridgewater Ockton Buz Ashmont Hyannis Weymouth Cohasset and surrounding towns with Sunday trains and boat-train alignments. Names GEO L. Connor and J R Kendrick appear as officials.
Boston and Maine timetable fragment lists departures from Causeway Street and Haymarket, with connections to Portland, Lewiston, Manchester, Concord, and northern towns. Includes western division routes to Alton Bay, Rochester, Farmington, and Boston northward, plus Sunday and weekday patterns and station notes.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad timetable shows service starting Monday October 10 1887 linking Boston with Ware Barre Rutland West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Wayland Westen Waltham Waverly Belmont and nearby towns with varied departure times throughout the day. General Passenger Agent W Storer and General Superintendent Mellon oversee operations.
Schedule notes for depots and trains from Boston including Needham and Way Stations with multiple times, Woonsocket runs, Sunday variations, and the New York via Middletown and New Haven express with through connections. Also mentions New England Limited to New York, Philadelphia Express to Washington, and Norwich Line Express with steamer connections. Lance Jackson and A C Kendall listed as officials.
A 19th century style timetable details train routes from Boston to New York Providence Pawtucket Hartford and beyond with specific departure times from Boston and return options and notes on Sundays special schedules and through tickets available at stations and 282 Washington Street Boston. This notice covers many towns including Springfield Albany and Detroit with connections and conditions for various lines and offices.
J. Whitmore is identified as General Traffic Manager and J. R. Watson as General Passenger Agent in the header line marking executive roles.
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