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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1887
Page
7
The report lists carload quotations for flour and grains including oats cornmeal rye malt hops and related products. Prices show bids and asks across oats white varieties corn high mixed and steamer yellow, millfeed, rye, malt and hops with regional and export notes.
The butter market remains quiet with a firm tone as demand buys at quoted prices. Cheese and egg markets show firmness but slow sales with no quotation changes. beans, potatoes, and hay reflect steady or varying demand. Receivers’ prices for wholesale butter list diverse regional quotes and jobbing premiums.
A community market listing shows multiple produce items with bulk and basket prices. Onions, tomatoes, cabbage, green corn, beets, squash, beans, peppers, spinach and other items are priced per basket, box, bush, or barrel with many entries including onions 225 basket, cabbages 7 per 100, green corn 150, lettuce 50 cent box, spinach 15 to 20 cents per bush.
Receipts of apples are large while sow price weakness persists. Dried apples quiet at old prices. evaporated are offered at 9 1 0 110. Cranberries in fair demand, supply liberal. only top quality sales. Quince market dull and weak at $4 per barrel. Grapes oversupplied with low sales to curb stock buildup. Apple entries include Gravenstein, King, Pippin and more with varied per barrel prices. Cranberries Cape Cod prices range 6 50 to 7 00 per barrel. Cape Cod crates 32 12 2 37. Grapes York State Delawares 5c lb. Salem 4 1 2 5c. Catawba 4c. Concord 3c. Isabella 2 4 2 3c per lb. Martha 5 6c. Pears Seckel 3 7 50 per bbl. Bonne 34. Beurre Bose 4 6. Beurre d Anjou 4 5. Sheldon 4 5 50. common varieties 1 50 to 5 00 per bbl. Oranges and Lemons Sorrento jobbing at 3 50 5 50 per box. Palermo oranges 5 50 6 50 per box. Palermo lemons 6 7 per box. Bananas Aspinwall Port Limon 2 50. Jamaica 1 25 2 50. Baracoa 1 25a.
There is steady demand and stable prices for pork and lard with good demand for fresh beef. Choice heavy beef is firm while light is plentiful. Mutton lamb and veal retain old prices with solid demand. Various beef and pork cuts listed with prices. fresh beef quotes include options for choice steers and different cuts.
Futures closed mixed with October to June calls ranging from 5 3 64d to 6 7 64d while the spot market held steady. New York uplands prices quoted steady to quiet with middling and other grades differing. American receipts and sales noted. Sugar and refined sugars reported firm to quiet with multiple grade quotes and wholesale prices listed. Molasses remained steady with cargo lot prices for Puerto Rico Cuba and Barbados reported.
New York reports Oct 8 flour receipts 27 868 plgs exports 8840 bbls 4480 sacks steady sales 14 700 bbls common to good extra Western and State 38 448 40 good to choice 5350 490 others unchanged. Wheat receipts 52 000 bush exports 16 142 bush spot 230 000 bush with No 2 Chicago 82 4c delivered No 1 hard 85 4c. Prices for rye corn oats barley and fats noted with various regional quotations. Detroit Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis summaries follow with varied grain and meat prices.
Kansas City receipts estimated today 3000 hogs with 1290 shipped yesterday 5080 official receipts. Peoria hog market steady sale range 410 to 455 with 160 receipts and 76 shipments. Chicago cattle receipts 2000 with slow movement and mixed prices. hogs 12000 receipts with strong demand and prices from 4.20 to 4.60 for various classes. sheep receipts 1000 with steady native and Western small stock prices and lambs 3.45 to 5.25.
Beerbohm notes cargoes off coast with wheat and corn movements. Wheat quieter, corn firmly held. Paris and Liverpool markets show wheat easier, corn firm and in demand. Prices quoted include Winter and Spring wheat around 6s 3d and bacon at 46s 6d for short.
A dense listing of train times and routes across Massachusetts and nearby towns. Details include departures and returns for Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Providence and many other points with notes on services via Brockton Fall River and New York connections. Authorities GEO L Connor and J R Kendrick listed as general pass agents and manager.
In Havana export summaries for the week show buyers avoiding sellers amid high asks. Sales totaled 8000 bags of centrifugal sugar at 97 polarization, with freight rates at 250 to 275 per hhd. Warehouse stocks reach 20 000 boxes and 1660 hhds, exports include 36 000 bags and 132 hhds to the United States.
List of shipments from Vieques Puerto Rico and Brunswick Georgia showing barkentine Clara E McGilvery with 810 bbls sugar by Baring Bros & Co and 40 bales by Gustavo Prestoun 25 bales by Dupuy Riboul & Co. and schooner Satilla 267 816 feet hard pine to George McQuesten & Co.
Shipping list from Hull and North Atlantic ports shows Santiago clearing Oct 3 with lard dyewood and oil. Azure Islands and Halifax routes loading flour, hardware, glassware, sugar, and metals. W E Stowe at Lunenburg loading salt and meal. Carroll at Halifax carrying flour and assorted goods. Cape Island Vanguard and Windsor Maitland schooners handling flour, meal, beans, and corn products. Bear River cargo includes flour and cornmeal.
Detroit wins the National League pennant after a decisive Washington win over Boston. Philadelphia climbs to second place, pushing Chicago to third. The Boston Nine suffered a heavy loss in Washington with standout catches and timely hitting marking the game.
Detailed freight receipts show Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine divisions and others listing cotton wool flour corn oats wheat malt feed meat butter cheese eggs lumber leather hides and miscellaneous goods moved by rail and sea. Entries reflect carloads bales bbls sacks and packs with varied quantities across multiple rail lines. The compilation documents extensive commodity movements in October 1887.
Brief scores show New Yorks 3 over New York Philadelphias. Pittsburgs 7 over Pittsburgs. Detroits 9 over Indianapolis. Details are sparse with OCR fragments and place names repeated.
A reception was given to the Lowell Baseball Club at the American House in Lowell on Saturday evening attended by many prominent citizens. A banquet will follow for the Boston Base ball Club at Young's Hotel next Saturday evening with both clubs to pay for the State in Lowell on Oct 14 and in Boston.
General Merwin reports the Wheeler estate insolvency with total liabilities of 1 819 775 including 68 330 in letters of credit for the bankrupt New Haven Wire Company and 300 000 to 400 000 in domestic paper. Assets are placed at 151 640 with many items deemed worthless or unprofitable and a projected 15 percent recovery for creditors. Additional notices mention another Millville attachment release, requests for creditor extensions, and various bankruptcies including Oramel Stanley and Edwin Studley with mixed outcomes.
A compiled list of boot and shoe buyers and sellers across multiple U S cities including Altoona Buffalo Baltimore Bloomington Chicago Yo pe Il Detroit Fort Wayne Macon St Louis Savannah Toledo and St Joseph with names such as Fox Curtis Walker Adler Bangs Smith McLaughlin Wells Meis Meis Dittman Noyes Einstein and Rodgers. The narrow OCR yields a dense roster of firms and representatives and reflects a breadth of regional mercantile activity in footwear.
Twenty or thirty cigar dealers held a meeting in Codman Hall to seek protection for their trade. They object to sunday sale of cigars by dining and drinking saloons, and a five member committee was formed to prosecute violators.
Notice states Butler Breed & Co. commission merchants have moved to 10 Broad Street, fourth door from State Street. They deal in flour, wheat germ meal glaten meal cottonseed meal and salt.
The notice lists extensive rail timetables for routes from Boston to Providence and surrounding towns. It specifies daily trains to New York and Newark with return times, plus numerous town stops such as Pawtucket, Attleboro, Readville, and Roxbury, with varying morning and evening departures and returns. The document also notes weekday adjustments and connections with Providence trains.
Fitchburg Railroad announces J. Whitmore as General Traffic Manager and J. R. Watson as General Passenger Agent. They assume strategic roles guiding freight and passenger operations with a focus on service efficiency.
Corrected table of weekday Boston to New England rail times listing departures from Boston Station and numerous stops such as Ashcroft Blackstone Danbury Dorchester and Readville with specified am and pm times and Sunday departures from Boston toward Norwood Central and intermediate stations.
Daily and Sunday train departures and returns for Needham and intermediate stations. Includes special stops, express and limited services to New York Hartford Philadelphia and coastal connections. Provides station, times, and connecting steamer services via City of Worcester and City of New York.
Local timetables show division times for the Boston and Albany line with through tickets at 232 Washington Street Boston. Frequent trains to Springfield Worcester Albany New York and Chicago with sleeping and drawing room cars.special Sunday schedules. local stops listed for many towns. A S Hanson and H T Gallup sign as general agents.
Two government notices invite sealed bids. The first offers 50 000 linen collars to the U S Quartermaster's Department in Philadelphia with bids due November 3 1637 and domestic preference. guarantees of 10 percent required. The second seeks materials and labor for Castle Hill Light Station in Narragansett Bay Rhode Island with bids due October 20 1887 and plans available on request.
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