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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1886
Page
7
Flour and oats are fairly firm while corn and bean trade remains active. Potatoes and pork lard show steady demand, fresh beef improves, and butter cheese eggs and other staples show little change. Overall market activity is cautious with varied commodity tone.
The flour market is firmer with better prospects. corn firm with light trade. Prices listed for steamer yellow and mixed, on call activity small, and cash bids around 36 1/2 cents. Atlantic port receipts for week ended Oct 14 show varied yields in flour, wheat, and corn with substantial export movement and higher exportable surplus estimates.
Butter is firm and quotations mostly unchanged for low grade butter while cheese remains steady with fair demand in Chicago New York and Liverpool. Eggs receipts and prices are listed with Western extras at 17 1 2 c and various butter and cheese grades quoted across Western New York Vermont Michigan and Nova Scotia markets.
Receipts of apples large causing a dull market with Baldwins at 150 per barrel and common lots at 1 under. Grapes arriving in poor condition while cranberries and quinces show good demand and supply. Pears plentiful and dull at old quotations. Apples, pears, quinces, and grapes listed with assorted varieties and prices. some lots arrive in poor condition.
Demand for hams and packed meats remains strong while fresh beef shows modest improvement in demand. Prices are firm with veals scarce and muttons inching up. pork cuts and lard display varied prices across different packaging and cuts.
The market shows firm spot prices for mid uplands and Orleans with 53 16d pth at the Liverpool spot. Futures in Liverpool drifted from 6 8-64d to 5 8-64d across months, while New York futures stayed dull with slight variations. Continental ports receive 11 000 bales this week, and overall cotton in sight tonight increases by 2711 bales versus 1885.
Raw sugar prices hold steady while sales figures show 215 hhd Surinam Muscovado at 41 14 to 41 26 cents. Refining and centrifugal grades quoted with several range details. refined sugars firm, molasses steady with Porto Rico and Cuba prices listed. Line certificates and port receipts for flour grain and exports provided for week ending Oct 16 1886 with year over year comparison.
The chief of the bureau of statistics reports September exports of provisions, cotton, and petroleum nearly match last year. Total values show an overall 16 percent rise, with beef and pork, cattle, and dairy products shifting, petroleum down, cotton up, and breadstuffs contributing to the mix amid eleven and nine month totals.
The Philadelphia Record reports a busy week with rail contracts and heavy steel and iron activity. A 12,000 ton English rails deal to New Orleans. pending 75,000 tons in American mills. high demand for bridge iron and plate iron. lake ore output and foreign ore imports up. freight rates jump. mills busier with winter and spring contracts. no scarcity expected amid robust production.
Flour steady but less active in New York with Saturday receipts of 21 248 bbls and exports of 15 bbls. Prices vary across grades from superfine at 215 290 to patent Minnesota extra at 420 450 and 2 to 4 75 for winter wheat extras, with spot and elevator quotes for No 2 red and white wheats and rye and oats trading amid moderate activity.
Merchandise and futures chatter show steady to firm tones for coffee sugar molasses rice pork beef lard butter and other staples. Wheat and corn move modestly amid varied receipts while rail freight and assorted goods from tinplates to grape crates fill a long list of shipments and trades across Chicago Cincinnati Toledo St Louis Milwaukee and nearby markets.
In FAL RIVER and PROVIDENCE reports dated Oct 16 the print cloth market is described as firm and quiet. Production 175000 pieces deliveries 176000 stock 85000. Sales 7000 pieces spot 65000 futures 19000. Prices 64x64s 66x56s. 64x64s at 8loc. stock held by manufacturers 20000 64 8 and 2000 66x60.
Consolidation across network reports one day totals 34 854 receipts and 445 096 stock across all United States ports. Exports to Great Britain reach 17 017 and to the continent 6 850 with varied ship ments and sales figures in multiple ports including New York Philadelphia and Baltimore as markets hold steady with mid readings.
Chicago cattle steady receipts 1100 with steers to 350 and 325 for low grades. Hogs up 10 cents with 8000 on hand and shipments 7000 at 365 to 420. Sheep firm for quality with 1000 on hand and lambs to 435. Prices vary by type and origin across cattle hogs and sheep.
London reports steady wheat and firm corn with moderate demand for prompt shipment and several cargoes awaiting off the coast. Liverpool quotes winter wheat at 68 6d to 6s 9d, spring, club values, corn steady. receipts show large imports. Havana sugar market improves late. polarized molasses and Muscovado prices rise as exports to the United States increase amid dull freights.
Listings of shipments and receipts for a Liverpool steamer Cephalonia detailing goods imported and exported. Items include glassware porcelain instruments hardware gloves machinery woollens and brands from firms such as ES Ritchie & Sons A Stowell & Co Eagie Metallic Brush Co B French & Co J J Murdock and others with quantities in cases bales boxes and crates alongside railroad receipts from Boston & Albany Grand Junction and others for October 16, 1886.
Dated shipping list from Georgetown Saint John Yarmouth Harborville Lunenburg Halifax Sydney Beaver River Barrington Bridgewater and Liverpool catalogs cargoes. Entries note schooners and steamers with flour oats meal onions beef pork lumber cotton and chemicals plus goods like leather hardware and lime. Common destinations include Georgetown Saint John and Liverpool with detailed tonnage and commodity figures.
A sprawling OCR fragment lists freight tallies for Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, and Boston and Lowell railroads. Items include bales wool, bbls flour, beef, butter, eggs, apples, potatoes, leather, hides, pelts, lumber, tea, and various packaged goods with quantities and units.
A dated compilation records land and buildings transferred or mortgaged across multiple towns in Suffolk County on Sept 1 through Sept 28. Transactions involve buyers and lenders including William Rand John Leighton Michael Barrett George Crosby Frederick Jay Walter street parcels in Newburyport Roxbury West Roxbury Winthrop Roslindale Allston Jamaica Plain Newton Centre Charlestown Brighton Chelsea and Chelsea properties with amounts ranging from 3000 to 105000 and several mortgages back. Names include Rand Leighton Barrett Crosby Jay Dexter Poor Mayberry Minot Susmann Harkins and others.
Multiple notices list transfers of mortgages with parties Albert Quirk to Edward H Ryder for a Pierce Quirk mortgage dated Sept 8 amount 250 dollars. Albert Gates to Lydia Shaw for Johanna McKenna mortgage dated July 20 amount 101 dollars. Sarah Graves to Oliver Ditson for Eli Waterhouse mortgage dated March 1 1881 amount 1500 dollars. Albert Pettingill to Susan Goss for Waterman Wright mortgage dated April 1 1885 amount 5500 dollars.
E S Tyler a Hartford coal dealer has made an assignment with liabilities about 125000 to 150000 and assets ranging 350000 to 60000. William C Foster a Charlestown lumber dealer filed a voluntary insolvency petition. Charlie W Lane cigars of Portland Maine settles in insolvency. Binckley and Fanchis dry goods dealers Elkhart are assigned with liabilities. Platt Moran tinsmiths Ansonia Derby Conn have been attached.
An 1870 advertisement declares Patearts American and Foreign Patents Salicitor of Patents at 76 State St Boston offering U S and foreign patent services for one dollar copy of claims. It quotes testimonials from officials Chas Mason Edmund Burke and George Draper praising Eddy and urging inventors to employ him.
The article announces new presses and a new type form with eight pages, each containing seven columns. It highlights the upgrade's scope, indicating enhanced printing capacity and layout efficiency for upcoming editions.
A concise catalog-style note describes a prestigious paper offering full news and commentary across financial, commercial, shipping, political, literary, dramatic, social, club, and general topics for educated readers.
The Herald notes the Boston Post’s new proprietors have delivered a typographically improved eight page paper. Critics praise the quarto format, lively type, and refined appearance aligning with leading dailies while retaining familiar features and the old Post’s editorial vigor.
Daily rates listed for subscriptions include One Year nine dollars, Six Months four fifty, Three Months two twenty, and One Month eight. The text reflects a pricing table for mail or carrier delivery.
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