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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1887
Page
7
The notice itemizes smoked shoulders corned shoulders smoked ribs rib breakfast bacon boneless breakfast bacon pressed hams city dressed hogs country dressed hogs and various beef cuts with per pound prices. It also lists choice steers oxen hides and fresh meats including lambs mutton and yearlings with regional price ranges and quality notes.
Cotton futures and spot prices show steady to quiet movements across Liverpool and New York with several delivery months quoted. Market details include opening sales of 10 000 bales and 23 000 bales receipts, mixed upland and Orleans grades, and varied sugar and molasses prices in the same issue.
Financial digest from New York and multiple cities details flour and grain prices, receipts, exports, and sales across wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and by products. Includes specific bid ranges for No 1 red and white wheats, rye, barley, oats, and duties for flour, pork, lard, and butter with regional price levels and shipment data.
In St Louis hog sales ranged from 425 to 470 with helpers at 425 455 and packers at 425 455. Kansas City reports hogs steady with 2000 receipts today and 5589 official receipts Saturday. Chicago cattle receipts reach 10 000 with steers up to 290 and stockers around 230, Texas cattle 176 290. hogs 21000 receipts with prices 425 460 and up to 510 for some skips.
A fragmentary ledger item shows 8000 shipments and 1000 units with steady muttons valued at $304.25 in Western markets. Texans report 94 50 s 50 and lambs priced at $4 6 26, indicating fluctuating livestock prices in regional trade.
Oct 17 report shows Augusta Net receipts 2531 gross 2531 sales 1267 with quiet trading. Galveston exports to Britain 4553 continent 3750 and stock 65 783. New Orleans receipts 18206 gross 19682 exports 5924 9852 sales 5000 stock 146 477. Memphis shipments 5668 stock 74 615. Savannah exports 14550 coastwise 5886 sales 250 stock 111 002. Charleston exports coastwise 1574 stock 56 228. Wilmington exports continent 46505 stock 23 045. Norfolk exports coastwise 8069 sales 1462 stock 21 989. New York exports Britain 4865 France 100 continent 8155 sales 10 stock 58 426. Cincinnati shipments 689 sales 300 stock 3865. St Louis shipments 83157 sales 1600 stock 25 528. Louisville quiet firm mid 9 16c. Consolidated three days receipts 101607 exports Britain 4147 France 5591 continent 47267 stock 511469.
Foreign markets brief from London and Liverpool note quiet wheat, firm corn and steady futures. Prices show American and Danubian grain strength, English demand steady, and Havana sugar firm at $306 per quintal.
Readable ledger style record of goods imported and exported on steamers Scandinavian and Istrian, listing parcels mdse, tobacco, steel, pig iron, paper stock, machinery, glass, and numerous commodities with buyers and shippers in Glasgow and Savannah, including J H Young Co, Baring Bros & Co, Stoddard Lovering Co, and Adams & Co, among others.
Shipping list detailing cargoes for Port George Clementtsport Parrsboro Liverpool and other ports. Items include flour oatmeal cornmeal refined oil onions canned goods woodenware lard and bales of cotton and hops loaded on schooners and steamers with quantities noted for each vessel.
A dense catalog of items including canned beef seven barrels and badders one case stock one case, lithographs two cases, street lanterns and wood nine boxes, hardware 54 packs, missionary goods one case, iron castings five boxes, tack strips 44 bales, domestics eight cases, white wax 302 tierces, lard 1924 boxes, bacon seven packages, apples 1150 pounds, cheese 66 rolls, leather 173 packages, and related items.
The record tallies assorted imports into Boston across railways and express and sea routes. Major items include eggs, butter, beans, apples, flour and lumber, with quantities ranging from a few bales to thousands of bushels and several hundred barrels and cars. Nine lines list movements via Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Lowell, and By Sea.
A compact record of staple production and trade showing October 17 1887 totals across cotton, sugar, wool, molasses, flour, oats, butter, corn meal, eggs, wheat, barley, malt, millfeed, apples, potatoes, cotton seed cars, hay, peas, straw, tallow, lumber, pork, lard, hides, hams, tongues, pres'd meats, grease, skins, bacon, tea, calfskins, coffee, and sugar across various units and measures. The table lists quantities in bales, sacks, boxes, barrels, bushels, pounds, and cases for each item with prior year comparisons.
A dated ledger lists freight and goods received by several railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony and New York and New England. Items include hundreds of bales cotton sacks flour oats and wheat, boxes cheese eggs and butter, lumber leather and tea with numerous quantities.
A list of footwear buyers and agents from North American cities including Baltimore Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati and New York with names of firms and representatives such as Tucker Smith & Co Carroll Adams & Co Ramsdell Sweet & Co Greensfelder Florsheim & Co and many others. Names represent multiple manufacturers and wholesale firms across the region with locations in Ohio Pennsylvania Illinois North Carolina Georgia and beyond.
Train timetable details for Boston to New York and return trips. Lists departures from Attleboro Providence Sharon Canton Junction and many points, with multiple daily options, special Sunday schedules, and noted changes on May 30 87. Includes connect times, return windows, and exceptions.
A dense OCR style timetable lists train departures and arrivals with numerous stations including Fishkill on Hudson Boston Hartford and New York lines. It shows daily week day and Sunday services with times and cross routes to Boston Norwood Providence Philadelphia and New Britain among others.
Schedule listing daily trains from Boston and Albany via Woonsocket with Needham and intermediate stations, express and limited services to New York via Middletown and New Haven, and connections at New London and Hartford. Identifies departure times, stops, and key destinations including Philadelphia and Washington.
Rail timetable lists Maine Central Grand Trunk and ox & Lincoln trains with multiple daily departures from Haymarket square and Causeway stations to Augusta Bar Harbor St John Halifax Calais Eastport and other ports and towns. Steamer connections from Portland to Halifax and Bar Harbor operate Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.
Train timetable lists departure times from Station and Flaymarket for various destinations including Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Portland Bangor Lewiston and others. Also notes workingmen’s train and ranges of morning and evening departures for several lines and connections to Weading and Way Stations.
Eastern Division timetable lists departure times from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Saugus Ipswich Rockport Swampscott and other towns. Includes Sunday trains and notes on Pullman cars, station offices and senior staff.
Boston station Causeway Street and 218 Washington Street list local and long distance services from Boston to Littleton Franklin St. Johnsbury Montreal and many regional points with times mainly in morning and evening. Sleeping and parlor cars offered on main routes. Mellen, Geo. W. Store Gen’s Supt. and Gen’s Passenger Agent provide full local timetable at stations.
Detailed timetable listing weekly trains from Boston to New York Fall River Line and intermediate stops including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Braintree Weymouth Weymouth East and West Quincy Mattapoisett Nantucket Plymouth Barnstable Brockton and Taunton with outbound and return times and connecting boat services. Officials GEO L Connor and J KR Kendrick noted as General Manager and General Pass. Agent.
Boston to Worth Adams Troy Albany and the West with multiple daily trains including sleeping cars to Cincinnati St Louis Chicago and Troy. Local times list departures from Causeway Street and stations such as Gardner Miller's Falls Greenfield Nashua Concord and Worcester with notes on Sundays and changes at South. Tickets to all points West on sale at the Hoosac Tunnel Route office 20 Washington Street Boston. signed John Adams Supt.
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