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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1887
Page
7
Readable entries show Lima beans priced at $1 2 per bush, beets 40c FH bush, squash Marrow Tse BW bbl, sales for turbans $1 P obi and white French $150 p bbl. Other items include carrots 490 per bush, lettuce 50c box, celery $575 300 box, peppers $125 P bush, and spinach Lb 202 PB bush.
Liverpool stock Oct 1 shows bacon 5166 boxes and lard 4035 tons while 1886 stock lists bacon 7552 boxes and cheese 79 499 boxes. Fresh meats steady with light steers improving and slower sales for veal and mutton under old quotations.
Liverpool futures opened dull and closed steady with varied October to June ranges. Spot markets showed dull to firm with American bales and Orleans highs. New York spot and futures opened firm then dull with mixed middling prices. Egyptian cotton notes warn of crop losses due to corvee labor. proposed labor reform to reduce costs. Latham & Co. publishes 1887 cotton year review and outlook. Oil line and sugar markets report steady to firm prices with refined sugar at 6 to 6 1/4 cents and molasses price notes.
Boston Post correspondent George J. Fox reports livestock prices at Watertown Union Market for the week ending October 18 1887. The summary lists market beef prices for various qualities cattle hog and sheep pricing plus hides tallow and skins and notes on classification standards including bullocks oxen and steers. Local rail lines and market distinctions are noted with prices per head or per unit and percentages.
Market reports from New York to Detroit show flour and grain activity with exports and home trade, listing varied prices for No 2 red and white wheat, No 2 and No 3 corn, oats, rye, barley, and mill products. Stocks and receipts accompany regional notes on pork, lard, and other commodities as markets display mixed strength and quietness.
St Louis hog prices steady to lower with buyers at 4.10 to 4.46, PEORIA hogs quiet and down to 4.05 to 4.45, Kansas City hogs slow and lower with 6 000 receipts, Chicago cattle and hogs quote mixed lower prices, cattle totals near 285 485 and hogs 415 to 445, sheep values steady with natives 3 25 to 4 25 and Texans 2 50 to 3 50.
The cotton market reports varied activity with Augusta Galveston and New Orleans posting differing net receipts and exports to Britain and the continent. Prices remained steady or dull across Boston, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville, and consolidated ports with mid range Ye to 9 1 2 cents.
Foreign markets update notes wheat quiet yet steady with limited arrivals and strong demand in London and Liverpool. Prices show waiting cargos and varied futures with India exports minimal. Havana reports sugar steady with substantial wholesale sales at 306 dollars per gold quintal.
Citations issued in Suffolk and Oneida counties announce probate actions. Executors and administratrices seek letters testamentary or authority to sell real or personal property, with hearings set in Boston on specified dates and weekly newspaper publication required.
The Free Surgical Hospital for Women, funded by the Murdock Liquid Food Company of Boston, gains nationwide recognition. Women seeking capital operations travel from all sections for liquid food support before and after surgery. the yearly report ending Sept 1, 1887, details the program's impact.
Patients arrived from Texas and many states plus Montreal and Canadian provinces for surgical cases. Each physician with a surgical case can request bed allocation by informing the team of the specific case and need.
The facility announces 150 free beds completed for septic hospital care. The offer aims to provide surgical resources and reduce patient waiting times in the ongoing healthcare program.
Local line tables for the Fitchburg Railroad show all divisions times and through tickets to points including Springfield Albany and the West. Schedules list Boston departures at 5 7 15 8 30 and 11 am with express and sleeping car services to Albany Buffalo Chicago and Detroit. Training and station notes include numerous detailed intermediate stops and Sunday trains. time tables available at Boston offices and 282 Washington Street.
Import entries show Big Bonanza delivering 59 105 bags of sugar to Standard Sugar Refinery in Iloilo. Bark Herbert C Hall at San Bernard o carries 584 hides 110 tierces 1115 bags of sugar for Bay State Sugar Refinery. Zanzibar reports Bark Lizzie H with 9000 dry hides 40 649 dry salted do 8136 logs ebony 255 cases rubber 1000 dry culls. Ropes Emmerton & Co.
Port Antonio Jamaica Elsa steamer lists 20 bbls bags 100 bags corn 513 feet plank 700 empty bbls 2 pkgs glassware Dorchester New Brunswick Sarah Glass schooner 250 dollars lumber 10 bbls onions 125 bags dye wood 6 bbls lub oil 7 pkgs dyestuff Port Gilbert Newfoundland Mary Jane schooner 250 bbls flour 150 bbls meal North Sydney Canada Canadian brig 2000 bbls Hour Yarmouth Newfoundland steamer Yarmouth 4 steel plates 101 pkgs hardware 17 cases rubber goods 16 cases boots 7 cases dry goods 81 pkgs furniture 1 piano 1 case organ material 1 case all clothing 10 bbls beet 5 bbls pork 2 bales rubber belting 10 bbls flour egg cases 51 pkgs vegetables 64 pkgs fruit Nympton Nova Scotia E Raymond schooner 125 bbls cornmeal
A detailed warehouse list dated October 18 1887 records Staple products moved by several railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Lowell and others. The itemized totals cover cotton wool flour cornmeal oats bran millfeed lard butter cheese eggs apples hay lumber leather hides tea coffee molasses beef and more across bales sacks barrels cases and cars.
A historical ledger style report lists 1887 October totals for commodities such as cotton wool flour butter cornmeal oleo cheese oats wheat malt beans millfeed apples hay and more. It shows year over year figures for 1887 and 1886 alongside unit counts in bales barrels bushels cases and pounds.
The Denham Howland limited partnership formed January 1 1887 dissolves by mutual consent with George A Denham and James H Howland as general partners and Sam l R Heywood Oscar Phillips as special partners. George H Burt and George A Denham form a new limited partnership to operate boots shoes and rubbers in Boston with Burt as special partner and Denham as general partner. it runs September 13 1887 to September 12 1890, witnessed by Justice of the Peace S M Hedges.
Harriet P. Gray guardian seeks authority over personal property in Suffolk related to Frederick C. Woodbury estate. Probate Court in Boston requires appearance on November 7, 1887 at ten oclock to transfer shares and estate. Judge Joan W. McKim presiding. Elwah George, Register.
Charles R. Barclay as administrator seeks a court order to distribute the balance of the deceased's estate to the next of kin. A public citation requires weekly publication in the Boston Post for three weeks, with the final issue at least two days before the court date of October 31, 1887 at ten in the forenoon.
Claims that Every Bed Free Cases heal wounds in 30 to 60 days using Liquid Food. It is promoted as a sole raw food free of drugs and minerals and said to increase blood supply. The letter mentions a homeless boys home at 11 to 21 Causeway Street and hospital use of 200 bottles per lot.
Court notices disclose insolvency actions for Robert B. Rice of Newton and for IRA and Arthur E. Blanchard partners. Meetings of creditors are set for November 28 1887 in Cambridge and November 4 1887 in Boston. Assignees Moses Briggs and George Emerson named.
Boston and Providence Railroad announces complex daily train times from Boston to New York and towns along the Shore Line including Attleboro Mansfield Canton Junction and Providence. The schedule lists numerous departures and returns with times varying by day and route, noting Sundays and special adjustments and late trains.
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