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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1887
Page
7
A long list of dairy items including Western and New York creamery butter, Eastern creamery eggs, beans, seeds, hay, potatoes, and sweet potatoes with varied grades and jobbing prices. Regional references include Vermont New York Nova Scotia and Maine areas with multiple price ranges and quality descriptors.
Beef and veal show steady to quiet demand with unchanged prices. Sheep market booms with large receipts forcing pens usually for hogs. Hams and lard move at steady or improved quotes while fresh beef supplies remain ample. Listings cover prices for pork cuts lard hams shoulders ribs and various beef products.
Market reports overstocked apples and quiet demand for most lots while pears remain scarcer and cranberries show steady fair demand. Cape Cod cranberries priced high, grapes slow for Catawbas, shipments to the East hold, and rail canning exports surge. Auction Friday includes 1174 boxes of Almeria grapes. various apples pears oranges lemons bananas and nuts listed with current quotations.
A market list notes demand and unit prices for onions potatoes tomatoes green peppers cabbage beans beets squash tubers carrots lettuce parsnips turnips French cabbage eggplants celery cauliflower peppers spinach and related items with varied bundles and price points across baskets and barrels.
In New York butter is steady with eastern creamery at 25 26c. Cheese is dull with cheddars around 10 44 11 4¢. Eggs remain at 22c for fresh. Beans steady and dried apples dull. In Chicago butter steady for extra lots with low grades moving slowly. Cheese tame at 10 12 11 14¢, stocks rising.
Liverpool futures opened steady then closed quiet with October at 5 14-64d and November at 5 11-64d. December to January contracts ranged 5 10-64d to 5 11-64d, with March to April at 6 18-64d. Spot prices rose at open then steadied. Upland middling at 53-16d and Orleans at 52d. In New York spot opened firm at 9 1-16c to 9-16c and closed steady near 9 16-1c. American sales 14 000 bales, receipts 8 000 bales.
Futures in New York opened steady with quotes for Oct through Aug contracts. Market data shows bids and offers for commodities and textiles, with notes on POD line certificates and oil shipments, while raw and refined sugar prices remained firm amid quiet demand and refined powder prices listed.
Oct 20 reports show flour receipts and exports in New York with varied grain prices and multiple commodities. Milwaukee Chicago Detroit Cincinnati Toledo St Louis markets reflect mixed wheat corn oats rye barley and provisions with fluctuations in futures and spot sales.
Kansas City hogs steady with receipts around 7500 and 799 shipments. St Louis hogs higher with prices mainly 410 to 445, packing range 410 to 455. Peoria hogs steady at 405 to 445 with 400 receipts. Chicago cattle and hogs mixed with steady to firm tones. cattle mostly 260 to 610 for shipping steers and 175 to 310 for stockers. hogs 416 to 445 average, ships around 3 4. Sheep mixed with dull demand and several price bands across regions.
Regional cotton market update with receipts gross exports coastwise and continent, sales and stock figures for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Memphis Savannah Mobile Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville notes firm mid 9c to 9 16c. consolidated six day totals across United States ports 560 260 stock.
London reports show cargoes off the coast as wheat markets firm amid mid day trading. Beerbohm notes steady activity in the grain sector and cautious shifts in prices.
Cargoes awaiting sale and shipment include wheat and corn from Chilian, American, Danubian and California origins with prices in shillings. At Mark Lane and Liverpool market notes show firmer wheat, steady corn, and various quoted values for loading, prompt shipment, and near-term delivery.
London reports limited activity since the last sales with about 500 bales traded. The fifty series starts November 22 and may run two weeks. Fresh arrivals total 27 658 bales with about 140 000 bales expected and combined with old stock around 170 000 bales available. Antwerp sales to begin November 7.
Shipping ledger from Liverpool lists steamer Kansas with 13 cases and 1 bale steel Jere Abbott & co. pig iron 200 tons. speigeleison WH Walbaum & co. 155 polls steel Fuller Dana & Fitz. 190 do wire rods Washburn Moon Manf co. 100 bales old bag ging. J B Moors & co 783 do wool. Brown Bros & co 4 cases household furniture. multiple firms handling salt skins, earthenware, tin plates, steel billets, and other goods for export and import through ports including Liverpool and Nova Scotia locations Port Lorne and Yarmouth.
Shipping list from October 20 1887 includes schooners Lillie Bell Busk Nina Page and Laura with cargoes of flour meal kerosene oil lumber beef pork and other provisions. Route mentions PUBNICO TUSKET WEDGE ANTWERP Honolulu Baddeck and Honolulu with diverse cargoes including bacon logs vegetables hardware and machinery.
An Oct 20 1887 record itemizes vast consignments across several railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Pitchbare and Boston & Maine Eastern Division. The list details cotton wool flour corn oats malt feed pork beef butter cheese eggs apples hay leather hides and many related commodities with quantities.
The document lists quantities of goods transported by Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell Railroad and Express and Sea shipments. Items include tallow butter apples potatoes lumber leather hides wool flour oats and many others with counts in bbls bales carts rolls and bags. Ocean shipments show cotton wool tea coffee molasses sugar butter eggs potatoes hay lumber leather hides and skins with large totals and multiple car counts.
A dense ledger of agricultural and commodity receipts with numerous items including cotton sugar wool flour molasses cornmeal oats butter cheese eggs meat and produce. Totals appear for 1887 and 1886 across bales barrels sacks boxes and bushels.
A listing of buyers and firms from multiple cities including Allentown Baltimore Chicago Cincinnati Philadelphia St Louis and more. Names include J Farr Tucker Smith Mullen Carroll Ramsdell Sweet Carpenter Leonard Meis Laws Phelps Brown Jones Reed McGraw Carnahan Bertsch Breath Harvey Griffith Marks Henson Davidson Goodbar Dunwoody Weaver Murray Kirkendall Graff Monroe Gott Darling Blasland Noyes Lindsley Laird Blasland French Spahr and others. The ad segment catalogs footwear trade connections with numerous firms and agents.
The article touts Luray Caverns as larger and richer in decor than any other explored cave. It notes scientific authority backing the claim and highlights surrounding scenery and romantic drives, with a Pennsylvania tour on Wednesday October 26 offering ample time to enjoy the site.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co directors voted to declare a scrip dividend of 3.333 1/2 dollars per share payable Dec 15 1887 to stockholders of record at close of business Nov 1887. Scrip issued on or after Nov 10 1887 redeemable in cash or exchangeable for stock at par for multiples of one thousand dollars. Scrip available at treasurer's office No 60 State Street Boston after Dec 15 1887. delivery to occur Nov 10 1887 at treasurer's office. not mailed. T Jefferson Coolidge Treasurer.
A semi annual dividend of fifty dollars per share will be payable at the office of the treasurer No. 60 State street Boston and Khuraday December 15 1887 to stockholders of record November 1 1887. T Jefferson Coolidge Treasurer.
A dividend of three dollars per share will be payable Nov. 1 to stockholders of record at the close of Oct. 18, 1887. Treasurer George A. Kettell, Boston, Oct. 15, 1887. A dividend of 6 percent on capital stock, totaling 10 percent for the year, is payable Nov. 1 to stockholders of record at the close of business Oct. 18, 1887. Treasurer B. B. Torrey.
Train schedule lists weekday departures from Boston and connections to many towns including Ashcroft Danbury Dorchester Hartford Harvard Street Norwood New Britain New York Providence Readville Rockville Waterbury Willimantic and Washington with listed times and Sunday trains from Boston to Norwood Central and intermediate stations.
Woonsocket division timetable lists daily departures from Boston and Albany Depot with Needham and surrounding stations, and names trains including New York via Middletown, New Haven and the New England Limited. It notes connections to Hartford and steamer routes, plus details on dining and parlor cars.
On and after Oct 17 1887 weekday trains depart Boston for New York via Fall River Line at 6 p.m with returns at 4 30 p.m Ashmont stops list many times en route to Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Quincy Weymouth Nantucket Plymouth and more. Additional schedules cover Concord Manchester and other lines with numerous return times and connections.
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