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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1887
Page
7
A compact historic listing shows diverse produce prices and items such as "p bbl" and "p bush." Items include carrots lettuce parsnips turnips celery cauliflower pumpkins spinach and white bread in a stand typical of earlier era markets. Prices noted range from 15 to 125 cents per unit, with box pricing and per-bale measures.
Market remains well supplied with apples and cranberries firm with moderate demand. Grapes show larger supply but only quality lots fetch full prices. quinces steady at 3 to 4 per bushel native. York State quinces scarce at 5.6 per barrel. dried apples firmer. peanuts light demand. chestnuts scarce with Northern lots firm at 6 to 6.50 per barrel. Fruit item details list varied prices for apples, grapes, pears, oranges, lemons, bananas, nuts, and dried apples across multiple varieties and regions.
A detailed price sheet lists pork and lard cuts with each price tier, lard and bacon varieties, hams, tongues, and sausages. Fresh beef quotes cover steers, cows, hinds, chucks, backs, loins, ribs, and rounds with multiple quality grades, plus lambs mutton veal and other fresh meats with regional pricing.
Liverpool futures opened quiet then steady with October to MayJune differentials. spot Upland and Orleans prices show slight firmness. Reports show 12,000 bales sold with 7,700 American, receipts at 40,000 bales with 86,300 American. Manchester cloths dull, yarns firm, demand light. New York spot opens steady then eases, futures open easy. quotations list Oct through July with modest shifts, market quiet and steady overall. PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES closed with bid data. Raw sugar firm with refined at 34 cents, various origins quoted. molasses prices noted for several cargos.
Reports from trade centers in New York show flour receipts at 15 698 pkgs with exports 6 878 bbls and 18 233 sacks. Flour demand strong across grades, brisk in city mill extras, with prices for Minnesota extra and city mill extra noted. Wheat receipts 67 250 bush, spot sales 426 000 bush, prices uneven but higher, No 2 spring around 88 14¢ to delivered. Barley and corn activity firm to higher with active sales. Petroleum steady, pork very steady, beef steady, and various cuts mixed to weak. Potatoes firm, molasses steady, and rosin dull.
Chicago and major Midwestern markets show steady to firm tones in flour and wheat with mixed corn and oats, pork and lard active in places. Receipts and shipments listed. prices for whiskey, barley, and various pork products noted.
Market notes from Cincinnati, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago show hogs steady to firm with varying prices and receipts. cattle, hogs, and sheep volumes listed. Chicago reports steady to strong cattle and steady hogs, with price ranges for steers, stockers, cows, and Western cattle. St. Louis notes firm hogs and mixed packers.
Net receipts across major ports show varied activity with Augusta and Savannah quiet to dull while New Orleans and New York report mixed export movements. Consolidated weekly figures indicate total receipts 294 841 and exports to Britain 113 212 France 44 607 and the continent 61 883 with stocks at all ports 613 123 and Liverpool 444 000.
Liverpool commodities show wheat strong with good demand and ample American receipts while corn and peas ease. London reports cargo wheat and corn steady, Paris wheat and flour quiet, Liverpool spot wheat in fair demand as futures rise and anchoring prices hold steady across key grades.
List of cargo in Antwerp and Port Antonio trade. Steamer Jan Breydel carries 196 bales rags 7500 bags beans 2 cases wine and more from Train Smith co Fowle Hibbard co Lambert Bros Jacob Wirth Codman Hall Allen Lane co S Pierce co Nowell Naylor co. Steamer Aguan tonnage includes 10955 bananas 860 bbis 2638 boxes oranges for Boston Fruitco and other shipments by J Freeman Blake Ripley and others.
Exports from Melbourne on October 28 1887 list cargo for the ship Emily F Whitner including 727 crates fly paper 1 case brushes 500 cases pocketbooks 150 cases canned goods 500 cases lubricating oil 20 bbls corn flour 18 cases provisions 39 pigs 3 cases leather 1 case machinery 1 case books 17 cases photos 64 crates shoe blacking 165 cases sheeps dips 1 case tea 400 kits 15 half-bbls pickled fish 11 pkgs rubber goods 6 cases scales 11 case braces and 3 pkgs 3 casks.
A long OCR readout details crates cases and bbls of goods from multiple ships and ports including METEGHAN NL Digby Annapolis NS YARMOUTH NS and items such as flour meal oil hardware rope lumber tin cans leather ware and clothing. The fragment lists thousands of units across categories with quantities and vessel names like Schooner Bess Le Gose and Schooner Legose and a Steamer Yarmouth.
Ledger style summary lists quantities of goods shipped or received by Boston and Albany Grand Junction and Providence railroads on October 28 1887. Items include cotton wool flour corn wheat millfeed tallow lard bacon apples tea sugar molasses and various barrels sacks and boxes. Notable totals show hundreds of bales and barrels across multiple commodities.
A fragmented price and quantity listing details freight on the New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine, Boston & Lowell, and Old Colony railroads. It enumerates bales, boxes, bbls, pots, cars, and other goods including wool, tea, eggs, butter, cheese, oats, corn, and timber with varied counts.
Bloomington indecipherable list shows many named shoe buyers and firms across cities from Baltimore to York. The note catalogs representatives such as D Smith Spragins Buck Patterson Disney Creight Disney & Co and others, indicating widespread wholesale shoe dealer activity in multiple states and cities.
Several probate citations issued in Massachusetts courts. Signals include Robert D. Cook of Cambridge estate trust changes with Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company named as petitioner. Riley Hayford trust sale of real estate in Purchase Street. Catharine Wallace estate probate with Nancy Nash seeking letters testamentary and bond exemption. Public notices require appearance dates in November.
An 19th century advertisement lists various cures for animals by Humphreys Homeopathic Medicines Co. It names owners and agents such as J I Case Esq and C J Hamlin Esq and describes remedies for fevers inflammations joints distemper and digestive issues with pricing and prepaid shipping from 109 Fulton Street New York.
A sequence of letters from patients across the United States credit Swift's Specific with curing chronic sores, cancers, and skin diseases. Each note details long illness, prior doctors, then recovery after using S. S. S., with ages and locations cited for Mrs. R. W. Wilson Spartanburg April 2 1887 and others across Winston North Carolina Trenton Todd County Kentucky Jonas Limebach and Mrs. W. P. Cannon. The marketing concludes with an offer of a treatise mailed free from The Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Georgia.
Railroad schedule note lists Boston and Maine through trains for October 23 1887. Services include Augusta Haymarket and Causeway stations with multiple daily departures to St. John Halifax Rockland Portland Lewiston Manchester North Conway and other points. Connections with Maine Central Grand Trunk and other lines at Haymarket and Causeway stations.
City rail schedule lists departures from Boston to Alton Bay and towns like Andover Dover Exeter and Merrimac with multiple daily times and a Sunday trains section including Dover Haverhill Manchester Lowell Medford and Portland Bangor and Lewiston stations with varied morning and evening slots.
A dense list of departure times and stations for the Eastern Division from Boston, including Amesbury, Everett, Ipswich, Lynn, Salem, Newburyport, and multiple branches. Mentions city ticket office at 306 Washington Street and Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. Names James T. Furler and D. J. Flanders as officials.
Boston station on Causeway Street issues through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill and more with Montreal via White River Junction and through sleeping and parlor cars. Local Boston service to Manchester Concord Nashua and many towns plus a full roster of through routes and schedules. General Superintendant C. S. Mellan? and Geo W. Storer sign off.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad line launches service to Ware starting Monday October 10 1887 with routes from Boston to Ware Barre Rutland and nearby towns. Timetables show morning and evening departures from multiple stations including West Boylston Oakdale and Belmont with Sunday services and special run times listed for Wadson Sudbury and Waverley.
A dense timetable listing week day and return trips for numerous routes including Old Colony lines to Boston New York via Kali River and Fall River Lines, with numerous stations such as Ashmont Milton Mattapoisett Marshfield Plymouth Cohasset Hingham and Nantucket. It names GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK as General Pass. Agent and Gen. Manager respectively.
A dense OCR listing outlines daily train times and returns between Boston and Providence plus offshoots to Dedham Canton Stoughton Readville and other stops. It lists morning departures at 10 am 1 pm and many subsequent return times with numerous horários and intercity connections.
On and after Oct. 9 1887 trains depart Boston from B and L depot to Manchester Concord N H and upper railroads at 7.30 8.30 9 pm 12 m 1 3 5 5 5.30 7 pm Sundays 1 7 pm Returning depart Concord for Boston at 5.30 7.30 8.35 10.20 am 2.45 3.35 5.05 6.35 pm Sundays 5.55 7.2 ws H k CHAM oye
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