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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1886
Page
7
Flour quiet and easy while corn oats and other grains hold steady. Butter market very strong and eggs firm with rising prices. Pork and lard firm with good demand for hams. Fresh meats dull. Potatoes fair demand apples dull peaches slow sale last Saturday. Poultry and game about same as last quotes. Tallow fairly firm sugars steady molasses dull.
flour prices steady with light demand for corn oats unchanged market quiet. Wheat and Indian corn afloat to UK and Europe rose from prior week, totals show increases year over year. Quoted flour and grain prices across variants, millfeed rye oats hops and malt listed with regional and export terms.
Butter remains firm in Western creamery and New York markets with receipts totaling 29,055 pkgs for the week and 4,209 pkgs on hand. cheese quiet, eggs firm with strong demand for fresh stock. Western creamery extra selling at 22 23c, butter quotations across regions reflect steady wholesale prices and mixed regional activity.
Fresh killed fowls listed at 12 to 14 cents per pound. Green geese fetch 15 cents, green ducks 14 cents. City rendered tallow quoted at 4 cents, country at 8 1/4 cents. Rough lte up to 2 cents.
Appels are dull and unchanged. Bartletts show fair demand at S 05 P. Peaches sold slow at 75e 81 25 Crawford and 830 75c for poor lots. Cantelopes unchanged. Grapes receipts large. Delaware at Bc and Concords at 4c P tb. Plums in good supply with fair demand. Eating plums 40c per 6 qt basket and 50 6d5c per peck. Cooking plums 50 60c per crate and 80 35c per 6 qt basket. Damsons 70 85c per crate.
Pork and lard remain firm with steady trade, fresh meat dull at old quotations. Veals lambs and muttons in fair demand. Detailed price ranges listed for pork cuts, lard, sausages, hams, shoulders, ribs, beef plates, tongues, and fresh beef. Also notes on various mutton and veal prices and regional quotes for Worcester county.
Market notes show molasses prices quoted for cargo lots with Porto Rico at 35 37e and good to choice at 21 80c, plus Havana stock data and beet harvest outlook. Oil prices firm with refined oil at 64 for 110 120 degree test, case oil 34 cents, naptha steady, and pipeline certificates showing recent closing bids and volumes.
New York reports cotton prices with ranges for Ordinary Orleans and Gulf and several grades. Wheat and flour markets show lower wheat prices, mixed receipts and exports across Chicago Milwaukee Detroit and Toledo. Provisions, pork, lard, and butter maintain firm or steady tones with ongoing shipment figures across major grain hubs.
Minneapolis dispatch lists shipments and receipts for grain and flour. Wheat receipts 144100 bushels. Wheat shipments 5330 bushels. Flour receipts 135000 bushels. Flour shipments 20160 barrels. Oats and rye show minimal activity with noted figures.
Print cloth market remains firm in Fall River with production at 175000 pieces delivered 158000 and stock 50000. Last week stock 38000 and sales 218000. prices set at 3c for 60x56s and 35sec for 64x64s. Providence reports week moderate activity yet firm at 8 1/2 cents for 64 squares and 5 1/2 cents for 56x60s. total sales 36000 with 31000 pieces 64x64s and 5000 pieces 56x60s. stock 99000 pieces all 648.
Market notes show Augusta through Louisville with net receipts totals, exports, and stocks varying by port, including Galveston 5952 receipts and 1690 sales, Savannah 2485 receipts with 1100 sales, and New York 32 receipts with 404 sales while overall mid 8 to 9 cents ranges and firm or dull tones appear across regions. Consolidation port totals indicate one day receipts 10154 with 291 exports to Great Britain and nationwide stock 191106.
Cattle steady in Chicago with receipts 1500 and shipments 1000. Hogs 8000 received with varied packing prices from 3.90 to 5.30 per hundredweight. Sheep steady with natives and Western types priced around 1.75 to 4.80. Through Texas cattle steady near 3 25 to 3 75.
Foreign markets from London and Havana show mixed activity with wheat dull on passage yet steady at times, and Liverpool spot wheat holding firm for whites while reds stay dull. Havana sugar markets maintain quietness with firmer activity at close and notable weekly exports to the United States.
The Jam Steamer Pearl carries 60088 bananas 81 barrels oranges 1 box bananas 1 box cocoanuts bound for Boston and linked to the Fruit Co. shipments. The fragment notes imports and export activity at Port Antonia on September 11, 1886.
A detailed list of export shipments dated September 11 1886 from Liverpool St John NB Demerara G I others. Items include 22 barrels of dyestuffs 117 barrels copper ore 1323 apples 600 bacon 245 teals lard and many more. Ships named Lillie Bell Alta Elbridge Souther Alpha Annie G O Leary Charles Hibernian Worcester and more with cargo specifics for each port.
Detailed ledger of shipments and tallies from Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western divisions, and Boston and Lowell railroads. Lists dozens of bale counts, barrels, sacks, cases, and other goods alongside consignor and destination notes. Mentions extensive wool, flour, corn, oats, wheat, beans, potatoes, leather, tea, sugar, bacon, and other staples. Includes minor entries for beef, butter, eggs, and oxen. also notes shared shipments by express and sea.
Suffolk County transfers include Perry to Warren at Pleasant street with two parcels totaling 16 000, Homer to Boston city on Clifton street, Prescott to Snyder at Centre and Bellevue, Shaw to Provident Savings on Essex, Fletcher to Harrington on Lenox, Gray to Suffolk Savings Bank on Baldwin, and more. Dorchester shows Mallock to McKay on Coleman, Tolman to Walbridge, Capen to Needham on Idaho, Wright to Fisher on Cedar and Quincy, Capen to Roberts and Reed on Idaho, Whipple to Batchelder at Ruggles/Mechanics, and others. Listings span multiple streets with varied prices from 1 to 75,000 dollars.
The document cites mortgages and assignments including South Boston Savings Bank to Mary Flaherty dated Aug 9 1376, George W Hargrave to Willis B McMichaels with a mortgage from Anne White dated Aug 1 1884, and Albert H Plummier to Michael Taylor with a mortgage from Michael Taylor dated July 27 1883.
A list of business buyers and firms across cities including Buffalo Chicago Cleveland Cincinnati Havana Indianapolis Lynchburg Mount Pleasant Nashville and Paducah with names such as McGrath Brenner Gore Stone Dodge Cowen Hendricks Knuckle Dunnody Hall Hollins Lawless Morrow Hanford and others acting as treasurers ads and representatives for shoe trade firms in the era.
Manoel Rodrigues Serpa and Maria Gloria Serpa petition to change names to Manoel Rodgers and Maria Gloria Rodgers for themselves and their minor children Alfred Serpa and Maria Serpa. Citations require appearance at Cambridge Probate Court on the first Tuesday of September at nine in the forenoon with three weekly Boston Post notices. Judge George M. Brooks signs. J H Tyler Register. Attorney John H. Tarr, 59 Court Street.
Suffolk Probate Court requires heirs to appear on September 6, 1886 in Boston to show cause why administrator George A Sawyer final account should not be approved and funds distributed. Citation to next of kin published weekly in the Boston Post for three weeks. last publication two days before court. Joan W McKim presiding. John H Paine assistant register. John B Fitzpatrick sheriff messenger.
ATO PTECE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly ron administrator of the estate of HENRIETTA H. JOHNSON late of Boston in Suffolk deceased and has taken upon him the trust by bonds as law directs All creditors must exhibit claims and all debtors pay Nelson Johnson Adm Boston Aug 16 1886.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Suffolk orders Annie Pearce to publish notice in the Boston Post. She alleges desertion and cruel treatment by Daniel B. Pearce since January 1888 after a marriage in Boston on May 14 1882. The court sets December first next for appearance and proof to grant the divorce.
John Alden of Boston petitions Superior Court for enforcement of a mechanic s lien for 632 29 on a Crawford street building and its land. The owner is Hy Storers Barry. Notice to all interested to appear on the first Tuesday of October 1886, published in the Boston Post.
Louis Lavois of Marlborough files a libel for divorce from Josephine St Lewis alleging adultery with Peter Laneto around July 1874 and desertion since February 16 1875, claiming over three years of abandonment and seeking applicable decrees.
Almira Huston of Crowbridge sues for divorce from Joseph B Huston, alleging marriage in Charlestown on August 9, 1871 and repeated adultery in Boston and other towns. She asks for a divorce and related decrees, with public notice and order to show cause by November.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts probate notice cites Jeremiah Westcott of Auburn Rockingham NH as potential beneficiary. George A Sawyer administrator seeks court order to pay distributive share of Ellen Sheldon estate to guardian J Lan Fitts NH. Citation requires appearance September 13, 1886 at 10 am and publication in Boston Post for three weeks.
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