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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1887
Page
7
The notice details cattle and hog prices by quality. It lists fat oxen as first quality, oxen and young steer ages as second and third quality. Sheep are described with cossets and interior-quality ewes. Hogs to be sold in the Brighton market, with regional sale references.
Reports from New York Chicago St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati and Minneapolis show steady to firm flour and wheat values with mixed activity in corn oats and rye. Receipts and exports detailed across regions with prices for No 2 red No 1 white and various wheat and flour grades.
Hogs and cattle markets fluctuate across Kansas City St Louis and Chicago with daily receipts and shipments posted. Kansas City hogs at about 8000 receipts and 1233 shipments, St Louis hogs mixed to steady with prices near 4.90 to 5.25, Chicago cattle strong natives and Texas cattle around 225 to 350, hogs slower from 5.05 to 5.40 fats and 3.95 to 4.80 for roughs. Sheep steady with natives 2.90 to 4.60 and western 3.10 to 3.75.
Augusta net receipts 1410 gross 1410 sales 1580 at 87 percent. Charleston receipts 5528 gross 5535 sales 549 stock 23621, quiet mid. New Orleans receipts 6312 gross 7124 exports coastwise 195 sales 1200 stock 338887, quiet mid. New York receipts none gross 5030 sales 963 stock 35723 easy mid 101-16c. Consolidated four days 62019 with Britain 10023, continent 1337, US port stock 166470.
Beerbohm notes cargoes off coast with wheat and corn offerings subdued. Mark Lane and Paris markets quiet. Liverpool wheat steady, corn quiet with fair demand at 4s 3d. Receipts show 241,000 centals of wheat and 56,100 of corn. prices list winter wheat around 6s 11d, spring wheat 5s 1d to 6s 1d, corn regionally steady to easy.
In Antwerp on September 15 spot wheat eased with No 1 California at 17f1244¢ and No 2 red winter at 16f 5e. In Paris on September 13 October wheat quoted at 38f.
London Wool Sales saw large attendance and spirited competition. Merinos and cross-breds remained firm while Cape of Good Hope and Natal lines attracted better demand. Summary of regional offerings includes 2800 New Zealand bales at varied prices, 2700 New South Wales bales, 2100 Victoria, 800 Queensland, 200 South Australia, 320 Cape bales, and 100 River Plate greasy lots with prices ranging from about 7d to 1s 4d per pound.
The record lists schooners Pearl and Lily of Clyde carrying molasses lumber and other goods. Items include 276 casks and 41 tierces molasses in Viequez Puerto Rico and 40 000 feet spruce plank 5000 feet lumber plus small consignments including mackerel fish eggs and a horse in Barrington Nova Scotia aboard Barclay & Co and Fos ter & co-b0 bbis.
Shipping lists record the schooner Etta carrying 125 barrels flour 375 barrels meal from Weymouth NS and the steamer Yarmouth at Yarmouth NS with a wide goods cargo including hardware paint harnesses shovels mattresses saws organ material glassware and dry goods. Liverpool England exports include Pavonia cleared Sept 7 with varied shipments such as ram beeswax beef cheese flour bacon lard cotton canned meat and hardware while Scr Annie T McKie at Sydney CB ships flour meal and other provisions.
A ledger style list records September 13 1887 receipts by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Western and Eastern Divisions Lowell and others. Entries show wool flour corn meal oats meat lard butter cheese tea potatoes sugar coffee and hides across bales barrels cases and rolls with counts in hundreds and thousands.
A fragmented ledger style list of agricultural and commodity receipts dated September 18 1887. Items include cotton molasses wool flour oats corn wheat malt beans millfeed potatoes hay peas straw lumber hides pork bacon dressed hogs tea coffee sugar and related packaging units with assorted quantities and measures.
The Free Surgical Hospital for Women, funded by Murdock Liquid Food Co of Boston, reports its June 1 1887 quarter shows 132 operations with patients from Texas Colorado Montreal Alabama Prince Edward Island Rhode Island Connecticut Vermont Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts from 20 towns. Physicians may request beds by informing the hospital of a case.
The Septic Hospital of 12 free beds is set for surgical cases. The Surgical Staff at Murdock's Free Hospital for Women work daily except Saturdays to examine patients and assign beds.
The document touts Liquid Food as a universal raw food aiding wound healing without operations and sustaining life at times. It alleges injections can be used, advises feeding adjustments for babies, and mentions a Free Home for Homeless Boys at 21 Causeway Street with 59 beds. It asserts many medical benefits and a large stock of bottles for hospital use.
William R. Campbell of Boston files for divorce from Minnie Scott Campbell born Minnie Creighton Scott. He alleges desertion on September 2, 1884 and asks for a divorce in Suffolk County and custody of their daughter, born February 6, 1883.
In Suffolk Superior Court Boston on Sept 12 1887 an order requires the libelee to appear on the first Monday of January next. An attested copy of the libel and order must be published in the Boston Post three weeks weekly, last publication at least sixty days before the appearance date, to show cause why the petition should not be granted. Jos A Willard Clerk. Attest Edwin A Wadleigh 1st Asst. Clerk.
Suffolk Superior Court orders Continental Bank of St Louis to appear in Boston on the first Monday of November to answer the contract action for $3000 brought by Manufacturers National Bank of Boston. Boston Post to publish notice weekly for three weeks, last edition fourteen days before appearance. Clerk Jos. A. Willard.
Local time tables show routes on all divisions with Boston as hub. Through tickets to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West on sale at 232 Washington Street Boston. Trains depart Boston for Fall River and points via Cape Cod and South Shore with Sunday schedules and connections to New York and Chicago.
The timetable shows frequent daily departures across divisions from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations to Maine ports and destinations including Eastport Calais Portland Rockland and Manchester with varying times and connections via Portland steamer services and neighboring lines. It notes trains to Halifax St John and the Provinces and to North Conway and New Hampshire via several shared routes.
A dense listing of Western Division train times and routes includes departures to Haymarket Dover Andover Great Falls Haverhill Lawrence Reading and Portland along with Metroset and RMetro lines. Frequent daily services show varied hourly and half hour slots throughout the day with numerous intercity connections and Way Stations.
Eastern Division schedule lists Boston Causeway Street departures to Amesbury Beverly Saugus and more with numerous times. Includes Oak Island Port Pines and Portland Bangor routes, with notes on Sundays Sundays and branch trains and city ticket office details.
A corrected list of train departures and arrivals from Boston to Norwood Central Norwood and branch stations. Includes Woonsocket division times and through services to New York via Middletown New Haven and Stonington routes with connections to steamers and various lines. Also shows Sunday restrictions and stop guidance for Needham and intermediate stations.
A broken timetable listing Hoosack Tunnel Route times for Fitchburg Railroad between Waverley and Miller's Falls with multiple departures and prices scattered across the fragment. Key times include 6.30 6.55 9 11.10 and Sunday 9.25 with additional stops and fares such as 5.80 6.03 6.28 in a historic rail schedule fragment.
A dense list of Boston area train times and connections from Folsom, detailing May 50 31 schedules. It lists outbound and return trips to Roxbury Dedham Jamaica Plain Stoughton Canton and Providence connections with varied departure and arrival times and notes on delays and coordination with other lines.
Boston station on Causeway Street lists through service to Tilton Laconia Weirs Meredith Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and Montreal via connections. Local Boston service includes Manchester Concord Nashua and Greenfield with hourly to evening departures. Sleeping cars to Montreal and parlor cars on select trains. Lombard era route details and branches to Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Junction Burling St Albans.
Central Massachusetts Railroad announces Monday June 27 1887 departures from Boston to Ware Barre and Sunderland via West Boylston Oakdale and destinations. listed times include 7.15 am 12.05 pm 3.5 cents and 4.46 pm on Sundays with stops at Hudson South Sudbury Wayland Weston Wattham Waverly Belmont and other stations. George W. Storer is general passenger agent with C S Mellen as general superintendent.
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