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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1887
Page
7
The document details cane, oat, cornmeal, rye, and miller product prices from mills and markets. It lists export terms for Canada and New York goods, with bid ranges for bbl and p bbl, fob terms, and seasonal varieties including winter and spring patents and rollers.
Butter and cheese stay firm with unchanged quotations in New York and Liverpool. Eggs, poultry, beans, seeds, and hay show steady trade with good demand cited. Prices for butter, cheese, eggs, and tallow listed with multiple regional grades and jobbing premiums noted.
The peach train carried five cars. White fruit sold at 1 150 and yellow at 150 225 per basket, with some fancy lots higher. New York fruit 50 75c per basket. Apples plentiful, trade dull. pears ample and slow. Grapes well supplied with good demand at quoted prices. Bananas largely Jamaicas, excellent fruit. wholesale sales at 1 3742 150 per lot. Ocean stock sold up at 1 25 per crate. Cranberries fair supply. sales at 7 7 OVP per barrel and 250 per crate. Apples Gravenstein and varieties with several price points. Grapes Hudson River Delaware, Concords, Martha, Salem, Delaware case grapes priced per crate. Plums Bradshaw Quackenbos, common blue and green varieties priced per 14-quart crate. Pears Bartlett native and Clapp's Favorite listed with bbl prices. Oranges Palermo and Sorrento offered. Lemons Palermo priced per box. Bananas from Aspinwall Port Limon and Jamaica with price ranges.
A market listing shows demand for many vegetables and fruits with stated prices. Items include onions, cabbages, beans, Lima beans, beets, squash, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, parsnips, pickles, turnips, French beans, eggplants, celery, and cauliflower with per bush or per dozen pricing.
The steamer due Friday brings 575 barrels of sweet potatoes to Norfolk, signaling a steady trade. The cargo highlights supply flow through the port and affects local markets.
The pork market remains steady with fair demand and unchanged lard and hams. Fresh beef is quiet with ample supply and lambs are plentiful but only fancy lots fetch full quotations. Beef and pork cut prices are listed across multiple grades and preparations.
The readable text lists varied grades and terms such as good to choice and poor to good for items labeled with codes like Ce Vc and Uc. It reads like a partial catalog or appraisal with inconsistent formatting and unclear entities.
Liverpool futures opened steady and closed firm with varied Sep to May prices. Spot markets in Liverpool and New York showed steady to easy tones with significant daily sales and receipts, while pipeline certificates closed with mixed highs and lows.
From New York to Minneapolis and Chicago, reports show flour receipts and exports, mixed grain futures, and steady to firm prices. Notable figures include No 2 spring at 68% 69c, No 1 hard around 75c, and Minneapolis milling wheat at 74% 75c, with spot oats and other grains varying by city.
Peoria records hogs at 490 535 dollars on receipts of 700. Kansas City cites 9000 receipts with no shipments. St Louis shows hogs steady with Yorkers 490 520 and packers 490 520 to 525 550. Chicago notes cattle receipts 12 000 with steers 3600 5030, stockers 170 310, cows 1250 325, Texas cattle 195 300, Western rangers 225 360. hogs 510 535 to 616 60, sheep natives 270 425, Western 325 375, Texans 290 360, lambs 425 540.
Augusta Net receipts 1022 gross 1022 sales 831 firm mid 9 c. Galveston net receipts 2687 gross 2687 sales 1027 stock 25359 quiet mid 9 1 16 c. New Orleans net receipts 2328 gross 2582 exports coastwise 846 sales 1200 stock 32613 quiet mid 0 1 16 ¢. Mobile net receipts 289 gross 519 exports coastwise 741 sales 200 stock 8913 quiet mid 1e. Memphis net receipts 1324 gross 1880 ship ments 476 sales 500 stock 11378 quiet and steady mid 9 1 16 c. Savannah net receipts 6306 gross 6306 sales 8600 stock 35049 quiet mid 15-16.
Detailed timetable updates show Shore Line Fast Express and Shore Line Mail services from Boston to New York Newark and Providence with numerous stops including Pawtucket Attleboro and Canton. Published changes note daily and Sunday operation plus varying return times and late evening departures under supervision of A. A. Folsom superintendent.
The notice lists weekday departure and return times for numerous routes and towns including Ashmont Hyannis Barnstable Scituate Marshfield Plymouth and Nantucket. It names GEO. L. CONNOR and J. KR. KENDRICK as officials and references Fall River Line and Wood's Holl service.
Through trains on both divisions listed for Augusta Haymarket Causeway stations with multiple daily departures to Eastport Calais St John Halifax and the Provinces. Steamer connections from Portland to Breochland Castine Bar Harbor and Bar Harbor routes. Portland and North Conway services noted with varied times.
Consolidated five day totals show net receipts 80 178 across ports with exports to Great Britain 18912 continent 1337 and total stock at all United States ports 169485. Individual port figures include Charleston Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville with varied shipments exports sales and stock and notes such as quiet steady firm and mid quality indicators.
London reports show wheat quiet and corn firm with both domestic and foreign markets steady. Liverpool prices steady for bread grains while lard and pork rise, Manchester notes market firmness and resistance to lower offers amid steady demand for India and China staples.
The September wool sale in London drew large crowds with strong demand for Merino and cross-bred grades from home buyers. New South Wales led with 5300 bales, followed by Queensland 9000, Victoria 2100, New Zealand 3700, South Australia 400, and Cape of Good Hope plus Natal 600 bales, with varied prices for scoured, locks and pieces, and greasy lots.
A Glasgow ship manifest lists various merchants and cargoes including 25,000 fire bricks for Waldo Bros, 17 bales dry goods for I B Allan, 200 tons pig iron for J B Brigham & co, 1292 steel billets for G Cookson, and extensive consignments of dry goods, tobacco pipes, carpets, cottons, oil, earthware, and granite. The long inventory notes numerous firms such as Lombard & co, Jordan, Marsh & co, Beal Higgins & co, N & NW Curtis, Cushman Bros, Cushman, Bradshaw & co, and Baring Bros & co among others, with quantities ranging from a single case to hundreds of boxes and bales.
Shipping records show multiple vessels and cargoes at Halifax, Paris, Annapolis, and nearby bays including brig Eliza with corn meal and flour, schooner Legose with flour and kerosene, bark Isaac Dodge with ice and lumber, and schooner Seven Brothers with flour and meal. other entries list canned goods, oils, diamonds of goods, and miscellaneous hardware across several NS ports and ASPINWALL USC observations.
A detailed tally of shipments received by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg and Boston & Maine Eastern Division. The list records bales wool bbls flour bushels corn wheat middlings hay lumber leather hides and numerous other commodities with quantities and container counts for September 14 1887.
A fragmentary list itemizes varied shipments and quantities such as eggs apples potatoes hay leather bolls skins butter cheese lumber and wool. References include Boston and Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell Railroad and multiple cargoes with counts in bales crates boxes and cars.
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Rail times list departures from Barton Station and nearby towns including Haymarket Square Andover Dans Vers Georgetown and many more on Saturday and Sunday. The timetable covers numerous routes to Alton Bay Oakton and Portland with morning afternoon and evening services and notes Sunday trains to Dover Maverhill Lawrence Lowell Abedford Reading and Portland.
Eastern Division timetable lists dozens of trains from Boston to Amesbury Beverly Tiddeford Chelsea Bover Everett Great Park and Roch ester with numerous departures and return times. It notes special lines to Oak Island Point of Pines Saugus South Reading and Workingmen's trains with city office and Pullman car details.
Time table lists local and through trains from Boston via Causeway Street to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction with multiple branch and sleeping car options. It names stations Boston Manchester Concord Lowell Lawrence Woburn Winchester Arlington and others and indicates schedules and where to obtain full information.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad announces new service from Boston to Ware Barre and Rutland starting Monday June 27 1887 with multiple daily departures from Boston and various stations including West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Dundson Beckbottom So Sudbury Wayland Weston Walworth Waverly Belmont and others. General passenger agent Geo W Storer and superintendent 1 S Mellen oversee the schedule.
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