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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1886
Page
7
The report shows five year average 120,000,000 bushels and ten year average 130,000,000 annually with current exports about 2,500,000 bushels. It concludes imports for the coming year must total 140,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels to maintain year opening reserves.
New York reports heavy flour with high receipts and exports while No 2 and extra Western and State grades show varied price ranges. Chicago Milwaukee Toledo St Louis Detroit summaries note lower wheat and corn, mixed oats, and firm or weak pork, lard, and beef markets with substantial receipts and shipments across the region.
Augusta to Galveston New Orleans and Savannah show firm to very firm conditions with steady mid prices. Philadelphia and Baltimore report mixed activity with some ports steady, exports coastwise and Great Britain demand noted. consolidation totals five days show nationwide stock around 201,573 with varied shipments and prices.
Chicago market summary shows cattle receipts around 9000 with 5000 shipments, mixed demand and varying prices for shipping steers and stockers. Hogs receipts near 23000 with 4000 shipments, prices mixed from 4.30 to 4.70 for bulk and packing. Sheep receipts about 8000 with 500 shipments, natives and Westerns trading around 2.30 to 3.60 and lambs at 4.5.
Chicago stockyards report hogs down with 22,000 estimated today and 20,201 yesterday, Licht hogs at 4480, mixed packers at 441 455, heavy shippers at 460 505. Cattle receipts 7200, market active. Peoria hogs strong with sales 33 90 495, receipts 800. St Louis hogs strong with light weights 410 430, mixed packers 430 485, butchers up to 490 515. Kansas City hogs 5 to 10 cents lower, receipts 7000, yesterday 7316.
C S Lee reports Chicago grain sees heavy selling all day with no recovery. Wheat closes a full cent under last night, pork active and lower at 1090 Oct 1, corn weak in step with corn receipts and favorable weather. Receipts remain large and Northwest shows no setup, bears push for shorts covering.
London dispatch notes a pause in cargoes off the coast with wheat buyers delaying purchases, awaiting potential concessions. Cargoes en route and for shipment show buyers holding back, while American corn remains firm and Russian corn quiet. Liverpool spot wheat activity is mentioned.
Dull demand and ample supply mark breadstuffs with English and foreign wheat weaker at Mark Lane while American corn firm. Paris quiet on wheat and flour. England weather unsettled. large overseas quantities on the passage to the UK and Continent. Liverpool market notes dullwheat and corn, various prices quoted for oats peas pork bacon cheese lard tallow and cash and futures. brisk wool and broad sale activity with notable Cape, Natal, Victoria and New Zealand lots.
List of vessels from various ports including Descourse CB Thetis and Cecile with cargoes of mackerel logwood moise and dry hides. Other ships from Halifax Bear River St John and Thorntone Cove carry eggs wood leather piles goods and miscellaneous items. State of Maine steamship delivers eggs and leather across multiple consignors.
A detailed OCR list records cargo and cargoes cleared at sea ports in 1886. Liverpool lists include Kansas with bacon flour hams middles tails hides leather and timber among many items. Lunenburg brig Wilhelmina carries meal flour beef oil. Yarmouth sch Myosotis ships refined oil.
A compiled ledger of shipments by Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western Boston and Lowell lines detailing bales wool flour cornmeal oats beef pork butter lard cheese eggs apples potatoes tea coffee sugar molasses and leather volumes by railroad and stock type with quantities listed for each line. The document records thousands of barrels sacks baskets boxes and cases including bales of wool and items like lumber hides pelts and calfskins across multiple railroads.
The list catalogs freight: by express 179 rolls leather 2 bbls leather 7 bdls skins 23 green hides 14 bols skins and by sea 187 bales wool 12 bales cotton 271 bbls flour 11 bbls meal 60 sacks cottonseed meal 29 600 bags sugar 1 bbl pork 1 pky butter 152 cases eggs 10 bbls potatoes 1850 ds sweets 16 cars hay 97 ds lumber 43 rolls 31 bags 1056 sides leather 2 bundles 2000 dry hides 2 bundles skins 2 bundles calf skin 1 bundle pelts.
Public notices list transfers of land and buildings in Dorchester Roxbury Chelsea East Boston South Boston and Brighton with dates August September and May values ranging from 1 to 5000 dollars. Named grantors and grantees include Philip Raphael Horace Ware Daniel Wood Warren Hap good Ellen Coonnolly Patrick Riordan Sidney A Stetson Henry Billings Samuel Clarke Margaret Kelley Lizzie Tucker John E Blakemore Augustus Meyer James N ae Helen M Tucker Millard F Cottrell Ephraim F Moulton Benjamin F Peach Dustin Lancey Winnifred Roundy Winnifred Herty Mary Solan Bridget Moran William H Richards J B W Co burn Fitz James Price Patrick Flem ing John McCormick Cornelius Regan James F Foley Ann Keough James H Hagan Bethesda Lodge William H Long Joseph H Davis Edward C Sparkhawk Rhodnn Hatch and others with mortgaged properties and several street corner lots.
Archibald D McDougal to Henry C Hubbard mortgage from Linus M Childs dated June 26 1400. Rebecca C Billings to Benjamin F Bean mortgage from Bean dated March 25 1874 for 2500 dollars. Ambrose A Ranney to Benjamin Brintnall mortgage from Samuel J Tuttle et al dated Aug 2 1 Lowry 0. Roswell Gleason to Ephraim F Moulton mortgage from Moulton dated Aug 14 2122 dollars.
Directory style snapshot lists names and firms with locations in Augusta Craw Boone Mason Chicago Par Mason Bros Greensfelder Gore Dodge Cowen Havana Hendricks Virden Dunwody Thomas Brandt Halio Hanford Phillips Meinhard Morrow Nary. Entries pair individual names with company affiliations and city or state abbreviations.
A dense OCR dump lists numerous times, stations, and routes including Melrose, Merrimac, Wakefield, and North Law, with scattered abbreviations and unclear notes. It reads like a disorganized travel schedule with trains and connections, lacking coherent structure or a single narrative event.
Train times for Beave Boston to New Work and Providence routes are listed with Shore Line Fast Express and Mail services. The timetable covers daily departures, Sunday variations, connections with New York steamship lines, and returns, with specific times, stations, and special notes on delays and Mansfield stop requirements.
Passenger train timetables from Boston to the West and to Troy via Fitchburg and nearby branches, with numerous departures and sleepers to Syracuse Chicago Albany and St Louis, plus late evening and Sunday service details, station stops and notes by General Superintendent John Adams.
A dense list of regional train and boat timetables from Amesbury and surrounding hubs appears with services to Boston Portland Newburyport Salem and Ipswich. It notes weekly and daily departures via Causeway Street Haymarket and various branch lines with operating hours and connecting points.
Stady map is 7 far ORNEy OAK at STONINGTON LINE. SEATS IN CHAIR CARS FREE. Excess tt rains leave Boston and Providence Railroad Station daily Sundays excepted at G.cex. Stonington 9.20 P.M. New York 6 A.M. next. Tickets and state rooms secured at 7i Washington, CONner State street, Boston & Providence. R. ara a J. W. RICHARDSON, Agent, Boston, FOLSOM, Supt. Boston & Provence B. Be
A dense string of timestamps monetary values and codes appears as fragmented timetable data. Readable items include various times such as 11 AM 1 6.13 2.00 and 7.30 10.1, with sporadic mentions of places, prices and notes like Wilming, Oaks, PMs and college references. The overall snippet resembles hurried OCR of transit or schedule notes with many unreadable segments.
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