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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1887
Page
7
A listing of meat prices showing pork cuts, bacon, ham, shoulders, ribs, and beef items with prices by weight. Includes fresh beef and lamb categories with ranges for steers, heifers, and chucks, plus Eastern mutton and veal price notes.
A fragment lists retail and wholesale prices for onions, tomatoes, cabbages, beans, Lima beans, greens, squash, beets, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, parsnips, pickles, corn, peppers and other produce. Values shown include baskets and bushels with various price points such as onions at $2.25 per basket and beets at 40 cents per bush.
A market bulletin reports mixed fruit demand and prices. Peach trains carry six cars Friday morning, with Jersey peaches at 16042 00 and fair stock at 1135, common at 50 75c per basket. New York peaches at 756c and 125 per basket. Lemons aboard the Bethal: 2000 boxes to be sold Monday. Apples plentiful and trade dull, with strong demand for choice Bartlett pears and Seckle sales solid. Cranberries in ample supply but weak demand. Cape Cod berries boost Eastern prices due to cranberry shortages in the West. Grapes abundant with low pricing to avoid buildup. peaches receipts for six days totaled 34 cars. Cephalonia steamer due with 40 bbl Almeria grapes. Prices listed for Gravenstein apples, Concords, Delaware grapes, Bartlett pears, Seckle, various oranges and lemons, bananas, and plums.
Liverpool futures opened quiet and closed firm with varying September to May spreads. Spot upland prices held at 542 5/8 cents. U.S. spot opened quiet then steady in New York with middling and good ordinary levels. Daily sales reached 102 400 bales. receipts 11 000 bales. Futures showed a steady to firm close after a lower opening.
Reports from trade centres show flour receipts 12 496 pkgs exports 75 bbis, 12 621 sacks. wheat receipts 62 350 bush, exports 112 649 bush, spot sales 360 000 bush with No 2 spring 78 44c, No 1 red 79 14-80 14c. corn receipts 63 700 bush, spot heavy. oats and barley quoted near steady. sugar and molasses steady. rosin and turpentine activity listed. pork quiet with mess at 15 60 old and 216 50 new.
Detroit and Chicago markets show wheat mixed with slight gains and declines across varieties. Grain futures, flour, and provisions move as receipts and shipments vary while regional quotes report steady butter and dull lard alongside copper and tin pricing.
Hog markets show mixed stability with prices in St Louis and Chicago barely firm while Kansas City and Peoria log slow volumes. Cattle and sheep receipts at Chicago and other hubs reflect softer demand with steer and calf prices edging down and lambs easing in the current market.
Augusta to Savannah and beyond report mixed receipts and sales for cotton with steady or firm tone. Net receipts show varied totals at Galveston New Orleans Savannah and others while exports coastwise to Britain and the continent rise. Consolidated six day totals reach 97 521 with stock across all U S ports at 171 731.
Beerbohm's report notes cargoes off the coast with wheat in demand, American prices high, Russian wheat bought by operators. Paris and Liverpool markets show quiet or steady wheat and weaker corn, with December and January futures prices listed for California and No 1 California wheat. Provisions and tallow unchanged, with various price points across regions.
London wool sales saw fair attendance with home buyers more active than continental purchasers. Cross-breds held strong demand especially fine and medium. other categories slower. Withdrawals reached 10 400 bales leaving 177 105 bales available for sale. A woolled sheepskins sale is planned for the 23rd with about 1600 bales likely to be offered.
Shipping list from Clemontport and Liverpool shows 60 cords wood 350 eggs 326 boxes herring and 60 dozen eggs. Delong Seaman and others import pig iron wool machinery bricks and chemicals. Steamer Samaria and Kansas carry goods to and from Liverpool with bales paper waste iron wool and lemons.
A long list records cargo types and consignors at Boston including Baring Bros Co J B Moors Co Stone Downer Jere Abbott and many others with goods such as tin plates tin, yarns, ginger ale, porcelain, carpets, iron, steel, wool, oil, and beer. Other entries show ships from Liverpool and Yarmouth shipping lines with preserves, dry goods, and hardware.
A detailed 1887 export listing records cargoes from Baddeck Liverpool Digby Annapolis St Pierre London and more. Items include flour oil meal and carpentry goods among hundreds of sacks cases bbls and crates for ships such as J B Sainte Dexter New York Roman Borderer and more.
A dated inventory lists wool, flour, corn, oats, malt, feed, meats, butter, cheese, eggs, beans, apples, potatoes, lumber, and leather across several lines. Railroads include Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Kitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western, and Lowell. Entries show bales, bbls, sacks, bush, tierces, cars, and boxes with varying quantities.
Fragmented OCR shows numerous goods quantities such as beans hay bags leather hides tea coffee sugar and cotton along with multiple numbers and units. It appears as a mixed inventory or price ledger entry with missing context and several garbled terms.
Boston and Maine announces September 9 1887 through trains on both divisions. Services include Augusta Taymarket to Bar Harbor St John Halifax and Calais with multiple daily departures from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. Additional routes cover Lewiston Manchester Concord North Conway Portland and stations on Maine Central Grand Trunk and Maine and Lincoln Railways.
A dense list of train departures and arrivals across the Western Division. It names Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Andover and Portland Bangor Lewiston with scattered times for weekdays and Sunday trains. The entries mix numerous stations and irregular times, reflecting a busy regional schedule.
Eastern Division lists Boston Causeway Street departures for Amesbury Dover Ipswich Salem and other towns with frequent times and notes for branches Saugus and Saugus via multiple lines. City ticket office address given. Institutions names: James T. Furber General Manager and J Flinders General Passenger Agent.
On and after July 24 1887 trains depart Boston B and L depot for Manchester Concord NH and upper railroads at 4 7 30 3 30 9 30 am 12 m 1 3 5 7 pm and Ex services Sundays at 1 7 pm Returning from Concord NH to Boston depart at 5 30 7 30 8 10 Ex 10 20 2 50 2 67 Ex 3 35 5 05 Ex 6 27 Ex pm Sundays at 5 55 Ex 7 20 am E CCHA ERLIN Supt
Weekday trains depart Boston for New York via Fall River and return via the Pall River Line with multiple daily departures from Ashmont and Brockton. The notice lists extensive seasonal and weekend schedules to coastal towns including Hyannis Barnstable Sandwich Wareham Provincetown Cohasset Scituate and Nantucket, with return times and connecting routes. It names GEO L. Connor and J. Kendrick as general rail officials and notes service changes effective September 12 1887.
Monday trains run to New York and Providence with multiple daily departures and returns. The timetable lists connections at Canton Pawtucket Attleboro and Forest Hills with marked variations by day and season and notes supervisor A. A. Folsom.
A garbled timetable lists trains and drawing room cars to Springfield and Chicago. It mentions the 11 am express with through cars to Albany, detours via Knalls and Detroit, and arrivals at Boston with various morning and evening departures.
Trains depart Boston passenger station Causeway Street for North Adams Troy Albany and the West with multiple daily times and routes including through sleepers to Chicago and long list of intermediate stops such as Cambridge Concord and Brattleboro. Sunday and holiday timetables are listed.
Train schedules list departures from Loston Station and many nearby stops on weekdays. Timings cover Ashcroft Baltimor Street Danbury Hartford New Britain and numerous towns with multiple daily options.
Boston and Albany Railroad timetable details depart from Boston daily with Needham and intermediate stops. Expresses include 3 AM/3 PM departures for New York via Middletown and New Haven with through connections to Hartford New Britain Waterbury and Port Jervis. Also Norwich Line Express to New York through New London and City of Worcester connections.
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