Market Report on Yearlings and Mutton Prices
Eastern mutton prices show 6 7c for choice with common to good at 5 6c. Veal ranges include good to choice at 8a 9c with some fancy at 10c, and poor to good at 6 7c.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1887
Page
7
Eastern mutton prices show 6 7c for choice with common to good at 5 6c. Veal ranges include good to choice at 8a 9c with some fancy at 10c, and poor to good at 6 7c.
Fruit is firm with good demand and steady prices. Peaches sell at 75e S1 40 per basket, apples quiet with unchanged prices, pears in strong demand for choice stock, grapes firmer with liberal supply, plums selling well. Elsa steamship due Monday from Jamaica brings bananas and oranges to Seaverns & Co.
The Norfolk boat due here Friday carries 1100 bbls of sweet potatoes.
Truck market shows steady supply and demand with unchanged prices. Listings include onions at 225 per basket, tomatoes 75 cents per unit, cabbage 6 to 8 per 100, beets 40 cents per bush, and cucumbers 125 per 100, among others.
Liverpool cotton futures opened steady and closed quiet for several months ahead with September at 5 24-644d and October at 6 12-64d. Spot New Orleans and New York markets mixed with steady to easy tones. Sales totaled 38,600 bales. receipts 9,000 bales. Prices quoted across ports show modest gains and steady levels with several vessels and stocks reported.
Reports from New York and other markets show flour receipts and grain prices firming with varied bids. Wheat No 2 spring and No 1 Northern steady to higher. rye and barley mixed. corn and oats active with strong exports and steady to higher spot values.
In Chicago Union Stock Yards on Sept 22 hog receipts estimated 16 000 with yesterday at 16 032 and 6 325 shipments leaving 9 000. Hogs sold mixed with light hogs down 5 cents at 4 70 to 4 75 a few shippers weaker at 4 75 5 10. Cattle receipts 11 000 and market slow with small gains in some cuts.
Daily livestock quotes show hogs steady with receipts noted in Cincinnati Kansas City and Peoria. Cattle and hog values listed across major markets including St Louis and Chicago with ranges for steers cows and lambs and fresh receipts figures.
Foreign markets report a marked fall in attendance at London wool sales with scarce crossbreds and merinos. Prices favored buyers as many lots were withdrawn and home trade led activity, while continental and American buyers showed little interest.
A detailed list of inbound and outbound cargoes at Hayti and Liverpool including logwood bananas pig iron tin plates iron goods chemicals and assorted merchandise. Named firms include Dupuy Riboul & co Lyon Dupuy & co Jemenes Hansted & co and Ward Wadsworth & co with numerous consignors and buyers and quantities in bags boxes cases and casks.
Schedule details list numerous daily and Sunday trains serving Weymouth, Scituate, Hingham, Plymouth, Fall River, Newport, Taunton, Brockton, and Brockton connections. It notes returns, via Brockton or Taunton, and boat train connections from Fall River. GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK listed as agents.
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany Railroad list daily departures from Boston to Springfield Worcester North Adams and New York with express and sleeping car services to Buffalo Chicago and New York. Through tickets sold at Boston offices and stations. schedule includes connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer and Ware River Branch and notes Sunday trains. Printed by H Hanson and H T Gallup as general agents.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered times and locations including New York New England tans 7 45 am 11 05 am 9 11 15 PM and Wellesley references with 1.30 2.30 and lower terms suggesting a timetable snippet with station or schedule notes.
An extended ledger lists dozens of firms with bundled quantities including cases, casks, bolls, and crates of varied goods. Items cover lace, guns, woollens, skins, paper hangings, leather, wine, tissues, china, glassware, clocks, perfumes, mdse, and raw materials such as pig iron, hemp, and silk yarn, reflecting extensive commerce activities.
A ledger of shipments includes schooner Mary E MacDougall from Guysboro carrying 750 barrels flour 250 barrels cornmeal 52 barrels refined petroleum to Arichat. schooner Lily E from Tusket with 125 barrels car. steamer New York from Digby and Annapolis with grapes pears Penligh items and miscellaneous goods. cargoes from Antwerp via Baltimore on steamer Mareca with bales leather.
A detailed facsimile of receipts dated Sept 22 1887 lists vast consignments moved by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Providence Old Colony Fitchburg Boston & Maine and Lowell. Items include wool flour corn wheat malt middlings hay leather cheese eggs bacon lard butter and numerous bales of cotton and other staples.
A historical ledger lists total receipts dated September 22 1887 across multiple commodities. It records cotton bales sugar and wool quantities, flour molasses cornmeal oats cheese and various other goods with figures indicating production and stock levels. The dense table preserves many named items and numeric totals for trade activity.
Real estate transfers across Suffolk County show parcels on Alexander Avenue Water Street Huntington Avenue Tremont Street Roxbury West Roxbury and Codman Street. Transactions include multiple deeds with prices ranging from 1 to 8300 dollars and several mortgage backs or transfers between individuals and local entities.
A compilation of land transfers and mortgage backings dated Sept 2 to Sept 13. Entries cover parcels on Peters Hobart Webster Orleans Warren Garland Division Havre Revere Taylor and more, with prices from $1 to $9200 and sizes from 4970 to 7000 square feet. Names include Wellington Brunty Faxon Cherry Irwin Fisher O'Connor Cook Green Turner Cum mings Durant.
Multiple six sept mortgages recorded on September 6 and 7 across Boston area towns. Transfers include Patrick Crosby to William J. Miller on Crosby Street West Roxbury for 1200 and Benjamin T. Ricker to Allen Colburn for 1000 on Lamartine Street West Roxbury.
Train listings for routes from Augustu s to Portland and beyond show departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations. Services include Bangor Har Harbor St John Halifax and the Provinces with multiple daily times and connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox and Lincoln Railways.
Compiled schedule fragment lists station names such as Alton Bay Rochester Farm Dover Melrose Newburyport Reading Wakefield and Wilmington with varied times and frequencies. Many numbers appear as departure and arrival entries across multiple towns, reflecting a large, dense timetable extract.
A jumbled OCR snippet shows scattered times, prices, and codes such as 10.26 Li pm and 4.44 $.35. It mentions places like Andover and North South sections with several numbers, likely a broken market or schedule page with unclear entries and no coherent narrative.
Dover 6 pm and Manchester 6 pm are listed with evening departures. Haverhill and Reading Way Stations show multiple daily times including 3 104 am and 12 30 2 4 5 6 7 7 80 9 10 pm. Portland Bangor Lewiston connections appear at 6 pm. Medford and Lowell specify early morning and late evening slots.
Eastern Division timetable shows trains from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Asiddeford Chelsea Dover Everett and many other stations with varied departure times throughout the day including morning, afternoon and evening slots. The dense schedule lists dozens of cities along the coast and interior, reflecting an extensive network with frequent services.
Bus and rail schedule fragment listing stations Lynn Newburyport Ports mouth Portland Bangor St John Malifax and Salem with times from 8.20 am to 9.30 pm. Via Saugus Branch and South Reading branch stations in Boston Haymarket City ticket office Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains. James T. Furb er GM D. J. Flanders GPA.
Trains run from Boston B and L depot to Manchester and Concord New Hampshire and upper railroads starting July 24 1887 with multiple daily departures including four early afternoon and evening times. Returning trains from Concord to Boston run with a similar set of departures. Superintendent Chamberlin notes operations aware of delays and exceptions.
Boston passenger stations list frequent departures to North Adams Troy Albany and the West with days and times for express and local services. Includes through tickets to Chicago and connections at South Acton and Miller's Falls with offices at 250 Washington Street Boston and signatures of Adams Whitmore and Watson.
On the Whonsocket division trains depart Boston daily excluding Sundays with multiple Needham and intermediate stops and return times. An express train to New York via Middletown and New Haven includes through connections to Hartford and beyond with dining cars. The Norwich line serves New York and New London with steamer connections and parlor or Pullman cars. tickets at 322 Washington Street or depot gates.
The notice outlines a complex schedule change for the Shore Line and Providence routes starting Monday. It lists departure and return times between New York and local stops including Pawtucket Attleboro and Mt Hope with varying late dispersals, indicating adjustments on weekdays and weekends and multiple connecting services.
Sunday departures from Boston at 7 p m with connections to Fall River Newport and New York. Returning steamers operate on weekdays and Sundays with arrivals in Boston in the morning. Annex connections link Brooklyn and Jersey City. Tickets and berths available at the Old State House and Old Colony Station.
The double daily Fall River Line service will be discontinued at the close of the week ending September 24. The Second Special Express leaving Boston at 7 p.m. on weekdays and connecting steamers will be withdrawn. Steamers Pilgrim and Bristol stay in service after that date. Connecting trains depart Boston Old Colony Station at 6 p.m. weekdays and 7 p.m. Sundays.
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