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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1887
Page
7
Readable fragment lists produce items and prices including eggplants celery peppers onions cranberries and Cape items, with bulk notes like 150 barrels and dozens. Prices shown include 125 for a dozen and 675 per barrel for cranberries, indicating a wholesale market snapshot.
There is a good trade prevailing and prices are firm. Fresh beef and heavy cattle in demand. lighter cattle steady. Mutton and lambs show strong trade with stock well cleared. Pork and lard prices listed for various cuts. terms reflect large price listings. Beef, veal, and other meats include multiple grades and weights with regional price quotes.
Liverpool futures open dull close easy at several 64ths of a penny per pound with September to April pairs. Spot dull and down then steady. American bales sold and receipts recorded. New York spot mixed with steady futures. daily sales 79 300 bales. opening–closing queue shows steady to firm tone. File includes line by line pricing for U S and imports, plus raw sugar and molasses quotes.
Flour-Receipts and exports reported across New York and Chicago markets with prices for fine to extra grades. Wheat and corn futures show firm spot sales, with No 2 spring and No 2 red listed. Regional notes include Detroit Cincinnati Milwaukee and St Louis with varying gains and steady to dull activity across grains, pork, lard, and other provisions.
Chicago hog market shows steady to easy trade with receipts of 8500 today and 8000 hogs in the morning report. Cattle receipts around 1500 with steady demand. prices for shipping steers near $290 to $290. Six, and mixed cattle at $150 to $260. Kansas City hogs steady with 2000 receipts. St. Louis hogs range from 470 to 495 and Peoria hogs at 450 to 505.
The Providence print cloth market ends the week steady with 64x64s at 35-16 cents cash and 56x60s at 2 15-16 cents cash. Demand is moderate, supply tight, with sales of 9500 pieces 64x64s spots and 6500 pieces 56x60s spots and early delivery. Manufacturers hold about 170000 pieces 64x64s in stock.
On September 24 cotton markets show varied activity across ports. Augusta Net receipts 2568 with mid 8 4 cents, Galveston 4969 receipts and 87 cents, New Orleans 6824 receipts and mid Ye, Mobile 1072 receipts mid 15 16e, Savannah 7558 receipts easy mid 8 15-16c, Norfolk 2276 receipts buyers and sellers apart mid 93 16c. Consolidated daily net receipts 33 777, exports to Great Britain 8573, continent 4150, stock at all U S ports 808 755.
At the London wool sales on September 24 demand was weak except for cross-breds and some fine merinos remain scarce, keeping prices high for those grades. Sales close October 4 with detailed figures by region including New Zealand Victoria New South Wales Queensland Swan River Cape of Good Hope Natal and Spain in greasy scoured and other forms.
Shipping lists detail cargoes from Bark Sarah to Matanza s Steamer Cydonia and brig Hyaline across Azores Barbados Rosario and Yarmouth NS. Items include sugar bags hhd s ale staples wine embroidery wicker goods fish and various perishable goods. Many firms listed with consignments and quantities such as 16 500 bags sugar and 6000 bags sugar.
Shipping list from St John New Brunswick to Gloucester through multiple ports records schooners Osseo Portland A Anthony Ella Maud Maggie McC and Hugh M plus cargoes including flour oil lumber hardware and fruit. Notable totals include 865 barrels flour aboard Carroll and 226 bags middlings with 350 barrels flour plus other provisions.
A detailed list of cargo and goods includes flour 25,045 sacks and 15 bbls dye stuffs, canned lobster, hams, lard, herring, and assorted hardware. The document also records materials such as leather, oils, sugar, nails, glass ware, roofing, and staves across consignments from Glasgow and Liverpool bound schooners and steamers with various cleared dates.
A detailed list records receipts of wool, flour, grains, meats, dairy and other goods for multiple rail lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg and Boston & Maine in 1887. Quantities span bales, barrels, bushs, cars and boxes, with items such as cotton wool flour corn oats wheat lard butter cheese eggs beans apples hay lumber hides and leather. The compilation reflects extensive trade and freight activity across regional rail networks.
A dense ledger style item listing total receipts and quantities by commodity for Sept 24 1887. Includes butter wool flour cheese cornmeal eggs oats beans wheat apples barley potatoes malt millfeed hay peas tallow leather pork lard hams grease hides tea coffee sugar molasses pelts and other goods with unit measurements and tallies across years 1887 1886.
A busy listing shows buyers and their firms from cities including Atlanta Des Moines Chicago Cincinnati and more. Names such as Kingsbury J A Smith S D Buck Aaron Blum Solomon J M Dunwoody and George W Brown appear with associated companies and locations across the United States.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a special through Pullman tour with one uninterrupted circuit. Berths reserved inBoston will be held until return. The trip uses a fast daylight schedule except the first night, ensuring most travel is by day.
Rail routes list Boston and Maine trains on both divisions from Haymarket and Causeway stations with schedules to Augusta Rockland Eastport Calais St John Halifax and other ports and towns via steamer connections and multiple daily departures including Manchester Concord North Conway Portland and stations on related lines with times and transfer notes. The notice includes partial times and numerous station pairings across routes.
Western Division timetable listings for trains to Alton Bay Dover Saco Melrose Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield Malden Medford and surrounding towns with weekday and Sunday departures including addressing multiple stations and times. notes on workingmen's train and Sunday service to Portland Bangor Lewiston and Way Stations.
Trains leave Bolston and Amesbury with a dense timetable listing multiple departure times for Beverly Chelsea Dover and many other stations on the Eastern Division. The schedule includes weekday and Sunday trains with connections via Saugus Branch and South Reading Branch, plus notes on City ticket office at 806 Washington Street and two officials names.
Train timetables show connections between Boston and New York Shore Line and Shore Line Mail with multiple return times, including Steamboat Stonington Line, and frequent deviations by day of week. The notice lists numerous stations, times, and exceptions, with a summary by A. L. Lulsom Superintendent.
Readable fragments show intercity rail connections with Albany Syracuse Cleveland Toledo Chicago routes. References include New Haven River Branch, Chatham Morning and Afternoon departures, sleeping car service, and various stations like Worcester Niagara and Leavelland. Exact times, train numbers, and some spellings are unclear due to OCR.
Local time tables show the railroad divisions with hourly service and express routes. Tickets to all points are on sale at the ticket office 232 Washington Street Boston. Through routing to all points available.
The notice lists weekday and Sunday rail schedules from Boston to New York via Fall River and via Pall River, with numerous return times. It includes connections to Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Provincetown and other Massachusetts towns, along with times for Brockton Taunton Weymouth and South Braintree. Generated by GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK, Gen. Pass. Agent and Gen. Manager.
Boston station on Causeway street lists through service to Yor Wilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction with 8.30 am 1 3 7 pm departures. Local points on Northern R R 8.30 am pm. Parlor Cars to Montreal on 8 3 8 1 pm trains. Local Boston service to Manchester Concord Keene Hillsboro Nashua and Greenfield with multiple morning and afternoon departures including Sundays.
A jumble of numerical times and phrases such as am pm sun dine and notes like 12 m 2 3.40 appears, suggesting a damaged schedule or timetable fragment with scattered hours and days, including references to Dine No Bil lerieu and various values.
Rail timetable lists trains from Logton and Boston areas to New York Hartford New Haven and coastal stops. Includes Woon socket division and Norfolk Line express services with departure times from Boston and intermediate stations and notes on Sundays and stops. Officials A A Jackson and A A Kendall advertise ticket and information desks.
Full timetable listing hours for multiple stations including Arlington Bedford Concord Mass and Winchester. Mentions through trains, Sundays, and various times from early morning to late evening. Ends with note that full information is obtainable at stations.
Rail timetable notice announces Central Massachusetts R R service to Ware starting Monday June 27 1887 with early morning departures from Boston Ware Barre Rutland and connections to West Boylston Oakdale Jefferson Sudbury Wayland Weston and more. Officials GEO W Storer and GEORGE W Mellen sign the general pages.
The new York route trains from Boston and Providence stations depart daily at 6 30 p m except Sundays, reaching Stonington at 9 20 p m and New York next morning. Tickets and staterooms are available at 214 Washington Street and Boston & Providence offices. Concord R R and branches schedule begins July 24 1887 with multiple morning and afternoon departures from Boston to Manchester Concord and upper lines.
Fitchburg Railroad schedules list train times and sleeping car service for Albany Chicago Cincinnati St Louis routes. Express daily departures include 3.05 pm 7 pm with sleeping cars to Chicago and 10.30 pm to Troy Albany, plus various morning and Sunday times. Belmont Traverley Brattleboro via Miller's Falls times noted.
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