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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 27, 1888

Page

7

Spanish-Sales 22 Bales Greasy Locks Reported

A local record notes Spanish-Sales trading 22 bales described as greasy. The entry lists greasy locks and related pieces with minimal context and no additional details about parties or prices.

Boston Markets Flour and Grain Prices Sep 26 1890s

Boston price report for flour and grain shows domestic flour demand firm with advancing wheat, listing specific price ranges for various flour types and along with New York and Chicago receipts and shipments. Includes corn oats rye and mixed tonnage, with supply notes for butter, potatoes, hay, and livestock feeds.

Butter and Cheese Prices Steady Across Regions

Market notes show butter supplies small with steady prices across Western Vermont and New York markets. Butter prices range from 16 to 28 cents with several grades quoted. eggs remain scarce with firmer prices across Eastern and Western markets. cheese demand quiet but prices steady with multiple regional figures.

Vermont Astern Chicago New York Ohio Liverpool State New Hampshire Goa Michigan Nova Scotia New Runswick Peb Island

Banana steamer Marmion arrives with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit

The Marmion, bound from Jamaica, is due in port carrying bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.

Banana Steamers Jamaica Boston Fruit Company

Fruits and farm market report with rail service notes

FROTT announces discontinuation of Concord to Boston refrigerator cars after September 29. Market data shows strong Liverpool fruit demand, steady to firm prices for apples pears and grapes, with mixed cereal and livestock trends across New York, Boston, and Watertown yards.

Concord Manchester Boston Liverpool London Messina Palermo Jamaica Delawares Wardens Wyoming Concords Niagaras Hartfords Marthas Salems Brightons Sonor Moore Radshaw Seeley New York

Market Report For Produce Prices On Various Beans and Vegetables

The market shows steady demand at old prices with a range of produce quoted. New marrow squash 50c per barrel, Savoy cabbage 50c per barrel, cucumbers 2 dollars per 100 count, green corn 85c per barrel, celery 1 dollar per dozen, and onions 2 dollars per 225 perishables are listed among many items with unit prices in bush boxes and baskets.

York State California West North Jersey Houlton Hebrons Houlton Hebrons Vermont Burbanks New York Bush Nova Scotia New Brunswick Virginia Bay State Russia

Provisions Market Report for Pork and Beef Prices

Market orderly for pork and lard with steady demand at prior quotes. Lists long cuts, backs, lean ends, tongues, various grades of lard and hams, plus mess pork, rump and rib options across New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and regional meat prices. Fresh beef and other meats show firmish or quiet tones as weather prospects affect supply.

New York South America Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Ilood Brighton

Sugar and Molasses Market Report

Sugar market remains firm with strong refined prices and active wholesale levels. Raw sugars show firm quotations for Cuba and Manila varieties. refined grades are steady with pulverized at 81 4c and granulated around 7 to 7 1 2 c. Molasses stays fairly active with strong prices for fancy new Ponce and Porto Rico grades.

Cuba Manilas Lloilos Jayas New York Ponce Porto Rico

Hog and cattle markets across major hubs staple notices

Kansas City reports dull trading with cattle prices down and hog receipts around 7303 while steers and cows fetch mixed figures. St Louis Peoria and Cincinnati show softer hogs with varied packer and butcher bids. Chicago cattle steady to brisk with higher sheep values and strong Western lamb demand amid large receipts.

Kansas City St Louis Peoria Cincinnati Chicago

Miscellaneous market notices and commodity prices

Market summaries from multiple cities show firm demand and steady tones across products. Tallow prices cite city 544 6 4 cents and country 422 4% c. coffee in New York steady with quiet demand. whiskey markets in Cincinnati and St Louis at 114 dollars. turpentine and petroleum in New York with resin and tar figures. several prices and terms noted for a mixed commodities roundup.

New York Chicago Cincinnati St Louis

Brighton and Watertown Livestock Market Report 1888

Report for the Boston Post by George J. Fox details weekly market totals for Brighton and Watertown. It covers cattle sheep veals hogs hides tallow skins and wool, with arrivals at Brighton and Watertown yards, prices by quality, late arrivals and sales, export movements and notes on trends amid Western cattle feed and ranch sales. Includes prices for store cattle milch cows and veal calves and remarks on impending winter price shifts.

Maine West Cambridge Nathan Appleton Albion Methey Sussex Haird & Co PW Thompson & Son George Coolidge Hail Libby & Son JC Libby Flint Baker Gage Glines & Weston Hall & Son Watertown Charles Philbrook R E French Atherton & Co R P Pollard E F Adden Dow & Moulton Charles Davis Essex L Morse Ore Durgin Wolfboro Vy C Philbrook H Bird & Co Ge Lw Averae Brighton Boston & Albany Chicago Gabiec Ln Brighton and Boston Post George J. Fox Lamba West Union Yards New England Livby & Son J D Hosmer Merrill Henry Scollane Aldrich & Johnson Boston Liverpool Kansas Hathaway

French Cross Imports Sept 26 1888 Norfolk NS

Sir Bessie Carson arrives with 58 wood 85 barrels herring and 15 potatoes aboard Delong and Seaman.

French Cross Bessie Carson Delong & Seaman

Exports Log Shares Cargoes From Sept 26 1888

The record lists entries from New Bandon New Brunswick with schooner Florida carrying 125 barrels of flour 10 barrels of cornmeal and 10 barrels of kerosene and Harborville Nova Scotia schooner G F Day with 4 barrels of refined oil. Antwerp Belgium via New York steamer Hermann with 1100 boxes bacon three dollars per barrel leather and seven cases blackine. Bear River Nova Scotia schooner Sea Foam cleared Sept 21 with 200 barrels of meal.

New Bandon Florida Harborville Antwerp Bel New York Hermann Bear River

Receipts Ledger of Railroads and Freight, 1888 Boston Area

A detailed list of railroad receipts from September 26, 1888, across Boston and Albany, Boston and Providence, New York and New England, Fitchburg, and Boston and Maine lines. It enumerates bales of wool, meal, corn, oats, beef, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, leather, hides, and other goods, with totals and unit measures, followed by Western Division train schedules and stop points.

Shipping lot totals mixed leather hides and imported goods

The excerpt lists numerous quantities by shipment and item type including rolls bales bags bolls sides leather pelts skins buls calt akins and by Express and by Sea entries. It enumerates foreign wool hi-chests tea bags coffee bbls casks grease butter cheese eggs apples potatoes lumber hides and calfskins with varied bale and box counts.

Express

Foreign Markets: Wheat Firm. Corn Steadier in London and Liverpool

London and Liverpool report wheat firm with steady corn as of Sept 26. Cargoes show English wheat quiet but foreign wheat firmer, American corn steady. Liverpool spot wheat firmer, corn stronger. Prices span California and Michigan varieties with futures active and mixed weather notes.

London Mark Lane Liverpool California Michigan England ARIS

Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town Abilene Kan

A lengthy list of boot and shoe buyers and reps from various firms and cities across the United States, including LH Faulkner & Co Albany NY, Smith & Herrick Altoona PA, E Bates & Co Bay City MI, and many others. The item reads like a trade directory snapshot with names, firms, and originating cities.

Abilene, Kan A Faulkner Faulkner & Co Craw Albany F C Herrick Smith & Herrick Altoona Penn—S Cincinnati L Runkel I Faller, Sons & Co Meis C Meis & Co Cleveland Childs Childs, Groff & Co W Cady W Cady & Co Chicago MacLauchlan Selz Schwab & Co J M Schnadig Schnadig Bros & Co J P Smith R P Smith & Sons E M Phelps Phelps, Dodge, & Palmer Charlotte L Asiel S Wittkowsky Columbus Belknap Belknap, Carpenter & Co Davenport A P Doe Doe & Co Detroit Mich E Smith HS Robinson & Burtenshaw Fort Wayne Ind L Carnahan Carnahan & Co Knoxville Tenn B E Lutz E Lutz & Co C O Lutz E M Kennedy Memphis J M Goodbar Goodbar & Co Tre Penn J I Meany J I Meany & Co Richmond I Stern Stern & Co P Frank Southern Shoe Co Clark’s. Rochester L P Ross St Louis C H Smith T Kelley Kelley, Goodfellow & So A W Allen Claflin-Allen Shoe Co St Joseph Noyes Norman & Co Qust Paul, Minn Henry Foot, Schulze & Co Savannah Meinhard AS Weil Meinhard Bros & Co

New York and New England Trains for New York

Parlor and Pullman sleeping cars operate daily from Boston to New York. Leave Boston at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., arrive New York at 4:20 p.m. and 6:35 a.m. Ticket offices at 322 Washington Street and depot end of Summer Street.

Boston New York Washington Street Suancumer Street

Boston and Maine City Ticket Office Timetable 1888

Train schedule issued for September 17 1888 shows through Western and Eastern divisions from Boston and Maine ticket office at 218 Washington Street. Listings include Augusta Haymarket square Causeway street stations with multiple departures and destinations such as Rockland Lewiston Manchester and Portland as well as steamer connections from Portland and Halifax with regular weekday and Saturday services.

Boston & Maine Railroad City Washington Street State Street Augusta Haymarket Sq Piu Causeway Sd Sam Yin Rangeer Mar Barber St. Jolin Bicalifax Causeway St C & In East Peet and Calain Mie St. John Walifax N.S Manchester Ées North—Haymarket Sq North Conws Cause Wa St Portland Haymarket Sq Maine Central Grand Preachani Knox & Lincoln Railway Causeway

Eastern Division Train Timetables Across Coast Stations

List of departure times and routes for Eastern Division trains from Huston Station to Amesbury and other towns including Chelsea Dover Great Falls Lynn Marblehead North Conway and Portsmouth with numerous time listings and station captions as read from the timetable fragment. The fragmentary OCR preserves route names and multiple daily departures with varied minutes, implying an extensive schedule across many ports and suburbs.

Railway timetable fragment with scattered stations and times

A fragmented OCR style railway timetable lists numerous stations including Revere Rockport Glouces ter Swanky scott Wenham Whiteboro Lynn Newburyport Portland Ban gor Malifax Salem and Saugus Branch. It includes varied times such as morning and evening slots and notes workinemen's trains on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Lowell System Boston Station Schedule Through Service

Lowell System timetable from Boston Station Causeway Street lists through service to Port Rilton Lake Village Meredith and Ashland at 9 am with multiple onward branches to Laconia The Weirs Plymouth Centre Marker Welfeborpe Merth Woodstock Pennigewassett Valley War ren Haverhill Woodsville and Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Jefferson Shethlehem Profile House Twin Mountain Fabyan's Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St Kohnabury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and Passimpsic Division between White River Junction and Wells River Bristol Claremont Montpelier Essex Janc tion Burlington St Albans Montreal via White River Junction with 8 30 am 1 pm 7 pm patterns and a Montreal via Montreal and Boston Air Line 9 am and 4 pm trains daily to Montreal and Fabyan's.

Boston Causeway Street Port Rilton Lake Village Meredith Ashland Laconia Weirs Plymouth Centre Marker Welfeborpe Merth Woodstock Pennigewassett Valley Warren, Haverhill Woodsville Lisbon White River Junction Wells River Bristol Claremont Tranch Montpelier Essex Burlington St. Albans Montreal Witte River Junction Northern RR Boston Air Line Fabyan’s

Local Boston Route Timetable With Multiple Stops

A dense list of bus and rail timings from Boston area services including Manchester Concord Hillsboro Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua and others. The schedule shows numerous departure times across hours of the day with many early morning and late evening options and mentions connections via Concord and Montreal express services.

Central Mass Division Train Times From Boston Stations

Timetable notice listing departure times to Northampton Hadley Amherst and other towns from Boston including Causeway Street foot of Portland Street. Times 7.45 am 1.80 3.49 5.25 pm with routes to Ware Gilbertville Barre Rudland Jeffersons Oakdale West Boylston Worcester South Sudbury Rockbottom Wayland Waltham Waverley Keelmont Belmont Wellesley and Way Stations to Northampton. Time tables available at stations. Ames T. Furger PD J. Flanders General Manager and General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

Central Mass Boston Causeway Street Portland Street Northampton Hadley Amherst South Amhert Belchertown Mondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rudland Jefferson’s Oakdale West Boyleton Worcester Clinton Berlin Brudsen Sadbury Roekbottom Wayland Weton Waltham Waverley Keelmont Belmont Weresley Hludeseon Way Ames T. Furger J. Flanders Gen’l Pas

Train Schedule for Jo Addo and Sundays Travel

Jo Addo trains depart Boston 7 and Fall River 8 30. Newport 10 p m York 3 a m return steamers from New York weekdays 5 80 and 6 15 p m Sundays 5 30 p m. Connecting trains to Boston arrive 6 50 and 9 05 a m. Annex service to Brooklyn and Jersey City. Tickets staterooms berths at No 3 Old State House corner Washington and State streets and Old Colony Station.

Pilgrim Beansti Providance OLD Olony Boston Old Colony Pall River Louches Newport Jo Addo Fall River York New York Brooklyn Jersey City Old State House Washington and State Streets Kneeland Street Ashmont Braintree Bridgewater Brocktom Cohasset and Hinzham Baseton East Bridgewater Abington Brockton East Milton East Weymouth Wymouth All River Taunton Blarrison Square Marsh Eld Sea View Mattapan Milton Yim Mantasket Beach aNew Bedford North Easton Stoughton Randolph Plymouth Duxbury Quincy Rockland Hanover Nettuate Shawmut South Ruxbury Whitman South Weymouth Wollaston Heights Weet Bridgewater Cochesett South Easton

Central Division Timetable For Inlands Multiple Stops

An extensive timetable lists train departures from Central Division stations including Ashmont Braintree Cohasset and Norwell with numerous weekday and Sunday times and seasonal notes. It references River Taunton Brockton East Weymouth Mattapan Plymouth and other routes with varied morning and evening departures and occasional special notes.

Sunday Train Schedule for Cape Cod Division

Readable timetable of trains across Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod towns with morning and afternoon departures. Lists stations including Sandwich, Falmouth, Barnstable, Wareham, Woods Hall, Wellfleet, Provincetown, and Nantucket connections with times such as 9.00 am and 4.15 pm. Sundays feature Buzzards Bay departures at 8.15 am and Wareham at 9 am.

Kneeland Street Buzzards Bay Marnstabie Cottage City Woods Hall Kasitaven Malmouth Myannis Harwich Monument Beach Tapoisett Marion Nantucket Onset Bay Province« Town Sandwich Sagamore Yarmouth Tremont Wellfleet West Barnstable Wareham Warmouth Bourne and Bournedale Caimumet Falmouth Biyannis Salcamore West Barnondle Wenaumet

Providence Division train schedule fragment

Partial timetable from Providence Division listing trains to New York Shore Line and Providence Line. Includes numerous time points, stations such as Attleboro Roslindale Park Square Junction Wickford Newport and others, with Sundays and special day notes and many garbled OCR items.

Train Schedules For Local And Through Boston Service

Timetables listing Wednesday and Saturday services available in Boston at stations and at Old Colony R R Office No 1 Old State House. J R Kendrick General Manager and Geo L Connor General Passenger Agent announce Boston date September 11 1883.

Pilgrim Bristol Boston J. KR. Kendrick Geo. L. Connor Gen’ Pass’r L. H. Palmer Old State House Old Colony R.R J. R. Kendrick Man’r. Geo. L. Connor Pass

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