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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1887
Page
7
The report details multiple cattle lots from Trafton Wardwell Merrill and others, with prices per head and per hundredweight. Milky stock prices show wide ranges from $32 to $50, while veal calves and store pigs move unevenly. export trade remains cautious with Western steers priced around 4.05 to 5.40 per cwt.
The market shows quiet trading in flour with firm prices and higher asks, winter wheat flour firmer though unchanged, spring patents in good demand. Corn strengthens with rising ship prices and spot bids. oats and rye mix in on call, with various grades and futures shown. Inspections list diverse wheat, corn, oats, and meal stocks, with price quotes for flour, cornmeal, rye, oats, malt, and hops from multiple grades and regions.
The butter market remains firm with prices unchanged though stiff. New York creameries quote 23 to 25 cents and Chicago shows no change. Cheese markets also stay firm with prices steady, demand for fancy stock strong while low grades slow. New York and Chicago report unchanged quotations and goods selling well.
New York eggs strong with Eastern firsts at 22c and Westerns at 21c. Chicago eggs firm at 17c. Butter prices vary by region from Western 24c to New York 25c. Poultry and beans firm, potatoes very firm with high demand, sweets dull. Various hay, seeds, and tallow prices listed. extensive per-item figures in midwestern and northeastern market chatter.
Fruit demand remains good with steady prices though peaches are scarce as the season ends. Apples stay firm for quality, while large soft fruit supplies pressure prices. Grapes are abundant and sold low to prevent accumulation. plums steady with ample supply. Apple and grape varieties priced per barrel or basket as listed.
The Norfolk steamship is inbound, due here Friday, carrying 1300 barrels of sweets for delivery.
Truck market remains steady with unchanged prices reflecting quality and demand. Items include Maltas 225 per basket, native tomatoes 275 per barrel, cucumbers and peppers around 150 dollars per box or bush, beets 40 cents per bush, Lima beans 125 per bush, eye plants 1 per dozen, cauliflower 4 per dozen, and Cape cranberries listed at 65 to 75 dollars per barrel.
Prices hold steady with strong demand across pork lard beef and mutton. Long cuts and prime items command higher quotes while lighter cattle and fresh beef show steady to firm movement. Dated market outlook lists varied rates for ham bacon rib sausage and miscellaneous fresh meats across standard city and regional outlets.
Liverpool cotton futures opened quiet and closed steady with September around 6 13-64d and October near 5 5-64d. Spot uplands prices stayed steady in New York while overall daily sales reached 70,600 bales with 7300 bales American. Futures showed early soft tone but firm closing, amid extensive price quotes and certificates data.
The document lists cargo lot notations with prices including Puerto Rico at 36c Cuba boiling 20c and Barbadoes 26c plus 5? test and Cienfuegos 220. It records nominal values for several destinations and commodities in a concise itemized format.
From New York Sept 28 flour receipts 27022 pkgs and exports 244 bbls 26977 sacks. Prices steady for superfine to Minne sota extra, 800490 for winter wheat extra, and 4900 bbls Minne sota extra 3 490. Wheat receipts 139100 bushels with spot and freight prices noted No 2 spring 81/4 c, No 2 red 81 1/2 c. Provisions firmer, pork 15 75 16 00, lard 6 74 12, butter 17 25 25c, cheese firm, turpentine steady.
Chicago stock yards report hogs steady with light hogs firm, mixed packers and heavy shippers steady. receipts about 17,000 today, 15,675 yesterday, 6,901 shipments, 3,000 left over. Cattle receipts around 10,000, market fairly active. prices for light, mixed, heavy hogs and long clear and short rib cuts listed. hogs closed steady. tomorrow’s receipts estimated near 17,000. Cincinnati notes quieter loose meats with lower short clear and dull pork. Kansas City and Peoria hogs varied with modest declines in some markets.
Analysis shows Augusta through Consolidated ports with figures for net receipts gross sales and stock. Highlights include Savannah exports to Great Britain and the five day totals with overseas shipments to France and continent, plus overall U S stock at 303 795 across ports.
Keen competition at London wool sales with operators from France and continental buyers driving prices. Strong demand for New South Wales and Victoria offerings with scoured and greasy lots, including high grade combing fleece from New Zealand and Cape workmanship. Prices shown for bales across regions including River Plate and Queensland with varied scoured and greasy values.
Shipping records list Bark EO Clark with 6750 sacks sugar in Havana, Ocean Peak with 4075 bags sugar for Nash Spaulding & co, Elva C fishing schooner with 300 barrels mackerel and a hundred herring at Halifax, Nettie Shipman with 482 logs mahogany and cedar for F A Libbie at Porto Plata, Edward Johnson with 248 tons logwood at Savanna la Mar, City of Savannah steamship carrying hides feathers marble domestics and other goods for Adams Bros, Grinnell, Glover, Jewett and others. inventories show firms Waltham Bleachery and others.
Detailed export list from Mahone Bay Nova Scotia and ports including Port Antonio Jamaica Liverpool England. Schooner Jessen carries middlings meal and refined products while Steamer Elsa transports photo materials chairs boats organ silverware and more. Haytlan Ports via New York shows codfish mackerel pork herring and lumber with varied goods. Steamer Iowa clears for Liverpool carrying lard beef salt meat bacon cotton and other commodities.
Detailed ledger of commodities shipped by major railroads including Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine, and Lowell lines. Entries list cotton wool flour meal oats corn wheat middlings lard bacon butter cheese eggs beans apples potatoes hay lumber leather hides skins and related quantities, with numerous bales, barrels, tiers, and cars noted.
A fragment listing agricultural and commodity totals daily receipts for 1887 including butter, cheese, cornmeal, eggs, oats, potatoes, wheat, hay, millfeed, lumber, beef, pork, lard, hams, hides, dry hides, grease, green hides, bacon, canned goods, tea, sugar, molasses and other items. Names unlikely. Entities include dates and various product names.
A compiled list of buyers and representatives from multiple cities including Atlanta Bloomington Des Moines Columbus Fernandina Galveston Ithaca Macon Memphis Minneapolis New York Philadelphia Rochester St Louis and Savannah. Names and firms such as Moore Marsh & Baltimore Buck Smith Belknap H S Robinson & Burtenshaw Selz Schwat Arkin R P Smith Bentley Hapgood Burden & Solomon Witkowski Dunwoody Morse Fields Terry Brown Lindsley Elmstein and Smith Simmons Peabody appear with their respective locations and firms.
Gorham Rogers & Co importers at 20 Federal Street promote Date Goods catalog items.
Boston and Maine schedules list numerous through trains on both divisions from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Halifax Portland and more with daily and Sunday runs. Frequent departures cover Boston to Portsmouth Newburyport and coastal towns with regional stops. James T. FurlER and J. Flanders head the service as general manager and passenger agent.
Sarah E Morrison of Cambridge files for divorce from Hugh H Morrison of unknown location. They wed October 14 1856 at Rindge New Hampshire and resided in Cambridge. Morrison alleges three years desertion since September 28 1880 and asks for a decree a vinculo matrimonii.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Mippesex County Superior Court a libel is ordered to notify the libellee to appear in Cambridge on the first Monday of December. An attested copy of the libel and order must be published weekly in the Boston Post for three weeks, with the final publication at least sixty days before the last mentioned day. The order directs the party to show cause why the petition should not be granted. Attest TheO C Hurd Clerk.
On Monday May 30 1887 trains run from Boston to New York Providence Pawtucket and surrounding towns with specific schedules. The timetable lists departure times to New York Shore Line and Steamboat lines plus return times, stopping points including Attleboro North Attleborough Mansfield East Foxboro Sharon Canton Junction and many others with notes on Sundays and holidays and occasional power restrictions.
The timetable lists through and local service from Boston Causeway Street with connections to Laconia Weirs Plymouth Montpelier and Montreal. It includes morning and afternoon departures, parlor and sleeping cars, and notes on branches to Bristock Claremont and Montpelier. Local stops include Manchester Nashua Lawrence and Lowell with various daily train times and a full information time table at stations.
Listing of transit times and return options for trains boats and connections among Plymouth Scituate Weymouth Hingham Cohasset Duxbury and surrounding areas. Includes departure times from North Randolph South Weymouth and Fall River Line routes with notes on boat trains and regional connections. GEO L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK listed as general pass agents/managers.
York to Jersey line offers weekly trains and steamer connections from Boston's Old Colony station Sundays at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. to New York with arrival around 7:80 a.m. The route links with Brooklyn via annex boats, using steamers PPULs M and BRISTOL with staterooms and orchestra. Returning daily from New York, baggage checked to destination. Tickets and offices listed at No 3 Old Oak and Palmer Agent Old State House.
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