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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1887
Page
7
Stock goods and jobbers push late fall orders as factories race to fill samples for trade. Manufacturers report encouraging salesmen abroad. jobbers at home buy from stock, seek better value, while prices rise from last season. Boots and shoes shipments surge. rubbers active. holiday demand grows. regional stock levels are lower than usual.
The flour market remains very firm with steady demand and mills seeking full figures. Winter wheat flour and spring patent demand are highlighted, while corn and oats trade with steady or light activity. Quotations cover futures, carload lots, and assorted millfeeds with firm fats in pork and lard sections and general strength across grain products.
The report shows firmer butter demand in New York and steady to firm prices in Chicago with Elgin creamery at 24c. Cheese remains firm with limited top bids, while eggs stay strong in Chicago at 18c and beans and poultry show solid activity. Receipts are large for potatoes, and sweets are weak amid large arrivals.
Burbanks and Hebrons traded in New York with prices around 70 and 76 cents respectively. Norfolk yellow sweet potatoes sold at 225 dollars per barrel for choice, 212 for common to good, with jerseys at 25002 75 percent value. City rendered tallow listed at 4 414 cents per unit, with rough and choice grades for oleomargarine at 3 3 cents per pound.
Demand strong for all fruit with few peaches as season ends. Prices hold around 75c to $1.75 per basket, apples and grapes listed with various block prices, large grape supply but no buildup, plums steady, pears mixed by variety and size, and notes on stock quality and quick sales.
The Norfolk steamship is due here Friday carrying 1300 barrels of sweets from Norfolk, Virginia.
Truck supplies remain ample and demand steady with prices unchanged. Readouts list onions at 225 basket native 275 per barrel various beans to 150 per bush Lima 125 per bush and many other vegetables with per bush per dozen rates and p bbl figures for corn peppers celery cauliflower and cranberries reflecting consistent market levels.
Liverpool futures opened dull and closed steady with varied September to May quotes. Spot US markets opened steady at 55 16 for middling uplands and Orleans, with New York prices mixed from 9 58 to 6 15-16 cents. Daily sales reached 68 100 bales. receipts 4 100 bales. News notes all-American transactions and pipeline certificates closing.
New York market reports show flour receipts at 18 573 pkgs and exports at 2 503 bbls with demand steady for superfine and extra Western and State grades. Wheat and corn prices mixed as receipts rise, oats and barley steady, and petroleum and fats modestly firm across commodities. Cincinnati and Toledo brief prices mirror broader trend with pork, lard, and whiskey quoted steady to easy.
Time tables list Albany Springfield Pittsfield and Boston connections with express and sleeping car services. Tickets and schedules are available at 232 Washington street Boston and stations. includes daily and Sunday trains to New York, Buffalo, Chicago, and other points with through tickets to all points. A. S. Hanson and H. T. Gallup sign as general agents and superintendent.
Fragmentary timetable notes routes and times for towns including North Easton Stoughton Randolph Scituate Weymouth Hingham Plymouth and Fall River with multiple returns and connections to New York via Fall River Line and boat train services. Names GEO. L. Connor J. Kendrick appear as officials.
Markets show wheat and flour steady or firmer in Minneapolis Chicago Milwaukee and Detroit with No 1 hard and No 2 spring values around 69 to 71 cents, oats firm, corn mixed, and receipts versus shipments listed for wheat corn oats barley rye and flour across the region. Provisions remain mostly firmer with pork lard and dry salted meats priced in as shipments and receipts flow through multiple wholesale centers.
Chicago hogs mostly lower with light hogs at 450 to 490, mixed at 485 to 460, heavy at 450 to 500. cattle receipts 10,000, drafts mixed with long clear at 8.0 to 8.15 and short ribs rising. Cincinnati and St Louis report varied hog and cattle quotes, while Kansas City notes slow hog trade and receipts around 6,000.
London wool markets show reduced activity as quality falters, with inferior scoured lots dragging demand. Strong competition remains for New Zealand greasy lots, while overall sales close Oct. 5 with much supply carried to November.
Nitrate soda from Iquique aboard Bark Innerwick 1004 bags shipped by Hemenway & Browne. Salt, herring, turnips, potatoes, eggs and other provisions listed from Yarmouth and Brunswick ports. Vendors include C L Davenport, F L Clements & co, J G Hall & co, ES Ellis & co, Delong & Seaman, Batchelder, JT Hutchinson, JT J Jones & co, Whitney Pousland & co, Barclay & co, and George McQuesten & co.
The document lists exports from Moncton Dorchester Margaretvile Bridgewater Lunenburg Weymouth and Liverpool in September 1887. Items include flour cornmeal kerosene oil dyewood glassware salt beet pork lard middlings oil and coal. Vessels mentioned include Brig Diadem and Schooner Blythe On Time.
A dated list from September 29 1887 records staple goods received at the Boston and Albany and Grand Junction railroads. Items include cotton bales flour corn oats malt feed grease tea cheese eggs beans apples hay straw lumber bolls leather and other bulk commodities in numerous large quantities.
A detailed list records transport quantities by rail lines including Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern and Western divisions, and Lowell. Items span tea, coffee, sugar, flour, bacon, cheese, butter, eggs, lumber, leather, wool, hides, and various bales, bbls, and cases with totals in the hundreds to thousands.
A historical ledger style list records totals for September 29, 1887, detailing cotton, flour, eggs, cornmeal, beans, oats, wheat, hay, barley, malt, leather, hides, beef, pork, lard, bacon, tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, butter and related packages, bales, barrels, sacks, cars, boxes, and cases with various unit counts across many commodities. Names of items, units and volumes appear in mixed columnar form reflecting a trade tallies ledger.
Boston station on Causeway Street offers through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction with 8 50 am 1 3 7 pm departures. Other routes include Laconia Weirs Plymouth Warren Waverith Woodsville Littleton Bethlehem Fabyans Lancaster Jefferson and more with Montreal via Central Vermont and parlor cars to Montreal. Local Boston Manchester Concord Lowell and Nashua services listed with numerous stops and daily schedules.
OCR reads show a dense string of train times and stations including Norwood Central Boston Norwood intermediate stations and listed stops such as New Britain Middletown Providence River Street Hartford and Willimantic with numerous 6:30 pm 12:15 9:30 am entries. The fragment suggests a timetable page with scattered times and locations rather than a coherent schedule.
A jumble of times, street names, and place fragments appears to document transit and location notation. The text lists hours such as 3.30 pm and 9.10, names like Belford and New York, and city references including Waterbury and Conn. The scattered data resembles a timetable or schedule note with missing context and incomplete entries.
The notice lists Woonsocket division departures from Boston and Albany Railroad with daily and Sunday variations to Needham and intermediate stations, plus return times and stops. It describes express and through services to New York Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury and connections to Chicago St. Louis via Evie Railway, with pullman and dining car details and office contact at 322 Washington Street.
Fragmentary timetable details Boston to New York and Shore Line routes with listed stops and times. Includes departures from Boston and Providence, return times, weekday adjustments, and notes on lines serving Pawtucket North Attleboro Sharon and Dedham area.
ASA H. CHURCH seeks a divorce from MARY A. CHURCH after desertion since May 1863. The libel requests a decree of divorce and cites marriage in Springfield, Massachusetts, with request for publication notice in the Boston Post and appearance before the Suffolk Superior Court. The filing is dated September 8, 1887 in Boston.
Suffolk court orders libel petition notice to be published in the Boston Post once weekly for three weeks starting January first 1888 with the last issue six days before that date. Clerk Jos A Willard signs the true copy and Edwin A Wadleigh attests as assistant clerk.
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