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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 02, 1889

Page

7

Market Reports Show Dull Grain and Flour Prices Across Cities

The market remains quiet with little change. Spot and futures readings show steady or dull activity in wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and related milled products across New York, Chicago, St Louis, Milwaukee, and Detroit with modest trading in small lots and various price brackets for grades and regions.

Minnesota Michigan Canada Superior Canada Canada Extra New York St Louis Milwaukee Chicago Gecessiam Toledo Chicago Trade Bulletin Kansas Nebraska New York & New England Railroad Boston & Albany Hoosac Peoria State Detroit Minneapolis Sixzowes

Butter and dairy market report with receipts and prices

Butter receipts today 758 pkgs vs 728 last year. demand quiet and market steady. Creamery and imitation products mixed supply. Western and Vermont grades listed with prices from 16c to 26c. Cheese and eggs markets steady to quiet with varied regional quotes. Liverpool and New York notes included.

Vermont Cincinnati Chicago New York Baltimore O'somargarine North Choice West Liverpool

Egg and Produce Market Report From Cincinnati and Beyond

The market remains fairly steady with quiet trade across eggs, beans, and produce. Eastern extras and Western options anchor prices, while potatoes, grasses, poultry, and hay show quiet demand and steady quotes for Hebrons, Burbanks, timothy, clover, turkeys, and straw nationwide.

Market Report on Fresh Produce and Prices

The market shows ample supply and steady demand for most vegetables. Squash, celery, spinach, cucumbers, beets, and onions vary by area with prices from $0.30 to $2.00 per unit. Norfolk spinach strong, Baltimore spinach weak. Florida beets $2.50 per crate, native beets $0.30 per bush. assorted crates and bbls list with multiple crops and regional notes.

Baltimore Ares Florida St Andrews Norfolk

Chicago market proves steady with mixed meat prices

Provisions and meats show varied results with pork active and lower. Lard, hams and bacon hold mostly steady with slight shifts. beef and dry salted products ease into a firmer demand as fresh meats trend upward though cattle supply remains tight.

Chicago New York—Park City St Louis Cincinnati Everiese Brighton

Kansas City Stock Yards Hog and Cattle Prices

Cattle receipts 654 at Kansas City market slow and weak with bids for native cows 175 to 260, mixed butchers 180 to 275. Hogs receipts 3995 with weaker closing. heavies 455 to 460, mediums and lights 450 to 460, pigs 450 to 465. Sheep steady at 415 to 460. Peoria hogs easier at 470. St Louis market quiet.

Kansas City Peoria St Louis

Market Report Chicago and Cincinnati Hogs Cattle Receipts

Yorkers and Cincinnati hogs in ample supply with steady to higher prices. Cattle receipts in Chicago and Cincinnati show strong demand for choice to extra beeves and steady steers. hogs mix lower to steady with heavy to light ranges. Sheep and lamb markets mixed with stronger native and Western entries, prices up to mid-5s for lambs.

Cincinnati Chicago

Banana ships and citrus cargoes listed for April departures

The Dana sails April 3 from Baracoa with bananas for Seaverns & Co. The Marmion sails Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The North Britain left Palermo March 11 for Boston, passing Gibraltar March 16 with 8050 boxes Messina oranges 2500 Messina lemons 9300 Palermo lemons and 8400 Palermo oranges. The Bergenseren is due April 2 with Baracoa bananas for WW & C R Noyes.

Dana Baracoa Seaverns & Co Marmion Jamaica Boston Fruit Company North Britain Palermo Boston Gibraltar Bergenseren WW &C R Noyes

Auction Sale Notice for Florida Oranges and California Goods

H Harris & Co announces an auction Tuesday offering 1500 boxes Florida oranges and a lot of California novels. Snow & Co schedules a Tuesday sale of 700 boxes Florida oranges and 2560 cases Valencia oranges.

H Harris & Co Florida California Snow & Co Valencia

Apples and fruits market report with prices and sales

Apples receipts 644 bbls, demand dull, prices listed for Baldwins Russets Northern Spy Tallman Sweets Greenings. Grape Fruit steady at 3 per bbl. Oranges and Lemons Mediterranean firm. Florida choice scarce. Messina Lemons 225 300, Messina Oranges 275 325, Palermo Lemons 225 350 per box. Florida oranges 350 450 per box, large cases 5 6 per case. Cranberries quiet, dried apples quotes, Strawberries 40 60c per quart. Bananas tied to Lorenzo D Baker steamer with 16 000 bunches. No 1s 160, 8 hands 110, No 2s 80c, No 3s 55c.

Vermont New Hampshire Michigan Southern Cincinnati Chicago New York Baltimore California Lima Eas Timothy North West Iltec Red Top Jersey Hebrons Houlton Hebrons Bush Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Nova Scotia New Brunswick Ebrons Burbanks Bermuda Floridas Minnesota Baldwins Northern Spy Tallman Sweets Greenings Choice Florida Messina Palermo Lorenzo D Baker Boston Fruit Company

Sugar and Molasses Market Report with Receipts and Prices

Sugar receipts today 794 barrels 385 hogsheads and 2766 bags versus 4 bbls 385 hhds last year. Raw sugar market firm with modest demand Cuba fair to good refining 55s per 100 pounds and other grade quotes. Refined sugars scarce with strong prices. Molasses receipts today 323 bbls 292 barrels 67 tierces 264 puncheons versus last year. No change noted in market tone.

East Swale Cuba Manilas Lloulos Javas Belmont New York Cienfuegos

New York Cotton Prices and Liverpool Market Summary

Cotton prices in New York remained steady with middling uplands at 10 3 16 cents and low middlings around 9 4 64 cents. sales reached 524 bales. Liverpool spot cotton quoted middling at 5 1 16 d and low middlings at 5d with 10,000 bales traded and 9,000 American bales. Futures in both markets opened steady and closed barely steady, with various forward and spot prices listed across multiple months. The report also lists extensive port receipts and stocks across U S and international markets, including New York and Liverpool.

New York Aeewas A.patere Sseeses Omagaey

Providence Division Race Totals and Times

The fragment lists a series of times and numbers in the Providence Division. It shows a sequence including 6.55 7.05 7.30 8.08 and ends with 29.10 12.230 1.16, suggesting lap or split times across events and results for Bet and related entries.

Oumuayg Bet Hazelwood Web Meath

Train Timetable for Boston and Suburban Lines 1889

Dense schedule listing dozens of departures from Boston to Attleboro Canton Readville Roxbury and beyond with specific times for weekdays Sundays and holidays. Also includes Northern Division stops for Marlboro Framingham Southboro and Northboro plus Concord Manchester and Manchester Concord branches. Ends with official notices and general manager signatures.

Miscellaneous market notes and commodity prices

Tallow receipts today 119 bbls versus 17 last year with 6 tierces and 5 pigs. Market quiet with ample supply and prices listed for city rendered, country, rough, and grease. New York steady birds and coffee Rio weak. whiskey markets quoted across Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and Peoria. turpentine petroleum figures given with resin tar and cases.

New York Birds City Rio Chicago St Louis Peoria

Wheat Markets Slip At London Opening

London reports April 1 conditions off the coast show wheat easier with cargoes on passage and for shipment. Wheat quiet at Mark Lane as corn and flour ease. English and French corn prices move lower amid steady trade.

London Mark Lane

Wheat markets slip as Liverpool prices ease and futures dip

Markets show slow trading in Paris and Antwerp with wheat steady or quiet. In Liverpool at 1 pm April 1, wheat dull and corn steady as futures ease for wheat and hold for corn. Quotations list various April to September prices for US and European grains with provisions and cheese and tallow also noted.

Paris Liverpool England California Antwerp

Exports Reported From St Pierre and Yarmouth April 1 1889

Shipping purchase ledger lists substantial consignments from St Pierre Mig. Sch Bordelaise with 75 barrels alcohol 50 boxes bread 8 branding irons 2 boxes coffee and more including copper paint lard pork and tea. Yarmouth NL schooner Mary Rose carries 21 sheets 22 pigs lead 1 case 4 casks hardware and large quantities of steel and glass. ST JOHNS NE schooner North America shows 161 items logged.

ST Pierre Mig Sch Bordelaise Yarmouth ST Johns North

Agricultural and shipboard cargo inventory brief

A lengthy OCR ledgers listing items and quantities across ships and ports including Digby Annapolis Rosario Rosario and Liverpool with goods such as meats canned goods oils hardware leather rope glassware lumber and various farm and household items. Notable totals include 729 organs 235 bbls oil 200 egg carriers 378 846 feet lumber and 6400 old staves with many packages cases and bales.

Digby Annapolis Rosario Liverpool Eng

Shoe firm listings across many cities headline regional trades

A compilation of sales agents and associates from numerous shoe companies and firms across Baltimore to Wheeling. Names include Dixon Patterson Vandergrift Perry Sweet Gates Plant Childs Schnadig Dovenmuehle Hinkle Goldberg Stickney Blum Reeder Kimball Marks McMillan Hayes Commen Harris Goodbar Lawless etc. The ad-like roster links individuals to regional distributors and manufacturers in a broad mercantile directory.

Ghaltimore G Patterson Patterson, Renshaw Co Venaltimore H Strugiuti Stevenson & Strugen Birmingham Ala H Francis A S Vandergrift Francis Vandergrift Shoe Co W Perry Perry-Mason Shoe O Tre Blacksburg C K Payne Black & Payne M Sweet Cincinnati A Meyer A Meyer & Co J Thorne W F Thorne & Co John Gates John Gates& Co Plant Plant & Marks Cleveland B Childs Childs, Groff & Co J M Schnadig Schnadig Bros & Co Chicago Dovenmuehle H FC Dovenmuehle & Son Cumberland Detroit Mich E Smith Robinson & Burtenshaw U 38 Tex J Newberger J Lowenthal Sangerros de Dallas T Buford Buford, Porter & Co J Howell Howell Bros B and Sheep Evansville Ind W B Hinkle Hinkle Nisbet & Co Fort Worth I Goldberg Martin-Brown Co Ae Fon du Lac Wis C Stickney Stickney Shoe Co St Iveston Tex—A Blum L& H Blum Pain G H Reeder Reeder, Palmer & Co Kaheas Goodbar & Co Mobile M Wollner Wollner & Lowenstein Montgomery C A Stern C A Stern & Co Nashville Tenn S Murray Murray, Dibrell & Co R Manier GI Waddey J W Manier & Son K S Hollins, Jr Hollins, Sons & Co J W Carter Carter, Dunbar & O

Train Service From Boston Special Notice

Old Colony announces that baggage may be left at No 3 Old State for baggage handling for trips via the Shore Line and Falls Line with tickets held at the special line hotel residence in Boston en route to destination.

Old Colony Boston Shore Line Falls Old State NEW York Timber Totets River Line Old Oon New York Brooklyn Jersey City Annex Keat Pilgrim Old State House J. R. Kendrick Geo. L. Connor L. H. Palmer

Regional Rail Timetable Fragments for Boston Suburbs

A dense list of train times and stops for numerous towns including Ashmont Braintree Cohasset Hingham Quincy Brockton Taunton and Fall River with weekday weekend Sunday schedules and notes on special services and limited runs.

Kneeland Street New York Ashmont Braintree Middleboro Bridgewater Brockton Cohasset and Hingham Easton East Bridgewater Abington East Milton Quincy East Weymouth Pepe Fall River Taunton Sunays Harrison Square Marshfield Sea View Mattapan Milton jJantasket Beach Neponset Edford Newport North Easton Stoughton Randolph Plymouth Duxbury Rockland Hanover Seituates Shawmut South Braintree South Duxbury Central Station Dean St Whitman South Weymouth Wollaston Heights Westridgewater Cochesett South Easton

Cape Cod Ferry Schedule Fragments for Buzzards Bay Area

Partial timetable lists ferry or transit times for Buzzards Bay and surrounding towns including Bourne Brewster Chatham Cottage City Hyannis Nantucket Provincetown Sanderwich Sacomore Wellfleet and Woods Hall with specific 8.15 am departures and 4.15 pm returns plus some 3.30 pm or 4.15 pm notes.

Kneeland Street Buzzards Bay Barnstabie Bourne Bournedale Brewster Cataumet Chateham Cottage City Park Sq New Bedford Fairhave Almouth Hyannis Harowic Monument Beach Mattapoisett Marion Nantucket Woods Hall Provincetown Sandewich Sacamore Warmouth Saremont Wellfleet Wet Barnstable Waream

Boston to New Haven Sleeping and Dining Car Service Highlighted

No. 11.00 a m with elegant Drawing Room Cars. Dining Car Worcester to New Haven. 4.60 p m Daily Limited Express with Dining Car Worcester to New Haven. 11.00 p m Daily with new sleeping cars. Tickets and parlor car accommodations available at 232 Washington Street or Kneeland Street station in Boston.

New York Middletown New Haven Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudson Newburgh Turners, N. Y Chicarro St. Louis Limited Erie Railway Boston Xeer Eade Air Live Grand Central Depot Willimantic Philadelphia Jersey City Trenton Baltimore Washington Richmond Q Pr. M Norwich Line New London Norwich Danielsonville Putnam City OF Boston City OF Worcester Washington Street Summer Street A.A ‘Ackson E. P. Vining A.C. Kendall L Sup T. Trafic Wass. Agt Central Railroad of New Jersey Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Beditimore & Ohio Railroad Sears A. m J. N. Magna New England Washington St Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Niagara Falls Detroit Chicago Michigan Central RR. R Cleveland Toledo Lakeshore Michigan Southern Ars Worcester Ara Kneeland Street Springfield Boston & Albany Moseley New Haywen House Conn Yale College Otis Bros Tiffany Glass Co New York City Union Station Seth H. Moseley Park Square Station Stonington Washington, Cor. State Street Park Square J. W. Richardson J. W. Miller C. H. Briggs Gen. Pasa

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