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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 15, 1890

Page

7

New York Money Rates and Rail Stocks Rise on Rate Accord

Money on call ranged 3 to 6 percent with latest 4 4 and 4 34 for bills. Prime mercantile paper 6 7 percent. Stock market gains led by Western railroad shares such as Rock Island Missouri Pacific Burlington and St Paul as Chicago freight rate accord boosts optimism.

New York Prime Mercantile Sterling Exchange Chicago Alton Pacific Fail Missouri Pacific Rock Island Burlington Colorado Manhattan Flint & Pete Marquette Western Railroad St. Paul Lackawana Tennessee Jersey Central New England Big Sandy Cedar Falls & Minneapolis Union Pacific St. Paul H. & D Mobile & Ohio Ohio Southern Western New York

Foreign financial notes from London markets April 14

London reports describe Canadian Pacific Erie Illinois Central and Mexican stocks with varied percentages and prices in late trading. Consols and other British securities quoted with yields and prices. bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England totals £25,000.

London Canadian Pacific Erie Ilinois Central St. Paul Reading Paris Avantic Great Western New York Central Pennsylvania Mexican Central Barsilver Ank of England

Commercial Markets Report Shows Steady Dry Goods and Meal

Dry goods quiet while wool and cotton hold firm. Flour and corn products rise. corn and oats strengthen. Butter cheese and meats largely steady or quiet. Fruits like Florida oranges scarce. cranberries and dried apples firm. High wines sugar molasses vary with steady to quiet movement across commodities.

Florida

The Cotton Trade Market Summary

The cotton markets show moderate activity with firmer prices. Spot demand is light but prices rise to 1158 1113-16¢ Ptb. Liverpool closed early but reopened with tame activity and improved sentiment from late planting and tight supplies. Weekly receipts total 23 570 bales for week ending April 7, with 5 632 608 bales since Sept 1 1889, up 318 864 bales from last year.

Uplands Gulf Liverpool

Wool Market Holds Steady as Demand Remains Strong

The wool market shows no material change as demand stays brisk and prices remain steady. Large holders expect high prices ahead, while most sellers remain unconstrained at current levels. Prices for Ohio X and Michigan X varieties hold firm with limited stocks in combing and delaine fleeces.

Est Ohio Michigan

Market reports show no improvement in major cities

Reports from Philadelphia and New York indicate markets have not improved, while Australian meets attract solid demand, suggesting uneven or limited recovery in key sectors.

Philadelphia New York

Wool sales report from London and regional markets

Wool sales in London on April 14 offered 9375 bales with active bidding for New Zealand cross-breds and strong demand for low priced greys. Details show Victoria NSW Queensland South Australia New Zealand Cape of Good Hope and Natal lots with scoured greasy and locks prices ranged from 1s 1d to 11d per pound and Falkland autumn combing prices. Print cloth market in Fall River noted quiet but firm at 35 16 per 64s with some regular business.

New York Journal of Commerce Pope Ha New York Fall River Providence Boston Valine Ubbs Oc Ce Cece Cece Ncceeses Po 914 2,676, 841 1Bbt Wn Wes Ewes Wcccceesserve Pocevces Kerseys Meltons London New Zealand Victoria New South Wales Queensland South Australia Cape of Good Hope Natal Falkland

Flour and Meal Prices Rise as Trade Remains Active

Receipts show 6455 barrels and 3398 sacks wheat flour along with 625 barrels corn meal and 90 barrels and 360 sacks oatmeal. Wheat flour remains firm with continued price gains. various patent, superfine, and export grades quoted from 2.50 to 5.50 per barrel, while eye and Graham flours hold near recent levels and cornmeal and oatmeal show firmer or steady demand.

Minnesota Wisconsin Canada Superior Canada

Grain trade receipts and market summary report

Grain receipts today total 15 710 bus corn 10 160 bus oats 5 05 tons millseed 1 240 bus barley 6 050 bus malt and 1 320 bus cottonseed meal. Inspections show 48 cars with various corn and oats grades. Visible and stock data across Boston New York Albany Hoosac Chicago reflect firmer markets amid limited trading.

Boston Jace New York & New England Boston & Albany Hoosac Chicago Bush Burh Ses Reeves New York Bailey Canada Michigan Ceeeres

Market Notes on Poultry, Potatoes, Hay, Sugar and Groceries

Market reports show quiet trade and firm prices across poultry meats and vegetables. Fresh-killed chickens and fowls command higher returns while potatoes, onions, and beans see steady to dull activity. maple sugar and syrup remain slow but steady with several regional prices listed. Sugar and molasses markets hold firm with varied cut leaf to standard grades and wholesale granulated around 6.31c.

Maine Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Vermont New Brunswick Nova Scotia Belmont New Orleans Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados

The Fruit Trade And Steamer Arrivals For Boston

The market stays firm for apples with Baldwins and russets pricing steady. Mediterranean fruit shows steady demand with Palermo Messina lemons and oranges firm. Valencia supply ample. Florida fruit stocks shrink, grape fruit and tangerines mixed. Cranberries and pineapples see small supplies. Dried apples and strawberries show limited demand. Steamer Canar due Friday with bananas. Thomas Anderson and North Britain deliveries of Messina and Palermo fruit to Boston. Fr James Turpie sailed from Palermo. Kong Frode due next. Harris & Co to auction Thomas Anderson cargo Wednesday.

Southern St Andrews Chicago Norfolk Florida Havana Virginia Palermo Messina Canar Ww&cr Boston James Turpie Kong Frode Jamaica Boston Fruit Company H Harris & Co Thomas Anderson

Produce Trade Report Shows Steady Prices and Quiet Demand

Market notes describe quiet trade with steady butter and dairy prices. Receipts tallies include butter 945 pkgs 22 boxes oleo 5383 pkgs cheese 2263 boxes eggs 7 bbls 2489 cases beans 444 bbls potatoes 42 cars sweet potatoes none hay 2 cars straw 3 cars.

Choice Chicago Western Creamery New York Elgin Nova Scotia New Brunswick Michigan St Louis Bush Vermont California Lima Choice Canada Northern Lucerne Western Jersey Ribent

The Provision Trade and Meat Market Prices

Receipts show tallow 60 pkgs lard 62 pkgs hams 120 bbls preserved meats 17 cases bacon 309 boxes. Markets report steady demand across pork products with prices rising. various cuts priced from 7 1 2c to 18 1 2c per lb and related meats and byproducts listed with regional and packing terms.

Chicago Brighton Eastern Choice Choice

Market Report Hog and Cattle Prices Across Kansas City and Chicago

Kansas City cattle and hog prices listed for various classes with mixed to steady movements. Chicago receipts show beeves, steers, cows and Texas corn fed steers with mixed to steady trading. hogs strong to a shade higher. sheep steady with western and Texas lambs noted.

Kansas City Chicago Texas

Sugar Receipts and Raw Sugar Prices Noted

Sugar receipts today total 100 bbls matching the prior year, while raw sugars remain steady with demand. Cuba refined 80 test, 4 and a half cents, centrifugals 96.

Cuba

Cotton Markets and Option Market News Abroad

New York cotton prices hold steady with uplands mix and firmer futures. Liverpool market firm on middling uplands amid steady to firm global tone. Chicago and St Louis show mixed futures while exports and receipts vary across ports.

Whiskey Market Summary Across Eight Cities

Peoria and St Louis report whiskey at 102 dollars while Chicago and Cincinnati show whiskey at 102 dollars. Prices for whiskey and spirits are steady to firm with markets described as strong in Chicago and unchanged in Peoria.

Peoria Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Turpentine and Petroleum Prices Briefed in New York Trade

Turpentine closed at 41 4c with rosin ranging 1 26 to 1 30 and tar at 2 25. Petroleum ginnes cited at 7 30 with RSW at 7 10 and cases as noted.

New York

Vast Import List From Liverpool and London Markets

A lengthy 1890 shipping ledger details imports at Liverpool and London ports. Items include chemicals, machinery, mohair, leather, linen, glassware, tinplates, wine and brandy, woolens, hardware, and many pacts with multiple firms such as Pavoula Stone and Downer, Brown Bros & Co, Stone & Downe, and J B Moors & Co. The record enumerates dozens of consignments with quantities like 169 boils of iron, 312 boils, 44 boxes tinplates, 730 bags potatoes, 438 boxes tinplates, and 92 bars iron among others. It also lists associated shippers and houses in a dense inventory.

Scotia England Giaussop Langley Scotland Newfoundland Labrado British West Indies Africa Cuba Belgium Boston Eae Ahan Oe Sk’s Formor ‘Co China Ruit Philo Turks Island Nova Scotia Port Antonio Accon Shamiloo Moroc 'O Liverpool Eng Stone & Downer Potter & Atherton Machine Co Haring Bros & Co M Jones & Co Laring Bros & Co Brown Bros & Co Baring Bros & Co Moors & Co Centreville Mix White, Son & Co Stedman & Fuller Mix Co W_ H Davis & co Lease mdise —i Mayor Saco Water Power Co Pettee Machine Shop Woonsocket Machine & Press L'Ierce & Co Wadsworth, Howland & Co Krost & Adams Stone & Downee F Hovey & Co European Express French & Co Curner, Jones & Co Coleman, Mead & Co Codman & Hall L'Atnam & Foley Woonsockes M & S Co Robert M Diaz & Co Chase & Co Moise Lowell Machine Shop W H Davis & Co Sh Pard, Norwell & Co John H Pray Richard Tripp & Son Lockwood Damiel & Upham Prang Sons & Co Wellington & Co W & C RK Noyes Clarke Curtis & Co Chaffer & Co Noyes Bros Jordan, Marsh & Co Snow H White & Co Holder & Herrick Laldwin Bros & Co Crocket Bros Ansphy & Co Beal, Higgins & Henderson Booth & Co Brigham Boston Book Co I & I Murdock M O'Rourke Krown, Durrell & Co Shepard, Norwell & Co Hutchins, Kitching & Co A & W Bird & Co Hovey & Co Waldo Bros Beecher Draper & Sons Nelson Yarmouth Steamship Co HU Collins JB Moors &Co Macailar, Parker & Co Hull New Rags Brown Bros & Co Crocker, Burbank & Co Wolfe & Co Thorpe & Adams Mfg Co Larlow & Co Lee & Co Baring Bros London Brown Ros & Co Chase & Sanborn Colls Iron Stone & Downer Emery Webster King Glue Co Walker & Co JS Morgan & Co

Massive 19th Century Merchant Cargo Listings Across Ports

A dense OCR styled record lists goods and consignments from Glasgow Liverpool and other ports. It enumerates mdse barrels casks bales packets and crates including hemp tea coffee sugar soap and petroleum. Several firms such as Baring Bros Co Abbott & Co and Manning are named with quantities and destinations across Glasgow Liverpool and Mediterranean ports. The fragment also notes steamer shipments to Yarmouth Nova Scotia and Matanzas Cuba with varied cargo like potatoes eggs lobsters and meat products.

Kid & Co Baring Bros & Co der, Peabody & Co George H Leonard & Co Gorham, Rogers & Co Wrightington & Co Bulea Webber Allmans Glasgow Scot Abbott & Co EI Goulston & Co Granite International Granite Co Townsend & Co Shepard, Norwell & Co Despatch Transportation Co —Bcases Daniel Love Ing Bros & Co Milne McIntosh, Laurie & Co G Chase & Co Liverpool Eng Morey & Co E & F King Co Linder & Meyer A & J Brown & Co Palermo Suinac Tully & Ee Brown & O Yarmouth Ellis & Co A & OW Mea & Co Griffin Hal & Co Barclay & Co A & G W Mead Delong & Seaman Batcheldar Hutchenson Hammond Salmon American Express Matanzas Cuba Rosario Sargentine Clara E McGilvery Baring Bros & An

Foreign Markets Report from London and Liverpool

Cargoes off the coast show firmer wheat and corn with steady demand in London and Liverpool. Wheat futures quiet while corn futures firm. prices quoted for California wheat, Mixed American corn, and European wheat and flour across April May and July contracts.

London Mark Lane Liverpool California Paris

Boston and Albany R R Timetable Highlights

Boston and Albany timetable notices list daily and through trains to Albany, Cincinnati, Chicago, and western points. Sleeper and vestibuled cars depart Boston at 7:00 am, 3:00 pm, and 10:30 pm with connections to New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Niagara Falls, and St. Louis. Tickets and car accommodations available at 252 Washington Street or Kneeland Street offices.

Cincinanti Chicago Ab Albany New York Cincinnati Albany Syracuse Rochester Muffalo Wagner Niagara Falls Detroit Michigan Central Cleveland Ledo Lake , Shore & Michigan Hartford New Haven Java Limited Express Boston Springfield Washington Street Ate Tion Kneeland Street Fall River Line Puritan Providence Ateamer Fall River Old Colony Brooklyn Jersey City Annex Destina Old State House J. R. Kendrick Geo. L. Connor Gen'l Vass L . Palmer Stonington Park Square Station Washington Rete Park Square

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