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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1889
Page
7
Market notes show mixed to steady readings across commodities with corn reemerging as easier and flour unchanged. Livestock and produce display varied tones from quiet to firm with beans, potatoes, apples, and oranges holding steady while butter and cheese remain dull.
In Chicago, traders saw July wheat drift to 78% to 79% cents amid bear pressure and some short covering, while corn fell on large receipts and weak demand. Provisions held firm as oats hit decade lows, with rumors easing about health scares and some export demand lifting limited futures.
The Gloucester fish market shows light trade in dry and pickled fish with receipts below last year. Fresh water fish have dominated supply due to lakes remaining open, limiting salt fish demand. Prices for Georges cod, bank fish, haddock, and others are listed alongside arrivals totaling 397,000 lbs codfish, 87,000 lbs halibut, and 8,000 lbs pollock.
London April 26 at wool sales attendance exceeded the usual level with robust demand. French and German buyers participated freely while home buyers covered needs. Prices rose about 4 2d for greasy lambs and cross-breds. About 13 057 bales offered and 5 000 bales taken by Americans to date, with 6 500 bales withdrawn. Today's sales included Victoria at 800 bales scoured and mixed lots with varied prices.
The record lists bales of goods from New South Wales and New Zealand detailing scoured and greasy locks and pieces with prices in old currency. Regions include New South Wales 2000 bales, Queens and 1100 bales, South Australia 100 bales, New Zealand 4500 bales, and the Cape of Good Hope and Natal 2400 bales with varied pricing notes.
Fall River reports a quiet steady print cloth market with quotations at 854c for 64s. Estimated weekly sales around 100000 pieces.
John E Welsh markets at 201 State Street Boston with April 26 prices for domestic flour and all grain except rye. Inspections include 1 car spring wheat screenings, 6 cars steamer yellow corn, 75 cars steamer corn, 7 cars No 2 white oats. market quiet with light demand and varied spot bids across flour, corn, oats, wheat, rye, and bran.
Butter receipts today reach 2703 packages compared with 5884 a year ago as demand remains quiet at steady prices. Imitation creameries stay quiet while Western cheese and creamery items show mixed quotes from 16 to 26 cents with Vermont prices around 22 to 25 cents.
Receipts today include cheese oats beans eggs and butter with no major shifts. Eastern Creamery and North West markets show mixed quotes. butter quality low, egg demand steady, beans and grass seeds quiet, potatoes well supplied with varied regional prices. poultry and hay straw supplies steady with modest demand. Island eggs arrival expected Monday, about 3000 cases.
The steamer North Anglia arrives from Mediterranean ports and will be sold at auction Saturday. Wergeland due May 1 with a cargo of Baracoa bananas for Seaverns Co. Cervin loaded 2000 boxes, 1300 half-boxes Messina oranges and 1200 boxes Messina pemionp for Boston, sailing from Palermo April 2. Caledonia loaded Naples 2400 boxes oranges for Boston. Frutera passed Gibraltar April 12 with 3000 boxes Valencia oranges for Boston.
Market round up shows firm fruit demand with Messina lemons at 3 to 4 per box and Palermo lemons at 3 450 per box. Apples steady with Baldwins 150 to 200 per barrel and russets 150 to 250 per barrel. Cranberries well supplied with Jersey at 1 150 per case and Cape Cod 4 to 8. Dried apples and pears mixed, Jamaica pine sales 15 to 30 cents each. Marmion steamer from Jamaica brings No 1s at 160 and No 3s at 50 cents.
Receipts and prices for pork and pork products, lard, hams, bacon, and dressed hogs today with last year’s figures. Beef, veal, mutton, and other fresh meats noted as quiet or steady with various cut prices across New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati markets.
Fall lambs in small supply with quotes for spring lambs at 20 to 25c per lb, fall choice 10 to 10.5c, common 7 to 9c, Chicago muttons choice 7 to 7.5c, yearlings 8 to 8.5c, Brighton 8.42 to 9c, Eastern 7.44 to 8c for choice, poor to good 5 to 7c, Eastern common 4 to 5c, fair to good 6 to 7c, fancy 8c per lb.
Cattle receipts 2501 at Kansas City with active higher trades for shippers 340 to 400 cows 225 to 300 mixed butchers 175 to 225 stockers 270 to 340 Hogs receipts 6247 gains with heavies 445 to 455 mediums 445 to 4742 pigs 450 to 460 Sheep 771 steady near 375 to 420 St Louis hogs firm Yorkers 460 to 470 mixed packers 445 to 460 butchers 465 to 475 Peoria hogs firmer 450 to 470 Cincinnati hogs quiet to firm common lights 4 to 460 receipts 1900 shipments 925 Chicago cattle receipts 7000 shipments 8500 steady see beeves 415 to 440 steers 335 to 410 stockers 250 to 365 cows bulls 170 to 315 Texas cattle 225 to 360 Hogs receipts 12 500 shipments 4500 strong mixed 445 to 475 heavy 445 to 475 light 460 to 480 ships 450 to 455 Sheep receipts 3000 shipments 500 slow lower natives 345 to 410 Western corn fed 350 to 500 lambs 450 to 675
Sugar receipts today show 3450 bbls and 1582 hhds, contrasting with last year’s 143 bbls and 9938 hhds. Prices remain firm for refined sugars and various raws. molasses receipts total 254 puncheons, with markets described as firm and steady, listing several regional grades and prices.
The brig Albert delivers about 6000 boxes of Bermuda onions for C E Morrison & Co and Bennet Rand & Co. Demand is good and prices steady. Savannah boat due Monday brings 900 packages of vegetables with wide price listings for cabbage onions beets lettuce carrots and many other produce items. Bermuda beer arriving in small lots sells at $1 per crate.
The New York spot market shows steady quiet trade with upland bales in various grades and prices ranging from 83 16 in good ordinary to 10 15 16 in mid. Futures opened steady and closed quiet as Liverpool and other ports report steady prices and mixed receipts across U S ports.
The report shows mixed commodity prices with whiskey steady at $1.02 in Cincinnati and St Louis quoting $1.02. Turpentine in New York closed at 45.2 cents with resin at 11.214 dollars per ton and tar at 210 cents. Petroleum closed at 7.15 cents with ASW 6.85 cents and cases at 8.85 cents.
London reports at 1 pm on April 2 as cargoes move along the passage with wheat showing an inward tendency and corn remaining firm. Mark Lane notes wheat steadier while corn stays firm amid improving conditions.
Liverpool market reports steady wheat and firmer corn with ample American wheat receipts and firm futures. Prices quoted for winter and spring wheat, club wheat and mixed American corn, with provisions and cheese values. Paris notes slow but steady wheat and flour markets as cargo clearance continues.
A transcript shows shipments on April 26 1889 from Bermuda Halifax and Matanzas. Goods include onions potatoes salmon furs eggs and clothing from firms Bennet Rand Co C E Morrison Co Shattuck Jones Hatheway & Co and more. The Marmion steamer brings bananas coconuts tomatoes oranges mangoes pineapples and other produce from Boston Fruit Co to Port Morant Jamaica and related ports.
Shipping and cargo ledger detailing cargoes from Miragoane Hayti Parishboro Yarmouth Port Antonio Meteghan Liverpool and others. Contains bbls flour pork beef lard cedar boards copper paint glassware lumber and many other goods with quantities and vessel names. Includes Steamer Lorenzo D Baker schooner Eolian Virginian and steamer Virginian cleared April 23.
February 4 1889 timetable details local and through trains from Boston to Albany and west with vestibuled Wag ner Cars to Niagara Falls Detroit and Chicago and sleeping drawing room dining cars. Boston offices at 232 Washington and Kneeland street provide tickets and accommodations. MOSELEY'S NEW HAVEN HOUSE advertises improvements Tiffany decorations and elevator and the Union Station restaurant.
A long list of train departure times and stations across multiple lines includes Kneeland Street Station to New York via Fall River Line at 6 pm on weekdays, various morning and evening departures at Ashmont Braintree Cohasset Hingham East Weymouth Weymouth and other towns, with Sundays listed times and Cape Cod division notes and Prov- dence Park Square Park Square Station references.
Fragmentary timetable listing multiple stations and routes with numerous train times for weekdays Sundays and holidays. Includes York Stonington Attleboro Forest Hyde Park Providence Beadville Oxbury Rumford Sharon Stoughton and Newport among others with irregular intervals and special daily patterns.
Through trains listed for Western and Eastern divisions from Haymarket and Causeway street stations. Stops include Augusta, Bangor, Bar Harbor, St John NB, Halifax NS, Eastport Calais, Lewiston, Manchester Concord NH, North Conway, Portland and Maine Central routes with specific departure times. Some connections use steamer service from Portland. multiple daily slots across Haymarket, Causeway, and other stations.
A dense list of weekday and Sunday train departures from Boston stations including Haymarket and Western Division routes to towns such as Alton Bay Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Georgetown Kennebunk Biddeford Saco Medford Melrose Highlands Malden Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Wakefield and others with numerous listed times and varying service windows.
Eastern Division timetable lists trains from Keston Station to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford and more with dozens of departure times. It covers Great Falls Rochester Hampton Beach North Bampton Upswich Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Revere Rockport Gloucester Salem York Harbor Beach Saugus Swampscott Wenham Wolfeboro Lynn stations and notes special branches and limited service on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Local and through service schedules list departures from Boston station Causeway Street to multiple New England destinations including Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Flaverhill Woodsville North Woodstock Pennbewarsett Valley Branch Lisbon Lit tleton Whitefield Lancaster Fabyan's Jefferson Franklin Lebanon White River Junction St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Montreal and Passumpsic Division. Local services cover Manchester Concord Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Nashua and many Boston suburbs with extensive hourly and multi daily options. Timetables note through lines to Montreal and central mass routes with final lines announcing availability of full timetable details at stations.
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