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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1887
Page
7
Commodities including flour oats malt and butter remain steady or firm. Wheat and oats markets quiet with firm oatmeal. Prices for rye, barley, millfeeds and cheese show strength while butter holds. eggs beans and potatoes stay steady. Cotton and wool markets discussed with weekly totals and a Liverpool auction next month offering 20 000 bales.
The wool market remains steady with small sale volumes and firm prices in many regions. Texas early clips move near last year’s quotes while California and Ohio report slow progress and stable demand. New York notes cautious optimism as new clips approach.
Livestock levels show 2,290 cattle 13,189 hogs and 15,139 sheep and horses across Watertown and Brighton yards. Arrivals include 603 total cars on major lines with Western and Canadian sources. price ranges cover beef, store cattle, veal calves, and milch cows. Shipments to Liverpool, Glasgow, and London rise as exports increase while local demand holds steady for cattle and sheep.
The April 27 market notes show flour steady with firm low grades and light supply. Corn is quiet. oats weaken. choice clipped steady. June oats at 51 4? cents and May bids around 38.5 cents. Inspectors report 24 cars, with wheat and oats supplies growing and seeding advancing earlier than last year across Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
The report outlines current provisions with mutton prices easing. It lists closing quotations in Chicago for pork and lard, beef cuts, hams, bacon, and fresh beef, detailing multiple grade ranges and per hundredweight figures for April through August.
Liverpool futures opened quiet and closed steady across months with a range from 5 28-64d to 5 87-64d. The spot market held at 59-16 558d for middling uplands. US receipts 5 300 bales, sales 8 000 bales. New York spot closed firm with middling at 105 c, low middling around 10 1 4 c and lower grades near 7 5 8 c. Futures opened steady with bids and asks across April January and December contracts. market closed steady. Total bags 79 400. Pipeline certificates, shipments, and exports detailed. Sugar and molasses prices listed for various refineries and grades.
Market report summarizes receipts, exports, and currents for flour rye corn oats barley and related products in New York Milwaukee Cincinnati Chicago Detroit Toledo St Louis with bid ask ranges and notable shifts in flour and pork markets reflected across multiple exchange points.
Kansas City reports hog sales mostly 545 40 with about 9000 receipts today and 10 284 yesterday. St Louis notes hogs lower with Yorkers at 86 15 5 30 and packers to extra at 550 565. Peoria records hogs easier with varied sales.
Receipts and shipments across cattle hogs and sheep show weakening prices for hogs with rough and mixed quality. Cotton market summaries across major ports include Augusta Galveston New Orleans and Memphis with quiet to firm tones and varied stock levels and exports.
Foreign markets show wheat and corn firm with English and American grain steady. Liverpool notes firm wheat and quiet corn with price quotations across winter and spring grains, pork and cheese steady, and sugar markets quiet in Havana. Manchester comments warn of unsatisfactory margins and weak demand across yarns and cloth with a planned business pause on May 3 for the Prince of Wales visit.
Imports and exports dated April 27 1887 list steamship cargoes from St John New Brunswick Manila and Fajardo Puerto Rico. Notable items include Cumberland 17 cases exgs Goss Doe & co 4 do AB Butterfield 4217 sides plus leather and potatoes. Panay 3000 bales hemp and 4487 bales hemp for Silsbee Pickman. Barkentine Hancock 646 holds sugar at Fajardo. Sir Florence Christine 600 feet spruce piling 50 cords wood 27 cases eggs Delong & Seaman at Rear River Nova Scotia.
Shipping reports show the schooners Almeda Nell and Norseman carrying a variety of goods from St John New Brunswick to Nova Scotia and Liverpool England. Almeda sails with pitch and flour while Nell carries flour lumber oil and hardware items. Norseman departs from Liverpool with bacon corn cod oil cattle wheat organs lard beef and fresh goods.
A detailed list shows receipts from multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine and Boston and Lowell. It records quantities of cotton wool flour oats cornmeal beef tallow lard butter eggs bacon and more across bales boxes cases sacks and vessels with approximate totals for April 27 1887.
A long list of boot and shoe buyers and merchants across the United States is announced, naming numerous firms and individuals from cities including Atlanta Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Detroit Erie Evansville Fort Wayne Galveston Grand Rapids Milwaukee Nashville New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Rochester St Louis etc. The feature highlights buyers like James Jones & Co James Jones in Atlanta and W S Everett of M C& J F Kiser & Co in Re Augusta alongside many others in a wide regional survey.
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