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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1889
Page
7
Receipts and prices listed across New York Chicago Milwaukee Detroit St Louis and other hubs. Wheat oats corn rye barley malt hops flour and mill products show subdued demand with mixed spot and futures quotes, while pork beef and cheeses move at steady to quiet levels nationwide.
Receipts for the week ending April 27 include butter 8757 tubs 2196 boxes and 8152 cases oleo 3481 pkgs cheese 1240 boxes eggs 99 boxes 86 bbis 8152 cases beans 890 bbis and potatoes 72 cars hay 130 cars straw 10 cars poultry 731 pkgs sweet potatoes none or same as last year. Prices shown for Western Vermont Eastern butter eggs and related goods with steady markets and growing receipts noted. Island boat due Monday with 3000 cases likely limited impact.
The cargo of the Bermuda onion bag sold at $1 10 per crate to Bennet Rand and Co and C E Morrison and Co. Prices listed include Hubbard at $80 per ton cabbage $1 12 5 per barrel, red cabbage $1 50 per barrel, onions $1 50 per barrel, Spanish onions 85 cents per crate, beets 25 cents per bush, hot house $2 per dozen bunches, carrots $1 25 per barrel, lettuce 40 to 50 cents per box, turnips 40 cents per box, white French turnips 1 12 5, radishes 40 cents per dozen, long 85 cents per dozen, parsnips 50 cents per bush, native dandelions 50 to 60 cents per bush, Norfolk spinach 25 cents per barrel, Baltimore spinach 75 cents per barrel, kale 50 to 75 cents per barrel, beet greens $1 per bush, cucumbers 9 to 10 per 100 count, rhubarb 4 cents per stem, Chicago rhubarb 1 25 per case, parsley 50 cents per bush, green peas 1 25 to 1 50 per crate, southern beets 2 to 2 50 per crate, asparagus Chicago 2 per dozen bunches, Norfolk 6 per dozen bunches, string beans Chicago 2 50 per crate, Florida 2 per crate, Southern cabbage 2 to 2 50 per crate, native cauliflower 6 per dozen, summer squash 3 per crate. Bermuda beets arriving in small lots with sale at $1 per crate. Bermuda aneaee in small supply at $4.5 per crate.
Receipts show Apples 3180 bbls Strawberries 1375 pkgs Florida Valencia Messina Palermo oranges and lemons in high volumes. Last year compares show significant differences in oranges and lemons. Markets firm for Messina lemons, Valencia and Palermo oranges with quoted prices for various grades. Bananas Jamaica and Baracoa varieties noted with active demand.
The North Anglia passed Gibraltar on April 16 carrying 1900 boxes and 900 half-boxes of Mesina oranges 1600 boxes Messina lemons 7400 boxes Palermo oranges and 12100 boxes lemons. Wergeland due May 1 with Baracoa bananas for Seavern Co. Cervin loaded at Messina on 2000 boxes 1300 half-boxes Messina oranges and 1200 boxes Messina lemons for Boston and sailed from Palermo April 22. Caledonia loaded at Naples 2400 boxes oranges for Boston. Frutera due with 3000 boxes Valencia oranges. Maranda due Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Co.
The weekly receipts list pork 169 bbls beef 578 bbls fresh beef 140 cars lard 195 tierces 430 cases 11258 pkgs hams 334 bbls 1109 tierces bacon 3860 boxes tallow 122 bbls 22 bags grease 603 bbls 1 pkg tongues 45 bbls preserved meats.
Stock Yards Kansas City receipts 1067 cattle steady with shipper prices from 315 to 890 native cows 195 to 305 mixed butchers 190 to 290 stockers 270 to 835 Hogs receipts 4688 market weak heavier 440 to 450 medium and lights 445 to 475 pigs 450 to 455 Sheep receipts 44 steady at 380 to 425 St Louis hogs firm Yorkers 460 to 470 Peoria hogs easy at 450 to 465 Cincinnati hogs firm common and light 440 to 470 Chicago cattle receipts 1700 slow steady bees 420 steers 390 0 stockers 235 cows bulls mixed 175 315 Texas steers 325 380 Hogs receipts 9000 shipments 4500 strong mixed 460 475 heavy 450 475 light 460 480 ships 350 470 Sheep receipts 1500 weak natives 345 Western 350 490 lambs 490 546 80
Sugar receipts total 453 bbls and 4050 bags, with last year’s same day at 643 bbls and 25058 bags. Prices remain firm across Cuba Java and refined grades, while molasses deliveries include 237 bbls 95 hhds with steady demand. Ponce Porto Rico and New Orleans grades quoted.
The New York spot market shows firm quiet conditions with upland and Gulf grades quoted at 84c to 109-16c and middling prices around 11c. Futures opened steady and closed steady. American and Liverpool markets report steady to firm tones, with detailed opening and closing figures for April 27 and comparative days, plus regional port receipts and stocks across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Memphis, Savannah, and others.
Receipts show 4 barrels and 5 bags for today versus 41 barrels and 8 bags on the same day last year, with the quote attributed to City.
A detailed catalog of imported goods at Antwerp including iron girders cement tiles mineral water window glass porcelain toys and machinery from multiple firms and destinations. Also notes Brig Trias at Rio Grande do Sul with 17 051 dry hides and Brown Bros & co. involvement.
Port Antonio and Halifax report extensive cargo listings from multiple ships including Marmion Parthenia and Worcester with flour beef codfish oil salt and textiles. Other consignments cover lumber, lard, apples, tobacco, hardware and general merchandise from Halifax Liverpool and St Johns with numerous bbls and cases destined for domestic and colonial ports.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat and corn firm with several shipments and sales noted. Wheat prices hold steady in Liverpool and Paris markets, with mixed American corn values and steady flour, while English country markets remain firm and breadstuffs steady across regions.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous individuals with firms and cities including Augusta Ga Baltimore Md Cincinnati Oh Chicago Ill Detroit Mich Memphis Tenn Galveston Tex Grand Rapids Mich Indianapolis Ind Memphis Tenn Milwaukee Wis Mansfield Oh Omaha Neb Quincy Ill St Joseph Mo Toledo Oh San Francisco Cal Springfield Cal Norman Ok and others. The item reads like a directory line or notice of member representatives for various companies and partnerships.
Train schedule excerpt lists Boston to Albany and West connections for February 4 1889 with departures 8 30 am 9 09 pm and 11 00 am and 4 00 pm. Describes vestibuled Wagner cars dining and drawing rooms to Niagara Falls Detroit Chicago Cleveland Toledo and New York via Worcester and New Haven. Tickets available at 232 Washington street or Kneeland street Boston. A B Hanson Gen Pass Agh
A dense listing of rail departures and arrivals across multiple divisions including Cape Cod and Providence. Reads like a timetable with numerous station pairs, times, and Sunday adjustments for cities such as Buzzards Bay Providence Readville Sharon Stoughton Mansfield Taunton Newport and more.
Train schedule details list departures from Boston stations to Alton Bay Rochester Farming ton Andover and many nearby towns. Times cover weekday and Sunday trains with numerous stations including Dover Daver s Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Kennebunk Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell Medford Melrose Melrose Highlands Merrimac North Andover Newburyport Reading Salem Wakefield and more with frequent morning and afternoon slots.
Eastern division timetable lists dozens of stops from Boston Causeway Street to towns like Amesbury Beverly Biddeford and Gloucester with varied departure times. The fragmentary OCR shows inconsistent digits and several garbled entries, masking exact schedules and station names.
Local and through service from Boston Causeway Street lists times for Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Orren Haverhill Woodsville and other routes including Montreal via White River Junction and Northern RR. Also Central Mass Division schedules for Northampton Hadley Amherst and Worcester with multiple daily departures to Clinton Berlin Hudson Wayland Waltham and surrounding areas.
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