Fish Market Sees Steady yet Varied Prices Across Species
Gloucester market notes limited receipts and steadier prices for many fish. Mackerel remains scarce with mixed regional quotes. cod and haddock show higher large and small rates while pollock and hake hold firm. Vessel catches include 1000 mackerel off Thatcher Island and 500 off Middle Bank. Total mackerel receipts to date 5024 barrels. weekly fish arrivals small and outlook poor.
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Thatcher's Island
Middle Bank
Boston
New England
Gloucester
Mass
Grand Banks
North Bay
Nova Scotia
Labrador
Newfoundland
Roun Shore
Eastport
Haddock
California
Halifax
Iceland
Flour and grain market report from John E Welsh
Grain and flour prices on carload lots with domestic and export quotations. Reports show mixed corn, oats, and various flour grades, with receipts across New York Chicago St Louis and local mills. Market described as dull and steady with light demand and small purchases.
Market report of grains hops and tapes receipts
Moderate demand, at 25 25 25 for spot and 24 24 26 to arrive. Malt receipts today 4800 bushels, last year 1250. Market quiet with moderate demand. Quotation: Six row Canada No 1 95 to 105 cents, No 2 85 to 95 cents. Six row State 5.90, two row State 72 to 75 cents. Hops receipts today 9 bales, last year none. Market quiet with no change. Grains and hops prices given for New York old lots nominal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
New York
Western and Eastern dairy markets show dull, steady trends
Daily receipts list butter, oleomargarine, cheese and eggs with large volumes and mixed quality. Butter slackness, Western creamery tubs quoted at 17 17½¢ and 18½¢ in spruce. Northern creameries scarce with high marks, Eastern creameries quiet, imitation creameries weak. Eggs firm for choicest lots, beans steady, poultry supplies tight, hay and rye straw prices steady to firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
New York
Chicago
Western
New Brunswicks
Jersey
Rose
Hebrons
Market shows quiet demand for varied produce
Market remains well supplied with limited buyer interest. Prices listed include onions at 1c per bunch and per crate rates for Egyptian onions at 160 dollars per crate, beets 35 cents per box, carrots 50 cents per box, lettuce 50 cents per box, and cucumbers at 1 dollar per 100 count. Flor ida marrow squash at 1 dollar per barrel, native marrow 85 cents, summer squash 1 cent each, cauliflowers quiet at 1 dollar per dozen, peppers 50 cents per barrel, eggplant 1.50 per dozen, Kalamazoo celery 20 to 25 cents per bunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
Long Island
Florida
Norfolk
Kalamazoo
Fruit Market Receipts Rise with Steady Demand Across Varieties
A New York fruit market report shows rising receipts and improving condition for apples, with firm demand at old prices for oranges and lemons. Pears are well supplied with good, fair demand. Bartletts and Virginia crates command mixed prices. Georgia Le Contes sell slowly. Delawares and native pears move at varied per-bush prices. Peaches arrivals slower. candeloupes, muskmelons, and berries trade near steady or higher prices. Grapes, watermelons, and pineapples show steady or improved activity, with several small lots and regional variations across markets.
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New
Florida
Marthas
Agawams
Perkins
Moore
Delawares
Ives
Concords
North Carolina
Virginia
New York
Auction prices for fruit aboard Olympia cargo sale
H Harris & Co auctioned the steamer Olympia cargo including Palermo oranges at 2 622 per half box and Sorrento oranges at 1 124%4 475, Palermo and Sorrento lemons at 6 42 and 6 3742, while Snow & Co offered Beurre Hardy pears at 1 45 1 622 prunes at 1 15 and egg plums at 1 20 1 25 per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H Harris & Co
Olympia
Palermo
Sorrento
Saturday's Train Load of Produce Stuns Station
A Saturday train arrives with 6 cars of potatoes 3 cars of peaches 2 cars of melons 1 car of citrons and 1 car of apples. Authorities note the varied fruit and vegetable shipment as a routine regional delivery.
Steamer arrivals bring fruit and stock to port
The Savannah boat is due Monday with 5000 melons and 330 pigs fruit aboard. The steamer Siofna is due with Baracoa bananas for WW and CR Noyes, enhancing cargo consignments at the port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
WW & CR
Provisions Report Mixed Meat Prices and Supplies
The day’s receipts show tallow 137 pkgs beef 1 bbl pork 45 bbls lard 717 pkgs hams 1 bbl 145 tierces bacon 451 boxes. Last year’s figures show varied supplies with lard 1342 pkgs and tierces 50. Prices hold steady for pork and lard, hams in good demand, fresh beef steady with graded lots firm, lambs plentiful with quiet demand, mutton steady, and tallow about 4 cents. New York tallow varied. pork quiet with several grade prices, beef and cut meats dull, lard Western steam $67 712 680, 50 tierces city at $6 25, Chicago mess park steady at $10 60.
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Tovtu
Chicago
Lake
New York
St Louis
Port Huron
New Chicago
St Pass Ochoie
Graham
Canon
Western Steam
Tierces City
Mess Park
Market meat prices steady to firm across regions
Lard remains at 6 40 to 6 42 percent with dry salted shoulders at 4 87 to 5 00 and short clear sides at 5 87 to 6 00. Pork around 11 26 to 11 37 in St Louis and Cincinnati. Lard active at 6 15, bulk meats and bacon quiet and unchanged.
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St. Louis
Cincinnati
Hog and Cattle Markets Across Major U S Cities
Market reports show steady to firm trends in cattle hog and sheep trading. Kansas City stock yards receipts 5185 cattle and 5454 hogs with varied prices, Chicago and Cincinnati listings reflect steady to stronger cattle and firm hogs, reports include steer prices, cows, stockers and lamb values across regions.
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Kansas City
Cincinnati
Chicago
Texas
Cotton markets steady in New York and Liverpool trade
New York cotton is steady with 507 bales traded and varied upland grades quoted. Liverpool prices hold amid moderate demand as futures edge to quiet and steady, while the week's US port figures show mixed receipts, exports, and stocks across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Savannah, and other markets.
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New York
Liverpool
Coces
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
West Point
Great Britain
Cincinnati
St Louis
Ateady
Louisville
Consolidated
France
Continent
United States
Sugar and Molasses Prices Hold Steady Amid Quiet Demand
Sugar receipts today none with demand quiet and prices fairly steady. Cuba refining 6% b%ec, centrifugal 96 test 734c. Manila 558 542c. Moilos 542 5%c. Javas Nos 10 to 11 7344 7%c. Refined sugars easy with a drop of 4c. Pulverized 9c, powdered 8%c, granulated 812 85sec. Confectioners A 844c, standard A 84c, Belmont A 14c, extra C 75% 7%c, yellow c. Wholesale 9c granulated. Molasses receipts none. market quiet and steady, Fancy Ponce Porto Rico 45c/gal, Porto Rico 37-43c, New Orleans 46-47c, Cienfuegos 28-31c, black Havana 16-17c.
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Cuba
Manilas
Moilos
Javas
New York
Ponce
Porto Rico
New Orleans
Cienfuegos
Turpentine and Petroleum Market Report From New York
Turpentine closed near 41 72, resin at 105 110, and AR at 3, while petroleum settled at 7.60 cents with RSW at 7.40 cents and cases at 9.30 cents. Coffee from New York Rio held steady with fair cargoes at 184 Ac. Whiskey showed no price change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rio
Flax Wool Jute Cloth Orders and Maritime Cargoes
A fragment listing cargo items and consignments from various traders and ships across Halifax and Goree. Items include flax bales, wool, jute cloth, dry hides, india rubber, gum copal, salad oil, fish, canned fish, lobsters, eggs, salt fish, dry salmon, and mackerel. Ships referenced include Brig Lucy W Snow and Steamer Halifax, with multiple firms such as Bea man Bros Barclay & Co Dana Hardware Co Delong & Seaman HH Howe & Bros Hatheway & Co Potter Wrightington C F Russell OC D Stone A J Thompson Winsor & Son Whitney Pousland & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goree
Wca
Lucy W Snow
Batman
Halifax
Beaman Bros
Barclay & Co
Dana Hardware Co
Mdise Delong & Seaman
Howe & Bros
Hatheway & Co
Potter & Wrightington
Russell
Exports From Atlantic Ports August 9 1889 Trade Totals
Shipping cargo summaries from Weymouth, Yarmouth, London, Liverpool, Clementport Digby, Glbara Cuba list flour cornmeal bananas canned goods and other commodities aboard multiple steamers including Amy Cheviere Gamma Yarmouth Stockholm Michigan and Tordenskjold with quantities in barrels sacks crates bales and cases reflecting extensive Atlantic trade activity on that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weymouth
Chevierre
Yarmouth
London
Eng
Stockholm
Liverpool
Michigan
Clementsport
Digby
Glbara
Cuba
Tordenskjold
Bazast
Trade Company Representatives Across States Named
A long list of sales agents and firms is named with their home cities including Albany Atlanta Baltimore Birmingham Bonham Brownsville Chicago Cleveland Corpus Christi Corsicana Dallas Saginaw Gadsden Grand Rapids Indianapolis Meridian Memphis Montgomery Murfreesboro Nashville Opelika Omaha Paris Philadelphia Pittsburgh Scranton Selma Shreveport St Joseph St Louis Minn verrell Tuscaloosa Wheeling Wichita York. The entries show agents and firms such as J Dill B S Company Mittenthal Bros Rich ros Lemle & Weil Hudman Bros Weil Bros Paul Bros Goldsmith Goldsmith & Son Dreyfus H Dreyfus & Son Shafer Kellogg Kellogg O Am Friedman & Love man E Ball Smith & Stover Wallace & Vandersloot, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Brown
Allegheny
Penn
Simon
Atlanta
J P Dill
J P
Dill
B & S Company
Ark’s
Baltimore
M Daniel
R Janners & Co
Birmingham
Ala
C Reese
Bonham
Tex
Levine
Brownsville
A J Bloomberg
Bloomberg & Raphael
Chicago
Swarts & Co
Ad. Com
H A Coburn
Kellogg, Johnson & O
Verrell
H Brin
Tuscaloosa
B Friedman
Friedman & Loveman
Wheeling
E Ball
E Ball & Co
Wichita, Kan
R H Smith
Smith & Stover
Ad. York
C J Wallace
Wallace & Vandersloot
Arsenic questioned as medicine in pulmonary case
In a Brooklyn letter, Eleanor Kirk argues against routine arsenic use and credits Murdock's Liquid Food with rebuilding strength in a severe consumption case. The patient reportedly improved after May 20 with no medicines, relying on nourishing foods and hospital care, challenging reliance on drugs.
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Brooklyn
Lafayette Avenue
Job
Murdock
Rail schedule data for Jreadville Taunton and Wrenthams
Train times listed for Jreadville Taunton and Wrentham stations with morning and Sunday services. Indicates additional trains reference Central Division for details.
Local Train Schedule Extract From Boston Station
Detailed timetable lists multiple divisions and trains departing Boston Station and nearby towns including Portland, Alten Bay, Andover, North Conway, Exeter, Haverhill, Biddeford and Saco, Lawrence, Lowell, Newburyport, Reading, Salem, Dover, Manchester, Medford, and more. Times cover early morning to late evening with numerous options and several worked-in “workingmen’s train” entries.
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North Conway
Exeter
Great Falls
Haverhill
Georgetown
Enne
Bank
Biddeford
Saco
Lawrence
Lowell
Newburyport
Reading
Salem
Trains Schedule Eastward From Boston Causeway
Eastern division lists trains from Boston Causeway to numerous destinations with times across Portland Amesbury Beverly Middeford and more. Schedules show multiple daily departures including early morning and evening slots with varied service notes and branch connections.
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Boston Station
Causeway
Lowell System Timetable From Boston Station List Incomplete
Train departures from Causeway Street Boston bound for Keene Peterboro Millsboro Hillsboro and other towns show varied times across the day. The fragmentary schedule includes stops such as Nashua Woburn Stoneham and Concord with dozens of morning afternoon and evening departures across multiple lines.
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Lowell System
Causeway Street
Portland Street
Keene
Peterboro
Millsboro
Hillsboro
Concord
Wilton
Milford
Amherst
Greenfield
Nashua
Lowell
North Billerica
Lawescence
Stoneham
Woburn
Winchester
Miass
Reformatory
Bedford
Central Massachusetts Train Schedule Highlights and Stops
The timetable lists Sunday and weekday services for Central Massachusetts routes including Belmont Waverley Waltham Hudson Way Northampton and other towns. Timings show morning departures at 7.15 to 9.20 am and multiple afternoon runs including 1.30 3.40 and 6.25 pm with connections to Northampton Hadley Amherst Belchertown Ware and Worcester. James T Furber and D J Flanders sign as General Manager and Gen Pssr and Ticket Agent.
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Park Square
Providence
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Kreeves
Washington Street
J. W. Richardson
Boston
J. W. Miller
H. Briggs
Central
Mocklebottom
Wayland
Weston
Waltham
Waverley
Belmont
Waltham, Hudson and
Way
Northampton
James T. Furber
D. J. Flanders
Gen’l Pas
Park Square Station
Stonington
New York
Washington, Cor. State Street
C. H. Briggs
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John E. Welsh
State Street
General Markets
Minnesota
Canada Superior
J E Carter & Co
Awe
Sear Ewer
Ener
Edo
Congress Street
Durham City
Mige & Co
Naylor & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Wirth
Moors & Co
Silienburg
Crocker, Burbank & Co
Nichols
Richards & Son
Pierce & Co
Goodwin & Co
Hayes & Co
Gambia
Lamkin & Foster
Goodyear India Rubber Glove Mfg. Co
Hathaway, Soule & Harrington Men’s Fine
Bland
Goodyear
Goodyear Weite
United
Medical
Humphreys
Humpuprys’ Manuat
WomeLeeew Medicine Co
Fulton St
Dr. Humphreys
Humrreys Medicine Co
Ton St. N
Commonwealth OF Massachiowy Setts
Suffolk
George Meacom
Chelsea
Court Square
Horace P. Stevens
Massachussetts
Alexander Mack
Louugelous
Smith-Sheahan Company
Chas. E. Todd
Augustine H. Read
The
Portland Globe
Eleanor Kirk
Leisure Hour Music
Whipple
St. Osgood
Emerson
Franz
M. V. White
Kjeruif
Sacred
Everest
Oliver Ditson Company
Alpheus M. Stetson
Kilby Street
Ty Oling
Farwell Bros
Dorchester St
Poeser
Aaron B. Gay & Co
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Fall River Line
No. 3
Old State House
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Wantasket
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Jeetite Hyannis
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RALL
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Street
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Beach
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Bangor
Kialifax
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Haymarket Square
Eave
Land
Bewell
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Willimantic
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C. T. Hempstead
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