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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1889
Page
7
The report lists closing quotes for wheat corn and oats across New York Duluth Minneapolis and St Louis markets with August September October and December futures. Prices show slight gains in some contracts and declines in others alongside in store and cash values for various wheat grades.
The coal trade reports quiet but improving demand for anthracite with expectations of a price advance. Dealers remain confident as winter orders surge, noting shipments up from last year and rising stove coal activity. Prices at Boston and Lynn hold firm, with producers keeping output high in anticipation of September demand.
The lumber trade shows a steady tone and improved demand through the week with large building operations boosting consumption. Southern pine remains firm while yards handle heavy orders, shipments face delays, and price levels for cargo and yard stock hold firm amid rising freights and scarce vessels.
The report lists prices for inch boards, box stock, Western pine, Michigan uppers, selects and roofing, with no price changes for Western pine. Hard woods, cherry, quartered oak, whitewood, Soviet arrivals, clapboards, and pine and spruce quotes are given. Demand described as fair to steady, with overstock concerns on shingles and varied lath and cargo sales.
Domestic flour quotations vary by grade with prices ranging from 3.35 to 6.25 per barrel or bag. Receipts include 75 cars of various grains and 5445 barrels of flour plus 10352 sacks. Markets are quiet with limited demand. winter patents demand stronger than spring wheats. oats and corn show firmer spot activity in multiple cities.
Today's receipts list butter 5631 pkgs and cheese 1276 boxes while eggs and beans show varied stock. Butter remains firm across Western creameries with select brands selling at 19c and common lots at 15 1/4c. Northern creameries supply tight at 19c, Eastern creameries steady at 17c. Im made creameries demand quiet at 14 15c. dairies well supplied with few very choice lots commanding higher prices. oleomargarine dull at old levels.
Eleanor Kirk discusses arsenic and other drugs in treating severe coughs and consumption. A case study shows a patient failing on arsenic and strychnine. recovery follows stopping medicines, using hospital food and Murdock's Liquid Food to build tissue and blood. The letter, copied in many papers, supports nutrition over drugging.
The dairy and egg markets show no overall change from previous reports. Eastern extras sell at 19c, nearby stock 16-18c, and Vermont New Hampshire 19c. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 16c. PEI 16c. Western 16-17c. Poultry demand is nominal with large Western receipts at 10-12c. live poultry steady. Potatoes firm at $2 per barrel, New Hampshire bulk stock at 65c per bushel. sweet potatoes in fair supply. hay and straw unchanged.
The market is well supplied and a fair demand is reported at old prices.
The market shows plentiful apples with steady prices and strong demand for select lots. Oranges and lemons are tight and firm, pears and berries steady, cantaloupes and muskmelons in steady demand, and grapes and watermelons well supplied but mixed in quality. Bananas and plums show moderate receipts, cranberries arrive, and prices vary by fruit type and grade.
The Marmion is due Thursday delivering Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Welhaven is due Saturday carrying Baracoa bananas for WW and CR Noves.
A single car of apples and a single car of cantaloupes form the train. The move mentions one car of fruit each, transporting per schedule.
The day’s receipts list tallow 24 pkgs lard 1309 pkgs hams 15 tierces preserved meats 1416 cases bacon 563 boxes. Prices show pork weak with quoted ranges, beef dull with various mess prices, lard active around 6 6 to 6 74, and dry salt meats mixed. St Louis provisions quiet with pork and lard报价, sale expectations noted for tierces.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports higher cattle receipts with notable gains in shipping steers and range cattle while hogs show a lower market with heavier weights. Chicago activity lists strong beef prices and mixed movements. Texas and western cattle trends appear steady to varied with lambs and natives quoted in limited ranges.
In New York cotton markets, sales totaled 646 bales with uplands ordinary at 89-16¢, good ordinary 83-16¢, low middling 10 3/4¢, middling 115-16¢, Gulf ordinary 81 5/16¢, good ordinary 103 16¢, low middling 11 3/4¢, middling 119-16¢. Futures opened quiet and steady, then closed quiet. A table shows opens and closing quotations compared with yesterday’s close.
Consolidated figures show net receipts for four days at 878 with exports to Great Britain 3022 and to France 722. New York reports exports to Great Britain 1868 and France 722 and the Continent 200, stock 78,633. Port stocks and inland shipments vary across Galveston, New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St Louis, and Louisville with mixed tones of firm or nominal conditions and mid price levels.
Sugar receipts total 26 barrels and 57 birds today, with last year at 25 barrels. demand for Tan sugars remains quiet at nominal prices. Quoted Cuba refinings 6%4 6%sc, Manilas 55%8 5'c, Illoilos 542 5%sc, Javas Nos 10 to 11. Pulverized 9c, powdered 8%sc, granulated 87-16 89-16c, confectioners A 8 4c, standard A 8%4c, Belmont A 8'4c, extra C 758 7%c, yellow 744c. Wholesale granulated 8%c. Molasses receipts today 3 bbls, 234 hhds and 40 tierces. last year 872 bbls, 42 hhds and 225 puncheons. Market quiet and mostly nominal. Quoted Fancy Ponce Porto Rico 45¢ al, Porto Rico 37 48c, New Orleans 46 47c, Cienfuegos 28 31c, black strap 16 17c, boiling grades nominal at 30 2c.
Mixed commodity notes from New York show stable rural markets and steady prices. Whiskey and Western markets hold around 102 dollars, turpentine closes at 4 42 44 cents with rosin near 105 110, tar at 3 dollars, petroleum at 1 60, RSW 7 40, and cases at 9 30 cents.
Report from Watertown Union Market by George J. Fox covering week ending Aug 13 1859. Markets feature sheep cattle and lambs swine with prior week and one year ago comparisons. Prices for beef store cattle and sheep vary with beef quality listed and cattle sales reported from multiple sellers including Adaen Heath Whippie Keazer Hathaway Burdick and GW Wears. Trade described as active with steady lamb prices and Canada and North imports noted.
Rosario AR lists 454825 feet lumber. Sir Nellie Blanche carries 525 barrels flour 30 tons salt 100 barrels corn meal 16 half barrels beef 1 barrel pork 25 bags cracked corn 10 barrels kerosene oil Yarmouth NL steamer Yarmouth 625 barrels flour 25 sacks millfeed 4 barrels turpentine 20 bags logwood 1 bale netting 4 planks 1 child’s carriage 1 box chocolate 6 cases rubber shoes 1 roll sheet metal 1 case copper 1000 feet walnut lumber 15 caddies tea 330 watermelons 80 boxes oranges 70 boxes lemons 65 boxes bananas 25 barrels apples 70 crates pears 8 barrels sweet potatoes 5 baskets peaches 500 empty berry crates Bridgewater and Canso NS Sch Marc Eleanor 500 barrels flour 250 barrels cornmeal 5 barrels refined oil LiverPool NS Sch On Time cleared Aug 12 additional 125 barrels flour.
A list of shoe buyers and representatives from multiple firms and cities. Names include J P Dill, J C & I Daniel, J R McKeldin, Lester & Co, Gilbraith & Co, Childs Groff & Co, T M Brown, Hapagood Hay & Co, G Marshall, McKee & Branham, C Marvin & Co, Tennant Stribling, BM Payne, Kellogg Johnson, W Hahn & Co, and others from Atlanta to St Louis, Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and several smaller towns.
Boston August 13 1859 A warrant in insolvency has issued against Edward E Coburn carpenter and builder of Chelsea Suffolk. Debts payments and property transfers are forbidden by law. Creditors meet September 13 1889 at 2 PM in the Probate building Court Square Boston to prove debts and appoint assignees.
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