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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1889
Page
7
The market remains dull for bush and steady for others with receipts varying by commodity. Rye flour, cornmeal, oats, and butter show modest demand while eggs, beans, and poultry trade lightly. prices range across flour, meal, meal, and dairy products, with regional quotes for various grains and fruits reflecting a quiet but steady trade.
Watermelons market steady with demand. sales today 8 20c each, some higher. Bananas ample supply. Jamaica yellow at 1 225, Baracoa yellow 1 125, reds 90c to 1. Port Simons 175 a bunch. Plums New York lots fair, sales 30 40c per basket, 75cc P crate. some 10 lb native baskets at 1. Currants late fruit arrivals. sales 12cc quart.
The steamer Welhaven is due with Bara coa bananas to WW & C R Noves. The Savannah boat due Monday has 118 crates of fruit.
A Saturday tally lists the consist as two cars potatoes two cars citrons one car apples and nine cars peaches in the train.
Receipts show tallow 18 pkgs pork 50 bbls lard 2334 pkgs hams 90 bbls 50 tierces bacon 668 boxes. Markets vary by city with New York pork steady at 17 75 to 11 50 and beef and lard mixed. St Louis and Cincinnati show firmer or steady tones on shoulders and hams. hogs dull, corn beef and tongues unchanged. overall demand quiet to fair with prices fluctuating across regions.
The Portland Globe reprints a reader letter arguing arsenic and strychnine are overused by physicians. It recounts a pulmonary case treated with Murdock’s Liquid Food and nutritious diet starting May 20, 1889, and notes dramatic improvement within two weeks without further drugs, urging nutrition over harmful drugs for recovery.
A summer to winter themed music catalog lists numerous songbooks and albums with prices, including Whipple's Merry Making Melodies and Osgwood's Rhymes and Tunes at $1, Children’s School Songs at 35 cents, Emerson's Gems for Little Singers at 30 cents, and Gospel song collections from Praise in Song to Voices of Praise. Also featured are classical and vocal albums, duet books, sacred and social singing collections, and guitar or banjo accompaniments priced from 22 cents to $2.00.
In Suffolk County Massachusetts a series of public divorce libels details Annie Laurie Stuart and Jane E Colwell seeking decrees against spouses for adultery and desertion. Ancillary notices direct service via Boston Post and publication in August 1889 with hearings slated for October.
The report lists wholesale grocers' prices for granulated sugar at 8 1/2 cents, steady raw sugar, firm refined demand, molasses receipts, and various international sugar quotes. It also notes coffee to New York Rio easing, turpentine and petroleum prices in New York, and rosin, tar, and related commodities with current bids and closing figures.
Yardage of cargo from Yarmouth and Jamaica steamers includes eggs halibut berries canned lobsters codfish mackerel herring salt fish boots tea crates and bales. Entries name shippers such as J G Hall F L Clements Barclay Beaman JT Russell and Boston Fruit Co with quantities like 1512 barrels fish 13200 banana bunches and 7550 coconuts.
Market update from London and Liverpool notes wheat and corn quiet but firm in places. Prices for wheat futures listed for August through January, with mixed American corn futures and spot activity in England, Belgium, and Antwerp. Weather in England described as fine with varying commodity quotations and cargo details.
Kansas City stockyards report steady cattle with receipts of 5222 and hogs 2273, prices range for steers cow and stockers. Chicago cattle and hogs show firm demand with strong prices for fancy cattle and mixed hogs. Liverpool cotton steadies with multiple market quotes and futures. Regional ports display varied receipts and stocks, with United States ports overall at 81,986 and weekly exports advancing.
Sugar receipts today total 14 barrels, down from 140 barrels on the same day last year. Raw sugar demand remains quiet at old prices while refined sugars show steady demand. Quotes cover Cuba fair to good refining and various grades, with detailed price figures for centrifugals, Javas, and Manila sugars, plus pulverized, powdered, and granulated forms and confectioners’ grades.
Sunday and weekday trains list numerous stations from Boston through Exeter Haverhill Newburyport and others with frequent times and notes Workingmen's train includes multiple stops and post-midnight options. The fragment shows extensive timetable data including Dover Lawrence Manchester Medford and Lowell services with varied departure times.
Eastern Division trains depart Koston Station Causeway Street for Portland Amesbury Beverly and other coastal towns with numerous departure times including 7 30 and 9 50, routes to Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport Salem Rockport Gloucester and York Harbor with numerous daily repeats and through services to Portland Bangor St John and Halifax via branches.
A fragmented timetable lists numerous hourly and half hour departures and stops from Boston toward towns including Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Wilton Milford Amherst Sandbam Greenfield Nashua and several stops around Lowell Billerica Stoneham Woburn Winchester Concord Nashua and Montreal with times ranging from early morning to late evening and notes about via routes and reformatory and way stations.
Train departures listed from Zeston Station to Northampton Hadley Amherst Belcher town Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Darkdale West Boylston Worcester with times 7.45 am 1.50 3.40 pm and many other stations such as Clinton Bernn iMuadseon Sudbury Knockbottom Wayland Weston Waverley Belmont and more.
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