Grain futures and cash prices across multiple markets
The report lists bids and asks for Wheat Corn and Oats across October through November with various percentages and cents in St Louis Minneapolis and Duluth. It notes closing prices for Wheat and Corn in St Louis for August September December May and for Oats September and May, plus Minneapolis cash and on track prices and Duluth August wheat opening and close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Louis
eSoc
Minneapolis
Duluth
Peach Receivers Demand Lower Freight Rates
Dissent grows among peach receivers over high rail freight charges by Pennsylvania and New York & New Haven. They argue no special trains or extra costs exist this season, noting peach cars demand $220 to $240 per car while non peach cars on the same trains cost about a quarter. Receivers say profits vanish under exhorbitant rates and question longevity of support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
New York & New Haven
Lumber Market Holds Firm Amid Steady Demand and High Rates
Amber demand remains steady while lumber prices show little change. Southern lumber stays firm as weekly arrivals total about 976000 feet split among three vessels. Atlantic freight hits $750 per voyage with Gulf rates near $9.10 and steamer at $7.50. yards report strong demand across pine, spruce, and hardwood sectors with mills full of orders and rapid turnover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Atlantic
Gulf
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Emand
The Coal Trade Sees Dulness in Anthracite Market
The Pottsville Miners Journal notes weak demand for anthracite at wholesale and retail with prices easing. Production reached 367 549 tons for the week as stockpiles grow at ports, freight rates firm but likely to fall with abundant vessels. The report explains last year’s exceptional activity and predicts a pickup as buyers resume purchases before year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville Miners Journal
Reading
Coal stock and fall trade expectations noted
The article notes producers expect a strong start to fall trade to avoid restricting supply. Most coal is destined for immediate use with only a small pea coal option stored for future needs.
Flour and grain prices and receipts at a5] 206 State Street
At 206 State Street, John E. Welsh reports carloads of grain with extensive flour receipts. Prices cover domestic flour, oats, corn, beans, poultry, potatoes, hay, and related commodities. Market remains quiet to firm with moderate demand. quotes span No 2 red winter wheat, mixed corn, various oats grades, beans, peas, and egg prices among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Canada Superior
Canada Roller
Vermont
New Hampshire
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Islands
Michigan
Canadas
New York
Chicago
California
Lima
Choice Canada
New Jersey
Aroostook Rose
New York Burbanks
Virginias
Jersey
Daily receipts and butter market report update
Today s produce receipts show butter 6098 pkgs oleo 1100 pkgs cheese 2886 boxes eggs 3 bbls 2065 cases beans 67 bbls potatoes 18 cars sweet potatoes 458 bbls hay 4 cars straw 3 cars. Butter market remains firm with Northern Western creameries scarce supply and prices firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Extra Western
New York
Vermont
Elgin
Chicago
Western
Fort Washington
Liverpool
Market Report Cites Steady Demand and Varied Prices
The market shows steady demand for produce with quotes across many items. Egyptian onions at 150 per crate, Malta melons at 175 per 225 basket, onions and beets varied, cucumbers 31 50 per 100, tomatoes 75 per bush, cauliflowers quiet at 1 per dozen, Kalamazoo celery at 20 25 cents per bunch, native and regional varieties listed with multiple price points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
Long Island
Kalamazoo
Fruit market prices and handles for 1888 89 season
The Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange reports 1888 89 receipts by fruit type and region. Valencia oranges Messina lemons Palermo Sorrento Catania Milazzo, with totals 293 017 boxes. Prices quoted for apples pears cantaloupes peaches and grapes, with varied supplies and steady to firm demand across commodities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valencia
Messina
Palermo
Sorrento
Catania
Milazzo
Sorento
Astrachans
Williams
New York
Virginia
Delaware Bartletts
Providence
Jersey Ives
Gasc Tb
Carolina
Marthas
Marys
Agawanis
Ives
Concords
Perkins
Moore’s
Early
Delawares
Jamaica
Baracoa
Port Simons
Fruit Sales Auction Notice
Harris & Co offer 915 boxes of fancy McDevitt California peaches at auction Wednesday at 10 o’clock. Snow & Co offer a Wednesday sale of 1 car California pears and peaches, and 1 car each of Delaware and Jersey peaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H Harris & Co
Snow & Co
California
Delaware and
Jersey
Steamer Arrivals Bring Bananas to Boston Firms
The steamer Harold is due and the steamer Kong Alf is due Thursday with Jamaica bananas to the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Carl Konow has arrived with 9900 bunches Baracoa bananas for WW& RK Noyes. The steamer Dana is due Friday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold
Kong Alf
Jamaica Bananas
Boston Fruit Company
Carl Konow
WwWe& RK Noyes
Dana
Seaverns & Co
Wednesday's Train Car Loadout Report
A Wednesday note details a freight train composition totaling eleven peach cars, one citron car, six potato cars, and three melon cars. The item reads as a concise inventory snapshot of agricultural product transit.
Provisions and pork market prices in New York reports
Receipts show tallow 24 pkgs, pork 381 bbls, lard 1761 pkgs, hams 4 bbls, bacon 1058 boxes. last year pork and other items varied. Pork and pork products demand steady with quoted prices for long cuts to mess and various specie like sausages and lard. New York pork market notes lower prices for beef. details include multiple cut types and per unit quotes across product lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choice City
Meat market brief with mixed price notes from multiple cities
Hams slow and beef markets quiet with steady cuts and varied sales. Lard firmer with notable tonnage and prices in several regions. refined and dry salted meats show mixed activity. Fresh beef and other meats quoted at firm to easier levels, with pork, bacon and tallow details across Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and New York markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tierces City
Continent
South America
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
Choice
Brighton
New York
Hog and cattle market at major markets
Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts 5869 with a steady market. Hogs receipts 5083 with a lower market. heavies 370 to 405, mediums 380 to 480. Sheep receipts 1094 steady at 3.40 to 4.10. Cincinnati and Chicago reports show mixed trends with hogs steady to higher for good weights, cattle and sheep with varied prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Cincinnati
Chicago
Lexas
Glasgow Steamship Lading Returns May Include Everyday Goods
Readable items list for the Steamer Scandinavian voyage cleared August seventeenth at Glasgow. Notable consignments include oats flour pork beef lard and beef cases, hardware, ginger ale, fruits, vegetables, and crates. Also listed are tobacco cheese kerosene oil nails flour books and papers leather yarn bagging sacks and various packing materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Scot
Watertown Union Livestock Market Report Aug 20 1889
Report for the Boston Post by J. Fox shows weekly livestock totals with sheep cattle and lambs swine prices and hides. Western cattle 450 head for export. various prices listed for beef store cattle sheep lambs hides tallow and skins. multiple sales noted including J A Hathaway G Harris W A Farnham and others with weights and rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Aan J. Fox
Brighton
Union Market
Watertown
J A Hathaway
G Harris
Farnham
Foreign Markets Report from London and Liverpool Trading
In London and Liverpool markets Aug 20, wheat remains quiet but firm as cargoes move slowly. One wheat cargo sold since last report, another awaiting sale. English and French markets steady. Liverpool spot wheat slow. American corn firm at 48 Lled. Wheat futures weaker with August to January prices listed. Paris reports firm wheat and flour. Provisions: pork steady, lard and tallow easing. Weather boisterous in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mark Lane
Liverpool
England
California
Paris
Cotton markets show firm tone in New York and Liverpool
New York cotton gains steady to firm with highs around 11 1 16c for low middling and mid dling at about 11 4c. Opening and closing quotations show modest rises while futures end barely steady. Liverpool reports firm demand with middlings 6 1 2d and sales around 7000 bales, American imports 5200 bales. Other US markets post varied receipts and stocks with mixed quiet to firm tones across cities. Consolidated four day US port stocks total 77,068.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Crocesses
Chile
Liverpool
Augusta
Calveston
New Orleans
Great Britain
New Bates
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
Baltimore
France
Cincinnati
St Louis
Louisville
United States
Sugar And Molasses Markets Report Quiet Trading
Sugar receipts today show 10 barrels versus 51 last year, with raw sugar quiet and steady. Quotations cover Cuban refined and centrifugal grades, Javas, and various refined sugars. Molasses receipts today total 27 hogsheads and 5 barrels, with trade quiet at old prices across New Orleans and New York markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Belmont
New York
Uiet
New Orleans
Ciemegos
Barbadoes
Commodity prices resemble steady New York markets
Coffee from New York to Rio shows slight ease, with fair car roes priced at 18342¢. Whiskey holds. no change noted. Turpentine and petroleum statistics from New York indicate turpentine closed at 4312 44c with rosin at 10242 10744 and tar at 270. Petroleum closed at 7.75¢ with RSW at 7.20c and cases at 9.10c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rio
Imports and Exports August 20 1889 Progreso
The Crown Prince carried 4685 bales hemp for Thebaud Bros to Vieques and Fajardo PR. The Carl Konow transported 9900 bunches bananas for WW & C R Noyes to Aracao. Barrings Bros & Co. handled 220 bilds sugar to Aracoa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progreso
Crown Prince
Thebaud Bros
Vieques and Fajardo
Bilds Sugar Baring Bros & Co
Aracoa
Carl Konow
R Noyes
Exports Summary from Havana and Montevideo Reports
Exports dated August 20, 1889 list Brig Frygoe of 233 tons coke at Havana and Brig Maury with 522,453 feet of lumber bound for Montevideo. Vessel Zone at Yarmouth Newfoundland appears in transit with a case mark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Cuba
Frygoe
Montevideo
Maury
Yarmouth
Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town Across the Nation
A long list of buyers and agents from multiple states and cities including Altoona Pittsburgh Chicago Cleveland Des Moines Philadelphia St Louis and Wilmington are named with firms and representatives such as W C Carroll Gregg & Means C Marvin Cantrell Kellogg Johnson & Jo and Dewey Rodgers & Co. The directory style notice highlights widespread demand for boots and shoes across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Cleveland
W Cady
Indianapolis
Ind
E Branhai
McKee & Branhai
Jacksonville
Fla
C Marvin
C Marvin & Co
Memphis
Mobile
Grotz
Hall
Springfield
A Starkey
Starkey & Scowden
St Louis
J H Clements
A H Clark
Clark Shoe Co
Minn
H A Coburn
Kellogg, Johnson & Jo
Toledo
J S Rodgers
Dewey, Rodgers & Co
Railroads Always On Time Schedule for Boston Lines
Corrected to Aug 19 1889 trains depart Boston foot of Summer street to Ashcroft Baltimore Blackstone Danbury Needham and many others with numerous daily and Sunday trains. Special through services include New York via Air Line and Norwich Line Expresses with connections to Hartford and Washington, endpoints listed with departure and arrival times. Crew and office details provided for Boston area service.
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Puritan
Providence
Ilgrim
Old Colony
Boston
Kneeland Street
Fall River
Newport
New York
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Old State House
Washington and
State Streets
J. R. Kendrick
Geo. L. Connor
L. H. Palmer
Summer Street
Ashcroft
Baltimore
Bird Street
Blackstone
Danbury
Dedham
Kaim
Dorchester
Cable Street
Ellis
Endicott
Fishkill-on- Hudson
Franklin
Forest Avenue
Hartford
Harvard Street
Hyde Park
Islington
Manchester
Mattapan
Milford
Mc Howdein
New Britain
Newburg
New London
Air Line
Norwich
Norwood
Norwood Central
Pawtucket
Philadelphia
Putnam
Readville
Lam
Wiver Street
Rockville
Conn
Southbridge
Tiltons
Walpole
Washington
D.C
Waterbury
Willimantic
Winstons
Webster
Fall River Line
Stonington
Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Route Train Schedule
Fitchburg Railroad announces train departures from Boston Causeway Street for the west. 6 AM and 3 AM accommodations to Troy Albany. Daily Express with parlor car to Troy Albany and Buffalo, sleeping car. Express to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Grand Trunk. Night Express with sleeping cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Causeway Street
West
Troy
Albany
Inghamton
Brufalo
Chicago
Niagara Falls Short Line
Erie & Leston
St. Louis
Michigan Central
Wabash
Niagara Falls
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway
Old State House
Washington Street
Syracuse
Rtochester
Buffalo
Detroit
Michigan Central He. K
Cleveland
Toledo
Lakeshore& Michigan Southern RR
Cincinnati
No. 9
Poiteds
Hartford
New Haven
New York
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James & Abbot
Liberty Square
Coal Trade
John E. Welsh
State Street
General Markets
City
Albiac
Port Huron
New Chicago
Graham
Canada
Boston Fruit & Produce Exchange
Watertown Union
J Shirley
JS Lavine
Gyec
Hk Jones
J E Carter & Co
WiGieees
Eeeereerees
Onan
Warene
Ener Rene
Altoona
Penn
Lamkin & Foster
Goodyear India Rubber Glove Mfg. Co
Congress Street
Hathaway, Soule & Harrington Men’s Fine
Hanud
Goodyear
Godyear Welts
United
Cincinnati, Sandusky ,& Cleveland Railroad CO
Merchants’ Row
A. P. Simpson
Chicago & Michigan Shore R.R. CO
Sears
Charles Merriam
Chicago & West Michigan Railway Company
Chicago and
Eastern Illinois
R. BR. CO
Co. W. Hillard
Railroads
New England
Sunaay
Woonsucket Division
Boston & Albany Railroad
Needham and Way
Woonsocket
Middletown
Fishkill-on-Hudson
Newburgh
Turners, N. Y
Grand Central Depot
GOM Pr. Ri
Fishkillon-Hudson
Irenton
A. A. Jackson
P. Vining
A. C. Kendall
Pass
Agt
Fitchburg Railroad
Hoosac Tunnel
Ayer Junction
Belmont and
Waverley
Brattleboro
Miller’s Falls
Cambridge
SOE
Cheshire BK
Concord
Fitchburg
Gardner and Miller's Falls
Grevenfield
Hoosick Falls
Johnsonville
Lincoln
Marlboro
Madson and
Maynard
Tom
Nashua
N. H M
Ayer Jupnetson
North Adams
Williamstown
North Leominster
Saratoga
Shelburne Falls
Union Square
Somerville
Waltham
Market
Mt. All- Watertown
Union
Worcester
John Adams
J. Whitmore
J. R Watson
Providence Line
Park Square
Massachusetts
Conpecticut Reeves
State Room
J. W. Richardson
J. W. Miller
O. H
Kneeland Street Station
Brockton
Taunton
Tantaskey
Bedford
Plymouth
Abington
Duxbury
Baunton
Central Station
Dean St
Cape Cod
Provincetown and Way
Amy Annis
Martha’s Vineyard
York NE
Haven Lon
Ieuwine
Providence and
West Roxbury
Beall River
Bryce Park
Bnewport
Wickford Junction
Brew Bedford
Reurn
Fleapville
Utainton
Wrentham
oFor
Central Div
Northern Division
Boston & Albany
Knee
Land Street
Michburg
Leominster
J.R. Kendrick
R. R
Brideotion Kneeland Street
A. S&s Hanson
Agh
Stonington Line
Park Square Station
Washington, Cor. State Street
O. H. Briggs
Gen
Wwyo Bosto
NEW Haven & Hartin
New
N. Y
N. E
T. Hempstead
Haven
Rain. i
J. S., Williams
Aaron B Gay & Co
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