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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1888
Page
7
Market notes show New York and Chicago exchanges steady with widespread price quotes across eggs, beans, grass seeds, potatoes, sweet potatoes, poultry, and hay. Islanders firmer on some egg and dairy lines while Western, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick beans command varied, and greens are broadly quiet with limited movement.
The steamship Lorenzo D Baker is due August 2 with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamship Balder is due August 24 with a cargo of bananas from Baracoa for George H Harding.
Fruit notes show apples plentiful with quiet old price trade. Oranges and lemons steady with fair demand. Palermo oranges 6 7 per box, Palermo lemons 3 6, Messina lemons 83 5 per box. Berries receipts shrink with fair demand 7 10c for blueberries and blackberries. Watermelons plentiful and slow at yesterday’s prices. extra Jersey 15 17c, Norfolks 10 12c, medium altimores and Jerseys same. Delawares 8c, champions 7 8c, Ives and Hartfords 4 6c, Concords 7 8c. No train today. few lots by express at 150 200 per basket. Train Wednesday morning carries 29 cars with consignments to Curtis & Co, Snow & Co, Bennet Rand & Co, and others. fruit and reduce exchange provides above data and will list exact consignments daily.
The market shows steady demand at quoted old prices for a range of vegetables and fruits including squash at 1 per barrel, cabbages at 3 per 100, beans 25 to 60 cents per bush, cranberries 75 cents per bush, onions 2 to 3 cents per bunch, corn in small supply at 23 to 24 cents a dozen, cucumbers 50 cents per 100, and peppers 75 cents per bush. several items priced per basket, case, or box.
Pork demand remains steady with varied cuts priced from 14 to 19 dollars per unit across New York and Chicago markets. Lard, bacon, and hams show firm or dull behavior with minor shifts in tierce and pail pricing. Beef and veal offer small sales, firm lard, and mixed cut prices, while cattle markets in Chicago and St Louis stay uneven as supply and demand balance.
Sugars in raw trade are quiet with rice prices firm. List includes uba, Manilas, Javas, and refined sugars with firm demand and old quotations. New York market shows firmness, Moase steady, and Porto Rico and Cuba imports cited with various price ranges. overall market inactive in New York.
Allan Asher & Co reports August cotton prices falling to 10.25 cents at the opening, with 1050 bales offered and offerings dropping, then advancing to 10.50 cents as buyers and sellers struggle to execute orders. Prices fluctuate 10.50 to 10.41 cents as traders foresee further large sales.
Fluctuations in cotton prices were limited with a tilt toward higher values on reports of rain damage in uplands. New York futures opened and closed steady as the market awaited upland, Orleans, and Liverpool price indications. Across U.S. ports, receipts and stocks varied with steady to dull mid 10 cents per pound levels and futures under cautious pressure.
Special market briefs show cattle receipts in Kansas City at 6008 with steady prices for shippers and cows, range steers $285 to 295, hog receipts 4366 with slow demand, heavies $6.10 to 6.30, medium and lights $6.20 to 6.20, sheep receipts 1012 with firm prices $260 to $275. St Louis reports firmer hogs at $6.30 to $6.45, Peoria steady, Cincinnati firm on hogs, Chicago cattle receipts 10,000 with steers $38 to $60, bees $5.75 to $6.00, stockers $2.30 to $3.30, Texas cattle $1.50 to $3.60, Western range $3.40 to $4.80, hogs receipts 8000 with slow market $5.95 to $6.55, heavies $6.10 to $6.65, lights $5.90 to $6.55, ships $4.20 to $5.90, sheep receipts 5000 with firm natives $2.80 to $4.00, Western shorn $3.80 to $4.95, lambs $4.50 to $6.00.
Across cities demand remains quiet and prices unchanged in many sectors. New York notes steady demand at 4%4c for prime city sales of 48,000 lbs while Rio remains firmer with fair cargoes at 1444c. Whiskey markets in Chicago and Cincinnati hold firm around 114 dollars, with St Louis similar. Turpentine and resin close with general petroleum at 64 6% sc and ASW at 7% sc.
Boston Post by George J. Fox reports livestock market activity at Watertown union market with prices for beef cattle store cattle and hogs. Western beeves steady at 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 cents per pound and good store bulls and young cattle sold. sheep and lamb trade booming with multiple buyers and firm to steady prices. hides and pelts priced. lambs and veal calves noted with various weights and quotes.
Port area dispatch notes Steamer Ventura carries 328 casks sugar and 300 tierces molasses to Gustavo Preston. Wensledale-1505 at Forio Rico holds 300 bags sugar for Standard Sugar Refinery. Lottie Mooe sails Zanzibar with 10 000 dry hides 360 du du 139 bales goatskins. From Mazinga 24 750 dry salted hides 4 boxes moise. All to Ropes Emmerton & co.
Readable cargo and vessel data from multiple ships and ports, including flour, meal, bbls, sacks, rosin, kilns, hardware, and miscellaneous goods. Items span ports Port Gilbert Newfoundland Yarmouth Nova Scotia Surinam DG and brig Stockton and sch Bonhomme with varied freight such as pork beef cornmeal and butter.
A detailed list of shipments and stock for multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Boston and Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine and others. Goods include wool flour corn oats meal malt feed leather hides skins beer and a wide range of farm produce with quantities in bales bags and barrels.
A historical ledger style list records total receipts for August 21 1888 across items such as cotton wool eggs flour oats cornmeal and more. Quantities are shown in bales boxes barrels cases and bushels with separate figures for 1888 and 1887 where provided.
Foreign markets report firm wheat and corn, with cargoes arriving and awaiting sale. London and Liverpool show wheat strength and high prices, while Paris and Antwerp record firmer or improving quotes. Wheat on passage to Britain and the Continent totals rise, and weekly imports into Great Britain are tallied.
A lengthy list of individuals and firms across multiple states and cities identified as boot and shoe buyers or associated firms. Includes names such as J A Lawrence, A Grotz, J Klaus, and W F Thorne among others, with affiliations to various Co firms and locations from Alabama to New York and beyond.
G W Simmons Co at 32 to 44 North Street hosts campaign supply headquarters in New England. Their newly released illustrated catalogue outlines the full range of uniforms flags banners and torches used in campaign work.
Fragmented timetable data lists New Work Shore Line and Providence stations with multiple listed times and Sundays notes. Contains routes, times, and odd notations like Attleboro, Central and Reslindaie, iodine, and Canton dunella. Data is garbled with many incomplete figures and stray symbols.
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