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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1888
Page
7
The market shows flat to slow activity with mixed results. Oats and corn prices hold steady or ease slightly, rye remains dull, and grain exports and spot goods demand are modest while domestic receipts and shipments vary by city.
Receipts for the past week show butter 18 549 pkgs and 234 boxes, oleo 2830 pkgs, cheese 2998 boxes, eggs 6 boxes, 20 bbls and 8866 cases, beans 450 bbls, potatoes 3 cars and 9828 bush, hay 135 cars, straw 28 cars, poultry 263 pkgs, sweet potatoes 1220 bbls. Last year’s week listed butter 14 861 pkgs and 1070 boxes, oleo 1460 pkgs, cheese 7910 boxes, eggs 85, beans 230 bbls, potatoes 20 cars and 35 468 bush, hay 102 cars, straw 3 cars, poultry 433 pkgs, sweet potatoes 1207 bbls. Butter market firm with large receipts mostly common grades. prices unchanged. Quoted prices cover multiple regional creamery and market grades, with jobbing prices slightly higher. Wheat and bean markets show quiet demand, with varied quotations for New York, Vermont, Ontario and other regions. Poultry prices steady, hay and straw demand fair, with wide price ranges across grades.
The steamer Samana from Jamaica is due with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Hondo from Jamaica is due August 31 with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
Receipts last week 3240 barrels versus 3873 last year as markets stay well supplied. Native fruits steady with prices: sweet dough 1.75, Astrachan 2.25, Williams 2.50, gravensteins 2.42 per 50 pounds. Palermo oranges 6 to 7 per box. Palermo lemons 3.65 per box. fessina lemons 3.45. Rodi oranges 5 to 6. berries receipts smaller with steady prices. blueberries 9 to 12 cents per quart. huckleberries 9 to 12. blackberries 7 to 10. Melons 54,280 last week versus 44,400 year ago, sales slow at 10 to 15 and 12 cents each. grapes slow with Delaware Moores 8.00 and Hudson River champions 10 cents. Peaches train 16 cars minor, prices 0.76 to 2, most around 14.26. Bartletts 1.50 for native bush, Clapp’s Favorite 1.50. Maryland and Delaware Bartletts 0.75 to 1.25. Bananas arrive 8200 bunches, Reds 1 and yellows 1.24 per bunch. Pears limited with Davisons 0.76 to 1, other lots 0.50 to 0.75.
The notice lists prices for various produce including marrow squash at 76 cents per barrel, turban squash at $1 per barrel, Bay Blate turban at $150 per barrel, cabbages at 4 dollars per 100, native string beans at a price per bush, native wax beans at 600 bush. No change noted.
A fragmented price list shows various produce items with unit counts and rates including cranberry beans 750 bush Lima beans 175 per bush box bunch onions 2 3c per bush, Egyptian onions 226 per case, Spanish onions 3 per basket beets 36 cents per bush, carrots 2 9 per 100 count, lettuce 400 box ca 50 cents per box, Russia yellow turnips 126 per barrel, rutabaga turnips 76 cents per bush, native cucumbers 50 cents per 100 count, green corn in good supply at 124 per dozen, native tomatoes 75 cents per bush box, peppers 75 cents per bush, Jersey cantaloupes 175 per 200 per barrel, native 526 per ?
A detailed weekly supply tally lists pork, beef, lard, hams, bacon, and other meat products with quantities in bbls tierces boxes cases and cars. It covers past and current weeks, notes price levels for pork and lard, and discusses August cotton manipulation, market sentiment, and regional price quotes across New York St Louis Chicago Cincinnati and Bee markets.
Allan Asher & Co records a quiet cotton market with small August fluctuations. New York prices steady with middling uplands at 10 1 2 cents, while Liverpool opens firm before easing. overall market shows moderate declines on favorable South crop reports but closes steady amid dreary European wheat news.
Special cattle receipts total 2002 with demand active at firm prices. Shippers receive 4 505, native cows 2 275, steers 240438 15. Hog receipts 1697 show active demand with prices rising.
Cattle market reports strongest in Cincinnati and Chicago with best grades firming. steers around 5 to 6 dollars to 6.50 for top grades, common lower. Hogs receipts around six thousand. mixed lots down about ten to twelve cents, weights varied. Sheep receipts about two thousand with strong native sheep and Western shorn prices noted. Texas cattle activity steady with steers around 240 to 430 and cows around 180 to 230.
Sugar and molasses prices hold firm with mixed regional activity. Havana and New York notes show quiet raw sugar, moderately active refined sugar, and steady old quotations. Molasses prices firm, with polarization and various grades traded. stock reports show sizeable warehouse holdings and weekly receipts, while freights remain nominal.
Market briefs show quiet demand and steady prices across multiple commodities. Tallow prices steady in New York and Chicago, whiskey unchanged at 120 dollars, Cincinnati and St Louis listing 114 dollars, turpentine closed at 36 4 cents with rosin at 102.42 dollars and tar nominal, petroleum closing at 64 6 cents with RSW at 7 and eases at 9 cents.
List of cargoes arriving at and sailing from Barbadian and Caribbean ports including Baracoa and Arecibo. The record notes brig Estella with 50 tierces of sugar to Barbados, bark Petrus with 842 bales wool at Rosario, schooner Turban with hides and molasses at Arecibo, and brig WN H Clements with silt to Fortun, among others.
Export list from Charlottetown, Halifax, St John, Pierre, Port Antonio and other ports detailing cargoes aboard steamers Carroll, Cumberland, Sepet, Lorenzo and more. Items include lard, glassware, sutures, grease, machinery, fruits, vegetables, bread, butter, canned goods, textiles, hardware, and general provisions with numerous box and case counts.
A dated ledger of railroad receipts lists wool bales flour bushels oats and various commodities for Boston and Albany Gant Junction Providence New York & New England and others with thousands of units and multiple carloads including wool flour corn oats tallow butter cheese apples tea coffee sugar leather and lumber across several lines including New England and Boston Maine divisions.
A dense OCR style inventory lists bale cornmeal hay lumber leather wool bales and other commodities, with numbers and units tied to Boston and Maine Railroad Lowell System Express and sea shipments. Items include cornmeal hay lumber leather wool bales oreign wool oatmeal tea coffee sugar molasses and hides with varying quantities and container types.
Cable reports from London detail firm wheat and mixed corn futures with active shipments and sales. Paris and Liverpool show firm wheats, steady breadstuffs, and firmer cheese, lard, and bacon markets with noted California wheat quotes and autumn options.
Augusta Georgia James Whittendale of Robert McKnight Craw Chester South Carolina W S Gregg of Gregg and Means Amn Chicago Wisconsin A C McLauchlan of Selz Schwab and Co CU W Marks Craw Mobile Alabama A Grotz Craw Narhille Tennessee L Lusky of Lusky Bros Ad Pittsburg Pennsylvania d H Borland Ads Richmond Virginia J A Grigg US Staunton Virginia M H Holithey Craw Williamsport Pennsylvania b Stead Qu Winchester Virginia T Marion Isaniz Craw Williamsport Pennsylvania d O Brien of J and Dayton Co
The Navy Department invites sealed proposals until Sept 18 1888 for materials to build five steel cruisers Newark Baltimore Philadelphia Charleston San Francisco and gunboat Petral delivered to specified Navy Yards. Bids must be for complete classes, duplicate in sealed envelopes, and addressed to the Secretary of the Navy. The secretary reserves right to waive defects and reject all bids.
Sealed bids announced by the Depot Quartermaster No 1428 Arch Street Philadelphia July 31 1888 for 100 Hospital Tents 500 Wall Tents 1500 Common Tents and related gear. Bids due August 30 1883 in triplicate with guarantee equal to 10 percent of bid value. Samples on display at Schuylkill Arsenal.
Navy Department seeks sealed proposals for a modern steel submarine torpedo boat built in the United States with domestic materials. Bids due January 4, 1839, drawings, specifications, and proposal forms available after October 4, 1888. Secretary reserves right to reject bids or waive defects.
The copartnership between Frank Kronenberg and Alonzo i Witherell in the Neapolitan Ice Cream and Charlotte Russe Company is dissolved by mutual consent. Kronenberg is authorized to settle affairs and will continue the business at 37 Elm Street Charlestown Boston on August 18, 1888.
Probate Court of Middlesex reports heirs at law and all interested parties in the estate of Margaret Runaven, late of Cambridge, are urged to come forward. The notice identifies heirs next of kin and all others with a legal interest in the estate.
An OCR read lists Sunday train times from Beazzards Bay to several towns including Bourne Bourenedale Chatham Cotter City Falmouth Myannis Harwich Onset Sandwich Sagamore South Yarmouth West Barnstable Wareham Wenaumet Woods Hole with departures around 7.30 or 8.15 am and via Woods Hall options.
A dense OCR timetable lists train times and routes for Providence Division and surrounding towns. It includes multiple stations such as Attleboro Oulton Canton and North Aldleboro with varied Sunday and weekday schedules, noting many departures and arrivals across the day and night.
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