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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 28, 1889

Page

7

Market Report on Eggs Beans Potatoes and Poultry Prices

Market notes show steady egg prices with varied regional quotes and 1c higher jobbing. Bean offerings are large with quiet demand and forced concessions. yellow eyes scarce. Potatoes receipts small with improving condition. New Hampshire and Aroostook varieties listed. Dressed poultry receipts not large with steady demand. live fowl and spring chickens priced. hay and straw supplies described.

Vermont New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edwar Islands Michigan Canadas C. Jo Bing New York California Lima Choice Canada New Hampshire Rose Hebrons Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Houlton Rose Houlton Hebrons Vermont Rose Burbanks White Stars Native Rose

Market Report From The Truck Trade On Fresh Produce

The market shows ample supply and quiet trade with prices for onions beets carrots lettuce peppers pickles parsley and many other vegetables listed. Egyptian onions 150 per crate red onions 175 per 200 bag Malta 175 per basket native onions 75 cents per bush and more prices across a wide range.

Malta Kalamazoo

Wednesday's Train: Peaches and Potatoes Carload

A Wednesday shipment features 12 peach cars, one fruit car, and one sweet potato car. The trio totals 14 cars carrying fresh produce.

Fruit Market Summary with Varied Local Prices

The market reports mixed fruit supplies and firm prices. Apples show larger receipts with fair demand for eating varieties. oranges lemons and pears display small supplies or steady demand. melons berries peaches and plums note steady or improving asks. Bananas and cantaloupes remain steady or slowly moving with regional crate and box pricing.

Messina Palermo Jersey New Yorks Clapp Rhode Islands Express Delaware York States Cape Cod Capes Delaware Moore’s New York Hudson River Hartfords York State Jamaica Baracoa Port Simons Tordenskjold Banes Seaverns & Co Niagaras Quackenbos Green Gage Seeley Vine Valley

Provisions and meat markets across cities show steady demand

Receipts list diverse meat products including tallow beef pork lard hams bacon and preserved meats with quantities. Price reports from New York Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati indicate steady pork and mixed beef/lard markets, with export demand and varied tierces cases and cuts prices ranging around 9 to 14 dollars per unit.

Choice City New York City Extra India South America Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Beef and meat prices drift with scarce fresh beef supply

Market report notes scarce Fresh Beef Choice cattle while Light and Medium cattle abound and price levels hold. Quotations cover plate and beef items with many figures, plus lambs, mutton, veal and tallow. New York market described as stronger.

Chicago Choice Brighton New York City

Hog and Cattle Market Reports From Kansas City and Chicago

Stock Yards Kansas City receipts show cattle steady with steers at 350 to 425, cows 150 to 210, and stockers around 240 to 300. Hog receipts 3657 with heavies 360 to 385 and pigs to 427. Sheep steady at Cincinnati and Chicago reports list beves and steers with mixed farm stock, hogs and sheep prices and regional shipment figures.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas

New York cotton market holds steady with mixed futures

Upland cotton sales reach 842 bales as prices hold steady across grades from Gulf to middling. Futures open and close steady with modest fluctuations. Liverpool and domestic markets show limited demand and varied stock levels across cities including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, and Savannah.

New York Rusgst Sc Ceeeee Rougo Goa Tata Liverpool Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Mobile Mid LLC Memphis Mid Savannah Charleston Wilmington Mainlise Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore France Continent Cincinnati St Louis Louisville

Sugar Market Report Shows Steady Prices and Mixed Demand

Sugar receipts are unchanged from today and last year with dull raw sugars. Refined sugars see good demand at old prices with quotes for Pulverized and Granulated varieties. Molasses receipts are none, market steady. New York reports nominal prices and quiet demand across refined products.

Cuba Manilas Belmont New York Kaws Cienfuegos Barbadoes

Coffee New York Rio Quiet As Fair Car Goes

Markets report mixed commodity notes with coffee trading between New York and Rio de Janeiro at quiet levels. Whiskey prices hold steady near 102 dollars, while turpentine and petroleum values show minor shifts with resin, tar, and related products cited alongside gasoline equivalents.

New York Rio

Watertown Union Live Stock Market Report Aug 27 1889

Market shows a good run of Northern and Eastern cattle with solid demand for common grades. Heifers and steers sell near 2 to 4 percent higher than week prior, while sheep and lambs ease about 1 4 cent with Canada lambs attracting interest.

Boston Post George J. Fox Union Market Watertown New Hampshire JA Hathaway Canada Boston M. H. Cobe & CO Exchange Street Haverhill Street Thomas Ryan

Arsenic’s role in medicine questioned in letter to editor

A Portland reader questions arsenic use in medical practice and shares a case of a cough worsened by arsenic and strychnine prescriptions. The writer cites hospital treatment with Murdock's Liquid Food as effective, arguing nutrition can heal where drugs fail and urging reliance on nourishment over poisons.

Brookturn Lafayette Avenue Job Murdock

Always On Time Rail Schedule for New York & New England

Corrected timetable lists trains from Poston Station to Ashcroft Baltimore Danbury and many other points with weekly and Sunday departures and stops including the Woonsocket division and connections to New York via Air Line Route and Norwich Line Express. Officials A A Jackson E P Vining A C Kendall announce general supervision and ticketing details.

Poston Station Summer Street Ashcroft Baltimore Bird Street Blackstone Tim Danbury Borchester Wadle Street Klis Endicott Bishhkisl-On-Thadson Franklin Forest Avenue Martford Harvard Atrert Myde Park Iighland Lake Istington Branchester Mattapan Cmilford Mt. Bowdoin New Britain Newburg New London New York Air Line Hartford Norwich Norwood Norwood Central Pawtucket Philadelphia Providence Putnam Readville Na_m River Street Rockville Conn Southbridge Pistons Willpote Washington D. C Waterbury Willimantic Winslows Webster

Livestock Sale Report From Local Market

Auction notes record multiple sellers with lambs and sheep sold. SM Flint moved 90 lambs at about 58 pounds for 4 4c, GO sheep at 48 seconds, 18 skippers at 2c. A F Blaisde sold 24 sheep and 114 lambs at 3 60 per head, L Morse 40 lambs at 4 1242 ewt.

SM Flint F Blaisde L Morse

Imports and Exports August 27 1889 Antwerp

List of cargoes from steamers Rialto and Venetian and ships from Newcastle and Liverpool with counts of cases bales casks bags and boxes of goods including glass paper wares cement wines oils iron and cotton. Notable consignors include Baring Bros & Co J B Moors & Co Abram French & Co and Peabody & Whitney.

Antwerp Geiler Caé’s Arms John P Lovell Arms Co Peabody & Whitney Fiske, Coleman & Co Jacob Wirth White Bros Putnam & Foley Tutts Abram French & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co RK Schwartz Horace Partridge & Co Boston Rubber Co Alazarine Newcastle Eng Brindstones Lombard & Co Yarmouth Steamship Co Venetian Liverpool Baring Bros & Co Moors &Co Linder & Meyer Sherburne James Skinner Wight Morey & Co Jere Abbott & Eco Salt Thayer & Lincoln Ndise Boston Book Co Thos Leyland & Co Linen Williston, Knight & Co Chas A Vinal & Co Ja& W Bird & Co Kidder, Peabody & Co Riley & Gray Leigh & Co Washburn & Moon Mans Co Gilman Bros Rawson & Co Banes Cuba Tordenskjold Seaverns & Co Algoa Bay Old Iron Gillespie, Patterson & Co

Exports at Ports Include Flour Pork and Wool Trade Goods

Shipping lists show Brig 85 with 1248 barrels flour 65 cgs pork 10 bbls beef 25 bbls pitch 26 bbls refined oil at Pasperiac PQ. Windsor NS reports Boniface with 250 bbls flour. Yarmouth NS lists steamer Yarmouth with wool 2 bales plus varied cargo including meal oil kerosene fruit and produce. Hindoo in HULU Eng via New York clears Aug 24 with cotton waste lobsters paint and lard. Glasgow steamer Hibernian clears Aug 24 with mixed consignments including flour oil cake corn lard tobacco and other provisions.

Pasperiac Brig Windsor Boniface Yarmouth Hulu Eng New York Hindoo Glasgow Scot Hibernian

Wheat and corn markets steady in English and Liverpool trade

London reports cargoes off the coast with wheat quiet and corn easing as markets in marks Lane and Liverpool show subdued demand. Prices for futures firm at Liverpool with California wheat and mixed American corn listed. weather remains fine in England though provisions show mixed movements.

London Mark Lane Liverpool England Great Britain California

Boot and Shoe Buyers from Many Cities Tour Auction

A list of attendees and firm representatives from cities including Augusta Abbeville Charleston Cleveland Denver Detroit Kalamazoo Mobile Portsmouth Richmond Staunton Toledo Wilmington and other U S towns visiting for a boot and shoe auction. Names include Kohler Gouley Rosenburg Scheper Andre Marks Smith Childs Cady Woodside Lancashire McClure Prescott Appledorn Grotz Brandt Cooper Holliday Coburn Freeman Baird Roath Bantz Sayres among others.

Aucnasta F Kohler Kohler & Co Augusta Gouley, Craw Abbeville Rosenburg Rosenburg & Co Bay Beaufort Scheper Burlington Andre Chicago W Marks J P Smith R P Smith & Sons Childs Childs, Groff & Co Cleveland W Cady C Gotzian & Co A. Troy E Baird Baker, Baird & le Fevre Joledo W J. Roath Fisher, Eaton & Co Winchester

Hoosac Tunnel route timetable from Boston stations

Boston timetables list daily trains from Causeway Street to Troy Albany Chicago and St Louis with sleeping cars and parlor cars. Services include Am Express and Night Express with multiple stops like Cambridge Belmont Waverley Nashua and Worcester. Through tickets to West points sold at the Hoosac Tunnel route office 250 Washington Street Boston. John Adams, Genl Supt.

Sss Shore Line Tauffet Suffet Old State House Washington Street Station New York Providence Stonington Pedham West Roxbury Readville Be All River Wyde Park Aewport Fall River Newport Wickford Junction ANEW Pawtucket Fitchburg Causeway Street Boston A. S St. Albans Winchendon Jaftrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Johns Montreal Ogdensburg Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company & R. Ry Cheshire St. Albana Ottawa Faxon KR. Stewart Albany West Roori Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Miagara Carlo Albany Hartford New Haven Lac Biltion Kneeland Street Park Square Station C. BR. R Parker Namel Akwasesachusetts Connecticut Reeves State Room J. W. Richardson J. W. Miller Briggs Uy Albany Binghamton St.Albany Chicago Niagara Falls Erie St. Louis Michigan Central Wabasa Chicago & Grand Miller’s Statington Hoosac Tunnel John Adams Gen’l Central Mockbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont

Local Train Timetable With Many Stops Listed

A long list of train departures and stop times across multiple towns including Andover Dover Lawrence Lowell Newburyport Medford Reading and Manchester. The centered focus is a workingmen's train schedule with numerous 7.30 am 8.30 am and other daily slots detailing stations like North Conway Exeter Great Falls and Biddeford Saco.

Yortland Provincial Express Alton Bay Mochester Farmington Aim Andover Dover North Conway Exeter Great Fallls Braverhill Georgetown Kvennebank Biddeford Saco Lawrence Lowell Newburyport Meading Salem Haverhill Manchester Medford Reading and Way Iynes

Trains Schedule From Boston Station Across Eastern Division

A dated timetable lists train departures from Boston to ports and inland points in the Eastern Division. It includes numerous times for Portland Amesbury Middefore Newburyport Salem Swampscott and other stops, with notes on branches and workingmen’s trains.

Eastern Division Boston Station

Bus Timetable Fragments for New England Routes

A fractured street timetable lists numerous stops including Keene Peterboro Millsboro Hillsboro Concord Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua Lowell North Billerica Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester Concord Mass Reformatory Nashua Beaford Way Stations Manchester Concord Montreal and more with multiple departure times across the day from early morning to late evening.

North Billerica Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Lam Winchester Concord Mass Reformatory Station Beaford Nashua Land Lowell Stoneham and Way Woburn and

Central Massachusetts Train Schedules and Stops Listed

Sunday schedules show Belmont Waverley Waltham Hudson and Way stations bound for Northampton with afternoon and evening departures. Names James T. Furber and D. J. Flanders appear as General Manager and General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

Belmont Waverley Waltham, Hudson and Way Northamptron James T. Furber D. J. Flanders Gen’l Pas

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