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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 29, 1889

Page

7

Quotations for Hops and Grains in New York Markets

Market notes show six rowed Canada and six rowed State priced around 85 to 95 cents, two rowed State at 72 to 75 cents, receipts today zero versus 11 bales last year. Market quiet with buyers favored. 1888 New York good to choice quoted 13 16 cents, 1887 New York common to good nominal 3 to 9 cents.

Canada New York Massachu Anne Atherton Boston Sati Emma W. Higley New Rochelle Amilton A. Hill Oston Suffolk Hoston Post John W. McKim, Esquire Elijah George

Wholesome TM Produce Receipts and Market Prices

Receipts today include butter 2106 pkgs, oleo 65 pkgs, cheese 189 boxes, eggs 794 cases, beans 830 bbls, potatoes 18 cars, sweet potatoes none, hay 8 cars, straw 3 cars. Market quotes cover butter in multiple regions with steady demand, cheese steady, eggs firm, beans and potatoes showing steady to mixed conditions. meats and lard show steady trade amid export demand. prices noted for Western and New York Vermont dairy, various grades, and Plymouth/Ontario distributed lots.

New York Vermont St Albans Eastern Western Chicago Liverpool PTE New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Islands Michigan Canadas California Lima Canada Hebrons Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Houlton Houlton Hebrons Vermont Rose Burbanks White Stars Native Rose Norfolks Choice City

Wholesale Produce Prices Amid Quiet Demand Reported

The market shows ample supply across many categories. Egyptian onions 150 per crate, red onions 75 cents per bag, Malta 1.75 per basket, native onions 75 cents to 1.75 per barrel, Spanish onions 1 per crate, beets 35 cents per box, carrots 40 cents, lettuce 1.25, native turnips 50 cents, peppers 60 cents, parsley 25 cents, cranberry and shell beans 1 to 1.25, wax beans 1.26, green corn 1.50 per barrel, tomatoes 20 to 35 cents per bush, native cabbage 8 per 100, red cabbage 75 cents per box, native marrow squash 75 cents to 1 per barrel, turban 1.25, cauliflower 1 per dozen, native eggplant 1.50 to 2.00 per dozen, Kalamazoo celery 2.04 to 2.05 per bunch.

Malta Kalamazoo

Steamer Flamborough Arrives With Jamaica Bananas

The steamer Flamborough is due Saturday carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat due Friday brings 650 bags from peanuts and 450 barrels of sweet potatoes.

Flamborough Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company Norfolk

Fruit Sales Auction by Harris & Co This Thursday

Harris and Company announce an auction this Thursday featuring California grapes priced at twenty dollars plus. The sale highlights a fruit lineup and potential bidders are invited to attend.

H Harris & Co California

Prompt fruit market prices and supplies listed in detail

Receipts rise with good demand for apples and other fruits. Prices quoted across many varieties including Astrachans pippins and Gravensteins, oranges and lemons, pears, cantaloupes, muskmelons, berries, peaches, cranberries, grapes, watermelons and bananas with regional price ranges and notes on supply conditions.

Messina Palermo Ersey New Yorks Clapp Delaware Jersey York States Moore’s New York York State Jamaica

Plums and Prices at Port Simons Market

The market shows strong supply and fair demand for plums with Brads and Quackenbos varieties listed at various prices. Barrel crates sell 60 to 65 cents, native quart boxes at 8 cents per box, and Seeler's Vine Valley plums quoted at 250 dollars per case.

Port Simons Seeler Vine Valley

Hog and Cattle Market at Stock Yards Kansas City

Stock and cattle receipts total 9313 with lower market. hogs 3912 receipts steady. sheep 655 receipts steady. Cincinnati and Chicago reports show mixed price shifts across cattle hogs and sheep amid large U S margins. cattle hides weaker in Chicago while hogs and lambs post varied gains. ranges quoted for beves, steers, cows, and calves with regional shipment totals.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago

Cotton markets show firm New York and steady Liverpool quotes

New York cotton pricing shows firm futures with 455 bales traded and mixed quotes across grades, while Liverpool stays steady with American cotton at sales around 7000 bales and steady middlings. U.S. and international market summaries list receipts, stocks, and exports, with varied regional activity and persistent demand signals.

New York Isis Vt Aedeala Sisk Wales Dales Liverpool Augusta Galveston New Orleans Reat Britain Mobile Memphis Middie Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville C. Consolidated Great Britain France Continent

Sugar market notes with steady prices and dull raw sugar

Sugar receipts today show no gain over last year with 100 barrels. Raw sugars are dull and nominal while refined grades hold steady or show modest gains. Prices quoted for Cuba Manila and Java types vary, with refined categories like Pulverized and Granulated showing limited moves and wholesale granulated at 8 cents per pound.

Cuba

Sugar and molasses market report shows muted bids

Havana sugar markets quiet with 3000 bags sold at 393% gold quin tal and buyers lowering offers. Molasses receipts total 1 hbd today vs 117 bbds a year ago. market remains nominal. Quoted: Fancy Ponce 43c per gallon, Cienfuegos 28–31c, Barbadoes 34c. boiling grades 50 test 30c. New York reports no change.

Havana Cienfuegos Barbadoes New York

Coffee New York Rio Firm Fair Car Goes 18 Percent

Market notes show Coffee New York Rio firm with fair car values at 18 percent. Whiskey market steady around 192 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum prices cited for New York with rosin, tar, and RSW figures and petroleum at 7.60 cents.

New York Rio

Imports Watch List From Aug 28 1889 Liverpool Route

A detailed harbor ledger lists goods aboard the steamers Iowa Milanese and Milanese with cargoes from Liverpool and London. Items include steel ware, pig iron, rags, woollens, canvases, tin plates, machinery, and various commodities piled across dozens of firms such as Baring Bros Co and J S Morgan Co. The document records quantities in bales boxes casks cases and packages, noting purchasers and consignors.

Liverpool Eng Iowa Jere Abbott & Co Baring Bros & Co Kidder, Peabody & Co New Rags Bank British North America Coltness Pig Iron Pierson & Co Kishwall & Potter James Robertson Jordan, Marsh & Co Ford Pierce & Co Moors & Co Warren & Co Charles Gilbert, Dr. & Co Milne & Co B&b Moors & Co Lazard Freres Doherty Jones & Co Hayes & Co Emerson & Co Emerton & Co Otis Clapp & Co Walker & Co Hooper, Lewis & Co Richardson & Co Brownell Mansfield Wright & Moody Durreil & Co Brabrook Smith & Porter Heliotype Printing Co Henry Brown Gardiner ST Pierre Mig Junk Delong & Seaman

Vessel cargo list from Atlantic trade voyage record

A dense shipping cargo summary from multiple ports lists goods loaded or cleared on steamers and brigantines including Catalonia Her Mann Worcester Worcester and others. Items include beef butter flour cornmeal bacon lard hardware leather and figures for quantities. Destinations include Liverpool Yarmouth Antwerp Halifax and Buenos Aires with clearances dated Aug 23 to Aug 27.

Liverpool Eng Catalonia Yarmouth Mary Rose Antwerp Bel New York Hermann ST John Playfair Halivax Ethel Emerson Halifax Charlottetown Pei Worcester Buenos Ayres Benjamin Hale Pasperiac New Dominion Florence Christine Windsor Boniform

Cattle Market Reports for Watertown and Brighton Aug 28 1889

Report by George J. Fox for the Boston Post covers weekly live stock totals at Watertown and Brighton including sheep cattle and lambs swine with beef and store cattle prices. It lists live hogs swine prices and store cattle ranges with figures for oxen cows yearlings and calves as well as sheep and lambs prices and notes variation from the prior week.

Watertown Brighton Boston Post George J. Fox

Cattle Market Activity Reported With Strong Trade Mix

New milch cows and springers sold at 30 to 59 dollars, many lots of dairy cows and young stock traded by W W Ball & Son, P W Thompson & Son, J S Henry, J Melloy & Son, and others. Five English cattle steamers carried 30700 head to British ports, while 15000 more head head to waters for beef, with prices in England expected to adjust. Maine cattle differently priced, with mixed results on milch cows, springers, veal calves, hogs, and lambs. Watertown yards show steady to softer demand for heavy cattle while light stock and calves move quickly.

New York City Continent South America Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Choice Heavy Brighton Choice Ball & Son Thompson & Son Scollans J S Henry J Melloy & Son JC Libby Remick & Cheney America Liverpool London Glasgow Istrian N Morris Palestine A Hathaway J Rollinger J Gould B Morgan Hibernian J A Hathaway British Empire Norseman E B Morgan Maine St John Hastings St John Bethel Io Libby & Son P Libby F Blaisdell W Harriman Hall Chadbourn & Gerrish Hall & Son L Morse Ricker & Son Libby & Son Canada J S_ Lavine S M Flint C P Burke Watertown

London Market Updates on Wheat and Corn Prices

Foreign markets report mixed wheat and corn trends with steady to firmer prices in Liverpool and Antwerp. Wheat futures hold steady as English and French markets remain mostly firm. US and European spot wheat and corn show limited activity amid labor disruptions and favorable English weather.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool England California Antwerp

Probate notices in Boston and Cambridge estates

Massachusetts probate notices cite Nathaniel Gordon Greene of Boston and George Zabriskie Gray of Cambridge. Executors named in Greene case seek letters testamentary without bonds. notices require appearance September 2, 1859, in Boston. Gray case names Kate Forrest Gray as executrix seeking bond exemption. appearance September, Cambridge.

Commonwealth OF Massachussetts Suffolk Nathaniel Gordon Greene Boston Dexter N. Richards Moorfield Storey Brooklins Norfolk Boston Post Joan W. McKim Esquire Joan H. Paine Middlesex George Zabriskie Gray Cambridge Kate Forrest Gray George M. Brooks J. H. Tyler Register Massachd SETIS Sufpole Sarah Lb. Kellum John C. Kellum Loston Elijah George Michael McLaughlin James E. McLaughlin Jon W. McKim, Esquire John W. McKim Elijah Glorge Massachuwe Anson Burton Anson Burton, Jr Winchester Frank H. Carter Joy W. McKim Commonwealth OF MA John H. M. Asmus Claribell Randall Jennie Blakeslee Boson Joun W. McKim Rebecca A. Goldard

East Central Boston to New England Train Schedule Fragment

Trains depart Boston stations for multiple coastal towns listed with varied times from early morning to night. Schedule includes Amesbury Seaverly Lynn Marblehead Salem Rockport Swampscott Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth and others with numerous daily departures.

Portland Aim Amesbury Seveerly Great Balls Rochester Bampton Beach North Brampton Kye Epacheh Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Wraneh Newburyport North Conway Wortsmouth Rockport and Gloucester Branch Salem Work Harbor Each BR. B Swampscott Wolfeboro

Trains Leave Boston Station for Many Towns

Schedule lists departures from Boston to Keene Peterboro Millsboro and others with times from early morning to late evening. Stops include Concord Nashua North Billerica Stoneham Winchester and Manchester along a Lowell System route to Montreal and via various intercity connections.

Lowell Causeway Street Portland Street Manchester Concord N. H Franklin, Lebanon White River Junction Bristol Islanc Claremont Branch St. Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Norwich Minnover Thetford Bradford Newbury Brontpelier Essex Kurlington Aontreal White River Nor Montreal Boston Air Line Geo Lowell System Boston Station Caus North Billerica Lawsrence Stoneham Webern Winchester Concord, Riass Reformiatory Bedford

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