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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1889
Page
7
A diverse run of price listings for onions and related produce. It details red, native, and Spanish onions with per crate or box prices, along with beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, cucumbers, peppers, parsley, beans, corn, tomatoes, cabbage, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, celery, and other items with unit prices and bundles.
The steamer Flamborough is due Saturday carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat, due Friday, will deliver 650 bags of peanuts and 450 barrels of sweet potatoes.
Blake & Ripley conducted an auction on Thursday selling California grapes in carts and half crates. Muscats fetched 55 cents to 81 50, Malvoise at $2 62 and a half crate, with Todays at $2 60 3 35 per half crate.
The Norfolk train due Friday morning carries 1 car Delaware peaches 2 cars Jersey peaches 10 cars potatoes and 2 cars apples.
Appies and receipts show strong demand and steady prices for eating apples including Astrachans at 3 dollars and 350, pippins at 2.50 to 2.75, and Gravensteins at 3.50 to 4.00 per barrel. oranges lemons and pears offer mixed supplies with firm quotes. Cantaloupes, muskmelons, berries, peaches, cranberries, grapes, watermelons, bananas, plums and Seeley’s Vine Valley plums appear with varied crate and basket prices, highlighting steady demand and limited supplies in several categories.
Receipts today show tallow thirty bbis three pkgs beef ten bbis pork thirty bbis lard one hundred sixty tierces and more. Last year same day lists tallow fifteen bbis four pkgs beef ten bbis pork eleven bbis lard one hundred twenty three tierces and fourteen peas hams. Pork and pork products markets are quiet with moderate demand for pork and lard. hams steady. Prices quoted for long cuts, backs, lean ends, tongues and mess varieties, with regional values from New York, St Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati reflecting firmer or steadier trends, while beef and outmeat categories vary in activity.
Cattle receipts at Kansas City and Chicago indicate slow weak markets with varying prices. Hogs rise in Kansas City and mix of weights. cattle at Chicago show weakness with heifers and steers mixed outcomes. Cincinnati hogs steady to higher with solid receipts and shipments. Sheep markets mixed, with regional variations and lamb ranges noted.
In New York cotton is steady with fair demand and sales totaling 620 bales. Uplands are described as ordinary, reflecting modest trading activity and stable pricing signals for the day.
Futures opened steady and closed firm as Liverpool cotton held steady with fair demand. U S receipts, exports, and world port stocks listed. domestic markets show quiet to steady mid percentages across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk and others with several new bales, sales, and stock figures.
Sugar receipts today are unchanged from last year with 23 barrels. raw sugars show dull, nominal trading. Refined sugars command steady prices amid good demand. quotes span pulverized to confectioners and standard grades. Molasses receipts total 182 barrels and 12 hogsheads with mixed Caribbean grades. overall market described as nominal. New York reports no change.
Coffee market news from New York shows Rio firm, fair cargoes 18 percent ec, 7400 bags Santos No 7 16 percent 8 15 percent 4c arriving. Whiskey markets in Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis steady at 102 dollars. Turpentine New York Turpentine 44 44 42 cents, rosin 105 110, tar 275, petroleum 7.60 cents with RSW 7.20 cents and cases 9.10 cents.
Shipping and warehoused goods from Halifax and Yarmouth harbor imports list numerous firms including W Bond & Son Blodgett & Chaney DeLong & Seaman and C A Newell with inventories of salt fish lobsters herring salmon halibut canned goods eggs mackerel and crates. Yarmouth entries show berries eggs mackerel halibut herring potatoes and various coastal goods from local merchants.
Shipping ledger lists cargoes from Belleveau Cove Digby Annapolis Sydney and Liverpool with flour meal furniture coal salt sacks pork beef lard stockings groceries paints hats paper rubber shoes hardware egg carriers household goods and more. Notable consignments include Norseman cleard Aug 26 with copper and a long inventory of commodities.
London and Liverpool reports show slow wheat trading off the coast and in passage with small arrivals and sales. At Liverpool, prices for wheat, corn, and provisions hold near steady to lower, cotton futures firm yet quiet amid steady demand and structured price ranges.
A list of footwear buyers and agents in multiple cities including Augusta Worcester Chicago Detroit Richmond and San Francisco with names such as A J Gouley J H Prescott C W Marks H B Childs J M Hill and E A McLaughlin representing firms like Mulheim Rice & Co Black Bros Childs Groff & Co Mabley Co Kellogg Johnson O and Tarbox Schlick & Co.
Train schedules list frequent departures from Causeway Street station to Troy, Albany, Chicago, St. Louis, and other points via Niagara Falls, Erie, Michigan Central, and Grand Trunk lines. Daily and night expresses include sleeping cars, with varied times to Cambridge, Concord, Greenfield, Hoosick Falls, and more. Sunday timetables noted.
A detailed Boston schedule lists daily weekday and Sunday departures for the New York and New England lines from Boston foot of Summer Street and West of Summer Street. It covers numerous stations including Ashcrett, Baltimore, Dorchester, Dedham, Mattapan, New Britain, New York via Air Line, Norwich Line, and the Woonsocket Division with times, last trains, and special notes for Sundays and excursions.
Time tables show local and through service between all stations available at all ticket offices of the company. Trains for Albany and the West leave Boston as follows.
The Concord Railroad timetable lists departures from Boston and connections on multiple lines including Merrimac Valley, Manchester & No Weare, Concord & Portsmouth, Suncook Valley, and Pemigewasset branches. It notes daily and Sunday schedules with numerous express and local departures to Laconia Plymouth White Mountains resorts and northern routes to Montreal and Quebec via Plymouth Newport and Sherbrooke.
A dense list of Western Divison local trains departing Boston Station with times to Portland and multiple stops including Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Dover North Conway Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Lawrence Newburyport Reading Salem Manchester Lowell Medford and others. Schedule includes morning and afternoon departures and varied daily patterns.
A dense listing of through trains and minor stops with departure times from Boston for the Eastern Division. The schedule includes Boston to Portland Amesbury Lev erly Biddeford Great Falls and Rochester Hampton North Northampton Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport Rockport Gloucester North Conway York Harbor Beach and other branches with numerous times and routes.
Lowell system timetables list trains from Causeway Street to Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Concord Wilton Milford Amherst Nashua Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester and others with multiple daily departures from early morning to late evening. Services connect Lowell Boston Nashua and Montreal paths via several stops including Concord, Manchester, and Bedford with varied times such as 3.30 am, 8.30 am, and 11.10 pm.
Central Massachusetts Division timetable lists trains from Boston stations to Northampton Madley Amherst Belcher town Hireondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester and other towns with multiple daily departures from early morning to evening.
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