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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1889

Page

7

Market Notes on Grains Flour and Provisions

The market shows quiet steady tones across rye flour buckwheat cornmeal and oats with receipts in St Louis Chicago and New York. Wheat and corn prices move slowly with No 2 red and No 2 yellow quoted firm to weaker. rye and barley offerings steady to dull. oats and beans steady with varied deliveries. hay straw and miscellaneous feeds follow demand.

St Louis Chicago New York Bush White State St Lewis Graham Krye Canada Michigan

Butter and dairy market update with Elgin price moves

Receipts show butter 1286 pkgs 209 boxes oleo 562 pkgs cheese 4495 boxes eggs 177 cases 1062 cases beans 192 bbls potatoes 39 cars sweet potatoes 649 boxes hay 29 cars straw 4 cars. Western creamery prices firm with Elgin up 2c to 28c. buyers seek 27c for choice. supply ample. imitations at 16 16 2c. New York Vermont ranges 18 25c. cheese steady with fair demand. eggs firm for fresh. market tone cautious but active for quality lots.

New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Michigan Canadas New York Chicago Weaquote New Lima Canada Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Rose Vermont Rose Hebrons Burbanks White Stars Western Nova Scotia Stars East Swale Elgin Vermont Eigin Eastern Creamery Western Extra Northern Choice Sage Utican New Hampshire

Market Trucker Price List Details Fresh Produce

The demand is quiet with ample supply. Onions range from 75¢ per bush to $2 per barrel, celery at $24 per box, cabbage at 75¢ per bol, lettuce 50 to 75 cents per dot, spinach 30¢ per bush, pumpkins 76¢ per barrel, and other items including beets carrots radishes turnips and squash with various unit prices. The list also shows special items like hub bard at $25 ton and turban at $20.

White Cape St Andrews Citizens’ Steam and Gas Light Lynn Aws Massachusetts International Trust Company Lyon Mass Licht Company of Steam and Gas Light Company International ‘Trust Company Said Steam and Gas Light Company I Ts Gas United States Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Lowe Water Gas Company Lowe Patent Office U.S Hancock Knowles Deane Goodell Henry G. Morris

Fruit and apple market prices in wholesale listings

The report details wholesale prices for apples and various fruits. It lists prices for Kings sweets, Western mixed lots, Ben Davis, greenings, Snow, Kaldsrins, Michigan varieties, Eastern Tasmans, and others. Oranges lemons and grapes show demand levels and per box or per basket prices.

Kings Ben Davis Kaldsrins Michigan Lalman Eastern Tasmans Portland Montreal Florida Palermo Messina Jamaica Cape Cod Almeria

Boston Fruit Exchange Announces Warm Car Freight Schedule

The Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange releases an alphabetical list of cities in New England and nearby provinces reachable by warm cars. The service transports perishables likely to be harmed by cold, expanding trade and benefiting local dealers.

Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange New England Charles Thompson Allston Street Bowdoin

Liverpool arrivals market lags on poor lots

The arrivals show mixed condition with some in good repair and others very poor. Demand is weak for the poorer lots while the market remains active for items in good condition.

Liverpool

Steamers Arrive and Sail From Palermo to Boston

The steamer Coventry left Palermo on November 28 bound for Boston carrying 400 boxes Messina oranges 6000 boxes Messina lemons and Palermo fruit. The Howick departed Palermo on November 27 with 20000 boxes mixed fruit for Boston. The Tordenskjold is due around December 15 with Banes bananas for Scaverns Co.

Coventry Palermo Boston Messina Howick

Harris & Co Auction Sells Florida Fruit Highlights

Florida oranges sold at 75 cents 32 75 per box Navals at 3 dollars 6242 lemons at 260 3 387 percent and Almeria grapes at 2 dollars 75 6 20 per barrel.

H Harris & Co Florida Almeria

Provisions Market Steady Amid Mixed Beef and Pork Prices

Receipts today show tallow 108 pkgs pork 175 bbls lard 639 pkgs hams 25 bbls 170 tierces bacon 762 boxes. Last year’s figures listed. Markets are steady with quiet trade and old-price sales. New York tallow steady at city 2 per pkgs, country free. Pork firm with several graded prices, beef and cut meats mixed, lard firmer, various regional quotes and tonnage figures noted.

New York Western City Continent Chicago St.Louis Cincinnati

Hog and cattle markets steady in Kansas City report

Kansas City market summary shows cattle prices holding steady with shipping steers at 3.25 to 4.00, native cows 1.25 to 2.10, mixed stock 2.50 to 3.25, stockers 2.15 to 3.00, and range cattle 2.26 to 2.95. hogs and hogs unclear in fragments.

Kansas City

Market Report: Cattle Hogs Sheep Prices and Receipts

Market activity shows cattle and hogs mixed as receipts rise. Cincinnati hogs and Chicago cattle fluctuate with beef prices in the 275 to 460 range and hogs around 34 to 38 dollars, while sheep hold firm with natives at 350 to 425 and Western 375 to 510. Receipts include 6800 hogs and 8000 sheep, with Chicago total arrivals near 11 500 cattle.

Cincinnati Chicago Texas Union Market Watertown Gerth Learned & Co J A Hathaway I’ J Courier Whipple Atherton

New York Cotton Market Steady as Futures Open and Close Flat

Quiet steady trading with 166 bales moved in New York. Opening and closing quotations show mixed futures, several grades listed with middling and low middling ranges. Global markets reflect quiet demand. Liverpool and U S ports report varied stocks and receipts.

New York Seeceses Aeee Eves Seve Cescesnes Widen & Agate RIOR Liverpool Yusaree

Sugar Prices and Receipts Report for Today

Sugar markets show firm raw and refined prices with sales at old levels. Cuba and Manila sugars quoted. refined grades ranging from pulverized to confectioners and standard varieties. Molasses receipts and New Orleans market activity noted. New York reports a steady market.

Cuba Manilas Iloilos Javas Belmont New York New Orleans Ponce Barbados

Whiskey market steady with modest fluctuations in major cities

Peoria reports whiskey at 103 and spirits at 105. Rena Che whiskey market quiet with St Toe abet at 102. Cincinnati notes unchanged whiskey at 102.

Peoria

Coffee and turpentine market dull with varied cargoes

New York to Rio coffee markets are dull and lower with fair cargoes. Turpentine closes at 45.42 to 46 cents, rosin at $1.10 to $1.15, tar at $2.50, and petroleum closes at 7.80 cents with RSW at 7.50 cents and cases at 9.70 cents.

New York Rio

Prices and stocks from Boston market week ending December 3 1838

Report by George J. Fox shows live stock counts for sheep cattle and lambs and swine. It lists beef prices from highest to lowest quality and several cattle and hog price ranges including working oxen cows yearlings and swine varieties with brand names and unit prices.

Boston Post George J. Fox Stoke

Imports and Exports Dec 3 1889 Cayenne East Harlor

Barkentine Henry Warner 162 bbls lime C E and B H Fabens 13 174 bush salt Geo E Downes Gonaives Brig Canadian 438 500 ts logwood Lyon Dupuy and Co

Cayenne East Harlor Barkentine Henry Warner Downes Gonaives Logwood Lyon, Dupuy & Co

Maritime Cargo Summary From Yarmouth and Hull Listings

Readable freight items list flour sacks meal oils lard cornmeal and goods from YARMOUTH NS and HULL ENG via New York. Steamer Yarmouth carried flour logwood pearline starch lard wine and dry goods. Steamer Martello cleared with copper paint oil brass lamps bacon ham and medicines among others.

Baddeck Sydney Yarmouth Hull Eng New York Martello

French and English Grain Markets See Quiet Trading

Foreign markets report quiet Paris wheat and flour trades with steady prices. London cargoes show firmer wheat, steady corn, and limited American receipts. Liverpool notes firm winter wheat and mixed corn with steady pork and bacon prices amid cool weather.

Paris London Mark Lane Liverpool Great Britain Calcutta Bombay Kurrachee California

Prominent Brokers and Firms Invited Across Multiple Cities

The list names numerous traders and firms in cities like Allentown Philadelphia Cincinnati and San Francisco. It includes L Krause A Boas W H Walker G Gore B R Wells M RK Amsden W H Valpey L A Knox W W Webster W A Doody F E Foster A I Scott C McDougall A T Smith A D Brown S Feder G M Kutz L Slessinger A R Talman E B Salmon J Wiandi M W Amick and others connected to firms such as Phelps Dodge & Palmer Wells & Co Webster Rogers Hamilton Brown Shoe Co Rosenthal Rosenthal and Porter Slessinger.

Allentown Penn Dubuque Amsden Large & Amsden Tre Detroit Mich H Valpey Valpey & Co Craw Leavenworth Kan A Knox Catlin & Knox Tree Lincoln W Webster Webster & Rogers, Raw Macon Doody Dannenberg & Doody E Foster L Foster & Onl Philadelphia F Munroe Munroe Bros & O Vittsburg I Scott A S Scott & Co Qu. Plattsburg C McDougall E G Moore & Co St Joseph A T Smith Smith-Blasi and Co St Louis A D Brown Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co Francisco Cal—S Feder of Rosenthal Feder & Co Tre. Francisco Cal

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