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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 06, 1889

Page

7

Grain Market Report Mixed With Steady to Weaker Tones Across Regions

Chicago and St Louis receipts rise as markets show softness in rye and corn while oats hold steady. New York prices firm for select grades with No 2 red and No 1 white advancing. wheat weaker with exports and milling demand uneven. Rye flour and cornmeal steady to firm, millfeed quiet, freight receipts cited.

Minnesota Southern St Louis Chicago New York Leo Sod Graham Canada Michigan

Butter profits and receipts rise as market firmens

Receipts today show butter 3006 pkgs 31 boxes oleo 1216 pkgs cheese 2652 boxes eggs 110 bols 1194 cases beans 173 bbls potatoes 12 cars sweet potatoes 145 bols hay 38 cars straw 4 cars. Butter market steady to higher with Western fresh creameries tight and supply small. prices for choice creameries mostly 26 27c, with finer grades improving and common butter soft.

Elgin New York Tober West Franklin County Vermont New York and Elin Jane Chicago Fiat Liverpool Michigan New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island California Lima Canada Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Rose Vermont Rose Hebrons Burbanks White Stars Western Timothy Red Top Jersey

Creamery Prices and Market Report Across Regions

The report outlines wholesale and jobbing prices for creamery products in New York and Chicago, with notes on cheese eggs and beans markets. It details firmer dairy tones, varying regional quotes, and fluctuating hay and grain supplies affecting prices and demand.

Market steady with ample supply and quiet trade

The market remains steady with good supply and subdued activity. Prices shown include onions at 75¢ per bush and various vegetables listed per crate box or bag, ranging from 35¢ to $3 plus per unit, with items such as beets 60¢ per box and cabbage 75¢ per bbl among others.

White Cape St Andrews Bush

Market Report on Apples Oranges Lemons and Grapes Prices

The report notes steady demand and wholesale prices for apples with various varieties and sizes. Oranges from Florida are well supplied with improving arrivals, demand steady at differing counts. lemons, mandarins, tangerines, and Mediterranean fruit are in smaller supply or slow sales. Grapes show low activity and modest prices for Con cords and Isabelias.

Kings Sweets Ben Davis Baldwins Michigan Michigan Tasman Sweets Eastern Tasmans Florida Malaga Jamaica Isabelias

Fruit Market Prices Mixed for Grapes Berries

Tawbas at 45 cents. Catawbas 26 cents. Almeria Grapes firm for choice lots with fancy grapes at 10 to 15 per barrel. Cranberries scarce with choice dark berries at 10. inferior sold slowly. Cape Cod prices range from 5 to 10 per barrel for Cape Cod lots and 3 per crate for Cape Cod crates. Jobbing prices given for apples exclude.

Almeria Cape Cod

Steamer Arrivals Report Fruit and Shipments

The steamer Coventry brings 400 boxes Mesina oranges 6000 boxes Messina lemons 2700 boxes Palermo oranges and 6300 boxes Palermo lemons. Howick sails from Palermo Nov 27 with 20000 boxes mixed fruit for Boston. Tordenskjold due Dec 15 with bananas for Seaverns Co. Norfolk boat due Friday carries 500 pegs peanuts 500 boxes oranges and 76 bbis truck. Napier 18 loading at Palermo and to clear for Boston early next week.

Coventry Messina Palermo Howick Boston Tordenskjold Banes Seaverns & Co Norfolk Napier

Provisions and meat market prices across cities

Receipts list tallow beef pork lard hams and bacon by package and barrel. Markets show steady or quiet demand with mixed activity in New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and city/ country lots. Prices for pork products lard and beef vary by cut and region.

New York City Extra India Chicago Mess Park St. Louis Cincinnati Brighton Choice

Hog and Cattle Markets Across Cities

Kansas City reports firm cattle prices with steers at 3 40 to 3 85 and hogs rising to 3 67 to 3 77. Cincinnati shows hogs active and higher with common and light at 3 55 to 3 70. Chicago receipts rise. cattle weak to low 5 25. hogs slow to 3 80. Sheep mixed, weakness in natives but movement in Western and Texan grades.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Cotton market reports steady in New York and global notes

New York cotton remains steady as sales total 268 bales with varied grades from uplands to middling. Futures opened steady and closed dull and steady. Liverpool and other U S markets show mixed receipts, stocks, and exports with mid to high c price levels and firm sentiment in Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans.

New York Cscceres Rehn Gor Liverpool JIULY Oss Augusta Galveston New Orleans France Continent Mobile Memphis Savannah Great Britain Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Britain Cincinnati St Leuis C. Louisville

Sugar Prices and Receipts Report From Today

Sugar receipts reach 180 barrels and 5720 bags with last year lower at 20 barrels. Raw sugars remain firm and steady with sales at old prices as Cuba refinings quote 64 cents for various grades. Refined sugars show solid demand with pulverized and powdered forms priced around 2 cents to 7 cents per pound.

Cuba

Market Report: Sugar Prices and Molasses Receipts

Raw sugars in New York are quiet and firm with refined staying strong. Molasses receipts today total 263 barrels and 50 hogsheads, down from 129 barrels and 18 hogsheads a year ago. Small lots of New Orleans molasses offered at 40 to 48 cents per gallon. Ponce, Cienfuegos, and Barbados grades cited with varying quality and prices.

New York New Orleans Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados

Whiskey Market Briefs Across Three Cities

Peoria reports whiskey at 108 dollars and spirits at 1.05 with oats unchanged at 2. St Louis shows whiskey steady at 102 dollars. Cincinnati notes a quiet whiskey market at 102 dollars.

Peoria St Louis Cincinnati

Commodities Mixed as Coffee and Turpentine Move

Coffee New York Rio is dull and lower with fair cargoes. Turpentine and Petroleum trade in New York with turpentine at 45 4 and rosin at 110, tar at 250, petroleum at 7.80, RSW 7.50 and cases at 9.70 in the market report.

New York Rio

Vast Import Listing Across Atlantic Trade Networks

A detailed report from Liverpool and adjacent ports lists numerous imports received by steamer, including 24 cases and 30 bolls steel, bleaching powder, soda crystals, cheese, flax, wool, sherry, tableware, machinery, and textiles. Entries name buyers like King & co, Storer & co, Baring Bros, and merchants such as Houghton & Dutton, J L Ogden & co, and Merchants' Despatch Transportation co, with many destinations across Britain and North America. The document also records imports for Bostonian, Yarmouth NS, Carbonear NF, Albert on PEI, and Charlottetown PEI, detailing cargoes such as tins, soap, bedding, and farm produce.

Liverpool Norseman Jere Abbott & Co E & F King & Co Pierce & Co Storer & Co Kros & Co W_ Jones & co John E Cassidy Bb Fuller & Co K Doherty D & M Williams O Dame & Co H Jones Gustavus Preston Bradford Curran & Joyce Brown, Durrell & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Seaverns & Co Stevens Linen Works Rriggs Reinstein Bros Bawe & Dower Abram French Baring Bros Macallar, Parker & Co O E Lewis Bank of British North America Baring Bros & Co Wether Stoddard Leverin & Co John Whiting & Co Crockford A & Bird & Co Howard Mfg Yarmouth John G Hall & Co American Express Co Nuoise Order Carbonear T Russell & Co James Whelan Alberton Pel Schimma Barclay & Co Charlottetown Pei Montague, Pei

Ocean freight list of ships with cargoes and orders

EXPORTS DEC 6 1889 details goods for Sydney Halifax Bear River Montevideo and Liverpool including flour cornmeal kerosene oil plaster resin cases shoes pine and walnut logs beef pork cattle and ships cargoes plus steamship items and assorted goods in transit to multiple ports and destinations.

Sydney Baddeck Willie Halifax Thomas Robertson Bear River Muriel North Sydney

Wheat and grain markets in Antwerp Paris London and Liverpool

Spot wheat in Antwerp firm No 2 red winter 19f25c. Paris wheat quiet January 40f flour demand weak December 33f9c January 33f6c. London cargoes off coast Wheat strong four arrivals. Red wheat firm white dull Corn firm. Liverpool spreads Wheat firm poor demand. various prices listed for winter spring club wheat and mixed American corn. Futures quiet.

Antwerp Paris London Mark Lane Liverpool California

Trains Connect RK New Haven Hartf 1 and New York Route

Rail update notes RK New Haven Hartford 1 line and New York trains via New Haven. Agent details sparse but indicates service connections and routing.

NEW Haven & Hartf New York New F New England Limited Air Line Boston

Fitchburg Railroad Timetable Through Boston

Trains depart from Causeway Street Boston for the West and nearby points starting Sept 9 1889. Options include accommodations to Troy Albany and multiple daily express routes with sleeping cars to Chicago St Louis and Niagara Falls. Local and through tickets available at Boston offices. John Adams General Superintendent.

Troy Albany Chicago Niagara Falls Erie Boston St. Louis Michigan Central and Wabash Railways Grand Trunk Loy Belmont and Waverley Sumday Mrattleboro Miller’s Falls Cambridge Cheshire KK. K Concorn Lincoln Riarsboro Udson and Maynard Nashua N. H Ayer Junction North Adams Wylliamstown North Leominster Saratoga—S Shelburne Falls Union Square Somerville Waltham Watertown Union Market Mt. Auburn Worcester Atation Hoosac Tunnel Washington Street John Adams Meredith Ashland Warren Haverhill Woodsham Campton Village Woodstock Pemigewasset Valley Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Fordefferson Twin Mt Bethlehem Fabyan St. Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Concord Wash Rogers Ride H. E. Chamberlin F. E. Brown Ee G. P. A. Geo. W. Storer West Cincinnati Sutter Con- No Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Detroit Ieee Michigan Central R Cleveland Toledo Hartford New Haven New York Ars Tosted YORK Fall River Line Fall River Old Colony Brooklyn Jersey City Purepan Providencg Commission Old State House Kneeland Street J. R Kendrick Geo. L. Connor Gen’s Pass L. H. Palmer Providence Hyde Park Readylille Walpole Franlin Paw Tucket Woonsocket Woon, Jc Wlackstone Wwebster Southbridge Putnam Norwich New London Willimantic Panbury Fishkill-On-Hudson Newburgh Points West Erie Railroad Norwood Central Franklin Woonsocket Division Boston & Albany Fitchburg Causeway Street St.Albans Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Albans St. Johns Montreal Densburg Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company R. R Cheshire Connecticut River Vermont White River Junction Bire & Monadnock Wagner Palace Trans Ottawa Ogdensburg Nickers V. A. Faxon A R. Stewart Agusta Haymarket Sq Causeway St Bangor Bar Harbor N.H Upper Roads Lewiston Manchester Portland North Qeemway Haymarket St St. John St. Andrews Halifax the Provinces Maine Central Knox Lincoln R. Kus RALL Euckland Castine Deer Isle Sedgwick South West Harbor Mill Bridge Machiasport Eastport Calais N. HB Haymarket Square Lowell Portland Street Northampton Amherst Ware Lebanon White River Duncetion Bristol Lpm Claremont Quebec Ianover Thetford Bradford Newbury Montpelier Essex Junction Loston Air Line Pullman Minneapolis J. Flanders Gen’ Vass

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