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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1888

Page

7

Egg and creamery market report from Elgin and region

The report lists price ranges for cheese eggs and beans with wide regional variation. It notes firm yet not very active cheese markets in Elgin and Newark, steady but mixed egg prices across areas, and related market conditions for grass seeds potatoes hay and poultry.

Elgin Eastern Western North Choice Liverpool Newark New York Western Flats Vermont New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Michigan Island Canada Chicago York State Timothy North West Red Top Jersey Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Vermont Hebrons Bush Burbanks Virginia Kentucky

Market Prices for Vegetables and Produce Quoted

The listing shows current prices for marrow squash to be 20 per ton and turban squash 25 per ton. Cabbage, onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, radishes, celery, parsnips, spinach, parsley, pumpkins and other produce are priced per bushel, crate, box, or ton with various figures such as 75 cents per barrel for Savoy cabbage, 3 to 4 dollars per 100 count for cabbage, 1 40 to 1 60 per barrel for onions, and multiple per unit rates for leafy greens and root crops.

Hubbard Savoy

Provisions Market Mixed as Kent Rebounds Bears Lend Support

In Chicago provisions opened weak but lard ribs and January pork found buy support from Kent, though overall sales remained light. Oats were active and firmer, with plentiful supply. The report lists opening high and closing prices for Dec through May, alongside New York and Cincinnati market notes on pork, lard, beef, and fresh meats with steady to firm trends and varying price levels.

Chicago Kent Park Pest Choice New York South America St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

Fruit Market Report Shows Steady Demand and Varied Prices

Prices across fruits remain uneven as receipts fall. Apples show slow demand with multiple varieties quoted per barrel or box, including Baldwins and Tallman sweets. Grapes stay quiet but firm, oranges and lemons mostly steady though many lots arrive in poor condition. general jobbing prices listed for Messina and Palermo lemons in boxes and cases. Cranberries note scarce stock.

Hubbardstons Baldwins Tallman Isabelas Almeria Florida Messina Palermo Jamaica

Nut and citrus auction prices for Florida oranges and nuts

The market notes firm prices for peanuts and nuts with common lots dull. Prices listed: peanuts Virginia fancy 6 6 4c per pound, pecans 6 8c, hickory nuts 1 60 to 1 75 per bush. Auctions by H Harris Co: 1000 boxes Florida oranges and assorted nuts and fruits. Snow & Co: 69 boxes oranges and large nuts lots and grapes.

Virginia Bush Harris & Co Snow & Co Almeria

Steamers Deliver Jamaica Fruit to Boston Firms

The Lorenzo D Baker is due Dec 27 for the Boston Fruit Company with Jamaica fruit. The St Andrews Bay left Messina Dec 7 carrying 4000 boxes Messina oranges, 3500 Messina lemons, 8700 Palermo oranges, and 6700 Palermo lemons for Boston. The St Bernard passed Gibraltar Dec 16 bound for Boston with 7750 Palermo oranges and 8000 Palermo lemons. The Naranja sailed from Palermo Dec 13 for Boston with 5100 Palermo oranges and 4100 Palermo lemons.

Lorenzo D Baker Jamaica Fruit Boston Fruit Company St Andrews Bay Messina Boston St Bernard Gibraltar Naranja Palermo

Sugar and Molasses Market Quotes and Activity

Sugar markets show raw sugars firm with limited supply and steady refining. Quotations span Cuba Manilas Iloilos and Jayas with varied cents per pound. Refined sugars are quiet to steady with few changes in prices for pulverized powdered and granulated forms. Molasses hold, with Fancy Ponce Porto Rico and Porto Rico ranges noted. New Orleans demand remains fairly active with foreign nominal activity in New York.

Cuba Manilas Iloilos Jayas New York Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos New Orleans

New York and Liverpool Cotton Markets Report Steady Trade

In New York cotton held steady with middling uplands at 9 9/16 cents and sales at 169 bales. futures opened and closed steady. Liverpool spot quiet with middling uplands at 5 5/16 pence and 5 3/16 for Orleans, 10,000 bales sold, American 8,300. Futures prices across the week show narrow moves. receipts and stocks listed across key southern and Atlantic ports, with varied activity and prices.

New York Sae Sanunty Vic Aioe Ind Cccsees Prioss Liverpool Orleans Sc Vnes Ees Caves Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Memphis Savannah Charleston Continent Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville Consolidated France United States

Market Summary for Hog and Cattle Markets Across Major Cities

Kansas City reports weak cattle demand with receipts 2472 and cows at 140 265 while ranger steers bring 2 275. hogs receipts 10192 show prices down 5 to 10 cents with heavies 480 490 and pigs 470 475. sheep steady at 235 475. St Louis hogs steady with Yorkers 480 515 and butchers 510 520. Peoria hogs steady at 490 515. Cincinnati hogs steady common to packing 450 510 and 5515. Chicago cattle receipts 11000 shipments 3000 dull lower with beeves 475 510 steers 290 440 stockers 225 330. Texas cattle 180 300. hogs receipts 18000 shipments 3500 strong mixed 505 520 heavies 505 524 and light 495 520. sheep receipts 6000 shipments 1500 strong natives 275 585 Western 350 460 Texans 230 315 lambs 460 650.

Kansas City St Louis Peoria Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Mixed Commodity Market Report Notes Global Trade

Coffee in New York shows higher activity with fair cargoes while whiskey in Chicago remains steady at 1t 20. Cincinnati and St Louis hold at 114 with fair demand at old prices in Talion. York market weaker with city price 64 642c and country 5c 4c. Turpentine and petroleum in New York: turpentine at 46¾c, resin around $1.02–$2.07 and tar nominal. petroleum closes at 6.65–7.25¢ with RSW at 7.30c and cases at 9.30c.

New York Chicago Cincinnati St Louis York City

Imports and Exports. Havana 1888 Sugar and goods cargo

Shipping list from Havana dated December 20 1888 records Bark Antonio with 4780 bags sugar and cargoes from Nash Spaulding Co to Liverpool and multiple consignors including booth and co J H Benton and Stone & Downer. Items cover wool skins glassware clothing oranges silk ware wine yarn and assorted hardware with numerous firms and quantities.

Havana Antonio Sala Nash, Spaulding & Co Liverpool Eng Catalonia Booth & Co Whitney & Co Hovey & Co Jackson Koopman & Co Myers & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Kates & Co Belcher & Loomis Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Glass Instruments ET Ritchie & Sons Benjamin French & Co Jos Kiga Charles Storrow Davis & Co Jauney & Co Jace Leal Higgins & Henderson Shoninger Moses & Co Little

Trade goods and shipments listed from multiple firms

A longeeded inventory lists hundreds of items from Brown and co to Delong and Seaman. Entries name firms such as Neal Morse Forbes Hayward Collings Fair banks and many others with sacks bales cases boxes crates and specific commodities including wool worsted cloth machinery glassware and spices. The document records quantities and destinations like Boston Providence and Rosario along with steamer brig and schooner movements and assorted marine cargo including log wood bananas and cattle hides.

Washburn & Moon Mans Co Stone & Downer Thomas Kelly & Co Wright Manf Claflin, Larrabee & Co WH Davis & Co MJ Whittall Grout Warren & Blanchard Cs Machinery Lowell Machine Shop Goodwin & Co Baring Bros & Co Bivelow & Co Cunard Steamship Line Hadley Co Luciano Sawyer & Co Fuller Dana & Fitz Holder & Herrick Noyes Austin & Co Dodge & Co HH Atkins Garibaldi James J H Gregory Jordan, Marsh & Eco Houghton & Dutton H Cundy Miragoane Brig J A Horsey James Stevenson Port Morant Jam Boston Fruit Co Rosario Nahum Chapin Rice & Co Yarmouth Webber Clements & Co Hake Sounds Delong & Seaman

Exports Report from December 20 1888 Ports

Shipping brief detailing cargoes from Digby Annapolis Nova Scotia St John New Brunswick and Buenos Aires to Liverpool and other ports. Items include cornmeal flour lard bacon pork and cotton goods aboard schooners Arcilla T W McKay Warrior and steamer Roman with multiple consignments and quantities.

Digby Annapolis Arcilla ST John T W McKay Liverpool Eng Roman Luenos Ayres

Freight Ledger of 1888 Staple Shipments Across Rail Lines

A dense ledger listing December 20 1888 shipments for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York & New England hitchburg Boston Maine and others. It items bales cotton wool flour cornmeal oats malt tea butter cheese eggs and vast quantities of lumber leather hides and other goods by car load bale by the hundredweight and sack with numerous totals and car counts.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Hitchburg Boston & Maine Railroad Buston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell By Express Cleo Baer Eabdis

Wheat and corn markets steady amid quiet shipping reports

London cargoes show wheat and corn quiet with arrivals and sales modest. Liverpool spot wheat heavy while futures trade slowly and prices listed for California and mixed American corn. Antwerp wheat steady Paris wheat quiet flour flow and English country markets firm amid grain firm’s failure noted.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Antwerp

Rail Timetable Fragment from Boston and Albany Line

A dated timetable page lists New York and New England routes with detailed departures and arrivals. It notes the Woonsocket division stops, express and midday services, and connections via Middletown Hartford New Haven. The text preserves train numbers and station mentions across Boston, Norwood Central, Hyde Park, Franklin, Waterbury, and Willimantic.

Boston Norwood Central Hyde Park Pam Franklin Woonsocket Division Boston & Albany Railroad Needham and Way Woonsocket New York Middletown New Haven Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-fludson Newburgh Turners N. Y Chicago New England Air Line Grand Central Depot Willimantic Williamia

Central Division Train Schedules Across Boston Area Lines

A dense list of Central Division train times and stations including New York via Fall River Line, Newport, Quincy, Brockton, Stoughton, Abington, Rockland, Quincy, Shawmut, South Braintree, and Whitman. Details show numerous weekday and Sunday departures with varied intervals, plus notes for certain routes and days.

Fitchburg Causeway Street Boston S'. Albans Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Albans St. Johns Montreal Ogdensburg Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company Kh. R Cheshire Connecticut River Vermont White River Junction Hire & Monadnock Ottawa Goedemsburg Lisco A Washington Street A. Faxon K.spewart Keene, N. H Providence Park Square New York Stonington Attleboro Boylston Gale Central Highland West Roxs Spring Street Canton Junction Dedham Dodgeville Exat Foxbers Fomboro Forest HW Azelwood Reath Bronville P Park Jamaica Mansfield Mit Hope and Clarendon Hills North Attleboro Readville Moxbury Broomford India Point Sharon Sharon Heights Stoughton Central Canton South Walpole I Wrentham Walnut Hill Stonehaven Warren and Bristol West Mansfield bTaunteen New Bedford Norton

Cape Cod Ferry Timetable Fragments

Partial Cape Cod Division schedule lists multiple towns with departure times around 8.15 am and 4.15 pm. Entries include Bourne Barnstable Hyannis Falmouth Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Wellfleet Woods Hole and others, with varying am and pm slots and notes on certain days for Nantucket only.

Cape Cod Kneeland Street Buzzarids Bay Barestabe Bourne Dale Brewster Cataumet Chateham Cottage City Park Sq New Bedford Fairhaven Falmouth Hyannis Harwich Meanument Beach Mattapoisett Marion Nantucket Woods Hall Woods Holl Waream Warmouth

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