This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 21 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1889
Page
7
Flour and rye flour hold steady while corn remains easier and oats dull. Potatoes weaken as pork products stay active and fresh beef remains plentiful. Tallow rises, sugars fall, and molasses stays quiet with oranges abundant and lemons very quiet. Almeria grapes firm amid quiet grapes overall.
Fall River reports a quiet print cloth market with quotations unchanged and fair demand for odds on the basis of 39 16 for 64s.
Chicago reports a soft close as curb May wheat at 82%4c with subdued demand and rallies checked by selling. Corn eases, oats steady. hogs and provisions dull. shipping movement runs fair but holiday season dampens foreign trade.
The market for mackerel and cod is firm with quiet trade and expectations of renewed activity after the holidays. Supplies are tight in New England and Nova Scotia with high prices anticipated, while European catch quality is seen as limited. Prices for various fish remain unchanged or firm as buyers wait for fuller supplies in the new year.
The Boston fish market shows light receipts and strong prices across many species. Frozen bluefish at 12 14 cents and salmon at 25 cents remain steady, while mackerel sales include large frozen at 20 cents. Oysters sell at 1 125 per gallon and lobsters stay scarce around 8 to 10 cents live or boiled. Scallops quoted at 12 6, with weekly totals: codfish, haddock, halibut, and herring mixed among strong demand. overall coastwise supplies down and prices firm.
The report lists carload tones for all grain except rye with 95 total cars inspected today including 3 No 2 hard spring wheat and 29 steamer corn. Flour receipts were 6066 bbls and 8261 sacks, with prices steady though demand light.
Receipts and quotes update for millfeed cottonseed meal malt and hops. Millfeed prices list sack spring and winter terms with bran and middlings, while cottonseed meal shows 2350 to 2400 per ton with December shipment. Malt and hops supply details include six rowed and two rowed varieties with regional states and Canada grades and prices.
Receipts listed for butter oleo cheese eggs beans potatoes and other items with large volumes and mixed demand. Butter market quiet and steady despite high receipts and warm weather. various regional prices for creamery dairy and canned products cited. Potatoes and vegetables show easy prices with ample supplies. hay and straw in sellers’ market, trade slow.
The market shows steady demand and large supply across apples and citrus. Wholesale prices are listed for Kings sweets, Western mixed lots, Ben Davis, greenings, Snow, Baldwins, and various Michigan, Eastern Tasman, Valencia oranges, lemons, Florida oranges, mandarins, grapes, Almeria grapes, cranberries, and Cape crates with specific price ranges and box counts.
Harris & Co sold enasgo produce at $1.55 to $2.60 per box for lemons at 75 cents per box and Valencia oranges at $3.50. Snow & Co auctioned oranges at $1.12 per box and Almeria grapes at $1.75 per box amid mixed sales across the day.
The steamer Coventry is expected to arrive bringing 400 boxes. Officials say cargo will be unloaded at the dock and inspected for quality and safety as part of the arrival procedures.
Messina ports reported 5640 boxes of Messina oranges and 3700 boxes of Messina lemons while Palermo consignments included 6300 boxes of Palermo lemons and a steamship Napier departed Messina on December 14 with 2000 boxes of Messina oranges and 2000 boxes of Messina lemons. The Savannah is due Monday with 6520 boxes of oranges aboard.
Receipts today list tallow 103 pkgs pork 343 bbls lard 952 pkgs hams 1 bbl 60 tierces bacon 1009 boxes. Pork prices show long cuts 12 50 13 00, lard 6 7c, hams 10 11c, extra prime 9 50 9 75, New York pork steady at 8 75 9 25, lard 5 90. Beef firm, pickled and canned meats quoted. St Louis and Cincinnati markets described as quiet and steady with various beef and sausage prices.
Kansas City markets show cattle steady with prices for native cows at 160 and stockers up to 300, hogs active with heavies at 355 to 360 and Yorkers around 360 to 362, sheep steady near 315 to 400. Cincinnati hog prices dull 3 to 3.60. receipts 7,984 hogs, 4,695 yesterday. Chicago cattle receipts 6,000. beeves 290 to 525. stockers 190 to 300. Texas cattle 150 to 230. Hogs receipts 25,000. 5,000 shipments. prices 350 to 375 for mixed, heavies 350 to 375, lights 350 to 380, ships 333 to 340. Sheep receipts 0 0 0. shipments 1,000. natives 3.06 to 4.00, western cornfed 3.90 to 5.20, Texans 3.50 to 4.20, lambs 4.90 to 6.30.
New York cotton market remains quiet with bids in all classes. Liverpool notes steady futures with moderate demand and strong domestic shipments. together with updated port receipts and stock figures across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Savannah Brunswick Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and seven day totals.
Sugar receipts today show 864 barrels 259 birds and 279 bags, vs 160 barrels and 6676 bags last year. Raw sugars steady with Cuba refining at 644 5 percent test 6c, Manila 4 4 5c, Java 6 6 ec. Refined sugars decline with Pulverized 7 7 percent sc powdered 6 7c granulated 65s 6%c confectioners 7 5cc standard A 6% sc Bel mont A 6%c extra C 5658 5%c yellow.
Prices for refined sugars and molasses are steady with small sales of New Orleans syrups around 40 to 48 cents per pound and granulated sugar at 6 to 6 1/2 cents. Whiskey markets show firm to steady quotes at about 10 dollars per gallon with spirits near 5 dollars in multiple cities, including Peoria, Chicago, St Louis, and Cincinnati.
Coffee trading in New York shows an unsettled market with fair cargoes. Turpentine closes at 4312 44c and resin at 12232 125, tar at 260. Petroleum prices include Shoe at 7.80c, RSW at 7.50c, and cases at 9.70c.
A detailed ledger of December 20 1889 cargo activity listing steamer Siberian Marmion and other consignments arriving at Glasgow and Halifax. Entries include mdse cases bales steel scrap cement and groceries from firms such as Jordan Marsh Co Moors & Co Baring Bros Co and Jackson Mandell Daniell.
Cargo listings from Maco St John Harbor Grace Carbonear and Yarmouth include coal flour meal kerosene oil apples and meat for ships such as Argonaut Bonhomie Mary Rose and Yarmouth Steamer. Mixed cargoes show boxes of dates oranges and hardware plus car loads of meat and lard bound for Newfoundland and Nova Scotia ports.
December 20 market update from London shows wheat firm with higher local quotations and steady or firmer corn. Lucy receipts over three days amount to 71 000 centals with 46 000 American. Paris and Liverpool prices noted, weather cool with partial rain. no major shifts in English or French country markets.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.