Condition of the Markets No Advance in Woollens
Wheat declines in price and corn and oats follow. Provisions easier. Butter and cheese quiet. Eggs steady. Poultry active. Raisins nuts and Christmas fruits generally are in good demand.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1890
Page
7
Dry Goods Trade Steady With Cautious Optimism
The dry goods market shows moderate wholesale activity and stable retail demand ahead of the new year. Cotton goods and prints are steady or quiet, exports rise, and woolen lines remain slow though some openness in overcoatings and knit goods points to an improving early-year trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Arnold
Pkys
DSO Vea
Ieee
Cassimeres
Speculative Cotton Market Dull With Steady Spot Prices
The cotton market remained dull and easy for the week with no spot price change as middlings stood at 9 1 2 cents. Receipts at cotton ports for the week ended Friday totaled 266 327 bales, up from 257 529 last week and 241 318 the prior week, lifting the season total since September 1, 1890 to 3,064,426 bales, compared with 3,869,671 a year earlier, an increase of 94,755 bales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uplands
Gulf
Wool Market Steady as Demand Holds Despite Year-End Caution
Market remains steady with fair demand for wool and improving positions daily. Buyers show less urgency to commit before year end while manufacturers increase inquiries and accept many sample bags, signaling potential larger business after turnover. Prices for Ohio X and Michigan X wool held firm with moderate activity in Territory and foreign wool, pulled wool softer, and overall market firm yet cautious.
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Seaboard
Ohio
Texas
California
Oregon
Wheat market weakness grips Chicago trading pits
Markets for wheat turned weak with May price slips and heavy selling. Receipts in the Northwest were ample. visible supply rose 177000 bushels. Corn and oats followed the grains lower as buyers stayed absent and outlook suggested further declines. Curb message confirms record selling pressure and weak closes at bottom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Messrs Gilman, Cheney & Co
New York Post
Dardenelles
Grain and Produce Report Mixed as Markets Hold Steady
Chicago prices show mixed wheat and corn movement with declines in silver and rising inward movement. New York staples list large supply shifts and steady butter and cheese markets. Grain stocks, flour production, and livestock markets reflect quiet demand and firm tonnage with regional variations across Minneapolis, Duluth, and Milwaukee exchanges.
Chicago provision market ends day at session low
The Chicago provision market opened strong and closed at the day's lowest price. Hog runs were light as data shows pork and pork product quotes, including long and short cuts, at steady to steady-leaning prices. Receipts of hogs, lard, hams, and other meats are reported with buyers quiet and demand not very active.
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Chicago
Choice Prime
Ste
Choice
Brighton
City and country renderings steady at set figures
The report notes steadiness at 4 s 434c for city rendering and 4 4V6c for country rendering. New York Trade remains quiet at 412 4916c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Livehog and cattle market reports across major towns
Market notes show St Louis and Peoria steady with hogs around 3.15 to 3.25 in New York terms, cattle in Kansas City and Chicago steady to higher. Hogs at Chicago receipts 22,000 with prices mainly 3.25 to 3.60, sheep around 3.30 to 3.50, while cattle vary with steers 4.75 to 5.40 and stockers 1.76 to 2.25 amid active volumes.
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St Louis
Peoria
Kansas City
Chicago
Boston & Albany
R. R
Boston
Cleveland
Albany
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Southwestern Limited
Detroit
Buffalo
Toledo
M.S. R. RK
Kusten
Wagner
M.C. It
Leeaves
Martford
New Haven
New York
Springfield
Hoston
Wuffet
Cyches
New York Limited Craven Boston
Washington St
Kneeland St
Hanson
Gen
Market Report on Seasonal Truck Supplies and Prices
The market shows ample seasonable truck with quiet demand and steady prices. Onions range from 4 to 450 per barrel, Valencia 1 per crate, Ohio onions 350 to 400 per barrel, car rots 75 cents per bush, beets 60 to 70 cents per bush, lettuce 50 cents per dot, turnips various, St Andrews yellows 110 per barrel, native 40 cents per box, white Cape 125 per barrel, parsley 175 per 200 bush, squash prices 150 per barrel, Hubbard 30 per ton, spinach 40 to 50 cents per bush, radishes 50 to 75 cents per dot, parsnips 75 to 66 per bush box, cabbage 1.125 per barrel, Savoy 1 per barrel, cucumbers 10 to 15 cents each, pumpkins 75 cents per barrel, celery 3 6 per box, cauliflower 150 to 200 per dot.
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Valencia
Ohio
St Andrews
White Cape
Hubbard
A Geeatkans Sold at 250 Dollars in Florida Auction
A Florida sale records the Geeatkans chain of items selling for 250 dollars. The brief notes indicate a single bidder or buyer and a clean transfer of ownership, with the event described in a compact commodity sale style.
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Florida
The Green Fruit Trade in Florida Markets
Florida fruits receipts and prices show steady sale of oranges and tangerines with counts and box prices listed. Pears apples cranberries grapes pineapples and bananas are priced or described by counts, sizes, and origins with steady demand and varying stock levels.
Steamer cargoes bound for Boston listed
The steamer Pawnee passed Gibraltar Deck with 2000 boxes Messina oranges 3200 boxes Messina lemons 11500 boxes Palermo oranges and 6900 boxes Palermo lemons for Boston. Tyndal carried 2400 Messina oranges 4700 Messina lemons 6200 Palermo oranges 7000 Palermo lemons for Boston, passed Gibraltar Dec 6. Peconic held 10750 boxes oranges 14000 boxes lemons for Boston. Bowden due Dec 24 with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
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Gibraltar
Boston
Tyndal
Peconic
Bowden
Jamaica
Boston Fruit Company
Fruit Auction Prices From Harris and Co and Snow & Co
Harris and Co offered Valencia oranges in counts with prices 4 70 and 3 80 per box, Florida oranges at 2 20, navel oranges at 3, tangerines 4 50 per box and 1 75 per half box, mandarins 1, and grape fruit 2 2 per box. Snow and Co listed Valencia oranges 3 87/32 per case, Florida oranges 1 87/42 per case, grape fruit 2 75 per box, and Sicily lemons 2 50 per box or 2 75 per box.
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H Harris & Co
Valencia
Florida
Sicily
Market Prices for Dried Fruits Nuts and Rice
The market shows firm prices and steady demand across items. Figs cash: 10 20 c per lb, good fruit 13 11 5c, citron buyers at 14 2 20c, dates firm with fard at 542 6c and Persian in boxes at 3 4 Wéc, peanuts varied but abundant, walnuts and other nuts offered with multiple regional quotes, cashews and almonds varied by type, prunes currants raisins and dried apples reported with steady to good demand, popcorn and rice markets noted as fair to steady with specific counts and counts per bushel or box.
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Cere Ceees
Fox
Palermo
Messina
Valencia
Bbss
Gassias
King
Russell
Greenings
Ben — Davis
Massachusetts
Baldwins
Maine
New Hampshire
Hubbardstons
Common
Sweets
Tallman Sweets
Black Oxfords
Gilliflowers
Northern Spies
Cape Cod
Almeria
Concords
Vergennes
Niagaras
Salems
Dianas
Havana
Ethelwold
Virginia
Naples
Grenobles
Sicily
Princess
Jordans
Alicantes
Valencias
California
London
Malaga
Cotton market slips in New York and Liverpool reports
Demand in New York remains dull with prices down to 6 11 16 cents for ordinary and 9 5 16 cents for middling uplands. Sales 99 bales, stock 76 273, futures open steady and close mixed. Liverpool market quiet at easy prices with 8000 bales traded, 6700 American. Consolidated three day receipts 105,074. exports to Great Britain 46,240. to France, unspecified.
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New York
Deeley Nis
Liverpool
Clean
Eeee
Chee
Wee
Augusta
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St Louis
Louisville
Great Britain
France
Sugar and Molasses Market Quietly Steady Across Regions
Sugar markets show quiet demand for raw and refined goods with prices steady. US quotes list loaf, granulated, and confectioners’ sugar with minor variations. New York refined prices unchanged. London beet sugar at 12s 6d and Java at 14s 10d. Molasses markets remain subdued with Porto Rico, Barbados, Cienfuegos, and New Orleans grades priced from 27c to 42c per unit. centrifugals range 18c to 28c.
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New York
London
Java
Porto Rico
Barbados
Cienfuegos
New Orleans
Whiskey market report shows steady prices across cities
The Chicago, St Louis and Cincinnati whiskey markets are quiet at 114 dollars. Peoria whiskey holds at 115, with spirits at 117.
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Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
Peoria
Turpentine and Petroleum Market Close Report
Turpentine closed at 38 cents with resin at 142 1/4 cents and tar at 260 cents. Petroleum settled at 7 cents with ASW at 7.35 cents and cases at 9.35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turpentine and Petroleum
New York
Print Cloth Market Quiet Demand for February Futures
At Fall River on December 22 the print cloth market shows quiet, steady activity with demand mainly for February futures. Prices noted are 3 cents for 64 squares and 25 cents for 60x56s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Imports at Port of Boston for Week Ended Dec 19 1890
England features in the latest Boston import list for the week ending December 19 1890. The report outlines goods shipped from England and received at the Port of Boston, detailing quantities and primary categories.
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Boston
Maritime Imports Report From Liverpool and London Docks 1890
A ledger style listing ships Virginian Oranmore Lepanto and others report cargoes arriving in Liverpool and London on December 22 1890. Items include crates earthenware bricks iron sacks mohair cotton machinery and groceries from firms such as Purner & Co Jones McDuffee & Stratton Wight Bros Mitchell Woodbury & Co and Brown Bros Co.
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Liverpool
Eng
Lills, Purner & Co
Jones, McDuffee & Stratton
Baring Bros & Co
Riley & Gray
Vierce & Co
Branston
London
Oranmore
Indse Stone & Downer
Eneva Wood
Pollard & Co
Pierce & Co
Ford
Brown Bros & Co
Moors & Co
Haring Bros & Co
Doherty
D & M_ Whilliams
Tell
Traser
Anywerp
Iaring Bros & Co
Pkas
Mouors & Co
Hilla, Turner & Co
Gill & Lootz
Trade and cargo ledger from several firms and ships
A terse accounting of goods and shipments listed by firms such as Pierce & Co and Atkin & Co. including wine, paper, meat extract, linens, pulp, window glass, casks, salted roans, butter, potatoes, fish, sardines, jam, molasses, and salt orders. Entries reference vessels and locations like Yarmouth NS Fort Fortune Island Saint Martins WI Yabacoa PR and ships Brig Hattie M Bain Brig W G Gordon and Sch Pleasantville.
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Ripa S
Pierce & Co
Atkin & Co
Dennison Mfg Co
Braunstein
Yarmouth
Boston
Hamimond& Co
Dunbar & Davis
Hamilton & Close
American Express Co
Fortune Island
Brig
Hattie M Bain
ST Martins
W G Gordon
Yabacoa PR
Pleasantville
Gustavo Preston
Exports Reported for December 22 1890 Ports and Goods
An 1890 export summary lists ship cargoes from St John s Lunenburg Cayenne and other ports. Commodities include flour cod hake oil lard herring sugar salt beef pork oats hay coal lumber milk canned goods and bacon corrected to 1857 boxes for the Columbian steamer bound for Liverpool.
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ST John’s
William Rodger
Lunenburg
Parthenia
Cayenne
Florence
Columbian
Liverpool
Foreign Markets Summary from London and Liverpool
London reports cargoes off the coast with wheat firm, corn firm, and general firm markets. Liverpool notes slow breadstuffs demand, quiet corn, with quotations for winter wheat at 7s 5d and spring wheat at 7s 7d, mixed American corn slightly lower, and provisions with bacon and lard easing.
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London
Mark Lane
Liverpool
England
California
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