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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1889
Page
7
New York receipts and exports show fluctuating grain prices with flours and patents, Montreal and Minneapolis wheat prices, and mixed corn markets. Rye and oats demand soft, while Chicago and Detroit report dull or steady activity. butter and eggs vary by region.
Receipts for the month end January 31 show totals for butter cheese eggs beans potatoes and hay with varying weights and prices. Butter prices rise with Western creamery showing higher quotes and several regional markets firm while others remain quiet. cheese and dairy products similarly quoted with trade notes and export activity described.
Receipts for the month ending January 31 listed hogs, beef, pork and lard products with prices and markets. Chicago provisions weakened with selling curbed after a bulge. hog receipts rose versus last week and last year. Quotations for pork, lard, beef and various cuts are provided, with regional quotes from St Louis and Cincinnati and notes on firm or soft prices.
The January receipts from the Fruit and Produce Exchange show large apple supplies with slow trade and prices ranging from $1.25 to $2 per bushel for various varieties. Oranges and lemons are well supplied with firm to fair prices, including Messina and Palermo fruit and Florida oranges. market quotes cover several categories and box and half-box sizes.
Cranberries firm for choice lots with ready sale. Common lots dull and plentiful. Prices quoted: 750 800 per box for choice and 4 7 per case for fair to good. Snow & Co to auction 2000 boxes Florida oranges Friday.
The steamer Victoria sailed from Palermo January 18 for Boston with 5900 boxes Palermo oranges 3100 boxes Palermo lemons and 8500 boxes Naples oranges and passed Gibraltar January 23. The steamer Picqua left Palermo January 22 bound for Boston with 5500 boxes Messina oranges 1000 boxes Messina lemons 7900 boxes Palermo oranges and 6400 boxes Palermo lemons passing Gibraltar January 27.
Sugar markets show slow movement with firm bids for raw sugars including Cuba and Java varieties. Refined sugars remain steady with fair demand, prices for pulverized and granulated forms listed. wholesale granulated at 7.4 cents. Porto Rico, New Orleans, and Cienfuegos prices noted for various grades and boillng sugars.
New York cotton held firm as futures opened and closed steady. Prices ranged from mid 9c to 10c per pound with bids for specific qualities and large Liverpool spot sales at 54ed to 63-16d. Volume included 143 bales in New York and thousands of bales traded in Liverpool with major regional receipts and exports listed for the day.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts 1722 with slow trade and lower prices. Hogs receipts 1958 with active demand and higher quotes. Sheep 1711 steady around 2.45 to 4.00. St Louis hogs firmer with several price bands. Peoria and Cincinnati show firmer to strong hog markets. Chicago cattle receipts 12,000 with steady conditions for good cattle and mixed prices. hogs 23,000 with varied classes from heavy to light. sheep 9,000 with weaker natives and other types.
The report shows dull uneven conditions in tallow with varied city quotes and weak grease. New York notes a strong market for city and out-of-town packages with turpentine and petroleum prices, while coffee Rio is strong. Whiskey prices in St Louis Chicago and Cincinnati hover around $1.03 per unit.
A historical ledger fragment lists receipts for multiple railroads Jan 31 1889 including Boston & Albany Grand Junction New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine and Boston & Maine Lowell System. Items cover cotton wool flour cornmeal oats barley malt pork bacon dressed hogs eggs butter leather hides skins and other staple products with quantities and unit counts across numerous shipments.
A dated inventory records varied cargo including lard and meat products, canned goods, butter, eggs, cheese, hides, leather, straw, lumber, and bales of cotton and wool. Sea shipment totals show cotton and wool bales with tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, hay, and oil products.
A dated 1889 record of import and export goods by steamers Flamborough Halifax Lowa and ships from Liverpool to Halifax Demerara and St. Martins listings show bags sugar drums dry fish eggs bbls potatoes mackerel and more. The long ledger includes numerous firms such as W H Ring Lang Jacobs DeLong & Co Kennedy & Murphy Baring Bros Co and J B Moors & Co with items ranging from pig iron steel sheets wool hides and salted fish to rum cement and hardware.
Shipping cargoes include lumber and pigs from Rosario. Cayenne reports Nellie Swift schooner with hake, cod, herring, canned goods, meats and beverages in multiple box and barrel counts. Surinam brig Eugene Hale ships hake haddock herring and alewives in drums and boxes.
London and Liverpool report wheat and corn activity subdued with buyers off and limited demand. Prices show mixed movements including Walla Walla and American corn, notes on futures and spot trends, with regional markets in Antwerp Paris and France slow and quiet.
Massachusetts committee schedules a hearing on proposed legislation to empower probate courts to determine the right of a surviving spouse to an estate in fee simple in a deceased spouse’s real estate. Decrees would vest title upon recording. Feb 5 at 11 a.m. State House, room B. Chairman Francis W. Qua. Clerk William H. Preble.
Libellant Lillian A Blanc asks the Superior Court to declare her marriage to Juno re Blanc of Cincinnati void due to adultery. She states they married in Boston on Nov 17 1887 and that Blanc later married Grace A Overdick in Cincinnati on Aug 16 1888, with cohabitation continuing in Ohio. She seeks divorce and relief as justice requires.
Libel notices require Moritz J. Blanc to respond by first Monday in March with publication in the Boston Post and service by mail or attested copy. A separate petition for divorce is filed by Daniel McCarty, alleging Emma McCarty deserted since 1852 and seeking custody of Irving and Charles, ages twelve and eight.
The court orders libellant to publish the libel and name Emma Ye. Carry in Boston Post three weeks before March and mail a copy to Emma McCarty at her last known address. The notice requires attested copies and a registered letter sent by the defendant by the specified deadline. Clerk Willard certifies.
Time tables for local and through service on the Boston and Albany line are available at all company ticket offices. Daily departures to Albany and the West, with connections to Syracuse Rochester Buffalo and beyond. Sleeping and dining cars operated on multiple daily trains. Tickets sleeping or parlor car accommodations available at city or station offices.
Rail timetable lists departures from Boston to Ashcroft Hartford New Haven and numerous intermediate stations. Weekend and Sunday trains include Woon-socket division and connections to New York via Air Line, with service details for multiple destinations and through cars, including Philadelphia and City of Boston steamers.
A dense OCR fragment lists train times and stops across multiple towns including Fall River Line routes to New York, Ashmont, Brockton, Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, East Weymouth, and more. It references Central Division schedules, Sundays and weekdays, with scattered prices and annotations in incomplete form.
A historical timetable lists bus start and end times for numerous Cape Cod towns and routes. Entries show departures around 8.15 am and returns by 4.15 pm with several variations including specific days for Nantucket and unusual spellings for towns like Wellfleet and Yarmouth.
Readable parts list Providence Division departures and arrivals to New York and regional stops. Contains times and stops like Central Roslindale West Roxbury Canton Junction Mansfield Jamaica Plain and Newport with Sundays variations and multiple lines.
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