Market prices for farm produce and live poultry
Trade remains steady at old prices for sweet potatoes and Jersey extras. Poultry markets are quiet though quotes show turkeys at 12 to 15 cents, chickens 12 to 14 cents, fowls 9 to 11 cents, ducks 12 cents, geese 8 to 10 cents. Game shows ample supply with varied venison and other birds priced per dozen or pair. Hay and straw receipts are large with buyers in control. choicest hay around 18.50 to 19.00, rye straw 18.50 to 19.00, oat straw 10 to 11, other hay grades 12 to 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burbanks
Jersey
Market Prices For Produce In Fragmentary List
Fragmentary price list for vegetables and produce including Marrow squash at $50 per ton turban squash $50 per ton Hubbard $70 per ton Savoy cabbage 75 to 90 cents per barrel cabbage 60 to 75 cents per barrel red cabbage $2 per barrel onions $1.25 per barrel Bermuda onions $2 per crate Span sh onions $150 per crate beets 40 to 50 cents per bushel carrots 75 cents per barrel lettuce 75 cents to $1 per bush turnips 40 cents per box white French turnips $1.25 per barrel radishes turnips 50 cents per dozen long $1 per dozen celery 7 to 8 dollars per box parsnips 50 cents per bush spinach 50 to 60 cents per bush box native dandelions $1.50 per bush Norfolk spinach $2.50 per barrel kale 50 cents per barrel parsley $2.25 per bush
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Andrews
Bush
Norfolk
Provisions Market Movements In Chicago and Commodities
Chicago provisions opened weak on heavy hog offerings, but buying surfaced as shorts covered, then eased. Pork prices show little change from prior reports with varied quotes for long cuts, backs, lean ends, and bellies. Lard and hams follow dull to steady trends in multiple markets including New York, Cincinnati, and St Louis, with pork, beef, and bacon segments showing overall softness and quiet demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
City
Continent
South America
St Louis
Cincinnati
Brighton
Market Report Apples Grapes Oranges And Lemons Prices
Apples price levels shown for common to good Hubbardstons King and Baldwins with various barrel quotes. Grapes Almerias supply not large with steady ranges from common to fancy, oranges and lemons listed by Messina Palermo Valencia and Florida, with box and case prices. Bananas supply ample and demand quiet with wide price spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubbardstons
King
Baldwins
Almerias
Messina
Palermo
Florida
Fruit Steamer Arrivals and Departures With Fruit Loads
The steamer Peconic will arrive with 7250 boxes Messina oranges 2100 Messina lemons 3700 Viatania oranges and 200 Catania lemons. Victoria due Feb 23 with 5900 Palermo oranges 3100 Palermo lemons 2500 Catania oranges and 3500 Naples oranges. Picqua due with 5500 Messina oranges 1000 Messina lemons 7900 Palermo oranges and 6400 Palermo lemons. Hondo due Feb 14 with Jamaica fruits for Boston Fruit Co. Trinacria has left Catania with 2800 oranges and 700 lemons bound for Boston.
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Peconic
Messina
Viatania
Catania
Victoria
Palermo
Naples
Picqua
Jamaica Fruits
Boston Fruit Company
Trinacria
Boston
Auction sale reports fruit prices at Harris & Co
Harris and Co sold Valencia oranges at 1 90 per regular case and Florida oranges at 1 75 per 3 374% box. Florida oranges and Valencia oranges, Baldwin apples and California beans are listed with prices. The same firm plans to sell Friday Florida Valencia oranges Baldwin apples one car California beans and one car eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris & Co
Valencia
Florida
Snow & Co
Baldwin
California
Sugar and Molasses Prices in New York Markets
Sugar markets show firm prices for raw sugars with Cuban and Java categories listed and refined sugars steady. Molasses demand is fair with varied prices for Ponce Porto Rico and Porto Rico grades. New York notes a quiet, steady overall market across sugar and molasses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Belmont
New York
Hog and cattle markets at Kansas City and St Louis
Stockyards report shows cattle receipts 4755 with slow demand and 6 to 10 cent lower prices. Native cows 130 to 260, mixed butchers 2.03, hog receipts 11828 with 10 to 15 cent drop, heavies 4.25 to 4.40, lighter packers 4.27 to 4.40, sheep 1646 steady at 24.5 to 25.0. St Louis hogs weaker with Yorkers 4.60 to 4.90.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
St Louis
Market Reports Signal Mixed Textiles and Livestock Prices
Hogs and cattle futures show weakness across major markets with receipts and shipments detailed. Chicago reports cattle weak with various grades, while hogs decline, noting mixed prices from $4.45 to $4.80 and lighter demand. sheep receipts volume around 8000 with natives and Westerns priced between $3 and $4.90.
Cottonseed Oil Certificates Opened and Closed Times
The report notes line certificates with opening times in the morning and closing times in the afternoon for February days. It mentions highest and lowest values on specified February dates, including repeated references to February 12 and 13. The text is heavily garbled with OCR artifacts but indicates two certificate types: pipe line and cottonseed oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sawielas Meee
Osenac
Olea
S. Helen Gary
Elbridge A. Gary
Boston
Suffolk
Boston Post
Joan W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
William Minot, Jr
Cambridge
George M. Brooks
J. H. Tyler
William S. Bowditch
Katharina Rothe Thorndike
Jonny W. McKim
Atayali George
William Minot
Georce M. Brooks
Miscellaneous market quotes and price notes
Tallow markets stay quiet and steady with city and country quotes. New York firm with city holds at 5.4c. Coffee markets show steady New York Rio trade with fair car lots at 1.75. Whiskey markets steady in St Louis, Cincinnati, and Chicago around 10.3 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum reports from New York show turpentine at 47.75c and resin at 1024.7c, petroleum 6.55 to 7.15c with RS W at 7c and cases at 9c.
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Augusta
Galveston
Savannah
Charleston
Britain
Miles
Wilmington
Norfolk
West Point
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
Great Britain
France
Continent
Cincinnati
St Louis
Louisville
Consolidated
United States
Rio
Chicago
Watertown Union Live Stock Market Report
The Watertown Union market week ending Feb 12 1889 shows cattle and sheep arrivals with prices. Cattle buyers include Golden Whipple & Farnham Puff and Crampton. lambs and sheep offered lightly with modest prices. hides tallow and skins listed. exporters bought portions for shipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston West
George J. Fox
Union Market
Watertown
Chicago
J Golden
Whipple & Farnham
P Burke
HN Jenne
J Lowe Ig
Hollis & Co
Imports and Exports Feb 12 1889 Liverpool
Shipping list from Liverpool shows Pavonia and numerous consignments including brandy wine sheep skins books pianos leather goods steel tubing machinery glassware and various textiles. Notable shippers include Baring Bros & Co Reed & Barton Messinger and Grout Warren & Blanchard, with multiple firms reporting oranges wool and moise among items.
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Liverpool
Eng
Pavonia
Stark
A Hayes & Co
H Roffe & Co
Jace Beal, Higgins & Henderson
Moise Pollock
Herbert & Rapp Co
Brown, Durrell & Co
Little, Brown & Co
Stewart
Warren & Blanchard
Boston Button Co
Beal, Higgins & Henderson
Wilson, Larrabee & Co
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Groat
Stone & Downer
Jis
Moors & Co
Washburn & Moen Manf Co
E & F King & Co
William Carter
Thomas Taylor
Lo Stone & Downer
Vast Warehouse Ledger of Shipments and Goods Listed
A dense OCR style ledger from a Liverpool and Plac entia Bay listing shows shipments of textiles woollens worsteds cottons and yarns from firms such as W H Davis Co Folaom Nute Newell Dumner Jones Co and Baring Bros Co. It records quantities packaging types and destinations including steamers Palestine and various brokers with items like tin plates silk indigo woollen cloths and grocers wares. The long list features dozens of consignors buyers and containers with occasional monetary figures and ship names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farris & Co
William Bloom & Co
Baring Bros & Co
Stedman & Fuller Manf Co
Cushing & Bliss
Simmons
Woollens
Ballard & Son
Thos Kelly & Co
Wilson, Larrabee & Co
Beal, Higgins & Henderson
White & Co
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Fuller, Dana & Fitz
Sarins Bros & Co
Horsweil & French
RK Leeson & Co
Latham & Co
Moors & Co
Noise Stone & Downer
Talvot, Wilmarth & Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Pacific Mills
DeBlois & Co
Ford
D & M Williams
Hovey & Co
Atkins & Co
Littaner
Bkoston Wall Paper Co
Louis Wolf & Co
Carbon Electric Gas Lighting Co
Schneider & Weiss
Temple
Gorham Mfg Co
Stone & Downer
William Burgess
Liverpool
Eng
Palestine
Jodie
Baring Bres & Co
Amoskeag Mant Co
Baring Bros
Hall & Co
Placentia Bay
Maud Carter
Exports List From February 12 1889 Ports
Export items include bark Ralph B Peake cleared Feb 11 with 628526 feet lumber. Cargoes at Liverpool Nova Scotia and Annapolis Nova Scotia reveal flour beef pork lard cornmeal and various goods. Yarmouth Newfoundland steamer Dominion carries flour spikes hardware and foodstuffs along with general merchandise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Ayres
Ralph B Peake
Liverpool
Poryt-Au-Prince
Hayti
Wilmington
Orlando
Annapolis
Anthony
Gleneida
Yarmouth
Dominion
Staple Goods Receipts From Multiple Railroads 1889
A detailed OCR list records staple receipts across several railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine and Eastern divisions. The items include cotton wool flour cornmeal oats pork lard butter eggs beans apples hay lumber leather hides and various packaged goods with quantities and carloads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany
Grand Junction
Oston & Providence Railroad
Ld Colony Railroad
New York & New England Railroad
Fitchburg Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Division
Koston & Maine Railroad
Western Division
Lowell
Iby
Totals of Receipts for February 12 1889
An itemized ledger lists receipts by commodity for February 12 1889 and 1888, including cotton wool flour butter cornmeal oats wheat beans malt potatoes and meats with quantities in bales bags barrels and tons, reflecting year over year totals and stock movements.
Foreign Markets Report From London and Europe Feb 12
Market brief notes wheat and corn prices across London Liverpool Antwerp Paris with cargo movements and futures activity. Wheat on passage to Great Britain and the Continent totals show millions of quarters. English country markets rise. various quoted rates for Australian wheat Walla Walla and French flour. imports into Great Britain list weekly totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mark Lane
Walla Walla
Liverpool
Great Britain
Continent
California
Antwerp
Paris
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J. E. Carter & Co
Washington Street
Watertown Union Live
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Godfrey Morse
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