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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1889
Page
7
The report lists stock levels and prices for white oats, No 2 whites, and No 3 whites at various elevators and markets. It notes declines from last week and details bid and ask ranges for futures and cash trades in Peoria New York Milwaukee Chicago St Louis Toledo and other centers along with related flour and feed products and rye estimates.
Butter prices steady with strong outside quotes for choice creameries. Western and Vermont grades show varied but firm levels from 21 to 31c, while olomargarine and cheese markets are mostly unchanged or quiet. Eggs, beans, potatoes, and poultry show steady demand with regional price ranges and large receipts in certain markets.
Trade is quiet with supplies listed. Marrow squash and Hubbard priced per ton, cabbage by bale or crate, onions variously priced, beets carrots lettuce turnips and other greens listed with unit costs and quantities for buyers. Names of vegetables and price figures are provided in a historic market-notes style.
Provisions opened weak in Chicago on free offerings, then rallied to a firm close as a heavy snowstorm reduces hog receipts. Markets across cities show mixed pork and lard quotes with meat prices steady to lower in some regions.
Demand remains quiet in Baldwins and Tallman sweets with limited quotes per barrel. Florida oranges steady while Mediterranean fruits flood the market. Messina lemons and oranges quoted, Valencia prices steady, bananas selling between 1.26 and 2.60 per unit as cranberry and banana trade stays soft.
The Peconic due February 23 carries 7250 Messina oranges 2100 Messina lemons 3700 Catania oranges and 200 Catania lemons. Victoria arrived with 5900 Palermo oranges 3100 Palermo lemons 2500 Catania oranges and 3500 Naples oranges. Trinacria left Catania with 2800 oranges 700 lemons bound for Boston and sailed Palermo on the 31st. Marmion due February 21 with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Company.
Harris & Co sold the Picqua cargo at auction with prices for Messina Palermo and Catania oranges and lemons and Valencia varieties. Snow & Co auctioned Valencia oranges and announced upcoming sales including Florida oranges eggs beans and peas.
Cotton markets hold steady with New York middling at 10 1 16c and low middling 9 5 16c, sales 491 bales. Liverpool spot dull with middling uplands at 69 16d and exports and receipts listed. futures openings show slight firmness in New York and steady closes, while regional markets report varied activity and stocks across ports from Augusta to Philadelphia.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts of 1807 as the market opened active with prices 5 to 10 cents higher and closed with firm demand and rising prices.
Hog receipts 5126 at St Louis Yorks 4 40 4 60 mixed packers 4 35 4 50 butchers to extra 4 30 4 60. Peoria firm hogs 4 35. Cincinnati hogs stronger common and light 4 4 65 packing and butchers 4 45 4 65. Chicago cattle receipts 8000 shipments 4000 steady choice to extra beeves 4 470. hogs receipts 17500 shipments 7000 strong shed higher mixed 4 40 4 60 heavy 4 40 4 55 light 4.55 4 65 pies 4 50 4 85. Sheep receipts 6000 shipments 2000 steady natives 3 25 5.00 Westerns corn fed 4 45 4 77 lambs 5 6 10.
Sugar markets show quiet demand with steady pricing for raw and refined sugars. Prices listed for Cuba Manila Javas and centrifugals range around 4 to 5 cents. refined granulated sugar at 7 1-16 to 7 1-4 cents. Molasses demand remains quiet with regional variations and a large sale reported in Matanza.
Tallow and greases hold steady with quotes in the 244 to 544 range. Coffee and whiskey markets show quiet to fair activity with prices around 17 cents and $103 respectively. Turpentine and petroleum close with resin and RSW values noted, reflecting a cautious trading tone.
A dense voyage listing from Black's Harbor NB to Liverpool England and other ports. It itemizes schooners Clara Dinsmore and Albert L Butler shipments of frozen herring and sugar, brig Clyde sugar, salt, and various goods. Ships Istrian Bulgarian and Victoria carry wine, salt, caustic soda, bleaching powders, and numerous mdse goods. Multiple firms named include Nash Spaulding & Co, Baring Bros & Co, Perkins & Co, Morey & Co, Leyland & Co, and many others with quantities in bags bales drums and casks.
Shipping ledger from Yarmouth shows consignments from Bown Bros & Co and Bowker Torrey & Co including hemp bales olive oil wine and alabaster with details of crates cases bbls and blocks. Additional entries list fruit shipments from Palermo and goods from J Brown Co and D H Tully Co along with lobsters eggs cheese and mdse. The Dominion steamer carried sun dries lobsters eggs and paper stock while J G Hall Co and L Clements Co appear with codfish twine and freight items.
A dated shipping list from February 18 1889 records exports from St Johns Newfoundland include Sir David M Hilton boxes axes handles books leather and moss and nails. Gibraltar to Montevideo lists bark Augustine Kobbe lumber and Everett Steele gauge. Ort Morant Jamaica notes steamer L D Baker corn oats barbed wire and sacks. Liverpool England shows Steamer Palestine and Pavonia clearing with extensive cargoes including tallow flour corn cattle beef staves cotton ham bacon flour organs fruit glue desks locks cider shovels jars birds tallow beef and more.
A compact tally of shipments for February 18 1889 listing Cotton Wool Flour Corn Feed Tallow Grease Pork Butter Eggs Beans Apples Potatoes Hay Straw Lumber Leather and other staples across Boston Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg Boston Maine and Sea routes with hundreds of bales sacks cases tubs and cars. Named rail divisions and totals appear for each line.
London and Liverpool notes show wheat steady or quiet, corn firmer in places, flour quieter, and English French markets firm. Weekly GB wheat deliveries reach 50,341 quarters at 2s 6d. Futures quotes list March May prices and mixed American corn at 3s 11d. Provisions and fats move differently in breadstuffs markets.
Boston and Albany and New England routes list daily weekday departures from Boston South End for numerous destinations including Ashcroft Baltimore Danbury Sedham Dorchester and more with varied times and prices. Sunday trains to Norwood Central Hyde Park Franklin Needham Way Stations and Woonsocket divisions are noted with return times and special stops. Connection details include through trains to New York via Air Line and the Norwich line with dining and parlor cars.
February 4 1889 timetable details local and through service from Boston to Albany via elegant vestibuled Wagner cars with connections to Syracuse Rochester Buffalo and Detroit Also routes to Cleveland Toledo Chicago via Lake Ontario Michigan Central Michigan Southern and to New York Hartford and New Haven Includes hotel Moseley’s New Haven House renovations Tiffany Glass Co decorations and elevator Readiness of railroad restaurant in Union Station New Haven with telegraph lunch boxes provided
Train times list from Boston to Maine and New Brunswick routes. Services connect Haymarket and Causeway stations with Cumberland towns including Bangor Bar Harbor St John Calais Eastport Manchester Concord North Conway Portland and others on Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox Lincoln lines with recurring morning and afternoon departures.
Passengers holding tickets via the Fall River Line Shore Line and Stonington Line may have baggage checked from hotel of residence in Boston to destination. Orders for baggage may be left at No 3 Old State?
A fragmented schedule lists multiple towns in the western division with varied times from early morning to late night. It includes Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Overhill Georgetown and many others with numerous departures and arrivals listed incompletely.
A detailed timetable lists trains from Moston Station to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea and other towns in the Eastern Division. It shows departure times across weekdays and Sunday service, including routes to Lynn Marblehead North Conway Rockport Salem Revere and more, with numerous daily slots and branches.
Local and through services list from Boston to numerous towns and stations. Timings run from early morning to late evening with multiple daily departures to Manchester Concord Nashua Lowell Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester and Montreal routes. The schedule includes through services to Fabyan Jefferson St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and Montreal via White River Junction and Montreal Air Line.
Time tables show local and through rail departures from Boston to Northampton Hadtey Amherst and multiple towns including Belmont Waltham Way Stations to Northampton with several daily departures. James T. Furber and J Flanders sign as General Manager and General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
Details of a long list of streetcar and rail schedules across many towns including Ashmont, Braintree, East Weymouth, Quincy, Brockton, Marshfield, New Bedford, and Easton. It lists weekday and Sunday departures with numerous time points, notes regional routes via Brockton and Fall River, and marks additional trains and special annotations.
Buzzards Bay area timetables list boats arriving and leaving at 8.15 am and 4.15 pm for towns including Bourne Brewster Falmouth Hyannis Nantucket Wellfleet and more. Nantucket runs Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays via Woods Hall.
A dense OCR list shows the Providence Division timetable with numerous station stops and train times. It lists City lines and extensions from Boston area points to Providence and beyond, including weekday and Sunday patterns and many station names.
The Concord and branches timetable lists Boston departures from B and L depot for Manchester and Concord New Hampshire and upper railroads every evening at 7 30 8 30 9 00 12 00 1 00 3 00 5 00 5 30 7 00 pm with Sunday runs at 1 00 and 7 00 pm Return trips from Concord to Boston at 5 50 7 35 7 40 6 38 pm and Sundays 5 55 7 20 am Supt HL E Chamberlin
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