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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1889
Page
7
St Louis and New York closing prices for wheat corn and oats are listed with opening highs lows and closings. Wheat futures show February March May and June with varied bids and closes. Corn and oats futures also list cash and contract months with price ranges and bids.
The note details wholesale and jobbing flour ranges with firm sentiment among mills. It lists extensive grain quotations and receipts across New York Chicago Milwaukee and Detroit, including steamer yellow corn, oats, rye flour, and various patent blends, plus price movements for butter eggs cheese and potatoes.
The butter market shows continued dull demand with a fair close. Choice creamery sales fetch 29 30 cents, while only high flavor creameries maintain that level. Most arrivals lack flavor and sell 26 28 cents, with imitation creamery varieties trailing.
The market shows strong supply with buyers holding advantage. Readouts include Marrow squash 60 per ton, Hubbard 70 per ton, Savoy cabbage 75 to 90 cents per barrel, onions 1.26 per barrel, Bermuda onions 2 per crate, beets 40 to 50 cents per bushel, carrots 1.25 per barrel, lettuce 50 to 75 cents per bush, radishes 66 cents per dozen, celery 11 per box, kale 50 cents per barrel, parsley 2.50 per bush.
In Chicago provisions opened easy on good receipts with broad orders in pork and ribs. Prices show steady to firmer bids with long cuts at 15 50 to 16 00 dollars and lard around 8 to 9 cents per pound. a noted shortage in land and rising Western packer prices expected, amid higher hog prices last year and increased pork stocks.
The report notes lard and pork prices fluctuating with lard around 675 and 677, shoulders and bacon varied from 525 to 625, and pork steady at 1170 to 1175 in St Louis. Fresh beef supplies are mixed with high grades scarce, cows and heifers priced across multiple ranges, and corned beef trade described as quiet with standard quotations.
Kansas City reports cattle receipts 2788 with slow trade and prices for natives and mixed butchers. Hog receipts 10 3842 with lower markets across heavies mediums and pigs. Sheep receipts 1509 steady. St Louis Peoria Cincinnati reports mixed hog movements and varying prices. Chicago cattle and hogs show steady to higher ranges with large receipts and shipments. sheep steady with diverse grades.
Prices indicate a dull apple market with Baldwins at 1 1 25 per barrel and greenings at 1 1 25 P per barrel. Oranges and Lemons show steady demand with Messina lemons at 2 3 25, Palermo citrus, Valencia and other boxes priced up to 5 50 per case, and mixed box prices listed. Cranberries see quiet demand with sales from 6 7 to 8 9 per barrel or case. Almeria grapes in fair supply with quiet trade at 6 dollars and up.
Harris & Co offered the Victoria cargo at auction with Sorrento lemons at 62 per cent 62d and Palermo lemons at 50c 175. Sor rento oranges 500 and Palermo oranges 50c 165 in poor condition. Snow & Co set auctions for Friday at 1 30 p m for 621 cases Valencia oranges 200 cases held eggs and 25 half ball pickles. Peconic cargo to be sold Thursday by the same firm.
Sugar markets stay quiet with steady pricing on raw sugars and refined grades. Prices listed for Cuba, Javas, saccharine varieties, pulverized and powdered sugars, with firm demand for refined products and wholesale granulated at 7 cents. Molasses demand remains fair with several regional price ranges for Ponce Porto Rico, Porto Rico, New Orleans, Cienfuegos, and boiling grades.
Upland middling at 10 1 2 cents with sales of 394 bales. New York futures opened and closed steady as notes show opening and closing figures for Feb 27 and Feb 26. Liverpool spot cotton quoted miduplands to ordinary, with 9 16 to 57 16d ranges and 9000 bales traded. Additional market reports cover Liverpool, New Orleans, and Boston cattle, sheep, and hogs with receipts and prices and export trade activity.
Market notes show tallow quiet and steady with quoted renders around 5 5? and 44? rough grease at 24? 4 4. New York reports turpentine and econew York prices unclear with city and country figures.
Turpentine closes at 494 with rosin at 110 and petroleum at 7.25 cents. Rosin value listed as 110 1 12 percent. Prices include S00122. RSW at 7.200 and cases at 9.20 cents. Coffee in New York Rio firm with fair carload movement. Whiskey markets show no change in Western sectors.
Detailed ledger of shipments for multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and mains Eastern Western Lowell System and others. Items listed cover cotton wool flour corn oats feed tallow hides leather eggs butter cheese beans apples potatoes hay lumber and more with quantities tallied in bales bbls sacks and cases.
Springers and cows sell at varied prices with Holsteins around 45. Veal calves steady at 5 to 6.40 with a few high notes. Hog market steady with little store pigs. live poultry scarce. Cattle arrivals in Watertown show steady values. several beef cattle sold from 22 to 44 per cwt. At Brighton, cow and ox sales capped by stock trains, with general prices near last week.
Long ledger style list of shipments and cargoes from Fortunate Bay to Glasgow and Liverpool. Includes hundreds of items such as herring pig iron oats mdse bricks wool textiles and chemicals with numerous firms named like Jordan Marsh co Baring Bros co J Moors co and Stoddard Lovering co.
A historical shipping list records cargoes at Liverpool Rosario Montevideo and St Thomas with items including cotton leather beef butter lumber shingles fish produce and various manufactured goods. Vessel names indicate Istrian Emma R Smith Johanna Albert L Butler and others reflecting a broad 19th century mercantile activity.
Foreign markets report steady wheat and firmer prices in parts of Europe with dull demand for corn. London shows improving wheat and dearer flour while Paris and Liverpool indicate quiet to steady trading. futures steady for wheat and dull for corn with various regional quotes and duties.
Local and through train schedules list connections from Boston to Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo and other West points with nightly and morning departures. Elegant vestibuled Wagner cars travel to Niagara Falls Detroit Chicago Cleveland Toledo and New York with dining and drawing room cars. Tickets sleeping or parlor car accommodations available at 232 Washington Street Boston and Kneeland Street station. Dining car service links Boston Worcester New Haven and New York fleets. Moseley’s New Haven House advertised with Tiffany decorations and enhanced facilities.
Cape Cod division timetable shows departures and arrivals from Kneeland Street Station to Barnstable area towns including Bourne Brewster Falmouth Nantucket Provincetown and Woods Hall with times like 8.15 am and 4.15 pm and notes for Nantucket Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays only.
Partial schedule list for Providence Division trains showing departure times from Park Square Station to New York Shore Line and Stonington Line, plus numerous stops including Attleboro Boylston Cant Dedham Central Junction and others with a mix of times and Sundays notes.
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