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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
7
The fragment shows jobbing prices for mandarins and other citrus with per box and per bushel references. It notes no change for crewberries and lists sale figures for varieties from choice to fair to good, including per case and per barrel quotations.
Chicago and New York markets show mixed activity in provisions led by pork and lard. Prices drift with modest futures bids and quiet demand across meats including pork, beef, lard, and accessories with notable quotes for mess pork and various cuts in New York and regional centers.
The steamer Aguan is due Saturday January 26 with Jamaica fruits for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Bessarabia arrived with 3600 boxes Messina oranges 1500 boxes Messina lemons 10000 boxes Palermo oranges and 4000 boxes Palermo lemons. The steamer Italia passed Gibraltar on the 7th with 250 cases Valencia oranges 7000 boxes pares oranges and 4000 boxes Palermo lemons.
A steady quiet market lists prices for various vegetables and produce. Entries include Marrow squash 340 ton, Hubbard squash 50 ton, Savoy cabbage 75c per head, red cabbage 32c per pound, onions 120 to 140 per barrel, beets 40 to 50c per bush, carrots 75c per barrel, lettuce 50 to 60c per head, turnips 40c per box, white French turnips 1 25 per dozen, radishes purniss, celery 4 to 5 per box, parsnips 50c per bush, spinach 50 to 60c per bush, Norfolk spinach 1.50 per barrel, parsley 2.50 per bush.
Kansas City stock yards report steady to firm cattle demand with 4899 receipts and cattle prices from 150 to 315. Hogs receipts reach 9036 with 5 to 10 cent softer trade. heavy hogs 465 to 475, lights 460 to 477, pies 450 to 465. St Louis hogs ease with Yorkers 470 to 490 and mixed packers 480 to 495. Peoria hogs steady around 480. Cincinnati hogs easy at 490 to 510. Chicago cattle receipts 9500 with steady to weak tone. beeves 460 to 460, steers 290 to 390, stockers 2063 to 345, cows and bulls 145 to 510. Texas cattle 180 to 340. Hogs nationwide slow at 475 to 510, light 485 to 510. Sheep receipts 1863 in Kansas City steady 248 to 400. Western cornfed 440 to 465, lambs 565 to 650.
cotton prices steady in New York with middling uplands at 9 15 16 cents and varied futures, Liverpool spot at 69 16d for middling uplands and 51 44 for low middlings. Sales totals include 701 bales in New York and 10,000 bales in Liverpool with regional receipts and stock figures across major ports.
The raw sugar market remains steady with Cuba offerings described as fair to good for refining. Centrifugals at 4 13-16 cents per pound wwith 96 test noted.
Sugar prices drift with refined sugars at easy levels while raw New York values stay unchanged. Havana market reports 6000 centuple bags sold at about 306.74 per quintal gold with centrifugal 96 to 96.42 degrees. molasses trade quiet. Porto Rico and New Orleans grades cited at 28 to 47 cents per gallon or quart.
Tallow prices steady with demand. city rendered at various rates. Coffee firm in New York with fair cargoes. Whiskey markets steady in Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and Peoria at $103 to $104. Turpentine and petroleum markets in New York and New Orleans show firm or closed figures with resin tar and cases noted.
A dated shipping list from January 22 1889 details cargoes on steamer Mareca including steel blooms window glass rags and paper stock plus various goods on steamer Bessarabia and other vessels. Items include wines olive oil lemons oranges and bags ground sumac with firms like Hills Turner Gill Lootz Moors Geiler and Baring Bros & co named.
The list records January 22, 1889 export movements from Havana to Rotterdam Yarmouth and Buenos Aires and Liverpool via Halifax. Notable consignments include South shore lumber, Gallina tallow beds leather boards and Dominion oil cloth flour boxing, and many miscellaneous goods such as cornmeal, walnuts, electric wire, sewing machines, lard, beef and leather. Also notes the brig David Bugbee lumber and the Bark Swansee cargo to Buenos Aires.
Market notes show up country cattle light due to storm with beef prices steady. Sales featured 5 oxen and multiple cows, with lambs around 5 7 1 2 cents and various sheep volumes. several Vermont and local buyers reported on high and low ends of prices.
Freight receipts trace Boston and Albany Railroad and Grand Junction items dated January 22 1889 listing quantities of cotton wool corn oats barley malt tallow grease tea butter eggs beans apples lumber leather pelts skins and case counts and bales bbls and bales totals for various consignments. The entry notes 20 bales cotton 45 bales wool 645 bbls four 3120 bush corn 2000 bush oats 5000 bush barley 2300 bush malt 4 biscuits tallow 10 barrels grease 20 hi chests tea 345 tubs 5 boxes butter 7 bbls 495 cases eggs 65 bbls beans 300 bbls apples 3 cars lumber 16 rolls 526 bales 63 bags 20 cases 0 bales 238 percent sides 30 bbls leather 26 bales pelts 12 bales skins and Grand Junction totals 1050 bales cotton 675 bbls 1500.
A dense ledger lists cargo moved by Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine and other carriers. Items include wool, cotton, flour, hams, butter, eggs, leather, tea, coffee, potatoes, lumber, and many bales and boxes.
London markets show slow wheat and steady corn with buyers hesitant on cargoes. Walla Walla and California wheats quoted around 38s3d and 37s9d respectively. Liverpool bids dull for spot wheat and corn with mixed Western oats easier. imports last week include 162000 quarters wheat and 150000 corn.
Fragmentary OCR shows a timetable of multiple hour markers from 9.00 A.M. to 11.00 P.M. with scattered notes like Through 3.30 P.M. and Agent. Details are incomplete and names or locations are unreadable.
Time tables for local and through train service between all stations are available at all ticket offices of the company. Trains for Albany and the West depart from Boston.
Partial timetable for Cape Cod division with times and stations listed. Mentions Kneeland Street Station Buzzards Bay Nantucket and several towns including Brewster Hyannis Wellfleet and Provincetown with arrival and departure times and notes Mondays and specific routes.
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