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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1889
Page
7
The market reports firm corn and oats across multiple cities with light demand. New York and Chicago show higher quotes for No 2 and white varieties, while Milwaukee and Detroit reflect steady to stronger activity.
Butter prices hold steady with light receipts in the West and New York and most sales at 23 to 25 cents. Northern creamery firm, imitations quiet, and Western and Vermont grades show mixed firm to soft quotes. Cheese remains firm with quiet demand, eggs weaken on warm weather and high supplies, and oats and beans show mostly steady activity.
Passengers holding tickets via the Fall River Line Shore Line and Stanton Line may have baggage checked from hotel or residence in Boston to their destination. Orders to call for baggage may be left at No 8 Old South House.
Poultry demand described as good for Western turkeys around 1dc with frozen lots at 14c. Chickens strong at 13 14c. fowls limited. Regional quotes cover Northern Eastern and Western dry packed goods with varied chicken, turkey and fowl prices. Game items show quiet demand. venison and rabbits listed with per unit prices. Hay and straw demand quiet. prime hay at 18 50 to 19 00, rye straw 13 8 50 to 19 00, oat straw 10 11.
Kansas City notes weak trade with cattle receipts at 4104 and native cows quoted 150 to 285. Hogs at 5297 receipts show quiet demand near steady, heavy hogs 452 to 465, mediums 455 to 467. Chicago reports weak beef and hog markets with beeves 4480, steers 290 to 390, hogs 470 to 495. St Louis and Peoria show softer hogs, while Cincinnati and western futures show varied prices amid sluggish shipments.
Market notes weak demand for pork and pork products in Chicago with lard showing relative strength but likely to drop. Prices for pork cuts and byproducts listed across regions including New York and St Louis with mixed signals. Beef and dry salted meats seen steady to dull as buyers hold back.
The market shows steady trade at old prices for squash cabbage onions beets carrots lettuce and celery with varied per unit quotes. The Norfolk boat arrives Friday carrying 123 packages of ruc lies and other greens.
A special cable reports higher overall fruit prices with steady to firm tones. Apples show quiet demand with low prices. grap es firm due to small supply. oranges and lemons arrive on steamer Italia for auction, with Palermo and Messina varieties priced per box and case. Bessarabia sale notes set prices for Palermo and Messina crops. cranberries remain dull with varied per barrel and per case pricing.
Sugar markets show muted activity with raw sugars at old prices and refined grades largely steady. Key quotes include Cuba refined grades at 47 sc per pound, Manila and Java varieties around 4 to 6 cents, and refined powders and granulated sugars listed with modest overages. Molasses market described as lifeless with no new features.
The fragment lists prices by location such as Porto Rico and New Orleans with price ranges and boiling grades. Mentions 38 40c for a gal and 46 47c for another item, plus 23 27c for Cienfuegos and 50 for boiling grades. Includes 2012 21c.
Cotton markets in New York and Liverpool show quiet to steady tones. Upland middling rates are 9 5 16 to 9 9 16 cents with futures opening steady and closing steady in New York, while Liverpool lists middling at 54d and low middlings at 55 16d with sizable sales and American receipts.
Tallow prices show steady demand with city at 6c and country 542c. Coffee markets in New York and Rio are steady with fair cars. Whiskey prices steady at 103 in Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and Peoria report 104 in Peoria. Turpentine and petroleum in New York show turpentine 45 ¾ c and petroleum 6.50 7.10c with resin and RSW.
On January 24 1889 the Halifax and Liverpool steamers carried a mix of canned and dry fish, mackerel, hides, glassware, chemicals, and miscellaneous mdse from firms such as Hathaway & co, Whitney Pousland & co, Haskins & Montague, Carroll & Page, Thayer & Lincoln, Baring Bros & co, and more. Notable items include 209 cases canned fish, 200 drums dry fish, 430 casks bleaching powders, 63 casks soda ash, 395 boxes tin plates, 169 casks bleaching powders, and 5896 bags sugar aboard the Kong Alf at Matanzas.
A dated export list from January 24, 1889, records shipments at Picket's Wharf via Windsor and Mantanzas Cuba including Pelvidero with cornmeal and cranberries, and Benjamin Courtney with molasses. It notes the steamer Roman clearing January 23 from Liverpool with extensive consignments of corn, pork, beef products, flax, cotton, and various manufactured goods totaling thousands of units across many categories.
A dated record lists cargo totals: 42 bales cotton 128 bales wool 575 barrels flour 130 barrels cornmeal 1560 bushels corn 7310 bushels oats 480 bushels wheat. This entry notes shipments received on the Boston and Albany line.
Historic freight ledger lists cargoes totaling staples and luxury items. Entries show milk, bacon, wool, cotton, beans, pork, tea, butter, eggs, lard, flour, apples, oats, corn, hay, leather, hides, and more distributed among railroads including Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, New York and New England, Fitchburg, and Boston and Maine.
Foreign markets report wheat inactive and dull off the coast with limited sales. Prices listed for Calcutta Chilean and Walla Walla wheats, with Paris and Antwerp showing quiet to easier conditions. futures for No 1 California wheat slide and mixed Western corn holds steady amid overall subdued demand.
Time tables show local and through service from Boston to Albany and West with connections to Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Detroit and Chicago. Daily Wagner Cars to Niagara Falls Detroit and Chicago via Michigan Central and Lake Shore routes plus Worcester to New Haven and Boston to New Haven routes with drawing room and sleeping car options. Tickets and reservations available at 232 Washington Street or Kneeland Street Boston with A. S. Hanson as General Passenger Agent.
Boston and Maine announces January 20, 1889 schedules with Haymarket and Causeway street stations. Timetabled departures include Augusta Bangor Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland and connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox & Lincoln lines with multiple daily times.
Western Division timetable lists outbound trains from Boston stations to towns including Alton Rochester and Famington with numerous departures across early morning and afternoon. Sunday trains cover Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Reading and more extending into night.
Train departures from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett and other endpoints listed by time. Services include Hampton North Hampton Lynn Newburyport Salem Rockport and regional branches with varying daily and limited weekday patterns.
Boston Station on Causeway Street lists through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville St esphnnebury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and Montreal routes with multiple daily departures. Local services cover Manchester Concord Nashua Woburn Medford Stoneham Lexington Woburn and surrounding towns with varied morning afternoon and evening trains.
Time tables list local and through trains from Boston Causeway Street foot of Portland Street to Northampton Hadley Amherst Belcher town Hondeville Ware Gilbertville Barre Knutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester and more with multiple departures and price notes. Full timetable information available at stations from James T. Furger and J. Klanders, General Manager and Pan’r and Ticket Agent.
A detailed list of daily and Sunday train departures and arrivals from Boston to towns including Ashcroft Hartford New York Philadelphia Norwich and Woonsocket. It notes Woon socket division timings and special services like the Midday Express and New England Lim for connections to New York Grand Central and steamer links.
The notice lists Fitchburg Railroad schedules from Boston to Albany Rotterdam Junction and beyond including times for Belmon t Waverley Brattleboro Cambridge Concorn Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield and Miller’s Falls with daily and Sunday services and palace sleeping cars to major destinations like Chicago and Buffalo.
A dense list of train times and stops for the Central Division routes including Ashmont Brockton East Weymouth Weymouth and Quincy with numerous weekday weekend and Sunday departures and notes on via routes and additional trains.
A schedule list shows multiple Cape Cod towns with fixed morning and afternoon service times. Entries include Bourne, Brewster, Hyannis, Nantucket, Provincetown, Wellfleet, Woods Hall, Wareham, and others with consistent 8.15 am or 8.15 am to around 4.15 pm windows and notes on special days for Nantucket.
A partial timetable list for the Providence Division shows trains serving many stops including Park Square New Work and several suburbs. It notes sixteen trains each weekday and four on Sundays with numerous times for Attleboro Providence and other towns, plus references to Central Div for additional trains.
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