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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1888
Page
7
Flour and corn hold steady with oats and rye little changed. Milk products, fats, and meats show varied demand from fair to active while fresh beef remains firm and pork shows activity. Sugar markets stay firm with refined sugars rising and molasses steady as general trade remains quiet.
At the London wool sale on July 14 prices held at par with keen bids and strong competition. Total offerings reached 9 958 bales from regions including Victoria New South Wales Queensland and South Australia with varied prices for scoured greasy and locks and pieces. Notable lots included 5800 bales from New Zealand and multiple minor consignments from Jamaica East India and the Cape of Good Hope and Natal culminating in a broad spectrum of values.
Providence print cloth market reports a quiet week with 2000 pieces of 64 squares spots sold at 4 cents. Remaining stock includes 2000 pieces 64s with no 56x60s available. Prices closed steady at 4 cents for 64 squares spots and early delivery, and 3 32 cents for 56x60s.
Receipts of flour for the week: 15,422 bbls, 80 half-bbls, 30,140 sacks, down from last year. Meal and grain totals include corn 42,980 bush, wheat 500 bush, oats 31,800 bush, malt 46,180 bush, hops 22 bales. Market remains steady with light demand. quotes cover various flour grades and transport regions. no dramatic changes noted in New York or Milwaukee markets.
In St Louis and Chicago receipts rise while bids hold firm. No 2 whites and lake and rail priced around 42 to 46 cents, with spot options for choice and No 1 white ranges. Oats, rye, flour, and mill feed maintain steady demand and prices, with quiet export and domestic activity noted.
Weekly receipts list butter 28672 barrels and 2247 boxes, oleo 8193 pkgs, cheese 4924 boxes, eggs 82 boxes 73 barrels and 11170 cases, beans 625 barrels, potatoes 4 cars 68982 bushels, hay 232 cars, straw 19 cars, poultry 269 pkgs. Last year butter 25642 pkgs and 1888 boxes. cheese 8646 boxes. potatoes 62338 bushels. hay 262 cars. straw 9 cars. Butter markets steady to fairly active with strong demand. wholesale prices vary by region and grade. eggs steady. beans and potatoes show large receipts and lower prices ahead. stock levels kept in check by demand.
The steamer Progress is due from Jamaica carrying a consignment of bananas for George H Harding. The shipment marks a routine trade movement with Kingston's produce exporters and local import duties noted.
The report lists prices and auction outcomes for apples, oranges, lemons, and other fruits across regions. It covers Palermo and Messina oranges, Valencia and Bartlett pears, Crawford peaches, prunes, plums, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, currants, and gooseberries. Auctions by Blake Ripley, Harris, Snow, and others noted with upcoming sales and car counts.
The past week's receipts include pork 51 barrels beef 120 barrels fresh beef 101 cars lard 1646 tierces 367 cases and 4646 pigs hams 274 barrels and 149 tierces bacon 2457 boxes tallow 213 barrels
Receipts and sales for pork lard and beef vary by region. New York Ohio St Louis Cincinnati and Chicago prices show pork at 13 15 dollars, lard around 8 dollars, and fresh beef with varied steers and hinds values. Demand steady to firm with exports noted and regional price differentials reflected.
Truck trade shows a steady supply and firm prices for assorted vegetables. Quoted items include New marrow squash 3 dollars per barrel, Savannah tomatoes 2 dollars 50 cents per crate, Long Island cabbage 1 dollar 50, native cabbage 74 cents per 100 count, onions and beans across several varieties, beets, carrots, turnips, cucumbers and more with prices listed per box, crate, or 100 count.
Market roundups show hogs firm in Kansas City with heavy weights at 5 57, porkers 5 60 to 6 60, cattle receipts 892 with live steer prices 440 to 510 and cows 2 25 to 3 25, while Chicago cites cattle at 6 30 to 6 50 for choice to extra beeves and hogs opening steady then slipping 6 to 10 cents. Sheep in Chicago around 3 00 to 4 40 with Texans at 2 75 to 3 75.
Sugar markets show firmness with quiet trade and unchanged prices. Cuba refining prices at 4 15-16 per 100 pounds and various Java and Manila grades noted. refined sugars steady with several standard and confectioners grades listed. Havana reports active sugar, higher last week, with polarization prices for molasses and various refining grades. receipts and exports detailed. freight rates quoted. New York sees no change to note and Havana/Matanzas stocks listed.
New York cotton prices show middling uplands at 10 1 16 cents and good ordinary at 93 16 cents with sales of 79 bales. Futures opened quiet and closed steady while Liverpool shows middling uplands at 69 16d and Orleans at 5 8d with 6,000 bales traded and futures steady to barely steady. Other ports report varied net receipts, exports, and stocks with overall firm to dull tones and mid-price ranges across regions.
Tatlow reports steady demand across commodities with prices in New York steady for turpentine resin and petroleum and coffee market quiet at Rio 14 percent, New York firm for whiskey and Chicago bids around 120 dollars per barrel.
A detailed list of shipments and commodities received by several railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine and Lowell System. Items cover wool flour corn oats malt butter cheese eggs leather hides skins potatoes and lumber among others with quantities in bales sacks bbls and tons.
A ledger style listing of receipts by commodity including cotton wool flour eggs cornmeal beans apples corn oats wheat hay malt straw and more with quantities in bales cases barrels and bushels. Figures span 1887 and 1883 values for comparison, showing volumes of lard tallow butter and hides among others.
A detailed 1888 cargo list from Baracoa shows multiple ships unloading at Liverpool with bananas rub rubbers rice flour coffee woollens cottons earthenware linen and a vast array of goods. Firms include Baring Bros Co Dennison Mfg Co J L DS Riker and many others. Items range from 150 sacks rice flour to 8543 boxes tin plates and 6004 bars iron.
A colonial era shipping list reports exports on July 14 1888 from Fredericton and Halifax including flour bbls cotton shovels kerosene oil marble and lumber aboard schooners Progress Progress 259 Ocean Lig Lorenzo Baker and Carroll along with goods such as dyewood meal beds tea window doors books and various hardware items bound for ports in Jamaica Porto Antonia Charlottetown Philadelphia and other destinations.
A fragment lists numerous cargo items including oysters, tar paper, bales of cotton and abestos goods, bananas, fruit, oil, lard, and dental goods. The entry notes Bear River Nova Scotia with cargo tied to schooner E Walsh and various supplies such as cornmeal and flour.
Foreign Markets dispatch from London reports cargoes of wheat sold and waiting, slow movement of wheat and corn, and firmer or steady quotes. At Liverpool wheat quiet but steady, corn dull, values listed for winter and spring wheats, club wheat, mixed westerns, veal, pork, bacon, cheese and tallow prices.
A Philadelphia despatch reports Reading railroad received twenty eight Baldwin locomotives since March twenty eight are passenger engines on North Pennsylvania and Bound Brook divisions. Thirty two more engines to be built within sixty days. Bonds to pay. Chronicle shows June earnings across multiple lines. Old Colony introduces a Pullman dining car to New York service. Fitenburg line Saratoga express launches. Nebraska rail rates under challenge. other roads report varied earnings and expansions including Wheeling & Lake Erie coal field extension with 500 workers.
Timetable details for Fitchburg Railroad routes including Hoosac Tunnel, trains to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and de Wert, daily express services with palace sleeping and parlor cars to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Michigan Central, various stops and times, and connections through Belmont Waverley Cambridge Gardner and North Adams Williamstown with seasonal and Sunday schedules.
Rail timetable excerpt for the Boston and Albany line with through tickets at 232 Washington street Boston and at stations. Lists departure times from Boston Kneeland Street and various branches, with connections to Pittsfield Albany and the West, daily and Sunday trains, dining car service, and numerous intermediate stops including Newton, Brookline, Chestnut Hill, and Wellesley.
Schedule excerpt for Park Square Station routes to Work Shore Line and New York Providence Line on Sundays. Includes multiple times across stations such as Attleboro, Lowell, Canton and Lake East area with departures around 6.35 to 11.30 am and later afternoon/evening services. notes varied times and weekend patterns.
A dense OCR listing of bus and train schedules across multiple towns including Taunton Brockton Plymouth Quincy Braintree and East Weymouth. It shows varied departure times on Sundays and weekdays with numerous route notes and intermediate stops.
The notice lists train times for Leave Kneeland Street Station for Buzzards Bay and numerous Cape Cod towns including Brewster Chatham Cottage City Falmouth Hyannis Nantucket Sandwich Sagamore So. Yarmouth and other stops with morning and afternoon departures on Sundays. Times vary by stop, with several connections via Woods Hall and Say routes.
Disjointed data appears to list numbers and tokens such as 12.80 1.16 and 4.45 with scattered letters. No coherent event, person, place, or organization is discernible for a meaningful news summary.
A fragmented note reports a forthcoming clash between Reapers and an unspecified opponent in the southern Wasp region. The text mentions Ear 9 and Cen. Ear 9, with garbled place names and players, but indicates an upcoming game or event between local teams.
Compact indexed book for the tea trade advertised for sale by Aaron Gay & Co at 122 State Street.
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