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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 18, 1889

Page

7

Market Report On Dairy Goods And Staples In Various Cities

Butter markets are quiet with large supply and buyer-favored prices. Western creameries offer 17 174c, 15 16c elsewhere. Northern lots scarce with 19 20c hoped but 18 18%2c prevailing. Cheese steady, oleomargarine unchanged, eggs dull but steady, beans firm with small supply, potatoes priced higher, hay and straw firm. New York and Chicago reports noted, with Liverpool steady at 44s 6d.

New York Eastern Western Chicago Americas Liverpool Bristol Jerseys Long Islands

Market price list for vegetables and produce items

A fragmented price bulletin lists onions beets lettuce squash and cucumbers among others with quantities and unit prices. Mentioned markets include Florida Norfolk Providence and Chicago with various crates boxes and bush counts. Prices range from 2c per item to several dollars per bush or crate.

Long Island Florida Norfolk Providence Chicago

Market Prices for Fruits and Vegetables in Local Trade

Apples and pears show varied but steady demand with quotes for Jerseys and Le Contes, while Oranges Lemons and Delawares fetch mixed crate and basket prices. Berries and melons note large supplies or modest demand. peaches, cantaloupes, and bananas display small supplies or good demand with regional price ranges and recent arrivals from Baracoa and Jamaica.

Delaware Virginias Georgias Nova California Artlett Jamaica Baracoa Port Simons Hertha WW & CR Noyes

Fruit Auction Prices by Blake & Ripley California Fruit Union

Blake and Ripley sold California fruits at auction for H Harris Co auctioneers with prices listed for Early Crawford peaches German prunes Magnum Bonum plums Bradshaw plums McLaughlin plums Columbia plums gross prunes Washington plums purple Duane plums Barry ome case plums artiett pears Clapp's favorite pears among others. The same firm will auction 350 cases peaches 200 cases pears 45 cases plums and 100 cases prunes Thursday. Snow and Co will auction 100 boxes peaches 280 boxes pears 198 boxes sums and 1160 boxes apricots all California fruit.

Blake & Ripley California Fruit Union H Harris Co California Crawford Bradshaw McLaughlin Columbia Washington

Thursday's Train Load of Farm Produce

A Thursday train will carry four cars of potatoes, three cars of melons, and two cars of berries, according to railroad officials. The mixture highlights a regional agriculture shipment scheduled for delivery later today.

Steamer arrivals and banana shipments for Boston firms

The Sif is due Monday with Baracoa bananas for WW and CR Noyes. Coila arrives with 5000 bunches for Bay State Fruit. Wergeland brings Baracoa bananas for Seaverns & Co. Howick carries Mes sina lemons 1700 boxes Palermo oranges 1900 half boxes and 138,200 Palermo lemons. Ponca passed Gibraltar July 7 with Messina 400 boxes and 14,600 Palermo lemons bound for Boston. Lorenzo D. Baker due with Jamaica bananas. Dithmarschen due Friday.

Sif Baracoa WW_& CR Noyes Coila Bay State Fruit Company Wergeland Seaverns & Co Howick Messina Gibraltar Boston Ponca Lorenzo D. Baker Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company Dithmarschen

Hog and Cattle Market Totals From Major U.S. Yards

Kansas City stockyards report cattle receipts at 6965 with a weaker market. Hog receipts 9269 with heavies and mixed trades easing. Sheep receipts 275 with a stronger tone. Cincinnati, Chicago, and Texas listings show further price shifts across hogs cattle and sheep, including beeves at 3.40 to 4.30 and lambs around 4.40 to 5.00.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Market Receipts and Prices for Pork Beef Lard and Hams

Receipts today show tallow eight packages beef 118 barrels pork 78 barrels lard 281 packages hams eight barrels 83 tierces preserved meats 525 cases bacon 1104 boxes. Last year same time tallow 49 packages beef 2 barrels pork 90 barrels lard 288 packages hams 3 barrels 102 tierces bacon 908 boxes preserved meats none. Pork and Pork Products market steady from last report. New York pork dull mess 13 13 25 extra prime 11 25 11 50 beef quiet beef hams strong tierced beef slow cut meats firm pickled bellies 11 9? 12 measures 7c pickled chains 11%c pickled shoulders 5s 4c middles quiet lard weak western.

New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

Chicago and Cincinnati Provisions Market Report

Steam and pork prices show unsettled Chicago markets with declines in lard and bacon segments. Fresh beef and mutton remain firm with mixed demand. tallow trades quiet as New York tallow climbs. Prices cited for steers, veals, lambs, and various cuts across city and regional markets.

New York and Liverpool Cotton Markets Quiet and Steady

Cotton markets in New York and Liverpool show steady openings and closings. Boston and mobile shipments brightened the export trade with cattle and lamb markets reporting steady or firm prices amid rising arrivals.

Market notes on sugar and molasses prices and trade

The market remains quiet and steady across commodities. Sugar types show steady demand with pulverized at 3 4 cents, powdered 9 5 cents, granulated 9 14 cents, and confectioners and standard grades around 8 to 9 cents. Molasses receipts are none today. prices quoted for various origins range from 28 to 47 cents per gallon.

Cuba New York Havana Ponce Porto Rico New Orleans Cienfuegos

Cottonseed Oil Certificates and Closing Dates

Market notes show line and closing dates for pipe line and cottonseed oil certificates in mid July 1889. Highest and lowest prices quoted for July 17 with openings on July 16 or 17. Mentions location near Wilmington Bay and related certificate activity.

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Turpentine and Petroleum Prices Boost Market Signals

Turpentine closes at 884 38%c with resin 110 112% and tar 225 while petroleum trades at 7.30c with ASW 7.20c and cases 9.10. Coffee Rio remains firm with fair cargoes around 17%4c for No 8 18% sc No 1 17%c No 6 Santos 17c afloat No 9 Santos 14%4c and 1. Whiskey markets steady at 102 dollars.

New York Rio Santos

Cattle Market Reports at Brighton and Watertown 1889

Week ending July 17 1889 reports live stock totals at market with Sheep Cattle and lambs Swine and arrivals at Watertown and Brighton yards. Prices listed for market beef fat stock hides tallow and skins with notes on healthy hogs calves and dairy stock plus late arrivals and sales at Brighton including several cows and springers.

Secon Chicago Wiliam Killian Watertown Ricker & Son George Bleiler J A Hathaway Brighton Yards Brighton Farrell & McFlynn Monroe Brighton and Boston Post George J. Fox Cdi Cscae Sc Mhoueo Gees Sfore Union Stock Yards Glasgow Liverpool W He Monroe Hollis & Co Lear N & G Chamberlin L M Dyer Union Market A Williamson Scollans J S Henry

Massive 19th century imports list from July 17 1889

Long shipping manifest covers Baracoa Buenos Ayres Havana and Liverpool entries. Varying cargoes include bananas hides skins sugar bleaching powders wines machinery hardware woollen goods and bales of wool as well as numerous firms such as Nash Staulding Co P F Murphy Co Baring Bros Co Jordan Marsh Co Wm Read & Sons and Harvard College listed among consignors and buyers.

Baracoa Hertha W & C KR Sayes Buenos Ayres Kennedy Rice & Co Havana Bergen Nash, Staulding & Co Liverpool Eng Bostonian Baring Bros & Co Sherburne Murphy & Co James Skinner O Dame & Co Morey, Churchill & Morey Linder & Meyer Codman & Shurtlett Atkins & Co Kidder, Peabody & Co S_ Bartlett & co S$ Bechman Mitchell, Woodbury & Co Hk Moors & Co James Hill Mans Co Boston Book Co Murray S Poyer & Co Riley & Gray Imachinery Leigh & Co Thos Leyland & Co Cumner, Jones & Co Butler, Breed & Co Domphair Brown Bros & Co Jones Lovering & Co Ford C Chase & Co Joel Goldthwait & Co Hardware Brown, Durrell & Co Stone & Downer H Rycroft & Co Wm Read & Sons Mackintire, Lawrie & Co Harvard College Miragoane Brig Jas Stevenson Rosario L S Andrews

Trade cargo listings from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Canning and Barrington in Nova Scotia report schooner cargoes including flour cornmeal oats beef pork refined oil lard and oats in various quantities. Halifax and Charlottetown on the Worcester steamer carry hardware musical instruments lanterns glucose cases and related goods.

Moncton Emma Canning Amherst Barrington Hannah Saoey Halifax Charlottetown Pei Worcester

Foreign Markets Update From London and Liverpool

London notes a quiet wheat market with steady prices while corn rises, and futures for wheat and corn strong. Paris shows quiet wheat and flour markets with bearer prices, and Liverpool reports firm breadstuffs with firm corn and steady pork bacon lard cheese and tallow levels. Local rates show July California wheat around 781d and July corn at 8 11s 4d, with various months quoted across currencies.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool England California

Tickets Available at City Office and Train Station

For tickets sleeping or porter car accommodations apply at city office 232 Washington street or at station Kneeland street Boston.

Miller’s Fall Hoosac Tunnel Washington Street Boston Kneeland Street Park Square Providence Masssachusetts Connecticut Breeves Park Square Station J. W. Richardson J. W. Miller C. H. Briggs

Eastern Division Train Schedules From Muston Station Causeway

A dense list of hourly and half hourly departure times across multiple lines and towns in the Eastern Division. Trains serve Muston Causeway Portland Amesbury Biddeford Newburyport Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Rockport Gloucester Salem and others with varied morning, afternoon, and evening slots.

Muston Station Causeway Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Balls Rochester Hampton Beach North Hampton Rye Beach Epswich Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Branch Newburyport North Conaway Kork Marbor & Geach BR. B Swampscott Wolteboro

Weekend Train Schedule for New England Towns

A detailed list of daily and Sunday train times for towns including Street Peterboro Hillsboro Milleboro Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua Lowell Stoneham Woburn Winchester Concord Mass reformatory via Bedford and via Concord stations with multiple departures listed throughout the day and night. The data also notes Sunday trains to Lowell Stoneham Way Stations Woburn and Manchester and Concorn plus Montreal service at 7 pm.

Old State House Washington Street New York Providence Stonington Dedham West Roxbury Readville Fall River Hyde Park Dnewport Newport Wickford Junction Bedford Pawtucket Keurn Redville Wtaunton Warrentham Central Div Boston Causeway Street West Troy Albany Linghamton Chicago Niagara Falls Short Line Erie St. Louis Michigan Central Wabash Niagara Falls Chicago & Grand Trunk Frag Fitchburg St. Albans Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Johns Montreal Ogdensburg Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company Kk. R Cheshire Connecticut River Vermont White River Junction Hire Monadnock Rutland R. K Wagner Palace St. Albana Ottawa C. A. Faxon A R. Stewart Augusta Haymarket Sq Causeway St Bangor Bar Warrior Concord N. H Uaper Heads Ene Lewiston Manchester N. H. Haymarket Sq St. John Halifax Provinces Provincial Expresa Maine Central Grand Trunk Knox Lincoln Ro Rockland Castine Beer Isle Sedgewick South West Harbor Kar Marbo Mill Bridge Machiasport Portland Eastport Calais N. B Claremont St. Johnsbury Sherbrooke Quebec Norwich Hanover Thetford Bradford Newbury Montpelier Essex White River RB. R Siam North Billerica Lawsrence Storneham Wooobarn Winchester Mass Reformatory One Land Lowell Stoneham and Way Woburn and Way Concorn Central Reachbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont Northampton

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