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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1889
Page
7
Prices across grains and flours hold steady with moderate demand in places. New York receipts show exports and sales around 131,400 to 175,909 bushels while Chicago and St Louis report mixed shipments and firmer prices for No 2 and No 3 white oats and corn markets.
Receipts today list butter 4642 pkgs and related dairy items while last year’s same day figures show higher volumes. Market in Boston and Elgin remained weak with overstock and quiet trade. Western and Eastern creameries posted varied quotations from 12% to 18c for different grades, while eggs and beans showed large receipts and subdued demand.
Full prices for vegetables, grains, and livestock items are listed. Red kidneys and peas fetch multiple dollars per bushel or barrel, with varieties and hand-picked grades noted. Grass seeds, potatoes, poultry, and hay show firm to dull demand, with prices reflecting current market conditions and seasonal supply.
A Savannah boat arriving Monday carried 37 carloads of watermelons. Consignors listed include GE Morrison & Co, Simmons, Amsden & Co, Farnum & Co, Chamberline & Co, L W Sherman & Co, and Boston Produce Co among others.
The market shows steady demand with plentiful supplies. Quoted items include onions at various prices per bunch or crate, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, spinach, cucumbers, parsley, beans, wax beans, green corn, matoes, cabbage, peas, squash, and cauliflower with price details such as 75 cents per crate for Norfolk matoes and 2 cents per bunch for carrots. Prices are listed for locales including Florida, Norfolk, Providence, Chicago, and native produce.
At a New York sale 577 cases of Valencia onions sold for 374 percent of the crate price. The event drew buyers who paid for the crates at the auction, with buyers noting the strong demand for onions in bulk lots.
StockYards Kansas City Receipts 3552 cattle slow steady with steady hogs and sheep. Shipping steers 338.60, natives 175.50—245, stockers 240–275, range 190–250. Hogs receipts 4932 firm heavies 4.02–4.42, mediums 4.10–4.25, pigs 4.15–4.20. Sheep 582 steady at 8.35–8.85. Cincinnati hogs steady 3.65–4.65, Chicago cattle 12,600 steady with beeves 3.30–4.25, Texas cattle 1.55–3.15. Hog receipts 14,000 steady 4.15–4.40, heavy 4.25–4.65. Sheep receipts 6000 steady natives 3.50–4.75, Western 3.50–4.10, Texans 3.25–4.15. Lambs 4.60–5.50.
Receipts show tallow 56 pkgs beef 2 bbls pork 2 bbls lard 3151 pkgs hams 3 bbls bacon 781 boxes preserved meats none. Lists year ago figures for tallow beef lard hams and other meats. Prices quoted across New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and more show pork and lard steady. hams strong. assorted cuts and tongues brisk to steady. fresh beef ranges with high and low ends. oranges apples lemons in various crates and prices. overall market tone cautious with firm steam lard and mixed demand across regions.
Trains depart Boston Causeway Street for the West at 6:30 AM with accommodation for Troy and Albany. A 3?0 AM express and parlor car service to Troy over Albany and Binghamton, sleeping car for Buffalo. Daily express with sleepers to Chicago via Niagara Falls and links to St. Louis via Michigan Central and Wabash. 1:00 PM express with sleeping cars to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Grand Trunk route.
Natives and Nova Scotians command higher prices in the berry section while Georgia Le Contes and Fancy Crawfords hold notable crates. Maryland, Delaware, and Jersey lots fetch midrange c per crate, with prices for peaches, cantaloupes, and blueberries showing steady demand and larger supply in other categories. Watermelons remain oversupplied with mixed quotes, and a steamer arrival adds Baracoa bananas at notable prices.
H Harris & Co conduct an auction for the California Fruit Union selling 1356 boxes peaches 677 boxes pears 287 boxes plums 510 boxes prunes 47 nectarines and 55 grapes with prices on several listed varieties. Snow & Co plan a Friday sale featuring 100 peaches 280 Bartlett pears 198 plums and 1160 apricots.
A Friday train comprises nine cars of potatoes, one car of melons and berries, one car of apples, and one car of tomatoes, reflecting a mixed shipment schedule.
The Sif arrives Monday with Baracoa bananas for WW and CR Noyes. Coila due with 5000 bunches of Samana bananas for Bay State Fruit. Howick bound for Boston with 1700 boxes Mesina lemons 1900 half-boxes Palermo oranges and 138200 Palermo lemons. Ponca passed Gibraltar July 7 with 400 boxes Messina lemons and 14600 Palermo lemons for Boston. Lorenzo D Baker due with Jamaica bananas for Boston. Dithmarschen due with Jamaica bananas for Boston. Olympia passed Gibraltar July 7 with Palermo oranges and 13300 Palermo lemons for Boston. Norfolk boat due Friday with apples cantaloupes pears potatoes squash tomatoes.
Cotton sales reach 728 bales with uplands and various grades quoted. Opening and closing futures quoted steady. Liverpool and other markets show quiet to firm tones with middlings and low middlings in demand. Major ports report net receipts and stocks across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, and more, color indicating firm to steady market conditions.
A historic trade summary from Halifax and Yarmouth lists steamers Wergelana Pedro Yarmouth and others with cargoes including bananas codfish mackerel barrels sugar eggs lobsters and other goods. Named firms include Seaverns Co Nash out Co Delong Seaman and Barclay Co among many.
The document catalogs shipments from Antwerp and Liverpool to North American ports including Windsor Nova Scotia Sydney and Digby Annapolis and Newfoundland trade with entries for bacon lard dried apples flour cornmeal beef lines duck and various boxes and barrels. It also records cargoes on steamers and schooners such as New Brunswick Ethel B Florence Abbott Manzanilla and Roman with quantities in bbls boxes bales and cases, reflecting a broad mid-19th to early-20th century mercantile network.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat prices up 3 6d amid a quiet demand with two sales since the last report and seven awaiting sale. At Mark Lane and Paris markets, wheat firm or quiet with mixed futures. Liverpool spot wheat firm, corn strong. July to December futures quoted for wheat and corn with firmer Paris and Antwerp readings. Breadstuffs and provisions show mixed gains and steady pork, lard, cheese, and tallow prices locally.
Train times for multiple towns including Alten Bay Mochester Farm ington Dover North Conway Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Benne bunk Biddetora Lace Newburyport Reading Salem and others listed with morning and afternoon departures. Sunday services show Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford and multiple Way Stations with frequent arrivals and departures throughout the day.
Rail timetable lists hourly and irregular departures from Koston Station Causeway and numerous stops including Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Hampton Beach Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Salem and Wolfeboro with varied morning afternoon and evening trains plus branches to Saugus and South Reading and a Workingmen's service via Haymarket square Boston.
A dense roster of daily and Sunday train times lists departures for towns from Keene to Montreal. Notable stops include Nashua Lowell Stoneham and Woburn with multiple morning and afternoon slots, plus Sunday services in Nashua Lowell Storeham Manchester Concord and Montreal.
Sugar receipts total 250 birds and 6150 bags with 325 bbls last year as the market stays quiet. Quotations cover Cuba refining 734c Centrifugals 96 test 844c Manila 6% 7 cc Moilos 6 6% sc Javas Nos 10 to 11 14 8% 8c refined sugars fair demand steady pulverized 934c powdered 954c granulated 914 9% sc confectioners A 9c standard A 8%4c Belmont A 9%c extra C 8c yellow 8c wholesale 9/ac. New York raws dull refined quiet steady. Molasses receipts today 141 bbls 25 birds last year 70 bbls market firm quiet. Fancy Ponce Porto Rico 45¢ gal Porto Rico common to choice 37 43c New Orleans 46 47c Cienfuegos 28 31c black strap 16 17c boiling grades 60 3114 32c. New York traders dull.
Turpentine closed at 38 4 with rosin at 110 1 12 and tar at 33 while petroleum ended at 7 35 with RSW 7 20 and cases 9 10. Coffee Rio remains unchanged in New York. Whiskey market in Chicago quoted at 108 with Cincinnati and St Louis at uncertain levels.
Central Massachusetts division lists train departures from Fzuston Station at 7.45 am 1.30 pm and 3.40 pm to Northampton Hadley Amherst Belmer town BMondsville Ware Gilbertsville Barre Rutland Oakduie West Boylston Worcester South Clinton and Berlin Riudson South Sudbury Knockbottom Wayland Weston Waverley Melmont with various additional times throughout the day.
A fragment notes a travel or event concept involving Hartford New Haven and New York with an elegant Buffer Drawing Room. The brief hints at a shared itinerary or display in a refined setting, suggesting a cultural or social gathering across multiple cities.
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