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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 25, 1888

Page

7

Grain markets show steady to weak tone across regions

Wheat and corn supplies highlighted with mixed prices and steady to lower tones in Chicago St Louis and New York. Receipts reach tens of thousands of bushels, with No 2 white oats at 36 37c, No 2 yellow corn around 57 58c, and No 2 red wheat near 78 80c. Market activity quiet to dull, steamer yellow and other grades in light stock.

Minnesota Chicago St Louis Minneapolis Milwaukee New York Detroit Toledo Hoosac Reguar New

Butter and dairy prices across regions and items

Market notes show quiet butter demand with varied wholesale prices across creameries. Western and Vermont creamery quotes range from 16 to 22 cents, with several grades and jobbing adds. Cheese and eggs hold steady to easier. beans, seeds, and potatoes display modest movement and steady or marginally changing prices across regions.

Market Quiet as Poultry Prices Vary by Grade and Type

Market remains steady with Northern fresh killed chickens at 25 to 80 cents, fair quality 20 to 28 cents, Northern fresh em fowls 16 cents, Western iced fowls 14 to 16 cents per pound. Feedstuffs list rye straw 25 26 and oat straw 10 dollars.

Banana steamers sail to Boston firms this week

The Marmion is due July 26 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Herald is due from Baracoa with bananas for Seaverns and Co. The Amicitia is due Thursday from Baracoa with bananas for WW and C R Noyes.

Banana Steamers Marmion Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Herald Baracoa Seaverns & Co Amicitia WW & C R Noyes

Fruit Market Prices and Auction Fruit Auctioneers

Fruit prices show plentiful apples with steady demand led by Baltimore early harvests at 3 dollars 25 and 350 bbl, and 1 dollar 25 per crate. Oranges and lemons mixed. Palermo oranges 6 to 7 per box, Palermo lemons 3 to 5, Messina lemons 3 to 5. Georgia LeContes pears poor condition slow at 85 to 75 per crate. Maryland Bartletts at 2 per crate. Berries scarce with blackberry market gone. currants fair supply with 8 to 10 cents per quart. blueberries large receipts with York State 12.5 per pail, 12 cents quart, Maryland and Delaware 9 cents quart, Massachusetts and New Hampshire 15 cents quart. Raspberries abundant with 10 to 11 cents per upper quart, 6 to 8 cents pint, 4 cents per half-pint. blackcaps 9 to 10 cents per quart. Delaware peaches small quantity at 20 to 80 cents per small basket. Virginia grapes slow at about 10 cents per pint. California fruits Auction: pears 2.45 to 2.65 per crate, plums 1.65 to 2.10, peaches 2.50, prunes 1.05 per crate. Three cars of fruit planned for Thursday. H Harris & Co auctioneers. Watermelons cleaning up slowly at 30 to 35 cents extras, 25 to 27 cents mids, 20 cents small.

Western Choice Vermont Elgin New York St Albans Ohio Sage Liverpool Utica New Hampshire Michigan Nova Scotia New Brunswick E Island Bush California Red Top Jersey Norfolk Jerseys Bristol Ferry Long Islands Ancy Baltimore Red Astralians Palermo Messina Georgia Maryland York State Marylands Delawares Massachusetts New Hampshires Virginia California Fruit Union H Harris & Co

Truck Market Prices steady on varied vegetables

The market reports quiet demand and steady prices for produce. Items listed include marrow squash at 250 per crate, native green peas 150 per bush, multiple tomato varieties from 1 to 2 per crate, onions from 2.38 per bunch to 350 per barrel, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, cucumbers at 1 per 100 count, and cantaloupes closing at 2.25 to 2.50 per crate. Green corn scarce at 18 to 20 cents per dozen.

Rhode Island Illinois Jersey Bermuda Russia

Meat Market Prices Show Firm Demand and Higher Lenn

Pork and lard firm with active demand. hams and smoked meats steady with upward tone. Detailed quotes list prices for pork cuts, lard, beef, and fresh meats across New York Park, St Louis, and wholesale ranges, noting steady to higher tone in many items and specific bin and tier prices for各 meats.

New York-Park Western St Louis Siacenat Park Chicago Brighton

Sugar Market Refines Yet Maintains Firmness Abroad

The report details sugar prices and grades, noting no change in refined sugar values while wholesale granulated price trends hold. It cites London Statist insights on a firmer sugar market driven by rising prices in Magdeburg and Demerara/Brazil purchases for America, plus import/export shifts across ports and overall consumption.

Cuba Manilas Lloilos Javas London Magdeburg Liverpool Demarara Brazil America Board of Trade

Trade dullness noted in New York markets

Cienfuegos new crop prices quoted at 25c and 28 35C boiling grades, with a 50 test basis and nominal at 2042c. The market in New York shows subdued activity amid nominal pricing signals and limited demand.

Cienfuegos Maya Aguez New York

Hog and cattle markets across major midwest exchanges

Kansas City receipts show active demand with cattle trading between 315 and 500 in various classes and hogs rising 5 cents with heavies at 595 to 610. Chicago and St Louis reports reflect firm to higher prices for hogs and broad strength for cattle, with Texas, Montana, and western feeders contributing to mixed but robust activity.

Kansas City St Louis Peoria Cincinnati Chicago Texas Montana Texans

Market Report: Cotton Prices Slip on August Weakness

Allan Asher & Co reports a weak market with August support withdrawn and new crop advices cheerfully optimistic. Liverpool prices fall, New York dull, futures opened weak and closed easy. US and world markets show lower middling uplands and mixed futures across July to January contracts. Overall sales small, global receipts noted, prices easing across regions.

Allan Asher & Co Exchange Place OWS Liverpool New York Diecomevos Orleans Cc Ceee Augusta Mid Galveston New Orleans Great Britain France Continent Memphis Savannah Charleston Norfolk Wilmington Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville United States

Coffee and commodity markets in New York and Brazil

Market notes from New York show steady prices for tobacco, whiskey, turpentine, and coffee with modest activity. The Rio News reports Espírito Santo exports of 23,006,325 kilograms over eighteen months, with 400,000 bags for the 1888-89 crop and Bahia revenue from a 7 percent coffee export duty. Planters expect strong plantation expansion amid rising labor availability after slavery’s decline.

St. Louis New York Rio News Espirito Santo S. Paulo Amparo Bahia Iterior Brazil

Live Stock Market Report for Boston Area July 24 1888

Reports from the Union Market Watertown show lighter cattle supplies with fewer Western shipments and softer bids. Prices for beef and store cattle drift lower while sheep and lambs face declines. notable sales include several steers and oxen by local sellers and agents with prices ranging from about 4 to 8 cents per pound depending on weight and quality.

Boston Post George J. Fox Union Market Watertown J A Hathaway

Receipts on July 24 18s Boston & Albany Goods

A fragment lists shipments for the Boston and Albany Railroad including 18 bales cotton 771 bales wool 1176 bushels flour 960 bushels oats 500 bushels wheat 2020 bushels malt 47 tons feed 50 tierces 50 tubs 1 case 20 half barrels 25 packages lard 10 tierces hams 41 barrels pork 90 boxes 6 half chests tea 1003 tubs and more.

Boston & Albany Railroad

Vast stock ledger of railroad and trade goods listed

A long OCR style inventory lists numerous shipments and consignments by railroad companies including Grand Junction, Boston and Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern and Western Divisions, Lowell System, and express and sea routes. Entries cover bales wool cotton hides leather cheese eggs bacon flour corn meal oats tea and a wide array of commodities with quantities, carloads, bales, and barrels, plus miscellaneous items and vessels. The fragmentary text preserves named railroads, ship names, and numerous counts and units across several regions.

Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York& New England Railroad Fitchburg Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Divis Ton Western Division Lowell Express Sea

Imports and Exports July 24 1888 Listing Trade Goods

Shipping and trade record from London and Liverpool shows Steamer G W Jones and Milanese imports including mahogany cedar cloth woollens jute and hardware. Numerous firms such as Gorham Rogers Co and Baring Bros & Co listed with iron, tin, cement, wines and goods like books, hardware, machinery, textiles, and dye stuffs shipped or received in this date. Names and firms include J B Moors Co Gorham Rogers Co Baring Bros Co W H Ford Saxonville Mills C F Hovey Co Reed Barton J A Hayes Co Harvard College and many others.

Cisputa Jones Emery London Eng Saxonville Mills Ford Gorham, Rogers & Co Lowell Mans Co Oakum Moors & Co Spurr & Co Swain, Earl & Co Snow’s European Express Alizarine Dye Beach & Co Small Bros Varnish Wood Bros Estes & Lauriat Buckram Dennison Manufacturing Co Richards & Sons Milliken Bower & Bartlett Munroe & Co Crosby Steam Gauge and Valve Co Iron Bacon & Co Cushman & Co Gorham Rogers & Co Sheldon & Co Regulus Liverpool Samaria Pierce & Co Hovey & Co Noyes & Cobb Reed & Barton Jackson Belcher & J.oomis S S Pierce & Co Potter Drug and Chemical Co Allyn Houghton, Mifflin & Co Schoenhof Simons, Hatch & Whitten Benjamin Boumont Compton Co Macallar, Parker & Co L&c Chase & Co L & M Williams Furniture Stone & Downer H Stearns & Co Saco Water Power Ross Pope Gregory & Brown Harvard College Claflin, Larrabee & Co Shoninger, Moses & Co Codman & Shurtlett Farley, Harvey & Co RH White & Co Silks Welch, Margetson & Co F Hovey & Co Clarke & Co Forbes Lithograph Co Messenger Bros & Jones Grout Warren & Blanchard White Sons & Co Collins & Fairbanks Simons Hatch & Whitten Stedman & Fuller Mant Co Moise Noyes

Exports at Bridgewater and Moncton in July 1838

Shipping cargo lists from Bridgewater Nova Scotia Moncton New Brunswick and Yarmouth and Dunedin and Lyttleton include flour cornmeal beef pork carriage stock hardware organ stock glass rubber goods bales of twine nails tin cans agricultural implements and various cases crates and items with quantities. The record shows multiple ships including the Sch Alice Sch Clara steamer Yarmouth and ship Anahuac and inventories spanning food goods, industrial wares, and household items.

Liverpool Eng Pavonia Yarmouth Sarah Bridgewater Moncton Marble Dunedin Lyttleton

Foreign Markets. Wheat and corn futures firm at Liverpool

London reports show cargoes off the coast selling since last bulletin with wheat firm and five cargos awaiting sale. At Mark Lane Australian wheat quoted July 31s 9d, River Plate corn July and August 218 9d. Paris Ankara and Liverpool spot wheat firm, futures steady. California wheat July 63 0d, August 63 9%4d. Antwerp firm with No 1 California 19:25. Liverpool breadstuffs demand weak, corn firm, pork 70s, bacon 44s 6d, lard 42s 6d, cheese 4s 5d.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane Paris Liverpool Ownes & Pm California Antwerp

Local Ad Listings and Dividend Notices from 1888

A long list of sales and ads from firms in cities like Allentown Athens and Baltimore followed by late nineteenth century corporate dividend notices. The text includes numerous names and firms and ends with The Asiston Valve Company dividend notice and The American Bell Telephone extra dividend details with payment dates and treasurer signatures.

Asiston Valve Company WM. Howell Reed Boston

Fragmented OCR note on local prices and entities

An unreadable OCR snippet lists multiple numeric values and place names. It mentions Ell Sem OUD and Newtonville with several price like figures such as 6.55 6.10 6.35 7.05 and 9.25. The text is garbled and lacks a clear event or subject.

Newtonville

Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Schedule Changes

Train timetable details show new June 25 changes for the Fitchburg Railroad routes including departures from Boston West Station to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and the West with limited palace cars and express daily services to Chicago via Niagara Park, St. Louis via Wabash and Michigan Central, plus multiple local stops and varied daily times.

Montreal West Central Vermont Bosgton Lowell Chicago Fitchburg Penn Wagner Palace Pullman Hertha Central Vermont K. R Washington Street Rostona J.W. Holaret W. Cummings Eas Agi St. Albans Hoosac Tunnel Isses Boston Wassenger Causeway Street Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction Mingeamton Niagara Park Short Line Erie Boston Line St. Louis Niagara Falls Michigan Central Palace Grand Trank Railway St. Loui Wabash Western Railway Lio Binghamton Ayer Junction SUN Beelmont and Waverley Cambridge Ottawa Ogdensburg Boston de Wineteneen Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Johnsa Sonneenag Saratoga Velaware & Hudson Canal Company R. R A. M Cheshire R.R White River Junction Points West Eecaeack Rutland R. K White River

Fragmented OCR note on schedule times and events

Fragmented text lists times 4.15 and 5.30 with Portuguese fragments mentioning days and events. Names or places are unclear. Likely a timetable or schedule note with incomplete details.

Cape Cod Division Train Schedule Fragments

Fragmented timetable listing multiple Cape Cod division routes with stations and times. Contains many misread names and times such as Buzzards Bay to Wellfleet and Sunday trains to Buzzards Bay and Bourne. Unclear due to OCR errors but outlines station-to-station departure times and connections via Woods Hall.

Cape Cod Kneeland Street Buzzards Bay Assurmatabie Mourne Bournedats Breweter Catanmet Chiasthiams Cottage City Woods Hall Fairhaven Almouth Aim ER Ysassis Marwich Jin Monument Beach Mattapoisett Miamon Nantucket Oneet May Provinces Town Sandevieck Sanamore Yarmouth Tremont Wellfleet Wet Barnstable Sam Pim Woods Mall Wareham Warmouth Buzzards Par Bourne Bournedalle Camataumet Chatham Falmouth Hyannis and Blarwich West Barnstable Wenaumet

Wallet-Compact Record Book for Tea Trade

Printed and indexed record book designed for tea trade needs. Offered by Aaron Br, Gay & Co. at 122 State Street.

Aaron Br, Gay & CO State Street

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