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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 30, 1889

Page

7

Dairy Market Report Highlights Steady Prices Across Regions

Butter and cheese markets show mixed results with steady demand for fine lots and broad supplier abundance. Prices vary by region with New York and Chicago offering steady rates, while eggs, beans, poultry, and potatoes reflect softer demand and ample supply, signaling a generally buyer-favorable market.

New York Chicago Ohio Liverpool Ogdensburg Canton Eges Islands Nova Scotias New Vermont New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Pei Western Michigan Canadas Newark Bush California Lima Choice Canada Dali Greery Bristol Long Islands Jerseys

Market Report on Fresh Produce and Cotton Prices

Market is well supplied with steady demand for onions beets cucumbers and berries. Prices quoted include bunch onions 14 2 cents per bunch native onions 50 cents per bush and Georgia peaches 80 to 90 cents per basket. Cotton futures opened firm and closed steady with prices across July through February posted by auctions and regional exchanges.

Malta Long Island Georgia le Contes Virginia Bartletts Delaware Beurre Giffords Choice Elbertas Jonathan Bigelow & Co North Market Street Georgia John D Cunningham Atlanta Union Maryland Norfolk Florida Nova Scotias Norida North Olina Ives Moore North Carolina Delawares

Peach shipments curtailed by crop conditions

Receivers of peaches in Delaware and New Jersey will be surprised to learn no regular peach train will run this year. The crop’s condition prevents railroad companies from making special efforts to place peaches on the market.

Delaware New Jersey Boston Old Colony Kneeland Street Fall River Newport New York Brooklyn Jersey City Old State House Washington and State Streets RB. Kendrick Geo. L. Connor R Agt L. H. Palmer

Steamer Arrivals and Fruit Cargoes At Boston Docks

The steamer Unita has arrived with Baracoa bananas for WW and R Noyes and will sell the cargo on Tuesday. Olympia carries 300 half-boxes Palermo oranges on free OO boxes Palermo ns, 10,000 boxes Naples oranges and 700 Naples lemons, passed Gibraltar July 23. Marmion due next Wednesday with bananas to the Boston moan, and Kong Alf due Thursday from unknown destination.

Unita Noyes Olympia

Jamaica bananas to Boston Fruit Company

Tuesday train carries 1 car of potatoes and 4 cars of melons. Jamaica shipments head to the Boston Fruit Company on a Tuesday schedule.

Jamaica Boston Fruit Company

Fruit Auction Report from California Fruit Union Sale

At today's sale Bartlett pears were ripe and priced around 85 cents, plums and prunes sold well, peaches and grapes listed for four cars tomorrow at 10 o'clock. H Harris & Co auctioned the Ponca cargo with Palermo oranges at 175 and 8712, Messina lemons and Palermo lemons priced per box, Snow & Co also auctioned Bartlett pears peaches and plums with varied prices, with another car fruit planned for Tuesday sale.

California Fruit Union Bartlett H Harris & Co Messina Palermo Snow & Co

Meat markets report steady pork and varied beef and lard prices

Receipts today show tallow 24 pkgs and lard 1265 pkgs with bacon 431 boxes and hams 149 tierces. New York pork steady with 150 bbls mess sold at $12.50–12.75. Chicago prices show mess pork at 1050–1060 and lard around 6.04–6.05. Beef, tierced and dry salted meats mixed. close across cities, with bacon and hams quoted in ranges.

New York City South America Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Hog and cattle markets steady at major packer hubs

Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts 6746 with a steady market for shipping steers at 330 to 370, native cows 175 to 215, and stockers up to 250. Hogs receipts 3156 show heavies 407 to 412, medi ums and lights 410 to 420, pigs 420 to 425. Cincinnati and Chicago data show varied but steady to firm pricing across hogs cattle and sheep.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Sugar Price Quotes and Receipts Report

Sugar receipts today total 500 barrels with 60 barrels from last year. Market quiet and steady with refined sugars lower but demand fair at old prices. Quotes cover Cuba and Manila grades, centrifugals, and various refinements. New York reports dull raws and steady refined values. molasses receipts today none with firm market. Prices listed for Porto Rico, New Orleans, Cienfuegos, and other grades. overall market calm with minor shifts in refined sugar.

Cuba Manilas Moilos Javas Belmont New York

Market Summary for Commodities and Spirits

Coffee in New York to Rio is steady as fair ships move. Whiskey markets hold at 102 dollars. Turpentine closes near 39 to 40 cents, rosin at 110 and tar at 3 dollars, petroleum figures incomplete.

New York Rio

Imports and Exports Value for Boston Week End July 26 1889

The report shows weekly imports and export values for Boston ending July 26 1889. It details dollar totals by commodity categories and lists leading trading partners, with notable increases in certain imports and shifts in export patterns during that week.

Imports at Antwerp and Atlantic ports July 29 1889

A detailed ledger of imports across multiple ports including Antwerp Havana and Canadian and American harbors. Steamer cargoes list steel sheets pulp flax waste rags and numerous goods from Baring Bros J A Hayes Ross Turner and many others. Bananas lumber eggs fish canned goods rugs leather and textiles dominate the long shipment ledger with quantities in casks bales cases crates and tons.

Antwerp Moors & Co Baring Bros & Co Schlebach Booth & Co A & W_ Hird & co Hinckley Horace Partridge & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Peabody & Whitney John P Lowell Arms Co Tufts Morocco White, Son & Co Louis Wolf & Co Boston Button Co Murdock Parlor Grate Co John Munroe & Co Baracoa Brnnio Seaverns & Co Unita Beaman Kros Boston Barclay & Co Bowles & Co Kiown, DeLoria & Co Bartlett, Lyman & Co Cutler Delong & Seaman Dana Ely R Griffin & Co Hinckley, Ayers & Co Hutchinson & Co Kennerson & Co Murch & Co Mead & Co Morison Morse & Holt McKeever & Hall Winsor & Son Pictou Suffolk Produce Co William Underwood & Co Port Hawkesbury Halifax Busbon Comey Cuther Ellis & Co Junk Haskins & Montague Russell & Co Whitney, Pensland & Co Savanna Gate City Cotton Barry, Thayer & Co Brooks Chapin Bros Curtis & Co Simmons, Amsden & Co G Hall & Co L Clemente & Co A & O W Mead Batchelder Auck Dunbar & Davis Griffin -Co Webber

Exports list from Atlantic ports July 29 1889

A compact shipping and cargo summary across multiple ports including St John Ensenada Mear River Yarmouth Digby Annapolis Halifax Glasgow and Tower Argyle. Items include meals bananas apples cocoa cotton paper tea flour cornmeal pork beef lumber stevedore hardware stoves and vast quantities of bacon lard cheese tobacco and cattle with numerous bbls sacks and crates detailed for each port.

Boston Implin Mola Tin An Manni England Nova Scotia Scotian Miquelon Langley Etc British West ‘Indies Argentine Republic Porto Rico India ST John Neé Cumberland Ensenada William Hale Mear River Yarmouth Dominion Digby Annapolis New Brunswick Halimax Halifax Tower Argyle and Meteghan

Foreign Markets Shift As Wheat Weakens and Corn Rises

London reports cargoes off coast and on passage showing weaker wheat while corn remains firm. Paris and Antwerp market moves show wheat quiet or firm with July and August prices cited. Liverpool supply softens in breadstuffs, corn steadies, and pork bacon lard cheese and tallow quoted with regional price levels.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Antwerp

ALWAYS ON TIME Boston to many destinations schedule

Timetable shows weekday departures from Boston Station for Ashcroft and many cities including Baltimore Dorchester Manchester Providence New Britain New London Norwood Hyde Park Washington and more. Sundays add Norwood Central Hyde Park Franklin routes with return times. Bwoonsocket division details include Needham Way Stations and Wrk stops with varied daily and weekend adjustments.

Boston Station Summer Stree Ashcroft Baltimore Bled Street Blackstone Manbury Leedham Dorchester Dudley Street Ilam Ebling Budicott Fishkill-on-Mudeog Randkixz Crest Avenue Martford Spu Marvard Street Shay? m Bryde Pack Islington Manchester Mattapan Milford Mt. Bowdoin New Britain Newburg New London New Work Air Line Hartford Norwich Orched Norwood Norwood Central Pawtucket E Philadelhia Providence Patram Meadville River Street Beachville Conan Southbridge Tiliens Wea Washington D. C Waterbury Willimantic Wihuslows Webster Rma Sunaay Boston Hyde Park Franklin Needham and Way Weeonsocket

Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Tunnel Schedule Boston Station

Fitchburg Railroad timetable lists departures from Causeway Street Boston for the west. Includes morning and afternoon trains to Troy Albany and beyond with sleeping cars and express options to Chicago and St. Louis via multiple lines. Daily and Sunday variations cover numerous towns and junctions with notes on through tickets and ticket offices. John Adams, General Superintendent.

Albany West Boston Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Points West Cleveland Toledo Chicago Lake Shore Michigan Southern _ We St. Lonia Ute Cincinnati Niagara Falls Detroit Caily Hartford New Haven New York Fitchburg Causeway Street St. Albans Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Johns Montreal Saratoga Delaware & Hadgon Canal Company & R Connecticut River Vermont White River Junction Ottawa Ogdensburg Washington Street A. Faxon K. Stewart Keene, N Troy Amd Binghamton Eer M Trojan Niagara Falls Short Line Erie & Heston St. Louis Michigan Central Wabasa Railways Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Madson Maynard Tom Nashua N. H Ayer Junction North Adams Williamstown North Leominster Shelburne Falls Union Square Somerville Wyaltham Watertown Union Market Auburn Worcester Ayer Miller’s Falls Hoosac Tunnel John Adams Old State House FASC Park Square

Concord Railroad Time Table 1889 July 1

Train schedule lists Keoston Boston and Lowell routes to Manchester Concord Weare and stations on multiple lines with numerous departures throughout the day including Sunday. White Mountain Division includes Plymouth Meredith Lebanon and reflex stations with many daily trains and connections. Tickets berths parlor cars and hotel guide offered by Boston Passenger Agency with officials Chamberlin Brown Storer and Storer.

Keoston Boston Concord Plymouth Tilheona Lake Village Meredith Ashiana Centre Harbor Wolteboro Laconta Warren and Haverhill Campion Village Woodstock Flume House Pemigewasaet Valley Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Jefferson Lancaster Bethlehem Maplewood Profile Krouse Twin Mt Fabyan Mit. Pleasant White Mountain St. Flohnsbury Newport Passumpsic R. R Wells River St. Johnsbury Lake Champlain Montreal Quebec Sherbrooke Washington Street State Street H. £. Chamberlin Sup’t F. E. Brown G. P. A. Gev W. Storer

Trains Leave Boston Station for Eastern Division Timetable

Eastern Division timetable lists numerous trains from Boston to Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Falls Rochester Hampton Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Salem York Barbor Beach Swampacott Wolfeboro Lyan Way Stations Newburyport Portsmouth Portland Bangor St John Malifix and Workingmen's train with numerous daily departure times and branches.

North Conway Exeter Great Falls Eaverhill Georgetown Ennebunk Biddeford Saco Lawrence M. Lowell Newburyport T.lham M. Reading Oy Salem Poortland Amesbury Beverly At Falls Rochester Hampton Beach North Hampton Rye Beach Ipswich Lynn Marblehead and Swampacott Ortsmouth Roeckport and Gloucester Branch Salem York Barbor & Beach BR. B Swampacott Wolfeboro Lyan Portsmouth Portland Bangor St. John Malifix Sangus Beanech mWorkingmen South Reading Boston Haymarket Square

Lowell system trains timetable with scattered stops

The excerpt lists Lowell system timetable entries for routes from Boston to Keene Peterboro Hillsboro and more, with multiple daily departure times to towns including Nashua Lawrence Stoneham Winchester Concord Bedford Woburn and Montreal. It reads like an OCR derived schedule of train departures throughout the day with numerous times and stations.

Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Concord Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua Lowell North Billerica Lawerence Stoneham Webern Lam Winchester Mass Reformatory Bedford

Central Massachusetts Division Train Schedule Fragments Found

SUNDAY TRAINS Belmont Waverley Waltham Hudson and Way Stations to Northampton L115pm. James T. Furber D. J. Flanders General Manager Genl Pasr and Ticket Agent.

Central Beechbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont Hudson and Way Northampton James T. Furber D. J. Flanders Gen’l Pas

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