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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 31, 1889

Page

7

Market Report Signals Steady Prices Amid Dull Demand

New York market shows steady tone with Eastern firsts quoted around 14 to 165 cents and Western near 14 cents. Beans demand quiet in a steady market. Poultry supply light today with expectations of larger arrivals, prices unchanged. Potatoes demand weak with receipts rising risk to prices. Maryland Eastern shares at 50 to 50. North Carolina reds quoted 45 to 50 per barrel. Hay and straw prices unchanged.

New York Maryland Eastern North Carolina Reds

Market report shows abundant supply for vegetables

The demand is quiet with ample supply. Prices listed include onions 12c per bunch, Egyptian onions 150 per crate, Malta 250 per basket, beets 40c per box, carrots 75c per box, lettuce 50c per box, turnips 22 1 2c per bunch, Long Island yellow turnips 175 per barrel, cucumbers 1 per 100 count, parsley 25c per bush, beans 1 per bush, wax beans 85c per bush, green 40c, green corn 15 20c per dot, Norfolk tomatoes 75c per crate, native cabbage 4 5 per 100 count, native peas 1 per bush, Florida marrow squash 1 per barrel, summer squash 2c each, crook neck 2c each, cauliflowers 1 per dozen, Florida peppers 250 per crate, natives 1 per bush, Jersey tomatoes 50c per crate, eggplants 1.75 per dozen, Kalamazoo celery 20c per bunch.

Malta Long Island Norfolk Providence Florida Jersey

Fruit Market Snapshots Reflect Steady Demand Across Produce

The report shows steady demand and firm quotations across multiple fruits and markets. Jerseys and Astrachans apples quoted at 250 3 00 per barrel. oranges and lemons firm. Georgia Le Contes peaches at 75c to $1 per crate. cantaloupes and blueberries well supplied with prices ranging widely. watermelons from South Carolina at 15 to 20c each. bananas active with Jamaica and Baracoa varieties listed. (Names: WW & CR Noyes, Unita steamer)

Georgia le Contes Virginia Bartletts Delaware Beurre Giffords Bell Elbertas Maryland New York Nova Florida North Carolina Ives Moore South Carolina Jamaica Baracoa Port Simons Unita WW & CR Noyes

Steamers Olympia Marmion Kong Ali Sighted For Boston Trade

The steamer Olympia passed Gibraltar July 23 en route to Boston with 300 half boxes Palermo oranges 13 300 boxes Palermo lemons 10 000 boxes Naples oranges and 700 boxes Naples lemons. Marmion due from Jamaica with bananas to Boston Fruit Company. Kong Ali due Thursday from Jamaica with bananas to Boston Fruit pany.

Olympia Palermo Naples Gibraltar Boston Marmion Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Kong Ali Boston Fruit Pany

Wednesdays Train Load Carries Fresh Produce

A midweek freight train will haul two cars of melons three cars of tomatoes one car of potatoes and one car of grapes in a compact shipment report from the rail yard noting steady agricultural traffic.

Fruit Auction Prices From California Buyers

The California Fruit Union sold Bartlett pears at 60 cents and 4 dollars? peaches at 1 35 to 1 75 nectarines 1 85 plums 65 cents to 1 70 grapes 40 cents per package. Snow & Co sold Crawford peaches 65? to 1 05 Bartlett pears 1 80 to 2 15 and plums 75 cents to 1 05 per box. The same firm will auction one car of California fruit Wednesday.

California Fruit Union Bartlett Snow & Co Crawford California

Provisions market receipts and steady price variants

Receipts today show tallow 44 pkgs pork 83 bbls lard 1101 pkgs hams 26 tierces preserved meats 100 cases bacon 718 boxes. Last year’s figures listed tallow 25 pkgs lard 252 pkgs hams 90 bbls tierces 220 bacon 453 boxes preserved meats 15 cases. Across cities, pork prices range from 11 1250 for inspected mess to 11 75 12 00 for uninspected. beef and dried beef slow. middles quiet. western steam ward sales at 6 37 12 64. Chicago pork 10 50, lard 6 02 4 6 05. short ribs 5 35 5 40. shoulders 5 12 4 25 5 25. Cincinnati pork 1 25. bulk meats steady. Continuous dull market with mixed regional activity.

New York Ward Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Hog and Cattle Markets in Kansas City and Chicago

Cattle receipts in Kansas City total 6456 with steady market. prices listed for shipping steers, cows, stockers, and range cattle. Hog receipts 5378 with steady market. heavies, mediums, lights, and pigs priced. Sheep receipts 752 with steady market at about 32.59 to 39.90. Chicago cattle receipts 9000 with steady to slow bid. beeves and stockers priced. Hogs in Chicago 13000 with slow market. mixed, heavy, light, and ship ranges given. Sheep in Chicago 7000 with shade easier. natives, Westerns, Texans, and lambs priced. Cincinnati hogs easier. common, light, and packing prices noted.

Kansas City Chicago Texas

Sugar market report with varied prices and grades

Sugar receipts today total 75 barrels with last year at 2 barrels and 455 hundreds. demand quiet at steady prices. Quotes cover Cuba refined grades, Manilas, Moilos, Javas, and centrals with tests and percentages. Refined sugars quiet and steady. granulated at 8 4 to 8 3/4 cents, bulk and confectioners varieties listed. New York raws nominal, refined steady. molasses receipts none today.

Cuba Manilas Moilos Belmont

Market Roundup Shows Firm Prices Across Commodities

A year has passed with no change in key markets as prices stay firm and steady. Notes include Porto Rico rates at 45 cents, common to choice at 37 to 43 cents, New Orleans 46 to 47, Cienfuegos 28 to 31, black strap at 17 cents, boiling grades at 50, with New York trade described as dull.

Ponce Porto Rico New Orleans Cienfuegos New York

Cotton Markets Mixed as Upland Prices Hold Steady

New York cotton markets show steady sales with 998 bales and varying grades. Futures opened and closed steady amid a detailed table of opening and closing quotes for months through April, with strong activity in Liverpool and multiple U.S. ports showing receipts, stocks, and firm or steady tones across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and consolidated port stocks.

New York Uplands Jdimy Poly Ize Ee Scene Rong Ams Uwe C.ecee Aleks Aleeep Ahaa Uke Liverpool Usessee Augusta Ile Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Philadelphia Baltimore France Cincinnati Louis Louisville Great Britain Continent United States

Cottonseed Oil Certificates Closing and Opening Dates

Closing and opening dates listed for cottonseed oil certificates. July 29 1889 closing, July 30 1889 opening and July 30 highest and lowest prices noted. Repeated entries suggest market quotation postings for July 30 with certificate types and price extremes.

Aa Bee Gpacas Ce Ec Cfug Osaievsh Veet Aplar DA Ee Eeee Eess Saeeels Baikin Ee Vallatadsiee sGein Eee

Coffee and chemicals market notes from New York and Rio

A dated market brief reports Coffee in New York Rio markets stronger while whiskey shows no change. Turpentine closes at 39 percent, rosin at 110 and tar at 3, petroleum at 7.60 cents, RSW 7.40 cents, and cases at 9.30 cents, with various price shifts noted.

New York Rio

Watertown Union Live Stock Market Report 1889

Report by George J. Fox for the Boston Post covers the Watertown Union Livestock Market for the week ending July 30 1889. It lists stock totals for sheep cattle and lambs swine prices for market beef store cattle hides tallow skins and details on Western cattle buyers and notable sales including Th no-horned steers from Iowa and multiple steers sold by JW Cooper and M G Flanders. Canada lambs and eastern shipments noted with prices and quantities.

Boston Post George J. Fox Brighton Iowa Feeder W Beard Sturtevant & Haley JW Cooper G Flanders

Imports and Exports From Surinam on July 30 1889

Surinam trade report notes Brig Mary Gibbs exporting 104 hards sugar 69 hids molasses 2869 bags cocoa and 2 barrels limes under W Williams WW Co. Ships laden with commodities destined for overseas markets in a late July tally.

Surinam Mary Gibbs K Williams Ww Co

Exports List from Yarmouth and Honolulu Ports in 1889

An extensive 1889 shipment inventory records cargoes from Yarmouth and Honolulu. Items include bran flour boxes glassware lard and pork backs at Yarmouth, and coal refined petroleum hardware saddlery goods ploughs, tools, cotton duck, oils, ropes, paints, maize and garden implements among hundreds of specific lots aboard the Bark Amy Turner and other vessels in Honolulu.

Yarmouth Honolulu Amy Turner

Letter on arsenic and a hospital diet cure

An 1889 Portland Globe letter argues arsenic in face lotions and medicines is risky. It lauds Murdock's Liquid Food used with a nourishing diet to treat a severe cough and consumption, claiming dramatic patient recovery with no medicines since May 20.

Lafayette Avenue Job Murdock

Shipping records of Borderer voyage cargo and freight components

The list details cargo aboard the Borderer steamer including asbestos, phosphate, paper, woodenware, books, cod oil, tallow oil, canned lobsters, lard, ink, oil cake, tobacco, hardware, machinery, wheels, emery, crockery, bolts, and various cases and sacks. Numerous quantities and unit types appear for textiles, metals, foods, and industrial goods, alongside livestock, leather, and farm implements.

London Eng

Foreign Markets Report From London And Liverpool July 30

LONDON markets show wheat slow with mixed cargo activity while corn remains firm. Paris and Antwerp price levels steady or quiet. weather described as wart, exports on the move with 1.771 million quarters of wheat and 531k quarters of corn on passage to Britain. Liverpool futures dull for wheat and firm for corn with weak demand and varying receipts.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool England Great Britain California Antwerp

Shoe Company Representatives Across Cities Listed in Bid

Albany to Wichita profiles show buyers and firms named Fearey Ullman Stern Levy Grattan Co Schwartz O Neill Selz Schwab New England Shoe Co Davis Fargo Shay Mabley Carew Stork Lever Head Wilzinski Kendall Egelhoff Oppenheimer Liepold Exstein Buck Kellogg Kellogg Kellogg Kelley Chase Williams Smith Stover in a compiled directory of shoe firms and agents across multiple states.

Albany Columbia Lever Stork & Lever, Craw Denton Tex D Head & Co Greenville Miss Lion L Wilzinski Wilzinski Kansas City D Fearey Kendall Boot & Shoe Company J C Egelhoff Knoxville San Antonio Oppenheimer Selma Ala J Liepold Liepold Bros Tre Sherman Exstein Exstein & Bro Savannah S Buck Buck Bros A Coburn Kellogg, Johnson & Co St Louis A T Kelley Kelley, Goodfellow & Co Topeka Kan G M Chase Chase & Co Washington J A Williams J A Williams & Co Wichita R H Smith Smith & Stover

Probate notices of KEHEW and BRUCE estates in Boston

Suffolk probate court schedules three separate notices. Nancy T. Kehew seeks leave to sell Salem realestate for trust purposes with a Sept 2 1889 hearing. Sarah Meriam Bruce petitions for letters testamentary for Edwin Bruce with bond waiver and Sept 2 1889 hearing. George T. Bossom guardian seeks license to sell ward real estate for investment with Sept 19 1889 hearing.

Ommonwealth Massachu Emily M. Copfin Anna R. Snyder Philip M. Snyger Katrina P. McKinstry George McKinstry Schuylerville New York Ida G. Mulford Plath W. Mulfora Bacon Hill Northumberland County Alice Fe. Munn Orrin Munn Hayden Routt County Frederick W. Coffin Cortez Colorado Anna K. Ladd John H. Ladd London England Emeline N. Hastings Lilian Hastings Ruth P. Hastings William F. Hastings Moston Helen Jared Coffin Brighton Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testate Emeline Hastings Rebecca French Sarah F. C. Baxter John N. Baxter Rutland Vermont Mary F. French Amelia A. Wilbur Isaac W. Wilbur Little Compton Rhode Island William H. Frewen Llttle Park Cook County Tlllinois Emily M. Coffin Philip M. Snyder Suffolk John Kehew Nancy T. Kehew Salem Essex Boston Post Joan W. McKim Esquire John H. Palne COMMONWEALTHE OF MASSACH u_ SETTS Edwin Bruce Sarah Meriam Bruce Squire Blanche E. Bean George T. Bosson Guardian John H. Paine Yommon Wealtie OF Massachou Middlesex Harriet E. Knight Newton Frank F. Clifford Cambridge George M. Brooks J. H. Tyler Register W Falth MASSACHOU_SETTS Joseph Wesley Hawkes Joseph Howard Mary Murphy Martin J. Lee Joan W. McKim, Esqui John IS Paine Otlce Marinda Heath Saint Paul Minnesota Chas. Steere Admr Annie McLean Mary J. McLean E. A. Alger Court Street Edwin F. Stafford Court Square John B. Fitzpatrick Vemnur WM. H. Stevens John McCarty

Fitchburg Railroad Timetable for Hoosac Tunnel Route

Fitchburg Railroad announces on and after June 17 1889 trains leave Boston for the West from Causeway Street. Includes accommodation to Troy Albany and daily express to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Grand Trunk. Night express with sleeping cars to Troy and other major points. Sunday and holiday schedules listed for Brattleboro Cambridge Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield Hoosick Falls and Concord.

Ally Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Wiagarn Falls Detroit Chicago Michigan Central KR. K Cleveland Toledo Eake Shore Michigan Southern WR. B St. Louis Lite Cincinnati Niagara Falls Hartford New Haven New York Fitchburg Depot Causeway Street Boston St. Albans Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Troy Marlboro Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Johns Montreal Densburg Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company &. R Ottawa Ogdensburg Washington Street A. Faxon A R. Stewart Keene, N Binghamton Erie Wabash Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway

Local Train Service Update for Boston Station

Trains depart Boston Station under the Workingmen's train service division. Details are scarce in the fragment but indicate organized departures and a focus on workers’ travel amid unidentified timing.

Weerent Divisio Boston Et Caerket

Eastern division rail schedule hours and routes listed

In Boston Haymarket the Eastern division train schedule lists departure times to Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Hampton Beach North Mant Moon? Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Rockport Gloucester Salem York Harbor Beachers and York Harbor Beach ER with numerous daily departures including early morning and late evening services to many towns and cities along the New England coast. The long list includes Portland Bangor St John Halifax and multiple intermediate stations with varied times.

Portland Amesburys Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Rochester Hampton Beach North Mampteonun Rye Beach Ipewich Lynn Alo A . Marbleherd Swampscott Hranwik Newburyport North Conway Ortsmouth Aim Rockport and Gloucester Branch Salem York Harbor & Beach ER. E Swampscott Wolfeboro

Central Massachusetts Train Schedule From Musten and Nearby Stations

Train times listed for several Central Massachusetts stations including Musten, Causeway Street, and Foot of Portland Street serving Northampton Hadley Amherst Helcer town Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Kullanud Oakdale West Boylston Worcester So Clinton Berlin Hudson Sudbury Knockbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont with multiple morning and afternoon departures. Sunday services note Northampton L15pm for Belmont Waverley Waltham Hudson Way stations. James T Furber Genl Pasr and Ticket Agent.

Central Knockbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont Hudson and Way Northampton James

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