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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1889
Page
7
Flour is quiet and rye flour slow while corn and beans rise. Hops and butter show firmness. eggs and fresh beef stay quiet. Oranges are in demand, lemons more active, and pork remains firm with steady lambs and muttons.
Reports of poor spring wheat conditions and northwest damage buoy bullish Chicago wheat while New York sends bearish notes. Corn stays firm amid cold weather and mixed receipts. oats dull and provisions steady to firm as monthly stock figures loom.
The market is well supplied with fair demand for reasonable lots. Prices include onions at 142c per bunch Bermuda 90c per crate Spanish 85c per crate. Feyptian onions $2 per crate. Vegetables range from beets 25c per bush to carrots 150 per hundred, lettuce 7c per box, cucumbers $7 8 per 100 count, and Norfolk peas at $2 per half barrel with $1 baskets. Sales of Norfolk peas: $1.50 per basket and $3 per barrel.
Month ending May 31 fruit receipts show apples and strawberries with steady demand for oranges and lemons. Florida peaches first shipment. Dighton berries arrive. berries sell well with Norfolk and Maryland varieties. bananas plentiful with Jamaica and Baracoa lots sold. pineapples steady. dried fruits dull. mangoes and coconuts limited. California fruits small but selling, with cherries, apricots and peaches quoted at various prices. More precise prices listed per fruit and container.
The Victoria passed Gibraltar May 25 with 3900 cases Valencia oranges for the Boston Fruit Company. Marmion due Wednesday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit. Lorenzo D Baker due Friday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit. Sjofna due Wednesday with Baracoa bananas for WW and C R Noyes. Dana due next Monday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns and Co.
Stock Yards Kansas CityReceipts cattle 2602 market higher shippers 330 to 415 native cows 2325 mixed butchers 175 to 325 stockers and feeders 265 to 310 Hogs Receipts 9607 market weak heavies 410 to 224 mixed 420 to 435 pigs 430 to 440 Sheep Receipts 246 market strong 305 to 400 St Louis Hogs firm Yorkers 440 to 455 mixed packers 430 to 445 butchers extra 440 to 450 Peoria Hogs firm 435 to 455 Cincinnati Hogs in good demand common light 375 to 450 packing butchers 410 to 435 Receipts 3780 shipments 2900 Chicago Cattle Receipts 8000 shipments 8800 stronger beeves 410 to 440 steers 360 to 425 stockers feeders 240 to 270 cows bulls mixed 150 to 330 Texas cattle 230 to 350 Hogs Receipts 18000 shipments 5500 weak mixed 440 to 465 heavy 435 to 460 light 440 to 470 ships 350 to 425 Sheep Receipts 6000 shipments 2000 strong natives 350 to 460 Western shorn 390 to 475 Texans shorn 350 to 430 lambs 350 to 500
Sugar and molasses receipts for the month and day are listed with barrels hogsheads boxes bags mats and other units. Prices for raw and refined sugars are firm with strong demand and varied regional quotations. Molasses inventories and prices across ports including Ponce Porto Rico New Orleans Havana and Cienfuegos are noted as firm with quiet New York market activity. }}</analysis>
In New York cotton sales reach 1198 bales with upland grades ranging from ordinary to middling. Futures opened quiet and easy and closed dull, with May to March quotations listed and a fluctuating range through late May.
A detailed week long report outlines net receipts exports and stocks at all US ports. Highlights include Great Britain and Continent exports from New York and other ports, with totals for consolidated six and seven day periods and comparisons to last year.
Whiskey markets steady at 102 dollars in Western exchanges. New York coffee quiet and firm with fair cargoes. Turpentine closes at 38 1 2 cents with resin around 10 7 1 2 cents and tar at 210 dollars per ton. Petroleum futures in New York close 7 1 0 cents with ASW 6 9 0 cents and cases at 8 8 0 cents.
Shipping ledger itemizes cargo aboard steamers Santiago and Bulgarian and schooner F H Odiorne including wool waste paper stock glassware nails wire rope paint varnish and industrial goods. Notable consignors Baring Bros Crocker Burbank and Brown Brothers with numerous mdse casks cases and bales. Entries cover wool waste paper stock screws blades and various hardware bound for Hull Liverpool and Port de Paix with quantities in dozens cases bales drums and casks.
Export list details cargoes from St Andrews Digby Annapolis Yarmouth and Antwerp. Alhambra schooner carries 2100 bush corn. New Brunswick steamer brings flour bicycles boxes paint goods oil and nets. Yarmouth steamer ships hardware notions fish hooks furniture stock fruit and foodstuffs. De Ru ij ter cleared May 28 with one case machinery.
London and Paris report quiet to steady markets with wheat steady to firm and corn steady to dearer. Liverpool note breadstuffs steady with fair demand. American centals of 20,000 on wheat and 165,400 on corn. Prices: winter wheat 68 41d 6s 5d, spring 7s 342d 7s8 44d, club 63s 9 1/2d. Mixed American corn 3s 8 3/4d. Peas 5s 4d. Pork 64s, bacon 33s 6d short, 32s 6d long. Lard 35s 6d. Cheese 44s. Tallow 26s. Weather fair in England.
Sailors and travelers face constipation and stomach derangements that can prove fatal if untreated. Ayer's Cathartic Pills are promoted as the sure remedy, safely vegetable and sugar coated, suitable for all ages and conditions. A testimonial claims eight years of constipation cured and restored bowel regularity.
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