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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1889
Page
7
A persuasive pitch argues that Mur dock's Liquid Food is a condensed raw food with no flavor change needed, superior to drugs, and able to speed blood formation. It cites use in Free Hospitals, 3000 patients treated, and high surgery mortality as evidence of effectiveness.
The report covers rye mixtures at varied prices, cargo receipts from Chicago and St Louis, and dull markets for rye flour buckwheat corn and oats. Wheat prices range with No 2 red around 81 to 83 cents, corn and oats quoted with limited spot demand, and flour markets quiet though steady for select grades.
Butter receipts total 3688 pkgs today versus 4145 last year. Western and Northern creameries show steady prices from 17 to 20 cents for various grades while imitation creameries stay quiet. Cheese and eggs hold firm with steady quotes. beans, peas, and potatoes show quiet demand and easy prices. Poultry and hay trades reflect limited supply and stable to firm pricing.
A good demand is reported with the market well supplied. Bunch onions 132 2c per bunch, Bermuda onions 80c per crate, Spanish onions 85c per crate, Egyptian onions 2.00 per crate, beets 25c per bush, native beets 344c per bunch, Bermuda beets 1.00 per crate, new carrots 60c per dozen.
Native peas and Jersey peas sell at varied prices per bush basket and basket. Items include lettuce turnips radishes pars nips cucumbers green beans wax beans tomatoes from Norfolk Savannah Florida Chicago with crates and baskets varying in price.
Receipts of apples are light with strong demand and russets at 2250 per barrel. Lemons and oranges show varied demand with Messina lemons 3 50 to 4 50 per box and Palermo oranges around 3 50 to 4 50. Strawberries peaches plums and bananas see mixed sales, while the steamer Sif brings Baracoa bananas for WW and C R Noyes.
The Victoria is due next Saturday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns Co. The Miranda of Boston Fruit Co. is due Thursday with Jamaica bananas. The Valencia passed Gibraltar May 25 with 3900 cases Valencia oranges for Boston. The Timor passed Gibraltar June 5 for Boston carrying Messina and Palermo citrus including 200 half-boxes Mesina oranges, 5000 boxes Messina lemons, 700 boxes and 4900 half-boxes Palermo oranges, and 16,000 boxes Palermo lemons.
Receipts today show pork 35 bbls and 80 bbls hams with lard and tierces, bacon, dressed hogs none, while last year had higher lard and preserved meats. Market steady with fair demand. quotes list long and short cuts, backs and lean ends, sausages, hams, and various tierce, tub, and pail prices across New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati markets.
Stock yards Kansas City receipts show firm cattle with native cows at 250 to 360 and stockers around 350. Hogs receipts 12 253 and prices lifting to about 4 25 to 4 35 for various weights. Cincinnati and Chicago markets report strong hogs and slower cattle with steers near 360 and Texas cattle at 180 to 400. Sheep markets mix steady at 350 to 450 per head.
Cotton markets show a quiet firm tone in New York with 677 bales traded upland and ranges across classes from good ordinary to mid. futures opened steady and closed very quiet. A broad array of regional markets reported mostly steady to dull tones with middling around 10 1/4 to 11 cents and Liverpool silent due to a holiday.
The report cites exports to Great Britain 7261 and to France 6846 along with exports to the Continent 3936. It notes stock at all United States ports totaling 250,736 units.
Sugar and molasses receipts and prices shown for today and last year. Raw sugars firm with slow trade. refined demand solid at higher prices. Various cane sugars quoted by grade including Cuba refinings and Manila, Javas, and Illoilos. Molasses receipts listed. market firm with quiet trade. New York market also described as firm and quiet.
Turpentine and petroleum prices in New York show turpentine at 3844 38%4c rosin at 10742 110 tar at 210 and petroleum at 7.10c RSW at 6.900 cases at 8.80c. Whiskey Western markets stand at 102 dollars. Coffee Rio market dull with fair car lots at 18 %sc.
Bananas loaded aboard Baracao steamer Sif for 11 000 bunches under WW & CR Noyes. Summerside PEI schooner Sarah P Ayer brings 2 200 bush potatoes for Barclay & Co. Matanza Barkentine Henry A Burnham ships 868 holds molasses 97 tierces do W H Emerson. Trinidad Cuba Bark Unity 615 holds molasses 10 tierces do C O Foster & Co.
A late 19th century cargo list records ships cleared or reporting goods at Liverpool Yarmouth Valparaiso and Halifax. Items include leather straps beef cattle cotton cornmed medicines lumber lard oil cases hardware crates and miscellaneous commodities with quantities listed for each vessel.
Market report by George J. Fox for the Boston Post details weekly and year-to-year stock totals at Watertown Union Market. It covers sheep cattle and lambs swine prices for beef store cattle hides tallow and skins with sales by J A Hathaway Dow and Moulton M G Flanders and others noting a light supply due to a Vermont Central washout and steady prices across grades.
Sealed bids due June 19 1889 for coal supply to Boston public buildings schools and city departments for 60 days. Estimated totals include 15000 tons hard white ash broken coal 1500 tons hard white ash egg coal 1500 tons hard white ash stove coal 400 tons Cumberland coal 300 tons white ash egg coal and 300 tons Cumberland coal for delivery below bridges on Fire and Police boats.
An advertisement asserts vast improvements from 332 surgeries with up to 45 lb gains in 16 weeks and 25 lb in six weeks. It cites 127 Massachusetts towns and 754 Boston patients, claims low mortality versus city rates, and markets liquid food and infant suppositories with a refund guarantee.
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