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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1888

Page

7

Wool market report notes steady prices and mixed activity

Over the past week prices held steady with little action in Ohio and Michigan fleeces, combing and clothing wools, while dealers stayed quiet at steady rates. Unwashed wools show fair movement in Territory wools. new Utah and Wyoming wools arrive with most sales around 60c, some 53-8c. Texas demand moderate. new clip receipts rising with 47-48c for eight months and 50c for twelve months.

Ohio Michigan Territory Utah Wyoming Texas Georgia Oregon California London Boston Aleppo New York Belgium Germany Philadelphia Pennsylvania Wisconsin New Hampshire Vermont Kentucky Indiana Missouri Montana Colorado Southern Nouthern Kansas Nebraska Maine Washington Territory Montevideo Cape Angora Donsko Donsko Black East India Viccaneer Kandahar Eest India Jaria Bagdad

Wool Markets Across Texas and West Open Quiet

Interior markets show limited activity with sparse wool offers in Michigan Ohio and Pennsylvania. Texas towns like Taylor San Saba Abilene Fort Worth report ongoing arrivals and forecasts of up to 600000 Hess sacks. Abilene expects 500000 pounds more. California Oregon and Colorado clips provide mixed receipts and price trends with slight declines and strong lambing prospects.

Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Lousville Taylor Tex San Saba Texas Abilene Albany Texas Live Stock Journal San Antonio Fort Worth Colorado Mohizan Flint California San Francisco Oregon

Chicago Markets Report Mixed Trading and Conflicting Corn

Wheat trading was fair with local emphasis and a sense of a clash among big traders. Corn reports remain conflicting, opening strong on light receipts, then slipping as shorts covered. Oats see strong buying by holders fearing price rises. provisions dull as packers sell futures while cash trades lag. Hog receipts yesterday totaled 24 095 with today projected around 24 000. hog prices ranged from 5.30 to 5.65 for various loads. Estimated tomorrow’s ears: wheat 5, corn 66, oats 7.0.

Farnum, Reardon & Co

Boston Markets Grain and Flour Prices Quoted

Boston markets report a quiet dull tone in flour and grain trade with selective sales. Prices span flour types from fine to Canada export grades, wheat and corn futures mixed, oats steady, rye and meal amid light demand, and livestock values steady with small poultry receipts.

Butter and Dairy Prices Hold Steady Across Regions

Wholesale butter market remains firm with creameries showing solid demand and limited Northern supplies. Prices cited across regions, with Vermont and New York listings, while cheese and egg markets show varied activity. Beans and grasses also feature firm prices amid steady demand and regional quality distinctions.

Norfolk boat freight list of produce for Friday shipment

The upcoming Norfolk boat on Friday carries 1500 pkga cabbage 250 crates beans 350 crates peas 40 crates cucumbers 100 bbls potatoes 600 bois squash 100 crates tomatoes and 400 bags peanuts. Prices vary with items including new marrow squash at 175 dollars per bbl and several crates or baskets priced per crate bush box or bunch. Local supplies include asparagus green peas Florida tomatoes and cabbage with diverse local market figures.

Norfolk Marinland Florida North Carolina Bermuda St Andrews Seth

Fruit Market Report From Boston Steamer Cargo Auction

H Harris and Co will sell Friday the cargo of the steamer Pontiac totaling 8230 boxes Palermo oranges and 17952 boxes Palermo lemons. The steamer State of Alabama passed Gibraltar June 12 with Mediterranean fruits for Boston. Apples quiet with russets at 8 560 400 y bbl. Oranges and lemons steady: Palermo oranges 6 7 p box, Palermo lemons 6 7 p box, Messina oranges 5 6 50 y y box, Messina lemons b7 yp box, Valencia oranges 7 3 pP case, large sizes 8 1u case. Strawberries well supplied. Lone Island berries at LO 15e quart. Jersey sales 5 a12e, Delaware 12e, Maryland Sharpless 12a Ox. Bananas Boston receipts 440573 bunches March 26 to date. Ydun steamer arrived with SOCO bunches bananas and 9000 coconuts. Bananas 126 a bunch, coconuts 25 per 1000. California fruits fair supply. apricots 2 50 800, plums 2 50 300, cherries 2 60 300, peaches 1 50 200. Auction next Tuesday for 489 apricot packages, 8330 peaches, 60 plum packages.

H. Harris & Co Pontiac State of Alabama Gibraltar Boston Palermo Messina Valencia

Banana Steamers Bring Bananas to Boston Firms

The steamer Samana is due June 18 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Carl Konow is due June 16 from Baracoa with bananas for W. W. & C. R. Noyes.

Banana Steamers Samana Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Carl Konow Baracoa

Provisions and meat markets steady with firm pork and lard

The pork market remains firm with good demand and lard very firm. Hams and other smoked meats show no change. Prices for pork cuts, lard in various forms, and bacon across Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and New York reflect steady to strong demand with notable figures for briskets, ribs, tongues, and roasts. Fresh meats show strong prices for choice steers and varied lamb and mutton quotes.

New York Western Steam City Steam Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Hinds Kentucky Brighton

Sugar and molasses market notes and prices

Sugar and molasses markets show quiet trade with firm prices across regions. Raw sugar in New York and Havana remains firm. refined sugars hold steady with limited trading. Molasses trade steady but quiet with varied grade quotes from Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos and Mayaguez.

Cuba Manilas Javas New York Havana Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos Mayaguez

The Print Cloth Market Falls in Fall River

The print cloth market in Fall River rose as printers bid 344 cents for August and September contracts, signaling continued advance in cloth prices and contract activity.

Fall River

HoG AND CATTLE MARKETS Stock Yards KC 1869 Cattle Receipts

Cattle demand active with prices up 6 cents. Shipping steers 56 dollars, cows 210 75. Hogs receipts 6009, trade active and higher. Heavies 5 30 5 52,12, mediums and lights 5 10a 6 45, pigs 5 5 20. Sheep receipts 842, market slow to steady. St Louis hogs steady. Peoria hogs steady 5 20 5 65. Cincinnati hogs steady 4 25 5 60. Chicago cattle receipts 10 000, unevenly higher except grassers.

Kansas City St Louis Peoria

Cattle and Hog Market Report With Mixed Prices

Cows and mixed stockers and feeders quoted at 260 to 420. Texans 220 to 680. Hog receipts 35,000 with shipments 7,000 opened 50 lower, recovered and closed firm. Mixed 540 to 560, heavy 550 to 570, light 535. Pigs and culls 4 to 5. Sheep receipts 6,000 shipments 2,000 steady. muttons 445. lambs 224 to 326 per head. Western feeders 3.0 to 8.30.

Exports of Domestic Cotton May 1888 by Districts and Markets

Bureau statistics report May 1888 cotton exports by customs districts led by New York Boston Philadelphia and New Orleans with totals 212,908 bales 101,610,051 pounds and 10,055,726 dollars. European markets show United Kingdom 185,068 bales 64,572,341 pounds 6,469,172 dollars and other nations. Wires limited by storm. New York futures opened quiet and closed quiet. Liverpool spot steady with futures mixed.

Jotton Bureau of Statistics New York N.Y Boston Charlestown Isis Philadelphia Baltimore New Orleans Charleston Detroit Mich Huron Norfolk & Portsmouth Passamaquoddy Yorktown Europe United Kingdom Russia Mexico OUNG Voces Cee Bessas Ssc dl Mae Kcceseeeks Aususe P Sckcees Iiss Cebac Bete Liverpool Orleans Jungs Cecs Augusta Galveston Mobile Memphis Savannah Wilmington Norfolk West Point Great Britain Cincinnati St Louis Louisville France United States

Mixed commodity markets show steady to firm quotes

Tallow markets hold steady with mixed country and city quotes. New York firm for turpentine and petroleum with notable price readings. Coffee Rio firm in New York. Whiskey and St Louis prices steady. Cincinnati unchanged. Pipe Line Certificates show closing and opening times with bid highs and lows.

New York Rio Chicago

Imports and Exports June 14 1888 Baracoa Steamer Ydun

Shipping list from Yarmouth Nova Scotia records multiple cargoes including bananas cocoanuts lobsters salmon mackerel halibut canned goods and oil. Numerous firms such as Seaverns Ellis & Co Clements Barclay Stimpson Gass Hail Jones Russell Gloucester Fish Co and Wiley are named with quantities like crates bbls and cases.

Baracoa Ydun Seaverns & Co Yarmouth Ellis & Co Clements & Co Barclay & Co Jd G Fall & Co Steim Hail & Co Jones & Co Russell & Co Gritin & Co Gloucester Fish Co Wiley W Sons

Exports June 14 1888 Metegahan Peceree Kollan trade

Exports list for Metegahan Nova Scotia and Glasgow Scotland and Jamaica West Indies shows cargoes including flour hay lumber brick rope cattle lard and carriages on multiple vessels Phoenician Marmion and other ships with quantities in bbls sacks tons feet and boxes.

Meteghan Peceree Kollan Asvinw al Usc Ark Mary S Aines Glasgow Scot Phoenician Jamaica Rwi

Staple Product Receipts From Major Railroads 1888

A compiled entry lists June 14 1888 receipts across lines including Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Old Colony and more. Items cover cotton wool flour corn oats rye malt feed grease lard bacon butter eggs hay and leather among many others with numerous bales cases sacks rolls casks boxes and tons reported by each railroad line.

Boston & Albany Kaikosaa Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Woo's Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Western Division Lowell Los Balea Ivy Express

Market Goods Listing From a Historical Inventory

A dense inventory fragment lists items such as tea and coffee sacks, molasses, sugar, hides, and timber. It references quantities in chests bags hhds bbls tierce puncheons and bales, indicating a broad trade catalog entry for commodities and commodities by unit.

Foreign Markets Show Mixed Demand Across Europe

London reports wheat demand fair with higher prices and several cargoes sold for the continent. Paris and Liverpool mark wheat and flour firm or dull, with mixed futures and steady to lower cash quotes. Calmer tones in English country markets. wheat futures steady, corn mixed, and provisions broadly unchanged.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane California Paris Liverpool

Broker Listing of Agents Across States

A fragment shows names and firms of brokers and agents from Chicago to Savannah and St Louis. Included are Leonard & Co in Chicago, Emery & Co in Little Rock, Wolf & Bro in Meridian, Collar Bros in St Louis, Schafer Swarts Co in Toledo, and others across Michigan Arkansas New Jersey Georgia and West Virginia.

Jacksonville Fla Emery Emery & Co Little Rock Ark J Wolf Wolf & Bro Meridian Miss J Baum J Baum & Co Plattsburg, N C McDougall EG Moore & Co

Rate Roads Fitchburg Railroad Ouosac Tunnel Route

Rates and schedules for Fitchburg Railroad including passenger service to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and the West. express daily to Chicago via Niagara Falls and connections to St Louis with palace sleeping cars. morning and evening trains listed with times. stations include Causeway Street Belmont and Waverley and connections to Brattleboro and Lincoln line.

Bsava Ulva Causeway Street Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction The Wear Palace Lingamton Chicago Niagara Falls Short Line St. Louis Niagara Falls Michigan Central KR Montreal & West Vermont Boston Lowell Fitchburg Central Vermont Rou Washington Street J. W. Kouart W. Cummings Gen. Vasa Agt Bt. Albans Montreal Ottawa Ogdensburg Fitchburg Depot Windesco Jaffrey Peterboro Fitzwilliam Marlboro Keen Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Kureington St. Albans St. Johns Saratoga Delaware & Hudson Canal Company R. KR Cheshire R.H Belle ‘Alls White Rives Junction Ceeal Vertions KK & Fast Express Points West Che Co Pp Hire & Stonadnoel K. R Pullard White River Junction

Bagage checked from Boston hotel to destination

The note states baggage can be checked from hotels or residences in Boston to the destination. Tickets or staterooms are obtainable at the line office, No 3 Old State House, and at the Old Colony station.

Bagugage Boston Old State House Old Colony Fall River New York Surulays J. R. Kendrick L. H. Palmer Avent Park Square C. RR Providence BM. Stachusett Ituode Island Reeves Work Square Washington Street J. W. Richardson de We. Miller H. Briggs Pasa Fall River Line Shore Line Stonington Line Bivisior Boston & Albany Kneeland Street Framingham Biarlboro Fayville Bolton Northboro Clinton Eominster Fitchburg Prate’s Junction Old Colony B.R Ned Old State House Man’r Geo. L. Connor Pass’r Wagacre Palace Ketland Burlington St. Albans Ottawa Montrews Ogdeeum Lascey A. BE A. Faxon Gen Apt Kk Slewarks Gem Kecas N. Dan

Boston Rail Schedules Fragment Urgently Read

Fragmentary timetable data lists numerous stations and times across Boston area routes including Readville Dedham and Roxbury. Entries show partial daily and Sunday times with notes on weekday patterns and arrivals from New York, indicating a damaged historical transit sheet.

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