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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1889

Page

7

Fluid flour quotations and grain market notes

Quotations cover wholesale and jobbing flour costs with today’s inspections of several grain types, including 115 cars total and receipts for flour and sacks. New York and Chicago markets show firmer tones, with higher bids on select lots, while oats and rye flour demand remains modest and steady. prices span from No 2 red to spring patents, and export terms influence shipping quotes.

Canada Superior Canada New York City Minnesota Chicago St Louis St Louise Eoria Berg Bush State

Dairy and produce market summary from 1902 receipts

Butter receipts today 1902 pkgs versus 882 last year with steady market. Outside creamery at 18c, firsts 15 17c, Northern creameries extras 18 19c, imita tion cream eries 15 16c. Oleomargarine 1272 14c, cheese steady with Northern 9c and fancy higher. eggs steady 822 cases. Beans, potatoes, and poultry all reported with limited demand and stable prices. several regional price points listed for products from peas to Chenangoes and Burbanks.

Liverpool New York California Lima Maine Burbanks North Carolina Norfolk Savannah

Market Report on Livestock and Forage Receipts

Choice feed packed chickens and fowls prices listed with live fowls at 11 to 12 cents. Hay and straw receipts dated today show 55 cars hay and 7 cars straw, vs 43 hay and 8 straw last year. Choice hay steady with fair demand. straw dull and easy around 18 to 50. Receipts liberal and prices unchanged from last quotation.

Trade Quiet as Prices Hold for Fresh Vegetables

Norfolk boat due Monday carries 200 kgs peas 4500 pkgs cabbage and 5000 pkgs cans. Savannah boat due Wednesday lists 630 crates and 760 bbls vegetables.

Norfolk Savannah

Fruit Market Holds Steady Amid Limited Supplies

The fruit market remains steady with dull demand and small apple supply. Russets sell at 250 per barrel. Messina lemons and oranges fetch 350 to 450 per unit, Sorrento oranges at 400 to 450, and Palermo varieties around 300 to 450 per box. Strawberries arrive fair and sell from 4 to 15 cents. Bananas reach 69,254 bunches for the week, up from 39,660 a year ago. California and other fruits unchanged.

Messina Sorrento Catania Palermo California

Steamer Arrivals and Shipments Reported

The Amicitia due with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns and Co. The Timor passed Gibraltar June 5 bound for Boston carrying 200 half-boxes Messina oranges 6000 boxes Messina lemons 700 boxes and 4900 half-boxes Palermo oranges and 16000 boxes Palermo lemons. The Coila due this week with Samana bananas for the Bay State Fruit Company. The Brunel sailed from Palermo June 14 for Boston.

Amicitia Baracoa Seaverns & Co Timor Gibraltar Boston Palermo Coila Bay State Fruit Company Brunel

Meat Markets Report Shows Steady Demand And Wide Prices

Receipts today include pork 240 bbls lard 30 tierces 25 cases 7 bbls 18 half bbls and 60 tubs with hams 334 bbls and 780 boxes of bacon. Prices quoted for long cuts, back and lean ends range around 14 14 50 per unit, lard 7 84c, pork tongues 13, sausages 9 94c, and various other cuts. New York wholesale pork quiet at 13 12 13 25 for mess. beef and lard markets mixed with dull to steady demand. Chicago reports mess pork 1160 1165, lard 6 52 6 74, dry salted meats steady. Cincinnati pork quiet, beef ranges 8 50 9 50, tongues 18 per barrel. Fresh beef trade dull in heat. lambs 15 17c, mutton and veal pricing noted. Tallow receipts 23 barrels. city rendered at 4 4 4c.

Choice City New York City Extra India Western Steam Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

Hog and cattle markets report steady US wide

Stock Yards Kansas City steady receipts cattle 1095 hogs 5763 with heavies 585 to 405 and pigs 405 to 410. Cattle shipments Cincinnati and Chicago receipts show varied prices for beeves 3440, steers 350 to 420 and Texas cattle 160 to 340 while hogs 420 to 435 and sheep 350 to 470. Chicago cattle receipts 2000 slow with beeves 3440, steers 350 to 420 and hogs 420 to 460. sheep 2500 steady natives 350 to 470 and Texans 304 to 405.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Pipeline and Cottonseed Market Timings Marked

A scanned notice records June 14 1889 pipeline and cottonseed market hours with openings at 10 a m and closings in the afternoon June 15 shows highest and lowest quotes for the period. It contains garbled OCR segments including oil certificate figures and stray characters.

New York Cotton Market Quiet and Steady in Trading

New York cotton shows quiet steady trading with 262 bales moved and prices for uplands and Gulf grades listed. Opening and closing quotes across futures run steady to dull, with notable figures for June to December contracts and Liverpool pricing reflected in the buyers market.

New York

Shipping receipts and stock levels across US ports steady

Net receipts and gross figures from Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville show mixed activity with steady or quiet markets. Consolidated day totals report 661 receipts and 109 exports to the Continent, stock across all US ports at 240 377.

Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Tekee Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville United States

Sugar and Molasses Prices and Market Report

Sugar receipts today 1618 barrels, 145 last year, market quiet and unchanged. Quotations cover Cuba refining grades, Manila and Java sugars, pulverized to granulated forms, confectioners and standard grades, New York raw sugar firm and refined active, mall costs listed. Molasses receipts 165 barrels, 78 hogsheads, prices by grade from Fancy Ponce to boiling grades, New Orleans and foreign molasses steady to firm.

Cuba New York Ponce Porto Rico New Orleans Cienfuegos

Market quotes show turpentine and petroleum steady in New York

Turpentine closed at 38 38 4c with resin at 1 0742 110 and tar at 2.10. Petroleum closed at 7.10c with RSW at 6.90c and cases at 8.80c. Coffee New York Rio quoted at 17 1/2 cents for fair cargoes. Whiskey markets unchanged at 102 dollars.

New York Rio

Imports and Exports June 15 1889 Baracoa Steamer Victoria

Shipping ledger entry lists cargoes from Baracoa to Liverpool and other ports with a wide range of goods. Includes 8000 bunches bananas on Victoria and Cephalonia carrying steel, textiles, earthenware, leather, hardware, wine, brandy, furniture, machinery, zinc, tinplates, bicycles, shellac, linings, rugs, cottons, linens, woollens, and many other items. Numerous firms are named as shippers and consignors, reflecting a detailed commercial import list.

Baracoa Victoria Seaverns & Co Liverpool Eng Cephalonia Steel M Jones & Coo Thomas Rigby KE Jose & Co Clark, Sawyer & Co Lreson Excelsior Umbrella Mant Co Dodge, Haley & Co Steel Stone & Downer Gilbert, Jr. & Co Bixby & Co Pierce & Co D & M Williams Bagshaw Davis & Furber Machine Co Brigham Bradley & Co Little. Brown & Co Kotte & Co Lowell Machine Shop Morey & Co Ross Shellac Mason, Chapin & Co H_ Ford Jackson, Mandell & Daniell Davia & Co S Darting Tin Brown Bros & Co Holder & Herrick Moise Belcher & Loomis B Moors & Co Stone & Downer Jordan Marsh& Co Wilson, Larrabee & Co Brown, Durrell & Co Leeson & Co Hayes & Co Rycroft Lorraine Manufacturing Co Cumner Jones & Co Noyes, Campbell & Co Davies, Pitts & Co Atkins & Co Coleman, Mead & Co Forbes Lithograph Co Flagg & Co Whittington & Co Shreve, Crump & Low Gorham Mans Co Murdock Parlor Chase & Co Macullar Parker & Co White & Co Richardson & Co Shuman & Co Baldwin Bros & Co Hovey & Co Shepard, Norwell & Co Pray, Sons & Co George Arigham Lannea Sheepkins Baring Bros & Co Houghton & Dutton Codman & Shurtleff Fuller, Dana & Fitz Austin & Doten Babcock & Co Despatch Transportation Co Torrey, Bright & Canen Small Bros F Hovey & Co Noonan & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Timasinis

Maritime Cargoes and Shipments Across Atlantic Ports

A lengthy extract lists cargoes from multiple ships and ports including Montevideo Porla Tour Pref etc to Halifax and Sydney. It notes schooners Precursor Cyrene Bavarian and steamers William Halifax and Bavarian with flour cornmeal beef pork lard oil canned fruit tea and other provisions, detailing quantities and items for each voyage and destination. The fragment paints a snapshot of 19th century maritime commerce through listed goods and consignments.

Foreign Markets Report from London June 15

Market summary from London shows beef holders prices steady to dull with dull mess at 57s 6d and prime at 45s. Cheese holders offer sparingly with American white and colored at 46s. Wheat futures firm, No 2 winter at 68 5d, No 2 spring at 7s Led. Paris wheat and flour firm with June prices at 39:9 and July at 40.

London Pacific Coast California Paris

Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town Headlines

A condensed market note lists several footwear buyers and agents visiting from cities across the United States including Albany Buffalo Baltimore Chicago Detroit Denver St Louis Wheeling and others. Shoppers and agents named include W F Freeman W H Walker G W R George Cohen Adler Ehrlich C W Marks G E P Dodge S C Sutter H Plonsky J H Schafer G W Boyd and more.

Au. Bean R George George & Co Baltimore H Adler Cohen, Adler & Co Columbia Usc E Ehrlich M Ehrlich & Sons Tre Chicago Marks, Craw P Dodge Phelps, Dodge & Palmer Detroit Mich S C Sutter H P Baldwin 2D, & Co T Re Denver Col H Plons

Record Book for Tea Trade Sold by Aaron RB Gay Co

Compact wallet sized printed and indexed record book for the tea trade offered by Aaron RB Gay & Co at 122 State Street. Includes wallet compatibility and convenient indexing for sourcing and tracking tea inventories.

Aaron

Railroads Schedule for Boston and New England Lines

Comprehensive timetable listing weekday and Sunday departures from Boston stations to New York via various routes, including Worcester division, Hyde Park, Norwood, Taunton, and Woonsocket. It outlines arrival times, connections, express services, dining cars, and through trains to Philadelphia and Washington with notes on pricing, stopping points, and conductors.

Boston Norwood Central Hyde Park Franklin Woonsocket Division Boston & Albany Railroad Needham and Way Weoensocket Aim Traian Dee New York Middletown New Haven Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudgon Newburgh Turners Grand Central Depot Willimantic Philadelphia Fishkillon-Hudson Jersey City Trenton Baltimore Washington Richmond Norwich New London Danielsonville Putnam City OF City OF Worcester Washington Street Summer Street A. A. Jackson E. P. Vining A. C. Kendall Trafic Pass. Agt NEW Haven & Hart N New Springfield Worcester Providence Springfeld N. Y N. E N.Y Arlor Cc. T. Hempstead Gen L Pas

Dissolution Petition for Springfield News Company

Joseph E Merrill Solomon W Johnson and William D Bancker petition the Suffolk Supreme Judicial Court to dissolve The Springfield News Company now owned or controlled by New England News Company. The order requires notice by publishing copies in Boston Post and Springfield Union for three weeks before August first.

Suffolk Superior Court Boston Jos A. Willard Henry C. Meserve Commonwealth OF Joseph E. Merrill Solomon W. Johnson William D. Bancker New England News Company Joseph KE. Merrill Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Boston Post Springfield Union Springfield John Noble C. H. Cooper

North End Savings Bank at 57 Court Street

A brief item notes the North End Savings Bank located at No. 57 Court Street. The record provides the address and bank name with no additional context or actions recorded.

North End Savings Bank Court Street

Bun KER Hill Monument Association Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the corporation of the Bun Ker Hill Monument Association will be held at the hall of the Historic Genealogical Society, No 18 Somerset street, on Monday the 17th inst at 10 30 o clock a m A C Fearing Jr Secretary Boston June 14 1889

North End Savings Bank No. 57 Court Street C. Williamson Boston Corporation of the Bunker Hill Monument Association the Historic Genealogical Society Somerset Street Suffolk Edward E. Marden Court Square Fred H. Seavey Tice Albert L. Churchill Nathan W. Mayo

Logal Train Service Eastern Division Timetable Listing

Trains depart Boston Haymarket for Portland Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover and other stops with varied morning afternoon and evening times. Sunday and weekday listings include Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Newburyport Reading Salem and Portland Bangor Lewiston. Timetables show multiple departures from early morning to late evening.

Haymarket Sq Causeway St Bangor Bar Harbor Concord N. H Upper Rhoads Haymarket St Lewiston Lpm Manchester St. John Balifax the Provinces Manine Central Grand Trunk Knox Lincoln Rise Haymarket Sq Rockland Castine Deer Isle Sedgewick South West Harbor Mill Bridge Machiasaport Portland Eastport Calais N. B Lowell Causeway Street Portland Street Boston Haymarket Square Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover North Conway Spim Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Georgetown Kennebunk Kiddeford Saco Lawrence Pip Newburyport Reading Salem Dover Loewell Medford Reading and Way Statinos Lynn and Way Newburyport Portsmouth Halifax Savens South Reading

Lowell System Trains Schedule From Boston Area

Complex listing shows train times from Boston area stations to NH and MA towns. Details include Lowell, Nashua, Woburn, Winchester, Concord, and branches via multiple intermediate stops with numerous daily and Sunday departures. Names James T. Furber and J. Flanders noted as officials.

Manchester Concord N. B Franklin Lebanon White Hiver Junction Bristol Ranch Claremennt St. Sohnebury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec Norwich and Manover Thetford Bradford Newbury Montpelier Essex Burlington Mntreal White River Montreal Boston Woodsville North Woodstock Penigewasset Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Fabyan S and Jefferson Lowell System Causeway Street Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Wilton Milford Amherst Keen Eld Nashua Lowell North Bilkerica Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Siam Winchester Miass RK Reformatory Bedford Land Stonsham and Way Woburn and Way

Tickets and transit info for Boston venues

Tickets for sleeping or parlor car accommodations are available at the city office 232 Washington Street or at the Kneeland Street station Boston.

Washington Street Kneeland Street Boston

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