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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1889
Page
7
Early advance faded after heavy local selling and a 1¾ cent drop. Wet weather in the West and Southwest sparked a sporadic rally, but overall demand remained weak with slim foreign clearances and ample hog supplies limiting price gains. Reports show shipments, receipts, and futures in Minneapolis New York St Louis and Duluth with varied closing figures.
John E Welsh flour and grain at 206 State Street reports carload grain prices and domestic flour quotations. Today’s inspections total 126 cars with mixed corn, steamer yellow corn, white oats, and no grade oats. visible supply figures for June include 18389, 1889, 1888. Flour receipts today 7651 barrels and 8854 packs, market firmer with advances of 15 to 25 cents. several flour grades and export terms listed. New York, Chicago, and St Louis markets described with receipts, exports, and price ranges for wheat, corn, and oats. No 2 red and No 2 white oats prices and stock levels cited.
Market booms and dull notes across commodities with No 2 and No 3 grades, receipts from Chicago and St Louis, steady rye flour and dull malt, oats and cornmeal demand, cottonseed meal steady, fruits and berries pricing, pineapples and sugar refinings, and New York markets quiet at firm prices. Names like Curtis & Co and L W Sherman & Co appear with regional receipts and shipments figures.
Butter receipts reach 6882 pkgs today vs 3290 last year with demand quiet yet steady overall. Cre amery prices vary by region from 12 20c for common to 18 20c for choice, while eggs cheese and beans carry firm bids and scarce Westerns. Islands Nova Scotias and New Brunswicks price 14 15c. Cantons and Utica quotes span 8 9c to 9 sc.
Market well supplied with vegetables and strong demand. Southern crook neck squash scarce and poor quality push prices to 50 to 75 cents per crate. native lots 75 cents to 1 dollar per dozen. Eggplant receipts rise with 150 to 200 dollars per dozen. Listings include onions 75 cents per crate, Bermudas and Kevptian varieties, beets 25 cents per bush, turnips 4 to 5 cents per bunch, cucumbers 2 dollars per crate, rhubarb and parsley priced per bush, and beans and green vegetables from North and Norfolk regions. Long Island and Florida items appear with varied prices up to 2 dollars per crate and 1.75 per crate for tomatoes.
The Dithmarschen is due Saturday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company, while the Kong Alf is due Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the same firm. The Bergenseren is due Thursday with Baracoa bananas for WW & C R Noyes. Brunel sailed from Palermo June 14 with 800 boxes Messina lemons for Boston. Timor passed Gibraltar June 5 en route to Boston with Messina oranges and lemons and Palermo oranges and lemons. Coila due about June 24 with Samana bananas for the Bay State Fruit Company. Viking due from Banes with bananas for Seaverns & Co. Apples receipts today total 65 bbls, versus 29 bbls last year. stock of old apples noted.
Provisions data show receipts of pork and pork products with steady market after declines. New York and Chicago reports indicate active pork sales, mixed lard and bacon prices, and varied beef cuts, with overall buyers’ market and prices trending lower on several items.
Kansas City stockyards report steady cattle at 325 to 400 dollars and 225 to 300 for cows. Hogs receipts around 8 830 with heavies at 4412 and pigs about 412 to 417. Sheep receipts 71 steady at 350 to 400. Chicago cattle slow to 450, Texas cattle 175 to 300. Hog receipts 15 000 with prices 4 15 to 4 60 and bulk 4 40 4 50. Cincinnati hogs steady at 350 with 1586 receipts.
New York cotton rises to 1 16c to 1 1 16c on uplands and Gulf grades with upland middling at 111-16c and Gulf middling 115-16c. Futures open and close steadier as Liverpool reports 5000 bales traded amid limited demand. American receipts and stock totals across U S ports cited, with quiet to steady bids in several markets including Augusta Galveston and New Orleans.
Sugar and molasses receipts recorded today include 2941 barrels, 188 birds and 1402 bags. Last year on the same day, 128 barrels were noted.
New York prices show turpentine closing at 37 percent and resin at 112 to 115, tar at 210, petroleum at 7.10 cents with RSW at 6.90, and cases at 8.80. Coffee in New York listed as dull at 17 percent for fair cargoes. Whiskey markets in the West steady at 102 dollars.
Report by George J. Fox shows live stock totals for sheep cattle and lambs with price ranges for market beef store cattle and hogs. Western buyers steady with limited demand. river cattle sold by JS Henry and others. numerous lots of beef cattle and sheep auctioned at Gedw and Watertown.
An itemized transcript lists diverse cargoes arriving at multiple ports including Arroyo PR Cienfuegos Glasgow Halifax Charlottetown Port Hawkesbury Matanza Ponce PISAGUA Rosario Sierra Leone Yarmouth NL Zanzibar Majunga. It records brig Rocky Glen Amicitia Chioggia Rembrandt Nestorian Worcester and other vessels with molasses sugar indigo pepper hides wool copper iron bricks paper timber lard and canned goods among hundreds of line items. Names firms like Seaverns & Co Cushman Bros Co Barclay & Co J S Morgan & Co Brown Bros Co Baring Bros & Co and Jackson Mandell Daniell appear alongside consignors shippers and buyers.
Export list from Digby Annapolis and Port Elizabeth Nova Scotia and Natal shows cargoes including refined petroleum from Laur ing Barkhegina. brig Sylphide with ploughs and fixtures and furniture. freight of glassware, clothing, hardware, farm implements, engines, and household goods aboard multiple ships and brigantines bound to ports including New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
A dense OCR segment records assorted goods destined for ports in New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Quebec plus vessels and loads. Items include wood cases sewing machines axes nails and various canned foods. flour bbls kerosene oil and lumber. fruit boxes and hardware among others. Vessels noted include Schooner Forest Belle Emma C Gazelle and Steamer Yarmouth with associated cargoes and destinations at Fredericton Moncton Port Gilbert Petite Degarat and Pasperiac.
London and Liverpool market news describe wheat quiet to steady with variable demand. Corn firmer in places, cargoes arriving and awaiting sale. Prices cited for No 1 California wheat futures and various months. Paris Antwerp prices noted. Liverpool receipts show 273,000 centals wheat and 46,100 centals corn with mixed shifts in pork bacon lard cheese prices.
A very promising showing is made by the Colchis Mining Stock Company. Shares are sold for $6 each, with a monthly dividend of 10 per cent and the ability to carry $17,000 per month to the surplus. Investigation urged, officers described as trustworthy led by President Hon. Robert G. Ingersoll. Checks payable to R. H. Whitney & Co., 48 Congress Street, Boston.
The final day of an extensive auction sale of flowering plants proceeds at McCarthy & Co located at the corner of Pearl and High streets. Bidders expected to attend to secure remaining stock before close.
Train schedule fragment lists daily and Sunday departures from Boston to Albany and the West. It notes elegant vestibuled Wagner cars to Niagara Falls Detroit Chicago and Cleveland, with connections to Syracuse Rochester Buffalo and the West, plus services to Hartford New Haven and New York, Worcester to New Haven, and various sleeping and dining car options. Tickets and parlor car details available at 232 Washington Street Boston or Kneeland Street station.
The text argues that taken clear or with water or milk, a plant or substance surpasses drugs and extracts in value. It claims an extract can be made by reducing it, then surpasses any known extract. It cites Murdock’s Free Hospitals treating 3000 patients over six years with four-fifths undergoing operations and a mortality figure.
An advertisement cites 332 operations with one death and major gains in strength up to 45 lbs in 16 weeks, 25 lbs in six weeks, from patients across 127 Massachusetts towns including 754 from Boston. It compares to Boston mortality of 25.60 per 1000 and 29% female deaths, urging health restoration through their products with refunds if no benefit. It promotes Liquid Food and Suppositories for adults and infants with prices and mail order details.
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