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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1888
Page
7
A dense price list shows refined bar iron, puddled iron, beams, rails, and scrap iron with per ton or per unit costs. Also listed are tin plates, lead products, zinc, pipes, and various off discounts for different stock qualities and lot sizes.
The United States exported 8,878,000 bushels of clover seed in the five months ended December 31 1887, higher than 1886 and earlier years. Denmark Holland Belgium the United Kingdom and Canada were major buyers. Severe drought damaged 1887 crop in Wisconsin and northwest Illinois, but Ohio Indiana and Michigan reported fair yields.
In Fall River and Providence the print cloth market shows weak demand and nominal quotations. Fall River reports 170,000 pieces produced, 185,000 delivered, with 1,000 pieces of 60x56s remaining. 64x64s at 51,000 pieces and 64x54s at 39,000 pieces. Providence notes 64 squares at 35 1/4 cents and 56x60s at 35 1/8 cents, with 10,500 pieces sold this week and 7,000 pieces of 64s held by manufacturers.
Market reports show wheat flour stock at 1,375,000 bbls in US and Canada east of the Rockies, firm but quiet. Wheat, corn and oats futures steady, with varied quotations for grades and export options. millfeed and rye markets steady to dull, bag meal and oatmeal demand fair, oats prices fluctuating on spot and futures.
The burrer market is quiet as buyers meet actual needs with small receipts and firm prices. Western creamery and cheese prices hold at firm levels while eggs, beans, and grass seeds show steady or modest gains amid large supplies and limited demand.
Demand dominates supply with quoted prices across potato varieties such as Houlton rose $1 10 per bush, Aroostook rose $1 10, Northern rose 86 90c, and many others. Sweet potatoes bring $4 50 per bushel. hay stable. rye straw and prime hay also listed. Poultry remains steady. game quiet. truceck in fair demand at old quotations. Local produce includes spinach at $34 per barrel Norfolk, onions to $2 75 per box, cabbage to $2 25 per barrel, carrots 40e per bush, lettuce 25 50e per dot, and other vegetables with various unit quotes.
Fruit prices hold steady with last quotes as export trade remains strong this week. Oranges from Florida showing firm demand with Valencia and Palermo variations. lemon and Messina offerings listed. Cranberries demand quiet with prices steady. Cape Cod varieties priced by barrel and crate, country options noted.
The market report notes fair demand for provisions for home use and slower export movement. It cites Boston packers exports at 60,000 dollars last week versus 115,000 prior and 50,000 year ago, with detailed price quotes for long cuts, backs, lard, hams, sausages, and dressed hogs. It also reports on the Cincinnati Price Current view of winter pork packing, hogs packed by region, and a quiet beer market with firm prices, plus firm fresh beef and veal markets and varied lamb and mutton prices.
Pipeline certificates closed 3 pm March 2 with opening at 10 am. sugar market steady with raw sugar prices listed for various qualities. refined sugar demand quiet with multiple grade quotes. wholesale grocers price 7c granulated. Tallow steady with city and country quotes. New York and London quotes noted for tallow. turpentine petroleum data show closes and rosin tar and RSW values.
New York reports extensive flour receipts and varied prices across brands with Western extra at 4 40 to 4 60 and fancy extra at 4 90 to 4 94. Wheat spot and futures show No 2 spring at 91 50, No 2 red around 90 14 to 92, and No 1 red near 94. Other grains and commodities like corn, oats, rye, and barley display mixed activity with steady or fractional shifts. petroleum, lard, beef, and butter also noted with modest changes.
March reports from Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati and St Louis show wheat bids around 8 60 to 9 14 cents with No 2 red near 8 5 to 8 8. Corn mixed with late gains then losses and oats around 29 to 31 cents. Provisions and whiskey prices ease while receipts and shipments vary by city.
New York spot cotton closed easy at 107 16e for middling uplands with various middling prices and low ordinary rates. Opening and closing futures were listed with March and April quotations. Liverpool and other U S markets displayed steady to quiet conditions, with regional receipts and stocks noted across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Savannah, and others.
Hogs steady in St Louis with Yorkers at 490 and mixed at 610 to 540. Peoria reports steady hogs with receipts 250. Kansas City notes stronger trade with 2000 expected receipts. Chicago cattle weak with steers at 3510, stockers 220 to 340, cows 1580 to 330, Texas steers 310 to 400. hogs 550 to 530, shipping 350 to 485. sheep receipts 1500 with natives 340 to 540, Westerns 180 to 180, Texans 350 to 500, lambs 520 to 520.
London reports wheat and corn firmer with Australian and Chilian wheat prices listed, French markets steady, and Liverpool spot wheat firm. Paris and Antwerp quotations rise. sugar market in Havana active then quiet from adverse news. Havana warehousing stocks and weekly receipts shown, with U S grain exports mentioned and freight rates cited.
A dated 1888 inventory lists shipments: Jamaica steamer Lorenzo D Baker with cocoanuts and bag cocoa for Boston Fruit Company. Liverpool steamer Palestine with hides, carpeting, wares, linens, woollens, and other goods. Numerous firms such as Baring Bros, Torrey, Belcher & Loomis, Stedman & Fuller, Phelps & Co, and Curtis & Co appear with placeholders like crates, cases, bales, and bags of commodities including oranges, potatoes, tin plates, soda crystals, wool, ware, and hard woods.
A detailed tally of commodities and consignments including flax, linen, moise, woollens, sewing machines, machinery, spices, india rubber, potatoes, soda ash, bleaching powders, flax waste, wire rods, wool, hides, bricks, clay, bagging, tin plates, and other goods, with numerous firms and counts. The shipment originates from Matanzas on the Steamer Bengar, listing Good bags sugar from Standard Sugar Refinery and various box and cask counts.
Detailed ledger style export list shows Worcester and various ships unloading hardware, dry goods, groceries, and maritime supplies at Halifax Nova Scotia Saint Johns St Pierre Lawn and Cardenas. Items include 70 pkgs hardware 50 boxes labels 84 cases patent medicines 500 bbls flour 176 pkgs vegetables and 1000 lbs butterine among others.
A sprawling list shows Boston & Albany Boston Providence New York and New England Fitchburg and other lines reporting March 8 1888 receipts. Cotton wool flour oats malt cattle hides tea sugar and lard appear with tonnage bales cases barrels and cars, totaling 1683 receipts across lines. Officials tally annual comparisons across items like molasses, beef, oats, and leather with extensive quantities.
Printed and indexed books for the tea trade. For sale by Aaron R. Gay & Co. at 122 State Street.
Multiple probate announcements from Middlesex and Suffolk counties dated February and March 1888. Administrators Willis Kingsbury Julius Palmer and William Woodward present accounts and citations summon heirs to Cambridge and Boston courts. Margaret Morgan estate administrator John Morgan seeks debts and payments.
Old Colony lines announce baggage checked from Boston hotels to destinations with baggage pickup at No 3 Old State House. From March 5 1988 weekday trains to New York via Wall River Line depart 6 p.m with return times listed for Ashmont Hyannis Barnstable and many coastal and inland stops. complex schedule covers numerous towns with varying return times and rates.
On and after Monday May 30 87 trains will run from Beeston to New York via Shore Line Fast Express at 10 am and 1 pm with returns at 11 pm and 10 pm. A New York Steamboat service via Stonington Line operates at 6:30 pm with Sunday exceptions and return by 5 pm. Providence and Pawtucket services run with multiple daily departures and returns to Attleboro Dodgeville and other stops, including special Sunday schedules and numerous listed times for connections and returns.
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