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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1888
Page
7
The Montreal Trade Bulletin notes brisk potato export activity and rising prices with Detroit and Chicago buyers competing, while seed potatoes remain scarce. Prices for various potato types, grasses, and hay are listed with little change, and poultry, game, and vegetables show steady demand and stable quotes across regions.
In Chicago butter firm with Elgin creamery extras at 28c and Western creamery at 25c. Eggs 17c. Elgin butter on call 27c and 25c close. St Louis butter unchanged. eggs firm at 14 1/2c. New York butter and cheese unchanged. eggs steady. Cincinnati butter weak at 27 30c. eggs dropping at 15 14c. Liverpool cheese steady at 56 3 for colored and 5s for white.
Harris and Co report brisk sale of Florida oranges at auction with prices peaking at $2 75 per box and average around $5.95. Navels and tangerines sold at top levels, various fruit stocks including Florida oranges, Palermo lemons, Messina oranges, Valencia and Cape Cod cranberries show firm quotations despite quiet demand.
The market shows steady demand for pork with price levels mostly unchanged across long and short cuts. Lard ham and related products stay firm with multiple item prices noted, while beef, mutton, veal, and lamb markets also hold firm or show minor movement, including fresh beef assortments and city dressed hogs.
Market notes from New York and London cover pipelines, sugars, molasses, tallow, turpentine, and petroleum. Sugar prices steady with raw and refined moves. molasses priced by region. tallow steady with modest movement. turpentine and rosin and petroleum markets cited with closing figures.
Reports from Trade Centres New York March 6 show flour receipts 21 659 pkgs exports 38 759 bbis 12 812 sacks. sales 80 000 bbis. Prices listed for superfine 92 406 VU city mill extra $440 474 fine $205 265 etc. Wheat receipts 200 bush exports 15 871 bush sales 80 000 bush dull. Rye dull. Corn receipts 6500 bush exports 20 267 bush sales 63 000 bush very quiet but firm. Sugar quiet and weak. Coffee fair Rio nominal.
Chicago and other markets show varied pricing on molasses rice and petroleum with steady pork and lard trends. Grain futures weaken for corn and improve for wheat in several hubs while flour demand remains mixed as receipts and shipments shift across St Louis Detroit Cincinnati Toledo and Milwaukee.
New York spot cotton settled lower at 1044 cents for middling uplands with 70 percent for low middlings and smaller bids for other grades. Sales reached 150 bales. Liverpool spot and futures showed modest firmness while other U.S. ports reported varied activity and stock totals with broad market dullness. Consolidated 4 day net receipts across port system show strong exports to Britain and Europe.
Hog and cattle prices firm in Peoria and St Louis with mixed hogs and higher bids. Chicago sees weak cattle receipts and strong hog demand with bulls and natives leading prices.
London reports wheat quiet but steady with 10,000 quarters shipped from India to the continent last week. Mark Lane notes California wheat off the coast and firm French markets. Liverpool shows steady spot wheat and corn with fair demand. prices for winter and club wheat around 6s 7d, corn around 48 7%4d, pork and bacon steady, cheese mixed, tallow and lard unchanged. Weather milder in England.
Steamer Pieter de Coninck reports 48 bales rags 106 cases of d o and 243 do bags 45 barrels aniline salt and various colors plate and window glass salted hides and wire rods. Steamer Stockholm City lists thousands of items including iron, potions, wines, wool, and bagging with numerous firms such as Train Smith & Co and Baring Bros Co among others.
A long ledger style inventory itemizes items from multiple firms including P Doherty, Pellen & co, Gorham Rogers & co, Saxonville Mills, Stoddard Lovering & co, and others. It lists casks, boxes, bags, bales, cases, and casks of beverages, textiles, coffee, cocoa, tea, wool, jute cloth, yarn, cement, and miscellaneous stock with quantities such as 400 bags beans 60 do de, 118 boIl s 2882 bars iron, 100 bags, 30 cases cocoa, 26 bales clovos, 131 do waste paper, 800 puls antimony, 48 v casks, 36 casks, 840 bales wool, and 200 bales hemp. The entry ends with a generic note “a quantity noise order.”
Shipping list records Bark Dagegry from Montevideo cleared March 5 with 683046 feet lumber and cargoes including flour cornmeal rubber goods and hardware entries from Havana Rosario Antwerp Cape Verde Windsor St Pierre and St John routes. Notable items include Steamer Dominion 175 bbis flour 650 bbis cornmeal and various lumber and victuals destined for multiple ports worldwide.
A lengthy list details March 6 1888 cargo items for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and Sea shipments. Items include cotton wool flour cornmeal oats beef butter eggs leather hides tea coffee lard sugar and many bales sacks and cases.
A dense, numeric ledger style summary listing cash receipts by commodity for March 6 1888 and prior year comparisons. Goods include cotton wool flour cheese eggs cornmeal oats beans corn apples oats wheat potatoes barley straw millfeed lumber tallow leather hides sugar bacon coffee molasses and related cash values with quantities and units. Strong entities: Butterbales, DKIS, Oleo, bales, boxes, sacks, barrels, cars, and brands like Pres'd meats.
Legal advertising details for the Boston Post note careful designation of the paper title and accurate court reports. Notices, probate and insolvency items are read in the Boston paper with copies returned to attorneys the day after each advertisement deadline.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Probate Court informs all interested in the trusts under the will of Micajah Pope, late of Boston in Suffolk County, deceased. Public notice urges any claim or interest be presented per probate provisions.
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