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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1889

Page

7

Wheat and grain markets mixed across national centers

Across cities from New York to Milwaukee and Duluth, receipts and shipments varied while prices showed steady to lower trends. No. 2 red and No. 1 white wheats posted mixed quotes. rye and barley remained dull. millfeeds and hops traded softly amid cautious demand.

St Louis New York Minneapolis Milwaukee Toledo Detroit Chicago C. Duluth State Western C. Peoria Canada Michigan

Butter and Cheese Prices Across Markets Reported

Wholesale butter demand remains fair with steady prices across Western Vermont and New York markets. Eggs and cheese show moderate activity with general firmness. beans, potatoes, and produce supply steady, while trade remains quiet in several regions and oats show no notable change.

Baltimore New York Elgin Cincinnati Chicago Liverpool Vermont New Hampshire Michigan Canada St Louis California Lima West Timothy North Clover Red Top Jersey Houlton Ebrons Houlton Rose Bush Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Ermont Rose Hebrons Burbanks New York Banks Nova Scotia New Brunswick Chenangoes

Provisions in Chicago Dull but Firm

In Chicago provisions were described as dull yet firm, reflecting steady supply conditions and cautious market sentiment.

Chicago

Market dull on manipulation fears as traders stay inactive

Fear of market manipulation keeps traders on the sidelines as prices drift. Reports show quotes across pork and beef sectors with steady to firm tones in regional markets including New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati.

New York City Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

Midwest livestock markets show slower trade across major hubs

Kansas City reports slow cattle and mixed hog demand with receipts around 2070 cattle and 7396 hogs. Prices range from 180 to 450 for various cattle and hog categories. Peoria Cincinnati and Chicago show firmer hogs, steady to weaker cattle, and mixed sheep demand amid sizable arrivals.

Kansas City Peoria Cincinnati Chicago

Fruit Market Report Shows Dull Apple Prices and Varied Prices

The market for apples is dull with no improvement. Baldwins at 1 1 25 per bushel, Tallman sweets 1 75, Greenings 1 1 25. oranges and lemons show February receipts across ports with mixed case counts and prices. Valencia oranges and lemons listed, prices for Messina and Palermo lemons and oranges, Florida oranges, russets, navels, mandarins, and tangerines noted. cranberries scarce, Jersey sales dull, dried apples steady, Almeria grapes quiet, bananas arriving aboard Lorenzo D Baker with tiered prices. strawberries in poor condition and low prices.

Baldwins Tallman Sweets Valencia Boston New Orleans San Bebe Messina Palermo Florida Jersey Lmeria Lorenzo D Baker Boston Fruit Company

Steamers and Cargoes Bound for Boston

The Effective passed Gibraltar Feb 22 with 9600 Mesina oranges 800 Messina lemons 12100 Palermo oranges and 5900 Palermo lemons and sails for Boston about March 10. Trinacria due March 18 after Gibraltar March 2 with 1000 Palermo oranges 300 Palermo lemons 1200 Messina oranges 238000 Catania oranges 700 Catania lemons and 4250 Valencia oranges. Wallachia loading at Palermo for Boston. Edwin passed Gibraltar March 2 for Boston with 3050 Messina oranges 1800 Messina lemons 11900 Palermo lemons and 12200 Palermo oranges. Marmion due March 14 with Jamaica fruits for Boston Fruit Company.

Messina Palermo Gibraltar Boston Trinacria Catania Valencia Edwin Jamaica Fruits Boston Fruit Company

Oranges Auction Highlights From Harris and Snow Firms

H Harris & Co to auction 2500 boxes Florida oranges and 481 cases Valencia oranges on Tuesday. Snow & Co sold Florida oranges at 175 3 3744 per box and Valencia oranges at 3504450 per extra large case.

H Harris & Co Florida Valencia Snow & Co

New York Cotton Futures Steady. Prices Mixed Across Grades

New York cotton is quiet at middling uplands 103-16c and low middling 94½c with sales totaling 580 bales. Futures opened firm and closed easy with several spread values shown. spot market reports in Augusta Galveston and New Orleans indicate firm or quiet demand and varied receipts.

New York Orenig Scccescescees APTI Neveccescesseve Aolig Ccrascescessees Asoc JUDY Wcccccestieessese Augusta Galveston Great Britain New Orleans

Maritime Trade Totals and Market Notes Across U S Ports

Consolidated three day figures show net receipts 24,860 with exports to Great Britain 21,673 and to the Continent 14,506. Stocks at all U S ports total 716,880 while prices stay firm to steady across Savannah Charleston Baltimore and New York fronts.

Great Britain Mobile Memphis Savannah Continent Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Healtimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville United States

Sugar and Molasses Market Report

Sugar markets show strength with quiet demand and firm refined prices. Cuban grades, Javas, and Manila varieties quoted with limited ranges. granulated sugar at 74 4c. refined and powdered types steady. Molasses market firm with slow demand. Porto Rico and New Orleans grades listed with price spreads.

Cuba Manilas Iloilos Javas Belmont Ponce Porto Rico New Orleans Cienfuegos

Market Roundup: Tallow Coffee Whiskey Turpentine Prices

Tallow quotes show dull lower prices with city and country figures. New York steady sales at 44 17 32c for city holds. Coffee Rio stronger with fair cargoes around 19 Yee. Turpentine and petroleum Futures show declines and resin tar and KSW cases varied.

New York Rio

Staple Shipments Listed Across Regional Rail Lines

Detailed receipts from multiple railroads dated March 11 1889 itemize cargo across lines including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence New York and New England Fitchlon Boston and Maine Eastern and Lowell System Boston and Maine Western Division and By Sea and By Express. Entries enumerate bales cotton wool flour corn oats malt barley feed lard grease butter eggs cheese and other staples with quantities such as 714 cases eggs 2461 bbis flour 8970 bush corn and 95 boxes bacon.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railway Boston & Providence Railroad Id Colony Railroad New York & New England Railhroad Fitchlon Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell System Express Sea England Nova Scotia Scotland Belgium Livingston Manila Boston Ee Republic

Multi-merchant shipload of dry goods and cargoes

A long list records crates cases and bales of earthenware woollens wine dry goods machinery books and many other items from merchants including Norcross Morse Norton Fessenden Ditson Schmidt Schoenhof and more. The entry notes cargos across ships and ports including Nicaragua Port Antonio San Juan Savannah Yarmouth and Boston with items such as logwood bananas gambier rice oil and lumbers in bulk orders and parcels.

Norcross, Mellen & Co Gossler & Co Ritchie Shepard, Norwell & Co Sacks Schlegel & Fottier Saco Stedman & Fuller Mans Co Jj Shorp Talbot, Wilmarth & Co Squiré Ldo Shoes Small Bros John Shearman Iden Nicaragua John Pierce George D Emery Port Antonio Boston Fruit Co Singapore Evie Keed M Leonard J McNean E Morrison Noyes Rogers & Co Sands, Furber & Eco Simmons Amsden & Co Sawtelle & Pratt Do Snow & Co Sherman & Co Webster & Co Clements & Co

Exports Report from March 11 1889 Ports

Shipping cargoes listed for St Andrews New Brunswick Humacoa Pennsylvania St John New Brunswick and Buenos Ayres Argentina. Items include schooner Emma Louise 1100 bags 43 barrels guano 128 barrels lime 30 barrels potato manure. Also schooner Juan 410 barrels white oak and hickory hoops 451 barrels new sugar bird heads 11050 feet white pine 2 barrels screws 2 barrels iron 81 kegs nails 600 bolls orange box shocks. Bark Lillie Soullard 798 515 feet pine lumber.

ST Andrew’s Emma Louise Humacoa Juan ST John Sabrina Buenos Ayres Lillie Soullard

Imports and Exports Entries at Georgetown and St Pierre 1889

A preserved list of import and export movements dated March 11 1889. It records schooner Jubilee 3845 bush potatoes from Halifax and St Pierre with various consignments including pickled fish woollen goods and machinery. Additional items arrive via Steamer Palmyra to Liverpool with goods from multiple firms such as Baring Bros Co Abram French Co and J Forgie & Sons.

Georgetown Pei Jubilee Halifax ST Pierre Miq George Bridge Bird & Co British Hosiery Co Optical Instruments Benj French & Co Brigham Bond & Co Richard Briggs Prig Baldwin American & European Express Company Henry Brown Bigelow Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Jackson Koopman & Co

Foreign markets mixed as wheat and corn quiet in London

Market report from London and Liverpool notes quiet wheat and corn in both centers. Prices hold at Liverpool for futures with no major shifts. Paris and Antwerp show light activity and steady to unchanged quotes on western cereals and flour.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Antwerp

Legal Divorce Petition for Louisa Lynds in 1889

The Honorable Justices hear a libel by Louisa Adelia Lynds of Malden for divorce from James Roger Lynds of Kansas. She alleges desertion since November 1883, adultery in 1882 with Carrie Aiken and others, lack of maintenance for five years, and seeks custody of their nine year old child William Lorenzo Lynds plus restoration of her maiden name. Dated March 6, 1889.

Superior Court Middlesex Louisa Adelia Lynds Purdy Malden James Roger Lynds Peters Kingman County Kansas Oxford Nova Scotia Dominion of Canada James Quincy Norfolk William Lorenzo Lynds Quincey Carrie Aiken Dames Louise Adealia Lynds

Libel and civil action notices issued in Boston press

Massachusetts court orders publication of libel and summons for nonresident defendants. The libel requires appearance in Cambridge on May first week with attested copies published in the Boston Post for three weeks. A separate case against Marmaduke Slattery in Boston pursues sixty dollars with service by notice in the same newspaper.

Cambridge Boston Post Boston Suffolk Theo. C. Hurd Commonwealth OF Massachussetts Boston Electric Light Company Commonwealth Marmaduke M. M. Slattery Fort Wayne Indiana

Equity petition seeks leave to compromise two suits

Francis V Balch trustee under John Hancock will seeks court permission to join in a compromise of two suits pending in the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The petition names multiple Hancock family members as respondents and dates a May first hearing in Boston Suffolk County. The court requires respondents to appear and show cause, with notices to be served and published in the Boston Post.

Francis V. Balch Boston Suffolk Franklin Hancock Haverhill Essex Washington Hancock London England Charles L. Hancock Chicago Illinois John Hancock Moriarty Elizabeth L.H. Wood Brookline Norfolk Charles Hancock Wood Mary Elizabeth Wood William Barry Wood Ellen H. Hancock Hampden Maine Egerton P. Clegg Delia Clegg Galveston Texas E. Tilton Charles H., Wood John Wilson Tilton John Hancock Commonwealth of Massachusetts United States District Illnois Charles Lee

Insolvency Notice Against Boston Stock Broker Fisk

WILLIAM C. FISK of Boston is insolvent per a Suffolk County Court of Insolvency warrant issued March 9, 1889. Debts and property transfers to Fisk are forbidden. A creditors meeting to prove debts and appoint assignees will be held March 22, 1889 at 2 PM in the Probate building court room, Court Square, Boston.

Boston Suffolk William C. Fisk Court Square Thomas Fee John H. Sweeltler

Railroads Always On Time Trains From Boston Station

Boston and New England trains operate weekdays from foot of Summer Street with many stops including Ashcroft Baltimore Dorchester Dedham and Readville. Sunday service to Norwood Hyde Park Franklin and intermediate stations. Woonsocket division listed with various departures and returns.

Boston Summer Street Ashcroft E.Y Baltimore Bird Street Blackstone Danbury Dedham Lam Dorchester Dudle Street Ellis Endicott Fishkill-on-Mudseon Ranklin Forest Avenue Hartford Harvard Street Atrem. Hyde Park Mighland Lake Islington Manchester Mattapan Milisford Mt. Bowden New Britain Newburg New London New York Air Line Norwich Norwood Norwood Central Pawtucket Philadelhia Providence Putnam Readville Briver Street Rockville Cuan Southbridge Tiltons Pur Nan Washington D.C Waterbury Willimantic Winslows Webster Hyde Park Franklin Woonsocket Division

Boston and Albany Train Schedule Details

Boston and Albany timetable lists local and through trains to Albany and West with departures at 8 30 am 8 00 pm and 11 00 am and 7 00 pm daily and Saturday sleeping car services to Albany. Connections extend to Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Detroit Chicago Cleveland Toledo and New York with drawing room and dining cars Worcester to New Haven and parlor car services. Tickets and parlor car accommodations available at 232 Washington Street and Kneeland Street Boston.

Central Railroad of New Jersey Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Baltimore & Ohio Railroad New York Station Liberty St N. R Philadelphia Baltimore Washington J. N. Magna New England Washington St Boston Vermont Lowell Chicago Fitchburg Wagner Palace Central Vermont R Washington Street J. W. Hobart A. W Gen. Pass, Bt Boston & Albany Railroad Needham and Way Woonsocket Meturna Traian New York Middletown New Haven Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudson Newburgh Turners, N. Y Grand Central Depot Willimantic Jersey City Trenton Richmond Pr. M. Norwich New London B Z City OF Worcester Sum Ner Street Rackson E. P. Vining A. C. Kendall L Sup Vass. Agt Albany West Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Ally Niagara Falls Detroit Michigan Central Cleveland Tue Ledo Lakeshone Pmichigan Southern Toledo Worcester Kneeland Street Springfield Boston & Albany R. R New Havin S. H. Moseley & Son Northern Division Boston & Albany Knealand Street Framingham and Marlboro Jayville Southbouroe Bolton Northboro Clinton Leominster Mratt’s Junction

Providence Division Train Schedules Include Dozens of Stops

Read lists sparse departures for Providence Division with numerous stations such as Readville Foxboro East Foxboro and Jamaica Plain. Timetables show sixteen weekday trains and four Sunday trains. several stops include Dedham, Plymouth and Warwick areas with varied times throughout the day.

Large dense timetable list for multiple stations and trains

Central Division schedule shows trains from Kneeland Street Station to New York and many branch stops including Ashmont Kraintree Middleboro Marshfield Weymouth Easton Taunton and Brockton with numerous weekday and Sunday times and special notes about via Brockton and Prov. Div. services.

Kneeland Street New York Fall River Ashmont Kraintree Sendaye Middleboro Bridgewater Breckton Cohassette Hingham Dowhare Aikam Easton East Bridaener _bington Brockton Ieeepiton West Gainey Ton Harrison Square Marshfield Sea View Matan Milton Godford Newport North Easton Stoughton Keandolph Airmeouth Abington Duxbury Thuiney Angel' S Knockland Manover M. Sree Pos Vas South Braintree Los South Duxbury Taunton Central Station Dean St Whitman South Wemouth Wollaston Herches West Idnawater Cochesett South Easton

Cape Cod Bus Schedule May Times and Routes

Cape Cod division lists bus times for towns including Bourne Sandwich Barnstable Brewster Chatham Fairhaven Hyannis Nantucket Provincetown and Wellfleet with a pattern of 8.15 am departures and 4.15 pm returns and notes weekday or limited service for some locations.

Kneeland Street Buzzards May Barnestabe Bourne Bournevale Brewster Cataumet Chatham Cottage City Park Sq New Bedford Fairhaven Faimonth Warmouth

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