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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1889
Page
7
Market reports show dull or quiet tonnage across commodities. Wheat and rye receipts vary by locale with prices listed for No 2 red and No 1 New York rye, while cornmeal oats barley and millfeed demand remains modest and steady in several centers.
Receipts show 1540 pkgs of butter and 686 pkgs oleomargarine while eggs and cheese remain steady. Prices for creamery and dairy items vary by region with Western creameries at 28 29c for coated butter and New York Vermont rates around 18 28c. overall trade is quiet with steady demand and large egg receipts.
In Chicago provisions opened weak but declined with little for sale and a fairly firm close. A large line remained unclear in purpose, causing nervousness among May shorts. Quotations for March May June and July showed varied highs and lows with pork and pork products receipts listed for the day including bbls tierces cases and tubs.
The report lists steady demand and price quotes across pork, beef, lard, and fresh meats. Prices include long cuts 15 50 to 15 75, backs 15 75 to 16 00, fresh ribs 9¢, sausages 9c, lard 8¢ to 10c, ham 11c, corned and smoked meats with various per pound ranges, and New York pork steady with multiple mess categories quoted.
A brief market listing shows varied prices for vegetables and produce. Items include cabbage at 90 cents to 85 cents per bushel, onions at 150 to 225 per crate, carrots 125 per barrel, lettuce 75 cents per bushel, turnips 50 cents per dozen, celery 10 cents per box, spinach and kale priced per bush or box, and rhubarb 5 cents per pound.
Kansas City stock yards show firm cattle with mixed butchers and native cows, hogs weak as receipts hit 3061, Peoria and St Louis offer varied pricing, Cincinnati steady, Chicago cattle steady to strong with high beeves and steers, hogs slow and closing lower, sheep steady with range of natives and corn fed Western lambs in supply.
The steamer Trinacna arrives with 1000 boxes Palermo oranges 300 boxes Palermo lemons 1200 boxes Messina oranges 2300 boxes Catania oranges 700 boxes Catania lemons and 4250 cases Valencia oranges. The steamer Wallachia loads at Palermo for Boston. Edwin passed Gibraltar March 2 for Boston with 3050 cases Messina oranges 1800 boxes Messina lemons 11900 boxes Palermo lemons 12200 boxes Palermo oranges. North Britain sailed from Palermo March 11 for Boston and passed Gibraltar March 16 with 8050 boxes Messina oranges 2500 boxes Messina lemons and unknown Palermo fruit. Ditmarshen due March 22 from Jamaica with bananas for Boston Fruit Company.
Apples receipts 934 bbls today vs 680 last year. Market dull unchanged. Baldwins 125 150, Russets 175 200, Lall streets 150 175, Greenings 1 2 each. Liverpool prices lower than last. Maine firsts 12s. Messina Lemons 2 3 25, Messina Oranges 2 3 00, Palermo Lemons 2 3 25 per box, Palermo Oranges 2 2 75 per box. Valencias 3 50 4 00, large 5 5 69 per case. Florida oranges choice 3 4 per box, Navel 4 2 50, Tangerines 2 2 50 per half-box, Mandarins 2 2 50 per box. Cape cranberries scarce firm, common dull. Grapes Almera quiet 6 2 18. Dried apples evaporated fancy 6 4 7 4, good to choice 5 4 6, sun-dried 3 4 4. Strawberries receipts smaller, sales 75c per quart.
Sugar receipts today 1754 bbls. last year 86 bbls. Raw sugars strong with quiet trade at old prices. Refined sugars firm with active demand. list includes Suba 544 5% and various refined grades. Wholesale granulated at 7 4c. Molasses receipts 76 bbls with firm market and fair demand. prices listed for Ponce Porto Rico and other sources. New York and Havana markets described as firm or strong.
In New York cotton prices held steady across grades with middling uplands at 10%%c, low middling 9 11 16c, good ordinary 8c, and ordinary 7 9 16c. Sales reached 800 bales as futures opened and closed steady. The evening and closing table records the Money closing figures.
Cargoes off the coast with wheat slow and corn steady. 15 cargoes waiting for sale and 2 arrived since last report. Walla Walla wheat quoted at 388 9d at Mark Lane. Paris and Liverpool markets quiet with dull wheat and mixed American corn pricing. In Liverpool, breadstaffs report wheat dull, corn easy. receipts show 139000 centals of wheat and 92400 centals of corn. pork and lard prices listed amid wet English weather.
Train schedules listed for multiple routes including Augusta, Bar Harbor, St. John, Castine, Calais, Lewiston, Manchester, North Conway and Portland with departures from Haymarket square and Causeway street stations and connections by steamers from Portland across Maine and New Brunswick for Tuesdays Fridays Mondays and Thursdays with varied times.
Market update notes ordinary and 5 4d terms, with 7 000 bales sold and 27 000 bales receipts, including 24 900 bales American. Futures opened quiet and closed steady with several March, April, May, June contracts listed and mixed price quotes across ports including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, West Point, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, and Louisville. Consolidated four day receipts total 97 978 with exports to Great Britain, France, and the Continent and nationwide stocks at 648 925.
Tatlow receipts show 3 barrels and hogsheads with last year’s figures of 50 barrels, 53 hogsheads and 9 tierces as trade remains quiet at weak prices. City rendered at 4%4c, country 444 Yec rough, 2'e 4c grease 24 4%c. New York markets steady city 43% A4 7-16¢ for coffee. Rio traffic quiet and barely steady with fair cargoes 18 8c. Whiskey unchanged. Turpentine and rosin in New York with turpentine 52% 53c, rosin 11742 120, tar 180 185, petroleum 7.20c, KoW 7c, cases 9c.
A detailed ledger of consignments and shipments from Glasgow to various destinations including N and W Curtis Baring Bros & co and J Frownsend. Items listed cover pig iron steel sheets granite bricks oatmeal paper stock and motor goods with numerous firms such as Taylor Bros Barling Bros J A W Bird & co and International Steamship Line. Mediterranean port entries record oranges sumac macaroni boxes fruit olive oil wine and marble blocks from Trinacria to Valencia Palermo Messina Canania and Lezhorn with Brown Brothers A Grigori and other exporters.
Shipping exports listed by port including Narbor Grace Carbonear Yarmouth St Johns Havana CALDRA Chili and more. Items include bbls of oil lard candles oil cloths and copper paint with quantities and goods such as hardware rope and lumber.
Prices for beef and store cattle vary with Northern and Eastern lots. Sheep and lambs show modest demand with private terms, while hides and tallow move at low cottages. Notable traders include J A Hathaway, WA rarnham, P Burke, H A Wilcox, D Fisher, RP Pollard, W Ricker, and Rob rr enuch.
A warrant in insolvency is issued against JOLN T. BRONSON of Boston flour broker. Debts and transfers to the insolvent debtor are forbidden. A meeting for creditors to prove debts and appoint assignees is set at the Court of Insolvency on April 12, 1889 at 2 PM in Boston's Probate Building Court Square.
A warrant in insolvency issued against Augustus D. Mark and Llewellyn M. Marr of Boston trading as Marr Bros. Debts to their insolvent estate must be proven at a creditors meeting March 29 1889 at two o clock in the afternoon in the court of insolvency at the Tremont building Court Square Boston Deputy Sheriff Messenger Robber Herter lists the restricted actions against the debtors and their property.
In Suffolk County Massachusetts creditors must prove debts and select assignees. A meeting will be held at the Court of Insolvency in the Probate Building Boston on April 5 at 2 o clock in the afternoon. Deputy Sheriff Joan L. Lizpatrick serves the notice.
Notice in Suffolk County Court of Insolvency states on March 12 183% the First Ward National Bank of Boston petitions for a warrant to seize and distribute the estate of J Henry Stevenson as creditor. Elijah George is the court register.
Notices announce the annual meeting of the Boston Protective Department at 12 noon on March 28 1589 to decide continuation of duties and set annual expenditure. Directors to be elected for three years and other business to be conducted. Also stockholders of American Bell Telephone Company to meet March 26 1889 to elect officers and close transfer books March 22–26. Forest Hills Cemetery proposes trustee election March 25 1889 and potential increase in trustees from seven to twelve.
The regular quarterly meeting of the trustees of the North End Savings Bank will be held in the banking room at No 57 Court Street on Wednesday March 20 at 11 oclock a.m. William C Williamson Clerk.
Time tables for local and through services available at all company ticket offices. Trains to Albany depart Boston daily except Sunday with a Drawing Room Car. Through connections extend to Syracuse Rochester Buffalo and all points West. M.
Complex OCR list shows weekday departures from Kneeland Street Station to New York via Fail River Line at 6 pm with numerous stops including Ashmont Braintree Brockton Cohasset and other towns. Sundays and additional routes noted with times and via Brockton Abington Duxbury and Newport references.
A fragment shows a Cape Cod division timetable listing multiple towns and their daily start and end times such as Bourne Brewster Chatham Falmouth and Provincetown. The dataset includes 8.15 am 4.15 pm style intervals with occasional notes on Mondays and specific stops.
Readable segments show train times from Providence Division to New Work Shore Line and numerous suburban stops. Details include services to Stonington Attleboro North Attleboro Readville Readville Oxbury and Newport with varied weekday and Sunday frequencies.
Time-table notice lists departures from Boston and Albany and points like Framingham Marlboro Northboro Clinton Leominster Fitchburg and Pratt's Junction with multiple daily trains on Sundays and midweek. It notes passenger agent contact at No 3 Old State House and states timetables for local and through services are available in Boston and at KorR offices.
Trains listed for Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover Banvers Exeter Great Palisa Overhill Georgetown Kenn nbunk Biddeford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Medford Portland Lewiston and other stations show multiple daily departures including Sunday trains with varied times across morning afternoon and evening, indicating a dense regional schedule.
Eastern Division timetable lists multiple trains from Boston Haymarket to Tay Amesbury Beverly Middeford Great Falls Rochester Hampton Beach Lynn Marblehead Salem and more with varied departure times from early morning to night including special runs to Portland St John and Halifax and weekly Thursday and Saturday services and a workers train.
Through service from Boston with listed times to Jiton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill and Woodsville. Also routes to North Woodstock Penigewascett Vanley Branch Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster and more with numerous 8.30am 9am 1pm 3.30pm 7pm departures and connections to Montreal Manchester Concord Nashua and Boston area stops.
Trains depart Boston Causeway Street foot of Portland Street for multiple towns including Northampton Hadhey Amherst Belcher town Lnudsville Ware Gibbertville Barre Katland Wakduie and Worcester with various morning and afternoon times. Wayland Wen ton Waverley Belmont and other stations shown with multiple daily departures. Full local and through train timetables are available at stations. James T. Fuorger and J Flanders sign as general manager and ticket agent.
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