Market Quote for East Swale and Oat Straw
East swale priced at 10 dollars and roe straw offered as choice. Oat straw listed at 10 dollars with price entries 17 50 and 18 00 noted.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1889
Page
7
East swale priced at 10 dollars and roe straw offered as choice. Oat straw listed at 10 dollars with price entries 17 50 and 18 00 noted.
The market is well supplied with a quiet trade. Prices include Marrow squash 60 per ton, Hub yard 70 per ton, Savoy cabbage 75 to 90 cents per barrel, onions 1.25 per barrel, Bermuda onions 1.50 per crate, Spanish onions 1 per crate, beets 40 to 50 cents per bush, lettuce 74 cents per bush, kale 75 cents per barrel, rhubarb 9 cents per pound, parsley 2 dollars per bunch.
Chicago provisions report shows May pork hard to buy as large holders hold off the market. Bulls from $14 down spook shorts who cover when Armour deals loom, with mixed quotes for pork, lard, and beef across Chicago New York St Louis and Cincinnati markets.
Cattle receipts at Kansas City 3937 and Chicago 8500 with mixed price shifts. Hogs 6424 at Kansas City and 16500 at Chicago show lower trade with heavy to light ranges quoted. Sheep receipts 6000 nationwide with steady to weak demand. Peoria St Louis Cincinnati notes show hogs easing, cattle steady to higher, and lambs firm in parts of the Midwest.
The Wallachia loads at Palermo for Boston. Edwin arrives with 3050 cases Messina oranges and 1800 boxes Messina lemons, plus large Palermo lemon and Palermo orange box counts. North Britain left Palermo March 11 for Boston via Gibraltar March 16 with 8050 Messina oranges and 2500 Messina lemons and unknown Palermo fruit. Ditmarschen due March 22 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Suit Company.
H Harris & Co auctioned the Trinacria cargo with citrus lots including Catania lemons at 180 dollars Mesina lemons 210 Palermo lemons 150 Catania oranges 0.50 to 3.125 Messina oranges 2.50 to 2.372 Palermo oranges 1.50 Valencia oranges 150 to 4.75 Florida oranges 1.62 to 4.742 half-boxes tangerines 1 navels 1.80 to 3.6142.
Market update shows dull apples receipts 1286 bbls vs 1802 last year. Prices listed for Baldwins Russets Tallman greensings and citrus with Messina Palermo Valencias Florida oranges and cranberries notes demand firm for certain lots and steady if not rising. Dried apples prices steady with vaporated and sun dried varieties outlined.
Sugar receipts today total 616 barrels blooded, compared with 75 barrels on the same day last year. Raw sugars remain firm in price and demand, signaling steady market conditions.
The market reports firm, steady activity with strong prices for raw and refined sugars. Havana and New York quotes rise on cen trifugals, with Muscovado and molasses receipts mixed. Regional prices list varied values for Ponce Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, New Orleans, and Cienfuegos, while foreign markets remain strong.
New York cotton markets show quiet steady pricing with middling uplands at 10 3/4 cents and low middling 9 1/16 cents, sales totaling 90,600 bales. Liverpool spot is steady with middling uplands at 51 1/16 pence and low middlings at 54 2d, futures firm across key months and extensive world-market data listed for several ports.
Talow receipts total 63 barrels 9 tierces 7 bags versus 29 barrels 17 bags 1 pkg last year same day. Trade weak at quiet prices with city render 444 4 2c and country 3 3c. New York market firm birds 70 at 47 16c. Rio steadier fair car 18786. Whisky markets steady in Chicago St Louis Cincinnati at 103 dollars. Turpentine resin tar and petroleum prices noted with various cents per unit.
Data shows live stock totals for sheep cattle and pigs, with weekly comparisons and notes on beef demand and export trade. Arrivals at Brighton and Watertown yards include multiple carloads of cattle sheep and milch cows. Export shipments to England and European ports are listed with recent steamer movements and prices.
Cattle dealers report heavy supply and slim profits as market weakness presses home slaughter as a last resort. W W Hall & Son and J H Gilman move multiple oxen and milch cows while West shipments for export continue to drive yard totals at Watertown and Brighton yards.
Liverpool March 20 1889 a detailed list of imports shows the steamer Michigan discharging 173 bales 214 sheets and numerous consignments from firms such as Naylor & co E & F King & co and J B Moors & co. Mediterranrean port goods include Edwin from Messina and Palermo lists with AS & J Brown & co supplying thousands of fruit boxes and macaroni orders.
London and Liverpool trade reports March 20 show dull demand for wheat and corn with slight improvements in some markets. Prices in Paris and Antwerp mostly steady, while Manchester notes limited activity in light fabrics and strong color goods demand remains.
A compiled list details boot and shoe buyers and agents across multiple cities including Altoona Albany Baltimore Cleveland Chicago Evansville Indianapolis Kansas City Lancaster Louisville Minneapolis Memphis Nashville New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with firms such as Pratt Adams & Co J Fearey & Son Hinkle Nisbet Co Guthman Carpenter Co and Williams Van Aernam & Harte involved in trade and agency roles. The report catalogs names firms and cities, showing a wide network of footwear commerce and distribution.
Numerous names and firms appear with locations including Pittsburg Richmond Savannah Rochester Minn and others. The OCR lists partners and firms such as Rose & Son Stern & Co Kellogg Schafer and Mein haard as well as various first names and places in a scattered directory-like snippet.
Advertises cantatas and school songbooks from Oliver Ditson & Co Boston. Lists titles like Thayer s Herbert and Elsa Romberg s Song of the Bell Buck s 46th Psalm Anderton s Wreck of the Hesperus etc with prices per copy and per dozen Also promotes Emerson s Song Manual and United Voices and other graded series for high schools and younger classes Offers post free mail order retail prices.
February timetable notes express and limited trains from Boston. Through connections to Syracuse and Rochester, with drawing room cars and dining car service Worcester to New Haven. Electric lighted service with sleeping cars. City offices at 232 Washington Street and Kneeland Street for tickets and arrangements.
A dense OCR list outlines bus and rail timetables for Providence Division stations including Park Square Station New York Shore Line and Stonington Line. It lists numerous departures and prices by city such as Attleboro Canton Dedham and Roxbury with Sunday variations and numerous times.
Fragmented timetable lists multiple routes and station names including Fail River Line Central Division trains to New York via Fall River and various local stops such as Brockton East Weymouth and Plymouth. The text reads like an undated schedule with numerous times, days, and via notes.
Buzzards Bay and Cape towns show daily first and last bus times from 8:15 to 4:15 with some 8:16 starts. Nantucket and Woods Hall routes noted with special Mondays and Saturdays service.
Boston timetable lists departure points from Leave Boston & Albany Station and Kendall Street to Framingham Marlboro Southboro Bolton Northborough Clinton Leominster Pitchburg Pratt's Junction with varied times 7.15 and 7.15 am 10.55 am 2.15 4.30 5.25 6.25 11.15 pm Sundays. Full information at Boston stations and Old State House office. J R Kendrick General Manager GEO L Connor General Passenger Agent Boston Feb 11 1889.
Rail lines list departures from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations serving Portland Augusta Bangor St John Nova Scotia and Maine coastal towns with times in morning afternoon and evening. Includes service to Lewiston Manchester North Conway and Portland with connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox and Lincoln routes.
A compiled list of train times for towns across the western division including Alton EBay Rochester Farmington Andover and many others. The schedule shows weekday morning and afternoon departures with numerous times such as 8 30 am 1 3 45 pm 6 7 50 am and 9 80 10 25 am among others. Also listed are Sunday trains to Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester and more with multiple daily departures.
List of trains from Boston Causeway Street and Haymarket to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Roches ter Bampton Northampton Epe wich Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Revere Moekperi Gloucester Satem York Harbor Saugus Wearham Wolfeboro Lynnport Portland Salem and other branches with daily and Thursday Saturday services including workmen trains and stations in Boston and coastal towns.
Boston Station schedules list through service from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weira Meredlin Ashland Wymouth Warren Hiaverhill Woodsville and more with am and pm trains to St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Quebec and Montreal including local passes Passumpsic Division and Northern ER services. Local stops cover Concord Keene Manchester Nashua Woburn Waltham and Boston suburbs with multiple daily departures.
Trains depart Boston Causeway Street foot of Portland Street for Northampton Hadley Amherst Belcher town Boundsville Gutbertyville Barre Rutland Oakdale Wreetles Worcester with multiple daily times. Through trains and four through connections listed. full timetable available at stations. James T. Forker Dr J Flan ders general manager ticket agents.
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