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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 23, 1888

Page

7

Market Report on Agricultural Commodities and Provisions

Leather remains unchanged while boots and shoes hold steady. Hides dull. Flour unchanged, corn quiet, oats dull, cornmeal quiet but steady. Oatmeal steady, buckwheat flour higher, rye steady. Barley quiet, malt unchanged, millfeed very firm. Butter quiet, cheese firm. Eggs firmer. Beans in quiet demand. Hay quiet, straw steady. Potatoes unchanged, sweet potatoes firm. Truck in fair demand. Poultry quiet. Game moderate demand. Apples quiet, cranberries light supply. Florida oranges in good demand, Mediterranean fruit in demand. Pork firm, lard fair demand, hams steady. Fresh beef firm. Mutton steady, Veal steady, lambs fair movement. Sugars firmer, molasses unchanged, tallow fair demand.

Florida New York Minnesota Southern Rio United West Western Steam Liverpool Chicago Louis Minneapolis Milwaukee Detroit Cincinnati Toledo

Leather and Hides Market Report Highlights Mixed Demand

Leather and hides show varied activity with fair movement in sole leather and rough leather steady to moderately active. Domestic hides weaken while foreign hides stay unchanged, and buyers remain flexible on terms. prices listed for various leather types reflect firm to modest shifts in demand and stock levels.

Market Reports March 22 Flour and Grain Prices

The market notes steady flour values with moderate demand and a quiet general trade. Corn, oats, and other grains show dull activity with specific carload quotations and futures ranges. rye, barley, malt, and millfeed hold firm or quiet with varied bids. Includes export bids for Canada and domestic freight prices for a broad range of grain products.

Minnesota Michigan Canada Superior Canada Lear Bush Choice New York

Butter market shows slow demand and limited arrivals

The butter market improves with light receipts and ready sales for creameries on arrival. Buyers seek immediate needs and cold storage holds little butter. New arrivals are small with Western creameries at 30 31e and some Elgin at 32c. Frets and extra firsts are well sold with strong turnover.

Choice

Prices for dairy and produce across regions vary widely in market report

Buying interest remains varied with extra creamery and imitation dairy products priced at 22 to 28 cents per pound, western and eastern creamery quotes mixed by quality and region. Eggs, beans, grasses, and potatoes show firm demand with Northern timothy and hay markets steady, while small western turkeys and poultry fetch strong prices amid limited supply.

Elgin New York Vermont Liverpool Ohio Choice New Hampshire Choice California West Red Top Jersey Houlton Hebrons Bush Aroostook Aroostook Hebrons Burbanks Northern Hebrons Peerless White Brooks East Swale

Produce Market Roundup Across Cities

In Cincinnati butter is strong at ddc and eggs at Lic. Chicago shows butter and cheese unchanged with firm market and light receipts. eggs firm at 14c. St Louis reports strong butter and buoyant eggs at 12%4 18c. New York butter firm and unchanged with eggs at 17c for all good Western. near by stock at 18c. Old butter is well up, beans steady, dried apples weak.

Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis New York

Fruit cargo arrivals and mixed fruit market notes

The Pontiac arrives with 5000 boxes Messina oranges, 2000 Messina lemons, 9300 Palermo oranges, 960 Palermo lemons. sale Friday. Aguan brings bananas for Boston Fruit Company arriving Friday. Brattan due March 28 with Jamaica bananas for George H. Harding. Apple market steady with various quotes. Florida oranges scarce with steady demand. Cranberries dull. Cape Cod berries priced. Florida strawberries selling 25 35 cents.

Pontiac Mediterranean Messina Palermo Boston Fruit Company Jamaica George H. Harding Choice Baldwins Tallman Sweets Florida Valencia Cape Cod Pirate

Provisions and meats market steady with mixed beef and lamb notes

The pork market remains firm with steady demand at old quotations for lard and hams and a wide set of price ranges for cuts and by products. Beef shows quiet demand at old prices with various plate, beef hams, tongues, and tripe listed. veal and lambs are fairly steady to moderate, with prices for fancy and choice grades specified.

Lord Choice Chicago Brighton

Market Prices for Truck and Local Produce

In steady trade, truck movement shows fair prices for Southern produce. Cabbage 275 per crate, Norfolk kale 2 per barrel, Bermuda onions 3 per crate, Norfolk spinach 3 per barrel, Florida string beans 1.4 per crate, Florida beets 1.25 per crate, Florida tomatoes 2.3 per crate. Native dandelions 1.5 per bush, native onions 4.75 per barrel, Savoy cabbage 2.4 per barrel, beets 0.75 per bush, squash marrow 20 per ton, Hubbard 35 per ton, turban 50 per ton, carrots 0.4 per bush, lettuce 0.6 per dozen, parsnips 1 per bush, turnips 0.5 per 660c per Shak white French 1.5 per barrel, St Andrews 1.4 per barrel, celery 6 per 550 box.

Bermuda Florida St Andrews

Sugar Market Steady Amid Mixed Manila Sales

Prices of raw sugar hold steady as market tone remains unchanged. Sales reported at private terms include 26,147 mats of superior Manila. Quoted ranges show raw sugar fair to good condition with minor spelling issues in listings. centrifugal 96 test and various Manila listings noted with fractional prices.

Manila Manilas Moilos C. Dayas

Refined sugars hold firm as fall prices take hold

Market summary shows refined sugar firmer though not quotably higher with various grades listed. Granulated sugar unchanged at 64 cents per pound while pulverized and confectioners grades carry mixed cents. Molasses, tallow, turpentine, rosin, and petroleum prices cited with regional quotes and daily closes.

Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos Cuba Nework London New York

Trade Centre Grain and Flour Prices Reported Across Cities

Reports from New York to Detroit on March 22 show flour and grain prices, wheat and corn receipts and exports, and assorted commodities. Notable figures include No 2 red wheat at 89 8 9c in Chicago, No 2 red at 84 40c in St Louis, and Minneapolis No 1 hard at 70% 76c.

Cotton markets hold steady as New York fiber edges steady

New York spot cotton remains steady with middling uplands at 10 cents and low middlings at 9.42 cents while sales reach 210 bales. Futures open and close unchanged. March, April, and other months show slight shifts, with Liverpool spot at 55 16d for uplands and 5s 9d for Orleans. Worldwide receipts and stocks update across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, West Point, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville, and six day consolidated totals.

New York Sccces Eeesece Cee Eeee Liverpool Uplands Orleans Augusta Dull Galveston New Orleans France Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati C. St. Louis

Hog and cattle markets report Chicago cattle hogs prices

Chicago market update shows cattle receipts 8000 and shipments 3000 with steer values around 3 20 to 3 50, stockers 2 40 to 3 60, cows and bulls 1 90 to 3 50, Texas fed steers 3 20 4 25. Hog receipts 16000 shipments 6000 with prices mostly 5 10 to 5 55, ships 3 50 to 5 10. Sheep receipts 4000 shipments 1000, Western lambs 5 50 to 5 60, Texans 3 75 4 90.

Chicago Texas

Foreign Markets London Report on Cargoes and Wheat

London market bulletin notes cargoes off the coast and at sea. Wheat movements show no new developments as Beerbohm's report details progress and passage conditions.

London Beerbohm

Market Quiet in Liverpool Wheat and Corn Decline

Liverpool reports dull wheat with poor demand and firm corn at mid March prices. Prices show winter and spring wheat around 6s 9d, peas and pork steady, bacon firm, cheese unchanged, lard steady, and futures for wheat and corn mixed with californa wheat at 6s 8d and corn at 4s 6d to 4s 6d. Antwerp notes very quiet wheat trade as well.

Mark Lane Paris Liverpool England California Jane Antwerp

Imports and Exports at Hull and Mediterranean Ports 1888

A detailed freight list records cargoes arriving at Hull and Mediterranean ports on March 22, 1888, including cotton bales and rags, paper stock, ironware, wood pulp, limes, glassware, and numerous miscellaneous goods. The long ledger itemizes consignors such as Baring Bros & co, J B Moors & co, Stone & Downer, and George Kendall, with quantities in bales, cases, boxes, tons, and casks, spanning ships Steamer Persian Monarch, Pontiac, Venetian, and Dominion, among others.

Hull Eng Baring Bros & Co Moors & Co Morton, Rose & Co Sanderson & Son Lewander & Co Morey & Co Stone & Downer Educational Supply Co Thompson & Odell Pontiac Messina AS & J Brown & Co Palermo J Brown & Co Yarmouth Dominion Batchelder Clements & Co Hutchinson & Co G Hall & Co Butler & Co Webber Hall & Co Delong & Seaman Liverpool Linder & Meyer Sherburne Dodo Hills, Turner & Co Dame & Co Great Western Despatch Co James Hill Mant Co L Andrews Lowell Bleaching Co Koopman W& Co Kidder, Peabody & Co Walbaum & Co Bartlett & Co Chadwick & Chester Wing & Evans Dodo Baring Bros & Co Thayer & Lincoln Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Abram French & Co Morey Churchill & Morey Leyland, & Co Leigh & Co Riley & Gray Amoskeag Mant Co Indigo J S Morgan & Co Charles Lawrence & Co

Exports from Liverpool Steam Kansas March 22 1888

Export list from Liverpool bindings Kansas cleared March 21 shows shipments including 50 cases organs 2 cases benches 28 908 bushels corn 26 barrels beef 86 bales cotton waste 4800 pieces staves 964 quarters beef 854 barrels apples 18 bales waste 4 cases wallpaper 2 barrels dyestuff 7650 bundles shooks 100 tierces beef cattle 8258 bush wheat 175 250? ths cheese 2784 bales cotton 355 bags oil cake 9288 sacks flour 2 kegs aniline colors 2 barrels sumac extract 50 cases canned lobster 10 cases blue drills 6 bales sheeting 1 case machinery 1 case water 1 case painting 1 case books 1 case electroplates 1 gross lodge seals and charts 697 boxes 447 cases bacon.

Liverpool Eng Kansas

Receipts report March 22 1888 across rail lines and goods

Boston area rail lines report extensive receipts including cotton wool flour oats malt feed lard butter eggs straw lumber leather hides and various meats and groceries. Records show bales bbls boxes cases and tons with multiple railroad companies listed including Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Old Colony and New York & New England reflecting trade volumes in cotton wool flour oats malt and other commodities.

Boston & Albany Rand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad

Boston and Albany trains and schedules list

A dense, era passenger timetable lists weekly rail departures from Boston and surrounding stations. It notes stops, times, and connections for routes to New York, Hartford, Norwich, and intermediate towns, with special services such as the New England Limited and Philadelphia Express. Officials listed include A. A. Jackson, E. P. Vining, and A. C. Kendall.

Train Schedules From Boston to New York 1888 Fall River Line

Railroads list weekday and Sunday trains from Boston via Fall River Line to New York with times for Ashmont, Barnstable, Hyannis, Yarmouth, Sandwich, Beaintree, Cottage City, East Bridgewater, West Quincy, East Weymouth, Weymouth, Milton, Mattapoisett, Middleboro, Nantucket, Plymouth, Duxbury, Quincy, Hanover, Randolph, Cohasset, Hingham, Fall River, Newport, Taunton and more. Includes return times and notes on via New Bedford and Brockton connections.

Boston New York Fall River Fall River Line Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Return Beaintree Cottage City New Bedford East Bridgewater Btockton Abington Brockton West Quincy East Weymouth Weymouth Matapan Neponset Milton Mattapoisett Middleboro Nantucket Wood's Hall Plymouth Duxbury Quincy Hanover Keckland Rockland Whitman Wollaston Heights West Grdsewater Cochesett South Easton West Bridgewater Bridgewater Breckton Buzzards Bay Provincetown Chatham Cohasset Hingham Taunton Weymouths Mingham Scituate Marshfield Newport South Braintree Way Paunten Gko L. Connor J. R. Kendrick Gen. Pass Anent Gen

Boston and surrounding suburbs rail schedule fragment

A dense OCR list outlines train timings for multiple Boston area lines and branches, including Newton, Brookline, Wellesley Hills, and Newton Highlands. It specifies weekdays and Sunday trains, last trains, and returns with station names and times.

Brookline

Train Arrangements On Boston & Providence Railroad May 30 1887

Timetable details show trains from Boston to New York on Shore Line Fast Express with 104m trip and returns, plus New York Steamship routes via Stonington Line, and extensive local stops including Providence and Taunton. Schedules list morning and evening departures and returns, with numerous station times and connections to various lines.

Boston New York Middletown New Haven Pullman Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudson Newburgh Turners, N. Y Chicago & St. Louis Limited Erie Railway Montreal & West Vermont Lowell Chicago Fitchburg Wagner Palace Cree R. Kk Washington Street J. W. Hobart G. W. Cummings Bt. Albans NEW Stonington Line York ix Boston & Providence Railroad Stonington New York Ga. m Washington State Street Boston & Providence J. W. Richardson A. A. Folsom Sunt Beaton de Providance R Boston & Albany R.R Tcket Kneeland Street Springfield Pittsfield Albany Pia Daniel Shore Line New York Steamboat Weesio

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