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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1889
Page
7
Domestic flour quotations hold steady with no change as receipts show 3713 barrels and 3113 sacks. Corn and oats imports decline while markets across New York Chicago St Louis and Milwaukee stay slow, with prices flat and limited sales activity noted.
Butter receipts total 3033 packages today versus 3757 last year. Demand is quiet with a fairly steady market as creamery cream improves and buyers take only immediate small lots. Prices vary by region with choice creamery at 26c, most lots 24 25c, imitation 20 21c, and Eastern creamery 20 25c.
Receipts and trade activity vary by item with no major shifts noted. Butter and cheese demand steady to firm in some markets, eggs mixed with quiet trade in several cities, beans and potatoes listed with current wholesale quotes, and livestock staples excluding none in strong movement.
The market remains active with spinach in good supply and fair demand, onions dull with ample stocks, and dandelions receipts rising with ready sales on arrival. Ber muda onions see strong demand while Spanish onions are quiet. cabbage unchanged. Prices listed include Marrow squash 60 per ton, Hubbard 370 per ton, Bermuda onions 175 per crate, beets 25c per bush, lettuce 50 65c per bush, celery 15 17 per box, native dandelions 1. to 1.25 per bush, Baltimore spinach 125 per bbl, kale 75c per bbl, rhubarb 9c per bush.
Market notes dull opening with fear of manipulation and quick shorts covering. Prices across pork, lard, and beef show steady to firm quotes with regional receipts and varied firm bids from New York Cincinnati and St Louis. notable figures include fresh meat prices and tonnage for lard and bacon.
Market notes show mixed wholesale meat values with several cuts listed by price. Mutton and veal demand are reported as fair, with lambs and yearlings priced at varying levels. regional and grade distinctions appear for mutton, veal, and lamb in the Brighton and Eastern districts.
Cattle receipts 2968 at Stock Yards and Kansas City with steady tone. hog markets weak at Peoria and mixed elsewhere. Chicago reports strong cattle with 8000 receipts and 14 000 hogs. sheep firm with higher demand and Western lambs noted.
The Lorenzo D Baker is due March 30 carrying Jamaica fruits for the Boston Fruit Company. The North Britain sailed from Palermo March 11 for Boston, passing Gibraltar March 16 with 8050 boxes Messina oranges 2500 Messina lemons 9300 boxes Palermo lemons and 8400 boxes Palermo oranges. The Bergenseren is due April 2 with Baracoa bananas for WW & C R Noyes.
Apples receipts 1115 barrels, 549 less than last year. Baldwins 1 125 per barrel, russets 1 75, Tallman sweets 1 25, greenings 1 25. Grapefruit well stocked, oranges and lemons in supply, Med fruit steady, Floridas small yet firm. Messina lemons 6 25, Messina oranges 2 75, Palermo lemons 2 25, Valencia prices 3 50 to 6 50, Florida oranges 4 5 per box. Cranberries well supplied, dull trade. choice 8 per barrel, other grades 3 7 per case. Dried apples dull. evapo 6 4 to 7 ac, sun-dried 3 4 c. Strawberries arriving by rail 40 to 65 cents, fancy 70 cents.
Sugar receipts today 396 barrels 525 hogsheads versus 145 barrels last year. Raw sugar market steady firm with Cuba grades and various sugars quoted from 64 to 96 test centering around old figures. Refined supply small and demand strong with pulverized to confectioners grades listed. Havana sugar shows upward tendency. Molasses receipts today 131 barrels 333 hogsheads and more. prices strong with Porto Rico Ponce and New Orleans grades cited.
In New York middling uplands 10 3 16 cents. Futures opened and closed steady. Liverpool spot cotton quiet with demand limited at 6 1 16d for middling. Sales 7 000 bales. receipts 26 000 bales. Market movements show varied prices across regions and futures curves.
Tallow receipts today show 24 barrels and 8 bags versus last year 10 barrels and 2 pigs. Trade remains quiet. Prices quoted include city rendered at 4 4c, country at 432 4c, grease at 4 4c. New York market is steady with city at 49 16c. Coffee Rio prices down in New York. fair cargoes at 18 2 18 ec. Turpentine and petroleum reports show turpentine 48c, resin $115 117 1/2, tar $180 190, petroleum 7.25c with RSW 7c and cases at 9c.
Shipping list for the steamer Bavarian with 73 bales paper waste 23 cases plate glass 1000 sacks salt 101 tons cannel coal 2 cases plate glass 1 case de Lambert Bros 261 herces bleaching powder 4 casks 120 packages machinery 100 cases bottled beer 6 casks grease 20 do gum 1 box iron ware 2 cases blankets 3 cases boot laces 8 bales old bagging 42 bales do 46 sheets do 74 coils cordage 10 wire rope 63 catch 3 crates earthenware 122 tierces soda bleaching powder 2700 sacks salt 9 casks aniline salt ordered.
A list of cargo movements dated March 29 1889 from Bridgewater Windsor Digby Annapolis Sydney Yarmouth and other ports. Major consignments include schooner Umbina with flour oatmeal cornmeal and beans, schooner T W McKay with flour oats and more, and various goods aboard steamers Cleopatra Yarmouth and bark Eudora including hardware, clothing, meats, lumber and other commodities.
London cargoes show wheat easing while corn remains quiet with mixed American and Australian prices. Paris and Antwerp markets steady to dull as Liverpool spot wheat stays flat. March to June futures listed with various d to d prices. London and Liverpool live markets show mild weather and steady to weaker futures.
A list of buyers and firms from multiple cities including Allentown Philadelphia Baltimore Cleveland and Chicago visiting or represented in a shoe trade event. Names include Koch Leh Moore Marsh Bangs Alder Creighton Dixon Francis Vandergrift Payne Lester Canier Meis Meyer Thorne Gates Childs Carpenter Leonard Edwards Lazarus Snedicor Smith Buford Howell Hinkle Carnahan Blum Reeder KMcKee Kimball McMillan Henson Appledorn Coleman Goodbar Wolliner Murray Manier Hollins Carter Hall Wesson among others.
The piece argues that clear brief truthful ads in a widely read paper quickly earn public trust and profits. It warns against puffery and extols Warner’s Safe Cure and Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparilla as proven remedies that need no elaborate praise.
The copartnership in Rochester New York and Boston Massachusetts between Porter Farley John Hofman and Charles J Raymond is dissolved by mutual consent Raymond retiring. Farley and Hofman will collect all debts assume liabilities and continue the Rochester business under the name FARLEY HOFMAN. Boston March 18 1889.
Passenger timetable listing trains from Kneeland Street Station to New York via Fall River Line with numerous intermediate stops including Ashmont Braintree Brockton Cohasset Hingham Nantasket Beach Quincy and Taunton. It details weekday and Sunday departures with specific times for branches and through services and notes additional trains on Fridays and Tuesdays.
A list of seemingly Cape Cod area bus stop times shows departures and arrivals for towns like Bourne Brewster Harwich Provincetown Wellfleet and Nantucket with varied morning and afternoon slots. Some entries repeat with minor OCR errors such as 4.15m and 415 pm.
Readable portions list train departures from Providence Division to New York and many suburbs with numerous times, routes, and Sunday exceptions. The garbled OCR includes stations like Readville Roslindale Canton Junction Dedham and Newport with scattered departure times and notes for additional trains via Central Division.
West division trains depart from Boston stations for Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with numerous daily times listed for Andover Dover Danvers and other stops. Sunday trains include Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester and Portland with assorted morning and evening departures.
Eastern Division timetable lists trains from Boston Station to Amesbury and numerous towns including Beverly Ipswich Lynn Newburyport Portsmouth Revere Marblehead Swampscott and more with multiple daily departures and special services via branches and Thursday Saturday runs noted.
Detailed schedule listing through service from Boston to multiple towns and branches including North Woodstock Penigewassett, Montreal via White River Junction, and local Passumpsic and Northern lines. Specifies times such as 9 am 7 pm for several routes and numerous stop points across New England.
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