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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1888
Page
8
Receipts for the month include butter cheese eggs beans potatoes and hay with varied unit counts. Butter markets hold steady with Western Vermont and New York price ranges and buyers for immediate needs. cheese and eggs show steady demand and prices, while beans grasses and poultry list steady quotes and mixed regional variations.
The steamers Gwent and Hertha are due in May carrying bananas for Seaverns & Co and for W. W. & C. R. Noyes respectively. The Gwent is scheduled for May 1 and the Hertha for May 4 with the cargoes aboard.
Fruit totals for April show apples 10048 bbls, strawberries 1243 pkgs, Florida oranges 3967 boxes. 1887 figures were apples 9849 bbls, strawberries 944 pkgs, Florida oranges 9688 boxes. Apple prices steady with ranges for Baldwins and russets. strawberries well supplied with 30 to 40 cents. oranges unchanged with various steamer Sidonian, Valencia and Palermo quotes listed. Bananas steady. Jamaica fruit and Baracoa prices noted.
Receipts for the month ending April 30 show pork 246 bbls, beef 28 bbls, fresh beef 148 cars, lard 741 tierces, 1178 cases and 5072 pkgs, hams 872 bbls and 1065 tierces, bacon 1556 boxes, tallow 195 bbls, creases and other items. Compared to 1887, pork 200 bbls, beef 11y bbls, fresh beef 129 cars, lard 331 tierces, hams 327 bbls, bacon 2432 boxes. Prices: pork steady, long cuts $17 25–17 75, lard and hams unchanged, various hog and beef values across New York, Chicago, and St Louis markets.
Florida beets at 125 dollars per crate and 750 per bush for beets. Bermuda onions 883744 per crate. native onions 87 percent of barrel price. Egyptian onions four dollars per case. cabbage native per barrel 3 8560. Hubbard squash 70 dollars per ton. lettuce 50 to 60 cents per dozen. celery 7 8 box. rhubarb Chicago 250 dollars per case. radishes one dollar per dozen for long, 60 cents per dozen for small.
Hogs and cattle markets show varied strength across regions. Kansas City hogs higher with receipts about 6000. Peoria steady with sales around 610 550. St. Louis hogs firm with yorkers mostly 565 30 and packers 525 60. Cincinnati hogs steady 450 550 and 545 80. Chicago cattle slow and lower with steers 360 600. Texas steers 875 405. hogs steady 625 560 mixed 525 650. sheep receipts 2000 with steady prices 650 95 for shorn and 450 0 for Western and Texans 375 550.
Allan Asher & Co report favorable Liverpool advices with active demand for spots. Texas floods spark covering by shorts. U S port receipts total 5,225,000 bales since September, with exports to Great Britain at 4,019,000 bales. New York futures opened quiet and closed firm. Liverpool spot steady for uplands at 63 4 4d and Orleans at 57 16d. broad U S and global market mixed with regional receipts and stocks listed.
Sugar and molasses prices hold firm with modest demand across Cuba Peru and New York markets. Raw sugars show quiet firm quotes in Cuba with refineds steady unchanged. Malassea and Porto Rico notes list steady or nominal prices with specific grades and tests. One cargo of 50 test sold to Philadelphia at 20 cents in New York.
Miscellaneous market notes report dull pricing in New York stock and commodity sectors including turpentine coffee and whiskey. Turpentine rosin tar and petroleum are listed with varied cents and dollar figures while Rio and Cincinnati markets show stability.
Receipts list extensive staple shipments across multiple rail lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine divisions and others. Entries show cotton wool flour corn oats wheat malt barley peas feed lard butter cheese eggs hides leather and various packaged goods with quantities. Names of railroads and commodity totals indicate volumetric commerce in spring 1888.
A dense OCR style inventory item lists quantities of various goods including beans apples potatoes lumber hay hides leather calfskins pelts and more expressed in bbls bags rolls bales casks and cars. The fragment provides no dates places or organizations but shows a broad mix of agricultural and material items in assorted units.
A commerce list from April 30 1888 notes cargoes at Annapolis and Digby NS including steamer Cleopatra with potatoes apples eggs and bbls. Barrington Schooners with lobsters. Cornwallis and French Cross shippers with potatoes wood and bales. Rosario bark with wool and skins. Savannah steamers with cotton fruit and refrigerators. multiple firms such as Boston Consolidated Produce Co A O Mead & Co and Gillette & Hennigan listed among others with volumes and goods like cotton lobster potatoes and oranges.
The April 30 1888 export list from Tamatave records cargoes including 2679 bales brown cottons 64 cases bleached cottons 27 cases prints 3000 cases kerosene oil 50 cases soda biscuit 30 bolls hoop iron 1 iron safe 16 kegs ee eres boxes shooks 25 cases clocks 225 bbls out.
A scanned ledger lists imports and values by region, including England Scotland Germany Belgium Pernambuco Surinam Porto Rico Nova Scotia Melbourne Manila and more. It records dry goods wool silk oatmeal hemp potatoes rubber paper stock glass machinery metals and various raw materials with regional totals and a grand total of 1 726 977 dollars.
London market news notes wheat and flour firm and corn strong amid cargo activity. Mark Lane quotations show mixed American corn and Danubian grain rising. Liverpool spot wheat firmer, country markets dearer. England weekly wheat deliveries total 47 619 quarters with average price around $3. Od. Liverpool session lists winter wheat 65 8d 6s 9d, spring 6s 7d to 9d, club wheat 6s 10d.
The report lists corn, mixed Western, peas, pork, bacon, cheese, tal low, and lard prices with both spot and futures data. It records wheat and corn futures firm with specific May June July and August values and notes Antwerp and Paris market levels for flour and spot status.
A long OCR list names shoe firms and buyers in multiple cities including Gramling Spaulding & Jo in Atlanta, Moore Marsh & Co in Baltimore, Phelps in Chicago, Selz Schwab in Milwaukee, and many others. The item catalogs firms and representatives such as Durrell Bros Cincinnati, Hinkle Nesbit in Galveston, Bears Torrey in Minneapolis, and Blanchard in Quincy, detailing a network of boot and shoe trade contacts across states.
Fragmentary OCR shows a ledger style entry with numbers and percentages, referencing Oliver Ditson & Co Boston and railroads. Missing context prevents full interpretation but includes financial figures such as 41.00 and 4.1 percent, plus subsequent amounts like 7.45 and 4.16, alongside partial product or stock terms.
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