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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 07, 1889

Page

7

Grain and flour markets show mixed activity across cities

Market tones varied with firm wheat in Milwaukee and higher in Chicago and St Louis while New York and Detroit receipts mix with dull Chicago and Toledo. No 2 red and No 2 spring prices quoted among grains. flour and meal markets steady to quiet with modest demand and varied export quotes.

New York Milwaukee St Louis TVAC Chicago Detroit Toledo Peoria State Western Canada Michigan

Wholesale market summary for dairy and produce items today

Receipts show 936 pkgs butter down from 1425 last year with steady demand and unchanged prices. Quotations include Western extras 22 23c and Vermont creamery 20 23c. cheese and eggs firm though some regions weak. Ol omaergerine and beans show no major shifts. potatoes, poultry, hay, and straw remain steady with varied regional quotes.

Vermont Eestern Cincinnati Chicago New York Western Eastern Baltimore North Choice Liverpool New Michigan Nova Scotias Islands California Lima West North Jersey Timothy Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Hebrons Burbanks York Nova Scotia New Brunswick Rose Prince Edward Island Chenangoes Florida

Market Report Prices for Fresh Produce and Vegetables

The market shows strong supply and demand for cabbage onions lettuce beets carrots turnips radishes cucumbers and greens. Prices listed include cabbage 1.25 per barrel onions 2 per barrel various crate and box prices for Bermuda Spanish native onions turnips parsnips cucumbers rhubarb parsley and peas with regional notes for North Carolina and Savannah markets.

Bermuda St Andrews North Carolina Savannah

Farm Produce Prices From Regional Markets

List of vegetables with prices per crate or dozen and regional origins. Items include Southern beets, asparagus from Norfolk and New Jersey, native asparagus, string beans, wax beans and tomatoes from Florida and Chicago, cabbage, cauliflower, and summer squash with price figures such as 2 250 P crate for beets, 1 150 doz bunches for asparagus, and 3 P crate for tomatoes.

Norfolk Jersey Chicago Florida

Fruit and Produce Prices and Market Report

Apples receipts 137 bbls today vs 35 last year. Bald wins Maine two 25 per bbl, Massachusetts Baldwins 1 12 per bbl, russets 1 75 to 2 25 per bbl, common 50 cents to 1 per bbl. Oranges lemons well supplied. Florida scarce, Messina lemons 3 to 4, Messina oranges 3 50 to 4 per box, Palermo lemons 3 45 per box, Palermo oranges 3 50 to 4 per box, Valencia 4 5 per case, large 5 6 per case. Strawberries 15 to 30 cents. Evaporated 64 2 to 7 2 cents. Sun dried 3 to 4 cents. Jamaica pines 10 to 25 cents. Bananas Jamaicas 1 2 per bunch, Baracoa reds 1 25, Baracoa yellows 1 25 to 1 50. Steamer Amicitia arrives with bananas for Seaverns & Co. sales 1 25 per bunch for red and yellow.

Baldwins Maine Massachusetts Baracoa Amicitia Seaverns & Co

Auction Offers Valencia Oranges and Cargo of Northern Anglia

Snow and Co sold Valencia oranges at auction today with 5 265 regulars and 575 61244 for large. Harris and Co announce another auction Tuesday for 300 cases Valencia oranges. Wednesday will feature the North Anglia cargo with 1900 boxes and 900 half boxes Messina oranges 1600 Messina lemons 7400 Palermo oranges and 12100 lemons.

Snow & Co Valencia Harris & Co North Anglia

Fruit Steamers and Cargoes Note April Arrivals

The Schweigaard arrives Thursday with Baracoa bananas for WW and CR Noyes. Kong Alf due Thursday with Jamaica bananas to Boston Fruit Co. Caledonia passed Gibraltar April 16 to Boston with Naples and Catania oranges and Catania lemons. Cervin Gibraltar April 27 with Messina and Palermo oranges and lemons. Viking due Thursday with Banes bananas to Seaverns & Co.

Schweigaard Baracoa WW & CR Noyes Kong Alf Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Caledonia Gibraltar Boston Naples Catania Cervin Viking Banes Seaverns & Co

Market Report on Pork and Other Meats Prices

Receipts today show pork 291 barrels lard 355 tierces 100 cases hams 8 barrels bacon 140 boxes and no dressed hogs or preserved meats. New York markets report pork more active and steady with various cuts priced. beef and tongues moderate. lard mixed. Prices across Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and other hubs noted with assorted fresh meats quotes and demand at old prices.

New York Western Steam Tierces City Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Ome Brighton

Hog and cattle market quotes from major U S yards

Stock Yards Kansas City reports slow cattle trade with native cows at 250 to 315 and stockers around 3 to 3 25, hogs down with heavies 425 to 445 and medium to lights 324 to 445, sheep steady at 3 75. Chicago and St Louis show mixed prices, with hogs 4 40 to 4 65 and cattle 3 25 to 4 15. Cincinnati notes strong hog demand and higher packer prices.

Kansas City St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Sugar Market Report Shows Firm Refined Prices and Quiet Demand

Sugar receipts and prices across markets show firm refined sugars with steady demand while raw prices vary. Cuba Woan refinery quality and Havana area yields are noted alongside Manila and Javas grade pricing. Molasses receipts and regional prices from Porto Rico to New Orleans and Cienfuegos are listed with general market tone quiet and strong in places.

Woan Cuba Manilas Lloilos Javas New York

New York Cotton Prices Steady in Mixed Trade

In New York cotton market activity shows firm tones with sales of 251 bales of uplands. Prices cited include ordinary at 87 16 to 87 13 16 cents, good ordinary around 9 13 16 cents, and mid to high ranges near 10 cents, with mid at 118 160.

New York Boston Boston & Albany

Cotton market mixed as futures open easy and close weak

Liverpool cotton markets show steady futures with low middlings at 6d and good ordinary around 5s8d while American receipts rise. Domestic cities report varied stock, receipts, and exports with overall quiet to steady demand and mid price levels across ports.

WAG Bs Cb Secres POLY Nowomogl Aess Eine Eeus Ousta Liverpool Ceeee Enianes Aos Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Mobile Anil E. Savannah Memphis Charleston Wilmington C. Norfolk Ile West Point Great Britain Philadelphia Baltimore New York Continent Cincinnati St Louis

PIPE LINE AND COTTONSEED OIL CERTIFICATES AND TRADE REPORTS

Pipe line certificates show closing on May 4 and May 8 with openings May 6 and May 6 at 10 am and 3 pm. Cottonseed oil certificates close May 4 at 3 pm, open May 6 at 10 am with highs and lows listed. The five rail receipts from Jan 1 to Apr 30 total 6,112,000 barrels. shipments reach 8,741,000 barrels, May daily output about 92,000. April stock declined 700,000 to about 16,500,000 barrels. May stock expected to fall 800,000. U S exports through date total 180,509,000 gallons, up 18,635,000 gallons.

United States

Market Report From Ta'low Receipts and Related Prices

Ta'low receipts show 74 barrels and 1 hogshead on the same day last year compared with 81 barrels and 5 hogsheads now. Prices quoted include city grain at 44 4 percent, grease at 3 4 cents, and varied notes across whiskey coffee turpentine and petroleum markets with New York and Chicago centers cited and prices listed for rosin tar and petroleum futures.

New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Rio Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Suffolk Charles Sargent Boston Anne M. Sargent Boston Post Joan W. McKim Esquire Elijah George Register

Massive 19th Century Ocean Trade List Arrives in Liverpool and Savannah

The May 6 1889 cargo record from Liverpool lists Steamer Catalonia loads including terne plates machinery soap pipes wine and countless crates and cases from Fuller Dana Fitz Baring Bros and many other traders. Savannah steamer Gate City and Antwerp Wetherby shipments bring oranges vegetables cotton domestics rosin spirits pig iron lumber and window glass among hundreds of items.

Liverpool Eng Catalonia Fuller, Dana & Fitz Baring Bros & Co Richard Sriggs Stowell & Co Soap Weaver & Sterry Pierce & Co Cushman P Machinery Atlantic Mills Stone & Downer Crosby Steam Gauge & Valve Co Riverside Worsted Co Shuman & Co Cumner, Jones & Co Noyes Campbell & Co J & J Murdock Dudley & Batinelle Wilcox & Co Shepard Norwell & Co Coleman, Mead & Co R Leeson & Co Lovett, Hart & Phipps Co British Hosiery Co Larrabee & Co Knights Morey & Co Clapp & Co Dainrell & Upham Case Haberdashery Chafflin John G Mitchell Moiser Mazoum & Co Jacobus Jose & Co Nicholson, Frost & Co Clark Sawyer &Clark Abram French & Co John M O’rourke Washburn & Moon Mfg Co H Pray, Sons & Co Davenport Shreve, Crump & Low Mr Doogue Julius Littaner Frost & Adams Robbins & Appleton Alfred B Hall & Co G & Fariaow Boston Wall Paper Co R H Wlute & Co Carl Schoenhof Savannan Gate City Bourne & Co Bigelow Chamberlain Farnu Morrison Boynton & Co Jones & Co Prince & Co George E Newhall Richardson & Dennie Adams & Co Moors & Co Moise G Bros & Co

Trade cargo listings across ships and ports

The document catalogs cargo items and consignors aboard vessels and at ports including ARACOA Seaver ns Grand Cayman Charlottetown Halifax Pictou Port Hawkesbury and Rosario. It lists commodities such as bananas logwood sugar molasses onions eggs lobsters and potatoes, along with quantities and consignors like J Wirth A Kleipstein Booth Co Brown Deloria Co and Morse & Holt. It evidences a busy maritime trade with multiple ships and stakes across Caribbean Atlantic and Canadian ports.

James W Fts & Co Wirth Turner & Co E & F King & Co Bai Books Boston Medical Co Geiler Moise Hill, Turner & Co Horace Partridge & Co Mitchell Woodbury & Co Aracoa Seaverns & Co Grand Cayman Bixby & Co Halifax Charlottetown Port Hawkesbury Pictou Worcester Brown Deloria & Co Butler Beaman Bros J Bowles & Co Bartlett, Lyman & Co Barclay & Co Boston Consolidated Produce Co Cutler Griffin & Co Hinckley, Avers & Co Murray Waldo Bros Rosario H H Wright Wool Brown Bros & Co Miragoane Matilda Buck

Exports May 6 1889 Cleopatras Freight Declared

The ship Cleopatra sails from Digby to Annapolis NS with cargo including 12 bags corn 4 cases paint 11 bale netting 2 wagon bodies 6 plus carriage stock 60 plus household goods 5 barrels oil 200 egg carriers 5 crates bananas.

Digby Annapolis Pkus

Value of Boston Exports Week Ending May 3 1889

Boston export values show totals of 61 225 670 with detailed categories. Major commodities include bacon breadstuffs cotton raw oils and refined products, and notable import destinations include England Scotland Newfoundland and Labrador and the British West Indies.

Boston Isda Wien Erminor England Nova Scotia Miquelon Langley Scotland Newfoundland and Labrador British West Indies Azores Madeira Argentine Republic Wormale Cossveses Belgium Ccuws Sas Cmees

Wheat and corn market activity in London and Liverpool

London reports slow cargo movement for wheat and corn with very inactive shipments and weak flour. Liverpool notes dull wheat futures and poor demand with steady or weaker prices across commodities. Antwerp and Paris markets quiet due to holidays. Weather is fine in England. farmers’ wheat deliveries reach 61,135 quarters, averaging 29s 10d.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool England California Antwerp Laris

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