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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 09, 1889

Page

7

Flour and grain market report with broad price ranges

Domestic flour prices hold steady amid quiet trade as demand improves. Chicago Milwaukee St Louis New York reports show firm to strong tones for wheat corn oats and rye with varied receipts and exports, spot and futures values moving within recent ranges.

Minnesota Michigan Canada Superior Canada Roller Canada Extra Chicago Milwaukee St Louis New York City Detroit T Louis Toledo Boston & Albany Peona Peoria Burlington Canada

Butter Receipts and Prices Across Markets

Butter receipts today 1165 packages vs 990 last year. Market steady with outside quotation for creameries around 22c and most lots near 20c. Quotes by grade include Western extras 21 22c, Eastern creamery 18 20c, Baltimore market dull with 12 13c to 12 ½c notations.

Vermont Cincinnati New York Eastern Creamery Eastern Western Creamery Baltimore

Various market reports and prices from the East Coast grain and produce trade

Market notes show mixed signals across dairy cheese eggs potatoes and produce. The report cites quiet demand for old cheese with small supply and firm prices, steady egg receipts and firm Eastern prices, and steady hay and straw markets with no notable changes. It lists numerous price quotes for beans peas oats and other commodities, plus livestock and fowl pricing and regional variations.

Liverpool Cincinnati New York Baltimore Vermont New Hampshire Michigan Nova Scotias Islands California Lima Plack West Jersey Timothy North Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Vermont Hebrons Burbanks York Rose Hebrons Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Chenangoes

Market Prices for Produce and Truck Shipment Details

Norfolk boat arrives Friday with 80 pkgs cabbage 1100 crates peas 60 crates tomatoes 80 pkgs grass. Prices include cabbage 125 per barrel onions 2 per barrel various onions by crate bush etc. Track lists numerous regional origins and crate counts for vegetables and fruits with prices per crate per dozen or per bush across multiple vendors.

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Market notes on fruits and produce prices today

Apples show a quiet demand with a steady market and specific barrel prices for Baldwins, russets, and common varieties. Oranges and Lemons are well supplied with firm prices for Messina, Palermo, Valencia, and Florida fruit. Strawberries steady at 20 to 35 cents, Dried Apples dull with varying evaporated and sun-dried rates. Pine apples scarce from Jamaica at 18 to 20 cents each. Bananas well supplied with Jamaica bunches at 1 2 cents and Cuban varieties quoted.

Baldwins Maine Massachusetts Jamaica

Steamers Bring Bananas and Oranges to Boston Firms

The Schweigaard is due with Baracoa bananas for WW and C R Noyes. Kong Alf heads Jamaica bananas to Boston Fruit Company. Caledonia passed Gibraltar May 4 for Boston with Naples and Catania oranges and Catania lemons. Cervin carried Messina oranges and lemons and Palermo citrus specsed Gibraltar April 27. Viking due with Banes bananas for Seaverns & Co. Ditmarschen due Friday with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.

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

Auction Sale Of Steamer North Anglia Cargo

Harris & Co auctioned the steamer North Anglia cargo today detailing Palermo oranges 1242 cases at 4 dollars 37 42 for a half box 2 dollars 37 42 and Messina oranges at 1 dollar 75 4 25 with half boxes 87 42 dollars 3 37 42 plus Palermo lemons 25 cents 7 and Messina oranges 40 cents 3 10 per box Snow & Co to auction 450 cases Valencia oranges Friday.

H Harris & Co North Anglia Palermo Messina Snow & Co

Provisions report with pork prices and supplies across markets

Pork and pork products receipts listed for today with volumes and prices. Prices quoted show strong demand and varied cuts from long cuts to sausages and lard across New York Chicago and Cincinnati markets, with lard and middles showing strength and export demand noted.

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Meat Market Prices and Demand Report Update

Bulk meats hold firm with short ribs at 625 to 630 and bacon around 7. Fresh beef prices show steady demand and firm prices across grades from good steers at 6 4 to 7 7 cents. Lambs quiet, mutton and veals slow, with varied values for spring and fall stock and regional quotes across heavy, light, and rumps.

St Louis Chicago Brighton

Hog and cattle markets across major yards

Stock Yards Kansas City reports strong cattle receipts with native cows to 385, mixed butchers 300 to 800, stockers and feeders 3825. Hogs receipts 9491 firm with heavies 440, mediums 435 to 450, pigs 442 to 542. Peoria and St Louis show steady hogs, Cincinnati and Chicago mixed to firm. cattle strong to 436, hogs 455 to 490, sheep mixed to weak with natives around 385 to 470.

Kansas City Peoria St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Sugar and Molasses Market Update Summary

Sugar receipts reach 675 bbis with 106 birds and 3512 bags sold. Refined sugar prices steady with pulverized 9 1 2 c and granulated 8 1 2 c. Molasses receipts total 5 bbls and 111 hhds, market steady. Prices listed for Porto Rico and New Orleans syrups with varying grades.

Cuba Manilas Lloilos Javas Ponce Porto Rico New Orleans Cienfuegos

Quiet New York cotton market with varied futures

In New York cotton sales reach 1455 bales with mixed grades from uplands to middling. Futures open and close weak as prices show modest declines across May through February contracts. Major port markets report quiet to easy tone with mixed US stock, exports, and receipts across Augusta to Philadelphia.

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Market Report With Mixed Commodities and Flat Tone

Taow receipts show 48 barrels sold today versus 60 last year. Prices quoted across items reflect a quiet steady market with firm New York sentiment for birds and coffee dull Rio cargoes. Turpentine and petroleum show mixed pricing in New York with resin and tar figures noted and petroelum closing high.

Taow New York Birds City Rio Petroeum

Arrivals and livestock prices at Brighton and Watertown yards

The Boston Post report by George J. Fox for the week ending May 8 1889 details arrivals of cattle sheep and hogs at Watertown and Brighton yards and lists livestock quantities and price ranges for cattle sheep hogs hides and skins with figures for this week last week and a year ago.

Boston Post George J. Fox Watertown Suffolk Supreme Judicial Court Boston John Noble C., H. Cooper

Brighton Livestock Market Juiced by Strong Arrivals and Sales

Late arrivals at Brighton include 1 car sheep by L M Dyer, 10 cars sheep by Hollis & Co, 6 cars cattle by W H Monroe, 264 pigs, and 50 milch cows with a lively trade. Yard reports show robust milch cow and springer sales, plus several pairs of working oxen changing hands. Export trade notes 2664 cattle sailed from Boston this week, with Western cattle firm in value. Watertown yards list steady prices and ample stock headed for slaughter.

Brighton L M Dyer Farrell & Nagle Hollis & Co W H Monroe Atertown Hosmer & Taft Yardwell Boston Palestine J A Hathaway J Rollinger J Gould Istrian N Morris Stockholm City J Athaway L Johnson C P Burke HV Whipple M G Flanders S M Flint Maine Union Yards S H Wardwell West Chicago Watertown Moulton Connecticut B S Hastings J O Sanborn

Imports May 8 1889 Liverpool shipments by steamers Norseman and Bostonian

List of goods aboard steamers Norseman and Bostonian at Liverpool including steel, wool, flax, yarns, woollen products, cotton waste, oranges, tin plates, earthenware, dairy items, and many cases of mdse. Numerous firms named such as Baring Bros Co Kidder Peabody Co E F King Co and more. totals include thousands of bales cases casks and packages with multiple commodities and exporters noted. Deals with metals, chemicals, textiles, machinery and foodstuffs en route to New York and other ports.

Liverpool Eng Norseman Jere Abbott & Co Baring Bros & Co Richard Briggs Lorraine Mant Co Thomas Groom & Co E & F King & Co John D Lewis J B Moors & Co Karing Bros & Co Dennison Manus Co Charles Lawrence & Co Wetherell Kros Hardy & Co Macallar, Parker & Co Rich Co Pray, Sons & Co I Pierce & Robertson Stone & Powner Seaverns & Co W & C R Noyes Bostonian Buchanan Nichols & Farnsworth Manf Co Sherburne Cahill Vort Elizabeth CGH Brig Sylphide Weymouth Little Brook Belmont Roman

Overseas market notes show quiet steady cargoes and prices

London reports quiet but steady cargoes of wheat and firm corn markets. Liverpool price quotes for California wheat futures and May to November corn values are listed, with intermittent firmness in lard and cheese. Manchester notes a dull, cautious trend with weak demand and downward price tendency across textiles and yarns.

London Mark Lane Paris Sta‘ly Liverpool California Faris Manchester The Guardian India China Beran

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