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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1889
Page
7
The report discusses drought concerns across the wheat belt with reliance on soaking rain before any break. Corn opens firm then slips as trade slows. receipts match estimates with more contract-grade stock. Provisions rise, hog runs steady, pork makes an early surge then recovers. Armour’s lard holdings discussed but market not driven. Big bears seek gains for selling opportunity.
Weekly receipts total 3256 bags domestic and 3783 bales foreign, with year to date figures and price quotes across regions. Texas San Angelo and Carr clip volumes drive attention while New York Chicago and Philadelphia markets show mixed selling at 18 to 23 cents.
Australian wools list prices for combing and crossbred grades with ranges from 25c to 45c. Cape and Lon-tevideo wools show mid 20s to low 30s per pound. Carpet wools include Aleppo Angora Assyrian Cordova and other types with prices from 13c to 29c, plus various regional names and grades.
The report covers Boston markets with domestic flour quotations and carload grain receipts. It notes a quiet yet steady flour market with firmer New York and Chicago prices, and rail receipts of corn, oats, and rye across Milwaukee St Louis and Detroit, plus price ranges for wheat, rye, cornmeal, oats, butter, cheese, eggs, potatoes, poultry, hay, lard, and meat products amid mixed demand.
Butter receipts today total 5695 packages, up from 4344 last year. Market is lower and unsettled with quiet demand and buyer advantage. Vermont and New York lots nearing full gross arrived, outside prices for top creameries around 20c, most sales 18 to 19c, limited immediate small lots. Northern creamery receipts larger with choice lots around 20c, firsts and extra firsts slow, most dairies not quoting above 18c. Im itation creameries quiet and ladle packed goods lower.
Market notes strong demand with prices steady for cabbage onions beets lettuce and several greens. Listed quotes include Bermuda onions 1 per crate Spanish onions 85 cents per crate and Florida tomatoes 33 cents per crate among many other items and regions.
Apples receipts today 151 barrels down from last year 179. Demand quiet with quotes for Baldwins Maine 2 2 25 per barrel, Massachusetts Baldwins 1 1 25, russets 1 75 2 25, common 50c to 1 per barrel. Oranges lemons well supplied with firm prices. Messina lemons 3 44, Messina oranges 3 50 400 box, Palermo lemons 3 4 50, Palermo oranges 3 50 400 box, Valencias 4 5 per case, Florida oranges 3 50 400 box. Strawberries active 16 to 35c. Evaporated 64 72c, good to choice 64 6c, sun dried 3 4c. Pine apples Jamaica sales 11 18c each. Bananas Jamaicas 1 2 per bunch, Baracoa reds 1 25, Baracoa yellows 1 25 1 50.
The Schweigaard arrives with Baracoa bananas for WW and R Noyes and will sell Friday. Kong Alf due with Jamaica bananas to the Boston Fruit Co. Caledonia passed Gibraltar May 4 for Boston with Naples oranges and Catania lemons. Cervin passed Gibraltar April 27 with Messina and Palermo fruit. Viking due with Banes bananas to Seaverns. Ditmarschen due Friday with bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Fitzroy loaded at Messina with oranges and lemons for Boston.
Today receipts show pork none in bulk, lard 187 tierces, 170 cases and 180 tubs, hams 103 barrels, bacon 147 boxes, dressed hogs none, preserved meats none. Last year figures show pork 158 barrels, lard 461 tierces, 1 case and 70 tubs, hams 108 barrels, 18?
KC stock yards report strong cattle receipts with native cows and stockers mixed butchers. Hogs receipts rise with firm to higher quotes in St Louis Yorkers and packers at $4 45 to 4 70. Chicago cattle and hog markets show higher cattle values and steady to improving hog prices with diverse classes and regional movements.
Upland and Gulf grades held firm with middling around 11 1 16 cents. May futures show firm open and close while Liverpool lists steady to unchanged prices across several grades and dates. Atlantic ports report mixed receipts and exports to Britain and France with steady or firmer tones in most centers.
Sugar receipts today for 5 bbis versus 65 bbls last year and 678 birds with 9050 bags sold. Refined sugars steady with firm prices from 7 to 9 cents and confectioners’ A at 8 4 cents. molasses receipts 325 bbls and market steady with fair demand.
Miscellaneous market note records today’s tallow receipts 103 barrels 9 bags 6 gokes versus last year 38 barrels 7 bags. Prices quoted city grease rough country at 4 2 4 cents with Chicago trade quiet in New York City at 45 16 cents.
From St Johns Newfoundland and Yarmouth Nova Scotia ships report cargoes including lobsters salmon halibut canned goods butter eggs crates crates and assorted items listed with firms such as T J Jones F H Johnson J D Dana Barclay F L Clements E S Ellis J G Hall Delonge Seaman Hutchinson and others.
Export manifest dated May 0 1889 catalogues cargoes from Arichat West Bay Sydney Demerara St Johns NF Buenos Aires Digby Annapolis and related vessels. Items include flour oats pork beef oil lard coffee hardware and lumber with specific quantities, vessels and destinations.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat steadier with 10 arrived since last report and 4 sold, 17 waiting. Paris and Mark Lane markets steady, Liverpool breadstuffs firm with poor demand but steady prices for wheat at 6s 7d winter, 7s 4d spring. corn firmer at 38 10144, pork and bacon prices steady to firmer, lard up, cheese steady, tallow at 25s.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Superior Court April 1889 action of contract to recover five thousand dollars against Payn and Storm partners of New York, Bower and Bartlett of Boston, and Pierce & Co. trustees. Defendants nonresidents. publication ordered in Boston Post once weekly for three weeks. appearance required June first at Boston.
Corrected February 17 1889 timetable listing daily train departures from Boston Foot of Summer for Ashcroft Baltimore Blackstone Danbury Dedham Dorchester and many other stops with varied times prices and notes. Includes Woon socket division and Sunday and holiday adjustments with express and through connections to New York Hartford Philadelphia and other destinations.
Through trains listed for the Boston and Maine system on March 4 1889. Timetable shows services from Haymarket and Causeway stations to Augusta Bangor St John Halifax Portland Lewiston Manchester Concord North Conway and other Maine and Atlantic destinations with multiple daily departures and steamship connections from Portland to Canada and Nova Scotia ports.
Train times list departures from Boston stations toward Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington and other New England points. Sunday service includes Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Portland Bangor Lewiston and Reading area stops with multiple daily options.
Railroad timetable for Eastern Division shows departures from Moston Station to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Hampton Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Middleton Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Revere Rockport Gloucester Salem York Harbor Saugus Branch Swampscott Wenham Wolfeboro Lynn Way Stations and other lines with numerous daily times and notes on branches and work trains.
Complex timetable lists through service from Boston to multiple New England towns and branches with morning and evening departures. It covers Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren White River Junction St Johnsbury Newport Sherbrooke Montreal and many local points on Pagssumpsie and Northern divisions with scattered times and stations. Timetables note through trains to Montreal and local service from Boston with extensive stops and multiple daily departures.
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