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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1889
Page
7
Chicago and New York markets show varied activity with receipts in the tens of thousands of bushels. Spot quotes list No 2 white at 37 1 2 to 38 4, No 3 white around 33 to 42, and mixed grades around 38 8 to 38 4. Futures dull as prices firm. calls show limited sales and settlements near prior levels.
Weekly produce receipts for May 11 show butter totals of 11 462 pkgs and 2 369 boxes with higher year earlier figures. oleo and cheese receipts also reported. Butter prices steady in New York Chicago and Baltimore markets with bids from 14 15c to 20c for various grades. overall market remains buyer-friendly.
Florida and North Carolina lots are noted along with Tennessee lots selling at 3 dollars per barrel. Poultry markets show steady demand with mixed freshness levels and prices for live, fresh killed, Western ice packed, and frozen birds. Hay and straw receipts are listed with prices for choice prime hay and rye straw.
The listing shows current wholesale prices for cabbage at 1.25 per barrel, onions at 2 per barrel, Bermuda onions 2 cents per bunch, Spanish onions 85 cents per crate, beets 25 cents per bush, hot house 2 dollars per bunch, carrots 1.50 per barrel, lettuce 50 to 75 cents per box, turnips 65 cents per box, French turnips 1.26, radishes 50 cents per dozen, long turnips 40 to 60 cents per dozen, parsnips 75 to 90 cents per bush, native dandelions 6 cents per bush, native spinach 25 to 35 cents per bush, native kale 60 to 75 cents per bushel, beet greens 1 dollar per bush, cucumbers 9 dollars per 100 count, rhubarb 3 cents per pound, parsley 1 dollar per bush, green peas North Carolina 1.2 dollars, Savannah 50 cents per 1 dollar per crate, Southern beets 2 dollars per 250 count crate, asparagus Norfolk 25 cents per dozen bunches, native asparagus 60 to 62 cents per dozen, string beans Florida 1.60 per crate, Florida wax beans 2.25 per crate, Florida tomatoes 3 dollars per crate, Southern cabbage 2.50 to 3.00 per crate, native cucumber 6 dollars per dozen, summer squash 1 dollar per crate.
The week’s receipts show apples 2257 bbls strawberries 850 pkgs Florida oranges 26 boxes Valencia oranges 2581 cases bananas 64171 bunches. Year earlier apples 930 bbls strawberries 896 pkgs Florida oranges 17 boxes Valencia oranges 838 cases Palermo oranges 8443 boxes Palermo lemons 10340 boxes bananas 4166.
The Cana arrives Tuesday with Barbados bananas for Seaverns Co. The Lorenzo D Baker heads in Friday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co. The Marmion due Wednesday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Caledonia passed Gibraltar May 4 for Boston with oranges and lemons from Naples and Catania. Cervin passed Gibraltar April 27 with Mesina and Palermo citrus. Fitzroy loaded at Messina for Boston with oranges and lemons.
Jonathan Bigelow and Company to auction one car of Tennessee strawberries on Monday and another car on Tuesday. Snow and Company sold Tennessee strawberries at today’s auction at 17 23 cents. Some off lots fetched lower prices.
Receipts for the week ending May 11 show large pork and beef volumes and varied hog counts with year-ago comparisons. Prices quoted across regions include long cuts 14 75 to 15 1500, lard 8 to 9 cents, hams 11 cents, bacon around 6 to 7 dollars per box, and fresh beef varieties with multiple per pound rates. Local markets note steady demand and mixed trade for beef and pork products.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts 1662 with strong demand. Shippers average 330 to 400, natives 250 to 300, mixed butchers 190 to 245, stockers 3 to 3.35. Hogs receipts 7136 with market lower. heavies 430 to 440, mediums 430 to 445, pigs 400 to 460. Sheep receipts 472 steady at 3 to 350. St Louis hogs firm. York line noted.
Packers and butchers sell in East Buffalo with steady market and varied car receipts. Cincinnati hogs are quiet with moderate packing prices. Chicago cattle and hog markets show steady beeves and mixed stockers with large hog receipts and firmer sheep quotes.
New York cotton opens firm and closes quiet with upland orders at 8 4c to 11c and futures near steady. Liverpool dull with middlings around 6 1 16d, receipts 16 000 bales, American sales 4200 bales, futures steady. Across US ports shortages press prices and stocks in Augusta Galveston New Orleans and others show varied demand and steady to firm tones.
Sugar receipts today 15 325 bags down from 27 last year. Trade quiet with steady market. Refined sugars in small supply with fair demand. Molasses receipts 391 bbls with steady market and fair demand for Ponce Porto Rico New Orleans Cienfuegos and other grades.
Ta low receipts show current day and year comparing barrels and bags with birds and packages. New YorkTrade remains quiet at a range of values while Cffee-New York-Rio shows a fair car and quiet conditions. Turpentine and Petroleum markets vary with turpentine closing at 40c rosin at 110 112% tar at 210 petroleum at 7.10c with RSW 6.85c and cases 8.75c.
A detailed ledger from London and ports includes steamer cargoes with 116 bales rags 48 bags 122 wool 537 flax and lists numerous firms such as Baring Bros & Co Naylor & Co J A Hayes & Co Stone & Downer and others. Entries cover iron cement oil wine and a wide mix of goods including coffee tobacco machinery and hardware with destinations in Havanna Port Antonio and Liverpool.
A dense ledger lists numerous consignments including tin plates, woollens, machinery, leather, textiles, glassware, paving the way for a bustling cargo flow. Entries name firms such as Fuller, Dana & Fitz, Beal Higgins & Henderson, Brown Durrell & co, and Stoddard Lovering among others with quantities of boxes, cases, bales, casks, and parcels spanning groceries to hardware and machinery. The document reads like a commerce index detailing shipments to merchants across varied goods and vendors.
A lengthy shipping list details cargoes departing and arriving in 1889 at Port Antonio Jamaica Halifax Nova Scotia and Charlottetown Prince Edward Island. Items include flour beef lard oaths oatmeal beans potatoes beans bananas and various hardware fittings boxes crates and machinery aboard steamers schooners and a Bavarian steamer along with weights counts and destinations.
London reports steady wheat and firm corn with cargoes arriving and sales pending. Paris and Liverpool markets show quiet wheat, while English weather remains wet and futures for wheat rise at Liverpool as mixed American corn prices hold.
A compressed OCR fragment catalogs names and firms from Augusta Chicago Davenport Davenport to St Louis and Washington. It lists W J Rooney C J Rooney & Co Craw Gr amling Spalding J A Simpkinson O H Simpkinson M D Wells Qu Davenport S P Bryant P J Willis & Bro Lexington W Bassett S Bassett Sons Gregg Elliott Rome A W Tedcastle KG Clark Co Q St Joseph A T Smith Smith Frazer B & Co J Baum J Baum Co and R Cohen Am.
In Suffolk a third creditors meeting for H M Hartshorn & Company Boston lessees of Tremont House insolvent debtors will be held at the Court of Insolvency Boston on June 14 1889 at 10 AM. Assignee Samuel J Elder 23 Court Street Boston to present accounts, allow objections, and prove claims.
Public probate notices request appearance in Cambridge and Boston courts for Henry F. Naphen Anna Bel l ows Russell Bellows and others. Citations require publication in the Boston Post over three weeks and specify dates, locations, and executors for letters testamentary or administration with no sureties.
Boston Causeway Street timetable lists through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville plus North Woodstock Penigewassett Valley Branch and Montreal routes. Local Boston Manchester Concord services show dozens of departures from early morning to late evening including Meene Peterboro Hillsboro Nashua and Woburn with many stops and varied times.
Trains depart Boston station and Haymarket for Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover and other local stops with listed morning and evening times across multiple towns including Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Melrose and Lowell Sunday service also noted with additional city runs and connections to Portland Bangor and Lewiston.
Night and day timetables show trains from Boston to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Roches ter Hampton Beach Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Middleton Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Salem and more with dozens of departure times across morning and evening hours. The list includes special branches Saugus York Harbor Beach and Workingmen's train via South Reading with operational notes.
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