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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 16, 1888

Page

7

Agricultural Prices and Market Report from Houlton and New York

Houlton prices show rose at 105 dollars and Burbanks at 76 to 85 cents, with numerous varieties listed. New York trade is quiet but steady on rose and Burbanks at about 2.25 dollars, along with sweets at 5 dollars. Hay and rye straw values are steady, with ranges for prime hay and straw. Poultry markets note no changes, with Western turkeys and chickens priced by quality and region.

Houlton Rose Bush Houlton Hebrons Aroostook Rose Aroostook Hebrons Burbanks White Davis Beechines Nova Scotia New Brans Rose New York Bermuda East Swale

Banana Steamer Arrivals and Banana Shipments

The steamer Amaiticia arrives May 18 with bananas from Baracoa for WW and C R Noyes. The steamer Aguan arrives May 18 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Schweigaard arrives May 17 from coa with bananas for Seaverns and Co.

Banana Steamers Amaicitia Baracoa WW & C R Noyes Aguan Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Schweigaard Coa Seaverns & Co

Fruit prices and market notes from the Cumbrian cargo sale

The sale lists prices for Palermo lemons at 62'44c per box and Palermo oranges at 75c with a $4 6214 per box bill. Apples show firm demand but quiet trade with Baldwins at $5 and russets at $3.3 to $6. Strawberries move slowly at about 20c per quart. Jamaica fruit steady with Baracoa around $1.60. Cherry lots are small and slow at $4 per crate.

H Harris & Co Palermo Baldwins Messina Valencia Jamaica California

Provisions Market Shows Steady Pork Demand with Varied Prices

The market notes steady demand for pork with firm prices across long cuts and backs. Prices for lard and hams vary by size and cure, with beef and other meats showing mixed activity. Regional markets in New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati reflect overall firmness in bulk meats and steadier pork pricing.

New York City Extra India Western City Steam Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Quiet Demand Holds Steady Prices Across Truck Market

The market reports steady prices for assorted produce with no change in demand. Items listed include asparagus at 2 dollars per dozen, green peas from several origins, tomatoes, cabbage, onions, beets, squash, lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, and more, with varied crate and per-basket pricing.

Savanah North Carolina Florida Baltimore Chicago St Andrews

Sugar and Molasses Prices in New York Trade Report

Sugar prices firm with cautious consumer demand as refined grades hold steady. Havana centri fugal sales quoted at 95 to 96 olatizacion and $206%4 to $97% gold per quintal. Molasses shows steady demand with Porto Rico and Ponce quotes around 26 to 38 cents per gallon and 50 test boiling grades at 27 to 30 cents.

Cuba Manilas New York Havana Ponce Porto Rico Cousman Ciennuevos Mayaguez

HOG AND CATTLE MARKETS SUMMARY

Kansas City hogs steady to 10 cents lower as receipts reach 15 000. St Louis hogs mixed buyers paid 520 to 570 for Yorkers and butchers. Cincinnati prices firm with packing and butchers at 540 to 590. Chicago cattle receipts 7000 with heavy beeves weak at 440 to 600, steers 475 cows 175 to 350. Hogs receipts 11 000 with mixed 460 to 70. heavy 555 to 580. light 540 to 565. Sheep receipts 8000 with dull trade. shorn Texans 470. fancy woolled 700 to 2600.

Kansas City St Louis Cincinnati Common Chicago

Cotton market dull with limited sales and cautious stance

Allan Asher & Co reports flat foreign advices and dull Liverpool spot, 264d arrivals. Cotton certificates opened quiet with sales 2 points below yesterday. limited trading and no selling pressure to short. Closing prices down 1 point. Augusta frost noted and young cotton dying. Host goods market signals scarce export styles and better prices expected later. spinners in some towns fairly stocked for the season.

Allan Asher & Co Exchange Place Liverpool Augusta Siy

Cotton Markets Show Mixed Movement Across Ports and Regions

An impression grows that manufacturers are not as well stocked as last year. Port receipts and stocks shift while exports decline. New York cotton rests around 10 to 11 cents with dull futures. Liverpool spot and futures show reduced activity. Across major ports, receipts, exports, and stocks display varied, with several markets reporting steady to quiet demand and modest prices. Consolidated four day receipts total 15,985 with exports to Britain 11,986 and to France 1,656.

New York McKecty Cael Totas Sea Hung I'S Ceca Cele Esa Ca GS Ko Liverpool Uplands Orleans Augusta Galveston New Orleans Movne Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington West Point Philadelphia Norfolk Great Britain Continent Baltimore Cincinnati St.Louis Louisville France United States

Miscellaneous market briefs from 19th century notes

The report covers varied markets and prices across cities. Shipping goods include Tallow at 454 cents, country 1b 414ge, London stock unknown. New York steady and quiet with marginal sales and bonds. Pine Line Certificates closing at 3 pm May 14 and opening May 15 with high 8c low 867c. Turpentine and petroleum markets show mixed closes and prices. Coffee in New York shows Rio 15 4c and 118 market. St Louis and Cincinnati hold steady or unchanged at 112 dollars.

London New York St Louis Cincinnati

Market prices show live stock and hides in Boston area

The Boston Post reports week ending May 15 188s market in Watertown with lighter cattle and softer home butcher demand. Western cattle held steady while several Western steers sold around 5 cents per cwt and sheep and lambs declined at northern markets amid rising Buffalo imports.

Boston Post George J. Fox Union Market Watertown England BS Hastings Ghee J A Buffalo Whiple & Farnham Au Lw Hi Bardwell Tyee F S Kimball Lee Robert French

Imports and Exports May 15 1888 Barrington NS Lobsters and goods load

A detailed list from Barrington NS shows the schooner Adeline Adams with 7000 live lobsters and many consignments from a wide range of firms. Items include 1 case tricycles, 100s of boxes, packages of lace, woollens, raw materials, books, liquor, glassware, machinery, hemp, and steel. Numerous firms such as Silas Sanborn Havana, Mark Miranda Liverpool, Estes & Lauriat, Stone & Downer, and Shoninger Moses & Co appear among the importers and consignors with shipments to or from Liverpool Havana and New York trade hubs. The record also notes the City of Macon and other steamship movements and a Savannah to Clyde route context.

Barrington Adeline Adams Silas Sanborn Havana Mark Miranda Liverpool Eng Steamer Atlas George Fowler Nichols & Farnsworth Stedman & Iutler Mfg Co Estes & Lauriat Pierce & Co Daimreil & Upham Walker Co Cumner, Jones & Co Davis & Co Zenas Sears Rckwell Case Naghinery Onantum Worsted Co Larrabee Machiery City Machine Shu Arigham Saldwin Bros Shepard, Norwell Macallar, Parker & Co Turner & Finlay Manchester Robinson & Allen Frost & Adams JD & M Williams Haley & Co Weil, Dreyfus & Eco Hovey & Co Oliver Ditson & Co Shepard, Norwell & Co Macon Cunard

Steamship Line Cargoes Reported by Commerce Firms

A fragment lists shipments from Steamship Line including 50 sacks meal Butter, Breed & Co 375 bales cotton, Warren & Co 1 refrigerator berries, Gleason & Co 2 do do J Bigelow & Co 2 do do York & Whitney 15 bars iron 1 car lumber 1389 boards 370 pieces lumber 2 cases eggs 8 bales wool 12 do 12 rolls 3 bolls leather 218 do hides order.

Brooks Breed & Co Warren & Co Gleason & Co Bigelow & Co York & Whitney

Exports May 15 1888 Liverpool and Harbourville Cargoes

Cargo list from the steamer Paventa cleared May 11 includes 20 rolls duck 6 cases cutting boards 11 cases rubber goods and 6550 pes stayves plus 1318 bases cotton 44860 tbs cheese 11894 sacks flour and 875 cases canned beef. Additional entries note items from Aspinwall Port Lorne Yarmouth Harbourville including lumber 595 tons ice 39 pkgs hardware and 300 feet Cypress lumber with diverse goods aboard schooner Elizar Bacheldor.

Liverpool Eng Paventa Pkus Aspinwall Usc John Swan Port Lorne Yarmouth Poland Harbourville Elizar Bacheldor Carboys

Staple Receipts Across Lines from Railroads in 1888

Detailed freight and supply notes list cotton wool flour cornmeal corn oats hay straw lumber leather and various goods received or stored by multiple rail lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England and Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System Ly Sea and Ly Sea lines on May 15 1888 with quantities in bales bbls sacks tubs cases and rolls alongside livestock and pantry items.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division Western Division Lowell By Express Ly Sea

Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool

May 15 reports from London and Liverpool show wheat firmer and prices held higher with steady to firm tone across markets. At Mark Lane wheat quiet while Paris wheat and flour quiet. Liverpool spot wheat strong. corn mixed with futures for California wheat and American corn varying by month. Volume notes include significant U.S. and European price levels and receipts for the trading day.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California

Insolvency Notice From Suffolk County Massachusetts 1888

Notice of insolvency issued by the Court of Insolvency for Jennie E. Rand of Boston Suffolk. Debts and property transfers are forbidden. Creditors meeting set for May 25 1888 at 2 PM in the Probate Building Court Square Boston. assignee Cyrus M Ellsworth and John Beular firms, and Ellsworth Beular indebted debtors meeting May 24 at 9 AM Cambridge Court of Insolvency. G W M Given, assignee.

Boston Court Room Court Square Suffolk Fred H. Seavey Lessenger George W. Floyd Charles F, Paige Cyrus M Ellsworth John Beular Ellsworth & Beular Loston Cambridge G. W. M. Given Massachusemis Susan C. Johnston Susanna C. Johnston Said County William Merritt Jane Boston Post Joan W. McKim Esquire Alijah George Register JO Perce Liza Pallies George A. Smythe William D. Dearborn Milk Street Mary A. Kean William L. Kean Vannah Connelly Dennis Connelly Admi John Browneill Albert &. Brownbill Admr D'Eezce Thomas Freeman Mary Helen Freeman Admx Sopec B Lizzie Polly Lizzie Sullivan Edward F. Foley Commonwealth OF Massachussetts Supreme Judicial Court County of New England Cremation Society Commonwealth Commonwealth OF Massachusetts O'Tece John Dewolfe Smith Hallowell Kennebec Maine Robert D. Smith Exchange Street Mary Mullin George Ohn Healy Mary J. Mahoney

Probate citations for wills and administrations in Boston area

The notice cites Matthew Dolan of Boston to probate the will and codicil of a deceased, with letters testamentary sought. A second probate matter grants administration for James I. Wyer, with Horace L. Smith of Brookline cited, hearings set in Cambridge and publication required in Boston Post for three weeks.

Matthew Dolan Boston Tioston Suffolk Boston Post Joan W. McKim Esquire Elijah George Commonwealth OF Massachy Mary Murphy Patrick O’loughlin Brookline Norfolk Register Commonwealth OF Massachut Georgie A. Bethune James Commonwealth OF Mass Middlesex James I. Wyer Groton Horace L. Smith Cambridge George M. Brooks J. H. Tyler

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