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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1889
Page
7
Domestic flour and grain prices for carload lots cover wheat oats corn and barley with inspections totaling 95 cars. Flour receipts today 2265 bbls 3923 sacks, New York and Chicago prices vary by grade and origin while oats and rye show weaker to firm trends across regions.
The market is well supplied with all seasonable vegetables and demand is good. The Norfolk boat due Friday brings 700 crates strawberries 120 pigs cabbages and 1200 crates peas. Prices shown include onions 85c to 2 per crate, Bermuda onions 2a, carrots 1.50 per barrel, lettuce 25c per dozen, radishes 40c per dozen, green peas 1 to 2 per crate, and multiple items from North Carolina Savannah and Florida listings.
Readable fragment lists crate prices in Florida including tomatoes at $2 per crate and squash at $1, cauliflower at $6, cantaloupe at $250 per crate, and southern cabbage at $250 per crate.
The steamer Carl Konow arrives Saturday with Baracoa bananas for WW and C R Noyes. Lorenzo D Baker due with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Caledonia passed Gibraltar May 4 bound for Boston carrying Valencia oranges Palermo oranges Palermo lemons Naples oranges Catania oranges and Catania lemons. Fitzroy passed Gibraltar May 9 bound for Boston with Messina oranges and Messina lemons.
Receipts of apples are 343 barrels today, modest but adequate for demand. Quoted prices list Baldwins and russets at 2 dollars 2.25 per barrel, common apples at 1 dollar 1.50 per barrel. Oranges and lemons market steady with Messina lemons at 3 to 4, Messina oranges 3.50 to 4.60, Palermo lemons 3. 4.50 per box, Valencia 4 to 5 per case. Strawberries scarce with strong demand, Norfolks 20 to 30, Tennessees 20 to 25, some Charleston 5, New York 15 to 20. Dried apples quiet, Evaporated fancy 6 7 cents, good to choice 4 6, sun-dried 3 to 4. Pine apples steady old prices, 12 to 25 cents each. Arrivals per steamer Marmion today sold at 14 dollars per 100 count. Bananas active at old prices. Jamaicas 1 to 2 per bunch, Baracoa reds is 1.25, Baracoa yellows 1.25 to 1.60. Marmion delivered Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Company. sales: No 1s 175, 8 hands 120, No 2s 85, No 3s 60 cents per bunch.
Butter receipts this year 5054 packages versus 5110 last year amid a softer market. Western creameries sit around 18 cents, with few sales above that. Northern dairy supplies are light and prices ease. grass butter expected by month end. Eggs and cheese show steady to quiet trade with mixed regional quotes. potatoes and hay demand remains firm for chosen lots.
East swale lists rye straw at 10 dollars and oat straw at 10 dollars per unit. Rye straw option priced at 18 dollars in some lots. Market item appears as a fragmented price list.
The market shows steady demand for pork and lard with varied receipts including 668 tierces of lard and 750 pails of lard. Prices list long cuts to bellies, hams, bacon, and fresh meats with New York and Chicago reports and regional quotes for beef and lamb products.
Kansas City stockyards report steady cattle with various classes priced from 2.25 to 3.60 per pound, hog receipts at 9,383 and prices from 4.04 to 4.40, sheep steady around 3.90. St Louis hogs down with packers paying 4.15 to 4.40, Peoria weak at 4.0, Chicago heavy cattle around 41.5 to 43.5, hogs 4.05 to 4.60, lambs 4.50 to 6.50, with large receipts and shipments across markets.
Sugar receipts and prices in New York and Havana show a quiet steady trade with mixed crude and refined sugars. Notable values include Cuba refining 64 6% sc, Havana centifugal 96 polarization at 476% gold per quintal, and granulated refiners at 8 4c. Molasses receipts 265 bbls with prices ranging from 37 40c to 50 29c for various grades.
Cotton in New York firm with 267 bales traded. Uplands and middling grades quoted from 85-16c to 111-16c. futures opened and closed quiet and steady. Liverpool and other ports show mixed firmness with American exports and varied stock levels.
Britain 1724 to Continent 1101 stock 216 Cincinnati net receipts 280 gross 280 shipments 146 sales 170 stock 9226 firm mid Lie St Louis net receipts 28 gross 76 shipments 679 stock 9365 steady mid 10 11 16c Louisville steady mid Lie Consolidated net receipts six days 111946 exports to Great Britain 23461 to France 5646 to the Continent 6907 Channel 4760 stock 338711
Ta'tow receipts show 13 barrels and 75 tierces today, echoing last year’s 17 barrels. Markets are quiet and unchanged as 4 percent rates, coffee futures dip, and turpentine and petroleum trading in New York reflect modest shifts.
Halifax NS reports shipments listing numerous firms such as Barclay & Co and E H Cutler handling salmon eggs and potatoes, with Lobsters and Molasses. Liverpool Eng lists Iown and many merchants trading wool, woolen goods, wine, oil, machinery and textiles. Yarmouth NL records lobsters, halibut, salmon, mackerel, eggs, potatoes and paper stock.
A long list from ports including Tignish Pel to Digby and Annapolis with cargos such as flour, kerosene, pine lumber, refined petroleum, canned foods, hardware, rope, and household goods aboard vessels like Schooner Gasper Embree and Ship Oregon. It notes destinations and quantities for trade items and supplies.
May 16 foreign markets report sparse bids as three cargoes sold since last note with nine awaiting sales. Wheat and corn futures in Liverpool and Paris show dull activity. California wheat prices quoted for May through November and May and June futures listed. Antwerp and Paris quote softer wheat while English country markets remain dull with low demand and steady or soft prices across cereals and provisions.
Albany lists W H Fearey of J Fearey & Son and others while Austin shows J Bremond of J Bremond & Co. Baltimore features Cohen Adler Co and Tucker, Smaith & Co. Chicago entries appear for Wells and Pratt. Readers note multiple firms from Philadelphia, Detroit, Davenport, St Joseph, and more.
A warrant in insolvency has issued against Edwin K Hayden of Boston Suffolk County grocer. Creditors must prove debts and meet May 31 1889 at 2 PM in the Probate Court building Court Square Boston. Sheriff Messenger John B Fitzpatrick signs this notice.
The stockholders are notified of the annual meeting to elect directors and address other lawful business. It will be held on Monday June 3 1889 at eleven oclock forenoon in the companys hall near the station in Kittery. F R Barrett clerk of the company Portland Me May 13 1859.
The Boston Water Board invites sealed bids by May 27 1889 for delivery of 2800 tons Cumberland Coal to Mystic Wharf Charlestown on the Boston and Lowell Railroad. Front loads due June 10 1889 October 1 1889 and January 1 1890. Bids require a 500 dollar certified check and the board may reject any proposal.
Boston May 9 1889 the Trustees solicit bids to furnish furnace size best quality hard white ash coal for one year from July 1 1889 to cover about 1800 tons at 2240 pounds per ton. Bidders must name coal type mine location and offer. Right to reject any bid reserved bonds required 1000. Proposals due at Hospital Superintendent by May 18 noon.
The Trustees of City Hospital invite proposals for a one year ice supply starting July 1, 1889. About 500 tons to be stored on delivery. Bonds of 8500 required. Proposals must state price per ton of 2000 pounds and be left at the hospital by May 18 at noon. The trustees reserve the right to reject any or all proposals.
The Boston Architect announces a public bid opening on Wednesday May 22 at noon for rough carpentry at Roxbury High School. Each bid must include a $500 certified check, payable to the city of Boston. Proposals must be endorsed Proposals for rough carpentry at the Roxbury High School and mailed to Hon Thos N Hart Mayor. Plans and specs available at City Architect office. The right to reject all bids is reserved.
The Office of Purchasing and Depot in Boston invites sealed bids in triplicate for immediate delivery of 48 quart cans mock turtle soup and 96 quart cans ox tail soup. Bids due May 23, 1889 at 11 a.m. in the presence of bidders with domestic preference and price conditions. John J. Clague C.S.
Railroad schedule lists multiple routes between Augusta Kennebec area and Portland with connections at Haymarket and Causeway street stations. Includes services to St John Halifax Calais Lewiston Manchester North Conway and coastal towns with steamship connections from Portland and varied departure times. Also notes connections for Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox Lincoln lines.
Trains depart Boston Haymarket for towns including Alton Bay Rochester Andover Great Falls and Dover with daily and Sunday times listed across multiple lines. Frequent departures from North Lawrence Merrimac Newburyport Wakefield Melrose and surrounding stops noted with morning and evening slots.
A dense list of Boston area train departures from Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Newburyport Portsmouth Salem and others. Timetable shows multiple daily departures with varied times including morning, afternoon and evening runs plus branches via Saugus and York Harbor.
The timetable lists Boston Causeway Street departures and destinations from Tilton to Montreal with morning and evening trains. It covers local and through services to Manchester Concord Nashua Lowell Stoneham Woburn Winchester and many others, plus Central Mass and through connections via Montreal Boston Air Line. Timetables note general availability at stations and include key operators James T. Furber and J. Flanders.
Daily Boston lines list dozens of trains to Norwood and intermediate stops including Hyde Park Franklin Readville and Providence with nightly and Sunday variations. Woon socket division shows departures from Boston for Needham Way Stations and Woonsocket with specific morning and evening returns. The Norwood Central and Hartford connections offer through trains with dining cars and through parlor cars to New York and Philadelphia.
Time tables for local and through trains are available at all company ticket offices. Trains to Albany and the West depart Boston at specified times.
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