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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1890
Page
7
Commercial matters show fish products in weak demand with dull activity across salt fish, mackerel, cod and haddock. Reports indicate abundant small mackerel offshore and potential seasonal improvement, while prices for various fish remain high or idle as buyers hold back. Flour and grain markets mirror caution with dull sales and firmness in wheat, delaying big purchases.
There was a short supply of No 2 white and 388 38%4c bush was obtained on track. Chipped oats sold freely at 3944c P bush. Rye firm at 68 70c bush for No 1 New York. Small malt sales at 72 76c for six row Canada No 1. Mill feed steady with sac spring bran at 16 arriving and winter at 18 50 ton. Michigan bran offered at ra 76 18 00. Middlings sold at 17 50 to 20 00 per ton. Cottonseed meal firm at 25 50 arriving and 26 26 25 P ton on spot.
The produce trade receipts today include butter 1331 pkgs and dairy items, eggs 39 bbls, cheese 185 boxes, beans 329 bbls, potatoes 21 cars, sweet potatoes 198 bbls, hay 43 cars, and raw 3 cars. Butter prices ease as supply rises, with varied quotations for creamery and dairy products. cheese demand weak, eggs firm but large supplies. beans, peas, grass seeds, hay and straw, potatoes, and sweet potatoes show mixed activity and steady or firm quotes. Truck items list onions, beets, carrots, radishes, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, cucumbers, and tomatoes with typical wholesale prices and crate counts.
Apples supply tight with russets available and Baldwins out. Russet barrels fetch 4 450 per barrel. Dried apples quiet with evaporated at 10 to 4 5 a pound. sun-dried at 4 6c tb. California cherries selling slowly at 4 a box. navels 5 6 50 a box. Pineapples steady at 15c each or 40 per 100 for Porto Ricos. Grapefruit quiet at 3 4 54 a box. Strawberries steady with Norfolks 10 20c qt, Marylands 15 25c, Delawares 25 25c. Sicily lemons and oranges high. Messina Palermo prices given for various counts. Bananas aboard Flamborough and H A Hartmann with prices for No 1s, 8 bands, No 2s, No 3s. Cocoanuts sold at 30 per 1000 count.
Special trains will be run to move fruit from California to the East on May 26. Parties shipping seven carloads at once can have the fruit sent at passenger train speed by paying one third more than the regular rate.
The Dodona steamer is due with a cargo of Mediterranean fruit. Gambetta arrives next Monday with bananas for WW&C R Noyes. Alfred Dumois due Monday with Banes bananas for Seaverns & Co. Naranja passed Gibraltar on June 6 with 3700 cases Valencia oranges for Boston. Pontiac sailed from Palermo April 26 with 1700 half-boxes and 1700 boxes Messina oranges, 4200 boxes Messina lemons, 46500 half-boxes and 2500 boxes Palermo oranges and 11200 boxes Palermo lemons.
The Starlight carries 4500 boxes oranges and 17750 boxes lemons for Boston. Marmion due Tuesday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Provision Trade reports mixed receipts of tallow, beef, pork, lard, hams, and preserved meats with current pork prices and market activity. Cotton, grain, sugars, and molasses markets follow with prices, closes, and notable activity across New York, Liverpool, and regional exchanges.
Chicago-Cattle-Receipts 10,500. hog receipts 17,000 with shipments 6,000. Cattle: beeves to 4.80, steers 3.65, stockers and feeders 2.90, cows and bulls 1.50. Hogs: active higher, 4.25 overall. Sheep receipts 4,500 with natives 4.25 to 6.65, Westerns 5.65, Texans 4.65, lambs 5.50 to 5.76. Oil market notes and foreign market brief follow with prices for turpentine, rosin, and petroleum.
A dated 1890 list from Yarmouth and Halifax records imports and exports by steamer and firm. Items include lobsters, salmon, halibut, mackerel, bananas, coconuts, sugar, and boxes of various goods. Notable firms: Elia & Co, Clements & Co, Bukelay & Co, DeLong & Seamon, Hall & Co. Includes vessel shipments such as Halifax steamer cargoes and Yarmouth steamer movements with multiple consignors and consignees across Nova Scotia and England.
A Harper’s Magazine excerpt extols Carlsbad Bohemia as a town set atop a boiling kettle lid in a romantic valley along the Tepel River. It notes about twelve thousand residents, dozens of boarding houses, and a wave of visitors, powered by mineral springs and the Sprudel Salt used as a gentle purgative and remedy.
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