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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1888
Page
7
The record lists Choice 1888 at 26 28c New York and Choice 1887 at 17 18c New York with common to good grades 12 114c. Old jets nominal at 5 10c.
Butter market shows steady prices with Western and Vermont dairy rates listed for various grades. Cheese quiet at old prices with North and West ranges. Eggs firm with strong demand. multiple regional price points given. Beans, grass seeds, potatoes, sweet potatoes, poultry, game, and hay straw markets described with current price bands and regional variants.
The steamer Marmion is due November 8 from Jamaica carrying bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The cargo dock and shipper are identified, with timing and origin noted for the port schedule.
The listing shows ongoing demand at old prices for a wide range of produce. Items include New marrow squash 50 cents per pound, turban squash 75 cents per pound, Savoy cabbage 50 cents per head, red and white onions at various per bushel and per box rates, beets and carrots 40 cents per bush, lettuce 25 cents per dozen, and cauliflowers 125 to 150 per dozen, with other vegetables priced per box or basket.
In Chicago provisions weaken with hogs dropping the advance. Packers bought 7000, shippers 3000, 5000 left over. Estimated receipts for Saturday 9000. Beef and lard markets mostly steady to lower with weak demand, pork prices quoted for various cuts. St. Louis and Cincinnati show overall dull and weak tone across pork and dry salted meats.
Apples stocks accumulate as demand stays high for eating varieties. Hubbardstons quoted at 1.25, Snow at 2.25 to 2.50, Gravensteins 1.75, Snow 2.25, Baldwins 1.25, Harveys 2 per barrel. Grapes show fair demand with large supply, Delanes at 4 to 5 cents.
Grapes and citrus offer varied values with Delawares at 250 and Concords 160 per box. Tokays at 350 to 400 per box or case. Oranges and lemons keep prices steady with Messina Palermo lemons at 150 to 400 per box and Jamaica oranges at 3 3 50 per barrel. Cranberries dull with 7 7 50 per barrel for choice, 5 50 6 00 for fair to good, 2 50 per case. Nuts trading quietly with peanuts 4 5c per lb and pecans 5 8c per lb in mixed lots.
In New York cotton quotes middling uplands 9 13 16¢ and low middling 9 5 16¢ with sales of 466 bales. Futures opened steady and closed very steady as market tables list opening and closing values for November through March with prices around 9 40¢ to 10 31¢ and regional spot rates.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts of 2512 with slow steady demand and mixed prices. Hog receipts 7545 with active trade and higher quotes. Sheep receipts 2074 with steady market. Chicago notes cattle receipts 10,000 and hogs 13,000 with varied demand and prices. Western rangers and Texans listed among buyers.
Sugar markets show steady tones with Cubas and Manila origins quoted in the mid to high 4 1 2 to 6 1 2 cent ranges for raw. Refined powders granulated and confectioners grades hold firm at quoted cents per pound while New York Raw remains inactive and molasses demand sits firmer.
Tallow remains firm with New York quotes around 642 6c for city renderings and 280 holds. Turpentine and petroleum markets show steady to unchanged tones with turpentine at 44 44c and rosin near 1.05, tar nominal, petroleum at 64 7c and RSW at 7c.
Entries show Baracoa via Steamer Victoria with 6000 bunches of bananas and 157000 coconuts. Barbados brig Hessie May with 180 birds sugar and 50 puncheons molasses. Mark George Corbett with 4 birds 29 verces sugar. O Foster, Cabo Rojo schooner Waldemar with salt. Liverpool Steamer Istrian with bleaching powders 148 casks and other cargoes. firms include Baring Bros, E F King, Linder & Meyer, Hammill & Gillespie.
Shipping cargo from Yarmouth includes 86 casks bleaching powders 100 drums 150 cases mdise order and a steamer Yarmouth with items such as potatoes codfish herring eggs mackerel twine and hardware from firms J G Hall Co B D Webber TJ Jones Co ES Ellis Co FL Clements Wood Seil E E Butler Pousland and Dodgeley Co.
Exports current from multiple ports show cargoes aboard schooners and steamers including Mary P Benoit Amy D Belmont and Yarmouth steamer with flour cornmeal beans walnut marble onions and assorted goods. British steamer Bulgarian clears Oct 30 with extensive meat dairy produce oils leather cotton and other items.
A historical ledger lists receipts across major railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and others. It records hundreds of bales wool cotton bbls flour cornmeal oats malt and various meats dairy goods and leather with numerous carloads and quantities.
A detailed ledger style listing numerous commodities and their quantities, including cotton, sugar, molasses, wool, flour, butter, cornmeal, cheese, oats, wheat, beans, hay, peas, straw, lard, beef, pork, tallow, hides, grease, skins, bacon, dressed hogs, calves, pelts, and coffee. The data shows monthly and yearly totals across multiple categories with unit measures such as bales, barrels, bushels, sacks, and casks.
Markets report quiet activity in London and Paris with wheat dull and corn firm or steady. Liverpool quotes show wheat futures at 8s 6d for several months and mixed American corn prices around 4s 514d to 4s 63d. Antwerp spot wheat No 2 red winter at 22 75. Breadstuffs and provisions notes include pork at 80s, bacon 46s 6d, lard 42s 8d, tallow 29s. Weather described as wet and stormy, stock scarce.
Annie Gertrude Goodwin of Boston files for divorce from John Frank Goodwin of Philadelphia. She alleges cruelty and habitual intemperance since their marriage in Providence on September 3, 1885, seeking decreed dissolution and proper orders, dated October 15, 1888. Attorney Charles H. Pattee signs as libellant’s counsel.
The Massachusetts Superior Court orders the libellant to publish the libel against John F. Goodwin in the Boston Post for three weeks and mail or serve copies fourteen days before the first Monday in December so Goodwin may show cause why the prayer of the libel should not be granted.
Doctors are urged to visit the hospital or refer patients for operations any day. They can observe procedures and patients to see the value of Murdock's Liquid Food and Suppositories. The annual report claims 1278 operations with 17 deaths and free delivery of Liquid Food by Boston express, plus free mail delivery of Adult and Infant Suppositories upon request.
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