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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1889
Page
7
News of steady markets across eggs cheese beans and poultry. Prices hold with minor shifts. New York New England and Chicago exchanges show mixed but stable trends. Beans and potatoes remain steady with good demand and ample supply in northern and western regions.
The market offers onions priced at 75¢ per bushel and 87¢ per bushel for Spanish onions. Beets, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, spinach, and pumpkins appear with various unit quotes such as 50¢ to $1 per unit, with crates and boxes listed. Other vegetables include parsnips, squashes, cauliflower, and celery, with several prices across different packaging.
Receipts show steady prices across apples oranges and lemons with choice winter lots scarce yet firm. Jamaica oranges and Sicily lemons offer steady wholesale quotes, Florida box sales and mandarin supply noted, while grapes and cranberries move on steady to firm terms with liberal supplies in many categories.
Fair demand at old prices and ample supply for veals and lambs. Lambs quoted 8 9c, mutton 72 8c, yearlings 8 8%ac, Brighton and Eastern veal 8 9c. Tallow demand quiet with good supply. city rendered 4 4%ec to 4 4 4c, New York tallow steady at $2 per package, 47-16 4 2c.
Kansas City cattle steady with steers 3 25 to 3 85 native cows 150 to 1744 mixed stockers 2 1/ and range cattle 2 15 to 2 40 Hogs higher heavies 3 75 to 3 92 gilt 3 87 to 3 95 Yorkers 3 95 to 4 05 Sheep 3 15 to 4 25 Cincinnati hogs steady common 316 packing 375 400 Receipts 4450 shipments 1200 Chicago cattle receipts 14000 shipments 3500 stronger top 4 50 to 500 steers 2 75 to 4 40 stockers 1 60 2 90 cows bulls mixed 1 25 0 Texas cattle 1 40 Western rangers 1 75 3 40 Hogs receipts 16000 shipments 4000 strong higher mixed 3 85 4 10 heavy 3 75 4 10 light 3 80 to 4 25 ships 8 3 95 Sheep receipts 6000 shipments 2000 strong natives 2 75 to 5 37 West ers 3 50 to 4 15 Texans 2 4 10 lambs 4 50 to 5 60
New York reports quiet cotton trading with 287 bales sold and Upland grades ranging from good ordinary to middling. Futures opened firm and closed steady amid detailed opening and closing quotes, while Liverpool and various U.S. ports show mixed receipts, exports, and stock with firm to steady mid prices.
The Devonshire is due mid November with 750 boxes Palermo lemons after passing Gibraltar Oct 31. The Santiago is due Nov 9 with 900 boxes Palermo lemons via Hull. The Marmion is due Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
Harris & Co will auction 1500 boxes Florida oranges and 100 boxes Florida lemons on Tuesday.
Receipts show tallow 21 pkgs and 839 kgs of lard with hams at 4 bbls. Pork and lard are steady amid good demand with mixed dry goods quotes from New York to Chicago and St Louis. Beef steady, beef hams firm, and fresh beef prices listed for several cuts.
Sugar receipts today show 380 bbls and 217 bags, vs 231 bbls and 2392 bags a year ago. Cuba refining at 5 5%cc and 96 test, Manila and Java grades listed. molasses receipts none today. Market described as nominal with good demand and steady stocks, New York sugar and molasses markets largely steady to easy.
Turpentine closed at 48 4 9 4 cents with resin at 110 115 cents and tar at 260. Petroleum closed at 7.70 cents with RSW at 7.35 cents and cases at 9.35 cents. Coffee New York Rio firmer and quiet with fair cargoes at 19 cents. Whiskey steady with no change reported.
Shipping list from Liverpool shows Scythia and many firms listing imports and exports by case, box, or crate. Entries include vessels, shops, and mercantile houses such as Steamer Scythia G W Sheldon Co and Stone & Downer with goods like tin ware, leather, wine, machinery, and textiles. Numerous firms including Koopman Co, Baring Bros, Lowell Machine Shop, J D Richards & Sons, and Murdock Grate Co appear with varied consignments.
A dense list of goods, vessels, and shipments across multiple ports including Boston Nova Scotia Yarmouth Charlottetown and Pictou. Items range from logwood eggs fish and potatoes to furniture wines and confections with numerous firms and shippers noted. Prolific mentions include Boston Dyewood Co. Cunard Co. Jordan Marsh Co. and WJ Weld among others.
The report details outbound shipments from Weymouth Nova Scotia and Souris Acadian including flour cornmeal kerosene apples and various goods. The Durham City steamer cleared October 30 carrying shoes ink chair stock press glue iron drums duck oak bags tobacco hides tallow oil eyelets whalebone sacks flour chairs stock desks bowls and other merchandise.
A dense ledger of imports and exports by country and port listing dozens of commodities. Values are shown in varying currencies with grand totals for each region including England Nova Scotia Germany Belgium Haiti Port Antonio Singapore Manila Italy Scotland and more, culminating in a grand total of 1 333 505.
A fragmented OCR listing shows commodities with values and country breakdowns. Nations like England Nova Scotia Scotland Newfoundland and Labrador British West Indies British Guiana and Quebec Ontario are cited with specific totals, alongside domestic goods such as Cotton, Machinery, Provisions, and Lumber, ending with a grand total of 531,617.
Antwerp reports quiet demand for No 2 red winter wheat at 18 francs 624 centimes per hectoliter while Paris notes quiet conditions with December futures at 38 francs 9 centimes.
December activity is weak as wheat and flour trade slows in London and Liverpool. Spot wheat in Liverpool shows slow demand with firm corn, mixed futures for wheat and corn across November to April, and oats and provisions prices largely steady.
A collage of names and firms across cities shows executives from Spragins Brooks Rogers Halle Daniel Adler Cohen Adler Smith Brooks Selz Schwab Bowen Miller Culter Newburger Hendricks McKee Grauman Weaver Cohn Wollner Hall McLester Co Coe Schmertz Keet Upham Keet Rountree Tootle Hosea Cahn Nickelsburg & Co connected in an advertising matter.
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