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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1888
Page
7
The report lists mixed grain prices including oats steady at turns 27¢ and 28 29¢ for No 2 white. rye, barley, and malt show quiet to dull trends with modest demand. Wheat and flour markets are firmer in spots. cornmeal and oatmeal quotations reflect steady to moderate demand across grains and millfeed segments.
Butter prices show quiet activity with limited receipts across regions. Elgin New York and St Albans markets display varied quotes for creamery and selection grades while eggs hold firm with Eastern and Nova Scotia supplies steady. Beans peas and grass seeds show steady demand. potatoes and sweet potatoes priced with broad regional ranges. poultry hay and straw demand remains steady with firm hay prices and light receipts.
The steamer Lorenzo D Baker is due November 16 bringing Jamaica fruit to the Boston Fruit Company for shipment and sale.
The report details auction sales of Florida oranges at 1 250, lemons at 6242c per box, and Almeria grapes at 1124%2 762%. Fridays sale plans include 477 Santa Cruz Mountain Today grapes and 500 Florida orange boxes with general prices for various fruits and nuts, including common and fancy grape lots and revised citrus prices.
The text lists varied produce prices including onions cabbage beets carrots lettuce turnips and cauliflowers with prices per bushel, box or dozen. Items include red cabbage white French turnips Russian yellow turnips and spinach among others, reflecting a historical market listing with fluctuating rates.
A brief notice states that the warm car service will commence on all roads on November 19. It notes no specific cities or agencies but indicates a regional rollout starting that date.
The report covers May futures for a long market, with open high low and last prices, alongside details for Nov Dec and Jan contracts. It lists pork and lard prices in great detail, notes steady, firm, or dull trends, and includes New York Chicago Cincinnati benchmarks for pork, beef, dry salted meats, and fresh beef, with specific cuts and tonnage.
Kansas City cattle receipts at 9124 with a weak market down 10c. natives 150 to 265, steers 210 to 350. Hogs 11,468 receipts. quiet market down 5 to 10c. heavies 350 to 424, mediums 420 to 440. Sheep 1255 receipts steady near 2.80 to 3.50. St Louis hogs weaker. Yorkers 515 to 535, packers 520 to 550, patchers to extra 540 to 555. Peoria hogs weak at 505 to 545. Cincinnati hogs weaker. common and light 475 to 535, packing 520 to 550. receipts 8200, shipments 1850. Chicago cattle receipts 10,000. hogs 25,000 with slow, lower trade. beef cattle 355 to 565, steers 334 to 490, stockers 223 to 360, cows and bulls 135 to 310. Texas cattle 160 to 325, Western ranges 265 to 415. Sheep 10,000 receipts. natives 240 to 420, Western 343 to 460, Texans 250 to 340, lambs 400 to 600.
New York cotton quiet with mid upland at 10c and low middling 9 1 2 c. Futures opened steady and closed barely steady. Liverpool spot cotton at 5 11 16 d for middling uplands and Orleans. World ports show mixed receipts and stocks with firm to quiet mid prices across Augusta to New York and Liverpool margins.
The market for raw sugar shows quiet activity at old prices while foreign markets firm up. Quotes include Cuba 415-416c refining, centrifugals 96 test 60, Manila 44c, Chile 414c, Java Nos 10-11 66c. Refined sugars stable with Pulverized 8c, powdered 8c, granulated 7 1/2c, confectioners A 7c, standard A 7c, Belmont A 7c, extra 6 1/2c, yellow 6 1/2c. Wholesale grocers price 7c for granulated. A Port Louis Mauritius dispatch dated Oct 11 reports America and the United Kingdom see no business.
The bark Charity departed Sept 19 for New York carrying 13803 tons of this year’s crop. It is the first voyage from this port to the United States since 1885-86 when 364 tons were shipped. New York raw sugars firm and quiet, refined steady. Molasses market firm and unchanged. Fancy Ponce Porto Rico 38 40c per lb, Porto Rico common for choice 23 38¢, Se nfuegos 23 27c.
Tallow, coffee, turpentine and petroleum markets show varied activity. Prices for city rendered tallow rise to 640 and 454 across regions, New York coffee dull, turpentine closes at 454 cents, resin at 1.05 dollars and tar at 2.25 dollars, petroleum near 65s8 740 with RSW at 7 6 cents and cases at 9 cents.
The Watertown Union Live Stock Market summary shows weekly totals for sheep cattle lambs and swine with last week and year-ago comparisons. Prices for beef store cattle sheep hides tallow skins and related items are listed along with notable sales by local buyers and exporters.
A large ledger of imports at Liverpool and Atlantic ports dated November 1888. The ships Cephalonia and Carroll carry numerous goods including iron, earthenware, wheels and machinery, wines, textiles, boats, and farm produce. Named firms appear beside cargo items with quantities across casks, cases, boxes, and bags. The report catalogs many consignors and items for markets in Halifax Pittson, Charlottetown, and Boston Conso lidated.
Readable fragment lists numerous consignments and items from Port Hawkesbury consignments. Entries show quantities of potatoes turnips eggs butter fish nets trunks and various goods with many firms and individuals named.
A detailed export table from November 18, 1888, lists cargoes for Cayenne FG, Port Gilbert NS, St John NB, Buenos Ayres, Surinam DG, Yarmouth NL, and Liverpool England. It enumerates ships like Lawrence McKenzie, Surprise, Bettie, H W Palmer, and the istrian with diverse cargoes including hake, cod, beef, lard, tobacco, canned goods, lumber, coal, pork, meal, and vast quantities of produce and commodities with exact drum, barrel, case, and ton figures.
A dense list of commodities shipped on November 18 1888 via Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and express and sea routes detailing bales cotton wool flour corn oats malt feed hams butter cheese eggs beans apples potatoes lumber leather hides skins and other goods with totals per line and railroad.
A disparate ledger of total receipts dated November 13 188s with figures for cotton oleo cheese wool boxes flour cornmeal oats potatoes barley butter lard and other commodities. Entries include yearwise totals 1888 and 1887 across many goods and measures.
Foreign markets from London to Paris show wheat dull off coast with limited inquiry, California grain quoted at 42s, England and French markets firm, Liverpool notes damp weather and steady pork and lard, with futures for No 1 California wheat around 8s 4d. Paris wheat quiet, Antwerp wheat closed dull at 22s 50c for No 2 red winter.
Counterfeit makers and unscrupulous dealers sell fake preparations while Mur dock's Liquid Food is touted as effective by a hospital network. Over nine years no refuting Medical Society has challenged results from 2000 patients at free hospitals. The letter invites physicians to visit hospitals, observe operations, and consider using the product.
State inspector reports Murdock's Liquid Food contains 14.10 percent albumen while rivals show none. It has lower organic matter and ash, with alcoholic extract of 1.97. Promises rapid gains and blood improvement. offers unconditional refund if no benefit from one twelve ounce bottle.
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