This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1890
Page
7
The report shows wholesale quotations for long cuts and other pork products with varied prices, plus beef, lamb, and tripe values. Fresh meat demand is subdued with generally steady to lower quotes, while tallow and preserved meats show quiet activity and similar year-ago receipts.
Market reports show weaker hog prices in St Louis and Peoria with Yorkers at 325 340 and 330 350 bids, while Cincinnati and Chicago track softer trades. Cattle demand mixed in Kansas City and Chicago, with steers near 2 75 to 5 25 and hogs collectively easing. totals include 45 000 U S hog receipts in Chicago and 11 000 cattle receipts, reflecting a generally soft week for livestock values.
Readable list shows prices for produce including beans squash Hubbard cabbage cucumbers radishes cauliflower celery and onions. Items include 125 barrels of beans 26 tons spinach 20 cents per dozen for radishes 75 cents per bush box for Savoy cabbage and 10 to 15 cents per head for celery with various unit measures and vendors. The fragment notes multiple vendors and standard market quantities like bbl ton box and bush.
Florida and Mediterranean markets display uneven demand with oranges at $3.4 per box for brights and $4.50 per box for lemons, while tangerines and grapefruits sell slowly. Apples and pears show steady or firm prices with varied counts. dried fruits and nuts are steady to quiet. bananas from Jamaica report mixed steamer prices.
The day’s receipts show butter 1629 pkgs, oleo 150 pks, cheese 203 boxes, eggs 111 bbls and 1890 cases, beans 47 bbls, potatoes 20 cars, wheel potatoes 1120 bbisighay, 66 cars, straw 6 cars with last year’s figures and notes on butter prices across Western, Northern and Eastern creameries and dairies. Cheese markets steady with New York and Liverpool quotes. beans, poultry, and eggs markets described. grass seeds and hay and straw markets quiet to steady. potatoes and sweet potatoes with wide regional price ranges and bulk shipments. overall market activity described as mixed with firm butter, quiet to steady cheese, and large hay receipts restraining demand.
Prices listed for various vegetables with onions in multiple forms and basket, case, and bush quantities. Items include Malta onions at 250 basket and case, pickie onions yellow 75c, carrots 75c bush, beets 75c bush, lettuce 40 50c ioz, turnips St Andrews yellows 90c y bbl, native 40c P box, white Cape 1 bbl, parsley 1 bush, and turban squash 1.
Steamer Travencore passed Gibralter on Nov 15 with 1300 boxes Messina oranges 21000 boxes Messina lemons 650 boxes Palermo oranges and 38400 boxes Palermo lemons for Boston. Steamer Ethelwold due Friday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Steamer Yamuri due next Wednesday with Jamaica bananas for the same firm. Norfolk boat due Friday with 400 bags peanuts and 300 barrels sweet potatoes.
A Lombard and Sons cable from Liverpool notes firm prices: Maine Baldwins at 18 20s, Kings at 26 27s, and sundries at 162 183s. Otis cable reports Scythia steamer sales: Boston at 16s 16 6d and Maine stock at 16 20s.
Sugar demand is fair at firm prices with varied quotes for different sugar grades. Raw sugars are quiet. refining at 5 1/1/2 to 6 1/2 cents. Wholesale grocers' prices for Nov 20 list granulated at 6.38 to 6.50 cents per pound. Molasses demand steady. Porto Rico, Barbados, and New Orleans grades priced from 27 to 48 cents per gallon.
Spot cotton in New York shows quiet activity with middling uplands at 9s ec and lower grades around 8 3-16c. Futures opened weak then closed firm. Liverpool and other markets follow with varied prices and sales totaling 145,900 bales. receipts and stocks detailed across regions including Britain and France.
The Chicago, St Louis and Cincinnati whiskies remain firm at 1 14 as Peoria reports whiskey at 1 15 and spirits at 1 17, signaling steady pricing across major markets.
Turpentine closed at 40c, resin quoted at 145 150, tar at 260, while petroleum remains a point of market activity in New York. The report notes price movements and trading interest across related chemicals in the regional market.
A dense export list from November 19 1890 covering Bear River NS Halifax and Charlottetown steamer cargoes with flour oatmeal middlings meal pork lard furniture and hardware. Annapolis NS and Demerara likewise show large shipments of flour meal beets apples cabbage beef oysters mutton and poultry. Liverpool England steamer Pavonia clears with apples, sheets, linen, hardware, machinery, cheese, lard, pork, tobacco. extensive tonnage of white pine, beef, fish glue, and numerous crates and boxes overall.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.