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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1888
Page
7
The market shows mixed poultry values with young turkeys at various c values, chickens and fowls in ranges from 8 to 18 cents, and old cocks around 8 cents. Game goods quote partridges, grouse, quail, and ducks with per dozen prices. hay and straw markets remain firm with receipts small and prices listed for prime hay and straw varieties.
The market is well supplied and prices are steady at revised quotations. New marrow squash 50c per barrel, turban squash 75c, Bay State turban 125 P per barrel, Hubbard 1 P per barrel, Western Hub bards 18 per barrel, Savoy cabbage 50c per barrel, cabbage 425 per 100, red cabbage 125 per barrel, onions 125 per barrel, 50c YP bush Spanish onions 2 per basket, beets 40c per bush, carrots 50c per bush, lettuce 25c per dozen, turnips 40c box, Russia yellow turnips 75c per barrel, rutabaga turnips 75c per barrel, white French turnips 1, cauliflowers 1 125 per dozen, celery 24 per box, parsnips 60c per bush, spinach 40c per bush box, pumpkins 75c per barrel.
In Chicago weak open to close demand for pork persists as cash trade remains dull. Prices show little movement across pork cuts, lard, and fresh meats with steady to softer tones in major markets like New York and St Louis. Beefs and veals hold near last quotes as colder conditions affect consumer stocking and overall activity.
The steamer Hondo is due November 23 with Jamaica fruit for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Marmion is due November 29 with further cargo remaining to be announced.
Fruit and produce markets show quiet sales with large supplies. Apples Hubbardstons at 125 to 150 per barrel, Gravensteins 125 to 150, Baldwins 125, Harveys 175 to 200. grapes Catawbas 3c, Concords 2 2c, Tokays fancy half-boxes 2 2 1/2, Almeria grapes 2 6 50 per barrel. Oranges and lemons scarce with varied old prices. Messina lemons 150 to 400 per box, Jamaica oranges 3 350 per box, Florida oranges 2 25 to 2 50, Florida lemons 2 50 to 3 50. Steamer arrivals noted and auctions planned for grapes and nuts.
In New York cotton quiet at 10c for mid dling uplands and 9 2c for low middling. Good ordinary 8 7 16c and ordinary 6c. Sales total 445 bales. Futures opened barely steady and closed steady. Also includes oil market data and a list of certificates with dates and figures.
Closing 3 pm Nov 20 1888 and opening 10 am Nov 21 1888 noted for cottonseed oil certificates. Market activity across ports shows receipts and stocks with varied prices, including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Baltimore West Point Philadelphia New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated five day totals. Major ports report steady to easy tones with mixed exports to Great Britain and the Continent and stock tallies ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands across all ports.
Sugar market shows strong demand with steady to firm prices across grades. Cuba refining 4 15-16 to 65c, 96 test 66 44c, Manilas 44 44 4c, Javas Nos 10 to 11 66c. Refined sugars firm with assorted catalogued grades. molasses demand fair with old prices, Ponce Porto Rico 8 40 per gallon, Porto Rico common to choice 28 33c, Cienfuegos 23 27c. New Orleans active and firm for open kettle.
Kansas City stockyards report steady cattle with receipts of 8660 and hogs at 11194, prices ranging butchers to extra for cattle and weaker hogs. St Louis Peoria and Cincinnati notes indicate hogs mostly weak, receipts high, while Chicago and Texas markets show steady beves and higher sheep demand with substantial shipments.
Old market wires show quiet tallow trading at nearby prices with minor city and country quotes. Turpentine and petroleum in New York show mixed closes with resins, tar and RSW prices noted. Coffee in New York Rio markets up with strong cargoes. Whiskey markets in the West hold steady in tone and prices.
Reports for the week ending November 21 1388 detail live stock at markets in Brighton and Watertown with totals for sheep cattle lambs swine and hides. Arrivals gate prices and export trade note mixed cattle and sheep prices and a fair market with demand from butchers. Maine cattle beef and store goods show steady to improving prices with several consignments and new milch cows and springers proving strong value.
Live poultry arrives in two ton lots at one price with mixed lots at 10c. Cattle at Watertown and Brighton yards show steady prices with Western and New England stock. best Gilford NH cattle among top lots. Several 4- and 5-year steers sold from $4.30 to $4.50 per 100 pounds with prices mostly near last week.
A consolidated ledger lists Staple products receipts across several railroads including Boston & Albany Grange Junction Old Colony New York & New England Boston & Maine and Eastern Division. Items include cotton wool flour oats corn malt and various meats butter eggs and hides with quantities and car counts noted. The entry records extensive stock tallies such as 16 bales cotton 51 bales wool 1260 bbls four 6990 bush oats and 3150 bush corn across lines with numerous other commodities and freight details.
A 1888 report lists schooners Evangeline Modena Bessie Carson Magnum Acara with cargoes of bush and potatoes, herring, wood, cords, bbls, eggs, beets, turnips, and vegetables. DeLong & Seaman operate at Margarevile Meteguan and Naulmerville, with J G Hall & Co aboard other vessels.
The report lists schooners and steamers docking at Annapolis, Digby, Halifax, Charlottetown, Liverpool, and Canning with cargoes including cornmeal flour bbls lumber leather electrical goods machinery and food staples. Entries name vessels such as A P 125 Cephalonia and Francis Z with quantities in bbls boxes crates and cases and note tonnage and destinations.
News from London reports mixed demand for wheat with cargoes off coast and prices easing in English and foreign markets. American and Danish corn quiet while English and French markets hold, California wheat dull offshore and Liverpool spot wheat weak, futures subdued with December to March quotes listed.
Liverpool stock notes dated Nov 21 show wheat and corn prices with steady or mixed quotes. Winter wheat at 8s 0d, spring wheat unchanged, club wheat softer, corn steady, peas easier, pork and bacon prices firm, lard and cheese modest gains noted.
A fragmented catalog of names and firms in multiple cities including Baltimore Cincinnati Davenport Dubuque Chicago Philadelphia St Louis and San Francisco shows agents and firms such as Spear Bros Eichengreen & Co and J R Gregg. The entries include ads treasurers and agents for various shoe and boot companies and wholesale houses across the nation.
Francis W Balch and George Z Adams request appointment as trustees under a will proved in Suffolk Probate Court. Citations issued to appear November 26, 1858 at ten o'clock a.m. in Boston. Publication required weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post. final notice two days before court. Judge Joan W McKim presiding. Register Elijah George.
Lowell system routes from Boston Causeway Street list numerous through services to towns like Witon Laconia Lake Village and more with morning and afternoon departures. Local Boston to Manchester Concord Keene Nashua and many Rhode Island and Vermont connections are shown with varied times and branch details.
In Suffolk County Massachusetts the Probate Court announces that Charles V. Jaeger is the administrator of the estates of Thomas J. Heaphy and Joseph Forst of Boston. He requires all creditors to present claims and all debtors to pay to Jaeger as administrator, dated November 12 1888.
A dense list of train departures from Boston stations to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and many nearby towns. Timings include early morning to late evening daily services with multiple stops such as Andover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Haverhill and Lowell Melrose Malden Malden Melrose Highlands Merrimac Newburyport Reading Wakefield and Wilmington. The schedule shows frequent departures across the day with varied times and service windows.
A dense list of passenger train times across multiple towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett and Salem with numerous daily and Sunday departures. The timetable shows starting stations mid route connections and varying times throughout the day with several lines including York Harbor Saugus Branch and Appearances of Workingmen's trains and special notes about branches and schedules.
A fragmented schedule lists several Cape Cod routes with departure times from Kneeland Street Station and various towns including Bourne Brewster Falmouth Nantucket Wellfleet Barnstable and Marion. Numerous OCR errors blur exact times and some place names but the general pattern shows morning departures around 8 15 and afternoon around 4 15 with additional notes for Nantucket Mondays through Saturdays.
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