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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 22, 1889

Page

7

Grain market report with receipts and bids in New York Chicago and St Louis

Market activity mixed with exports receipts and bids for wheat corn barley oats and related products. Chicago and New York reports show steady or weaker tones while St Louis notes weaker demand. closing bids show limited offers and Nye flour and millfeed prices quoted.

Butter and dairy markets show firm prices amid varied supplies

Receipts today include butter 7499 pkgs and 3898 boxes, eggs 602 cases, beans 555 bbls, potatoes 40 cars. last year’s figures show lower outputs. Butter notes describe quiet steady prices with strong creameries and firm export contracts, while eggs and beans face limited demand and ample supply.

Franklin County xtTa Chicago Northern Choice Western Sage Liverpool New York Pennsylvania Vermont New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Michigan Choice Canadas Elgin California Lima Canada

Poultry and produce prices and demand in regional market

Prices and demand for poultry game and farm produce are listed. Fresh spring chicks and turkeys show steady sales with varied prices. quail, rabbits, and venison demand fluctuates. Potatoes, hay, and grasses are quoted with regional varieties and price ranges, noting active markets for some items and subdued activity for others.

Market Report Shows Steady Demand With Broad Produce Ranges

The market remains well supplied and demand quiet at steady prices. Onions range from 75 cents bush to 2 dollars per barrel with various varieties listed. Beets carrots lettuce radishes and cabbages show mixed pricing across boxes crates and barrels. Florida string beans arrive mostly poor and sell at about 3 dollars per crate.

White Cape St Andrews Florida

Apples and fruit markets show steady receipts and firm prices

Market reports indicate steady apple demand with large on hand supply due to accumulations. Wholesale fruit prices are listed for many varieties from oranges to grapes with firm or fair demand, small supply of top fruit, and variable box prices across regions and counts.

Hubbardstons Pound Sweets Ben Davis Snow Baldwins Michigan Greenings Michigan Tasman Sweets Michigan Florida Messina Jamaica Jonas Almeria

Bananas and fruit aboard three early steamers

The steamer Tordenskjold is due next Monday with Banes bananas. The Norfolk boat due Friday carries 250 bags peanas 100 boxes oranges and 250 pigs. The steamer Marmion arrives Thursday November 28 with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.

Tordenskjold Banes Norfolk Marmion Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company

Fruit Sales Auction Friday by Harris & Co

H Harris and Company will auction 1500 boxes of Florida oranges on Friday. The sale highlights local fruit dealer activity and includes a large shipment of citrus from Florida.

H Harris & Co Florida Chichester Red Cross Safe and Gore Dianemond Chishester Chemical Co Madisonia GEO. G. Goodwin &Co Boston

Apple market in Liverpool steady as Boston and Montreal fruit sell

Liverpool reports active demand for apples from Boston and Montreal steamers. Bostonian and Scythia trade bring firsts 14 to 16s, seconds 11 to 13s 6d. Maine firsts 14 to 16s, seconds 12 to 13s 6d. Slacks sell from 1s to 2s less, market prices firm.

Liverpool Boston Bostonian Scythia Montreal Toronto

Provisions Market Report and Price Quotes

Receipts show tallow 86 packages beef 941 barrels lard 3997 packages hams 80 barrels acon 347 boxes. Last year tallow 4 packages beef 91 barrels pork 1 barrel lard 2011 packages hams 4 barrels bacon 99 boxes preserved meats 1975 cases. Pork market steady demand for hams lard smoked meats. hogs steady. Prices range long cuts 12 60 to 13 00. lean ends 13 25 to 13 50. pork tongues 17 75. fresh ribs 84 2 9 cents. lard 7 cents tierces and tubs 7 1 2 cents to 10 pails 7 2.4 5 cents 3-tb 8 cents. city dressed hogs 56 94 cents. country Vac. New York park firm sales 800 barrels mess $11 25 to 11 50. lard firm. Beef hams weak. cut meats quiet.

Kentucky Houlton Hebrons Houlton — Rose Aroostook Vermont Hebrons New York Burbanks White Stars Brunswick Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Stars Timothy West North Red Top Jersey New York—Park Active Western Steam Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Brighton

Historic meat and market price notes across cities

Market bulletin shows pork, lard, dry salted meats, and beef prices in Chicago, St Louis, Cincinnati with steady to firm tendencies. Fresh beef and lamb values are listed, including ranges for steers, mutton, veal, and tallow, reflecting a quiet, well supplied market across 19th century city centers.

Market Summary for Hog and Cattle Across Regions

Kansas: hog and cattle markets show weakness with steers 310 to 360, cows 150 to 250, mixed stock 175 to 265, stockers 225 to 272, range cattle 220 to 230. Cincinnati hogs stronger with common 380 and packing 385. Chicago cattle steady with beeves 480 to 535, steers 280 to 470, stockers 180 to 300, western cattle 260 to 340. Hogs receipts 28 000 shipments 5 000. sheep receipts 6 000 shipments 1 000.

Kansas Olaytepecel Cincinnati Chicago Western Rangers

Cotton Market Reports and Global Quotes

New York cotton firm on sales of 215 bales with varied grades and futures opening weak and closing firm. Liverpool and other US markets show mixed finishes with mid and price ranges across towns like Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated six day receipts and exports totals.

New York Avecmeaee Lee Eee Eee Ceeessereree Liverpool Augusta Galveston Great Britain New Orleans Continent Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston France Coastwise Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville United States

Line Certificate Listings for November 1889

The notice lists PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES and COTTONSEED OIL CERTIFICATES with opening times at 10am on November 21 and closing times 3 pm on various November days. It shows highest and lowest percentages for each class and includes references to November 20 1889 and November 21 1888.

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Whiskey prices hold firm across major markets

In Peoria whiskey trades at $108 with spirits at $105. Chicago reports whiskey steady at $102. St Louis confirms $102 for whiskey. Cincinnati notes no change with whiskey at $102.

Peoria Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Sugar and Molasses Market Report

Sugar receipts today 335 bbls vs 25 last year. market firm with limited activity. Cuba refineds 4 5c, cen trifugals 5 4c, Manila 4 4%c, pulverized 7 7c, powdered 7 7%sc, granulated 7 7%ec, confectioners 7c. Belmont 65c, extra C 6% 6%c, wholesale granulated 7.18c. New York sugar firm. London cane dull. molasses receipts 22 bbls. prices for Ponce 42 43c, Cienfuegos 25 78c, Barba dos 82c. New York foreign lots nominal. New Orleans steady.

Cuba Belmont New York London Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados New Orleans

Turpentine and Petroleum Market Summary

New York closes turpentine at 44 44. percent with resin at 11242 115 and tar at 250. Petroleum closes at 7.802 cents with RSW at 7.45 cents and cases at 9.65 cents. Coffee New York Rio remains fairly active and steady with fair cargoes at 19 percent.

New York Rio

Imports and Exports November 21 1889 Liverpool

Steamer Kansas L G Parahem amp co 162 tons best round canne coal Phelps Dodge amp co 454 boxes tinplates N 5 Burttlet amp co 221 do do

Liverpool Kansas G Parahem & Co Phelps, Dodge & Co Burttlet & Co

Diverse goods and shipments listed from multiple firms and ports

The record catalogs orders across merchants including Baring Bros & Co J B Moors & Co and others with bags, casks, wool, grapes, hemp, earthenware, tins, and various commodities. Ships Mineola Yarmouth and several steamer cargoes are noted with quantities of potatoes bananas hides and cocoa.

JB Moors & Co Baring Bros & Co E & F King & Co Fuller Dana & Fitz Abbott & Co Margetson & Co Blake & Ripley Blake & Ripley 82 Do Do—E T Russell & Co 125 Do Mackerel—R Summon & Co Dreaei, Morgan & Co Moors & Co Pkys Wetherell Bros Boiis Steel James Skinner Bacon & Co Brown Bros & Co Ww& CB Noyes Torrey, Bright & Capen Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Clark, Sawyer & Co Norcross Mellen & Co Bicknall & Potter Hoighton & Dutton Abram French & Co White & Co Brown, Durrell & Co Manila Antwerp Mineola Mineola—10 Pkgs Pp Gins C H Graves & Sons Adams, Taylor & Co Haricots Fowle Hibbard & Co George A Alvin & Co William Pickhardt & Ruthroff Coffee Chase Sanborn & Co KC Clark & Co Hills Turner & Co Stephen L Bartlett Sherburne Pierce & Co Boston Clock Ham & Co Kettensia S & Pierce & Co Ross, Turner & Co Lambert Bros Schwarz Nelson H Brown Beardsley & Cummings Jurner & Co Bistartar O Junney & Co James A Hayes & Co Gill & Lovett Peabody & Whitney Joseph Birwell & Co Horace Partridge & Co Louis Wolfe & Co R Schwarz Peiboay, Whitney & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co White Sons & Co Murdock Parlor Grate Co Champagne Codman & Hall David Walcox Yarmouth American Ex Co Hall _& co Dunbar & Davis Delong & Co Boston Produce Co Pei Tyrone Joe Hill Beulah Grand River Pfi Rover Whitney, Pouslanad & Co

Exports from Pubnico Nova Scotia and nearby ports in 1889

Shipping records show Annie M Bell at Pubnico reporting 375 barrels flour 50 barrels meal 3 cases oil 14 barrels onions 7 boxes 1 case 4 barrels crockery 2 boxes oranges 1 tub lard 5 half-bbls graham 3 bags corn 2 cases rubbers 1 bale cotton. Myrtle at Lockport via Shelburne and Cape Island reports 580 barrels cornmeal 20 barrels flour 15 barrels rye flour 10 barrels refined oil. Valiant at North Sydney reports 625 barrels corn meal.

Pubnico Annie M Bell Lockport Shelburne Cape Island North Sydney Sch

Wheat and grain markets marked steady in Europe

Paris and Antwerp report quiet wheat markets with steady prices. London and Liverpool show firmer wheat and strong corn amid poor demand and mixed futures for December to May. Prices listed for winter and spring wheat, mixed African corn, teas, and dairy and lard items.

Paris Antwerp London Mark Lane Liverpool England California

New York to Boston Train Schedule Snippet

A timetable fragment lists departure times from New York to Boston at 9:00 AM 10:06 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 11:00 PM and 11:50 PM with period abbreviations.

Neon Express Hartford Boston Ans New York Washington Express Newburgh Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Steamboat Express Norwich Providence Hyde Park Beadville Walpole Franiklin Paw Tucket Woonsocket Woon. Jc Blackstone Webster and South Bridge Futnam Worwich New London Willimantic BureAli Waterbury Ppanbury Fishkill-On-Hudson New Burgh Buffalo Niagara Falls Detroit Chicago Points West Erie Railroad Norwood Central Franklin Woonsocket Division Boston & Albany Railroad tDaily N.Y Merrimac Valley Boston & Lowell Causeway Street Manchester and Concord No. Weare Manchester No. Weare R.R Sono Concord & Portsmouth R.R Stooksett Suncook Ittefield Suncook Valley Nashua Concord White Mountain Division Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Yaverhill Woodasville Campton Village Woodstock Pemigewasset Valley Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Fordefferson Twin Mt Bethlehem Fabyan St. Johnsbury Newport Passumpsic RK Wells River Lake Chame Plain W.H Montreal Quebec Sherbrooke Rogers H. E. Chamberlin F. E. Brown

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