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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 23, 1889

Page

7

Flour and grain market report with broad price ranges

The report details carload grain shipments and flour quotations across U S markets. It notes 42 total cars inspected including No 2 and No 3 spring wheats, various corn and oats grades, with steady to dull demand. prices for winter and spring wheats, Canadian exports, and New York and Chicago spot and futures quotes.

Minnesota Wisconsin Andinnesota Canada Superior Canada Roller New York City St Louis Chicago Canada Michigan New

Butter and dairy market and receipts snapshot

Receipts include 1294 pkgs butter 86 boxes oleo 1291 pkgs cheese 706 boxes eggs 482 bbls 596 cases beans 203 bbls potatoes 21 cars sweet potatoes 93 hay 69 cars straw 6 cars. Last year butter totals were higher. market quotes show Western extra creamery 23 8 14c, fancy marks 25c, other grades lower. Eggs steady with firm demand. beans show large white bean supply and quiet trade.

New York Vermont New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Bush

Market Prices for Fresh Produce This Season

The report lists onions at 75c bush and 2 dollars per barrel for P bbl. Spanish onions 8742c per crate. Western onions 150 to 175 dollars per bbl. Beets 60c per box. Carrots 40c per box. Lettuce 25 to 40 cents per dot. Radishes 40c per dot. Turnips 36c per box. White cabbage 1 dollar per bbl. Savoy 75c per bbl. Red cabbage 1 dollar per bbl. Parsnip 50 to 60c per box. Pumpkins 75c per bbl. Squash marrow 15 dollars. Turban 20 dollars, Hubbard 25 dollars per ton. Spinach 26c per cush. Cauliflowers 150 dollars per box. Celery 2 dollars 4 per box.

White Cape St Andrews

Fruit Market Prices and Supplies Steady Despite Limited Choice Lots

Market shows steady demand with large overall supply. Wholesale rates listed for apples, citrus, grapes, and cranberries vary by variety and quality. Florida oranges and lemons arrive in small lots with prices reflecting count and box size. Grapes and other fruits quote fair to strong prices for select lots, with broader supply affecting common lots.

Kings Hubbardstons Ben Davis Baldwins Michigan Talmans Ichigan Florida Jamaica Jonas Cape

Steamers Arrive with Bananas Oranges and Pigs

The steamer Jordenskjold is due Monday with Banes bananas for Seaverns & Co. The Norfolk boat due Friday carries 250 bags in 100 boxes of oranges and 250 pigs. The steamer Marmion is due Wednesday November 27 with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.

Jordenskjold Banes Bananas Seaverns & Co Norfolk Marmion Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company

Provisions market steady with mixed demand across meats

Daily receipts show tallow 26 pkgs and lard 2825 pkgs with bacon 50 boxes. last year numbers were higher in several categories. Demand remains good for pork and lard while hams and smoked meats stay steady. fresh beef strengthens on lower grades. New York markets show tallow steady and pork sales strong for export. lard and beef hams vary by region with mixed activity.

New York Western Steam City Continent Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Market notes hog and cattle prices across hubs

Kansas City cattle strong with steers around 305 and natives 170 to 290. hogs mixed to steady with heavies near 3.65 to 3.72. sheep steady at 3.15. Cincinnati hogs stronger 3.80 to 3.90. Chicago cattle receipts about 8 500 with beeves 5.40 and steers 2.80 to 4.80. hogs 3.65 to 3.94. sheep 3.50 to 4.26 for Western Texans. Receipts and shipments listed for each market.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Western Rangers

Cotton prices steady in New York sales

In New York cotton is firm with 162 bales offered, uplands grade, ordinary selling around 7 cents and good ordinary noted.

New York

Cotton Market Fluctuates with Mixed Opening and Closing Prices

The report details opening and closing quotes across cotton futures and spot markets. It notes quiet to steady futures in multiple months, diverse regional receipts and stocks, and broad exports data to Britain and the Continent, with price mid ranges cited for several hubs including New York and Liverpool.

Icveenoues Panuaty See Liverpool Augusta New Orleans France Continent Great Britain Mobile Memphis Savannah Brunswick Charleston Wilmington Newport News Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis United States Great Galveston Louisville

Peoria and St Louis Whiskey Markets Steady

Market reports show whiskey trading firm in Peoria at 103 dollars for key stock and 105 for spirits while St Louis maintains a steady 102 dollar level. The overall whiskey market remains unchanged at minor points with firm tones in key hubs.

Peoria St Louis

Sugar and Molasses Market Report with Receipts and Quotes

Sugar receipts total 2363 barrels and 190 boxes. molasses receipts 137 barrels, 135 birds, 177 puncheons. Markets are firm for sugar with Cuba grades 4% to 5c. Manilas 3% 4% 2c. Java Nos 10 11 at 54 5c. Molasses market quiet. Prince Ponce and Cien Fuegos prices shown. Barbados and other grades listed.

Cuba Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados

Coffee New York Rio steady cargoes and prices

Coffee New York Rio reports steady fair cargoes with 19 percent quality notes. Turpentine and petroleum markets close with turpentine at 44 and rosin near 112 to 115, tar at 2.50, petroleum at 7.803, RSW 7.45, and cases 9.65 cents.

New York Rio

Shipping manifests list goods at Williams Storage and Halifax shipouts

The document records cargoes and consignors for November 22 1889 at Williams Storage in Liverpool and Halifax NS, including soda ash bleaching powder mackerel and various mdse. It lists buyers and sellers such as Hills Turner & Co Baring Bros Co Whitney Pous land Co Morey Co Stoddard Lovering Co Perkins Co Wight Bros Haromill Gillespie Riley Gray F A Leigh Herbert Rapp John Clark and others. Also notes shipments from Cardigan and Montague PEI with potatoes and bush produce.

Liverpool Glass Hills Turner & Co E & F King & Co Baring Bros & Co Mackerel Whitney Pousland M Doherty & Co Morey & Co James Hill Mans Co Lovering& Co Perkins & Co Wight Bros Haromill & Gillespie Linder & Meyer Riley & Gray Leigh & Co Herbert Rapp & Co Thomas Levland & Co Webster & Co John Clark Halifax Blanchard & Co Dimock Devoe Mackerelee & Seaman S Ellis & Co McKenzie D McDougall Peabody T Russell & Co Taylor & Mayo Cardigan Pei Laburnum Montague Barclay & Co

Exports Report From 1889 Bark Lapland and Atlantic Ports

Export items from Buenos Ayres and East London list pine lumber refined wood turpentine lard oil petroleum and boats through Bark Lapland and Ship L M Smith with hundreds of cases and casks including pigs furniture mills knives scales and farming gear. Advocate and Yarmouth NS shipments add flour cornmeal kerosene oil spars and foodstuffs with steamer Yarmouth delivering sacks feed flour cornmeal cotton boxes and fruit inventories.

Buenos Ayres Lapland Moise London L M Smith Advocate Amherst Yarmouth

Foreign markets report steady wheat and firmer corn

London trading notes show cargoes off coast with wheat firm and corn strengthening. At Mark Lane wheat both foreign and English firm but not active, American corn firm likely higher. Liverpool spot wheat firm as weather remains mild. Paris and French markets steadier. Liverpool steadstuffs see improving demand and moderate offers.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool England

Receipts and grain prices at market on winter notes

Receipts totaling 119000 centals include 15000 centals from America. American corn firm. receipts 77100 centals. Winter wheat at 9d 6s 10d, spring wheat 7s 10d, club wheat 7s 2d to 7s 3d. Mixed American corn 48s 4d. Peas 6s 4d. Pork 56s 6d. Bacon 34s for long clear and 64s for short clear. Lard 25s 9d. Tallow 25s 3d. Cheese 54s.

Trade house listings from diverse U S cities and firms

A long OCR style list shows numerous individuals and firms across cities such as Baltimore Chicago Bloomington Cincinnati Cleveland Davenport Louisville Omaha Saint Louis San Francisco and more. Names include Gramling Horner Mullen Eichengreen Challis Oehmig Selz Schwab Phelps Dodge Smith Morrill Plant Simpkinson Childs Cady Bryant Amsden Murphy Spencer Bassett Warren Quast Coe Gotzian Sturtevant Brown Smith Rendfisch Slessinger Cahn and others with associated firms and locations.

Baltimore J Mullen Mullen, Bean & Witz Eichengreen Eichengreen & Eil Bloomington Ill J T Challis Chattanooga Tenn G Oehmig Oehmig Johnson & Co Chicago A C Maclanchlan Selz, Schwab & Co E P Doage Phelps, Dodge & Palmer Co J P Smith R P Smith & Sons Morrill Craw Cincinnati Plant Plant & Marks Simpkinson J & A Simpkinson Cleveland B Childs Childs, Groff & Co W Cady W Cady & Co H Quast & Co Omaha Joseph A T Smith Smith, Frazer B & S Co San Francisco Cal P Rendfisch Rehfisch Boot and Shoe Co L Slessinger Porter, Slessinger & Co M Li Cahn Cahn, Nickelsburgh & Co

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