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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 24, 1888

Page

7

Market quotes for sacks oils and hops in 1900s style brief

The market shows firmer tone for shipments with moderate demand. Sack spring at 18 25 per ton and sack winter at 19 per ton. Machine bran bulk 18 75 per ton. Midlings in sacks 19 24 per ton. Cottonseed meal prime in sacks new 27 per ton on spot, 26 26 25 to arrive. Malt dull with Canada six rowed 95 31 06 per ush, State six rowed 90 95c, two rowed 85c. Hops dull with New York quotes 23 25c for 1888, 17 18c for 1887, common 12 14c, old lots 5 10c.

Canada Choice New York Vermont Peru Chicago Western Creamery Eastern Creamery Western Elgin Western Dairy North Choice West Liverpool New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Michigan Island York State Red Top Jersey Houlton Hebrons Bush Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Rose Hebrons Burbanks Chenangoes Prince Edward Island Virginia

Market Report on Butter and Dairy Prices

Butter and cheese markets show firm tones with Western and Vermont creamery items priced from 22c to 33c per pound. Eggs, beans, seeds, potatoes, and poultry fluctuate mildly as buyers seek lower grades and varied regional lots. prices range by item and quality across Chicago New York and Liverpool markets.

Pork market report and grain acts in Chicago January delivery

In Chicago provisions were dull and weak with Armour selling 10,000 barrels of pork for January delivery at the opening. The market shows thin activity across pork and lard with prices quoted for long and short cuts, backs, lean ends, and various pork products. Regional notes include New York and St Louis price levels for pork, lard, and beef products, with overall dull or steady tones.

Chicago Armour PROWA Jeast New York Western Tierces City Continent South America St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Motion Choice Choice Heavy Brighton Master Eastern Real Fancy, LLC

Truck Market Steady as Prices Hold from Last Quote

Demand for truck remains quiet with prices unchanged from prior quote. Marrow squash offers at 50 cents per barrel and turban squash at 75 cents.

Local Produce Prices From A Busy Market Row

A mixed list of produce prices appears with items such as Savoy cabbage onions and beets. Cabbages priced at 50e per pound and 125 per dozen. Turnips rutabaga and cauliflowers show varied prices.

Bay State Russia

Jamaica fruit steamers to Boston Fruit Company

The steamer Hondo is due with Jamaica fruit for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Marmion is due November 29 with Jamaica fruit for the same company.

Banana Steamers Jamaica Fruit Boston Fruit Company

Fruit Market Prices and Auction Results Reported

The report notes Harris & Co auctioned Florida oranges for 146 387% and lemons at 500 350 per box. Apples show liberal receipts with varied prices from common to Good. Grapes demand quiet with Catawbas to Isabellas priced per variety. Oranges and Lemons supply not large, trade steady though quiet. Cranberries, Quinces, and Nuts show slow trade with steady quotations and specific per-bushel or per-box figures.

H Harris & Co Florida Hubbardstons Sweet Nova Tasman Sweets Greenings Isabellas Almeria Messina Jamaica Savannah Bush York State Virginia

Hog and Cattle Markets Kansas City and Rail Centers

Stock Yards Kansas City receipts 5411 cattle with firm, active tone. steers and cows mixed gains. Hog receipts 16629 slow, weak prices. heavies near 530, mediums 525. Sheep 2098 firm 290. St Louis hogs firmer 525-540. Peoria 505-545 firmer. Cincinnati hogs active 450-540, receipts 7100. Chicago cattle 10000 receipts steady. beeves 85 515. steers 33 75 490. Texas cattle 140 310. Westerns 3-4. Hogs receipts 16000, shipments 5000, strong, mixed and light 520-544. heavy 530-6742, ships 350-50. Sheep 5000 receipts, 1060 shipments, natives 375. Westerns 325-400. Texans 250-350. lambs 445-575.

Kansas City St Louis Peoria Cincinnati Chicago Texas

New York and Liverpool Cotton Markets Trade Quiet Amid Mixed Futures

In New York cotton prices hold steady with mid dling at 10. c and low middling at 9 2 c while futures open and close steady. Liverpool spot shows dull, in buyers’ favor at 5.9-16d middling uplands and 59-16d Orleans with 8,000 bales traded. United States port figures report varied receipts and stocks, with overall steady to easier tone in several hubs.

New York Hess Bao Sea Hove Liverpool Orleans Augusta Galveston Great Britain New Orleans France Continent Savannah Charleston Port Royal Wilmington Norfolk West Point Newport News Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Saies Louisville United States

Oil and Cottonseed Oil Certificates as of Nov 1888

Furnished by J E Carter & Co in Washington Street notes Pipe Line Certificates closing 3 pm Nov 22 1888 with opening 10 am Nov 23 Highest and lowest prices for Nov 23. Cottonseed Oil Certificates show closing 3 pm Nov 22 1888, opening May 23 1888 with highest Nov 23 and lowest Nov 28.

J E Carter & Co Washington Street

Sugar and Molasses Market Report

Sugar markets show firm, steady demand across grades. Cuba and Manila raws advertised with refined prices. pulverized and powdered sugars listed. wholesale granulated quoted. Molasses demand firm with Fancy Ponce Porto Rico and Porto Rico varieties cited. New York New Orleans molasses noted as strong.

Cuba Manilas Iloilos Javas New York Ponce Porto Rico Cienfuegos York New Orleans

Tallow Market Steady in City and Strong in New York

Market notes report a quiet city market at steady prices with figures for rendered, country, and trough tallow. New York shows strength with city prices and sales totaling about 100 hogsheads.

New York

Market Notes and Commodity Prices From New York and Rio

Coffee trading in New York and Rio shows higher prices while the car market remains steady. Turpentine closes at 46 and petroleum at 68 5 with tar nominal and RSW cases noted. market volatility reflected in marginal shifts and inconsistent figures.

New York Rio

Imports and Exports in Liverpool Steamer Lot Listings

Imports and exports from Liverpool dated Nov 23 1888 list steamer Virginian and Iowa shipments with numerous consignors and items. Entries include casks bleaching powders, boxes tin plates and tin, leather, machinery, wool, papers, glass, soda ash, caustic soda, chemicals, and various bales and crates, with firms such as Lam bert Bros, Baring Bros, Jones McDuffee Stratton, Homer Bros, and Jere Abbott & co.

Liverpool Eng Turner & Co Congdon, Carpenter_& co King & Co Metcalf & Co Kehew & Sons Thairl E & K King & Co Homer Bros Iowa Baring Bros & Co Cobb, Bates & Yerxa Beach & Co Jere Abbott & Co Naylor & Co American Net & Twine Co Perkins Hughes T Hardy & Co Bowie & Daniels Wells, Fargo & Co Brandy Adams Brown Bros & Co Whittier & Co RH White & Co Macallar, Parker & Co J & J Murdock Stedman & Fal Ler Mans Moise Baring Bros & Co Brown, Durrell & Co Coleman, Mead & Co Biring Bros & Co Providence Wortsed Co Caton Bros & Lixby I & F King & Co B. Moors & Co Ford C Houghton& Co

Exports listing from late November 1888 including ships and cargoes

November 23 1888 Arroyo pr Schooner Georgia McFarland carries second hand hhd shooks and molasses in various measures, coal, nails, packing, oil, tallow, linseed oil, harnesses, hardware, pine lumber, staves, and cargo items. Other entries note Schooner Nell 200 tons pig iron, Steamer Yarmouth 675 barrels flour and apples with crockery, hardware, and cotton goods. Bark Matthansa 2 crates hardware and 365180 feet lumber to Buenos Ayres, with additional cargoes at Yarmouth and St John and Buenos Aires?

Arroyo Georgia ST John Yarmouth Huenos Ayres

Staple Product Receipts From 1888 Market Report

A historical tabulation shows staples and totals across 1883 to 1888 including cotton, molasses, flour, cheese, eggs, corn, oats, beans, wheat, barley, potatoes, malt, rye, beets, and various meats and byproducts. The list enumerates quantities in bales, barrels, bushels, boxes, and pounds with figures for years 1883 through 1888, reflecting market receipts and item counts.

Receipts from multiple railroads dated November 23 1888

A fragmented ledger of cargos received by lines including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine and others. Totals list diverse commodities such as bales wool and cotton bbls of flour corn meal oats and beans, beef and pork, butter and eggs, cheese, apples, potatoes, hay, lumber, leather, hides, and pelts.

Telcos Mnowa O'S Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Xilcon Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Western Division Lowell Express

Foreign markets synopsis from London and Liverpool trade notes

London reports quiet but steady wheat with cargoes passing and shipment interest. Paris wheat quiet. Liverpool spot wheat shows more inquiry. Prices for winter and spring wheat steady around 8s to 83s 8d. corn mixed Western higher at 48 9d. peas at 5s 11d. pork prices noted with general firmness in provisions.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool Terpool California Antwerp

Rail Timetable Fragments for North Shore Area

A dense list of train times across Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Rochester and more. Includes weekday and Sunday trains with multiple stops and varied times from early morning to night across coastal towns and inland points.

Boston Haymarket Square Torce Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Georgetown Mennebunk Biddeford Saco North Lawrence South Lawrence Suna Malden Medford Llami Melrose Highlands Melrose Merrimac Aim North Andover Newburyport Reading Salem Ahkefield North Wilmington Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Everett Great Fails Uampton Each North Hampton Rye Beach Gem Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Wranch Chiddleton North Conway Peabody and Danvers Portsmouth Tom Mevere Rockport and Gloucester Branch Kork Harbor & Beach Swamp Scott Wenham Wolfeboro Eyan and Way Portland Bangor St. John Halifax

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