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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 03, 1889

Page

7

Grain and flour prices and market summaries from New York and Chicago

Market notes show heavy, fairly active trading with 19 700 barrels and large wheat and corn receipts. Prices span city mill goods to Minnesota clear and patent flours, with No 2 red and white wheat, oats, corn, rye, and malt quoted across Chicago New York and St Louis markets amid firmer to weaker readings and varying demand.

City City Mill Minnesota St Louis Chicago New York Chicago No 2 White State West York Michigan Canada

Market Reports Show Steady Prices Across Dairy and Produce

Receipts list butter 1651 tubs and 699 boxes, oleo 375 pkgs, cheese 251 boxes, eggs 1272 cases, beans none, potatoes 34 cars, sweet potatoes 958 bbls, hay 78 cars, straw 5 cars. Last year’s totals include butter 2145 tubs and 167 bbls of potatoes. Butter market firm with no price advance. Western creameries upper grades firm, lower grades active but affordable. Eggs in short supply with higher prices. beans steady. poultry supplies ample with mixed quality. potatoes and sweet potatoes steady with varied regional prices. hay and straw demand decent, quality fluctuating.

New York Vermont Liverpool New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Michigan Canadas Bush California Lima Choice Canada New Hampshire Rose Hebrons Aroostook Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Houlton Hebrons Vermont Rose New Yrk Burbanks

Market Report on Game Birds and Straw Prices

Prices listed for rye straw and oat straw, with cents per unit. Game-Grouse supply described as small with demand around 65 to 75 cents per pair. Partridges also scarce with all choice lots selling at 60 to 100 cents per pair.

Market Report Shows Dull Trade Across Goods

The market is well supplied and trade is very dull. Prices quoted include alta 1 75 to 2 25 basket onions 75c bush 2 2 37 bbl Spanish onions 87 ac crate beets 35c per box carrots 40c per box lettuce 50c per box turnips 35c per box white cape 1 1 25 bbl St Andrews 1 25 to 1 50 per bbl cucumbers 2 50 per 100 count peppers 1 25 bush parsley 25c per bush civey beans 1 50 per bush Lima beans 1 2 per bush green corn 1 25 per bbl tomatoes 1 to 1 50 per bush green tomatoes 35c per 4 box cabbage 83 5 per 100 count Savoy cabbage 50c per bbl red cabbage 60c per box barberries 1 per bush parsnips 50c per box pumpkins 75c per bbl marrow squash 60 75c per bbl turban squash 75c per bbl spinach 16e per bush cauliflowers 1 per box egg plant 2 250 B dozen celery 75c c 1 per dozen

Alta St Andrews

Fruit Market Sees Steady Demand Across Multiple Commodities

Specde market holds steady with quiet trade and dull common lots. Prices reported for apples, citrus, pears, cranberries, plums, grapes, quinces, and peaches show firm or steady levels. Malaga lemons arrive via direct shipment. various box and crate prices listed for Palermo, Messina, Naples, Florida oranges, and New York Delawares.

Gravensteins Hubbardstons Benavis Harveys Jamaica Palermo Messina Naples Floridas Florida Snow & Co Malaga Seckle Louise Bonne Cape Cod Delawares Concords Brightons Salems Isabella Marthas New York New Yorks Almeria New York State

Apple trade firm as Boston fruit market grows

Apple market reports firmer prices with higher demand as Boston fruit not offered today. The steamship Samaria carries 628 barrels, to be offered Friday. In Glasgow the Scandinavian steamer with 432 barrels of apples is likely to be sold today.

Liverpool Boston Samaria Glasgow

Steamer Arrivals Bring Bananas and Nuts to Boston

The steamer Charles Morant will arrive Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Tordenskjold arrives Friday with Banes bananas for Seaverns and Company, and the New York boat is due Friday carrying 750 barrels of sweets and 140 bags of peanuts.

Charles Morant Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company Tordenskjold Banes Bananas Seaverns & Co New York

Fruit Sales Auction Results and Highlights

H Harris and Co auction on Thursday will offer one car of California grapes. Snow and Co conducted an auction today with Concord grapes at 26 to 28 cents per pound, Ohio peaches at 125 dollars per ton, Sicily lemons at 2 dollars 62 cents to 2 dollars 87 cents, and Malaga lemons at 3 dollars 87 cents.

H Harris & Co California Snow & Co Concord Ohio Sicily Malaga

Meat market receipts and pork product prices update

Receipts today list tallow 51 pkgs beef none pork 287 bbls lard 500 pkgs hams 3 bbls tierces preserved meats 6 cars bacon 222 boxes. Prices show pork and pork products firm with long cuts 12 50 13 00, short cuts 12 50 13 00, backs 12 50 13 00, light backs 11 50, lean ends 14, tongues 18, mess 12 , etc. New York market firm, beef quiet, lard active, various regional quotes for tierces, bacon, corned beef, and fresh beef.

New York Western Steam City Steam Continent St Louis Chicago Cincinnati

New York and Liverpool Cotton Prices and Markets Report

News from New York and Liverpool show dull to steady trading in cotton with quoted staples across grades and futures: Upland ordinary to middling ranges from 8c to 11c, Gulf and American figures cited. futures opened quiet, closed steady. Liverpool prices list middlings around 67 16d, with sales reported at 10,000 bales and American receipts noted. Other markets, including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans and Mobile, show mixed receipts, exports, and stock levels, with general tone quiet to steady and mid-grade quotations provided.

New York Osaee Kiog Aiotil Sc Srige Cesse Liverpool Qgwdee Ss O Cs Hii Augusta Mid Galveston Case Mid Lodge New Orleans Mobile

Maritime Net Receipts and Exports Across U S Ports

Consolidated five day report shows Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington and Norfolk nets with varied receipts gross exports and stocks, plus prices and conditions. Notable figures include New York exports to Great Britain 2976 and Велик stock totals at multiple ports with quiet or dull markets.

Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Great Britain Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville France United States

Market Report: Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Hog and Sheep Prices

Cattle markets show slow trade in Kansas City with bids across classes from native cows at 135 to stockers at 325, hogs steady to lower with heavies around 375 to 405 and light weights 390 to 410, sheep at 325 to 400. Cincinnati hogs lower, receipts 6430. Chicago receipts 16,000 cattle and 26,000 hogs with mixed results and Texas cattle around 155 to 285. western rangers 240 to 380. lambs 450 to 550.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas Western Rangers

Sugar and Molasses Market Summary

Sugar receipts today include 600 barrels, 149 packages and 1065 bags, with last year at 63 barrels. Raw sugars remain quiet while refined sugars show steady demand at quoted prices across pulverized, powdered, granulated and confectioners grades. Molasses receipts none, last year one barrel. market tone unchanged with New York trade quiet and refined demand steady.

Cuba Manilas Lloilos Javas Belmont New York Cienfuegos Barbadoes

Coffee and chemicals price roundup from New York markets

Coffee New York Rio trades strong as tail car departs. Whiskey market steadies at 102 dollars. Turpentine and Petroleum in New York report turpentine at 4814 482c and rosin 10242 1065 with tar at 3. Petroleum closes at 7.55¢ with RSW 7.05c and cases at 9.05c.

New York Rio

Imports October 2 1889 Liverpool steamship cargo list

Detailed cargo summary listing Venetian sulfur bleaching powders bricks and with a variety of goods from Linder & Meyer to W Doogue. Multiple firms including Buring Bros James Hill Manf co and Stone & Downer report sacks bales casks cases boxes and cases of mdse. Quantities range from 5 to 4000 units and include salt sult grapes currants and soda ash.

Liverpool Eng Linder & Meyer Buring Bros & Co Thorne James Hill Manf Co Moors & Co

Exports Oct 2 1889 Bear River Nova Scotia and Barbados

Shipping list detailing Sch E Norris at Bear River NS with flour cornmeal refined oil pork beef and other goods. Sch Myrtle Purdy at Sackville NB with flour cornmeal refined oil. extensive items listed for St Johns NF Barbadoes Barbados and Halifax Charlottetown and Dakar markets including toys ice beef mackerel oats hardware and various dry goods. numerous quantities and package types noted.

Bear River Norris Sackville ST Johns Sarah A Townsend Barbados Benjamin Courtney Halifax Charlottetown Pet Carroll Dakar WCA Sch Waldemar

The Cattle Market weekly report from 1889 Boston Post

Report by George J. Fox for the week ending Oct 2 1889 lists live stock totals at market with cattle swine and sheep. shows arrivals at yards and price ranges for market beef store cattle sheep and lambs. notes rates for working oxen cows calves yearlings and hogs with per head or per pair figures and regional price variations.

Boston Post George J. Fox

Cattle Trade Details at Watertown and Liverpool Export News

Market notes list J D Hosmer and P W Thompson & Son selling pairs of oxen and milch cows with girths from 6ft to 7ft 4in, prices from 70 to 130, and export shipments to Liverpool including 2664 cattle as shipments by Gould Morgan Hathaway and others. Maine cattle and veal trends show heavy supply, with Gilman Libby white race cattle, durham and Holstein cows, and veal lots sold at mixed prices. western fat hogs and rideable poultry totals cited amid overall steady demand and ongoing export activity.

Brighton W H Monroe Watertown Frackers H Gilman J D Hosmer P W Thompson & Son LG Oxen Hall & Son W_ Scollans Henry C Libby Hanson & Randall Liverpool J A Hathaway Sioston Oxenholm Gould & Morgan Palestine J Gould E B Morgan Rollinger Norseman M Goldsmith Bostonian N Morris Canada James Hayes J Kane E Thompson Maine Gilman & Libby J H Gilman Trafton & McIntire Merrill New England West Chicago

London and Liverpool grain markets show quiet demand

Cargoes off the coast report very quiet for wheat and corn with little buying interest. At Liverpool and Paris, Wheat and corn prices hold steady or ease with futures calm, notes on flour and market demand. London breadstuff and provisions show softer demand, with fall in pork and mixed American corn steady.

London Jiark Lane Paris Liverpool California

Insolvency Notice for Edwin Templee of Boston Mass

A warrant in insolvency issued against Edwin Templee electrician of Boston Suffolk. Debts and property transfers to him are forbidden. Creditors meet October 18 1889 at 2 PM in the Probate building Court Square Boston to prove debts and appoint assignees. THOMAS FEE Deputy Sheriff Messenger.

Boston Suffolk Edwin Bh Templee Court Square Thomas Fee Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Edward J. McKay Revere Fourt Square John B. Fitzpatrick NOTIC Frank Vitman Frank C. Pitman George A. Griffin Washington Street Bogton Jabez A. Sawyer County of Norfolk Horace v. Shepard of Sharon Dedham Norfolk Abram C. Paul Mersenger William P. Hont James H. Young Sears Building YU Polk Louis Nasherleg Eerie Eugene Tappan Pemberton Square

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