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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1889

Page

7

Market Notes: Western Eggs Beans Poultry Prices firm

Fresh Western prices for eggs and Canadian options show a firm market with higher jibbing quotes. Beans remain quiet with firmer yellow eyes, various hand picked and screened pea values listed. poultry markets hold steady though overall demand dull with mixed live and iced options. Potatoes and sweet potatoes see good supply and steady to firm prices. hay, straw, and game items show limited supply and varied demand across regions.

Michigan Canadas Chicago New York Vermont California Lima Canada Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Rose Vermont Rose Hebrons New York Burbanks White Stars Western New Brunswick Nova Scotia Rose Prince Edward Island Stars

Trade prices for vegetables and produce items list

Trade is quiet with a wide supply of all kinds. Prices listed include Malta onions at 1.75 per basket, bush onions 2 25 per barrel, Spanish onions 8742c per crate, beets 45c per P box, carrots 40c per P box, lettuce 50c per box, turnips 35c per P box, white cape 1.25 per bbl, St Andrews 1.25 per 150 bbl, cucumbers 2.50 per 100 count, peppers 1.25 per P bush, parsley 0.25 per P bush, lima beans 1.2 per P bush, green corn 1.25 per bbl, tomatoes 1.50 per bush, red cabbage 0.60 per box, Savoy cabbage 0.50 per bbl, barberries 1 per bush, parsnips 0.50 per P box, pumpkins 0.75 per bbl, marrow squash 0.60 0.75 per P bbl, turban squash 0.75 per P bbl, spinach 0. ???, cauliflower 1 per box, eggplant 2 per 250 dozen, celery 0.75 per 1 P dozen.

Malta White Cape St Andrews Rravensteins Hubbardstons Ben Davis Snow Aldwins Harveys Jamaica Sicily Palermo Messina Naples Floridas Florida Seckle Louise Bonne de Delawares Concords Brightons Salems Isabella Marthas New York Cape Cod New

Apple Exports Reported By Lombard Brothers

Messrs AC Lombard's Sons report weekly apple exports to Boston New York Montreal Halifax Glasgow London and Liverpool totaling 13 077 bbls for the week and 45 116 bbls for the season compared with 184 111 bbls same period last season.

Messrs AC Lombard’s Sons Boston New York Montreal Halifax Liverpool Glasgow London

Fruit Steamer Flamborough Due Friday

Steamer Flamborough is due Friday carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company, arriving with a fresh shipment for local grocers and markets.

Fruit Steamers Flamborough Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company

Market Report on Fruits and Produce Prices

Steady apple market with steady demand and slight accumulation. Prices listed for apples grapes cranberries quinces pears oranges lemons and related fruit products across multiple varieties and regions with common lots and boxes priced per bushel crate or box.

Cattle Hog and Sheep Market Totals From KC Cincinnati and Chicago

Kansas City market shows steady cattle with steers at 3 50 native cows 1 25 mixed butchers stock 150 180 stockers and feeders 2 15 2 80 range cattle 2 260. Hogs heavy 3 90 4 05 4 12% Yorkers 4 15 4 30. Sheep 3 375. Cincinnati hogs firm common light 3 25 4 30. Receipts 2100 shipments 265. Chicago cattle receipts 16000 shipments 3500 strong for good to choice. beef prices 4 50 4 87. steers 3 4 40. stockers feeders 1 75 3 00. cows bulls mixed 1 2 75. Texas cattle 1 35 2 75. Western rangers 2 40 3 60. Hogs receipts 19000 shipments 8000 stronger for heavy light weaker mixed 3 95 4 40. heavy 3 85 4 25. light 3 85 4 35. ships 3 3 90. Sheep receipts 12 000 shipments 4000 weak lower natives 3 4 40. Western 3 40 4 05. Texans 3 50 4 00. lambs 4 5 66.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas Western Rangers

Provisions Market Report with Varying Receipts and Prices

Receipts today list tallow beef pork lard hams preserved meats with counts in packages barrels and tierces. Prices show pork products strong demand steady hog prices with various cuts and lard higher and firmer. beef and lard markets mixed with regional quotes from St Louis Chicago Cincinnati and Western exporters.

Meat prices hold firm across beef and mutton markets

Bulk meats firmer with short rib at 610 dollars and bacon steady around 625. Corned beef and tongues unchanged while fresh beef shows a firm, steady market with varied cuts and prices. Other fresh meats well supplied with steady demand. tallow quiet and steady at city rates. Chicago mutton and New York tallow cited in regional notes.

Choice Chicago Brighton New York

Sugar and Molasses Prices and Receipts Report

Sugar receipts today 560 bbls, last year 129 bbls. Raw sugars steady. Cuba refined 5 to 5 1/2 cents, Manila 4 3/4 to 5 1/4 cents, Javas 10 to 11 cents. Refined sugars firm, powders 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 cents, granulated 7 3/4 to 8 1/4 cents. Bel­mont A 7 4/5, extra C 6 3/4 to 7 1/4 cents. New York raws quiet, refined steady. Molasses receipts today 130 bbls, 71 barrels, 5 tierces, 5 casks, 105 puncheons. last year 331 bbls, 26 tierces, 875 puncheons. Quotes: Fancy Ponce 4 1/3 to 4 1/2 cents per gallon. Cienfuegos 2 1/2 to 2 8/10. Barbadoes 3 1/2 to 3 2/5. boiling grades 50 test nominal.

Cuba Manilas Belmont New York Ponce Cienfuegos Barbadoes

New York and Liverpool Cotton Prices and Mercantile Quotes

In New York cotton is quiet with bids and prices for uplands and middling grades listed. Futures opened steady and closed firm while Liverpool markets show quiet activity with middlings around 6 7 16d and various old and new contract futures. Other U S port markets report receipts, exports, stocks, and steady to dull conditions across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Norfolk and West Point with mid range prices and daily totals.

New York Lée Liverpool Colodor Sss Coe Augusta C. Galveston Great Britain France New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Britain Wiltmin Norfolk Mid West Point Baltimore Continent Cincinnati St Louis Louisville Consolidated United States

Commodity price roundup in New York market notes

Coffee and turpentine markets show mixed readings with New York prices at 197c for coffee, 48 4814c for turpentine, rosin at 110, tar at 3, while petroleum closes at 7.55c. Row at 7.05c and cases at 9.05c accompany Western market steadiness around 102 dollars for pie age year.

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Imports and Exports 1889 Charlottetown Port Hawkesbury

Listing of steamship cargoes and consignments from Charlottetown and Port Hawkesbury to Boston and Yarmouth with numerous items including eggs potatoes mackerel butter cheese fish and other goods. Detailed per-ship consignments show hundreds of cases bags bbls and boxes from the Worcester and Yarmouth steamer schedules and from various firms led by J Y Brehant Brown DeLoria Co Dinchman Dinchman Fay and many others.

Charlottetown Pei Port Hawkesbury Worcester Brehant Kowles & Co Boston Produce Co Brown, DeLoria & Co Bartlett Lyman & Co Barclay & Co Baker Butler & Co Autchinson & Co L S Kimball Fred Miller Moise Montgomery & Co A & O W Mead & Co H Murch & Co Morse & Holt James McNeill McWilliams & Co Stimpson, Murray & Co Doslayton & Boynton Woolside & Co Winsor & Son Wade Walters Bond & Co Cutler & Co Delong & Seaman Potter & Wrightington Dodo Donald, Morrison & Co Wilcox Halliday Amos Keyes & Co Lang & Jacobs McKay Mcintosh Pickett & Co T Russell & Co Squires Stratton, Little & Co D Stone & Co I. Ware Whitey, Pensland & Co Yarmouth G Hall & Co L Clements & Co Dunbar & Davis Whitney, Pousland & Co Griffin & Co Meal & Co Batchelder & Co Cheney & Co Davis & Farnum Webber & See Woodside & Co Rio Grande DO Sul

Shipping and dockside goods by ports and ships

The list records cargoes: from Lunenburg and Saint John to Yarmouth and San Domingo and Havana ports. Items include flour cornmeal beef lard lard refined oil lumber shingles and canned goods. Also listed are gas coke and a broad mix of perishables and hardware with quantities.

Lunenburg Brig Diadem ST John Sehsk Vort-Au-Prince Hayti Matilda Buck Berring Havana Cuba Demerara Alice McDonald

Trade Goods and Cargo Listings From Various Ports

A serialized extract lists cargoes and shipments across multiple ships and ports including Cadiz Liverpool and Plympton. Items include beef pork lumber oak staves hides leather flour cornmeal oatmeal and miscellaneous commodities with quantities given in bbls bags cases and other units. Mentions ships such as Istrian and Raymond and places like Cadiz Leeds and Parrsboro.

Cadiz Spain Alexandria Liverpool Eng Istrian Plympton Sch Belvidere

Value. Animals. Breadstuffs and imports listing

A scanned ledger style list of goods and values includes naval stores breadstuffs candles agri implements brass goods clocks coffee spices and more. Entries cover raw materials manufactured items and various articles with a grand total value of 81,066,568 across listed countries including England France Belgium and others.

S. Druga Chem Csck England Nova Scotia Cte French Guiana Newfoundland and Labrador British West Indies Africa Australasia Hayti Argentine Republic Belgium TOCAL

Foreign Markets Summary from London and Liverpool Oct 7

Cargoes off the coast show firmer wheat and steady corn. Mark Lane notes firm wheat and flour with quiet English and French markets. Paris wheat quiet. Liverpool spots rise for wheat, but corn eases with poor demand. Cotton futures mix. American middling prices listed. Provisions and fats hold steady to lower with mixed grain prices and meat markets easing.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool Bayer

Trade Directory of Names and Firms Across States

A fragmented list of numerous names and firms across cities like Atlanta Baltimore Birmingham Chicago Cincinnati Charleston Detroit Galveston Knoxville Memphis Nashville Omaha Philadelphia Richmond St Louis St Joseph and more. Entries note individual names and associated firms or treasurer roles in a belt of business listings, with varied abbreviations for Treasurer Ad Us Qu? references and shoe companies.

Atlanta J A Smith Moore, Marsh & Co Baltimore C Carroll Carroll, Adams & Co C Adler Frank & Adler Birmingham Ala H W Perry Perry Mason Shoe Co Columbus J K Orr J K Orr & Co Charleston M Drake M Drake & Son Chicago F Carpenter Guthman, Carpenter & Telling Farnum Crofoot Crofoot, Stelle & Libby H C Dovenmuehle J Benckenstein J Benckenstein & Co K Payne Payne Shoe Co Tre Davenport A P Doe AP Doe & Co Detroit Mich E Smith HMS Robinson & Burtenshaw McGraw McGraw & Co C. Evansville Ind B Hinkle Hinkle Nisbet & Co Treridge Wayne L Carnahan Carnahan & O Grand Rapids Bertsch Rindge Bertsch & O Galveston Tex Breath P J Willis & Bro Knoxville Tenn E McMillan McMillan, Hazen & Co B Lancaster M P Lancaster Pane Harris S T Coleman, Burden & O Memphis Goodbar Goodbar Shoe Company W Jackson Stern & Jackson Rk's Nashville Throne of Throne Franklin, Nance & Adams Murray Murray, Dibrell & Co Henry Foot of Foot Schuize & Co Ain Pg Paul Minn Tarbox Schlick & Io Savannah T Collar Collar Bros Toledo R Lee Childs, Lee & Juniap Bel H Lane & Co Zanesville Wemper

New England Limited Air Line Train Boston to New York

Boston departure at 3 pm arrives in New York at 9 pm with Parlor and Dining Cars aboard. Service highlights include direct daytime travel options and on board dining facilities.

Hartford Boston New York New England Limited Air Line Steamboat Express Norwich

Eastern Division Rail Schedule Jumbles in OCR Copy

Fragmented timetable lists for Eastern Division routes and weekend services. Many stations such as Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Lynn Marblehead Newburyport and Portland show scattered times. several lines appear corrupted with misread characters and inconsistent am and pm markers. Sunday trains are partially listed for Lynn Newburyport and Portland with references to branches and a workingmen's train.

Transit Timetable Fragments Across New England and Montreal

A jumble of rail and bus times lists stops including Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Willsboro Concord Wilton Akit ford Amherst Greenfield Washua North illerica Lawrence Stoneham Weburn Winchester Nashua Lowell Lie m Wey Stations and Montreal. Entries show morning and afternoon departures with many recurring times such as 8.30am 1pm 6.45pm and late evening 9 10 11 pm, plus connections via Concord Bedford and Montreal.

Portland Atter Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Dover North Centway Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Georgetown Kennebank Biddeford Old Orchard Lawrence Lowell Newburyport Meadive Salem North ¥Illerica Aim Stoneham Weburn Winchester Concord Mass Reformatory Bedford Nashua Land Liem Wey Eoburn Wav Manchester Montreal

Central Massachusetts Division Train Schedules Listed

Trains depart Boston Station foot of Causeway Street for Northampton Hadhey Amherst Belcher town Bondsville Ware Psilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester and towns in between with daily times 7 45 am 1 30 pm 4 pm and additional runs to Sw Clifton Berlin Findson South Sudbury Meckbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont 62d.

Fall River Line Stonington Boston Old State House Trwe Central Division Kneeland Street New York Brockton Fall River Taunton Fannton Nantasket Anew Bedford Central Meckbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont

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