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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1888
Page
7
The report shows oats dull and lower, No 3 2240. Milwaukee and Detroit receipts around 11 300 and 2240 bush respectively. Rye, cornmeal, oatmeal, rye flour, and graham flour all described with steady or firm tones, plus strong cottonseed meal and variable hops prices.
Market notes report butter prices holding firm with Western and Vermont quotations ranging from 13 14420 to 24 25c for various grades. Egg and cheese markets steady to firm with regional differences. Potatoes and hay show steady demand. poultry demand remains good with mix of rising and steady prices.
A historical market listing shows prices for squash cabbages onions beets carrots lettuce turnips tomatoes peppers cauliflowers celery parsnips egg plant citron melons spinach pumpkins and barberries. Prices are given per bushel box basket or dozen with varied cents and dollars.
Market report shows strong demand for pork products at firm prices across regions. Long cuts at 19 19 26, backs around 19 50 20 00, lean ends 20 50 21 00, prime mess 19 19 60, light backs 19, fresh ribs 10 32 11, and lard around 12 12 ½. New York notes pork at 16 25 17 00, Chicago pork weaker, and St Louis provisions lower with lard around 9 25.
Dry salt meats featuring shoulders eight fifty per unit, longs and ribs nine twenty six, short clears nine sixty. Bacon shoulders nine twenty five, Jones and ribs ten twelve and a half, short clear ten thirty seven and four two thirds. Hams eleven fifty. Corned beef trade quiet at steady prices with ranges for plate, mess, beef hams, tongues, and tripe. Fresh beef markets show varied steers and hinds with prices across grades. other meats steady with lambs, mutton, and veal quoted at multiple regional levels.
The steamer Hondo is due with Jamaica bananas and 2700 bbls of Jamaica oranges for the Boston Fruit Company, signaling a major fruit shipment to the port.
Snow & Co offers for sale at auction Thursday 261 boxes Delawares and 125 boxes Jamaica oranges. Apples firm at old prices with detailed per bushel and box quotes for Hubbardstons Gravensteins Pippins and Baldwins. Oranges lemons trade steady with Messina Palermo lemons and Jamaica oranges priced by box and barrel. Grapes firm Delawares and Concords quoted per case, with Almeria grapes at 3.46 per barrel. Pears pears Bartlett Louise Sheldon and others listed with per barrel and per bushel ranges. Plums Damsons and Green gage quotes noted, cranberries firm with per barrel and case prices, quinces large receipts with No 1 No 2 bbl prices.
New York cotton held steady with middling uplands at 9 9 16 cents and sales 333 bales. Futures opened and closed steady. Liverpool and other global markets follow with steady tones across New York, Liverpool, and American port data showing stock changes and exports to France and the Continent.
Furnished by J E Carter & Co. Market shows waiting stance with hint of higher prices. Insiders complain of manipulation as small holders shed long positions. expectations rise to reclaim certificates at higher figures. Opening and closing figures given with sales reaching 683,000 barrels.
In Kansas City stockyards cattle receipts reach 7782 with slow trade and steady prices. Hogs number 12847 receipts down 5 to 10 cents. heavies 57 60, mediums 55 75, pigs 50 65 30. Sheep receipts 2757 steady around 26 75. Cincinnati hog demand strong, Chicago cattle receipts 9000 and hogs 8000 with open steady then 20 cent drop. Texas and Western cattle and lambs show varied bids across regions.
Sugar markets hold steady with raw and refined prices mostly unchanged. Cuba refining quotes range from 4% to 5% for various grades, while refined sugars list Pulverized 8 cents per pound and Granulated 75 cents per pound. Wholesale granulated at 7 1/2 to 8 cents, molasses shows fair demand amid a firm market, and Ponce Porto fancy grades appear in trade notes.
The bulletin notes Porto Rico common to choice at 38 cents per pound, Barbadoes at 26 cents, Cien fuegos new crop at 23 cents, Mayaguez at 30 cents, and 270 boiling grades. Prices are quoted on a 60 test basis with a nominal 220 in New York markets.
Tallow remains steady with good demand. New York tallow is dull with prime city at 5 16c. Coffee from New York Rio is strong and active with fair cargoes at 16c. Whiskey markets in Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis unchanged. Turpentine and petroleum in New York show varied closes with resin at 1 05 and tar at 2 20, petroleum at 6 7 8c, cases 9 40.
Market report for the week ending October 9, 1888 from the Boston Post by George J. Fox. Details on beef cattle, store cattle, sheep and lambs, hides and pelts, and notes on market tone. Buyers and sellers listed include J A Hathaway, Moulton & Flanders, George Harris, Robert French, Fairbanks, and others with prices per hundredweight and per head.
A detailed list of shipments arriving at Liverpool with foreign and domestic consignments. Includes camel hair bales earthenware crates wool glass paper and numerous commodities from merchants such as Perkins Morey Churchill, Baring Bros., Morey, A French, Hills Turner, and others. Entries cover quantities like crates casks boxes bales and bags, alongside vessel names and port references.
Readable fragments show cargo inventories for schooners and steamers at ports including Yarmouth Truro Hull and St John with flour beef cornmeal lard refined oil and hardware listed by vessel and destination. The notes include numerous cargo denominations across ships, portraying bustling trade patterns in the region.
A catalog of staple goods and quantities listed by railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction and Boston Providence. Items cover cotton wool flour corn oats malt feed bacon lard cheese beans apples hay lumber leather hides pelts and more with counts in bales, bush, boxes, tons, and cases. Provides detailed tonnage and box tallies across multiple rail lines.
A detailed ledger style item lists cargo counts by railroad and division including leather bales hides and skins, wool bales and tallow, flour sacks, corn and oats, tea and coffee, butter eggs and lard, lumber rolls, leather pelts and hides, and assorted crates. The entries enumerate totals per line along with division names such as Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System and shipments by rail and by sea.
An itemized ledger lists monthly totals for commodities and shipments. Cotton, wool, cheese, flour, eggs, cornmeal, beans, corn, apples, oats, wheat, barley, malt, rye, hay, millfeed, peas, timber products, tallow, leather, beef, pork, lard, hams, hides, greases, bacon, skins, tea, coffee, molasses, furred goods, and miscellaneous packed goods with figures per year 1887 1888 and quantities in pkgs boxes bales cases bushels barrels and other units.
Cable markets report wheat quiet firm with active shipments and several cargoes sold or awaiting sale. At Mark Lane and Liverpool, prices rise for various wheat grades and corn weak demand persists. Weather in England frosty. shipments to Britain and the continent reported, with receipts and futures quotes across multiple centers.
Suffolk probate court cites all interested in estates of Thomas E. Call of Portsmouth New Hampshire and Klens Stearns of Nashville Tennessee. Executors seek to receive or sell shares in banks railroads insurance and mining firms in Suffolk with public sale licensing. Court dates October 15 and October 29 1888 with weekly Boston Post notices.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts probate court summons heirs at law next of kin and all others interested in the estate of Edward Cooke late of Newton Middlesex to appear as required by law in probate court proceedings
Legal notices announce probate proceedings for William Freeman Pepperell and others, appoint executors such as Arthur Hobart, Edwin Atkins, and Elizabeth Regan, with bonds and required public citations in the Boston Post. Dates range from September 1883 to October 1888, listing towns Boston Middlesex and Suffolk, plus directions to file claims.
Partial timetable for Cape Cod division listing departures and arrivals at numerous towns including Barnstable Yarmouth Hyannis Sandwich and Sagamore with times around 9.00 am and 4.15 pm, plus several inconsistent notations. Readable items show routes between Kneeland Street Station and Buzzards Way and multiple midsized communities.
Providence division notices list numerous timetable stops including Park Square Station New Work Shore Line and Providence Line times. Frequent trains run weekdays and Sundays with specific departures to Pawtucket Readville Meoxbury Sharon and more, plus additional Central V trains and weekend variations.
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