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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 25, 1889

Page

7

Grain and feed markets report steady receipts and prices

Millfeed receipts reach 103 tons today versus 209 last year. Sac spring at 14 14 75 per ton, sack winter 15 25 16 00, Michigan bran 15 15 25, mid dlings 15 25 19 25 per ton. Cottonseed meal 23 50 24 00 per ton for new arrival. Malt receipts 700 bushels, last year 1020. six rowed Canada No 1 85 90c, No 2 70 80c, six rowed State 70 75c, two rowed State 65c. Hops receipts none. New York values 1889 12 13c, 1888 3 12c, 1887 nominal 3 6c.

Sac Michigan Canada New York

Butter Market Slumps as Receipts Hold Steady Despite Decline

Receipts today list butter 8793 tubs 1173 boxes oleo 925 pkgs cheese 1521 boxes eggs 81 bbls 2619 cases beans 77 bbls potatoes 36 cars sweet potatoes 101 bbls hay 29 cars straw 8 cars. Last year’s same day showed uneven gains and losses across butter cheese eggs beans and potatoes. The butter market drifts lower with weak demand and ample lower grades, Elgin down to 23c, while fair Western creamery and N. York Vermont quotes hold. Exports since May 1 reach 703,882 lbs.

Elgin Franklin County New York Vermont Liverpool Chicago Ceansys Sage State Eastern Island Michigan Nova Scotia New Hampshire New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Canadas California Lima Choice Canada

Market report on potatoes hay and grass seeds

Potatoes show weak demand with large receipts and rising stocks. prices listed for various regional varieties. Sweet potatoes market quiet and steady with Jersey and bulk Jersey prices given. Hay receipts small and prices steady. common grades dull. Rye straw firm with high prices for choice hay. Grass seeds quiet at nominal levels with listed per hundredweight prices.

Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Rose Vermont Rose Hebrons New York Burbanks White Stars Brunswick Nova Scotia New Brunswic Prince Edward Island Stars New Brunswick Timothy Jersey

Market Report: Steady Trade For Fresh Produce

The market sits in a steady position with quiet trade. Prices listed include Malta $1.75 to $2.25 per basket, onions 75 cents, Western onions $2 per barrel, beets 50 cents, lettuce 50 cents, cabbage segments and other vegetables with varied per box or per bush pricing. Several items such as parsnips, pumpkins, spinach, cauliflower, and celery appear with specific price points and units.

Malta White Cape St _Andrews Hubbard

Fruit market notes on apples oranges grapes and berries

The report shows large apple receipts keeping prices steady though dull demand, with a slight power shift as Kings and other varieties sell wholesale in steady ranges. Orange and lemon markets are fair to steady. Jamaica oranges and Sicily lemons figure in limited supply at quoted box and count rates. Grapes and cranberries market activity remains steady or dull with modest demand and varied parcel pricing.

Liverpool Denmark Holland Belgium Baldwins Michigan Greenings Michigan Talman Sweets Eastern Talmans Bi Ohinan Harveys Jamaica Sicily Florida Concords Brightons Salems Dianas Isabellas Marthas Jonas Cape New York Almeria

Steamers Arrival Bring Jamaican Fruit and Potatoes

The steamer Charles Morand will bring Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat due Friday carries 860 barrels of sweet potatoes and 250 bags of peanuts. The steamer Devonshire has left Palermo with 750 boxes of lemons for Boston, with the remainder bound for New York.

Charles Morand Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company Norfolk Devonshire Palermo Boston New York

Fruit Sales Auction Details and Cargo for Sale

H Harris & Co will auction 291 crates and 49 half crates of Tokay grapes plus 30 crates and 100 half crates of Muscat grapes and 10 half boxes of winter pears. The steamer Italia cargo of 5000 boxes Malaga lemons will be sold at auction Friday in New York.

H Harris & Co Malaga New York

Market summaries Hog and cattle prices across cities

Kansas City reports steady markets for hogs and cattle with ranges for shipping steers at 3.20 per cwt and native cows around 150 to 230. Hogs close about steady with heavies near 375 to 390, mediums 385 to 9734, Yorkers 4405, sheep 325 to 400. Cincinnati and Chicago receipts rise with cattle slow and lower, hogs down, Texas cattle around 2.39, lambs at 4.25.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Meat Prices and Supplies Across Markets Reported

Receipts today show tallow 52 pkgs beef 40 bbls pork 15 bbls lard 280 pkgs hams 6 bbls 130 tierces preserved meats none bacon 1041 boxes. Quotes note pork steady with good sales, lard firm, beef strong, and various cuts priced across New York Park Chicago Cincinnati and Louisville markets with brisk demand for beef hams and bacon products.

New York Park City Chicago Louis

Fresh Meats Market Slows Amid Oversupply Beige

Market reports no improvement with dull trade and oversupply across all meat kinds. Prices quoted include choice lambs eight cents, various meats six to nine cents, and tallow weak with city renderings at four and a quarter to four and a half cents. New York tallow remains weak with packages at two dollars, four cents.

Chicago Choice Brighton New York City R. Irving Dodge West 125Th Street Ayer Alte L. W. Ward, Sr Woodland, Texas

Cotton prices and futures across New York and Liverpool markets

Cotton trading in New York showed quiet sales of 355 bales with quotes across grades from 7 16 to 10 9 16 cents and futures opening firm then closing steady. Liverpool futures opened weak and closed quiet with varied price bands and ongoing demand for middling grade, 12,000 bales traded, American receipts listed, and a broad roundup of regional market figures and stocks.

New York Eecees Liverpool Augusta Galveston Great Britain Great Britain 6135; Coastwise New Orleans France the Gee Mid Savannah Continent Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville Persge United States

Sugar and Molasses Market Report Today

Sugar receipts total six barrels, same as last year. Raw sugars steady with Cuba refin ing 6.2 to 6.5 cents, Manila 4.3, Javas 6 to 6.5 cents. Refined prices mixed with pulverized 7.75, powdered 7.5 to 7.75, granulated 7.5 to 7.75 cents. Molasses receipts 18 barrels and 29 hogsheads, prices current for Ponce and Cienfuegos. New Orleans demand quiet, New York steady for refined sugars.

Cuba New York Barbados New Orleans

Market Report Shows Mixed Turpentine Petroleum Prices

Turpentine and rosin move higher while petroleum stays steady in New York trading. Turpentine closes at 49 49 with rosin at 10734 11244 and tar at 260, petroleum at 7.55c with RSW 7.20c and cases 9.20c. Coffee from New York and Rio remains steady with fair car movement noted. Whiskey markets in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati hold at 102 dollars.

New York Rio Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Imports and Exports. Imports Oct 24 1889 Liverpool Steamer Virginian

Shipping notices list cargoes for the Virginian steamer at Liverpool with caustic soda bleaching powder and various commodities from E I King Thayer Lincoln Linder Meyer Moors & co and others. The long ledger details crates bales casks sacks wool silk cotton glassware and numerous goods with many firms and partners named.

Liverpool E & I King & Co Thayer & Lincoln Linder & Meyer Moors & Co Oxden & Co Sinnot & Co Morey, Churchill & More Burnham Wilcox & Cordingly Riley & Gray Leigh & Co Margetson & Co Goneralez Egea & Co Houghton & Co Webster King Glue Co Moise J L Whitney & Co Baring Bros & Co Blake & Ripley Doherty & Co Warren & Co China Pratt H Bb Jackson Moise Keach & Co Jere Abbott & Co Washburn & Moen Mfg Co Parr Wim Brewster Warren & Blanchard Lane & Hulberd Stover Norton, Fessenden & Son Warren & ¢O Stone & Downer Danholme & McKay Gonzalez, Egea & Co de Gonzalez, Egea & Co Alex Stowell & Co Walker & Co Chas It Alexander Antwerp Hermann Lowe Pbls Chemical Roessle Hanlecker Pickard & Kuttroff

Wholesale Goods and Shipments Across Allied Firms

A long docket of trade items lists firms and their varied consignments including marble, rolled iron beams, window glass, cutlery, china, glassware, perfumery, toys, dolls, pottery, and sundries. Entries show quantities like cases, barrels, and casks, with destinations including ALBERTON PEI and HALIFAX NS. The document also records ships and imports such as steamer Yarmouth with assorted provisions and marine freight to multiple Canadian ports.

Farnam & Co Tufts Birtwell’ & Co Bird & Co Beardsley & Cummings David Wilcox Read & Co Clark & Co Glass Hills Turner & Co Graves & Sons James H Dunne & Co Chamomile Cutler Bros & Co Gaye Carpenter, Woodward & Morton Deholus & McKay Lambert Bros K Haley & Co Horace Partridge & Co Son & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Houghton & Dutton Louis Wolf & Co Peabody & Whitney Geof Crawley Mer Stewart

Exports from Oct 24 1889 Rockport and Liverpool lists

Shipping records show Rockport exports of cornmeal and kerosene aboard Sch Ebel Emerson. Liverpool clearances on Kansas Pavonia and Pavonia list vast quantities of corn, beef, lard, bacon, cheese, cotton, flour, tobacco, oils, and various manufactured goods. Miramichi, NS ship Alba entry notes bbls four meal kerosene lard and kerosene and pork.

Rockport Ebel Emerson Liverpool Eng Kansas Pavonia Bbis Jewellers Mirindie Alba

Foreign Markets Wheat Quiet Across Antwerp Paris and London

Market notes from Antwerp Paris and London report wheat staying quiet and steady with modest activity in related commodities. Prices edge higher in Liverpool spot trade while futures show little movement as October to March terms for wheat and corn vary by delivery month.

Antwerp Paris London Mark Lane Liverpool California

Fitchburg Railroad Schedule says trains from Boston to West

Train times from the Boston Passenger Station Causeway Street to Troy Albany Chicago and beyond are listed with multiple daily departures including express and sleeping car services. The notice names through tickets, minor stops, Sundays, local offices, and identifies John Adams as General Superintendent J Whitmore as General Traffic Manager and J R Watson as General Passenger Agent.

New York Stonington Park Square Station Washington State Street Park Square Boston J. W. Richardson C. H. Briggs Pasy Causeway Street Troy Albany Binghamton Chicago Niagara Falls Erie St. Louis Michigan Central Wabash Daily Express Grand Trunk Joy Ayer Junction Belmount Waverley Brattleboro Miler’s Falls Cambridge Cheshire Kk. K Concord Fitebbarg E. m. Gardner and Miller M. Greenfield Hoosick Falls Johnsonville Lincoln Marlboro Odeon Maynward Nashua N. EA North Adams Williamstown North Leominster Saratoga Shelburne Falls Union Square Seomerville M. Waltham Watertown Union Market Mt. Auburn Worcester Bone Miller’s Falls Hoosac Tunnel Washees Street John Adams Providence Hyde Park M. Weadville M. Walpole M. Franklin Pawtucket Woonsocket Woon. Jc Blackstone Webster and South Bridge Putnam Worwich New London Willimantic Waterbury Panbury Fishkill-On-Hudson New Burgh Buffalo Detroit Points West Erie Railroad Norwood Central Hide Park Frankland Woonsocket Division Boston & Albany Needham Highlandville Upper Falls Medfield Medway Woonsoket tDaily West Fitchburg St. Albans Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Fillam Keene Westmoreland Walpole Bellows Falls Rutland Burlington St. Johns Montreal Ogdensburg Delaware & Hudson Canal Company R. R Cheshire Connecticut River Vermont White River Junction Ottawa Washington Street A. Faxon A R. Stewart Keene, N Fall River Old Colony Brooklyn Jersey City Annex Boat Puritan Pilgrim Old State House Kneeland Street J. A. Kendrick Geo. L. Connor Gen's Pass L. H. Palmer White Mountain Division Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville Campton Village Woodstock Pemigewasset Valley Lisbon Littleton Whitefield Lancaster Fordefferson Twin Mt Bethlehem Fabyan St. Johnsbury Newport Passumpsic Rk Wells River Lake Champlain Quebec Sherbrooke H. E. Chamberlin, F. & Peers Sup T. Geo W. Storer N. BP. A

Boston and Albany R R Service Notice Fragment

A fragment from railroad notices mentions Boston and Albany R R with a price or fare reference and numbers. The readable text hints at schedule or service details but lacks full context or dates. Further readable wording is needed for a concrete item.

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