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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1889
Page
7
The notice lists abundant commodity conditions with many items steady or firm such as oats, cornmeal, flour, butter, eggs, and canned goods, while others like hops, molasses, cranberries, and pears show dull or slow demand. It also notes meat markets with pork, beef, and lard characteristics and farm staples including hay, straw, and vegetables.
Fall River on October 25 reports the print cloth market quiet and steady at 39 16c for 64x64 spots and 35 8c for futures. Brokers say very fair business for the week with sales around 200000 pieces, mainly futures.
The Chicago option market reports December wheat at 80% to 79.34 cents, with mixed signals from drought relief and export buying. Corn strengthens on light arrivals and rainfall worries, while hogs and longer futures ease. Closing prices show varied gains and declines across wheat, corn, and oats in St Louis New York and Minneapolis sessions, highlighting drought relief, demand, and weather forecasts as key drivers.
The mackerel market faces easing prices as domestic catches stay light and 15 000 bbls of Irish mackerel await shipment. Norway mackerel arrivals rise while shore vessels return with mixed yields. Weekly landings total 801 bbls with sales at 28 to 32 dollars per bbl for various grades, signaling a softer near term outlook and cautious buyers.
The Boston and Gloucester fish markets show dull activity with weak to steady prices. Catches remain large, but demand slips on bank and herring, while cod, halibut, and mackerel hold firm or decline slightly amid abundant supplies and ongoing receipts from domestic and foreign ports.
Chicago and New York spot markets show firm to higher grain prices with No 2 and white varieties leading gains. Receipts run high in New York, Chicago, and St Louis as oats, cornmeal, barley, and rye fluctuate, while flour and millfeed copy steady demand and premiums. cottonseed meal and hops show quiet, steady trends with limited movement.
Butter receipts exceed last year but demand remains weak with wide price gaps. Western creameries quoted 25c for choice, 22-23c for extra, with 12-15c sales for lower grades. Northern creameries 24-25c, imitation at 12-16c. Eggs, beans, potatoes, and hay markets varied little, while sweet potatoes show slight improvement and rye straw remains steady.
A garbled listing shows varying prices for vegetables and produce. It mentions Malta and items such as onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, tomatoes, spinach, celery, and pumpkins with prices ranging from 16 cents to over two dollars per unit or box, but the text is incomplete and contains many OCR errors.
Fruit receipts remain large with steady wholesale prices for apples including Kings at 83 3 50 and Harveys at 3 per barrel. Oranges Jamaica steady at 5 50 6 50 per barrel, Sicily lemons at 5 40 6 00 for 300 count and 4 4 50 for 360 count, Florida oranges limited at 3 50 4 50 per box, grapes steady with Delawares 50c and Isabellas 28 30c, cranberries steady with Cape lots 6 7 50 per barrel, Quinces small supply. Native lots of fruit noted.
A brief market note reports fair demand for New York and Almeria Grapee parcels. Prices cited include about 3 yi bush and $10 per dozen for fancy items, with two good lots appraised as strong candidates.
FRUIT SALES H Harris & Co will auction 291 crates and 49 half crates Tokay grapes, 30 crates and 100 half-crates Muscat grapes, 15 boxes shellbarks and 10 half-boxes winter ars. Snow & Co will auction 2610 boxes Almeria grapes, 2810 baskets Concord grapes, 500 boxes Malaga lemons and 16 cases pomegranates. In New York, the steamer Glen Janar cargo of 3500 boxes Messina lemons and 8500 boxes Palermo lemons will be sold at auction Tuesday. On Wednesday the Britannia cargo of 5000 boxes Malaga lemons will be auctioned.
The steamer Charles Morand is due to arrive with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company, signaling a fresh shipment expected to bolster local markets and supply.
Receipts list tallow 108 pkgs and 401 boxes acon with varying year ago figures. pork and pork prance steady at old prices. corned beef dull. fresh beef firm with cattle sales at full prices. other fresh meats plentiful with dull sale at low prices. regional markets New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati report mixed but overall firmness in lard and bacon segments with several price points and tonnage figures.
Kansas City market steady with cattle notching steers 3.30 to 3.90 natives 1.50 to 2.25 mixed stock 1.60 to 2.20 stockers 2.50 to 3.00 range 2.47 to 3.20 hogs steady heavies 3.80 to 3.90 mediums 3.85 to 3.97 Yorks 3.97 to 4.05 sheep steady at 3.40. Cincinnati hogs lower mixed 3.25 to 4.10 packing 3.80 to 4.00. Chicago cattle receipts 11,000 with beeves 4.50 to 4.95 steers 3.40 to 4.60 stockers 1.95 to 2.85 cows and bulls 1.20 to 2.90 Texas cattle 1.50 to 2.80 Western range 2.30 to 3.80 hogs receipts 23,000 with heavies 3.65 to 4.10 mediums 3.85 to 4.10 lights 3.85 to 4.20. sheep receipts 8,000 natives 3.75 to 5.00 western 3.50 to 4.15 Texans 3.20 to 4.10 lambs 4.25 to 6.35.
New York reports dull sales of 65 bales in uplands with varied grades and prices. Futures opened and closed steady as Liverpool shows steady demand, mills and traders watching mid and low middling levels amid large port stocks and mixed exports to Britain, France, and the Continent.
Sugar receipts today 2984 barrels vs 9894 bags last year. raw sugars quiet with Cuba refined values quoted. Refined sugars steady with fair demand. Pulverized 7.75, powdered 7.7, granulated 6.64 to 7.14 cents. wholesale 7.5 cents for granulated. Molasses receipts 50 barrels, same day last year 45. Prices: Ponce 48 cents, peak 40–41, fair 36.23–39, Cienfuegos 26–28, Barbados 32, boiling grades 50 test nominal.
Turpentine closed at 48 percent, rosin 105 110, tar 260, with petroleum at 7.60 cents. Rosin and related prices edged higher while RSW traded at 7.25 cents and cases at 9.25 cents. Coffee from Rio is strong with better demand and fair cargoes at 1944c. Whiskey shows no change.
In Crappaud and Burgeo regions scant details show Kate McKinnon ordered 3633 bush potatoes and Kinburn shipped 846 barrels with 14 casks each for Whitney, Pousland & co. An Ella Maud at Orwell Bay records 2688 bush.
Shipping ledgers record Oct 25 1889 exports across Antwerp Summerside Yarmouth Sackville and London. Kong Ali Coila Yarmouth stockpiles various foods textiles machinery and hardware while Stockholm City clears with chairs hides lumber and goods. The long list names many vessels, boxes, bbls, bags, crates, and packed commodities.
Paris and London market wires show quiet wheat and flour activity with steady to firmer corn. Liverpool notes dull wheat demand, steady winter and spring wheats, and mixed American corn while futures drift and late prices list subregions.
Passengers traveling on the Fall River Line Shore Line and Stonington Line may have baggage checked from any hotel or residence in Boston to their destination. Orders to call for baggage left at No. 3 Old State House. Timetables for local and through train service between all stations available at company ticket offices. Central Division.
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