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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1889
Page
7
The page lists carload grain prices and flour quotations with receipts and exports for New York and Chicago. It notes steady demand for winter wheat flours, slower spring patents, and uneven futures with mixed corn, oats, and rye activity across multiple markets.
Today’s receipts include butter 152 pkgs, oleo 174 pkgs, cheese 71 boxes, eggs 559 cases, beans 56 bbls, potatoes 20 cars, sweet potatoes 159 bbls, hay 12 cars, straw 7 cars. Trade is quiet with firm prices. finest creameries demand fair, Western creamery at 18 1 2 to 19 1 2 cents, fancy brands 19 4 to 20c. Oregon? Northern creamery tight, jobbing at 20c. Eggs steady: Eastern extras scarce, some lots at 20c, most at 19c. Western and Michigan light, receipts cleaning up. Prices quoted for various grades across regions shown, with wholesale elevations.
A vendor quotes a wide range of prices for Egyptian onions at 150 per crate, red onions 75 cents to 1 per bag, Malta 175 for a basket, and many other vegetables. Prices include beets 35 cents per box, carrots 40 cents, lettuce 1.25 per box, cabbage varieties 75 cents to 3.4 per 100 count, and beans, peppers, corn, and celery with various per unit costs.
The Norfolk boat arrives Monday carrying 700 bags of peanuts and 450 bushels potatoes. The steamer Marmion expected Tuesday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
readers report eleven cars of potatoes on Sunday's train from Norfolk. The shipment arrives with cargo listed as potatoes and no further details on destination or brand.
The market shows full stock and steady demand for apples with firm prices, oranges and lemons limited but firm, pears well supplied with firm native Bartletts and steady Clapps Favorite, melons and berries with modest receipts, grapes and watermelons mixed demand, bananas varying by origin, and plums with broad price ranges and crate sales noted by variety.
Receipts include tallow beef pork lard bacon and other items with varied quantities. Market notes show quiet steady pork and lard demand, hams unchanged, and prices across regions for long and short cuts, lard, mess varieties, and sausage products with regional quotes from New York Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati.
Fitchburg RAILROAD timetable lists departure times from Boston Causeway Street for the West and extensive Through trains to Albany Chicago and beyond withSleeping Cars and Parlor Cars and multiple local stops including Cambridge Concord Fitchburg and Worcester. Through tickets available at Hoosac Tunnel Route office and station offices. officials named John Adams J Whitmore and J R Watson.
Meats firmer short ribs five dollars per dozen percent bacon stronger at six fifty. Corned beef and tongues demand quiet at steady prices. Fresh beef notes firm prices for choice steers with good demand while light cattle are plentiful. Mutton and fall lambs quoted. tallow steady. New York tallow prices noted.
Stock yards Kansas City reports steady cattle prices with steers at 370 native cows 140 to 200 and hog receipts 1571 with higher ranges. Cincinnati markets mixed meats and lard moves. Chicago hogs firmer with large weekly receipts. St Louis and Peoria show firm to higher hog prices and modest shipments.
New York cotton is quiet with fair demand as 182 bales sold. Prices quoted for uplands and middlings range from 9 1/2 to 11 1/2 cents with futures opening steady and closing dull but steady. Liverpool futures also steady while U S ports show varied receipts and stocks across regions. overall markets indicate cautious activity and firm middle quotes.
Sugar receipts today are nil versus 60 bales last year with 29,000 bags noted. raw sugars show dull, nominal demand while refined sugars stay firm with steady prices. Quotations cover Cuban refining and Manila and Java grades, with refined items like pulverized sugar at 353 8 4c and granulated at 844 8s 8c. wholesale granulated at 79c. Molasses receipts 86 barrels. market nominal. New York raw sugar nominal, refined firm with fair demand. white and yellow refined prices listed. New Orleans dull open kettle and New York foreign markets nominal or quiet with various grade quotations.
Coffee futures trend stronger with fair car movement noted. Whiskey markets in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati steady at 102 dollars. Turpentine New York quiet and steady at 44A4 20. Petroleum New York steady and quiet at 981.
Importers and exporters in Liverpool report a vast array of goods from Perry & Ryan to Jordan Marsh and Co. including iron bars, steel pieces, clothing, bulbs, liquors, furniture, yarns, soap, oils, quilts, silks, machinery, and numerous cases and bales. Several named firms such as Stone & Downer, W H Davis & co, and Beal Higgins & Henderson appear repeatedly with varied consignments.
A long ledger style list details items from many firms including Baring Bros & co Simons Hatch & Whitten Warren & Blanchard overman wheel co J B Moors & co Noyes Campbell &co and many others. Entries cover silks woollens linens furniture earthenware books hats and drugs goods with quantities such as cases bales pkgs crates and boxes along with references to partners like Jordan Marsh Co Hovey & co Fuller Dana & Fitz and Shreve Crump & Low. The list also notes large totals and diverse merchandise including tin plates cheese rubber lime and hemp with numerous bundles of 100 plus items.
Shipping list from Metegahan River and several Atlantic ports shows Halifax bound cargoes including 38 packages hardware 17 do electric machinery 1230 feet hard pine lumber 24 hats 625 boxes type 13 barrels flour and 119 boxes onions among many items. Other consignments: Antonio Jam Flamborough with livestock and hardware. Dorchester New Brunswick Gem with cornmeal and lumber. St John Cumberland with lard pork and machinery. Montevideo H G McFarland lumber. Moncton F E Gwain acids. Tignish Souris Marvy E Mc Dougal flour and cornmeal.
A long list of boot and shoe buyers and agents from multiple cities including Augusta, Binghamton, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Memphis, Norfolk, Olney, Pittsburgh, Portsmouth, Richmond, Savannah, St Paul, St Louis, Toledo, and Uniontown. Names include Gouley, Mulherin, Stone, Rose, Marks, Smith, Childs, Cady, Franklin, Prescott, Appeldorn, Sidwell, Powell, Hill, Hotheimer, Eckenrode, Samuels, Grigg, Taberdy, Tarbox, Peters, McLauchlin, Harah. The item reads as a sales-network dispatch listing representatives and firms across the U.S. for boot and shoe purchases.
The Boston public schools open Wednesday Sept 4 1889 with entrance exams for Normal School High Schools and Latin Schools. Examinations run Sept 3 5 at nine o clock in designated schoolhouses. Candidates must show a good moral character certificate from their previous principal. Phineas Ates secretary of the school committee.
Timetables for city routes from Boston to Ashcroft Baltimore Dorchester to New York via Air Line and Norwich Line. Listings include departure times from several stations, prices, Sundays service, Woonocket division, and connections to Hartford New Britain Waterbury Danbury Fishkill-on-Hudson New York City and Washington with through cars and steamship links.
The July 1 1889 Merrimac Valley Line timetable lists Boston to Manchester Concord and surrounding stations with multiple daily departures including 7:30 8:30 9 and 9:30 a m and afternoon runs. It covers lines to Weare Suncook Plymouth Laconia Whitefield Lebanon and St Johnsbury with Sunday service and notes changes at Concord for mail trains. Contact Boston Passenger Agency for tickets berths seats and hotel book.
Trains leave Boston Station Maymarket Square for Portland and various towns. The schedule lists numerous departures throughout the day from Alton Kay to Reading and Workingmen's train, including times for Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford and others.
Eastern division timetable lists departures from Boston to Causeway, Plymouth, Amesbury, Beverly, Biddeford, Great Falls, Hampton Beach, North Conway, Portsmouth, Rockport, Salem, Swampscott, Marblehead, Newburyport, York Harbor, Wolfeboro and more with numerous daily times, noting lines to York, Bangor and Halifax as well as workingmen and South Reading branch connections.
Train schedule fragment lists Lowell System routes from Boston to Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Concord Nashua and multiple towns with varied departure times from early morning to late evening. Includes stops at Wilton Milford Amherst Nashua Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester Concord Mass and Manchester with numerous times and connections to Boston Montreal and Hex formatory Station.
Train schedule from Euston Station listing morning and afternoon departures to Northampton Hadley Amherst Belchers town Handsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Hnutland Oakdale West Boylsted Woreeater and other towns with times 7.45 am 1.30 3.40 pm and additional stops Wadson Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont Melmeont and Sunday service to Northampton at 7.15 pm signed James T. Furber and J. Flanders General Manager and Agent.
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