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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 10, 1889

Page

7

Market Report on Eggs, Beans and Poultry Prices

Egg markets show tight supply and firm prices across regions with Western extras at 16 to 19 cents and New York at 19 to 19.4 cents. Beans demand slows at old prices though various hand picked and screened lots hold 1.60 to 3.25 dollars per bushel ranges, while poultry supplies are limited with prices for fresh killed stock and live birds listed and steady.

Mand Twin Americas Vermont Newampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Islands Michigan Chicago New York Bush California Lima Choice Canada Houlton Hebrons New York Burbanks Hebrons Aroostook Hebrons Houlton Rose Houston Vermont Rose White Stars Jersey

Market Fresh Vegetables and Prices Across Goods

The market shows steady but quiet trading with a range of prices for onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, corn, beans, and celery. Notable figures include Egyptian onions at 150 per crate, Malta onions 175 per 225 basket, and wax beans at 1 per bush with several items priced per box or per dozen.

Malta

Fruit Market Prices and Availability in New York

Fruit prices and supplies across apples, oranges, pears, cantaloupes, berries, cranberries, peaches, grapes, bananas, plums, and related varieties. Notable quotes include Palermo and Messina oranges, native Bartletts scarce at $6 8 per barrel, Moore's and Concord grapes with varied crate prices, and Jamaica bananas at $1 22 per bunch.

Duchess of Oldenburg Palermo Messina Naples New York Louis Bonne de Beurre Bose Rhode Island Nova Scotia Cape Cod New York Morris Hudson River Moore’s Hartfords Delawares Concords Brightons Salems Wordens Marthas Jamaica Baracoa Port Simons Seeley Vine Valley

Steamer Arrivals Bring Bananas for Boston and Seaverns

The steamer Dana arrives Thursday carrying Baracoa bananas for Seaverns and Co. The steamer Kong Ali due Friday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Charles Morand expected Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.

Dana Baracoa Seaverns & Co Kong Ali Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company Charles Morand

Snow & Co Auction Prices From Tuesday Sale

Snow & Co set for an auction Tuesday at 11 o'clock offering 1 car Tokay and Muscat grapes and French prunes. Today Bartlett pears fetched 50c per barrel and $2.10 per keg, while 190 hibbl sold for $125. Burgaments moved at $1.12 per keg with Louis Bonne de Jerseys at 8 1/2c per keg.

Snow & Co Bartlett Louis Bonne de

Provisions market and daily receipts report

Daily receipts list tallow pork lard hams and bacon volumes with year over year contrasts. Regional markets including New York Cincinnati St Louis Chicago note pork beef lard and dry salted meats pricing, with steady to firm demand and several price ranges across cuts.

New York South America Cincinnati St Louis Chicago

Fresh Beef Prices and Market Report Note

The market shows steady to firm prices across beef cuts and related goods. Fresh beef demand is cautious with choice cattle scarce and sales steady, while mutton veal and tallow markets vary by grade and region.

Choice Chicago Brighton York

Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Markets Mixed Cattle Hogs Prices

Kansas City reports slow cattle market with steers 3.10 to 3.50, cows 1.70 to 2.20, hogs higher with heavies 3.60 to 3.80 and mediums 3.75 to 4.25, sheep steady near 3.30 to 3.85. Receipts 2100 Kansas City shipments 700. Chicago cattle slow below best by 10-15 cents, hogs active with 3.65 to 4.40 and sheep 3.60 to 4.60. large receipts at Chicago: cattle 17,600, hogs 12,000, sheep 12,000.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas Western Rangers

Cotton Prices and Futures Across Markets Firming

Cotton markets show firm to steady closes in New York and Liverpool with openings mixed and futures pattern irregular. Key figures cover bales, middling and low middling grades, with weekly port receipts and exports to Great Britain and the Continent across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile St Louis Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore and New York. Consolidated three day receipts total 33,268 and exports to Great Britain 10,366.

New York Ay Mae Dee Liverpool Augusta Galveston Continent New Orleans Great Britain Mobile St Louis Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Louisville United States

Sugar and Molasses Market Brief

Sugar receipts today 12 barrels, same day last year 166. Refined sugar demand firm with prices steady across grades including Pulverized 8 5s and Granulated 84 8c. Molasses receipts none today, last year 1 barrel 81 hhds. market nominal with varied foreign and domestic quotes for Ponce, Cienfuegos, Barbadoes and New Orleans open kettle grades.

Cuba Manilas Noiles Javas Belmont New York Ponce Cien, Fuegos Barbadoes New Orleans

Mixed commodity prices from New York markets report

Coffee on the New York Rio market shows strong and fair car values at 194 cents. Whiskey steady at 102 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum figures quoted for New York with resin near 102 to 105, tar at 275, petroleum 7.60 cents, RSW 7.20 cents, cages 9.10 cents.

New York Rio

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. SEPT 9 1889 CHARLOTTETOWN AND REGIONS

Imports and exports list ships and consignments across Charlottetown PEI, Port Hawkesbury CB, Pictou NS. Numerous items include mackerel, eggs, butter, lobsters, herring, and dried fish carried by Beaman Bros, Barclay Co, H Cutler, Russell, Slayton & Boynton, J Hutchinson, and others. Entries note quantities such as 64 bbls mackerel, 85 cases eggs, dozens of butter tubs, 525 barrels pickled fish, plus varied goods and destinations in a dense LL OCR-style ledger.

Charlottetown Pei Port Hawkesbury Pictou Steamer Worcester Barclay Co Brown de Lorie Co Brock Bartlett Lyman Co Conahan Cutler Dalton Ely Victor Robbins George Bond & Co H Cutler Moise Detong & Seaman J G Hall James Murphy de Potter & Wrightington Phillips T Russell Winsor Morrison Donald Jank T Butler Beaman Bros Barclay & Co Hake Howe & French Stone

Vast Ocean Freight Goods List From Liverpool to Savannah

A sprawling OCR of cargo items lists quantities and buyers by ship and company. Entries include steamer Pavonia cargoes of soda ash glass earthenware leather books machinery and tins, with numerous firms such as Koopman Co Brown Bros Co and J L Moseley recording goods from earthenware to machinery. Also noted are Savannah steamer Gate City lumber orders and various regional fish and goods consignments with dozens of firms listed.

Exports From St John And Nearby Ports 1889

Shipping list dated September 9 1889 from St John New Brunswick shows the Cumberland clearing September 7 with 190 packages lard 19 barrels glassware 11 cases paint 16 barrels oil 147 cases rubbers 2 cases wax 34 packages tea 15 pieces lignum vitae 1 case tags 3 cases paper 1000 feet lumber 30 pieces iron pipe 2 boxes picture frames 27 packages fish skins 16 packages hardware 5 cases canned oysters 6 bushels corn. Yarmouth via Mereyhan Sch Magnum 155 barrels refined oil 125 do cornmeal. Digby and Annapolis Forest City steamer 2 boxes storcii 16 pkgs hardware 1 half barrel oil 1 box paint 11 pieces marble 1 iron safe 7 cases boots and shoes 1 top buggy 160 egg carriers 14 pigs household goods 1 broodmare.

Fish ET Russell Whitney Pousland Fish Whitney, Pousland & Co Winsor & Co Liverpool Eng Pavonia Morey Churchill & Morey Parker Bros Abram French & Co Brown Bros & Co White, Son & Co Miller Norton, Fessenden & Son Rofte Herrick Fuller, Dana & ‘Itz Saco Water Power Co Little, Brown & Co White & Co Faught & Hovey Neal, Morse & Co Brigham Hunnewell Moise Chadwick Stowell & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Dodo Hollander & Co Leeson & Co Morey & Co Stone & Downer Cork Clothing Stone & Downer Meferson & Co Waldo Bros Oliver Wadsworth Bros Shepard, Norwell & Co Macallar, Parker & Co China Hovey & Co Bailey & Co Bolls Herring Johnson & Co Lovering & Co Robertson & Co Brownwood Sumner & Co Crocker Pierce & Co H White & Co Brown, Durrell & Co Macallar Parker & Co Messenger, Jr Warner & Blanchard Talbot Wilmarth & Co F & S Norton Neil, Morse & Co Savannah Steamer Gate City Atlantic Lumber Co Geo McQuesten & Co Wellman, Hall & Co Barry, Thayer & Co Naylor & Co Stetson & Co Warren, Wood & Co Luce & Manning Yarmouth JG Hall & Co Clement G Hall & Co A&o W Mead Barclay & Co Clements Dunbar & Davis Griffin Hutchinson Batchelder Fowle & Hibbard ST John Cumberland Mereyhan Digby Annapolis Forest City

Foreign Markets Report on Wheat and Corn Movements

London weather and market notes show wheat steady and corn steady with English and foreign varieties quiet. Liverpool spot wheat eases while futures show dull to firm moves with California wheat prices and mixed American corn. Paris and Antwerp also report quiet wheat markets.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool Great Britain Calcutta Bombay Kurrachee Continent California Antwerp

Liverpool grain and provisions market report September

English country markets quiet in Liverpool on September 9. Winter wheat 6s 8d to 6s 9d, spring wheat 7s 1d, club wheat 78 7s 1d, mixed American corn 48 2d. Peas 63 2d. Pork prime Fastern 60s 3d, bacon 34s 6d to 38s 6d per 55s, cheese 44s 8d, tallow 26s 6d, lard 32s 3d.

Liverpool

Train timetable snippet for Readville Staunton and Wrentham

Readville stations show multiple daily departures with times across morning to evening including 1140 a.m. 12.05 and 2.10 p.m. schedules. Staunton listings include 7.45 8.30 9.30 a.m. and 11.05 p.m. Sundays. Wrentham shows early 3.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. entries. For additional trains, refer to 86 Central Div.

Central Division Kneeland Street New York Fall River Brockton Taunton Saunton Wantasket Entny Anew Bedford Anewport Plymouth Abington Duxbury Central Station Dean St Readville Staunton Wrentham Central

Wagner Cars to Albany and connections to major cities

Boston and Albany R R offers daily except Sunday drawing room cars to Albany with through connections to Syracuse Rochester and Buffalo and all points West. Daily elegant vestibuled Wagner cars for Niagara Falls Detroit and Chicago via Michigan Central and Lake Shore Michigan Southern. Also daily for St Louis Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo with two departures at 7 00 p m and 10 30 p m including sleeping car to Albany on Saturdays. Hartford New Haven and New York service at 9 00 a m with drawing room cars

Boston Summer Street Ashcroft Baltimore N. Bird Street Blackstone Danbury Dedham Llam Dorchester Ellis Endicott Wishkill-on-Hudson Franklin Forest Avenue Mareford Harvard Street Hyde Park Rightand Lake Islington Manchester Mattspiamy Ilford Mt. Bowdoin New Britain Newburg New London Newark Air Line Roe Hartford Norwich Norwood Norwood Central PawSlucket Philadelphia Providence Bratnam P.m. Readville River Street Brockville Conn Southbridge Tiltons Walpete Washington B.C Waterbury Willimantic Winslows Webster Woonsocket New York Middletown New Haven Fishkill-on-Huagon Newburgh Turners, N. Y Erie Railway Bufffalo Niagara Falls Grand Trunk Railway NEW England Lim Grand Central Depot Fishkillon-Hudson Jersey City Trenton Richmond Points Danielsonville Putnam City OF New York City OF Worcester Washington Street A. A. Jackson E. P. Vining A. Cc Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Wagner Detroit Chicago Michigan Central WR Cleveland Toledo Lake Shore Michigan Southern SE St. Louis Cincinnati No. 9 Gleveland

Train Schedule Fragments for Multiple Cities

Dover and Reading as stops, various times listed for Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Reading and Way Stations. Times include morning and evening departures, with several midafternoon to late evening slots. Workingmen's train noted without complete details.

Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Reading and Way

East Division Train Schedule From Boston Causeway Station

Eastern division timetable lists morning and evening departures to Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford and many coastal towns including Gloucester Rockport Salem Swampscott Lynn Newburyport and more with multiple daily trains and connections throughout the day.

Boston Station Causeway

Lowell System Train Schedules From Kosten Station

Timetabled departures list varied routes including Keene Peterboro Hillsboro and Nashua with times from early morning to late night. Connections cover Concord Wilton Amherst Greenfield Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester and Montreal.

North Bikertes Llawerence Stoneham Woburn Liam Winchester Concord Ria«s

Central Massachusetts Train Schedule Neatly Listed Stops

The timetable lists trains from Zuston Station on Causeway Street to multiple towns including Northampton Hadley Amherst Alder town Mandeville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston and Worcester with several daily departure times. Sunday service runs Belmont Waverley Waltham Hudson Way to Northampton and other routes. James T. Furber D J Flanders General Manager.

Central Rockbottom Wayland Weston Weaitham Waverley Belmont Waltham Hudson and Way Northampton Lidom James T. Furber D. J. Flanders Gen’l Pas

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