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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 17, 1889

Page

7

Market quotations and receipts for grains and hops

Prices hold steady with sacks and bulk commodities quoted for spring and winter grains. Cottonseed meal remains dull with spot at 25 and new meal around 22 60 23 00 per ton. malt receipts total 2100 bushels. hops receipts zero with quiet demand and bids for six rowed Canada and State varieties.

Michigan Canada New York

Grain and dairy prices hold firm as receipts vary

Receipts show butter at 276 tubs and cheese 717 boxes while eggs reach 8231 cases. Butter market stays firm with high grade butter selling well though lower grades move slowly. cheese demand steady. eggs subdued with scarce choice lots. beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, hay, and straw show varied movement and price levels across regional markets.

Market Prices for Fresh Produce Across Regions

The market reports a range of prices for Egyptian onions at 150 per crate and Malta onions at 175. baskets, crates, and boxes list varying rates. Prices include beets 35c per box, carrots 49c per box, lettuce 50c per box, peppers 60c per bush, tomatoes 25c per four bush, cabbage 3.5 per 100 count, and celery 75c per dozen, among others.

Malta White Cape St Andrews

Market price notes for fruits and produce

Apples market well supplied with limited choice lots and weak demand for common lots. Gravensteins $3 350, Hubbardstons $2, Porters $1 75 200, sweets $2, red Astrachan $3, Duchess of Oldenburg $250 3 50, Jamaica oranges arriving with sales around $2 50 per box and $6 50 per barrel. Lemons scarce. Palermo $6 50 800, Naples $8 50 1000 P box. Pears plentiful for common kinds. choice Bartletts scarce, Seckle prices steady, Oswego Bartletts $2 50 3 00 keg, native Seckle $2 2 50 P push. Cantaloupes Rhode Island small and firm at $4 5 Pp bbl. Muskmelons slow at $1 75 2 00 bbl. Cranberries larger. Cape Cod barrel lots $5 560 600, crates $2. Jersey peaches poor quality sold. Connecticut fruit fair. next carload Thursday. Grapes abundant with active demand. Moore’s early, Concords, Brighton, Salem, Delawares and others priced per basket or 24-box crate. Bananas Jamaica steady.

Duchess of Oldenburg Jamaica Palermo Messina Naples New York Louis Bonne de Beurre Bose Rhode Island Cape Cod Jersey Connecticut Brighton Moore’s Delawares Concords Brightons Salems Wordens Marthas

Fruit Prices and Availability Reported in Port Simons Market

Baracoa yellows at 1 125 and reds at 90c to 1, Port Simons quotes $175 per bunch. Plums scarce but demand steady. damsons, Niagaras 65-70c, Quackenbos 75c, green gage 75c. Crate lots sold at $1. Quinces show small native lots arriving with sales at 150 dollars a half-bush basket.

Baracoa Port Simons Quackenbos

Steamer Flamborough Due Wednesday with Bananas

The steamer Flamborough is due Wednesday bringing Jamaica bananas, marking a local shipment destined for coastal markets.

Flamborough Jamaica

Fruit Sales Auction Report

Horatio Harris and Company to auction a car of California fruit on Tuesday September 17 at 10 am containing 192 boxes Solway peaches and 733 boxes Georges Cling peaches. Snow and Company sold Tokay grapes at 140 dollars per crate and prune and peaches in various lots with gross receipts of 155 and 185 dollars per crate respectively.

Horatio Harris & Co California George Snow & Co

Meat Receipts and Pork Demand Reported Across Markets

Receipts for tallow pork lard hams and bacon listed with quantities in pkgs bbls tierces and boxes. Pork demand remains strong with steady prices. lard and hams are in steady demand at firm prices. Corned beef and fresh meats show mixed activity while tallow softens. Regional quotes show varied city and export prices for pork lard and beef across New York Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati markets.

New York Tierces City Ark Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Hog and Cattle Markets in Kansas City and Chicago

Kansas City market steady for cattle with steers at about 38 to 39. hogs firm with heavies near 3.25 to 4.10. cattle and hog figures across Cincinnati and Chicago receipts and shipments show mixed stability. Cattle, hog, and sheep prices and ranges noted across multiple markets with specified bid ranges.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas Western Rangers

New York cotton prices firm amid steady futures

Cotton in New York shows firm prices with 314 bales of uplands and various grades quoted. Futures opened and closed steady as market tables list opening and closing quotes for Sept and other months and national and Liverpool activity.

New York J .E. Carter & _Co Washington Street

Sugar Market Aches With Steady Prices Across Grades

Raw sugars hold steady with Cuba refinings mainly at 5% to 6% sc, centricals at 96 test 644 . 6%sc, Manilas 4 2 5'c, Javas Nos 10 to 11 6%sc. Refined sugars firm with active demand. pulverized 8%s 8%4c, powdered 8% 858c, granulated 8%/ac, confectioners A 81-16c, Belmont A 7%%c, extra C 7%s 7%c, yellow 65 7%sc, wholesale granulated 64ac. New York raw strong 612c, refined firm, quotations unchanged. Molasses receipts 139 bbls. market quiet and steady with Ponce 40-41c PB gal, Cienfuegos 28-31c, Barbadoes 34¢, boiling grades 50 test nominal. New Orleans dull open kettle 28-46c.

Cuba New York Barbadoes New Orleans

Massive Goods Catalog From Multiple Firms in Trade Lists

A long OCR listing details inventory items from Koopman & Co and many others, including oils, wines, glassware, hardware, leather, upholstery, and textiles. It records quantities like bales, cases, crates, boxes, casks, and clusters of goods such as machinery, earthenware, porcelain, woollens, and silk lace, with associated firms and clients across maritime trade hubs.

Turpentine and Petroleum Market Summary

Turpentine closed at 47 47 1 2 cents with resin at 102.42 and tar at 275. Petroleum closed at 7.60 cents with ASW at 7.20 and cases at 9.10 cents. Cottee New York Rio shows strength with fair car at 19 1 4 cents. Whiskey markets in the West steady at 102 dollars.

New York

Imports Sept 16 1889 Liverpool Bug Steamer Samaria List

A ledger style import note from Liverpool dated September 16 1889 itemizes ships and cargo including Samaria 54 pligs earthenware Jones McDuttee Stratton Houghton Dutton 41 dodo Abram Fresch & co 94 bdis steel wire rods Washburn Moon Manus co 59 bdig 1 case 53 plates 3 vais steel H B Jackson 86 bars 21 bars 8 cases Warren Salisbury 10 casks Japan extract Beach & co 1 case glassware RK Hollings & co 400 bulbs Wells 25 do wine Stone & Downer.

Koopman & Co Leo Johnson & Co Burditt Illams Gorham Manf Co Murdock George D Crawley Lreson Horace Partridge & Co Houghton, Mifflin & Co Vinal & Co Endicott Merriam & Co Sargent Foss & Gannett Forbes & Co Chenery & Co Putnam & Foley Baring Bros & Co Flagg & Co Mauss P Hollander & Co Kendall, Barrows & Co Noyes, Campbell & Co Norton, Fessenden & Soule Neal, Morse & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Stone & Downer Richard Briggs Belcher & Loomis Jordan, Marsh & Eco Blakeslee & Co Gunn Ballard & Sons Chatlin & Co Torrey, Bright & Capen Messenger, Jr Wellington & Co Artenware E Dose & Co H Davis & Co Zenas Sears Moors & Co Oriental Curios Amer Board Comis For Foreign Missions Hitchcock Bogigian & Co Springer Bros Wight Bros Hills Steel Brown, McClure & Co Wheelock & Brigham Beal Higgins & Henderson Emerson & Co R Leeson & Co Blake Walker L P Hollander & Co Safford Atkins & Co Wadsworth, Howland & Co Waltham Watch Co Oliver Dilson & Co Blakeslee Tilden, Thurber & Co Shreve, Crump & lLow Bigelow, Kennard & Co H Stearns & Co R H White & Co Hull Eng Chemical Wood Pulp Bread Gill & Lootz J.B Moors & Co Crocker, Burbank & Co J . Moors & Co Brown Bros & Co Naylor & Co Washburn & Moon Manus Co Bacon & Co Stoddard & Kendall Geo Kendall China Louis Wolf & Co Lombard & Eco Sanderson & Son Pros & Co Houghton & Dutton Gossler & Co Dodo Brown Bros & Co Louis Wait & Co Sander Barlow Charlottetown Pei Port Hawkesbery Halifax Carroll Barilett, Lyman & Co Barry H Bowles & Co Sarclay & Co Beaman Bros Boston Lydjiard Morse & Holt A & O W Mead H Murech McKeever ¢& Hall Barclay & Co Geo Bond Cutler Fisher Graham Hull & Eco Kelly Lang and Co Potter & Co T Russell & Co Hishay Flah Whitney Pousland & Co Winsor & Son Port Hawkesbury Amos Blair Bond & Co Delong & Seaman Inman McInnis Russell & Co Walsh Yarmouth Clements & Co G Hall & Co Mackerel Barclay & Co Batchelder Griffin Liverpool Bug Samaria Jones, McDuttee & Stratton

Exports List From Ports Including Paysandu and Digby

The record lists exports dated September 16, 1889 from PAYSANDU Uruguay via Portland Maine and VOINT Nova Scotia and Digby Annapolis, detailing cargoes such as coal oil engine oil sisal cordage chairs ash oars bark Sammel B Hale 6500 cases and related items, along with steamer cargos for Forest City Cumberland and Cumberland.

Paysandu Portland Sammel Pei Ad Dai Voint Donna Bell Digby Annapolis Forest City St John Cumberland

London Market Reports Mixed Wheat and Corn Settlements

Foreign markets from London and Liverpool show wheat steady to quiet amid variable demand. Paris spot wheat weak while corn remains quiet and steady. British weekly wheat deliveries reach 55 988 quarters at an average 30s 2d. Provisions and fats inch higher in Liverpool with bacon firmer and cheese steady.

London Mark Lane Paris Great Britain England Liverpool

Probate notice of AurelIa L Wheeler estate

Fanny S Curtis of Colchester named executrix asks license to dispose of certain Boston and Albany railroad shares held in Suffolk County Massachusetts. Court of Probate for Suffolk to hear show cause on October 7, 1559 at 10 am. Publication required weekly for three weeks in Boston Post. Judge Joan W McKim. Register Elijah George.

Fanny S. Curtis Colchester Suffolk Boston & Albany Boston Boston Post Joan W. McKim Esquire Elijah George Register Massachli Dennis Murphy Patrick J. Ducey Joan W. McKim, Esquire Yomrson Josn A. Gill Frank M. Davis I BP Braddock & Presby Eugen C. Upton Tremont Street

Eastern Division Timetable Trains From Moston Station

List of train departures from Moston Station and feeder towns in the Eastern Division with times across Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Brampton Lynn Marblehead Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Rockport Gloucester Salem York Harbor Beach and related stations including branches and service notes in period voice.

Augusta Haymarket Sq Causeway St Bangor and Kar Marbor Concord N. H Upper Roads Glen Station Crawford’s Fabyan Provincial Express Maine Central Grand Trank Knox Lincoln K Haymarket St Frockland Castine Deerisle Sedgewick South West Harbor Har Harbor Millridge Machinsport Portland Alten Bay Meechester Farmington Smdover Dover North Conway Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Georgetown Kennelbank Biddeford Saco Lawrence Rowell Newburyport Reading Salem Amesbury Beverly Rochester Brampton Beach North Haumpton Rye Beach Eppwich Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Canek Portsmouth Ami Rockpeorer Gloucester Beanch York Harbor & Beach K. R Awaropsreott Wolfeboro

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