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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1889
Page
7
Grain futures closed in St Louis with Wheat prices for September at 78 1 4 cents bid and December at 79 1 4 cents bid. Corn ranged from 28 1 2 to 29 1 4 cents bid, and Oats at 18 1 2 cents bid. New York quotes showed Wheat September 18 45 to 19 2 4 cents bid, December 87 1 2 cents asked. Corn and Oats also listed with several contract prices and bids.
Domestic flour quotations and carload grain receipts plus New York Chicago St Louis market activity. Prices for fine to mill grades shown with extensive quotes. receipts listed for flour, oats, corn, and rye alongside exports and shipments in multiple cities and markets.
Daily receipts list butter oleo cheese eggs beans potatoes sweet potatoes hay straw and more with figures. Butter market shows firm demand and rising prices for Western creameries while lower grades fetch 14 16c and extras at 20 21c. potential higher prices if demand sustains. Northern creameries continue selling at full or higher prices amid limited supply.
Market report shows butter and creamery products steady with demand focused on top grades. Eastern and Western creameries quoted at 20 21c and 18 27c respectively. exports modest. Cheese and eggs steady. beans and peas varied with strong North American supply. Poultry, potatoes, and hay markets described with current prices and stock movements.
The market is well supplied with steady demand and quoted prices across onions beets carrots lettuce turnips and diverse produce. Notable prices include Malta onions 4 crate 175 per basket, Spanish onions 874cc crate, cucumbers peppers pickles beans and cabbage varieties with boxes baskets and dozens listed.
Wild grapes in fair supply with sales near 5c per pound. Bananas show steady demand at old prices. Jamaica at 1.26 and Baracoa yellows at 1.25, reds at 0.90 to 1.00. Port Simons 1.75 per bunch. Plums scarce with strong demand. damsons 1.00, green gage 0.75, crate lots at 1.00. Ounces native fruit arrives in small lots with sales at 1.50 per half-bush.
Blake and Ripley auctioned California fruit with various prices for Georges late peaches Orange cling peaches Yokay grapes Muscat grapes Malvoise Corni chons Emperors Moroccos Rose du Peru and more at Snow & Co sale double crates and single crates of grapes Muscats Roses Peru Corni chons Emperors prunes peaches Almeria grapes Brazilian oranges and a carload of Concord grapes sold in poor order at 19 cents per basket.
The steamer Coila is due Monday with a shipment of Hivica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat arriving next carries 270 bags peanuts and 1200 bushels of sweet potatoes.
Receipts show tallow 21 pkgs and 1447 lard pkgs, hams 5 boxes, preserved meats 900 cases, bacon 172 boxes. Ranges list long cuts to mess pork prices, beef and lard rates across cities with notes on steady markets and varied especially pork and beef. New York reports tallow quiet with 100 bhds city at 4 4c.
Kansas City steadiness for cattle with steers at 8 15 to 3 75 dollars, cows 170 to 215, stockers 22 to 30, range cattle 225 to 285. Hogs strong with heavies 5 0 to 7 5, mediums 3 9 to 4 15, Yorkers 4 15 to 4 30, sheep 3 3 75. Cincinnati hogs dull, lighter weights higher, Chicago cattle receipts 13 000, steers 290 to 425, stockers 1 854 800, cows 125 to 290, Texas cattle 150 to 310, western range 2 3 75. Hog receipts 18 000, ships 7 000, heavies 4 0 to 4 20, light 3 95 to 4 75, ships 4 40 to 4 25. Sheep receipts 9 000, natives 3 50 to 4 70, western 3 55 to 4 15, lambs 4 50 to 6 15.
Cotton trades in New York show steady openings and closings with bids around 10.0 to 11.0 cents for Sept through Mar contracts. Liverpool and Southern ports report varied receipts, sales, and stocks with Midlands to middling grades dominating. prominent U S and U K market activity noted including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, Willington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisville, St Louis, and Cincinnati observations.
Sugar receipts today 825 barrels, 308 last year, 1985 bags. Raw sugars quiet and steady with Cuba refinings at 55.5 to 56 and other varieties listed. Refined sugars firm with strong demand. pulverized 85s8d, powdered 84s, granulated 6 7s, confectioners’ A 81 16c, standard A 14c. Belmont A 7s, extra C 7% 7%8c. Wholesale granulated 8c. New York raws quiet and firm. molasses receipts today 52 barrels, 10 hhds, 100 casks. Market nominal. Ponce fancy 43c, peal 40 41c, Cienfuegos 28 31c, Barbadoes 6d. New York trade quiet.
Turpentine closed at 48c with rising to 1024 1072 and tar at 276. Petroleum closed at 7.60¢ with RSW at 7.20c and cases at 9.100¢. Coffee New York Rio firm and quiet with fair cargoes at 19 4¢. Whiskey markets in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati quoted at $102.
A detailed ledger of cargo passages for Liverpool and Yarmouth, listing ships Roman and Yarmouth with numerous consignments. Items include hide, steel, mohair, tin plates, machinery, textiles, leather, earthenware, linen, paper stock, and Grocers goods. Numerous firms appear, such as Baring Bros & Co, George W Hollis, Brown Bros & Co, and Jere Abbott & Co, alongside multiple consignors and buyers.
The report lists inbound and outbound consignments on several vessels and at various Atlantic ports including Hull, Meveghan, Digby, Annapolis, Rosarito, Elmina, and related NS, AR, and WCA locations. Cargoes include wool, paint, cotton waste, apples, lard, sausage casings, flour, cornmeat, freight of lumber, glassware, and navigational gear. Notable loads: 509 boxes of extracts, 82 tierces tacks, 500 half-bbls, 1860 pails lard, 259,445 feet pine lumber, 49 birds tobacco, and 40,000 feet pine lumber among others.
London reports cargoes off coast with wheat dearer and sales quiet. Mark Lane and Paris markets steady. Liverpool breadstalls show wheat firm with tight demand, various grain and pork prices listed. Cotton futures quoted staggered with a barely steady close.
A list of buyers and their firms across cities such as Birmingham Boston Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Galveston Henderson Henderson Henderson Nashville Omaha Philadelphia Plattsburg Pittsburg St Louis Savannah Terre Haute Toledo Wheeling Xenia and others. Names include Kingsbery Gerhart Butterworth Nussbaum Goodbar Vogel Seabury Lawless Herman Morse McKone Dittman Stribling Meinhard Rosenheim Griffith Smith Rodgers Lee Smeinhard and many more shoe company representatives and wholesalers.
Notice states the copartnership Davis and Winsor dealers in burlaps and cordage at 146 Franklin Street Boston is dissolved by mutual consent Ernest Winsor ceasing from this date Thomas L Davis authorized to settle affairs The undersigned will carry on the business at 146 Franklin Street Boston under the firm name J L Davis Co signed Thomas L Davis September 2 1889 Boston
Railroads notice describes the Lowell System station located at the foot of Portland Street on Causeway Street. Shipping and passenger facilities are outlined in the brief OCR fragment.
Trains depart Boston Haymarket for a network including Portland Alten Bay Andover North Conway Exeter Great Falls with multiple daily times. Other stops include Biddeford Saco Lawrence Lowell Newburyport Reading Dover Medford and Manchester, with varying morning and evening departures and a workingmen's train noted.
Eastern Division schedule lists departing trains from Boston Causeway Street to Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Hampton North Northampton Epawich Lynn Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Rockport Gloucester Salem Swampscott Wolfeboro and more stations with numerous departure times and lines including Portland Bangor St John Halifax Saugus and Workingmen’s and South Reading Branches.
Railroad timetable listing numerous train times for Lowell System routes including Mosten Station Causeway Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Millsboro Concord Wilton Milford Amherst Sand6pm Greenfield Nashua and many others with extensive daily and Sunday schedules. The schedule covers stations such as North Billerica Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester Concord Man chester and Montreal with numerous morning afternoon and evening departures.
Train departures from Austen Station and Causeway Street list routes to Northampton Hadley Amherst ielicher town Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester and nearby towns with multiple daily times from 7.45 am to 6.25 pm, including Weston Waltham Waverley and Melmont.
Train schedules list daily and Sunday departures from Boston station to diverse destinations including New York via Air Line and via Middletown. Timetables cover numerous stops such as Dedham Hyde Park Norwood Norwood Central Providence Mansfield and Woonsocket with through connections to Hartford Waterbury New Haven and Washington.
The Merrimac Valley Line timetable lists Boston departures from Causeway Street with multiple morning and evening trains to Manchester Concord and connections to Weare Suncook and Nashua. It notes Sunday services and local stops on various branches and introduces the White Mountain Division timetable.
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