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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1889
Page
7
The Pottsville Miners Journal notes improving trade but no rush to file orders. Grade conditions differ from prior years, prices unlikely to rise much, coal plentiful, and production facilities expanded. Demand focuses on line city and West trade, with many regions well supplied and cautious ahead of winter.
John E Welsh reports carload lots of domestic flour and grain, with mixed corn, oats and other cereals in today’s inspections. Prices span fine to patent flours, winter and spring wheats, exports, and New York and Chicago markets, noting a firm overall market and active export demand.
Receipts today list butter 3713 tubs and 797 boxes, oleo 1507 pkgs, cheese 1003 boxes, eggs 3614 cases, potatoes 18 cars, sweet potatoes 2730 bbis, hay 90 cars, straw 2 cars, with beans none. Last year shows varied figures across butter, oleo, cheese and produce. Butter outside price 25c for creameries, market firm with lower grades feeling boom effects. quotes for Western and New York Vermont creamery products range from 10c to 26c depending on quality.
The market remains active with steady pricing on a wide range of vegetables and fruits. Items include Malta and Span ish onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, Savoy cabbage, red cabbage, green corn in barrels, tomatoes, and eggplant with varied per basket, box, or dozen quotes such as 75 cents to 2 dollars per unit and specific crate or barrel rates.
The market reports strong demand for choice apples and pears with scarce native Bartletts and Seckle varieties. Oranges lemons and grapes show mixed movements as supplies shift, with Jamaica oranges and Palermo and Malta types cited and several box and barrel price points noted.
Liverpool market report notes sales of Baldwins and Hubbardstons with prices listed as 12s and similar figures. Trade activity appears brisk with buyers present and quotes indicating steady demand for apple varieties.
A news note reports a goods train on Wednesday carrying four cars filled with potatoes. The brief item notes the train composition and cargo without incident or further detail.
The steamer Marmion is due Friday carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company, signaling a fresh arrival for local grocers and markets.
Horatio Harris and Co offer a Thursday sale featuring a car of California fruit with Tokay Muscat Morocco Rose de Peru and Cornichon grapes plus 60 barrels of Almeria grapes. Snow and Co auction Wednesday with 48 cases California grapes and 200 barrels Almeria. The Scanfell steamer cargo of 6600 boxes Messina lemons and 9800 Palermo lemons will be sold in New York Thursday.
Receipts recorded today show tallow 49 pkgs beef 100 bbls pork 90 bbls lard 677 pkgs hams pone preserved meats 13 cases bacon 802 boxes. Current pork and pork products market notes firm prices with ample supply and a range of cuts quoted from 9c to 14 per pound and related items.
Kansas City markets show cattle weak and slow with steers at 3 10 to 4 32, cows 1 30 to 2 15, stockers 2 30 to 3 75, range cattle 2 30 to 2 75. hogs strong with heavies 3 65 to 4 00, Yorkers 4 10 to 4 30. sheep firm at 3 40 to 3 90. Chicago cattle receipts 9 000 with strong demand for good stock, hogs receipts 1 800 with mixed to heavy ranges, and sheep shipments steady to weak with natives 3 25 to 4 50 and Texans 3 60 to 4 15.
The report charts New York and Liverpool cotton activity with Openings and Closings for Sept 24 and Sept 23, noting dull sales of 416 bales in New York across grades from uplands to middling and futures steady to dull. It lists extensive closing price tables, regional receipts, stocks, and prices for key ports including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, West Point, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and a consolidated four day tally of domestic net receipts and international exports by region, indicating broad market softness and varied demand across centers.
Sugar and molasses markets show quiet activity with steady prices and small unrefined stock. Quotations cover Cuba and Manila raw sugars, pulverized to confectioners’ grades, and wholesale granulated pricing. molasses receipts today lack quantity, with diverse grades named for Ponce, Cienfuegos and parvagoes, all quoted nominally with no New York changes reported.
Turpentine closed at 474/2 48c with resin at 10242 1072 and tar at 275 while petroleum finished 7.60c with RSW 7.20c and cases 9.10c Coffee Rio New York quiet and easy with fair cargoes 1944c Whiskey no change reported
Market report from the Boston Post by George J. Fox details week ending Sept 24 183g. Data covers animals at Watertown Union Market including sheep cattle swine and hides with prices and sales by dealer firms such as J A Hathaway Adden Heath FS Kimball and N H Stevens plus notes on market movement and demand for country beef cattle and Western herds. The Sheep Call notes abundant lambs from New England Canada and northern sources.
Several thousand animals sold on Monday at satisfactory prices with no material change in value. Lambs averaged about 80 pounds at 5 cents per pound, while older sheep brought 4 cents and under. Vendors included P Wilson with 191 head, ES Doble with 109 lambs and 31 sheep, A A Stevens with 17 sheep, and J Kane with 280 lambs averaging 66 pounds at 5 4 cents per pound.
Detailed shipping manifest listing brig Sosial and multiple consignments of dry hides, wool, paper, glass, tobacco, sardines, mackerel, eggs, potatoes, and other mdse. Port entries include Rio Grande do Sul, Liverpool, Charlottetown, Hawkesbury, and Pictou with quantities such as 1770 dry hides, 79 bales paper, 40 cases eggs, and 250 bbls dry fish. High-density entity list spans ships, firms, and port towns.
The record itemizes shipments at Barrington Port La Tour Yarmouth London Liverpool Arroyo Valparaiso Trinidad and Trinidad BWI detailing flour cornmeal beef pork lard glass kerosene and various hardware goods. Vessels include Precursor City of Lincoln Samaria Natal ie brig Natalie Independence Odorilla and other steamers with cargoes ranging from 15 011 bush corn to 274 bolls 94 bales and 20 cases leather.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat steady and corn easier while arrivals and sales shift. Wheat futures and English French markets hold firm. Liverpool prices reflect steady wheat and steady to fair demand with solid receipts and mixed American grain. Provisions and fats hold with pork, bacon, cheese, tallow and lard showing modest movement in price.
Altoona and many cities list buyers for footwear firms including names like Blumenthal Draper Van Dergrift Greensfelder Leonard Fargo Plant Ford, Goodbar Vogel Kilbourne, St John, Laird, Curtis, Brown and others, indicating a broad network of shoe manufacturers and agents across the United States.
St Louis figures J H Schafer of Schafer Swarts Co and W H Dittman of G F Dittman Boot Co are named along with W C Stribling of Tennent Stribling Ely shoe Co. Savannah lists C A Smith treasurer Einstein Sons and J Rosenheim Meinhard Bros. Terre Haute C D Gifith, Toledo O O C Smith and J J S Rodgers of Dewey Rodgers Co Ad Toledo. Wheeling WV F E McCoy and Alexander of Vance Shoe Co Tre.
The article cites Dr Willinson King of London studying one thousand autopsies to claim high rates of latent disease in women around forty and lower rates in men, then extols Murdock's Liquid Flood as a cure. It gives dramatic figures on blood volume, heart output, and rapid death from poisons, urging daily use of the product for exhausted individuals and women with anemia, with advice on dosage and claimed rapid blood replacement.
Time tables show local and through train service between all stations. Trains to Albany and the West depart Boston at 11:00 a m 4:00 p m and 11:00 p m daily with drawing room cars electric lighting and sleeping cars. Tickets and accommodations available at 232 Washington Street or Kneeland Street Boston.
A fragmented timetable lists Boston departures for nine stations with times from 9.00 A M to 11.30 P M. The text shows repeated hourly marks and mis-typed letters, indicating a partial schedule or OCR error without clear dates or destinations beyond Providence Line context.
Trains depart from Boston Passenger Station on Causeway Street heading west as part of the Fitchburg Railroad schedule. The notice lists departures from the Causeway Street station for westbound travel.
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