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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1889
Page
7
Market notes show steady cheese prices with fair demand for mild stocks and scarce choice stock. Northern and Western extras command higher quotes while sage cheese remains quiet. Eggs and beans fluctuate with limited supplies and steady or higher bid levels. Poultry, potatoes, and hay show modest activity. pork and beef markets mix of steady and firm quotes across major cities.
A fair demand is reported with itemized quotes for produce including onions at 75 cents per bush, Spanish onions 87 and a half cents per crate, beets 35 cents per box, carrots 40 cents per box, lettuce 50 cents per box, turnips 50 cents per box, cucumbers 2 dollars 50 cents per hundred count, peppers 1 dollar 25 cents per bush, parsnips 25 cents per bush, Lima beans 2 dollars 25 cents per bush, green corn 1 dollar per barrel, tomatoes 75 cents per 31 per bush, green tomatoes 55 cents per box, cabbages various at 60 cents to 3 dollars 5 cents per 100 count, Savoy and red varieties, and other listed vegetables and fruits with assorted packaging.
Apples supply is strong with high demand for select lots. Gravensteins fetch 250 to 300 per unit, Hubbardstons 2, bacon sweets 3, Western mixed 1.25 to 2.25, Ben Davis 2.50, Harveys 2.75 per barrel. Oranges Jamaica steady at 50 to 6.50 per box. lemons steady. Pears brisk for Seckle 5 to 10, Louise Bonne de Jersey 3.7, Beurre Bose 5 to 8, Bartlett scarce at 4 per bushel. Cranberries in good demand. cave cod and other berries quoted. Grapes scarce but demand good. native Concords 3.75 to 4 per box. more listings with various regional prices. Plums scarce with firm prices. damsons 1, green gage 1. quince quiet with limited supply. Peaches York State small but sold at 1.82 per basket for choice lots.
A Friday train carries seven cars of potatoes and one car of onions. The shipment details suggest a freight movement focusing on produce transport. No injuries or delays reported.
The Marmion steamer is due carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat will bring 850 barrels of sweets and 300 bags of peanuts.
H Harris & Co will auction 416 boxes of Almeria grapes on Friday and California peaches and grapes on Saturday. Today’s California fruit sale lists prices for peaches at 81, 85, and 250, with muscadines noted in the catalog.
The notice lists Tokay grapes in whole crates at 3 95 and half crates at 1 65 with other numbers, plus a sale of very fancy peaches and grapes from Newcastle scheduled for Saturday.
Blake and Ripley report the first arrival of Smyrna figs today. The fruit is in fair condition and sells at 16 to 18 cents per pound.
Chicago cattle receipts 14 000 shipments 4000 weak except for choice to extra beeves at 450 465. Hogs receipts 20000 shipments 8500 strong mixed 38 95 4 50 heavy 3 70 4 40 light 4 10 4 80 ships 5 50 4 20. Sheep receipts 11000 shipments 4000 steady natives 3 50 4 80 Western 3 60 4 15 Texans 3 50 4 10 lambs 4 50 5 75.
In New York cotton is dull with 207 bales traded and assorted grades quoted. Futures opened steady and closed dull. detailed opening and closing quotes show mixed movement through Sept 26 with prices around 10.40 to 11.30 cents for various futures. Liverpool reports quiet trading with middlings 6 1 4d and sales about 5,000 bales, American at 2,500 bales, receipts 10,000 bales.
Sugar receipts are unchanged from today while last year matched. Raw sugars hold steady with subdued demand. refined sugars see lower prices amid small on-hand supply. Quotes cover Cuba Manila Nos 10 to 11 jars 0.982-0.986 and a full range of pulverized to confectioners sugars. Molasses receipts rise modestly with market improving. Ponce and Cienfuegos grades listed with nominal tests and prices. New York trade described as quiet overall with some price softness in refined sugar.
Turpentine and petroleum markets show mixed quotes from New York. Turpentine closed around 4742 to 4744 cents, resin near 1024 to 107 percent, tar at 3 cents, petroleum at 7.60 cents, with RSW at 7.20 cents and cases at 9.10 cents. Coffee New York Rio firmer with a fair car at 19 percent. Whiskey markets in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati steady at 1.02 dollars.
Imports dated September 26 1889 report the steamer Yarmouth unloading 29 crates of berries 1 old canvas 2 coops towels 1 1 2 barrels of fresh goods at Yarmouth Nova Scotia. The record lists items and quantities reflecting a coastal trade entry.
A catalog style log lists numerous consignments including eggs from J G Hall & co and Gheorge Fowler 15 dozen eggs, apples, codfish drums and bbls, herring boxes and barrels from multiple firms such as F L Clements, E E Butler, HB Griffin, Whitney Pous land, T Frye, Barclay, J G Hall, J F Cooper, Bb D Webber, and Thackeray. The entry notes a large logwood order and a Miragoane reference with 450000 Bark Ribes units and 301 packages of merchandise from Thackeray & co.
Shipping and trade notes list multiple vessels sailing or cleared on September 26 1889 from Digby Annapolis Weymouth St Pierre Mig Barbados Barbados Liverpool Halifax and Charlottetown. Cargoes include glassware cotton bales roofing paper paint eggs cornmeal flour lumber coal and assorted goods. entries detail quantities and destinations across Atlantic ports and colonies.
London reports cargoes off the coast with wheat quiet but steady and corn awaiting sale. At Mark Lane and Paris wheat quiet. Liverpool shows wheat firm with poor demand and corn steady with poor demand. Wheat futures rise in California market. Antwerp and Paris note firm wheat and active wheat and corn runs.
Addison New York and many other cities show a broad roster of buyers and firms in the shoe trade. Names include W W Draper Draper Moore Co Atlanta Bates Kingsbery Co and numerous other shoe firms across Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and beyond.
The Probate Court of Suffolk issues a citation to heirs and interested persons in the estate of Elizabeth Ann Nicholson to appear September 30 1889 in Boston. Catherine E Murphy petitions for letters testamentary with executrix status and no surety. Public notice to be published in the Boston Post for three weeks.
Harriet H Gardner administratrix for the estate petitions for license to sell the entire real estate to pay debts and administration charges. Citations require appearance in Cambridge Probate Court on the first Tuesday of October at nine in the forenoon to show cause, with publication in the Boston Post for three weeks, last issue two days before court. Witness Judge George M Brooks.
In Middlesex probate court acton Massachusetts the petition seeks license to sell real estate of the late Alfred W. Gardner to pay debts and administration charges. Heirs at law and others are cited to appear at Cambridge court on the first Tuesday of October at nine in the forenoon to show cause. Publication in the Boston Post is ordered once weekly for three weeks with final notice two days before court.
The Concord railroad timetable lists departure times from Boston to Manchester Concord and connecting lines on the Merrimac Valley and White Mountain divisions. Key routes include Boston and Lowell connections to Manchester Weare Concord Nashua Suncook Pittsfield Laconia Plymouth and Whitefield with multiple daily departures and Sunday options. It also notes Montreal and Quebec routes via Plymouth Newport Sherbrooke and St Johnsbury segments.
Eastern Division schedule lists frequent trains from Boston Causeway to Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford and other stops with varied morning and evening times including Sundays. Extensive times posted for Lynn Salem Rockport Swampscott Marblehead Newburyport North Conway and Portsmouth lines with branches via York Harbor Beach and Saugus.
The document lists early 20th century train times for the Lowell system from Boston to towns including Peterboro Millsboro Hillsboro and Nashua with numerous departure times from dawn to night. Sunday schedules note Nashua RowellStoingham Way Stations and Woburn branches with additional connections to Concord and Montreal.
Fragmentary timetable notes for multiple towns in central Massachusetts with several listed times such as 7.45am 1.30pm and 3.40pm. Entries include So. Clinton Werlin Hudson South Sudbury Rockbottom Wayland Wester Waltham Waverley Stelmont and others with inconsistent formatting and mid sequence times.
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