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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1899
Page
8
The Friday market scene reports abundant supplies and steady crowds as vendors show goods from strawberries and cabbages to butter and eggs. Prices span from eggs at ten cents a dozen to seafood and meats with multiple cuts listed, reflecting early spring into summer demand and upcoming market bustle.
Bradstreet's New York April 22 notes favorable weather boosting spring and summer goods distribution while general merchandise demand remains quieter. Industrial activity shows strength with no major unrest, particularly in building trades. Iron, cotton and wheat quotations soften. notes include sharp iron price lifts and strong lumber demand with retailers expanding. Wool and related markets are mentioned as solid.
The report notes steady overall market tone with higher foreign demand for Australian bonded wool to be reexported. Copper advances on strong consuming demand and talk of copper company consolidations, while manufactured exports rise. March shipments of manufactured goods reach over 36 million dollars, about 35 percent of total exports, signaling future expansion if prices stay favorable. Bank clearings show continued quieting, with business failures at 154 that week.
Captain Kuichfield of the British schooner Queen of the Isles reports severe damage to low islands of the Carolines from recent tidal waves and gales. He rescued 29 people from the wrecked R W W Logan and aided fourteen starved residents on St Augustine before delivering them to Honape, then returned them to their homes on a western high island.
Rockport Massachusetts April 29 granite strikers visited the Rockport Granite company quarries at Pigeon Cove and urged Italian workers to leave at once. They warned they would make the place uncomfortable if they resisted. Today few Italians remain at work as many followed the strikers advice.
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