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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1889
Page
7
A survey of trade notes absenteeism dampening business as merchants face homecomings and labor gaps. Butter eggs and cheese rise while fruit, vegetables and grain markets show weakness with cautious buyers and rising costs in Pittsburgh and New York.
Market report for Saturday August 10 1580 at East Liberty stock yards shows cattle receipts light with two cars shipped to New York and no price movement. Hogs receipts about 900 with 800 shipped to New York and a total around 2000 on hand. market steady with prices unchanged.
Market reports indicate weak feeder stock demand yet strong cattle prices, with Chicago and St Louis receipts totaling thousands of head. Good to choice corn fed steers hold prices while cows and heifers bring mixed, hogs steady to higher, and sheep with steady to firm tone amid limited supply.
Secretary Rusk of the Agricultural Department visits the Fifth Avenue Hotel and has earned his wealth from hog bristle trading. In Georgia style news, a Chattooga grower sighted two giant melons near Augusta with weights around 86 and 67 pounds, sent to Captain Turner in Floyd.
In a dull week’s close the wheat market fell with December slipping to near 7 ¾ cents, assisted by heavy long wheat sales and a weak cash market. Corn and oats weakened further as large offerings and local selling pressured prices, while pork and lard showed mixed moves and subdued activity across several major markets.
The Pittsburg office notes fluctuations in farm goods with cheese and butter firm, fruit and vegetables varying in demand, melons and sweet potatoes weakening, and pears, apples, and grains showing mixed movement. Prices for beans, vegetables, and meats are listed with multiple regional references and quality notes.
A dense catalog of wholesale grocery items including Roasted coffees, dried fruits, nuts, evaporated fruits, canned fish, and lard with assorted prices. Contains brand references, origin notes, and packaging terms. Includes Rio, Java, Sultana currants, London layers, Valencia raisins, and various canned seafood entries.
A list of mining shares traded in New York shows Amador 100, Agnew 0, Best and Belcher 300, California and Virginia 725, Colorado Central 160, Homestake 900, Union Consolidated 20, others like Chollar 115 and Eureka Consolidated 40 also noted with various quantities.
New York reports indicate orders received and extensions of existing fabric shipments. Market activity shows continued demand and light trading as suppliers await clearer signals on production and pricing.
Market notices show wool prices drifting lower amid light demand and thin trading. Buyers remain cautious as fleece values ease, with reports of subdued activity across grades and rapidly varying quotations.
Patient notes indicate mental low mood linked to stomach troubles. phrasing is garbled and hard to interpret. No clear persons, organizations, or events identifiable from the readable text.
Total receipts bulletined at the Grain Exchange report 155 cars for the week, with Pittsburg Cincinnati and St Louis leading on corn oats hay flour and feed while Pillsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago report wheat and malts. No sales on call and lingering notes on corn as a market factor.
Fragmentary text mentions fresh pork loins and toes with unclear context. No clear event date or identities emerge from the readable fragment. Further text needed to identify a person, organization, place, or outcome.
Clearing House manager Chaplin sees Pittsburg's summer business as unusually strong with clearings about 900000 higher than last year. He forecasts a booming fall trade and a daily exchange average near 3000000, aiming to outrun St. Louis and Baltimore. Real estate activity rises while mortgages stay light and insurance sales slump due to perceived lower death risk. Building permits reach seventy, including a five story Fifth avenue structure and a church project, signaling ongoing investment.
Fragmented OCR text mentions Philadelphia stocks and brokers with references to Reading and Western Pennsylvania Railroad. The legible portions offer no clear event, person, or outcome to summarize into a coherent news item.
Saturday's Old Range corrected daily by John M Osxrey Co Pittsburg Petro Exchange. case TIT Glasswooo A B McGrew Co. quote Puts 90 calls 10134.
The figures show national price trends with some highs and declines noted. Transit openings and steady activity appear in major cities including New York and Atlanta as markets close on renewed demand and cautious investor sentiment.
Frank Woodward of Albany received a peculiar gift from Leland Stanford. Three salamanders packed in cotton traveled 3000 miles and arrived in Fair Haven very frisky. The creatures resemble steel, are impervious to heat and cold, and sit calmly on a stove or ice.
A piano from the sunken steamship Duke of Buccleuch, wrecked near Bognor with about 64 aboard, washed ashore at Goring. Salvaged by Lea, it dried, was repaired, and proved surprisingly intact after weeks at sea, becoming a curious seaside artifact of the disaster.
A young man notes that women often misread attention from loyal suitors. He observes a roommate pursuing a pretty blonde while she seems to favor others, concluding women act inconsistently when pursued and prefer independence over ardent advances.
A frightened boy in Harlem asks Ma if a goat will butt his shadow on the fence. Ma replies that shadows are harmless but wonders what the goat would do if it saw him.
The piece parodying legal roles quotes Witticus on the contrast between a doctor of laws and an ordinary physician. It notes the doctor of laws must grasp the pulse of the entire people to succeed, unlike a mere pulse tester of a patient.
Washington report details how Hazen, the Third Assistant, signs 25 000 to 30 000 Treasury warrants quarterly while recalling past hazing schemes under Frank Hatton and Wells. It describes delegation limits, clerk reliance, and the ease of approving payments without full knowledge of each item.
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