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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1889
Page
7
Mrs Sidebottom and son Lambert travel by rail and lake from Brussels to Lucerne. A brash Englishman, Colonel Yeo, hawks a scam on hotel air quality and a Mount St Bernard dog investment while mingling with travelers and clerics, exposing social pretensions and con men aboard.
Domestic markets report unusually bare warehouses with sugar rising. Eggs dull but steady, butter firm, and potatoes rising while tomatoes scarce. Ohio prices for refined and common items listed. New Ohio cheese varieties noted. fruits, nuts, and canned goods priced, with meat and poultry markets described and daily supply levels suggested by Omaha style notes.
A second weekly rise in sugars signals fruit preserving activity and tighter sugar markets. The report lists brands and origins such as Caracas Mocha Rio 21 2 percent and Standard brands, noting government figures and trade names in a dense, OCR style summary.
Total receipts bulletined at the Grain Exchange show 135 cars entered, with 179 cars the prior week. Oats and hay dominate entries from Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne, Chicago, and other routes. Light deliveries have steadied markets but failed to lift prices. notable stocks in hands remain scarce as traders anticipate firmer activity.
Readable fragments show bids and prices for feed and straw items. Terms like brown mudd, oats and straw prices appear with amounts such as 15 00 and 7 50.
OCR reads a messy catalog of sugar cured meats and related goods. Entries include hams bacon shoulders and dried beef with assorted prices and incomplete product descriptions.
Armour and Co publish current dressed meat prices including beef carcasses 450 to 550 pounds and hogs and pork selections. The list shows meat classifications and weight ranges with specific prices for fresh pork and related cuts.
Orrick Prestonine Disrates East Lineary June 1880 reports cattle receipts 260 head with no New York shipments. Hog receipts 3900 head with 20 head shipped. market firm. Sheep receipts 2000 head with slow market at unchanged levels.
Telegraph report shows cattle receipts at Kansas City with 1,374 head sold and shipments 625 head. Market active and steady to a shade higher for good cornfed dressed beef and shipping steers. cows steady, stockers and feeding steers quiet though carrying a slight premium. Hog receipts total 6,138 head with varied loads and a generally steady to higher trend for heavy and mixed weights. corn fed and grass fed hogs priced accordingly.
Prices remain steady across the board with continued demand for top grades. Buyers show persistent interest in premier lots as market activity holds firm and supply remains balanced.
New York markets report no new features or development in the drygoods sector for June. Traders note steady demand but limited price movement and inventories remaining stable with no major shifts in supply chains.
The text traces Castoria as a trusted remedy from infancy to adulthood, noting how a mother gave Castoria during illness and a child cried for Castoria. It continues with the product’s use through adulthood and into motherhood as it remained associated with children’s care.
The Conemaugh valley floods disrupted Pittsburg commerce with scarce produce from Maryland and Florida, delayed trains, and tight supplies of tomatoes beans peas and tropical fruits. Cheese butter and eggs moved slowly yet prices held firm while pork packing and grain markets showed mixed shifts amid regional damage.
Janet Baynes and Salome, cloaked in war’s stress, shelter in the Imperial Hotel Andermatt as the wealthy American Artemisia Durham draws eyes. Colonel Yeo poses as suitor and claims nobility while a German waiter language muddle complicates tangle with Labarte family and three young cousins.
The article notes a weaker market for spring patents in wood with Pittsburg as a focal point. Prices may fall further if the current downward trend persists, and quotations are expected to lower soon.
A fragmented excerpt shows closing and bid prices for Philadelphia and Boston stocks, various railroad and utility issues, and bond notes. It notes ex-dividend statuses, listed exchanges, and corrections by a market firm at Sixth Street for daily updates.
June mining stock list notes prices for Bodie Consolidated California Deadwood El Cristo Gould & Curry Hale and Norcross Howes stake Horn Silver Iron Silver Mexican Mutual Mono North butte Union Consolidated and Yellow among others. values shown for several named mines and companies.
The market closed lower for most futures with only September showing a slight gain. Prices varied with Wheat, Oats, Corn and Rye futures and spot quotes posting declines or small moves amid firm cash and oil-related activity and receipts listed for multiple grains.
Hon George W Miller US Marshal as executor of Moses Rebout sold deceased’s bank stock at public sale before the Court House Washington Pa. First National Bank shares and Chinend National Bank stock brought by Elmer Eiggs who bought a two story brick dwelling with eight rooms on Oakland Square No 1 in the Fourteenth ward. Messrs Black Co have sold there ten dwellings in Oakland Square in the last 30 days and inquiries for the area are rising.
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