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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1892
Page
7
Market overview notes a slight drop in refined sugar prices while most goods hold firm or rise. Sugar policy debate centers on bounty law and tariff reform, with discussions of raw sugar production, U S demand, and potential shifts under a new administration.
Special reports detail November to date bag counts at Grain and Flour Exchange and consignments via BR and O P&WP&WC St L routes. Includes prices for corn hay oats timothy and wheat with receipts by car counts and regional buying activity. Cudahy pork purchases push hog products higher while wheat and oats slip on heavy stocks and improving closing bids.
Local securities and commodity listings show mixed activity with closing bids modestly changed. Trade notes include cheese butter eggs and honey prices, along with grain futures and cash values for wheat corn oats and rye across Pittsburgh Philadelphia Cincinnati and other markets.
An old advertisement line recalls Castoria as a trusted remedy through generations from infancy to childhood. The repeated claim positions Castoria as a comforting universal choice for babies and children alike.
Across Pittsburg and New York the money market showed little movement. Rates hovered near 5.6 percent with most business at 6 percent, while several cities reported steady clearing and balance figures for the week ending Nov 12.
London bar silver quoted at 29d per ounce, up 1164 from prior levels. New York dealers price silver at 650 per ounce. Bank of England bullion balance reported at £16000. Paris three percent rentes noted at 4e for the account. Various U S and European market figures included with rates of discount in open market for short bills.
Market notes show 41 000 pack ges exports 5 100 barrels 7 500 sacks fair demand firm sales 10 300 barrels with prices around 262 74 for winter wheat. Receipts total 251 650 bushels with exports 100 895 and futures at 1 210 000 bushels. spot dull easier No 2 red at 76.
East Liberty Pa November one live stock receipts total eleven hundred ninety head with six cars shipping to New York today hogs receipts three thousand head shipments two thousand five hundred head market firm Philadelphia mixed Yorkers and seven cars shipped to New York today later receipts two thousand head shipments two hundred head market steady at unchanged prices The Evening Journal Chicago reports casie nanethe three thousand six hundred head with one thousand head shipped market dull and lower good to cottane hives price four ten to six fifty others three to eight fifty stockers one and a half to two ninety Texans two to five ten cows one to two fifty hogs receipts eighteen thousand head ship ments five hundred head market closed lower mixed lime heavy butchers six fifty to five ten natives four eighty mixed eight hundred thirty five forty five lambs three fifty five five Mexicans s eighty Arenes City cattle four thousand head.
Receipts and shipments show a dull market with stock steady and many cattle and hogs easing. Prices cited include dressed beef around 50 to 500, cows to 106, Indian steers near 215 to 265, stockers 260 to 265, hogs at 480 to 570, cattle mostly steady at 150 to 465, sheep 1250 to 1475, and lambs rising to 350 to 535.
Market briefing from Fatt Riven Massachusetts dated November 13 shows production at 190000 pieces and deliveries same, with spot 25000 and futures noted. Prices list winter spirits of turpentine at 64 cents per gallon, rosin firm at 110 to 115 dollars, tar at 130 dollars, crude turpentine 30 cents, and Klein's Silver Age tonic advertised at 150 dollars per full quart.
A vintage advertisement touts Carlsbad Sprudel Water as sovereign for indigestion and constipation with a history of 500 years. It claims emperors and poets used it and promotes genuine Sprudel Salts with Eisner & Mendelson Co. as sole agents in New York.
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