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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1922
Page
5
Chicago markets show wheat opening unchanged to 8 cents lower with rallies and declines, corn mixed with minor setbacks, oats slipping after early gains, and lower hogs. Cash wheat and feed ingredients listed. cattle and hog receipts noted with price ranges, plus potato and dairy quotes across the Chicago market scene.
Savannah reports turpentine and rosin stocks with December quotes and receipts. New York dairy, sugar, and poultry markets show firmness or weakness across butter, eggs, cheese, live and frozen poultry, with wholesale shifts. Foreign exchange is irregular, Liberty bonds pricing varied, cottonseed oil futures rise through midsession.
New York commodity prices show sterling gains in foreign bar silver and Mexican dollars amid mixed stock activity. Opening on Wall Street featured erratic trades with food shares leading advances and oil and shipping under pressure, while key names including Studebaker, Woolworth, Baldwin, American Tobacco and California Petroleum posted modest gains and rivals slid.
The New York and New Orleans cotton markets opened lower with middling around 24.4 to 25.1 cents, as traders cited weak Manchester reports and cautious trade. Futures posted small losses while spot markets showed subdued activity and mixed support from ginning rumors and local buying.
Memphis Tenn Monday conference brings twelve cotton growing state representatives to discuss poll weevil control uniform marketing methods warehousing plans and the formation of a governmental allotting Commission to secure uniform legislation for growers buyers sellers and warehousemen.
Atlanta reports Georgia Baptists prepare for the 101st state convention session at Baptist Tabernacle, led by president Dr. John D. Mell. The body, with over 360,000 members and 2,600 churches, organizes a large executive committee and multiple subcommittees for the gathering emphasizing missions, education, and benevolences in Atlanta.
AP reports Japan delays evacuation of Shantung until December 8 amid funding and equipment delays. China unable to assume administration December 2. Japan supplies rifles and gear to Chinese gendarmes in Tsingtao. Britain and the U S send gunboats to protect nationals while Japan ships two destroyers and sixty civil guards to safeguard a new consulate. Treasury notes may replace cash for railway payments under Washington accords.
Railway timetable snippets list Seaboard Airline and Southern lines with northbound and southbound arrivals and departures. Entries mention Atlanta, Birmingham, Norfolk, Abbeville, Greenwood, Athens, Lula, and Get Georgia routes with varied times and services. The fragment also notes a right of way and contact for further information with Bruce C. An 640.
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