New High Ground Made By Cotton in New York
Cotton pushed to new highs with May at 12.50 and a 6.33 bale premium over March lows. Rumors of arrivals from Liverpool, nervous shorts, and renewed demand for new crop amid unsettled weather boosted activity. April spiked to 13.50 before easing. Closing firm, gains 43 points on April and 14 to 28 on active months.
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Letra
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Anaes
Cotton Markets Report From Atlanta Trade Data
Cotton markets across ports show steady to quiet tone with middling prices. Receipts and stocks are detailed for Galveston Mobile Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk New York Baltimore Philadelphia and Houston alongside inland city measurements, showing totals of net receipts shipments and stock across regions.
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Coastwise
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Salon
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Cincinnati
Little Rock
Porta
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Houston Oys
Augusta
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Cincinnati Eithe Rock
New Orleans Cotton Prices Rally on Bullish London Cables
Steam of bullish Manchester market signals and Liverpool buying pushed New Orleans cotton higher today. May and July contracts led gains as buyers emerged, while reports of stronger overseas demand and cautious selling limited losses amid volatile prices across staples like rice and butter.
Atlanta Quotation Bonds and Live Stock Market Notes
Atlanta markets show foreign buying lifting bond quotes and higher grain and flour prices. Livestock prices advance with strong beef and hog demand. cattle receipts and mixed grades noted across regions including Kansas City and Omaha with varying price ranges.
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Southern
Texas
Cotton Seed Oil and Cotton Goods Market Movements
A late edition market summary reports cotton seed oil rising on cotton upturns, light offerings, and buying by commission houses. Futures show scattered activity with mixed open and close prices, and overall tone steady to slightly higher for some contracts. Memphis notes 9,000 acres sold, while cotton seed meal and hulls price movements are listed alongside dry goods activity in New York.
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Memphis
Tenn
Money and Exchange Market Summary
New York and London market notes show call money steady around 1 1 2 percent with firm loans and mercantile paper at 4 percent. Foreign funds in London quoted Consols at 76 44 for money and 764 for account, with metals including copper around 14 75 to 15 00 and iron and tin prices fluctuating amid weaker overall tones.
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Mercantile Paper
Gar Tver
Stoxman
Government Ponds
London
Londen
Cleveland
Light Without Heat Is Near Possibility
Cincinnati reports at the American Chemical Society convention on light produced without heat by electricity termed the electric firefly. Professor Bancroft outlined the grit and its phosphorescent likeness, while Professor Day discussed water vapor in volcanoes and a higher temperature at the volcano mouth than its interior.
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Ohio
American Chemical Association
W. D. Bancroft
Garnell
Arthur L. Day
Physio-Chemical Library
Washington
Lady in Waiting to Empress Eugenie Dies in Tampa
Miss Phillip pane Panger, who served as a lady in waiting to Empress Eugenie during Napoleon III's reign, died at Gustavus Ward's home in Tampa, Florida. She was 89, had lived with the Ward family for over forty years, and after the empire fell came to America to work as a maid in Nashville. She was German and held letters showing noble connections.
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Eugenie
Napoleon III
Ifrance
Gustavus Ward
Ward
Miss Panger
America
Mr. Ward
Nashville
Tenn
Cattle Worth $700000 Brought By Steamer
Six hundred forty eight Jersey and Guernsey cattle valued at $700,000 arrived in New York on the steamship Monnewaska from the British Isles. It is the first foreign cattle shipment in nearly nine months due to federal quarantine for disease. The cattle are consigned to eastern breeders.
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Jersey
Guernsey
Monnewaska
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Slasher of the Venus to Undergo Operation
Militant suffragette May Richardson, jailed for six months for damaging Velasquez Rokeby Venus, released from Holloway to undergo an appendicitis operation. Authorities grant eight weeks recovery in hospital or sanitarium until leave ends.
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London Land Deal Transfers 62 Acres to Derbyshire
London April 7 A major London land transfer sees A P Derbyshire acquire the entire Regents Park estate from Lord Howard De Walgen for over 2.5 million dollars. The estate covers about 6244 acres with a police station St Stephen's church four big schools and eight pubs within its area.
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Record Wheat Crop Set to Break Yield Peak in 1918
Washington reports a record breaking winter wheat crop expected with yield possibly surpassing 651,900,000 bushels. April 1 condition at 95.6 percent of normal indicates high potential, with acreage planted about 26.5 million acres and abandonment near 9.6 percent of prior years. Final 1918 production previously recorded at 623,561,000 bushels, the largest then. comparisons note rye and wheat conditions across states and earlier yields.
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Labema
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Oklahoma
Arkansas
Market Stagnation Amid Wheat Crop Hype In Newark
Newark April 7 speculation was slow and prices changed little. Despite a bullish crop report forecasting a large winter wheat harvest, professional traders failed to gain follow- through and the market drifted back to dull trading. Grangers led gains on hopes of crop strength while International Harvester and tobacco issues advanced. Lorillard surged on scarce stock. Bond activity was irregular with total sales at 1,850,000 and United States 2s down 1/8 on call.
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Ex Governor Draper Stricken By Paralysis in Greenville
Eben Draper former governor of Massachusetts is in critical condition after an attack of paralysis in a Greenville hotel. He was returning home from a Florida and Cuba trip and stopped in Greenville briefly. Physicians report the entire left side paralyzed. he is 66 years old and his family has been notified.
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Atlanta
Atricken
Mr’ Draner
Felder Silent on Rules in Georgia Copper Case
Washington April 7 Special Thomas B. Felder Georgia attorney general declined to discuss the state Democratic executive committee rules adopted Saturday. He said he left home Saturday night and had not read the rules. Felder lunched with Senator Smith at the capitol during the 2 oclock recess of court and said their chat was friendly with no political relations. He did not see his opponent T W Hardwick that day.
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J— Thomas
Pelder
Georgia
Docktown Copper Company
Supreme Court
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T. W. Hardwick
Death in Refrigerator On Board Steamer El Cordobes
The steamer El Cordobes arriving from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo reports engineer J. G. Brockbeil died after being trapped in a freezer holding 2,100 tons of frozen meat in tropical heat. The incident occurred on board during the voyage.
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Grace La Rue Seeks to Collect Alimony
New York April 7 Byron Chandlere millionaire husband of Grace La Rue actress was arrested today in a Broadway hotel. Counsel for the actress said he planned to leave the state making alimony collection difficult before the trial of her separation suit.
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Byron Chandlere
Grace la Rue
Change of venue for Bilbo case granted in Mississippi
In Vicksburg Mississippi on April 7 a Warren county circuit court granted a change of venue in the Theodore Bilbo bribery case. The trial will be moved to the Hinds county circuit court in Jackson during the first week of June.
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Vicksburg
Mise
Theodore Bilbo
Warren County
Hinds County
Jackson
Jane
Socialists Win Power in Helena and Missoula Elections
In yesterday’s elections Socialist candidates gained control in Helena and Missoula. Helena elected three councilmen and two commissioners with Syriac-incendal listed as gaining control, while Missoula chose two commissioners. In Helena the Republicans elected a mayor, city treasurer and two aldermen in a separate city race.
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Incendalis
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Butté
Woman Suffrage Amendment Reported and Noted by Senate
The woman suffrage amendment, defeated in the senate, was again reported today by the suffrage committee and placed on the calendar. Senator Hoke Smith gave notice he would raise a point of order against it.
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Nose
Senate
Hoke Smith
Censure for McDermott by House Judiciary Committee
Illinois Representative McDermott faces censure after disclosures from the lobby investigation. The House Judiciary Committee agreed to the censure today, marking a formal rebuke by the chamber.
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Representative McDermott
Illinois
House Judiciary Committee
Honor System Success Among Texas Convicts
Andale Texas April The honor system among Texas convicts has worked well Governor Colquitt came to pay wages of fifty convicts on roads in this section The Lindale camp has no guards convicts promised not to leave Their one escape attempt failed as fellow convicts captured the runaways and wrote the governor approving the system The governor considers expanding the program to more state roads Convicts receive 50 cents per day.
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C. B. Colquitt
Lindale
Bell and Smith bury hatchet for a while
Washington April 7 Special Senator H E Smith and Representative Thor M Bell have buried the hatchet temporarily. Smith agreed not to oppose Bell's nomination of Frank Meadors of Dahlonega, whose name was sent to the senate today. Relations had been strained after the Gainesville post office controversy and Hardy was turned down at Smith's insistence.
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H .E Smith
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M. Bell
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Mr. Bell
Frank M. Meadors
Dahlonega
Senate
Gainesville
Ken A. Hardy
Wilsons to spend Easter at Hot Springs Virginia
President Wilson and his family will travel to Hot Springs near Washington for Easter. They will depart Thursday night and return Monday morning. The trip aims to aid Mrs Wilson’s recovery from a fall injury.
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Wilson
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White House
Tet Adrift in Gulf Near Florida Coast
A World War II era report states a main battle tanker is adrift in the Gulf near the Florida west coast. An air avenue cutter Yamacraw was ordered from Savannah to search for it. Navy officials say recovering the target would save $20,000 in losses.
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Navy Department
Seven Men Sentenced to Atlanta Prison in Fraud Case
Seven former Sterling Debenture officers and agents received prison terms from three to six years for mail fraud linked to selling stock in promoted enterprises. Heaviest sentences, six years, went to George H. Middlebrook, Frank Shumaker, and Henry H. Platt. Mudge, linked to the Oxford Linen Mills scheme, got four years. The men, including Stone Barron and Edwards, were convicted after a lengthy trial.
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Sterling Debenture Company
United States
Atlanta
Anderson
George H. Middleb Brook
Chicago
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Henry H. H.platt
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Oxford Linen Mills
North Brookfeld
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Elwyn A. Barron
W. 8. Edwards
Federal District Court
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Question of Indian blood quantum reaches Supreme Court
Washington April 7 The Supreme Court heard arguments on how much white blood makes an Indian "mixed blood" under the Clapp amendment of 1906. The government seeks to limit its reach to those with at least one half white blood while white land purchasers argue even the slightest trace of white blood makes one mixed.
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Supreme Court
White Earth
Minnesota
Ghent Organizes Cotton Exchange Amid Gulf Line Link
Ghent Belgium on April 7 saw the formation of a cotton exchange driven by rising direct shipments from America and the new regular steamship service between Ghent and Galveston.
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Cotton Exchange
Ghent
Belgium
Galveston
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