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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
9
Stocks show mixed movement with scattered gains and losses across sectors. Leading issues include Amalgamated and Reading, while steel and iron trades edge higher amid cautious investor activity.
The market shows steady wheat prices while corn futures ease on large receipts. Traders note offerings at concessions as demand remains firm, with quotes and receipts reflecting mixed futures and class prices for No 2 red and other wheat grades.
Retained receipts show mixed cattle and hog totals with steady to weak market signals. Prices range near 6.50 to 8.00 for various classes while totals cap around thousands of head across regions including Louisville and Kansas City with noted declines in some beef and hog categories.
The text outlines pork and beef products with prices and descriptions including lard, dry salted meat, short clear and extra short cuts, shoulders, bellies, smoked beef, and dried meat. It references various percentages and price markers, indicating contemporary market listings and product types.
Fragmentary OCR lists dairy items and prices with terms like creamery seconds, leet, limburger, Swiss, mast, and stone weights. Mentions 4.100 receipts and several scattered weights, with unclear locations such as New York Ohio and Northern regions.
The notice lists varied price marks and quantities for poultry and produce including white ducks, young turkeys, and watercress. It notes portions for over and under age or weight categories, with pricing hints and daily totals.
The readable portion lists various coffee related terms and prices with scattered brand and grade notes. It mentions New Orleans and California references alongside terms like refined and prime but lacks coherent narrative or complete data.
Fragmented text lists colors Brown S yellow 55 white green red and references to teams Us and Delaware. unclear data on event, participants, dates or places due to distorted OCR.
The Chicago school board dismissal of Mrs. Kid Paige Young triggers a political storm as supporters urge reinstatement. Mayor Harrison reshapes five trustees, Dean Sumner denounces the process, while the Teachers Federation backs Young and seeks Shoop resignation. News notes Young’s age and sex education clashes.
The Navy Department plans to use the Underwood law to source provisions abroad rather than rely on domestic suppliers. The move aims to obtain goods on the open world market, with purchases made through American channels.
A special report from Columbia Kentucky notes a courthouse meeting where a committee was appointed by local citizens to secure stock subscriptions for a new railroad. The group reports considerable progress in organizing funding and support for the project.
The item notes coal delivered at 6 to 8 dollars per ton with various regional rates and a total of 82,902 tons. It lists anthracite at 5.78 dollars per ton and coke delivery at 6 to 6.50 dollars per ton. A whisky sale reports 2 barrels at a price of 1.538 dollars per gallon.
The report covers midweek sale activity with 232 lots offered including 22 new items. Prices cited include 619 for select new items, with ranges from 6 to 8 per unit and 12 new at 619. Other lines show various old and new goods with assorted values, including manufacturing fillers and tobacco leaves, and notes on quality and demand.
Readable lines show prices for produce and goods such as cabbage and grapes, plus vague references to storage, crates, and bets. Names and places are obscured or garbled, but the fragment indicates a local commerce page with assorted prices and entries.
Rome reports the Italian government assures suspicions against Dorothy MacVane are groundless and surveillance of no opera singer will cease. Miss MacVane, once of Cambridge Massachusetts, was accused of being a French spy after drafting fortifications.
Arthur Derritt, a wealthy Akron man, will start a six month workhouse term after driving his car into a city fire truck. The crash killed one horse and unseated three firemen. He was fined 100 dollars and his license revoked for a year.
Notes detail talks by Mil Mnery Jobbers president Samuet Act to Milliner Traveling Men and discussion of 1915 San Diego and San Francisco Expositions. Also covers Good Roads anti highway effort, funding for Hamilton county, and a Chamber of Commerce nominating contest opposition.
Local Forecaster Rev. Coanene Devereaux reports river levels across multiple gages. The River Cincinnati shows 14.8 feet and falling, Dam 37 lower gage 12.7 falling, and points from Franklin to Shreveport display mixed rising and falling levels with several dams noted.
A Kentucky Corn club report credits fifteen thousand enrolled youths with an average of sixty bushels per acre. Dr. Fred Mutchier, in charge of the demonstration work, released the figures as of tonight.
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