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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
11
The market notes scarce onions and steady to lower sugar and fish prices while potato, grape, and cabbage arrivals rise. Cotton oil and sugar futures ease with buyers waiting for lower levels as European weather supports crops and beets replace beets in planting.
Houston quotations indicate Holston favors market conditions with price signals across canned goods fruits and vegetables. Readings list specific items from beans to sardines and heavy staples with prices and pack sizes, reflecting a broad commodity snapshot.
A fragment listing various dried fruits and nuts with pack names like Fancy evaporated, Citron, Peaches, Filberts Sicily, and almonds. Also includes grain items, hay, corn chows, oats, paints, oils, and miscellaneous fruit prices. Mentions Texas green apples, cantaloupes, and Elberta peaches with crate and box pricing.
The article reports Texas fever in the southwest with emphasis on a recent outbreak linked to Missouri cattle and farm shipments. It notes quarantines, state veterinarians, and efforts to prevent spread near Kansas City, with detailed sales at Kansas City Stock Yards and St Louis market receipts and prices.
The fragment lists varied goods with prices including box thie varieties, crates, drugs and chemicals, copper, lead, tin, galvanized iron, hardware, nails, and wareb ed items. Values such as $4 00 per box and $120 per gallon appear, along with per pound and per hundred measures, reflecting a wartime or early 20th century trade sheet.
Readable fragments indicate discussion of centrifugal devices and refining conditions at a New York sugar refinery on July 30. Mentions variables like steady rates, quality notes, and referenced chemical processes without full context.
Memphis reports prime crude nominal rates and summer yellow pominal with prices for Mey and cake at 23.49 and 21.00. New Orleans notes crude and oil rates per barrel, with 43 percent crude and related loads and a 2405 centrifugal mass reference.
July reports from Bt Lente note turkey and duck sales firm with turkeys at 22, ducks 7, geese 44 percent, chickens 16 and 12 for other items. Butter and creamery steady while eggs hold at 14 percent. New York market confirms steady egg receipts and overall price stability across regions.
Southeast Texas coast truck farming expands under Rose L. Clerk with a 4000 acre Placedo irrigation project near Port Lavaca. The plan seeks 100 expert tenant farmers, connected by roads and telephones, offering dairy and vegetables to attract buyers and cash payments to growers.
Gonzales Texas July 80 The Gonsales summer normal closes tomorrow after an eight week session. Attendance was about 100 with students and staff reporting a successful period of study and activities concluding at the end of the week.
Independence showed greater activity with better prices than the day before while Angl o American remained heavy. trading at the New York Stock Exchange persisted in narrow limits as investors concentrated on two or three issues. Volume was around 40,200 shares with mixed demand and the market closed with modest gains and losses across several names.
A weather notice indicates hot conditions with two likely days of precipitation. Southeasterly to southerly winds are expected in the east, with stronger gusts down the Texas and Oklahoma corridors.
The page lists numerous classified notices seeking help and housing from color women and men of all ages. Jobs include cooks, maids, watchmen, stenographers, and general laborers. rooms for rent with board. boarding houses and table board. and positions in offices, stores, and farms. Many ads specify tentative start dates and pay, with addresses and contact details scattered through.
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