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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1933
Page
7
In New Orleans on December 4, cotton traded quietly with small price shifts. March moved from 9.97 to 10.00 feet, then eased to 9.95 as May fell to 10.08, with end quotes near 10.10. Private crop estimates ranged 12.485 to 13.225 million bales, exports 53,245 bales, spot closed steady after a 10 point drop.
York dispatch reports a quiet cotton session with narrow trading ranges. Early declines of 8 points gave way to recoveries on rallies in foreign exchange rates, with mid afternoon activity steady. Spot market remained quiet with middling at 10.05.
Market notes show teanees moderate prices for American cotton with good and middling grades quoted. Futures remain steady with listed values for December January May July and other contracts. details indicate price ranges and slight fluctuations across grade categories.
In New Orleans on December 4 and in New York on December 4, cottonseed oil futures closed with bids and spot quotes. Prime yellow and prime crude values ranged around 3.70 to 4.47, with several months noted. sales involved multiple tracts including switches.
Chicago livestock market notes 25 000 hogs with gains to 5 higher and cattle 12 000 with varied rise. Hogs 200-250 lb 3.45 3.60. 250-350 lb 3.00 3.55. pigs around 1. KTM. Cattle include light steers and yearlings up to 25 higher. vealers and cows mixed. steers 900-1100 lb at 6.50. 1100-1300 lb 4.75-6.00. 1500 lb 3.75-5.50. Sheep 19 000 with good to choice offerings. lambs 90 lb down 6.75-7.49. ewes 100-150 lb 1.75-3.00.
In dull trading, New York stocks stayed in a tight range with transfers around 650000 shares. The market was slow, futures quiet, and bulls and bears stayed within safe zones as equities and bonds showed uneven movement.
A fragmented OCR passage lists numerous companies across sectors such as sugar refining, fuels, automotive, and railroads with assorted percentages and partial company names. Names include American Woolen, Atlantic Coast Line, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, General Motors, Chicago & Northwestern, Du Pont, General Motors, and Southern Pacific, among others.
New York stocks steady as market remains dormant while U S government bonds stay easy. Curb market sporadic with industrials steady. foreign exchanges weaken as dollar rises. Sugar steady. coffee steady amid soft Brazilian markets. Chicago wheat soft on bearish acreage. corn follows. cattle steady to 25 cents higher. hogs up to 3 60.
The New York market shows weak foreign exchange with British sterling at 5.08 dollars on both demand and cables. French, Italian, Belgian, German, Dutch, Nordic, and Latin currencies are listed with bid and cable figures, including Argentina Brazil and Tokyo quotes.
Butter prices show unsettled ranges with creamery specifics and score breakdowns. Eggs remain steady with current receipts and grade distinctions noted alongside various quality levels and extras.
Potatoes movement on Saturday 475 shipments and Sunday 217 with liberal supplies and steady demand. Wisconsin round whites scarce with occasional car higher at 1.22 to 1-2, Minnesota North Dakota Red River Ohio Idaho russets few sales. Colorado McClures 1.60 to 1-62 1-2.
Live poultry prices steady with 1 car 12 trucks. Hens 4 1/2 lbs up to 10 under 4 1/2. Leghorn hens 7 and 9 1/2. colored 9 9 1/2. roosters 6. turkeys 9 to 14. ducks 5 to 8. geese 8. Dressed turkeys steady with young hens 17, young Toms 18, old hens 14, old Toms 13. No. 2 19 1/2.
The market shows call money steady at 3-4 percent all day with time loans unchanged. Thirty to 60 day rates at 4 months 3-4 to 1, 5-6 months 1 to 11-4 percent. Prime commercial paper at 11-4. Bankers acceptances steady across 30 to 5-8, 60 to 1-2, 90 days 3-4 to 5-8, 4 months 3-4 to 5-8, and 5 months 1 to 7-8.
President Colvert is in Nashville Tennessee for the American Association of Junior Colleges annual convention. He previously attended a Virginia gathering two years ago with last year’s meeting in the far west. The two day sessions begin Monday.
Francis Marion Plettinger ten died from a gun discharge while preparing to hunt with his cousin John Temple Graves of Baton Rouge. Officials said Graves did nothing wrong as the gun discharged accidentally striking Plettinger in the head. Plettinger was the son of G. L. Plettinger, West Feliciana police jury president.
A historic newspaper classified page lists ad rates and closing times for the Monroe News-Star and Morning World. It details placement rules, telephone acceptance, and alphabetized classifications from Lost and Found to Real Estate and Automobiles, with rate indicators and minimum charges.
In the U S District Court Western District of Louisiana a hearing for discharge has been scheduled for December 27, 1933 at 10 a.m. before special master J M Grimmet in Shreveport. Creditors may appear and show cause why discharge should not be granted. If no opposition is filed within ten days, discharge will be recommended. Monroe International Company dissolves by written agreement dated November 34, 1933 with J O Lambeth appointed equidator and address 1401 Texas Avenue Shreveport Louisiana.
A herd of yaks roams the Tanana valley near Fairbanks Alaska far from Tibet. The cattle were brought in 1919 by the Alaska College of Agriculture for cross breeding with Galloway cattle to endure Alaskan winters. Trials mixed yak with Chinese cattle and buffalo. One YakGalloway hybrid yielded 3459.9 pounds milk in 11 months with 6 percent butterfat.
A University of Indiana cooperative housing plan lets students pool 100 quarts of canned food and produce to run a common commissary. This cuts living costs so members pay about $15 monthly for room and board. Also noted: Lansing beautification planted 500 petunia beds this summer and a cantaloupe from Wilkes County grown to keep six months after ripening.
Public notices outline a federal court seizure and sale of a Ford sedan and land parcels in Ouachita parish Louisiana. United States Marshal George W. Montgomery will conduct the sale at the Monroe federal court building on December 16 1933 with property including a Ford sedan motor 18 134440 and multiple land tracts totaling about 489 acres.
Gray mare mule weighing 9009 pounds missing near Route 3 with reward offered by Mrs Maggie Morgan. Contact Route 3 address for information.
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