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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
8
The ad promotes custom wagon building at Kern's shop and lists promotions for piano tuner D. Walter and phone contact 526 for Monroe service. Also features December style holiday offers from Phoenx Drug Store and Rexall Store with various prices starting at $2.90 and soda from Puffer Mountain.
The undersigned will petition the City Council of Monroe for a license to conduct a barroom at No. 217 De Siard Street. THE E LIQUOR COMPANY LTD. 5-10 Anything in the way of brick or repair work. Pressed brick mantles a specialty. Ring phone 1074.
Dr. Wright relocates his office over the New South Drug Store with a new office phone 942 and residence at St. Francis Sanitarium phone 636.
Washington December five delegates of the National Woman's Suffrage Association adopted a new system of government and elected officers at the forty fifth annual convention. A large budget was approved with a pledge drive raising eleven thousand eight hundred fifty dollars to reach twenty three thousand six hundred. Dr Anna Howard Shaw of New York was reelected president opposing Harriet Taylor Upton. New officers include Miss Jane Addams as first vice president and Desha Breckinridge as second vice president.
A fragmented price listing shows multiple grocery items with pack sizes and unit prices. Items include Swift Washing Powder Libbys Asparagus . BRAC ORB taxx etc, Figs California 3 packages, Starch, Flour, Matches, Snow Drop Flour 24 lb sack, Table Salt, Del Monte Asparagus Tips, Sweet Yam Potatoes, Toasted Corn Flakes 2 for, Syrup per gallon, Toilet soap, Eggs per dozen, Cooking Oil per gallon, Evaporated Apples 2 for, Vanilla Extract per bottle, Broom, Rumford Baking Powder, Cocoa tins, Libbys Pork and Beans, Tomatoes paste cans, Corn, Starch, Mackerel, Lemons per dozen, Sugar, Light House Cleanser, Snow Drift Lard, Oat Meal, Durkee's Dressing, Pineapple cans, Potatoes per peek, various cents and dollar amounts scattered.
In New York and Chicago, Harriet Burton Laidlaw Louise De Koven Bowen and Carrie Chapman Catt urged quick action on a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage. Catt called for tearing up the constitution if needed, while Harriet May Mills predicted New York women would win the ballot by 1915.
The Markets section from New Orleans on Friday December 5 1913 shows cotton prices with 18 3-16 cent spots and a quiet market. Sales reach 945 bales with early high low close figures noted for the previous year and various sample figures including 13.03 13.03 10.18 14.83 and 13.40 13.23 13.24 13.36, indicating price activity and trading levels.
In New York market notes the page records miscellaneous price figures and percentages with several quoted values. The fragment includes multiple sequences such as 12.50 13.02 12.85 and May references, indicating financial or commodity price tracking without clear context.
Liverpool trading summary notes 7.83 price level and 19 000 bales sold. References to January February Sadat de NAS RP and February March values 5 0 6 95 7d indicate ongoing futures or spot movements with limited detail.
Friday December 5 1913 market briefs show spot and futures quotes for wheat corn oats pork and lard. Prices listed include wheat at 88 3 8 and 75 8 for different contracts corn around 72 5 to 71 1 2 oats near 39 1 2 to 40 1 4 pork futures at around 21 SP and lard near 10 82 to 11 25 for January and May contracts.
OCR text fragment from a 1913 issue shows unreadable lines about events. key details are missing, names and places cannot be confirmed, and no clear action or outcome is readable.
Windes notes small crop estimate issued by Giles Bureau shows 14 147 000 bales including linters. Weather remains unfavorable in the western belt. Liverpool spot demand stays strong with 14 000 sales. World spinner takings exceed last year by 430 000 bales, yet weekly takings fall short of the prior period.
A cleaned reading shows 450,000 versus 504,000 in the week, the largest takings on record, yet the market hints at a downturn amid reduced American cotton marketing and mixed futures. World cotton supply rises modestly due to India's movement while exports to Europe stay heavy at 289,000. Interior stocks exceed last year by 2,000, ports drop 311,000 from last year, and traders anticipate a market until the December crop estimate. Wheat and corn show firmer cash action but bear pressure from locals, with oats remaining steady amid shipping demand.
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