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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
13
Markets report early gains on improved textiles and poor weather in New Orleans cotton futures closing steady to up 1 4 points. Spot cotton in New Orleans mixed with sales of 148 bales and middling prices around 10 cents. New York futures firm on July and other months with late gains and mixed spot activity.
Liverpool reports 4,000 bales sold with no American shipments. Spot market steady with prices up 19 points and quotes for American grades listed from strict good middling to good ordinary. Futures end unchanged to 8 points higher with July at 5.10 and later months varying around 4.63 to 4.66.
In New Orleans the cottonseed oil market shows steady tonnage with bleachable prime summer yellow at 6.50 nominal and prime crude 5.25 to 5.50. Futures listed for July 6.10b, September 6.27b, October 31b, December 629m, and January 642b bid.
New York futures for June closed 1 to 2 higher amid sparse trade. Trading totaled 34 contracts with July at 66 percent, October at 68.2, and January at 6.94 dollars per bushel.
Salable hogs 8000 in slow trade with mixed drops from previous day. Hogs mostly 6.20 to 6.60 per hundredweight for various weight ranges. Cattle light trade with best action in light weight steers and yearlings. calves 1200 head. trend steady to weak with heavy weights dull. Sheep 40900 salable with late fed lambs 25 lower and best clipped lambs weak to 25 lower.
Butter and eggs prices listed with a 1 577 44 figure for butter firm creamery 91 score 23 3-4, DO 23 1-2, 89, 23, B8 22 1-2, 90. Generalized carrots 23 3-4. Other prices unchanged. Eggs 33 371 steady with unchanged prices.
Futures No 3 ended flat as selling held to 33 150 tons. Prices shown for July September and January contracts indicate modest shifts. Five babies are born every minute in the United States.
New York stocks ease as leaders drift lower while bonds soften and rails retreat. Foreign exchange steadies with Shanghai dollar slipping. Cotton holds, sugar mixed, coffee uneven with local covering. Chicago wheat is near steady, corn firm, cattle steady to 15 lower, hogs down up to 10.
New York stocks edged down in a tentative session with prices slipping fractions to around a point. With scant buying strength and a quiet news outlook, a few issues did manage modest gains while leaders like American Telephone and Du Pont rose slightly on light volume of about 490000 shares.
Gene Tortariello leaped from an Atlantic Highlands bridge and landed in the water as the umbrella inverted during a test of Abrams's photo dry cell chute. He received $20 for the stunt after the inventor was too busy to perform it himself.
Cliff Liles' Park Amusement Co winds down a two week run at Missouri Pacific show grounds featuring 40 shows rides and concessions. The Louisiana based company with local staff travels a five week tour through Louisiana Arkansas and Oklahoma with stops in 20 towns and contracts strong in the state. Attractions include a three breasted merry go round ferris wheel giant thriller tilt a whirl octopus chair plane loop a plane and a midget show along with a negro plantation show and athletic arena.
Chicago wheat and corn prices opened unchanged to modestly lower with rain and cooler forecasts weighing on sentiment. July wheat slipped to 75 3-8, September near 75 3-4. corn moved mostly steady to slightly up with July at about 51 for the day.
Mrs A E Thacker 36 died after a sudden heart failure as she returned from a neighbor's home. Funeral held at Essex Funeral home with Rev H D Ament officiating. She leaves husband three sons Clyde Vern Donald all at home six sisters and two brothers.
Chicago market notes list live poultry and poultry products with 49 trucks in stock. Hens firm while chickens hold steady. leghorn hens priced per pound and broilers show small weight segments with limited changes.
USDA notes on potatoes show 89 on track 209 and total US shipments 1 422. New stock supplies moderate with California long whites steady while demand slows. Louisiana Mississippi Alabama prices vary with decay and wash status. Idaho Russets firm demand. old stock light. Spider nest blurs into unrelated dek.
Succession of Peter Belbas Deceased Probate Docket No 4878 State of Louisiana Ouachita Fourth District Court WHEREAS Lou Ella Belbas petitioned for letters of administration Witness the Hon J T Shell and D I Garrett Judges on May 30 19139 Seal H G PropHit Deputy Clerk Monroe La May 31 June 8 1939 Public notice to show cause within ten days why petition should not be granted
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