Cotton futures hit new highs amid tight supply in New Orleans
The June market showed futures reaching season highs as new price fixing and contract scarcity pushed values higher. Spot cotton closed steady with gains, while New York trade noted four year peaks driven by demand from mills and exhausted desirable stock grades.
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New Orleans
New York
Cottonseed and sugar futures lift markets in New Orleans and New York
Cottonseed oil futures close strong in New Orleans with July at 11.77 and October 11.57B while New York bids 15-22 higher. Cuban demand pushes sugar futures to season highs with July around 2.59 and May near 2.12, and refined prices steady. Chicago livestock and potato markets show firm hogs, light cattle demand, and steady to higher prices alongside active poultry trading.
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New Orleans
New York
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Wall Street Ends Largely Lower After Tepid Trading
New York stocks drifted downward amid light commitments ahead of a long weekend. Trading was tepid with few gains and many declines, as market observers weighed the proposed tax bill and the war outlook. Bonds steadied while commodities rose irregularly and hog prices posted new Chicago highs.
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Wall Street
Chicago
Market Report: Stocks Dip While Commodities Move
New York stocks drift lower as leaders retreat in quiet trading. Bonds steady with secondary rails purchases. Foreign exchange quiet with Canadian dollar down slightly. Cotton up on New Orleans and mill buying. Sugar firm on Cuban and speculative demand. Metals steady as tin climbs. Wool tops down due to liquidation and Boston selling. Chicago corn firm with professional buying. Wheat climbs with soybeans and lard. Hogs active up about 25 cents to near 10.50. Cattle strong for fed steers and yearlings. cows weak.
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New York
New Orleans
Boston
Chicago
Wheat futures climb as soybeans and oils firm markets
Chicago trading on June 20 sees advances in soybeans lard and cottonseed oil lifting grains. Wheat deliveries rise above a dollar per bushel with July at 105 8 1 2 and September at 102 1 8 1 4. Corn gains 1 8 to 3 8 while oats rise 1 4 1 2 as demand from commission houses remains steady.
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Chicago
Long signals political return despite defeat to Jones
Former Governor Earl K. Long, in New Orleans for a bankruptcy hearing, indicates continued political ambitions after losing to Sam H. Jones last year. He says Jones is getting weaker and wearer and plans no mayoral campaign involvement this year while noting a quiet farm life near Winnfield.
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Earl K. Long
Progress Publishing Company, Inc
Sam H. Jones
Winnfield
Judge Frees Editor in Contempt Case in Jackson
Circuit Judge J F Barbour found Major Frederick Sullens editor of the Jackson Daily News guilty of contempt of court after five hours of testimony. He fined Sullens 100 dollars and sentenced him to 15 days in Hinds county jail but suspended the jail term on good behavior. Sullens said he would appeal to the state supreme court. Court recessed until September 8.
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J.F. Barbour
Frederick Sullens
Jackson Daily News
Hinds County
Sullen
State Supreme Court
Barbour
Sullens
V Circuit
Soldiers to Get Recreation Trips during Fourth of July weekend
Morale officers plan convoys for 5000 soldiers from the 32nd division to visit Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas areas including New Orleans and Gulfport. Major Garnett Burlingame approves the plan. Major General Irving A. Fish endorses it for July 4 to 6.
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Louisiana
Texas
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32Nd
New Orleans
Gulfport
Navy Nifty Show Delights With Air Corps Insignia
A Miami social item notes a woman wearing a bathing suit adorned with light Navy Air Corps insignia signaling branch pride. The piece highlights patriotic fashion and morale during the era.
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Navy Air Corps
Miami
Notice for Public Auction of Mineral Rights Tract 166
Louisiana Department of Minerals invites sealed bids by July 1941 10 AM for lease of sulphur potash and other hydrocarbon rights in Union Ouachita Parishes. Includes wide river bed tracts with exemptions to Interstate Natural Gas Company and specific unit land. requires cash bonus with penalties and drilling obligations. reserves right to reject bids and call open bidding.
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Morehouse Parishes
Morehouse
Board of Minerals
Department of Revenue
Notice to Contractors for Levee District Weed Cutting
Sealed proposals by the Board of Commissioners of the Tensas Basin Levee District will be opened at 11 am on Thursday July 19 1941. Work covers cutting weeds and grass on levees in the Southeast Arkansas Levee District and in Morehouse Ouachita and Caldwell parishes Louisiana. Inquiries directed to the Director of Public Works Baton Rouge or to Arden B Smith Oak Grove La and H A Mangham Secretary Rayville La.
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Ouachita
Caldwell
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Oak Grove
H. A. Mangham
Rayville
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