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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
3
New York May 19 1908 Coffee closed steady with a 109% point gain amid higher French cables and Brazilian receipts. Cotton nervy with a 2 1 25 point decline as liquidation and bear pressure weighed, while US and European factors influenced near term prices.
Weekly market summary covers beans peas butter cheese eggs and produce with receipts exports and price ranges. Notes firm demand for beans and peas with steady white and red kidney prices, butter steady to firm amid lighter state dairy supply, cheese easing then firm, eggs and poultry volumes fluctuating with cautious buying and varied regional prices. Includes apples peaches berries oranges melons and vegetables with mixed demand and price shifts across categories.
Livestock receipts totaling 54 cars and 950 head show weak demand across beeves calves and sheep markets. Dressed beef and veals slow, Maryland veal prices noted, and spring lambs and clipped sheep mixed with slow selling. hogs sold in narrow ranges with nominal firmness, buyers cautious while shipments to Adriatic London loom for beef firms.
Receipts and price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep from telegraph market notes. Cattle tops range near 7 dollars with steady to higher bids. hogs show strong to steady demand with varied prices. sheep and lambs steady to slow with prices from about 4 to 6 dollars. Includes mixed regional figures and implied supply totals.
Cattle supply light and market steady with prime prices around 6 45 to 6 65. Sheep market dull with prime wethers 5 20 to 5 30 and lambs 4 to 6 50. Veal calves at 6 50. Hogs receipts light with market active, rime heavies and mediums around 5 85 to 5 60, pigs 5 10 to 5 15, roughs 4 50 to 4 90.
Liverpool May 19 Closing Wheat and Corn futures quiet with No 2 red Western winter at 7s 6d and May at 7sSd. Old American corn steady at 5s 10d to 44, peas Canadian 78 8d, flour winter patents 2s 1d. Hops in London Pacific Coast at £1 15s 12 108. Beef extra India mess 102s 6d, pork prime Western 72s 6d, bacon varied steady across cuts. Lard prime Western in tierces quiet 42s. American refined in pairs quiet 488 84. Tallow prime city 25s. Spirits notes incomplete.
By virtue of a chattel mortgage I will sell today at 10 30 a m at 9 East 10th st Manhattan Job presses 2 paper cutters 6 motors 12 stands of type and all other tools utensils and fixtures used in the printing trade By order of Attorney for Mortgage I Bernstein Auctioneer Also numerous lodging notices offering furnished rooms near transit and board at various addresses in Manhattan and Roseville New Jersey with references available
Manufacturing business with 20 years, seeks capital with 7 percent preferred stock at par $50 to invest in new machine for publishers. McDonald-Wiggins Co. invites inquiries at 257 Broadway. Also a couple seeks work on country estate, driver and cook, wages discussed with T Mertens at 60 Mercer St. SE. Agents needed nationwide offering $100 monthly plus per order commissions, no experience required. Write Stevensons, 218 St. NY.
A dense block of classified style notices lists multiple job seekers offering services as bookkeeper collector chauffeur draughtsman waiter porter and more. It includes names and addresses such as Tribune Office Box 14, Klerer 84 East 7th Street, Charles J. Lawrence Room 208, 503 Sth are, George Gay 164 West 74th Street, W Grant 21 Madison Ave, Nathaniel Neivers 7 West 112th St, Thomas Johnston 47 Ashland Place Brooklyn, Ensenat 712 Carroll St Brooklyn, H. J. Ferris 206 East 80th St, Stephen Keohane Baltic Brooklyn, and William Bush Bleecker St, with various roles and notes on experience and references.
Chicago wheat and corn markets rose on strong demand and rumors of a free bid by a leading elevator. May wheat held at 79 cents, July up modestly, May corn gained 2 cents and July advanced. Oats edged higher and provisions rose about one eighth. Clearing data showed steady demand and a drop in world visible supply. Primary receipts reached 438,000 bushels amid dull but firm trading.
Reports show Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth receipts upper with 307 cars, 210 last week, 438 a year ago. Corn active on continued wet weather, May offerings scarce, prices firm, May opening 76 to 78 cents, closing 78. July steady to higher, oats calm, deliveries and local receipts noted. Provisions rise with hogs, liver and lard up, tomorrow’s arrivals projected.
Male candidate named George Weber with ten years in mechanical art clerical work seeks steady employment. No canvassing. Address: 5 East 155th Street. Job applicant notes emphasize experience with former employer and steady edition.
A collection of classified notices seeks helpers and household staff. Listings include a young German cavalry reserve officer as estate manager, a Swiss man with gardening and horse skills, a girl for bookkeeping training, a cultured woman for companion secretary or chaperon roles, a refined companion or nursery governess, a young German couple for cooking and outside work, a multilingual valet or courier, and immediate vacancies across private and public establishments with staffing agencies offering accommodation workers and housekeepers. Various addresses and bureau names are given for applications.
Advertisements seek attendants, maids, butlers, cooks, coachesmen, gardeners, nurses, and companions. Numerous references required. positions in city or country, private families, hotels, or clubs. wages commonly $17 to $50 weekly and up, with full or partial room arrangements.
The New York City Corporation Counsel seeks the Supreme Court’s appointment of three disinterested freeholders as Commissioners of Appraisal under Chapter 724 to acquire Westchester real estate in Mount Pleasant for the Kensico Reservoir. The filing lays out parcel descriptions, ensures one commissioner resides in New York County and another in the county where the estate lies, and notes the June 2, 1908 hearing at White Plains. Public notices also list local employment advertisements interwoven in the page.
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