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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1914
Page
9
The dull market morning gave way to higher prices signaling strength as industrials and specialties led activity. Trading faded in late session with speculative pools quiet and overall prices near Saturday’s close. Call money ranges 1.5 to 2.0 percent with time loans softer on 60 to 90 days.
New York on April 6 reports mercantile paper at 4 percent, sterling steady with 60 day bills at 4.75 and demand 4.8645, commercial bills 4.84. Bar silver 58.5 cents, Mexican dollars 45.5 cents. Government bonds easy, railroad bonds irregular.
March business in Wall Street showed weakness with total sales at 5,823,248 shares, below 6,175,873 in February and 7,165,453 a year earlier. Bond transfers reached 60,143,000 dollars versus 69,900 in February and 40,926,000 in the rest of 1913.
Lead quiet at 3.75 with ondon lead at £18 2 64 and pelter at 5.25 5.30. Copper firm electrolytic at 14.75 with spot around 37.10 to 37.30 and July at 50 13.75. Copper futures listed at £65 158 spot and £171 futures. Northern and southern copper warrants shown with varied quotes.
A Detroit Tribune report discusses how moving crowds generate forces far exceeding individual weight, causing bridges and supports to sway. It cites examples from soldiers marching, planks bending, and a Scottish swing footbridge, warning of dangerous motions when crowds rise or move together.
Country butter fell by two cents per pound amid cold storage buyer pressure while South Texas creamery butter ran four cents cheaper than Saturday. Eggs rose one cent, peas and squash hit fresh arrivals with strong demand, and broilers fetched wholesale prices up to 35 cents per dozen as hens dropped to 60 cents to one dollar per dozen.
A dense price list outlines wholesale rates for eggs, poultry, butter, cheese, fruits, vegetables, canned goods, dried fruits, grains, meats, seeds, hides, wool and more. It includes specific per unit prices for items like eggs at 16¢ a dozen, hens and fryers priced per dozen, various fruits by crate or box, and regional notes such as California canned goods and Texas hay prices. The entry closes with cargo updates from Port Aransas, Texas, dated April 6, noting steamship arrivals and Tampico cargo details.
Weather and global demand stir the cotton trade as bullish Manchester cloth news boosts spot activity in the South. Analysts in New Orleans and New York project tighter supply, world consumption near 30 million bales, and potential for September-December profits amid ongoing spread between spot and futures.
Building permits list W G Tobin plans an addition to the St Marys hotel on a street address with a $2500 estimated cost. The notice cites construction details and approval status.
Summary of supply and demand indicators in the New Orleans market. Shows world visible supply and spinners takings for the week and exports to date. Includes closing prices for May and a general look at middling prices and acreage and crop condition over multiple dates.
Mitchell Jennings Russell bought 4343 head of steers and calves from Big Canyon Cattle Company for around $350,000 in San Antonio. The cattle are on pastures in Atascosa Dimmit and Zavala counties awaiting favorable condition for shipment to markets, likely in June. Over 100 carloads moved toward Fort Worth and northern markets last week as railroads report strong livestock reservations.
Union Stock Yards report April 6 shows R. J. Jennings from Bexar county delivering extra fancy calves at $8 per hundredweight, best price of the season. Receipts totaled 809 cattle 86 calves 2 horses 157 hogs 256 sheep. cows from $4.50 to $5.50 while hogs largely sold between $7 and $7.16.
Raw sugar holds steady with molasses sugar at 2.77 and centrifugal at 2.92. Refined forms stay quiet with cut loaf 5.05 and powdered 4.05 to 4.15, while granulated and diamond A trade around 3.80 to 3.90. Molasses also steady.
Chicago reports today with egg receipts 2840 cases including 17 18c for ordinary firsts 17 G t ec and firsts 18 C. Cheese steady with Daisies 17% 4c Twins 164% %c Americas 16%c Long Horns 16% tee. Receipts 57 cars. Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin red 60 65e white 63 68e. Poultry alive higher springs 1%c fowls 18e.
Cattle prices steady to higher with best grassers at 7.25 to 7.35 and fed cattle 7.35 to 7.50. Stockers and calves quoted from 4.50 to 6.50, butcher cows 4.06 to 6.25, heifers 5.00 to 7.50, calves 5.00 to 8.50. Receipts about 4,200 cattle and 300 calves, hogs active with top 8.50 and 8.35 to 8.60 bulk, sheep and lambs down 10 to 15 cents with ewes 4.50 to 5.85 and lambs 6.00 to 7.00.
Kansas City April 6 Quotations show butter at creamery 24c firsts 23c seconds 22c packing stock 14 percent Eggs firsts 17c seconds 15c Poultry hens 15c springs 15c per pound.
Many travelers stay at city hotels including Gunter Menger Bexar St. Anthony. Names include Albert Strawne from Cotulla Arthur Geary from Australia and Ray McDonald from Austin. Others from Milwaukee Cincinnati Dallas Houston Wichita Falls and Brookline are listed as guests or arrivals. FE Rodriguez Rios departs for Los Angeles for several months.
The cotton market opened steady with a 2.5 point decline, then fell 9 to 13 points on the day’s trading. Improved South weather spurred buying for May and July, but late selling and local pressure kept prices net lower while futures closed steady with May at 12.56 and July at 12.37.
Weather improves across the South and weak cables trigger selling at the opening in New Orleans cotton. First prices fall 5 to 6 points, later dropping to 9 points. Liquidation of long cotton meets light demand and by noon May through October futures trade 12.70 to 12.82, final figures left as steady by close.
Liverpool April 6 spot cotton remains steady with prices 7.744 for good middling, 7.324 for middling, and 6.92 for low middling. Ten thousand bales traded including 1000 exported or speculative. Receipts were nil.
Houston and Galveston quotes show middling at 13 cents and 13 1/16 cents with steady closes. New York and New Orleans spot prices hold around 13.40 and 13 1/16 respectively, with limited sales reported across the day.
Memphis prime basis meal and linters prices listed for April 6. New York cottonseed market closed steady with bid and futures ranges from April through November and total sales reported as 4600 units.
Daily market roundup reports receipts and price ranges for hogs cattle and sheep in St Louis Missouri and Kansas City Missouri. Hogs lead with strong demand and steady to higher quotes. cattle and sheep show mixed to steady prices across categories including native beef steers cows and heifers and lambs with regional variations.
An 8 a m observation record notes conditions and notable details from Monday April 6 1914. Specific environmental cues or events are not provided in the fragment.
New York reports coffee futures finishing steady as May at 8.48 and September at 5.83 amid spot market notes. The report notes steady tone for May and September contracts with ongoing attention to nearby pricing.
Chicago receipts and price moves show hogs 37 000 with market steady to five cents under Saturday. Cattle receipts and prices include Texas steers seven to eight dollars and calves around seven. The story references stabbing affray and editorials in the Baltimore American.
Frank Hummer and Katie Horn, Raymond George Dasbach and Flora Smith, Raymond A. Sanders and Maud, and Hil were named in the marriage license notice.
March totals at San Antonio Union stock yards reached 25 639 head, a new March record and near doubling from last year. Cattle 14 116, calves 1 449, horses 866, hogs 2 650, sheep 4 857, goats 1 701. calves fell short by 38 head as ranchers held young stock for future beef. Fort Worth also posted an eleven year March high in cattle calf and sheep supplies with broad gains in hogs and overall market activity.
The report lists grain and cotton prices with quotations for wheat No 2 hard No 7 red corn No 2 mixed and No 2 white oats No 2 white and No 2 mixed. Prices shown include fractions and cents for each grade.
The release lists license numbers 4867 to 4871 for vehicles and a motorcycle with owner names and addresses including Clara Boelhauwe 515 Avenue B and Dr E P Waggen er 242 Avenue B. The text adds a humorous London Sketch caption and a Washington Star joke about diplomats and rumors.
Chicago traders noted a weaker wheat market on Monday due to large northwest receipts and expectations the government crop report would be bearish. Corn offerings were absorbed, oats firm on wet seeding delays, and hogs dragged provisions lower, though corn shorts covered later causing a rebound.
Quotations today show cash wheat gains with No 2 red at 93 3/4 cents and No 2 hard at 94 1/4 to 94 3/4 cents. Corn No 2 at 54 to 55 cents and No 2 white around 54 1/4 to 54 3/4 cents. Oats Nos 2 around 40 cents with No 2 white about 41/2 cents.
Quotations show cash wheat with No 2 red at 93 94 cents, No 3 hard at 91 cents, No 2 northern at 85? per? and No 2 spring at 93 94. Oats No 2 white 41 42 cents, Barley 50 64 cents.
Delegates from the San Antonio Equal Franchise Society will depart Tuesday night for Dallas to attend the State Equal Franchise Society's second annual convention on April 8 and 9. They include Miss M. B. Fenwick Mrs. T. T. VanderHoeven Mrs. Mabel M. Bates Mrs. Edmund Hal tom Mr. and Mrs. Dwight E. Potter Mrs. Beatrice Till Mrs. Laura B. Hart Mrs. Joseph B. Dibrell of Seguin and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Molyneaux.
Snippets from Chicago Record Herald and Boston Globe meme jokes reveal marital finance myths and odd courtroom gags. A man claims marriage saves money only in perception. a judge asks about wife quarrel details. a stand humorously recalls a dinner plate and broken teapot. Neighbor chatter cites a planned pergola and wet season delaying its planting.
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