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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1911
Page
17
A broad report traces an uptick in egg prices this week driven by Easter and Jewish holidays, with local markets firm at 15 cents and some dealers predicting 18 cents though likely to ease after Sunday. Butter and vegetable markets show weakness as warm weather strains stocks and onion crops show signs of deterioration.
Local produce prices list ER Creamery per pound 290 and creamery products 13 20c 5GGS Country dozen 14c. E Fancy cream 18c fancy 20c American Swiss 24c imported Swiss 31c Limburger 20c Badger 9c. Poultry Brothers prices 3.25 3.50 per dozen fry ers 6.00 6.50 hens 6.00 6.25 per dozen guineas 3.25 3.60 ducks per dozen 6 i dozen 1.25 1.50 geese 10.00 15.00 turkeys per pound 16c.
The New York Cotton Exchange together with the stock, coffee, consolidated, and curb markets closed at the end of business yesterday and will stay shut until Monday morning. The Easter triple holiday is often observed, though five of the past fourteen years broke the pattern. In Europe and South America the holiday from Holy Thursday to Easter Monday is commonly observed.
The People's Ice and Manufacturing plant iced twenty one refrigerator cars for cabbage shipments to various Texas towns. San Benito loaded eight cars, Brownsville six, Harlingen two, Bixby two, and Lawrence Spur one. Most cars now carry potatoes and other vegetables alongside cabbage, with potatoes selling for $1.30 per bushel. A car of mixed vegetables also departed from the Little Indiana colony.
Opened dull as Lent demand wanes. cattle, hogs and sheep offered lightly. Receipts around 250 head noon, three carloads from Muzquiz, Mexico. goats heavy in pens with few sales. Evening totals show cows steady at 3.75 to 4.00, calves 4.00 to 5.00, hog bids at 6, sheep slow with no prices posted.
Prime basis oil 5.03 to 5.06. Meal 24 dollars. Linters 3% to 45 cents.
Memphis Tennessee April 14 Spot cotton firm and higher by percent with middling at 15 cents.
Chicago weekly market report lists April 14 quotations for dairy fruit and poultry. Creameries beans and cheeses show steady prices with daisies and twins in mid range. Potatoes labeled weak with varying regional quality. turkeys and fowls steady. veal prices by weight class from 50 to 110 pounds as specified.
Quotations listed butter with creamery firsts at 20c and seconds at 15c. Eggs show extras 16c and firsts 14c. Packing stock stands at 12 1/2c.
Kansas City market report shows cattle receipts 500 with a steady tone across categories including native steers six to six fifty and southern cows from three to six dollars. hog receipts 6000 with bulk sales six ten to six thirty. sheep receipts 3000 with muttons three fifty to four seventy five and lambs five to five eighty. Market steadiness noted across hogs cattle and sheep.
New York on April 14 reports egg quotations steady with no change. Receipts reach 31,951 cases as buyers assess market conditions and price stability persists.
F B Bowes traveling agent for the Illinois Central announced plans to establish a permanent San Antonio office. He toured in a private car with J W Longstreet S G Hatch W H Brill and H C Webb and said traffic prospects in the territory could prompt a Chicago office recommendation for a commercial agency in San Antonio.
On April 14 at St Louis receipts totaled 300 cattle including 100 Texans with a steady market. Native beef steers ranged 5.00 to 6.75, cows and heifers 4.75 to 6.35, stockers 3.50 to 5.76. Hog receipts 5500 with a steady market. pigs and lights 6.30 to 6.55, packers 5.75 to 6.50. Sheep none.
Marion Texas leads a turnout of automobile owners planning to join a Friday parade during Carnival week. Cars from Uvalde New Braunfels San Marcos and other towns will travel to San Antonio arriving Thursday to assemble around Travis Park. Estimates include ten from Marion and about twenty from New Braunfels plus twenty or more from San Marcos with about ninety participants overall.
Geo. W. Thomas of Dallas, a south western passenger agent for multiple lines including the Toledo, St. Louis and Western, Chicago and Alton, Minneapolis and St. Louis, and Iowa Central, is among the railway men here today. Riebe Undertaking Co. offers auto ambulance service at 221 EB Com. Phone 34L.
Chicago livestock market figures show cattle receipts of 12 000 and steady trade, hogs at 13 000 with slow demand, and sheep receipts of 5 000 with steady demand. Prices range across cattle from 2.70 to 6.55 per hundredweight, hogs from 5.80 to 6.55, and sheep from 3.00 to 6.15, reflecting mixed activity.
Calm prevailed in Marne after three days of riots by discontented wine growers. Parliament's victory in nullifying champagne district delimitation and Premier Monis's plan to refer the issue to the council of state helped ease tensions. Army and gendarmes remain in the disturbed area. two ringleaders were arrested at Venteuil as women clashed with police. Military aircraft supported the troops during the height of unrest.
Forecast issued for April 14 7 a m to 7 p m Saturday shows unsettled weather with showers and thunderstorms, colder tonight, and a likely drop in temperatures across San Antonio and East Texas. Areas from the Rio Grande valley to the lakes remain unsettled with more rain, and freezing conditions are possible in mountain districts.
The morning wholesale market statement lists Texas products with prices paid to shippers across produce and meats. Items include strawberries, potatoes, lettuce, peppers, onions, beans, greens, fruits, nuts, and canned goods with varying per crate, per cwt, and per dozen rates.
A guide for San Antonio housewives lists retail prices at City Market House this morning. Eggs 17c a dozen, butter 26c, dressed poultry hens 65c each, fryers 70-75c, turkeys 25c per pound, beef and pork items priced from 10c to 35c, fruits and vegetables with various per unit or per basket costs, including oranges 25-40c a dozen and tomatoes 50c per basket.
Onion sets red and yellow priced per box, white per box. Cane seed orange amber millet seed, red tops. Turnip seed, squash seed, tomato, pumpkin, muskmelon, watermelon, lettuce, cucumber, carrot, mustard, radish priced per pound or per cwt. Seed potatoes Maine Triumph and others, peas, beans, corn, Bermuda grass seed. Sugar jobbers prices for refined sugars and related items.
The weather bureau issued flood warnings for the upper White river predicting the White will exceed flood stage at Calico Rock and Batesville within 48 hours. The Arkansas river rose at all points in the district except Pine Bluff and is expected to rise rapidly over the next two days.
W C Dillon of Houston traveling freight agent for the Louisville and Nashville appeared among railroad circles yesterday, sharing insights and observations from the industry.
Oscar Braniff and Esquival Obregon of Mexico City visited Washington to confer with Dr. Vasquez Gomez head of the revolutionist agency. The talks, held privately with knowledge of Mexican officials, aimed at peace terms but produced no agreement. Senor Braniff and Senor Obregon would not comment, and sources say their efforts were fruitless.
R. G. Morrow of Dallas traveling passenger agent for several rail networks is in the city. Theo Artzt leads the orchestra. Both have phones listed.
Nine people are dead and nearly a hundred injured as a destructive wind and hail storm hit Eastern Missouri. City damage includes trees down and millions in property loss. hail stones reportedly large caused many window breaks. Tornadoes struck Cadet and Valley Mines causing multiple deaths and injuries across several counties and towns.
Desoto Missouri April 14 telephones south of town crippled hinder full details of a tornado damage. Two men John Powers of Girardeau and Joseph Boyers Sato were killed while driving in a southern Jefferson county area. A third passenger is missing as reports indicate widespread destruction in Jefferson county.
An eight story grain elevator valued at 700 000 collapsed and blew into the Mississippi River during a severe storm. The Bryan Hill public school in the northern end of the city also collapsed during the same storm on April 14 in St Louis Missouri.
Joe Hunter was arrested for vagrancy after being seen fleeing a broken open merchandise car in the east yards around 9 pm. Ed Doffemayn testified, claiming innocence and explaining plans for work at a government camp. Judge Buckley warned of Texas vagrant law and gave him a chance to find a job.
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