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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1911
Page
7
The morning staple market shows slow, undesirable demand due to abundant vegetable supplies. Beans and greens slump. butter holds at about 15 cents wholesale, 20 cents retail, with a possible bright spell later. Eggs, dewberries, and strawberries sell briskly, but old potatoes stay scarce and prices rise as new stock delays.
Dickerson south Texas strawberries quoted 3 per crate f o b shipping point and east Texas produce at 2 75 per car lot delivered. Local market faces banana scarcity as jobbers report cellars full of green fruit and strong demand for ripe bananas. The Pruitt Commission company received today carloads of potatoes onions and bananas.
Price to shipperless commission and to retailers for dairy eggs cheese poultry and more. Butter per pound 29c country 20c. eggs per dozen 14c. cheese varieties 18c to 31c. Limburger 20c. Badger State 19c. turkeys per pound 16c. ducks per dozen 6.00 7.00. squabs per dozen 1.50. geese 10.00 to 15.00. other poultry prices listed.
Quotations show butter at 15 21 cents, dairies 13 18 cents, eggs weak with 27,471 cases. Firsts 4 5 cents, cheese steady. Potatoes firm 52 53 cents. Poultry steady with turkeys dressed 19 cents fowls 15 cents live, weights 10 to 60 pounds 6 7 cents, 60 to 85 pounds 9 10 cents.
Quotations show steady markets for general produce in St. Louis on April 15. Meat and poultry prices include chickens at 17 to 18 cents, ducks 14 cents, turkeys 17 to 18 cents, and geese 6 cents. Eggs are listed as lower with creamery at 18 to 22 cents.
Detectives recovered a diamond stud valued at 150 dollars stolen from E. H. Rosson of Longview. Two Negro women are under arrest for vagrancy and believed linked to the theft. A young man was robbed nearby, with 20 dollars in currency also taken. The cases go before the corporation court Monday morning.
ANNISTON ALABAMA April 15 The case of Dr John E Pearce charged with complicity in the January 14 killing of Sarge and Skell Kennedy was given to the jury this afternoon Judge T W Coleman halted proceedings earlier to lecture spectators who were making prejudicial remarks about the case.
The New York Cotton Exchange along with the stock, coffee, consolidated and curb markets closed at Thursday close and will reopen Monday morning. This triple holiday around Easter has become customary on the stock exchange, with five of the past fourteen years not observing it. In Europe and South America the Holy Thursday to Easter Monday holiday is generally observed.
New York, April 15. Weekly statement from the Associated Press shows an increase in reserve requirements and actual reserves for the banks in Greater New York. Total deposits rose to 1,257,084,000 with gains in legal tenders and various deposit and loan figures.
One hundred forty eight new banks with aggregate capital of 10,000,000 were organized in the ten southern states between January 15 and April 15 this year. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia accounted for the additions with varying numbers of banks and capital totals.
Christine Zaumeyer 40 wife of Frank Zaumeyer died at 12 15 this morning in her Alamo Heights apartment from pulmonary trouble. A native of Germany she came to the city two years ago from Milwaukee Wisconsin. She leaves her husband a sister and two children. Remains to be taken at 9 o clock Sunday morning to Milwaukee for burial next Thursday.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Mahavier 72 died at 4 40 yesterday at her daughter’s home on Florida street after fifty years in San Antonio. Survived by seven sons and three daughters including A E Hanzel and F L Pfeiffer. Funeral Sunday at 4 from the Hanzel home, burial in City Cemetery No. 3. George Dukes 18 died of pneumonia in his South Alamo apartment. A native of San Antonio he was a tailor. Body prepared by Riebe Undertaking and to be shipped to Buerne for interment.
Dolores Garcia Perez, 23, died at 7 last evening at 415 Monteery street from pulmonary trouble. The funeral will be from the home Sunday afternoon with interment in cemetery No 7.
Union Stock Yards reports a carload of Mexican steers from Victoria selling around $4, with other offerings including cows calves hogs and horses. Receipts at noon totaled about 200 head and sales remained steady though Saturday trading slowed in the afternoon.
Hog prices rise ten to fifteen cents nationwide with a slow pork market earlier in the period. Farmers in Texas and across the United States send only limited hogs to market, leaving packers with coolers near a low water mark. Chicago received 7000 hogs and showed a strong, firm market up a nickel on all grades. Kansas City offered about 2000 head with a similar tone, while St. Louis moved 8500 head in trade.
Receipts and quotations show cattle steady with native beef steers 5.00 to 6.75 and cows 4.75 to 6.55. Hogs rise 10 cents with pigs 6.20 to 6.50 and packers 5.75 to 6.50. Sheep receipts 100 with remuttons 3.75 to 4.90 and lambs 5.75 to 6.10.
Cattle receipts 500 with steady market. Native steers 5.40 to 6.50, southern steers 4.50 to 6.00, southern cows and heifers 3.30 to 5.00, native cows and heifers 3.80 to 6.25, stockers and feeders 4.75 to 5.90, bulls 4.25 to 5.0, calves 4.50 to 6.75, western steers 5.00 to 6.10, western cows 3.26 to 5.25. Hogs receipts 2000, market strong to five cents higher. bulk 6.10 to 6.30, heavy 6.10 to 6.20, packers and butchers 6.15 to 6.35, light 6.25 to 6.35. Sheep receipts 500, market steady. muttons 4.75 to 4.8, lambs 6.00 to 5.80, fed wethers and yearlings 4.00 to 5.25, fed western ewes 3.50 to 4.25.
Receipts total about 200 cattle with steady markets. Beeves range 5.20 to 6.75, Texas steers 4.50 to 5.70, western steers 1.85 to 5.85, stockers 4.40 to 5.80, cows 2.70 to 5.85, calves 5.00 to 7.06. Hogs receipts near 7000 with prices 5.85 to 6.65, bulk 6.20 to 6.46. Sheep receipts 1000 with natives 3.00 to 4.70, western 3.15 to 4.70, yearlings 4.40 to 5.40, native lambs 4.75 to 6.15, western 4.75 to 6.15.
The grand jury handed down four indictments at noon without a formal adjournment notice. Two target Indersio Reyes including assault to murder and unlawful pistol carry. A third indicts Roy Burton alias Roy Howard for burglary of Milt Mooney’s on March 4. The fourth bill was not disclosed publicly.
Forecast till 7 p m Sunday for San Antonio and vicinity shows tonight and Sunday fair and colder. East Texas expects showers on the coast tonight, then fair but colder. extreme north portion may frost. Sunday brings fair skies and warmer in the northwest. The east and south face diminished pressure with cloud and rain stretching from Texas to the middle Atlantic states. The west and northwest enjoy high barometer, fair and cold weather with freezing conditions reaching south to Colorado and Kansas.
The official price statement lists current wholesale rates for fruits vegetables and staples. Strawberries to potatoes onions and greens are shown with per crate cwt or per hamper figures, along with prices for nuts, dried fruits, canned goods meats and fish, and animal hides. values reflect shipper payments and carload terms in San Antonio and nearby markets.
A San Antonio price list for the city market quotes wholesale level costs for staples. Eggs at 4 3/4¢ per dozen yard, butter 25c, various dressed poultry prices, fresh meats, fruits, and vegetables with per item and per unit quotes.
A long price list shows onions red and yellow at 2.25 per box and white at 2.50 per box, various seeds including cane seed orange 2.50 amber 2.25 millet 3 cwt, red tops 32.75, turnip seed 50c per pound, squash seed 65c per pound, tomato 2.50 2.65 per pound, pumpkin 50 60c, melons 75c 81.00 a pund, watermelon 60 80c per pound, lettuce 5 per seed, carrot 50 85e per pound, radish 50 per pound, seed potatoes Maine Triumphs 8.85 Irish Cobbler 3, Green Mountain 3 165-lb sacks, peas extra 5.50, black eye marrow fat 3 per bushel, grass seed Bermuda 1.50 per pound, beans pole all kinds 4.50 per bu, bush beans 6.50 per bu, sweet corn 3 per bu, field corn 1 per bu, sugar jobbers prices: refined 5.25 6.85 per 100 pounds, best 6.00 6.25, powdered 6.5, yellow clarified 5.5 per pound.
Cotton mills in Fall River Massachusetts will close for short periods beginning next Tuesday to April 24 as production is paused. Four mills have already announced four days of shutdowns and a majority of the forty corporations will be closed at least two days next week.
Burial permits list several individuals with ages and death dates. George Dukes age 18 died April 14 at 205 South Alamo. Mary Boerjan age 4 months died April 14 at Collins Garden. Pilar Martinez age 26 died April 14 at 728 Guadalupe Street. Teresa Resendez age 14 died April 12 at Potosi Street.
To Mr. and Mrs. John R Forestier a girl born April 8 at 520 South Frio street. To Mr and Mrs Robert A Rowland a boy born April 13 at 106 West San Pedro avenue. To Mr and Mrs Pedro Espinosa a boy born April a? at an unspecified address. To Mr and Mrs S Gomez a girl born April 7 at 501 Monterey street. To Mr and Mrs M Alamaz a girl born April 7 at 148 Nueva street.
Behles and Beethauwe architects at 228 West Commerce Street Pr. Sarah F Herdmann osteopath Gibbs Building. Phones residential N. P. 3055 blue.
Kansas City April 16 quotations show May corn at 85% bid, July 82% bid, September 8 Corn at 8? and cash wheat higher. No 2 hard 86 85e, No 2 mixed 47% 48c, No 2 white 47% and oats unchanged to 1c higher. Riebe Undertaking Co offering auto ambulance service at 221 B Com with phone 341.
Wheat prices climb amid light local offerings and weak stocks in the United States. Argentine shipments drop, Annapolis stocks decline, and bullish crop signals from Hungary and France support gains. May futures move from 88% to around 90% cents, corn and oats react to grain rallies, and May pork and other provisions rise in early trade. Cash grain quotes show No 2 red wheat around 29% to Locally quoted grain prices encompass multiple wheat, corn, and oats grades with small shifts.
Shipments today show the grain movement through Chicago with a tally of arrivals and departures. Details indicate active loading and unloading across elevators and depots in the port district.
Receipts today totaled 255 cars at Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth with 9 cars of contract grade wheat 126 cars of corn and 87 cars of oats. Wheat receipts compare with 186 cars last week and 244 cars on the same day a year ago.
St. Louis market reports higher cash wheat with No 2 track red at 89 to 90 cents, No 2 hard 87 to 98 cents. Corn and oats firm with No 2 track corn at 49 to 50 cents, No 2 white 49 to 50 cents, oats at 32 to 33 cents. Wheat futures advance May 88 to 89 cents, July 84 to 85 cents. May corn 48 to 49 cents, oats May 32 to 32.5 cents.
On April 15 the market shows 26 435 cases receipts with varied egg grades. Fresh gathered firsts account for 16 percent, dirties No 1 for 14 percent, No 2 for 18 percent, and checks 13 percent, reflecting mixed quality and supply.
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