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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
15
Trading in Mexican money in San Antonio Friday showed quotations for silver pesos half pesos and various bank notes. Carranza money bid 82-2s accessees 45 English money London April 21 bar value 313-164 per ounce.
Allen Buell reports wind speeds under 10 mph and rainfall under .01 inch are not published here. This indicates calm conditions with negligible precipitation for the period covered.
Market reports only minor wiggles in cotton futures with prices holding near prior levels. Traders note Friday holiday reduced activity and light trading volume across key exchanges.
The article compiles daily quotations from principal spot markets for cotton including San Antonio New York New Orleans and Liverpool with middling prices and weekly changes. It notes Good Friday holiday closures in New York and New Orleans and a narrow week overall due to holidays and the submarine issue with limited trading and a modest weekly gain.
Wholesale prices to retailers list Texas potatoes at 5 per hundredweight New and California onions at 2.40 per hundredweight Florida tomatoes at 2.75 per basket and 75c per dozen for celery from Florida and California. Other items include cabbage Texas 2.75 to 8.00 per hundredweight and peppers Florida 12 cents per pound.
Weather notes describe air pressure readings and temperature patterns with references to fair to partly cloudy conditions and warming trends. It lists precipitation details for San Antonio and East Texas, noting yesterday's rainfall, normal daily amount, and seasonal deficits.
At the Texas Ginners Association convention in Dallas on April 21 a proposal urged placing the cotton ginning industry under public control with a ginning commission. The duties include public hearings on rates and regulations, plus treating ginning as a public utility.
Mrs Lucy Cunningham 32 died in a San Antonio hospital after a short stay in the city and earlier years in the state. survived by her husband and children and her mother with funeral at City Cemetery No 4. Anton Riechert 55 died at home near Emerald and Helena Probandt streets. survived by a widow two sons two daughters and a sister. funeral at 3 30 pm from his residence conducted by Anton Wenzel Lodge officers. interment Hermann Sons Cemetery.
Russell, Kansas farmer A J Olson asked consumers to report where he bought eggs and the cost. Olson sold eggs to a Russell dealer for 25 cents a dozen, shipped to Ellsworth then Pendleton Oregon, where a retailer paid 34 to 45 cents a dozen.
Market brief notes San Antonio price movements for cotton with quick read on current bids and nearby futures. Highlights reference local buyers sellers and potential supply shifts affecting prices in the region. This item provides a concise snapshot of the local cotton market.
Good Friday was observed as a holiday on the New York stock and cotton exchanges the New Orleans cotton exchange and the Chicago Kansas City and St Louis grain exchanges. The cotton and stock markets will remain closed until Monday.
Carlot buyers paid across several grain and hay items in San Antonio on Friday. Corn prices included Texas No 2 5c mixed at 14c and Northern No 3 white 86c mixed 87c. Oats ranged from 46c for Texas No 3 red to 1144c for white and 64c for sulpherized. hay prices listed for Milo maize, feterita, Kaffir corn, cane hay at 11.00 to 15.00 per ton, with alfalfa at 20 per ton.
Friday market notes list dry salt bacon extras at 14 cents, bacon at 14 to 16 pounds averaging 16 cents, fancy breakfast bacon 26 cents, fancy hams 7 cents, bacon bellies 14 to 16 pounds averaging 18 cents, pure lard 13 cents, compound lard 12 1 2 cents.
New York April 1 reports cotton goods firm with active demand for print cloths. Raw silk eased while yarns varied but generally firm.
Savannah market notes show turpentine steady with 444 45 sales 105 receipts 344 shipments 10 stock 11480 and resin dull with stock 512 shipments 283 stock 6734. Quotations list multiple brands with prices around 4.40 to 6.35 per unit among A B C D E F G K K.
New Orleans April 21 reports no tone change in rice prices. Clean Japan and Honduras grades show strength while rough and other grades hold. Quotations unchanged with 1387 pockets clean Honduras at 2 4% and 1578 pockets Japan at 3 1 fn.
Poultry prices slide with higher farm receipts and oversupply. Turkeys drop to 15 cents per pound, hens to 4.50 per dozen, friers 5, broilers 3.50, ducks 7 per dozen. eggs steady around 18 to 19 cents. Butter firms, fruit trade rises with oranges lemons apples. USDA notes a large unsold 1918 apple crop. markets closed for Easter holidays.
Buyers paid prices for Friday deliveries: butter at 31 to 33 cents per pound from Texas Creamery and 20 to 25 cents from packing stock. poultry mixed with hens at 4.50 dollars per dozen and friers 4.50, broilers 3.50 to 4.00, turkeys 1.50 per pound, ducks 4.45 to 5.50 per dozen, geese 7.00 to 9.00 per dozen. market steady to weak overall.
Butter unchanged and creamery quoted 31 to 34 cents a pound. Fess unsettled with receipts of 8526 cases including ordinary firsts at 19 to 20 cents. Potatoes lower with 47 cars received from Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Dakota white varieties. Chickens and fowls mixed with fowls at 18 cents and springs at 20 cents.
Kansas City market notes show butter at 4c and 32c for firas items, creamery 2649 Kege first 21c, poultry prices including hens at 5c and turkeys at 29c, springs 2c, reflecting daily commodity quotes.
New York reports April 21 raw sugar values for Centrifugal including molasses at $6.14 and refined products with leaf cut at $8.40 and cubes at $7.75. Various grades such as XXXII powdered at $7.40 and No. 1 at $7.10 are shown with multiple refinements and confectioners’ grades.
Galveston marine intelligence lists arrivals including Oriente New York Topila Tampico Bicania It al New Orleans Tyning hame St Vincent Aidan Liverpool and notes President Wilson drafts speeches and letters in shorthand before typing.
Union Stock Yards reports marked demand for hogs with prices rising in Kansas City Chicago and St Louis markets. San Antonio saw receipts of 195 head with strong demand and top hog price at nine dollars. Cattle in San Antonio steady with steers up to six dollars and calves to seven fifty. No sheep or goats offered in San Antonio.
Fort Worth on April 21 reports cattle receipts 2300 with steady market. prices range from calves 4.00 to 9.40 for hogs and beef cows 4.00 to 6.50. Sheep receipts 1700 show steady market with lambs 8.00 to 12.00 and yearlings 7.00 to 8.50.
In St Louis on April 21 receipts showed 5500 hogs with a lower market. pigs and lights 7.50 to 9.65, mixed and pf 9.45 to 9.80, good heavy 9.75. Cattle receipts 450 with a steady market. native beef steers 7.60 to 9.78, wearting steers and hetfera 8.50 to 10.00, cows 5.50 to 8.00, stockery 5.50 to 8.50, Texas and Oklahoma steers 5.25 to 8.75, cows and heifers 4.00 to 6.00, native calves 7.00 to 10.75. Sheep receipts none, market nominal. yearling wethers 8.00 to 9.70, lambs 19.00 to 11.65, ewes 7.50 to 8.88.
Receipts and prices listed for cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle receipts 100 with steady market. prime fed steers 9.25 to 9.75. cows 6.50 to 8.25. heifers 7.00 to 10.00. stockers 6.75 to 8.75. Sheep receipts 5000 with lambs 10.75 to 11.60. yearlings 9.75 to 9.2?. wethers 8.75 to 9.50. ewes 8.00. Hog receipts 4500 with bulk 9.30 to 9.60. pigs 8.25 to 9.00.
Receipts total 18 000 hogs with slow trade. Bulk 9.55 to 9.85, light 9.15 to 9.70, mixed 9.20 to 9.70, heavy 9.15 to 9.75, rough 9.15 to 9.30, pigs 7.25 to 8.90. Cattle receipts 1 000 market steady with native beef steers 7.85 to 10.00, western steers 7.75 to 8.65, stockers 5.85 to 8.50, cows and heifers 4.00 to 5.20, calves 7.00 to 10.00. Sheep receipts 7 000 market steady with wethers 6.85 to 9.10, lambs 7.60 to 11.65.
Temperatures and rainfall across the Houston district for the four hours ending 1 a m reported. Rainfall of an inch or more observed at many locations in the New Orleans, Little Rock, Memphis, Montgomery and Savannah districts as the belt experiences generally fair air. Allen Ruell, meteorologist, Weather Bureau.
The Quaker Oats Company is not violating the Sherman Act, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling announced in Chicago. Judge Julian W. Mack and Francis E.K. Baker found the government failed to prove a case after two days of arguments across several cities since the suit filed in June 1913. Judge Samuel Alschuler dissented.
Quaker Oats Company acquired two plants and the trademarks and goodwill of the Great Western Cereal Company, forming a combination in restraint of trade that gave it control of nearly ninety percent of the rolled oats business.
Today’s Army announces Second Lieutenant John H. Wallace of the Third Field Artillery as acting first lieutenant for the present regiment. Captain George H. White of infantry moves to the Twenty-eighth Infantry. Captain Joseph L. Siner of the Medical Corps will proceed to Fort George Wright Washington. A substitute for imported edible gelatin is produced in the Philippines from seaweed.
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