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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1914
Page
9
New York April 23 The stock market closed heavy with general fractional losses. American Smelting was raided in the final dealings and slid over five points after the Mexico plant shutdown was announced. Canadian Pacific fell to 144% the lowest in four years as market weakness and European selling weighed on industrials.
New York money markets show steady call money at 1 1/2 to 2 percent with closing around 1 1/2 to 2 percent. Time loans firm for 60 days at 8 percent, 90 days near 8 1/2 percent, and six months around 4 3/4 to 5 percent.
New York on April 23 reports mercantile at 3 percent and 4 percent, sterling exchange steady at 60 days $4.85.35 and demand $4.87.50. Commercial bills $4.84. Bar silver 58 1 2 cents, Mexican dollars 45 1 4 cents, railroad bonds irregular.
Metal markets show lead steady around 3.75 to 3.85 dollars in New York trading. Copper remains easy with electrolytic around 14 dollars, casting near 13.87 to 14.00, tin soft with spot about 34.95 to 35.15, and London copper steady with spot around 15 shillings per pound and futures near 63 pounds. Iron warrants in Cleveland quoted at 50s 94.
New York spot and futures note No 7 Rie Se 3 mg steady with May at 8.50 and September listed. Ad copy urges readers to request the best product, referencing lard brand promotions and instruction to ask for it.
Patient appeal from N. A. Haizlip offering treatment for chronic diseases including blood, skin, nervous debility, and urinary issues. Claims cure regardless of money, invites readers to visit Sundays at 9 am in the Gunter Building, San Antonio.
A long list of 1914 real estate deeds from Bexar county and surrounding areas records transfers. It includes numerous parcels in Lakeview Heights Crestholme and Riverside Park with buyers such as Hausler Payne Delgado Poage Guenther and Nease. prices range from $10 to thousands and notes or mortgages are noted.
To Mr and Mrs Bruno Kiesewetta a boy born April 21 at 903 North Hackberry. To Mr and Mrs Louis G Liedbrecht a girl born April 21 at 126 Kenney Street. To Mr and Mrs Leslie Moore a boy born April 20 at 1009 South Mesquite Street.
Marriage licenses issued for George D. Wiest and Elsie Trangott, Jesse Reachout and Frieda Wo, and Thomas Jonathan Robertson and Ida Bridgewaters. General weather report records observations taken at 8 a.m. Thursday April 23, 1914.
Traders in the wholesale markets and on the Cotton Exchange predicted tighter money rates if war is declared, yet New York stocks showed only mild declines. Despite Vera Cruz and marines’ deaths, Wall Street remained resilient while local grocery demand held steady with no price changes. Lent lettuce from California eased shortages as eggs butter poultry and meat lists remained mostly unchanged with lard edging up slightly.
Readable sections list retail price ranges for poultry meats, eggs, butter, cheese, and vegetables with specifics for California and Texas origins. Included are canned goods, sugar, coffee, rice, dried fruits, nuts, meats and lard, seeds, and hides with farm region references and per-unit or per-weight quotes.
New Orleans market report outlines weekly and season totals for cotton including visible supply, spinner takings, exports to date, and closing prices. It tracks crop condition notes for several dates, ginning progress through November, and upcoming year projections.
Chicago receipts show butter steady with 29,374 cases. creameries cited intact marks at 19c ordinary firsts 17% ibc. cheese lower with daisies and twins at 16% to 16c. Potatoes unchanged with Wisconsin reds at 66 658c and Wisconsin value lines noted. Vague poultry gains noted for springs and fowls.
In New Orleans on April 23 a rough rice market note shows prices for clean rice to Japan and Honduras with per ton figures. A pasted joke quotes a doctor saying recovery is unlikely, citing a Birmingham Age-Herald quip about one in a hundred patients recovering.
April 23 at Union Stock Yards reports 1434 cattle 45 calves 84 horses 26 hogs and 101 sheep. A train of steers to Baden Texas reduced available stock to 45 cattle 45 calves 25 hogs. Cattle market steady and short, cows at 5.50, calves 7.75, hogs 7.50. grown stock 4.50 to 5.00. calves 7.00 to 7.60. hogs about 7. Movement from Texas continues liberal.
Fort Worth Texas April 23 receipts were light with cattle calves hogs and sheep present. Beef steers ranged from 6.50 to 7.35 with stockers and feeder steers steady at 6.25 to 7.00. Cows sold well from 5.25 to 6.50, heifers 5.75 to 7.60, stocker cows 4.50 to 5.50, bulls 4.50 to 5.50. Calves held at 6.50 to 8.75. Hogs active with best 8.40 and bulk 8.00 to 8.85. Sheep wethers 5.00 to 5.25.
New York quotes show a steady to unsettled start with active months 4.9 points higher. Short covering and late crop talk from the Southwest limit gains while May stabilizes after heavy short sales. May 12.70 May July 12.60 October 11.76 close mixed with marginal changes. eleven o'clock call notes tentative steadiness.
First prices in the New Orleans cotton market today were steady to down one point from yesterday. A quick reaction followed from the Mexican situation and western belt rains, lifting the trading months 6 to 6 points over yesterday. By 2 o'clock free liquidation pushed prices 3 to 7 points lower, and the market closed steady with a net decline of 2 to 6 points.
NEW ORLEANS April 23 futures were unchanged to two points lower at the opening from last night's close. May at 12.80, July 12.78, October 11.76. Closing steady, 2 to 6 points down, daily range shows May and July near 12.78 to 12.86 with October around 18.69 to 18.72.
Spot cotton in Liverpool on April 23 shows Good middling at 7.904 cents, middling 7.284, and low middling 6.98d. Sales reach 12,000 bales with 1,000 for speculation and export. receipts total 17,000 bales.
Houston Tex April 23 sweet cotton steady unchanged middling 12 ½c. Sales on spot 620 bales. Cotton to arrive none. Galveston Tex April 23 no figures cot ton cloged steady 1-16c higher on basis 131-16c. Spot cotton sales 1049 bales, arrivals none.
Chicago on April 23 reports receipts of hogs at 13 000 with a strong market. Bulk sales 8.45 to 8.60, light 8.35 Rae, mixed 8.30 8.65, heavy 8.10 8.62, rough 9.10 8.25, pigs 7.10 8.35. Cattle receipts 400 with a weak market. beeves 7.59 7.65, Texas steers 7.07 8.20, stockers and feeders 5.50 8.15, cows and heifers 3.70 8.50, calves 8.50. Sheep receipts 22 000 and market steady. natives 5.20 6.70, yearlings 5.70 7.40, native lambs 6.15 8.15.
New Orleans report states spot cotton steady with a one to one and a half cent gain. Middling class traded at 18 1/2 cents, with 1,750 bales sold and 825 bales arrived.
Receipts and quotations from Kansas City show hogs at 4000 head with higher market and varied bulk prices from 8.25 to 8.50, cattle receipts around 1000 with prime fed steers up to 9.25, dressed beef from 7.60 to 8.50, southern cattle and heifers trading in the 4.60 to 8.85 range, and sheep listings totaling about 10,000 with lambs 6.50 to 5.00 and yearlings 6.75 to 7.25, wethers 6.50 to 6.25, ewes 4.75 to 6.25.
Receipts and quotes for cattle logs show 7000 cattle receipts including 300 Texans with steady markets. Native beef steers ranged from 7.50 to 9.25, cows and calves 4.50 to 6.00, stockers around 5.0, and Texas Oklahoma steers 5.75 to 6.10. Sheep receipts about 3200 with muttons at 5.00 to 7.00 and tube at 7.00.
Oklahoma City reports steady cattle and head counts, arrivals listed for Philadelphia York and Helig fogs Goosseen Matiansas. Details fragmentary but indicate 500 head and prices around 3 dollars for some consignments.
On April 23 in New York spot cotton closed steady or up 10 points with Basis middling at 18.25. Sales on spot were nil.
Cotton seed prices in Memphis and New York show varied signals with meal and seed values listed for April and subsequent months. A graft investigator, Mr. Hennessy, recounts a farmer neighbor describing an upstate grafter, highlighting skepticism about honesty and remarks on his past behavior and rumored schemes in Albany.
The Cotton Region Bulletin lists 24 hour conditions ending Thursday 8 am for Houston district stations. Eastern belt fair while western part is cloudy and rainy with Taylor Texas recording over an inch of rain.
Chicago April 23 Rain southwest prompted broad wheat selling with openings down percent to percent. A slight rally followed as Argentine weather improved the corn market. May delivery strengthened while deferred options stayed weak, oats fell with others, hogs supported provisions but cereal weakness persisted. Cash wheat quotes included No 2 red 95 95.5c and No 2 spring 94 97c.
Kansas City detective Thomas E. Mansell traced a jewelry theft to a St. Louis suspect using newspaper reports. Mrs. B. J. Dunning reported $1400 in diamonds missing from 544 Minnesota Avenue, including a four and a half carat solitaire, a 14-stone inner ring, and a small gem. A pawn-ticket led to a Union Avenue shop, returning the solitaire while the suspect, alias Mrs. Fannie Hill, awaits a state warrant for theft. The St. Louis case holds the large diamond and another pawn ticket for a ring.
Kansas City price quotations list wheat at No 2 hard 86 to 90 cents, No 2 red 89 to 90 cents, corn No 2 mixed 70 to 70.5 cents, No 2 white 70 cents, oats No 2 white 39 to 38.5 cents, No 2 mixed 37.5 to 38 cents.
Grain futures closed steady with Wheat May at 84 and July at 84.5 cents. Corn May at 67 and July at 67.5 cents. The report lists steady closes in Kansas City on April 23.
St Louis cash grain quotations dated April 2 show No 2 red wheat at 94 95 cents, No 2 hard at 91 96 cents, No 2 corn at 70 cents, No 2 white corn at 70 70.5 cents, No 2 oats at 38 39 cents, No 2 white oats at 40 cents.
Mrs Lena Whipker 51 fell dead while seated at her home 212 Arciniega street at 9 oclock Wednesday night the death attributed to heart disease She was a native of Illinois and had lived in San Antonio thirty five years Surviving Grover San Antonio Mrs Mabel Kemp Houston and two grandchildren Funeral 2:30 Friday at Zizi Undertaking Company parlors with Rev Barbour Episcopal minister to officiate Interment City Cemetery No 3
The Rev Father O Leary and his bishop meet on the way to the station and miss the Dublin Express as a gold watch offers seven minutes of time. The bishop boasts faith in the watch but O Leary counters that faith requires good works. A humorous exchange ends with the missed train and a moral quip.
The Texas Department of Insurance and Banking certifies that the Livers Pool and London and Globe Insurance Company of New York is compliant with Texas laws and issues a certificate of authority for business in Texas for the year ending February 28, 1916. Signed by W. W. Meyer and Webb agents at 635-67 Moore Building, San Antonio.
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