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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1918
Page
16
Wanteld buys second hand furniture and clothing at high cash prices. Located at 312 E Commerce opposite Joi Wn. Crockett 2406 and Crockett 3454 listed. Handles men and ladies wear, shoes, and various goods with prompt payment.
A bustling ad list seeks rags, broken watches, gold or jewelry, and various goods. The Light office offers five cents per pound for clean large rags, with cash for items like used refrigerators, second hand clothes, bones, copper, scrap iron, and junk. Also recruiting for freight hauling, partnerships, and real estate or business opportunities across Texas.
Public notices announce a bid invitation by James R. Davis for bituminous surface work on Austin Road with bids due May 9, 1915, at the county auditor’s office. Other listings promote sale of real estate including lots on Lamar Street and a modern bungalow, with contact details and payments. Local notices reference Owl Fat Co purchasing the New Hole in the Wall Cafe at 110 N. Whores St. and multiple property ads from Crockett firms and San Antonio offices.
A five room bungalow in Beacon Hill features bath, heating, water system, electric drive, shrubbery, porch, pantry, storage, and telephone. Asking price and payment terms listed by Travis Gig Realty. Details include a large yard, varnish, and monthly costs, with contact at 616-21 Brady and office line 6625.
A chaotic OCR of old classifieds advertises multiple properties near San Antonio with descriptions of houses, payments, builders, and contact hints. It mentions Garden Street corner near Dieh school, a West Somers land dept item, and various ads for low down payments, liberal terms, and ready-to-move homes.
A jumble of real estate listings and notices including farms and ranches for sale or exchange near San Antonio, land tracts with road access, barns and packing houses, and a front room for rent. Also lost purse notice with passport and military discharge may be found at Grand Theater. reward offered.
Cotton futures advanced 13 to 39 points with May as a strong spot month in New York and New Orleans. Shorts bought to cover, sending prices higher amid nervous trading and stronger Liverpool cables, while spots and futures closed firm with gains in New York and New Orleans.
The New York cotton market opened nervy with Liverpools firmer than due as May and July contracts rose to 26.40 on the call, while later months gained up to 35 points. July and September showed notable strength, with buying interest reported and prices moving against last night’s close amid fluctuating activity and no major news.
In New Orleans on April 20, nervous fluctuations dominated cotton trading. Active months opened with modest gains, then a sharp decline followed by a partial recovery. Short cotton provided some support as prices swung, with May, July, and October futures quoted amid volatility and daily highs and lows reported.
April reports show spot cotton prices lower with varied grade notes. Futures closed steady as New York and Savannah markets quote mixed movement and commodity receipts and prices across fibers and oils.
The San Antonio Light advertises a classified option across five Texas papers Dallas Times Herald Fort Worth Star Telegram El Paso Herald Houston Chronicle San Antonio Light. Rates are per word with daily and Sunday insertions. minimums apply and Sunday copy must be in by noon the preceding Thursday for all Sunday placements.
Northern hog market shows good demand and higher prices with steady to firm runs. Chicago trading noted mixed signals across regions from St Louis to Kansas City, while cattle, calves, and sheep receipts varied but stayed near steady levels. hogs led gains in several markets with prices elevated for pigs and sows.
Mood Administration price committee quotes higher prices for rice and men flour as stocks are nearly exhausted. The list shows rice and flour up 1 to 4 cents, potatoes increased by a quarter to half a cent per pound.
The report lists wholesale grain and hay quotations from facilities in Fort Worth and San Antonio with receipts from Oklahoma City and other locations. It notes prices per pound for cattle and other commodities, and mentions telegraphic furnishing of market data by the Department of Agriculture officials.
A garbled market report lists fish kinds like halibut cod snapper red fish and trout with wholesale and retail prices per pound and names markets and traders. It ends with a Q and A about suburban rental property and raising rents from a Botton Transcript snippet.
Chicago and Kansas City grain markets show a broad pullback in corn and mixed movements in wheat and oats as traders price a reduced corn acreage. May contracts slide while buying interest weakens, and receipts lag behind prices. Futures across regions reflect cautious demand with pressure from seed and supply concerns.
Market round up from Chicago to Kansas City shows rubber prices trade at retailer margins, water steady, poultry and ducks priced by dozen, and various farm goods including butter, creamery products, potatoes and hogs noted. The fragment paints a slice of daily commodity values with limited legible details.
New York April 16 trading in stocks limited to the forenoon session in recognition of Liberty Day. Market showed underlying firmness with gains in speculative favorites led by United States Steel, Gulf States Steel, People's Gas and Unite Rail aiding the advance. United States Steel jumped significantly on steady accumulation, and overall turnover neared 290,000 shares as prices steadied though some issues edged lower.
Listings show Mexican money exchange at San Antonio and New York money market updates for 60 to 90 day bills, bank notes, and treasury quotations. English money in London reports bar silver at three dollars and short bills at about 2 1/2 percent with three months around 39 18 percent.
Metal markets report from New York and London shows lead spelter and copper prices with spot and futures quotes. Copper around £110 spot and futures £250, lead and spelter detailed with spot and futures values across the exchanges.
Fragmented OCR list shows quotations for dry salt bacon hams bellies lard and cheese with odd spellings and numbers. Mentions 27440 and 04 1i pound measures. Indicates pricing fragments from a market column with American cheese and lard items.
A garbled clipping references a Weather Bulletin from the agriculture department and a New York Sun fable on etiquette. A classroom scene centers on a lesson about whales, with a teacher addressing students who recall little of the tale.
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