This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 48 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1917
Page
11
Quotations from principal cotton markets show middling grades cited for delivery at markets with prices around New York and New Orleans. The April 30 session opened with a net loss as cables were weak but later firmed on spot strength, with New York steady and New Orleans lower.
In New York on April 30 the cotton market opened lower on easy cables but rallied with renewed covering and trade buying of new crop months. July dipped to around 29 cents while October hovered near 19.29, with later gains and a steadier tone as old crop selling eased. Private reports suggested a 2.8 percent acreage drop, aiding demand for new crop months, though late morning liquidation and shifting positions kept the market unsettled before afternoon recovery.
In New York on April 30 cotton futures started steady with May at 20.20, July 20.05, October 19.20, December 18.21, and January 19.24. By Monday they closed 3 to 20 points lower, with highs and lows shown for May July October December and January periods.
In New Orleans on April 20 poor cables sparked a market decline as the most active months fell up to 19 points. A private acreage estimate trimmed 2.3 percent, prompting some buying after the drop. By mid afternoon, trading months were 6 to 13 points lower and the market closed steady with declines of 11 to 14 points.
New Orleans stock reporter notes cotton futures opened steady in New Orleans with the May 1934 contract starting at 1934. This brief market line reflects early trading conditions as the market absorbs supply and demand signals on the opening.
For sale or trade two or more properties including business and residence, offered by Wefing Realty Co and John Bollons Realty Co. Properties include a two-thirds interest in a rented main avenue business, a 25,000-acre Western Cattle Ranch with improvements, and other choice real estate options. Contact Mr. Saunders or the listed agencies at 304 South Alamo Street.
For sale an 11,000 acre ranch at 6.25 per acre with easy terms. Contact W. J. Brogan at 218 Central Office Ride or call Travis 4851. Also dairy route business for sale handling 75 gallons daily with lots, wagon, and equipment. Contact Tra vis at 4513.
The fragment shows varied price quotes for July October December and January futures with daily close values and open hints. There is messy numeric data, unclear labels, and no cohesive market narrative or identifiable events.
Liverpool April 30 spot cotton remains firm with Goog middling 13.12d and middling 13.004, low middling 12.824. Sales total 8000 bales with 500 set aside for speculation and export. receipts recorded at 16,000 bales.
Futures in Liverpool edge in early May with several spread values listed from May 12.484 to January-February 1.694. Official noon close shows 12.734 for April and 12.54d for April-May. Trade due to open Tuesday with 2 points down.
Fragmentary data from Galveston Houston New Orleans Savannah Charleston and Wilmington show total cotton figures with scattered letters and garbled segments. The readable portions indicate regional production or movement across multiple Gulf ports, but specifics are unreadable due to OCR errors.
Austin April 9 report from the Texas House shows the finance committee trimming personnel by removing a warehouse manager and limiting warehouse examiners to one. Allocations include 34,189 annually for the warehouse management and 134,500 yearly for livestock sanitary work. The session opened without further action this morning.
The bulletin reports 34 hours of rainfall ending Sunday morning with moderate showers in western Tennessee and central North Carolina Alabama Oklahoma and west central Mississippi. Light to moderate showers occurred in northeastern Georgia South Carolina central Texas and northern Arkansas with nearly general rain in Oklahoma and northern east Texas. Temperatures run below normal in Oklahoma and northern Texas with cool conditions in northern North Carolina and generally above normal elsewhere. Allen Buell, Meteorologist Weather Bureau.
A Chicago News excerpt shows a chaotic prank call to a Brighton Avenue business. The caller misidentifies names and addresses while seeking to pay for goods three months overdue, culminating in the speaker declaring intent to escape to an asylum.
Jones asked his wife why a husband is like dough and planned a flirtatious line about a woman needing him but admitted she was hard to get off his hands. He stayed quiet for the rest of the evening.
Chicago April 30. Wheat prices swung with opening gains of up to 5 cents, then a broad decline as traders doubted sustained bullish factors. Talks of possible domestic price limits echo Canada and Britain measures, with weather and supply news keeping gains tentative. Corn and oats followed smaller moves while provisions held firmer amid absorption of offerings.
Quotations list Chicago wheat No 2 red and No 2 hard nominal. Corn No 2 Yellow 1.48, oats standard 76. Barley 1.25. Kansas City cash grain quotes No 2 hard 2.96 to 3.15, No 2 red 3.05 to 3.15. Corn No 2 1.55 to 1.66, No 2 white 1.69. Oats No white 77 to 77 c, No 2 mixed 72 to 78 c.
Kansas City notes grain futures closing with Wheat May 2.78 July 2.24 September 1.87. May 1.50% July 1.44% to 1.444% September 1.33%.
Quotation listings show various grain prices in St. Louis on April 30. Prices include Wiest No 2 red at 3.02 percent, No 2 hard red corn around 1.57, No 2 white at 1.64 percent, with other entries partially illegible.
Weather Bureau bulletin notes wind speeds under ten miles per hour and precipitation under .01 inch are not published hereon. Meteorologist at the Weather Bureau provides the data.
A visitor asks about Three Fingered Sam in Crimson Gulch. The talk centers on his health and a risky card game that could land him in a hospital if he stays. The men in the town warn that a prescription like that from the game should push him to travel for his health.
Wholesale price trends show declines for esss and country candlew are selling at 29 to 30 cents a dozen and 18 to 19 cents a pound for Turkeye. White potatoes fall to 5.36 per hundredweight, New Texas seed down to 3.25 per 60 pound hamper, Bermuda onions at 2.26 per crate. Flour rises to 14.90 per barrel. dry bellies 41-16 pound avg up to 25.5 cents, compound lard up to 9 cents. No changes in fresh fruits grains seeds or hides.
Listings show market quotes for shippers and retailers with steady prices on fats and dairy. Poultry prices range for hens and fryers with large, medium, and small sizes, including geese and butter.
Chicago market notes show butter unsettled with creamery at 32 58c, firs 31 32c, ordinary firsts 30 31c. receipts $65,091 in cases. Potatoes lower with 68 cars received. Idaho Colorado Washington Oregon white at 2.75, Wisconsin Michigan white at 2.50. Poultry alive lower with fowls at 22c.
Kansas City market quotes show butter at 39c for creamery, eggs at 32c for firsts and 20c for hens, and potatoes at $2.85 per 100 pounds, with various subcategories listed.
Local pecking house quotations issued for Monday include dry salt extras at 23 cents per pound bacon extras at 28 cents per pound and 14 to 16 pound dry salt belly at 25 cents. Fancy breakfast bacon 38 cents and bacon bellies 14 to 16 pound average 27 4 cents per pound. Pure lard 23 14 cents and compound lard 18 cents per pound. American cheese 2 5 cents per pound.
New York price report records No. 7 assorted coffee as stable with May at 8.02 and July futures mentioned alongside. Market observers note limited change amid early spring trading.
John T. Nichols of the American Museum of Natural History begins a three week study in Florida to evaluate shark meat as human food and to learn shark habits and migrations. The project, aided by Herman Armour Nichols, uses his yacht off Florida shores during a season when tarpon and sharks are plentiful.
The northern hog market fell 6 to 10 cents in Chicago as cattle weakened, while Fort Worth sheep rose 25 cents. Local trading opened brisk with cows 5.50 to 7.00, beeves 7.50 to 9.00, calves 6.50 to 8.00, baby calves 9.00, bulls 6.00 to 7.00, small hogs 9.00 to 11.00, large hogs 12.00 to 14.00. San Antonio receipts listed cattle 1362, calves 76, horses 21, hogs 14. city trades included 169 cattle, 76 calves, 15 hogs.
Fort Worth reports cattle receipts around 15 600 with a slow market and varied returns for steers stockers cows and bulls. Hog receipts near 7000 with bulk bids 14 75 to 15 10 and top 15 20. Sheep receipts about 6000 show lambs 14 00 to 16 00 and yearlings around 13 75 to 19 50 with other ranges noted.
Receipts and market quotes for hogs cattle and sheep in Chicago on April 20. Hogs 48,000 with bulk 15.60 16.80 and heavy 15.25 16.90. cattle receipts 0, market weak native beef 9.00 13.40, stockers 7.15 9.85, cows 5.70 11.15, calves 12.00. Sheep 10,009 receipts firm with wethers 11.00 13.50 and lambs 12.75 17.00.
Receipts for hogs 10 000 with prices 15.10 to 15.85 and bulk around 15.10. Cattle receipts 10 000 with prime fed steers 12.00 to 12.75 and cows 6.40 to 10.25. Lambs and yearlings on top market 10 to 16.75 with Boswethers 11.00 to 14.00 and stockers 7.00 to 14.25.
St Louis stock market reports receipts for hogs 9600 cattle 2700 and sheep 500 with steady markets. Hogs ranged lights 15.35 to 15.80 pigs 10.76 to 24.25 mixed and butchers 15.45 to 15.90 heavy 15.85 to 15.90 bulk 15.60 to 15.85. Cattle included native beef steers 7.50 to 13.00 yearling steers and heifers 8.60 to 12.00 cows 6.01 to 11.00 stockers and feeders 6.00 to 10.15 Texas quarantine steers 5.50 to 9.50 prime southern beef steers 8.00 to 11.60 beef cows and heifers 4.25 to 5.00 prime yearling steers and heifers 7.50 to 10.00 native calves 6.00 to 12.50. Sheep saw lambs 13.00 to 16.60 ewes 9.50 to 12.25 yearlings 13.75 to 14.25 clipped lambs 13.00 to 13.50.
Raw sugar quiet in New York with Centrifugals at 6.21 and molasses 5.33. Refined steady with various grades listed from cut loaf 9 to confectioners A 7.40 and No 1 7.35 for refined products.
Cotton goods markets were quiet last week in fine cloths while heavy goods see continued activity to meet government drill and fabric requirements. Prices remain firm with advances on some lines, and softening seen only in certain staple cloths. Demand for red white and blue goods remains active.
Stock market closed with a strong finish after a day of uneven trading. Gains in Atlantic Gulf and Indies Mexican Petroleum Industrial Alcohol American Woolen and Bethlehem Steel stock were offset by declines in Marine preferred General Motors Ohio Gas Texas Company Beet Sugar United States Steel and rails. Copyright issue.
Trading in Mexican currency in San Antonio on Monday showed leads at the following quotations. Investors watched exchange rates as business volumes shifted in a quiet market with traders reporting modest activity.
New York on April 30 reports Sixty and Ninety day time loans at 4 4 percent. Call money today around 2 percent high, 24 low, ruling rate 2 percent, last loan 2 percent, closing bid 1 half, offered at 2 percent.
New York on April 30 reports mercantile paper rates and bank bills with 60 day terms at 472 for commercial bills, 475 for demand. cables at 476 7-16. Guilders at 40 to 41, silver at 74 1/4 cents. Government bonds are weak while railroad bonds show heavy trading.
METAL MARKETS NEW YORK April 30 leads with firm lead and iron prices. Spot East St. Louis delivery holds at 9 1/2 percent, copper unsettled with electrolytic spot and Q2 around 30 1/2 dollars, later deliveries 25 to 28 dollars. Tin quiet at 58 1/4 to 59 1/4 dollars.
London market update lists lead at 30 pounds 10 shillings for booster and spot copper at 130 pounds with futures at 19 pounds 10s 8d. Electrolytic tin shows spot 229 pounds 10s 8d and futures at 230 pounds 0s 0d.
Wholesale prices for vegetables and fruits including potatoes onions tomatoes cranberries peppers beets carrots cabbage radishes asparagus celery turnips squash beans sweet potatoes and more. Prices shown per hundredweight bushel crate ham per dozen bunches or per box with Texas Florida California origin where noted.
The inventory lists per pound rates and box quantities for fruits like apples prunes and dates, vegetables and canned goods, coffee rice and sugar, plus meats, salmon and sardines. It covers grains such as corn oats wheat and flour, along with seeds nuts and hides, all priced to traders with bulk and car lot rates.
The steel trade fears overtaxing resources as plans to ship more than 500000 tons of steel for Russian car and locomotive construction add to existing obligations. Current government requirements total 1200000 tons and orders for Russia strain capacity. This month under 6000 railway cars ordered, 300 engines contracted, and rail purchases reach 250000 tons while pig iron sales hit 130000 tons.
Lieutenant Hearst is sent to a western post where his betting habit is challenged. A young officer wagers with his commander that he has a scar on his left shoulder. The bet leads to the shirt being removed and a $25 loss. A Texas colonel confirms the scar, then another note reveals a counter bet of $100 on removing the shirt shortly after meeting.
Berlin reports a Vossische Zeitung interview with a diplomat who left Petrograd after the revolution. He cites 6000 dead or wounded in a week of battles and says the provisional government enjoys wide support, though war forces prefer continuing the fight. He predicts a separate peace as radicals gain influence.
An extraordinary Serbian legation report cites a German eyewitness on atrocities in Serbia. Fontana described a firing squad executing three women and an elderly man after they denied arson, with victims silenced before their rifles cracked.
In Shreveport, a hearing on the regional rate case resumed with about one hundred witnesses present from Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and Louisiana railroad commissions. Testimony covered exploration of 37 commodities and value of various items including mules horses and other goods as the examiner anticipated a lengthy session.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.