Rapid stock advances slimmed by selling pressure
New York August 13 market opened with uneven early gains led by Steel and Union Pacific Amalgamated and Reading while bonds held steady. Strong showing in Southern Pacific and related certificates supported further buying before mid morning. late session softened as turnover waned and overall tone remained irregular with activity concentrated in a few leaders.
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New York
Union Pacific
Amalgamated
Reading
Amalgamated Copper
Canadian Pacific
Erie
Pacific Mail
American Tobacco
Southern Pacific
Cotton Region Bulletin Weather Summary 1913 Aug 13
The bulletin reports fair weather across the belt with above normal temperatures for the 24 hours ending 8 a m central time. Allen Buell, local forecaster, notes general conditions. Observations taken at 8 a m on Wednesday August 18 1913.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Metal Market Roundup Shows Lead and Spelter Activity
New York reports lead at 4.45 dollars and spelter steady around 5.70 to 5.80 dollars with various grades cited. Copper and tin futures quoted with spot and future prices. iron stable. St Louis notes lead at 4.40 and spelter at 8.50, while New York reports mercantile paper rates and silver at 59 1/8 cents per ounce.
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New York
London
Tober
Cookson’s
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Births Reported for Several Families in Local Area
Birth notices record multiple new arrivals. A boy was born to Jesus Gaitan on August 12 at R F D No 3. A girl arrived to Rafael Marehiorrt on August 8 at 1008 Buena Vista street. A boy to J A Mateek on August 10 at 1825 New Braunfels avenue. A boy to J T Brady on August 5 at 1421 N Palmetto avenue. An additional baby, a girl, born to A Gillie on August 18 at 1110 El Paso street. A boy born to R W oe on August 8 at 807 Fredericksburg road.
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Jesus Gaitan
R W Oe
Fredericksburg Road
A. Gillie
el Paso Street
Rafael Marehiorrt
Buena Vista Street
J.A. Mateek
Néw Braunfels Avenue
Burial Permits for Three Local Residents
Feliz Alonzo aged 65 died August 12 at Bexar County Hospital Rita Rivera aged 15 died August 11 at Bexar County Hospital Isedora Lejba aged 4 died August 12 residing at 213 Bowie Street.
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Feliz Alonzo
Bexar County Hospital
Rita Rivera
Isedora Lejba
Bowie Street
Marriage Licenses for Burt Harrington and Laura Myers
Burt Harrington and Mrs Laura Myers obtained a marriage license. John A Parker and Mrs Mary Cordova also secured a license.
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Burt Harrington
Laura Myers
John A. Parker
Mary Cordova
Freight Car Shortage Looms As Demand Surges
The American Railway Association reports a drop of 10 850 freight cars in surplus, signaling a growing shortage as farmers expect ample funding but railroads brace for a record year. Officials warn demand may outstrip supply in the coming two months, mirroring 1912 bumper crop moves.
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American Railway Association
United States
Real estate transfers track deeds in Texas 1913 1918
A sequence of transfers from the Texas District of the German Evangelical Synod to J P Withers and other buyers spans 1913 to 1918. Transactions include Manuel Tejada survey parcels, 400 acres for 26000 dollars, a 52.38 acre lot for 8000, city blocks in Gardendale and Los Angeles Heights, and sheriff sale of a lot on Dawson Street, with multiple grantees such as Gus A Boldt, H A Rogers, Joseph Tafalla Jr., and Mollie Haywood.
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Texas
German Evangelical Synod of North America
J. P. Withers
Masterson Irrigation Company
Kearney
Virginia K. Mason
Old City
Cc. Boldt
Gus A. Boldt
New City Block
P. E. Johnson
H. A. Rogers
Palm Heights
M. F. Tafalla
Joseph Tafalla Jr
Gardendale
P. C. Woods
Sheriff
Homer Jones
Dawson Street
A. S. Gantt
James W. Young
Los Angeles Heights
Alfred Schendel
O. G. Schendel
San Marcos Street
Charles McKinnon
Mollie Haywood
No.b. C
Highland Park Addition
W. J. Moss
William C. Barnes
Villa Rosa Addition
Kearny Mason
San Antonio
Building Permits for Dwellings and Repairs
Mrs. A Hoppe applies for a frame dwelling on North Street at 1750 dollars. Wreters seeks a 5 room dwelling on Sherman Street at 1250 dollars. A P Gulick requests repairs on Lopez Street.
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A. Hoppe
North Street
Wreters
Sherman Street
Ae A. P. Gulick
Lopez Street
Automobile licenses and an assortment of electrical data
Listings show license numbers and owners for autos from Whittington Luck Vogel and Hermal Vogel. The text then notes that in ten thousand French towns with populations over a thousand many lack public lighting, while small portions use gas or electricity. It also reports 1912 wine production across several European regions at 2.781985 billion gallons, up 14.4 percent from 1911.
Texas markets show oats lag corn as prices rise in local trade
Texas oats followed corn upward with a two cent per bushel gain over last week. Corn held firm as bullish outlooks persist amid a forecast of higher prices. Reports cite drought and weather damage reducing the corn crop, while dried fruit demand remains strong and Mexican goods circulate amid resumed rail links.
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Texas
Chicago
Board of Trade
Market Prices for Fresh Produce and Meats Displayed
A long price list enumerates fresh country eggs at 17c per dozen, poultry at 14 to 18c per pound, cheese at 17 to 18c, butter around 80c to 18c, and a wide range of vegetables and fruits with Texas and California origins. It includes canning goods, syrups, molasses, hides, wool, seeds, canned meats and fish, with specific prices per unit or per case for items like tomatoes, potatoes, onions, cabbage, melons, grapes, oranges, lemons, peaches, limes, bananas, and pears, plus various meats and lard.
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Texas
California
Colorado
Valencia
Alifornia
Alaska
Market Prices for Nuts and Dried Goods Listing
A long list of wholesale prices for nuts coffee canned vegetables dried fruits and staples. Items include Peanuts jumbo priced at 8.50 per hundredweight, flour meal sacks 65c per 35 pounds, Pioneer flour 5.00 per barrel, California beans pinks and blackeye per 100 pounds with varied rates, raisins muscatel crown lots and per package pricing, citron and citrus peels, alfalfa Johnson grass feed prices, sugar and coffee market rates, and canned vegetables dried fruits and corn and oats price quotes.
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California
London
Ray
South
Texas
Rio
Maine
San Antonio
New York Aug Po Reee strong fresh gathered extras
An unfamiliar OCR fragment from a New York story references August, phrases about strong fresh gathered extras, but lacks clear names, locations, or events to confirm a full field report. The readable bits suggest agricultural or market notes but do not establish a complete item.
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New York
Poultry and Dairy Prices From St Louis Market
ST LOUIS August 18 Poultry items listed with chickens at 16 cents per pound springs at 16c turkeys 18c ducks 12c and geese 10c Butter Creamery 27c Eggs 12c all modest pricing snapshot from city market report
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ST Louis
Sligo
Springs
Coffee futures firm on No 7 Rio for September and March
In New York on August 13 coffee futures held steady with No 7 Rio quoted at 4 cents. September contracts traded around $8.83 and March around $9.50, signaling firm prices in the market.
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New York
Rio
Dairy and egg market report from Kansas City
Butter prices listed for creamery firsts and seconds with packing at 21 cents. Eggs quoted for firsts and seconds with limited sizes. Poultry values shown for hens roosters ducks and springs with respective cents per pound.
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Kansas City
Springs
Bad Day for Cattle Shipper at Markets
At Union Stock Yards Aug 13 buyers faced declines across centers with 6 to 25 cent drops. Fort Worth reported a 25 cent higher day by noon while Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and Oklahoma City showed lower prices. Here, receipts were 154 cattle 65 calves 6 horses 70 hogs. Calves topped at 6.55 with Fort Worth at 6.80, cows up to 5 and most 4.50 to 5. Calves largely 6.00 to 6.26 hogs 8.00 to 8.50, activity weak.
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Union Stock Yards
Fort Worth
Fort Worth Market Reports Mixed Cattle and Calves Lead Gains
Fort Worth Texas buyers eyed a mixed cattle sale as August prices showed declines across beef and hogs while calves moved higher. Beves sold 5.50 to 6.30, feeders 6.50 to 6.75, cows 4.00 to 5.50, heifers 5.60 to 6.00, bulls 4.00 to 5.50, calves 4.50 to 7.76. Hog prices fell to 8.20 to 8.70 with overall receipts around 4,500 cattle and 1,000 calves amid a weaker regional trend.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Comae Liberty
Beeves
Traders Watch Rain Reports and Cotton Market
Private rain reports from Oklahoma and southwest Texas unsettled the cotton market as Liverpool prices slipped while New York and New Orleans showed modest declines. Official forecasts pointed to fair weather in the western belt, and selling pressure tempered gains with prices holding near yesterday’s close amid cautious activity.
Cotton futures steady as markets show mixed open data
York reports erratic cotton futures with bids at 10.83 for January and 10.93 for March. Open high low and close figures appear inconsistent across months, outlining a choppy trading session with several near 11 cent levels and scattered daily ranges.
Cotton futures open steady after poor cables in New Orleans
New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with a small decline of two to three points on poor cables. Weather maps showed light rains in the western belt, but not enough to spur selling. Prices fluctuated through the morning as shorts booked profits, ending the first hour slightly above yesterday’s close before drifting lower by noon.
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New Orleans
Texas
Shorts the Ring
Oklahoma
Cotton futures open steady in New Orleans market
In New Orleans on August 13 cotton futures opened steady with bids around 11.44 for August and 11.00 for September while October and December dealings hovered near 11.03 to 11.04. January and March traded near 11.03 and 11.13 respectively, with May around 11.15 to 11.20. Prices closed steady at a slight 2 to 3 point decline.
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Cember
York
New Orleans
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Sales Report
Spot cotton in Liverpool steady with middling to good ordinary ranges. Prices quoted middling 6.424 pence per pound and lower grades from 5.66 to 6.324. Sales total 7,000 bales, predominantly American, with 40¢ for speculation and export. Receipts 3,000 bales, including 1,000 American.
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Liverpool
Chicago hog and cattle market prices report
Chicago dull hog receipts at two thousand dollars with mixed to light sales ranging from eight to nine dollars per hundredweight. Cattle receipts total about twenty two thousand with Reeves and Texas steers among others trading from six to nine dollars. Sheep receipts near thirty three thousand with native sheep and yearlings selling between three seventy five and five ninety per hundredweight.
Futures Climb Quietly in Liverpool Market Closing
Futures in Liverpool closed quiet with August at 6.15140 and several forward contracts listed. The board shows August-September at 6.0714a, September-October 6.974, October-November 5.934, November-December 6.98a, and other consecutive months ranging near 5.9 to 6.9, reflecting a steady range through July.
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Liverpool
Chicago Price Report Dairy and Produce Mixed
Chicago on August 13 reports butter and eggs unchanged with receipts totaling 10 615 cases. Cheese shows irregularity with Daisies 14 40, Twins 13 14c, Young Americas 145 lic, Long Horns 14 15c. Potatoes unsettled at 60c 1 00 with 56 cars received. Poultry alive steady with hens 14 6c, springs 18c, turkeys 19c.
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Chicago
Elgin Ginners Start 1913 Season With Large Force
Elgin Texas August 13 The Elgin press began operation for the 1913 season with a large force working day and night. All cotton gins are now in operation and cotton is steadily moving to market.
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Elgin
Tex
Sugar and commodities steady in New York markets
New York August 13 raw sugar prices steady muscovado 3.23 centrifugal 3.73 and molasses 2.98. Refined sugar steady. Petroleum molasses and hides steady. Leather firm.
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New York
Kansas City Live Stock Prices Reported For Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Kansas City market totals show hog receipts at 11000 with bulk sales near 6 to 8.60 per hundred, heavy hogs around 8.50, pigs about 6 to 6.75. Cattle receipts 18000 including 2000 southerns with prime fed steers 8.40 to 8.80, dressed beef steers 7.50 to 5.40, southern steers 4.80 to 6.75, cows 3.50 to 6.60, heifers 8.50 to 8.80. Sheep receipts 7000 down 10 cents, lambs 5.75 to 6.90, yearlings 4.50 to 5.50, wethers 4.25 to 4.90, ewes 3.50 to 4.25.
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Kansas City
Leading spot markets across ports and regions
New York and other markets report middling cotton prices. New York middling 12c, New Orleans 11%c, Houston 11% to 11.5% centav. Galveston 11%C, Liverpool 6.424, Memphis 11%¢. Prices show modest variation by port with general middling levels.
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Ji Wer
New York
New Orleans
Liverpool
Houston
Galveston
Memphis
C. Houston
C. Liverpool
Rice market notes from New Orleans export prices
New Orleans reports rough Honduras at about 4.40 to 6.00 per unit with clean Honduras seen strong and Japan steady. Receipts show millers and sales with rough Honduras sacks at 4.00 to 4.90 and clean Honduras pockets quoted at 24 6 percent, Japan pockets at 2 35 16.
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New Orleans
Honduras
Japan
Cotton goods markets hold steady with late delivery concessions
New York reports steady cotton goods markets with increased late delivery concessions. Demand for silks remains strong this season and a French society honors a farmer with a gold medal for a fully electric sauerkraut factory. United States annual electric dry battery production surpasses $10,000,000.
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New York
French Society For the Encouragement of National Industries
United States
Cattle and Hogs Market News From St Louis
Cattle receipts 3400 including 1000 Texans native beef steers 5.50 to 9.00 cows and heifers 4.75 to 8.50 Texas and Indian steers 6.25 to 7.75 cows and heifers 4.25 to 6.50 calves 5.00 to 6.00 Hog receipts 8500 weak pigs and lights 9.00 to 9.15 good heavy 8.80 to 9.00 Sheep receipts 5500 sheep steady native muttons 3.25 to 4.00 lambs 5.75 to 6.85. A misc item notes a printer’s half century at Montreal Gazette and a Clay county South Dakota ditch milestone.
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ST. Louis
Texas
Spot cotton prices steady in New Orleans market
New Orleans August 13 spot cotton remained unchanged with middling at 11 1/2 cents. Sales totaled 76 on the spot and 100 to arrive. Various grades quoted from low ordinary 9 1/2 to good middling 12 3/4 cents, with receipts 322 bales and total stock 19,605 bales.
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New Orleans
Cotton Market Quiet in Galveston on August 13
In Galveston Texas spot cotton closed quiet and unchanged with sales totaling 992 bales at 1.0? guided by a 600 bale segment. Receipts reached 3109 bales, bringing total stock to 26,931 bales.
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Galveston
Tex
Spot market closes steady with modest receipts
In Houston on August 13 the spot market ended quiet and unchanged. Sales logged 461 bales valued at 1.0, b, 2725. Shipments totaled 4028 bales while stock reached 29126 bales.
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Houston
Tex
New York Spot Cotton Quiet As Olive Crop Forecast
Spot cotton in New York undyed quiet with middling uplands at 12.00 cents and gulf at 12.25 cents. No sales reported. California olive crop outlook from the California Olive Producers Association projects 1,125,000 gallons of pickled olives and one million gallons of oil, a record output.
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New York
Gulf
California
Bonds More Popular in New York Market Rise Since June
The New York bond market shows renewed interest with average prices for 25 railroad bonds rising over 2 percentage points from mid June to 85.10. After a July gain of over one point from 83.99 at end of June, the overall average fluctuated slightly, offset by declines in some issues. The trend since 1910 is illustrated in a table.
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New York
Wall Street Journal
Cotton seed product prices and New York oil market notes
Cotton seed products listed for Prime-basis oil eight cents per pound meal prices range from 31.50 to 82.00 with linters at 2 3 percent. New York Cotton Oil market shows spot cotton seed at 3.00, August at 7.90 to 8.08, October 7.50 to 7.52, and various other months trading between 6.56 and 6.72 with multiple lots sold. total sales reach 14,900.
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Memphis
Tenn
New York
Steamers Arrived and Sailed in Galveston and New York
Marine intelligence reports Galveston arrivals including steamers Corozal Porto Rico and El Rio with departures of El Mundo New York and Hero Tampico. In New York, Oceanic arrived from Southampton yesterday as of August 13.
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Galveston
Tex
Corozal
Porto Rico
el Rio
New York
el Mundo
Hero
Tampico
Oceanic
Southampton
Chemistry of Toad Stools and Poisoning
A Harpers Weekly based summary notes the rising France cases of toadstool poisoning and the chemists findings. It explains soil moisture and growth conditions alter toxicity and that some species are harmless when young but dangerous later. It details amanita muscaria and phalloides toxins, the role of muscarin and pilzotropin, and the limited antidote use of atropin for severe cases.
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France
Harper’s Weekly
Russia
Siberia
United States
Canada
Price of Corn Reports of Drouth Help Bulls Advance
Chicago market notes rising temperatures and lack of drouth relief boosting corn, with December futures up to 67 1/2 cents and closing steady. Wheat gains supported by export prospects, oats mixed, provisions down on selling. December wheat closes around 90 1/2 cents.
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Chicago
Argentina
Quotations for Wheat Commodities in Chicago Market
Chicago biweekly wheat quotes list No 2 red new at 56 1 2 cents, No 1 hard new at 87 1 2, No 2 new hard at 86 1 2 87 1 2, No 1 northern new at 91 1 2 92, No 2 northern new at 90 1 2, No 2 spring new at 90 1 2 91 1 2, velvet 87 90, durum 85 90 cents.
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Chicago
Wheat and grain quotations and market receipts
In St Louis on August 18 quotations show cash wheat No 2 red at 6 88 to 6 89, No 2 hard near 4 89. Track No 2 7 Tc, September oats 41 0, May oats no trade. Receipts yesterday 7000 flour and 26 000 wheat, 20 000 corn, 105 000 oats. shipments 17 000 flour, 207 000 wheat, 34 000 corn, 91 000 oats.
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ST. Louis
Wheat and corn prices quoted in Kansas City market
Quotation roundup from Kansas City on August 13 shows cash wheat at 80% to 85% cents, No. 2 red 83% to 84, corn No. 2 at 57% to 58 cents and No. 2 white about 77 to 78 cents. Oats No. 2 white 42 to 48 cents, No. 2 mixed 42 to 42. Case wheat contracts: September 81% to 81 cents, December 85 cents. corn contracts: September 75% to 75 cents, December 69% to 69 cents.
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Kansas City
Slang-Singer Bride Weds Justice of the Peace in St Louis
Mrs Otto Fisher of 4470 Delmar Boulevard arrived at Willecken Clayton office as Miss Addie Amacher of 4716 Page Boulevard. The ceremony produced mangled English and sharp quips as Fisher, 25, answered yes with a cigar momentarily removed. The bride mocked questions and bid good night with a wave as the couple departed.
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St. Louis
Otto Fisher
Delmar Boulevard
Willecken
Fisher
Hen is nursing sorrow in Pitman as foster pheasants thrive
In Pitman New Jersey a brood of Eng lish pheasant fledglings thrives in Harry Landers barnyard with a hen for a foster mother. She hatched the eggs a day after discovery in a grain field near Richwood. Landers watched a field machine disturb the hidden nest. The coal production for 1912 shows an increase over 1911 with 4 751 850 tons valued at 5 085 424 compared with 4 680 tons valued at 4 966 453.
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Pitman
N. J
Harry Danders
Richwood
Landers
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