Rain Improves Crop Prospects and Stocks Rise
Rain in drought states boosts market tone at opening. Cotton prices fall as stocks rise, with Wells Fargo Express dropping to a new low. Texas Company and Westinghouse lead gains while bonds firm. Traders turn long as speculation grows. some profit taking later.
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New York
Iso
Wells-Fargo Express
Reading
Newaven
Texas Comany
Westinghouse
Colorado Fuel
St. Paul
Shortere
Steel
Union Pacific
Lehigh Nd
Southern Pacific
Cotton Region Bulletin for August 18 1913
The bulletin notes fair weather with generally fair conditions in the best area. Temperature is nearly normal. Data provided by Allen Buell, Local Forecaster, Weather Bureau. Financial rates show money on call at 2 1/2 percent, loans steady with 60, 90 day figures around 4 percent.
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New York
Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Metal Prices and Stocks Report From New York and London
Market notes show lead around 4.70 to 4.80 and copper near 15.87 to 16.00 in New York. Tin and antimony move little as London quotes list copper at 69 150 futures and tin at 187 10s. Lead and spelter prices appear steady, with various regional quotes from New York, St Louis, and London metal markets. Coffee futures in New York settle around 9 cents to 9 1/2 cents and September contracts near 9 1/4 dollars.
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London
Lake
Lead Steady
Spelter
Cookson
Tron
Northern
South
Southern Soft
Cleveland
Market Report From New York Financial Desk
New York notes show prime mercantile paper at 6.6 percent with steady sterling at 4.83.05 for 40 day bills. Demand and commercial bill rates hold, bar silver at 59 1/3 cents, Mexican dollars at 47 cents. Government bonds steady, railroad bonds irregular amid shifting market conditions.
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New York
Marine Intelligence Port Aransas and Midland Crop News
Marine intelligence from Port Aransas notes arrival of the Steamship Belgian from Colon. In New York arrivals, the Minne Cotton reports into New York on August 18. Midland, Texas reports Midland county crops as the best in years with corn harvested at about 40 bushels per acre and cotton at about half a bale per acre. no rain needed and acreage normal.
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Midland
Tex
Midland County
Leopard attacks farm children. collie hero saves them
In Red Lake Falls Minnesota a leopard from a circus escaped and attacked two children of William Wageman at his farmhouse. A Scotch collie charged the leopard, drawing its attention as the children fled to the house. The dog was killed, and the leopard fled into a cornfield as local residents organized a hunt.
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Ookston
Illiam Wageman
Theildren
Cotton Picker Shortage Hits Texas Cotton Farmers
The scarce supply of cotton pickers in Texas alarms farmers like R Willenbrack of Frat Tex as high wages fail to attract workers. Mexican labor disruption due to turmoil in Mexico limits available help, with agencies overwhelmed and unable to meet demand for pickers this season.
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R. Willenbrack
Frat Tex
Cotton Exchange
Willenbrack
Mexico
United States
Weather map outlook weighs on Texas cotton market
New Orleans reports Texas and Oklahoma droughts as the main price driver for the week. Continued dry weather could push futures higher while good rains may trigger a sharp drop. Eastern belt shows encouraging rains and spot demand remains key as the season nears end and government consumption data loom.
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New Orleans
Texas
Oklahoma
Mississippi River
Weather Report From 8 AM August 18 1913
Observations recorded at 8 oclock in the morning on Monday August 18 1913. The brief weather note lists conditions and atmospheric readings for that timestamp, reflecting early 20th century meteorological practice.
Cotton seed products market report from Memphis and New York
Memphis reports prime basis oil at 8 cents per pound meal 31.50 to 32.00 and linters 23. New York notes a firm cotton seed oil market with spot at 8.92 and futures showing October at 8.95 and 8.96 range, September 8.88 to 8.95, November 6.97 to 7.00, December 6.82 to 6.85. sales totals about 8000 across several months and lots.
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Memphis
Tenn
Linters
New York
Cotton crops dominate San Angelo area crops
San Angelo Texas August 18 Cotton eaten in this vicinity are near several years Other crops are soc
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San Angelo
Tex
Market notes on drought relief and price shifts in Kansas crops
Reports say rains eased drought in Kansas and other corn states but prices remain pessimistic. Corn and wheat quotes on the Chicago market fell while local dealers marked up corn to retailers by two cents per bushel. Observers doubt an average yield, expect higher hay and feed costs, and note rising sugar, cheese, and cocoa prices amid drought impacts and scarce Mexican imports. Brazil nuts opened the season with higher first prices and pecan crops look promising after a small previous year.
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Kansas
Chicago
Board of Trade
San Antonio
Mexico
United States
Market Prices For Groceries And Produce
Retail prices listed for eggs poultry cheese butter and a wide range of fruits vegetables meats and pantry staples. Items include Texas tomatoes at up to 1 per 4-basket crate, oranges California Valencia 4.00 to 4.50 per box, lemons 7.50 per box, apples Texas basket prices, and assorted canned meats fish syrups flours and oils. Numerous weight measures and crate pack terms appear, reflecting a comprehensive wholesale to retailer pricing sheet.
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Best
California
Colorado
Valencia
Alaska
Commodity Price List From San Antonio Trade Market
A historical price sheet from San Antonio lists Per 100 funds and per hundredweight figures for corn chops at $1.30, flour at $5.00 a barrel, and various California beans and raisins with per hundredweight or per package prices. Canned vegetables, dried fruits, sugar, coffee, corn and oats prices appear alongside hay and alfalfa tonnage quotes and citrons, peels, and lemon peel notes.
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Pioneer
Liberty Bell
Navy
Muscatel
Citron
Lée
Hay
South
Texas
Johnson Grass
Rio
Maine
California
C. B
San Antonio
Chicago Market Quotations Mixed on Receipts and Prices
Chicago bids show butter eggs and cheese steady while potatoes ease. Receipts stood at 8600 cases and 85 cars for two states Minnesota and Ohio with prices 45 to 53 cents for Jersey cobblers. Poultry prices slipped with springs at 16 cents and fowls at 13 cents.
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Minnesota
Ohio
Jersey
Quotations on Dairy Prices from New York Market
New York quotes for creamery extras butter at 28 28c. Cheese firm state whole milk fresh and white colored specials 15c. Strong, fresh gathered extras 28c.
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New York
Butter and Poultry Prices From Kansas City Market
Kansas City market report lists butter in creameries at 26 cents for firsts 25 for secs 24 for seconds and 21 for packing. Exes firsts 21 seconds 12. Poultry quotes include hens 11 12 cents per pound roosters 9 ducks 10 and springs 1 cent? provides a snapshot of dairy and poultry prices for the day.
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Kansas City
Springs
U.S. Poultry Prices Reported From St Louis Market
In St Louis on August 18 poultry prices ranged with chickens at 11 4 cents per pound, springs at 16 cents, turkeys 18 cents, ducks 11 cents, geese 9 cents, and creamery butter at 2 1/2 cents per pound. Eggs not quoted.
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ST. Louis
Fort Worth Market Shows Mixed Livestock Results
Aug. 18 United Stock Yards reports 874 cattle 135 calves 40 hogs 39 sheep and 99 goats received. Best cows up to 5.25, calves to 6.50, hogs not above 8, sheep 4.05 and oats 3. Demand fair. Texas heat hurts range cattle causing more sales and lower prices versus other markets.
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TNION
Brownsville
Fort Worth
Texas
Fort Worth Cattle Receipts and Prices Aug 18
Fort Worth stockyard reports receipts of 4400 cattle and 1600 calves. General trade draggy though calves stayed active and strong. Beef steers sold 5.50 to 6.55, cows and heifers 0.10 lower, Mexican steers in carloads at 3.15 with bulk 4.25 to 7.75, bulls 3.90 to 5.25, calves 5.00 to 6.00. Hogs advanced about six cents top 8.60 for small drafts. bulk 8.30 to 8.47. Sheep receipts 2000, mostly common and low priced. early trading steady.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Kansas City Market Receipts and Prices Report
Receipts and quotations from Kansas City show hogs at bulk sales 7800 8.45 and 8.25, cattle receipts 24000 with primes and dressed beef prices listed, and sheep receipts 5000 with lambs at 6.00 to 7.50 and wethers 4.25 to 5.00. Cattle: prime fed steers 5.40 9.00, dressed steers 7.50 3.40, southern steers 4.80 6.66, cows 3.50 6.50, heifers 4.50 8.60. Sheep: yearlings 4.50 5.50, stockers 3.50 4.50.
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Kansas City
Commodity Prices and Market Notes From St Louis and New York
Egg markets show all loss and 18c in St Louis. New York reports raw sugar Muscovado 3.80, centrifugal 3.79, molasses sugar 2.95, refined steady at 4.70 for crushed and granulated, powdered. Petroleum steady with refined bulk 5, barrels 8.70, cases 11. Molasses steady, New Orleans open kettle 5 55c. Hides steady. Bogota 29 30 percent, Central American 29 30 percent. Leather firm with Hemlock firsts 29 80c, seconds 28 29c.
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New Orleans
Bogota
Cattle and Hogs Prices From St Louis Market Report
St Louis market daily receipts show cattle 2600 including 400 Texans with steady market. Native beef steers 5.50 to 9.00, cows and heifers 4.75 to 8.75, Texas steer 6.25 to 7.75, cows and heifers 4.25 to 6.50. Hogs and lights 4500 with a steady market, pigs 5.40 to 8.60. Sheep receipts 8500. muttons 4.00 to 8.25, lambs figures incomplete.
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ST. Louis
Eayt Waene
Texas
Boat Named Libertine Sparks Local Controversy
In New London at Mason's Island a summer resident’s power boat named Libertine drew ire from neighbors. A trespassing group altered the name to Bert with paint, but the owner quickly returned to erasing the act with a rag and gasoline, restoring the original labeling.
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Nanyang
Mason's Island
Bert
Cotton dips on rain news from Texas and Oklahoma
Weather reports of showers in drought regions of the southwest triggered a sharp decline in cotton in New York and Liverpool. Early selling eased after Texas and Oklahoma weather improved, with prices slipping 4 to 6 points from intraday lows and receding to near Saturday’s close by noon.
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Southwest
Liverpool
Texas
Oklahoma
New Orleans cotton opens steady after early decline
In New Orleans on August 18 the cotton futures market opened down 13 to 17 points due to private rain reports from Texas and Oklahoma, then reversed with shorts covering. By noon trading stood 6 to 8 points under Saturday's close and by 2 p.m. prices neared the prior level amid renewed demand.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Bears
Liverpool
Shorts
Gulf Coast
Liverpool Cotton Market Report August Spot and Futures
Spot cotton eased with moderate activity in Liverpool. Prices ranged from good middling to ordinary with sales of 7000 bales and 10000 bales received, all American. Futures closed steady with modest declines and mixed openings across positions.
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Pt Ae
Dee
Ceive
Futures close quiet in Liverpool from 1844 data
Liverpool reports quiet futures trading with dated notes for August 6 1844 and successive monthly spans. Prices show ranges from 5.92% to 6.96% across August to July, including several 4d and 9d adjustments.
Cotton Gin Counts Rise as Drought Strains Yoakum
In Yoakum on August 17, 2238 bales of cotton have been ginned and 3525 weighed at public scales. Farmers complain of drought and heat threatening crop yields if rain does not come soon.
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Yoakum
Cotton Crops Deteriorate in Bills County From Drought
WAXAHACHIE Tex Aug 18 Cotton crops are deteriorating rapidly in Bills county from dry weather and hot winds. Yields have fallen at least 25 percent in the last 14 days and further deterioration of nearly as much is expected in the next five days unless a general rain arrives.
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Waxahachie
Tex
Bills County
New Orleans Cotton Prices and Receipts Report
New Orleans on August 18 reports spot values with %c off middling at 12c and various grade ranges from low ordinary to good middling. Sales on the spot 120 bales with 254 bales to arrive. Receipts 128 bales and stock 18,772 bales.
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New Orleans
Chicago Market Report Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Chicago on August 18 reports hog receipts 30,000 with bulk sales around 7.708.55. Hogs ranged light to pigs and heavy to 9.00 and 8.60. Cattle receipts 19,000 with bees 7.00 to 9.00, Texas steers 6.75 to 7.70, western 6.20 to 7.50, cows 3.60 to 8.30, calves 8.00 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 30,000 with natives 3.70 to 4.80, yearlings 4.85 to 6.75, lambs 5.25 to 7.50.
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Chicago
Texas
Spot Cotton Markets Quiet in New York Trade
Spot cotton activity in New York near quiet with middling uplands at 12 1/2 cents and gulf at 12 1/4 cents. Trading volume measured at 200 bales amid a calm market atmosphere.
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NEW_ YORK
New Orleans Futures Open Steady in Cotton Market
New Orleans futures opened steady on August 18 with bids at August 11.50 for August, 11.10 for September, 11.02 04 for October, 11.01 02 for December, 11.00 01 for January, 11.07 08 for March, and 11.16 18 for May.
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Sessee
New York
Oesee
New Orleans
Cotton prices steady as market reports limited
Memphis dispatch notes spot cotton steady at Middling 11.4 cents. Meanwhile a 1910 Russia lead output is cited, and England reports a press weighing twelve thousand tons made for bending armor plate. An Oldham machine shop in England is said to employ ten thousand men.
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England
Oldham
Caution cotton buyers warned on bale sizes and charges
Cotton exporters and handlers warn buyers to use regulation gin boxes of 27x54 inches. A recent Dallas conference of cotton shippers, compressors, ocean carriers and railroads endorsed the standard size and proposed a $1 per bale extra freight for bales larger than the standard. The compressors would also charge more for any bale exceeding the standard by others. T. J. Lane of Hubell-Slack & Co. urged standardization, condemning past wasteful practice and insufficient bale coverings.
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Maritime Association
Dallas
Tex
T. J. Lane
Hubbell-Slack & Co
San Antonio Cotton Exchange chief sees Texas movement ahead
Rene J. Muller, president of the San Antonio Cotton Exchange, returns from New Orleans where he conferred with cotton factors about the year’s big Texas movement. He notes market fears over drought and bear dominance, but predicts a likely fall of the Clarke anti-future bill as Washington advices ease trader nerves. He reports local compresses overwhelmed with cotton and a labor shortage as cotton picking starts, with presses soon to run day and night.
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San Antonio Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Texas
Bears
Washington
San Antonio
Muller
Cotton Receipts and Local Compress Totals
Local cotton statistics show daily receipts of 825 and 966, with Saturday receipts recorded at 978 and 578. Cumulative figures to date list 5,724 and 7,686 in borron and related compress totals.
Ancient South American dentists in Ecuador and gold fillings
Prof Marshall H. Saville of Columbia reports ancient Ecuadorians practiced dental work with gold fillings and crowns. Skulls show parallel inlays and decorations, suggesting sophisticated dental craft older than the Incas. He notes stone fillings in Mexican skulls and catalogues gold ornaments found in a mound.
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Ecuador
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Saville
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Mexico
Tropics
Grain markets mixed as oats rise amid rains and exports
Corn and wheat softened on favorable southwest rains and large world shipments. Oats recovered under commission house buying with December futures at 69 3/4 cents. Provisions remained in demand with pork near 19.25, ribs 17, and lard 10.76 as January prices led gains.
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Til
Shorts
Tuying
Market quotes from Kansas City grain and corn
Kansas City report lists cash wheat prices with No 1 hard at 81 86 cents and No 2 red at 86 86 half cents. Corn No 2 mixed 77 cents and No 2 white at 0. Oats No 2 white 440 and No 2 mixed 43 43 and a half cents. Closing futures show Wheat September 2 and December 86 cents.
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Kansas City
Grain price report with mixed bid figures
Cash wheat prices list several grades with varying bids such as No 2 red 88 percent, No 1 hard 88 percent, No 2 hard 88 percent, No 2 northern 92 percent, No 2 spring 91 to 92 cents, velvet chaff 91 cents, durum 4 dollars 90 cents. Corn bids show No 2 at 77 percent, No 2 white around 177 percent?, No 2 yellow 77 percent. Oats No 2 white 42 to 44 percent.
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Chicago
Wheat and corn prices in St. Louis market report
Cash wheat prices for No 2 red and hard grades range 86 to 90 cents with No 2 corn at 79 cents and No 2 white at 79 cents. Oats at No 2 43 to 44 cents. Futures close: September wheat 86 3?4 cents, September corn 72 to 73? cents, oats September 43 to 49 cents.
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ST. Louis
Beans Cooked on Vine Near Washington
Large lima beans are being harvested straight from the vine at a truck garden near Washington. William Williams of Lanham Maryland explains the beans were cooked when lightning struck wires stretched to support the vines, protecting them from storms. His family handles the rest. Also noted is Prof Paul Showey, slated as Roosevelt professor at the University of Berlin, preparing to discuss Greek and Plato in Berlin.
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William Williams
Lanham
Williams
Paul Showey
Roosevelt
University of Berlin
Heaversity of Chicago
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Srey
Plata
Florida law limits acidity in shipped citrus
A proposed amendment from the Florida legislature sets maximum acidity levels for shipped fruit. Oranges must not exceed 1.30 percent acidity and grapefruit 1.75 percent when shipped before November 5. The rule targets fruit quality standards and regulatory compliance.
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Forida
Japan limits whaling fleets amid rising demand for whale meat
Growing demand for whale meat in Japan has raised concerns of scarcity in the Pacific. In response, the Japanese government has restricted the number of whaling vessels allowed to operate.
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Japan
Pacific
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