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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1913
Page
7
Forecast issued Monday December 1 1913 predicts showers for San Antonio area Monday night into Tuesday with warmer temperatures, and broader Texas showers with warmer interior nights and colder daytime conditions through Tuesday evening.
New York on December 1 reports underlying firmness in a limited stock market. Early hesitation gave way to a better tone with prices fractionally higher than Saturday, though lack of inside support kept significant declines. American shares weakened by noon, and Missouri Pacific hit a yearly low at 24% while New York Central fell on weak receipts. market closed firmer.
Call money strong at 6 8 9 per cent with ruling rate 8 per cent. Closing 5 6 per cent. Time loans firmer with 60 and 90 day at 5 6 per cent and six month at 5 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper at 5 percent, sterling exchange steady with 60 days at 4.59.10 and demand 4.85.10. Commercial bills 4.80. Bar silver at 56 and a half cents. Mexican dollars 44. Government bonds steady while railroad bonds show irregular movements.
Lead and spelter ease, copper and tin hold firm with spot and forward prices listed for standard, electrolytic, jake, and nominal forms. London quotations show spot and futures for copper and tin while antimony and iron grades hold steady amid nightly London and Cleveland warrants activity.
Galveston reports arrivals of Crown of Cordova Barbadoes Orator Barabados Haakon Tam pico Vera Cruz Topila Breslau Bremen Victorian Naneric Atlantis Sabine Malm and other vessels from Tampico Cuba Honduras and German and British ports. New York lists arrival of Columbia from Glasgow.
Weather bulletin reports observations at 8 a.m. on Monday December 1. Details include temperature, humidity, wind and barometric pressure readings from multiple stations. The notice provides a concise update for the region's weather conditions and potential forecasts based on early data.
San Antonio faces a severe egg shortage as rains disrupt farm deliveries and storage stocks dwindle from 20 000 cases to about 9 100. Officials say supply will last under a month with reliance on current receipts and little aid from Oklahoma or Kansas.
A third over-surface track is being laid from the Southern Pacific depot to Monumental street to avoid disrupting street car traffic on East Commerce. It will be ready by Tuesday morning. Welding on East Commerce is delayed by bad weather. Once finished, the depot to end of line will be a continuous unbroken track in the city.
Kearny, chief engineer in the Medina dam project, is due in January for a temporary San Antonio stay. He helped direct construction in Brazil for the Pearson syndicate and later led the Necaxa plant project near Mexico City before returning to supervise Medina. He is a San Antonio resident.
Refused testimony led to dismissal in a Hillsboro Texas incident where rails and old iron were tied to tracks to damage Cotton Belt No 503. A Katy line crew detected obstructions and alerted the Cotton Belt conductor preventing harm.
Benjamin E Bee arrives in San Antonio from San Francisco after a decade away. He is linked with the Southern Pacific Railway. Mrs Bee and two children accompany him, planning to depart Friday for Kansas City. They stay with Mr. and Mrs Carlos Bee, host to the visitors. The Egyptian post office handled about 81.6 million articles in 1912, roughly 1.6 million more than the prior year.
Wheat prices eased on active selling as favorable Argentine weather and larger Oklahoma winter crop area pressured futures. Corn rose modestly amid unsettled weather and strong receipts while oats and hogs followed the broader market trend with mixed gains before closing steady to firmer.
The snippet lists meat prices for Pork and Short Ribs across months and percentages, showing January values around 21.0 to 21.4 and May values near 11.1 to 11.9. It appears as a pricing table with monthly percentages and numerical figures.
Quotations list cash grain prices in St Louis with wheat corn and oats for No 2 red and hard wheat No 2 corn and No 2 white oats figures, plus close quotations for December and May contracts. Prices are given in cents per bushel and show slight shifts from the earlier session.
Telegraph excerpt reports dairy goods higher with butter and creamery extras at 32% to 33 cents and firsts at 31 82, seconds 21. Poultry alive prices up with springs 1 cent and fowls 18.8 cents. Potatoes unchanged with 30 cars received.
Trading notes report butter steady at Elgin Michigan and coffee futures holding in New York with No 7 Rio at 9 9 16 cents and March at 9.63. Raw sugar prices also steady in New York with Muscovado at 3.31 and refined products listed in a range from 5.30 for cut loaf to 4.25 for confectioners A.
New York reports steady eyes and gathered extras with prices for extras firsts seconds and thirds across 46 48c 44 45c 42 43c 38 41c and poorer 33 37c on December 1.
St. Louis market notes show poultry prices with chickens at 10c a pound, springers 12c, turkeys 16c, ducks 12%c, geese 10%c. Butter and creameries midrange at 32c, Eges at 32c.
In St Louis on December 1 prices are listed for lead at 4100 dollars and 4.12 percent and spelter at 5000 dollars and 5.10 percent.
Kansas City prices quoted today show butter at 30 cents for creamery firsts 28 cents packing 19. Bees price firsts 34 cents seconds 29 cents. Poultry lists hens at 11 cents roosters 9 cents ducks 18 to 19 10? cents and springs 19 10 cents.
The market lists cash wheat at No 2 hard 82 to 87 cents and No 2 red 86 to 87 cents. Corn shows No 2 mixed new at 68 cents and No 2 white 68 cents, with oats No 2 white at 40 cents. December and May futures for wheat run 81 to 86 cents, and corn 69 to 72 cents.
Interior receipts shown for Houston and other ports with totals. The table lists cotton shipments by city including Galveston New Orleans Mobile Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk and Pacific ports with a total of 41,914 and 52,470 for two columns.
Cash wheat prices by grade and moisture: No 2 red 95 percent at 95c, No 2 hard 88 percent at 89c, No 2 northern 88 percent at 89c, No 2 spring 8 percent at 8c. Corn No 2 12 percent at 78c, No 2 white 73 8 percent at 38c, No 2 yellow at? bikos oats No 3 white 38 percent 39c, Barley 53 at 80c.
At Union Stock Yards December 1 buyers and sellers met with steady prices near last week’s highs. Cattle topped at 6.35 percwt with most steers around 5.50 while butcher cows reached up to 5.25 and calves 5.50 to 6.50. Hogs sold to 7.50 percwt as hog prices strengthened across other centers with gains of 6 to 16 cents per hundredweight. Texas stock movement was light due to recent rains influencing ranchers to hold or ship as conditions allow.
Fort Worth Texas cattle receipts reached 1800 with calves at 500. Beef steers sold 5.50 to 6.65 per hundred, stocker steers 5.00 to 6.00, butcher cows 4.25 to 5.20, heifers 5.00 to 6.00, bulls 4.25 to 5.00, calves 5.50 to 7.00. Hogs receipts 450 with prices advancing to 7.75 top and 7.55 to 6.5 range. Sheep receipts 200 with price satisfactory.
Kansas City report shows hog receipts 7000 with values from 5.50 to 7.70, cattle receipts 12000 with prime fed steers at 38.25 to 9.00 and cows 4.25 to 6.75, and sheep receipts 10000 with lambs 7.00 to 7.75 and yearlings 5.50 to 6.25, market steady.
New York cotton futures rose on a crop yield report from New Orleans authorities and stronger demand signals. Cables were firmer abroad, with gains of 6 to 21 points intraday. private estimates pegged December supply at about 11.77 million bales, supporting a steady, higher market despite some profit taking and quiet afternoon trading.
Cotton futures started higher with various contracts around 12 to 19 cents and closed steady with mixed gains and losses across months, showing a firm start and today’s even closing amid narrow intraday ranges.
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened steady with a 10 point gain on strong cables and a crop estimate near 13,660,000 bales excluding linters. traders noted firm longs, short covering, and expectations that a government forecast may push toward 14,000,000 bales. Noon trading showed a 15 to 16 point net advance, afternoon profit taking tempered gains, and the close was 8 to 10 points higher than Saturday.
In New Orleans on December 1, cotton futures opened steady with Dec at 12.94 95, Jan 13.18 bid, Mar 18.20, May 13.37 38, July 13.40 41. Futures closed higher across the board with gains noted.
LIVERPOOL Dec Spot cotton dull with steady prices. Middling fair 7 834, good middling 7 494, middling 7 274, low 7 054, good ordinary 6 464, ordinary 6 11d. Sales 8 000 including 7 700 American and 600 for speculation and export. Receipts 18 500 all American.
Liverpool December 1 futures closed firm with multiple contract quotes shown for front and deferred months. The table lists December 7.064 and various first and second month spreads including January February and beyond with values around 6.4 to 7.1 percent.
New York middling 13.50 cents and New Orleans 181-160 cents lead the market. Houston 18 percent or 18 cents, Galveston 130 cents, Liverpool 7.274 pence, Memphis 13 cents.
Ernesto Garza weds Lucinda Morales Thomas E Thompson ties to Agnes Lard ner Burroughs Elsie B Coneau marries Birtie Sanders Emilio Baez partners with Julia Santos in a series of licenses issued.
The list shows licenses for residents including John Blunck of 911 East Commerce and O H Mitchell at Jo Lotta hotel with a Cadillac noted.
A Memphis Tennessee listing shows prime cotton seed priced at 6.14 with meal at 27 and other minor figures indicated as 31.50 and 2 percent materials.
New Orleans market shows spot cotton steady with 1 16 up and middling at 13 1 16. Sales on spot 718 with 2081 to arrive. receipts 3868, stocks 207,590. Various grades quoted nominal to 18 9 16 for strict good middling and related levels.
Receipts and quotes for hogs cattle and sheep from Chicago market show hogs at 40,000 receipts with firm tonality and ranges from 7.15 to 7.95 for various categories. cattle receipts 26,000 with steady market and prices from 3.30 to 9.50. sheep receipts 47,000 with a weak market and native lambs priced 6.00 to 7.60.
The cotton seed oil market in New York eased with spot at 7.06 to 7.20. December through July contracts traded with varied sales, totaling 11 000 bushels across months and price ranges from 7.06 to 7.49 per unit.
An unclear OCR fragment references Babberrele and dates 8.18 with mentions of Wiss emma wows and cent America 29 percent. Hemlock firsts 29 30c.
Denison Texas Dec 1 Frank Morrow a 48 year old laborer was killed instantly when a Missouri Kansas and Texas limited train struck a head car near Caney Oklahoma Two other men on the car were seriously injured
In New York on December 1 the spot cotton market shows steady prices for Middling uplands at 13.50 and Gulf at 13.75 per unit. No sales were reported.
The spot cotton market in Houston closes steady with unchanged prices. Transactions total 2081 bales f o b 1627 shipmen ts reach 18 369 with stock at 189 476.
Chicago style market notes show receipts at St Louis with 6000 cattle including 1500 Texans and 8500 hogs as prices range from 4.00 to 9.15 for cattle and 5.75 to 8.00 for hogs. A Lewiston Maine suit exposes a loan shark method seeking 6 note plus escalating interest totaling 63 over 126 weeks at 50 cents weekly.
Spot cotton in Galveston held steady at unchanged levels. Sales were 557 bales with days receipts totaling 19,113 and stocks listed at 294,204.
Spot cotton in Memphis steady at middling 13 cents as of December 1 with no change noted.
A Texas report notes heavy rains at season end but yields a strong cotton crop for Travis County. Most of the cotton has been ginned with 30 of 44 gins reporting 31854 bales so far. When remaining gins report, total will rise further toward 40000 bales.
In Albany the defense for former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker argued in the Court of Appeals that a conspiracy with perjured testimony led to Becker’s death sentence for the Herman Rosenthal murder. They faulted the trial, sought a new trial, and pressed for reversal. They say key dates and evidence were mishandled and that Sam Schepps acted as an accomplice.
The federal grand jury in San Antonio will convene for the first time in years on December 15, the third Monday in December. Judge Maxey will rule on over a hundred naturalization petitions as the grand jury reviews numerous cases. The petit jury is summoned for the first Monday in January to consider indictments.
New Orleans on December 1 notes traders expect light activity as ginnery data and the agriculture department crop estimate loom. Market sentiment splits on a large crop versus weather driven gains, with mill takings and exports signaling weakness while weather remains crucial for a later price rise.
The Leyland line steamship Victorian sailed from Galveston for Liverpool with a cargo valued at 1 755 895 dollars, including 24 000 bales of cotton worth 1 750 000. It is the season’s largest export from Galveston and likely the heaviest from an American port since 1904 when the Lee loaded 26 873 square bales.
Washington reports final 1909 statistics on the U S slaughtering and meat packing industry. Calves show the greatest relative increase over 1899, with hogs highest in number and value, while beef moves closer to production sources and retail slaughter grows.
Building permits approved for several residences including a 5 room dwelling on West EM mira street by T. R. Lentz for 1500 dollars. Racey 6 room dwelling on Cincinnati avenue 1600 dollars. Moran three 3 room houses on South Colorado street 400 dollars. A. Thomas 3 room house on Ben emerd street 650 dollars.
Market list enumerates EGGS-Country at 85c a dozen and 40c for yard eggs, BUTTER-Creamery 40c, DRESSED POULTRY prices for hens friers and turkeys, FISH AND OYSTERS including trout and mackerel with varied cents per pound, FRESH AND CURED MEATS with steaks roasts and sausages, FRUITS including oranges bananas and persimmons, VEGETABLES such as beets onions tomatoes potatoes and greens with assorted per unit prices.
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