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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1916

Page

11

Modern Bungalows and Homes for Sale in San Antonio

Bungalow for sale terms five rooms and sleeping porch with Bermuda grass yard near car line 912 Merchant St Beacon Hill. Also modern bungalow 131 W. Carolina with gas electric fixtures and sewers. One room house in Alamo Heights. Woodlawn Avenue cottage near San Pedro. 4 room home near Presa with bath sewer lights. Conness Realty Co multiple listings with brokers Travis Crockett and others.

Merchant St Beacon Hill Crockett Carolina Travis Iric House Alamo Heights Woodlawn Avenue San Pedro Avenue P. Brown

Real estate ads list farms and houses for sale or exchange

Classified notices show multiple properties including an eight room two story house near Alamo, a small farm with 250 to 80 acres and waterworks, a cottage in Boerne, and several acreages near city and car lines. Offers include trades for automobiles, exchanges near Corpus Christi, and varied terms from quick buyers to cash deals. Buildings feature wells, cisterns, barns, and fish ponds with cultivation land and fences.

J. C. Reinhard Boerne Exas Corpus Christi City Car Gardendale B .Watters Gibbs John Bollows

His Dilemma at Seaside Resort Trunk Full of Clothes

A holiday traveler at an eastern seaside hotel finds a trunk packed by his wife. He fears his suit and the items will spill if opened. He ponders whether to buy a new suit or add two more trunks to carry it all.

Cotton goods scarce prices rise in late year trading

New York reports ongoing cotton goods scarcity with high prices for small spot lots of print cloths and sheetings. Demand for blankets and knit fabrics remains strong while mills face heavy fall workloads and yarns stay unusually high.

New York

Wholesale market prices for fresh vegetables and fruits

Wholesale prices to trade list Colorado and California vegetables and fruits with per unit and per case charges. Includes peppers, beans, onions, potatoes, apples, bananas, oranges, lemons, grapes, prunes, apricots, figs, canned goods, sugar, coffee, rice, corn, meat, flour, nuts, and oils with figures per dozen, per bushel, per crate, per hundredweight, and per barrel. Prices cover wholesale trades and freight terms.

Colorado California Texas Jonathan Fancy Ben Davis Satsumas Florida Ache Bet Ce Simon Lée Alaska

California Oranges Debut Boosts Market Prices Drop

California navel oranges reach San Antonio wholesale markets easing supply shortages. Prices fall about 25 cents per box with new fruit selling at 2.25 dollars. Nut demand remains steady as mixed nuts fetch 22 cents a pound wholesale amid price trends from prewar levels. Apple crops suffer in Colorado from frost, lifting apple prices. Arkansas Black apples go for 2 dollars per box. Hog and meat prices ease as Chicago stock markets absorb large hog receipts and inflation pressure.

California San Antonio Brazil Colorado Arkansas

Fear of embargo on wheat exports depresses market

Wheat futures fell as traders weighed scarce ocean tonnage and railway congestion. U S and Canada exports last week ran about half the year ago level amid embargo rumors from Washington. May and July prices opened lower but rallied briefly before ending modestly higher on a nervous close.

Chicago Canada Washington United States Agerega

Live Stock Market Unsettled Monday in Northern Centers

Northern markets showed uneven moves for cattle hogs and sheep with both advances and declines. San Antonio posted steady prices while Fort Worth and Chicago faced declines and pressure. receipts included cattle calves hogs and horses with demand for good stock remaining solid.

UNION San Antonio Fort Worth Chicago

Cotton Breaks 10 New Lows Under Liquidation

The market shows a sharp drop as cotton prices fall to new 10 year lows amid liquidation. Traders watch for any upturn near the close as selling pressures persist in futures trading.

Cotton prices dip on foreign selling pressure at opening

Cotton Exchange activity opens with foreign selling driving New York low, then partial rally as southern spot markets stay firm. San Antonio closes at 18 60 for middling while private crop estimates place output near 11.1 to 11.85 million bales amid rising call money fears.

New York Cotton Opens Steady After Morning Decline

The New York cotton market opened steady with a 1 to 26 point drop amid easy cables and liquidation. January slipped to 19.87 and May to 20.27 as private crop estimates ranged from 11,136,000 to 11,850,060 bales, with New Orleans showing strength and Liverpool selling.

Chicago Grain Quotes on December 4

Quotations from Chicago show No 2 red wheat at 1.76 and 1.76 for the July, No 2 yellow corn at 0.90, oats at 0.53, and barley at 0.90 to 1.24 per bushel. Prices reflect standard market levels and ongoing trading activity.

Chicago

Shippers Market Prices for Texas Country Produce in San Antonio

Buyers paid listed prices Monday with eyes steady. Texas country can dies at 41 428c, creamery butter 80 34c per pound, country 25 26c, packing stock 24 26c. Poultry firm with hens large 5.50–6.00, medium 4.65–4.50, small 4.00–4.25, friers 4.60 or 3.50–4.00, broilers 2.60–3.00, turkeys 23–24c per pound, ducks 6.50–6.00 per dozen, geese 9.00–10.50.

San Antonio Texas Texas Creamery

Fort Worth cattle and sheep receipts with mixed prices

Cattle receipts reach 18 000 with prices around 6.00 for steers and 4.00 to 6.00 for cows. Calves bid to 8.75, stockers 5.00 to 6.85, bulk cattle trade near 9.60 to 9.80. Sheep receipts 1500 with lam bs to 9.00, yearlings 7.50 to 8.50, ewes 7.50, goats 3.60 to 5.00. market mostly steady.

Fort Worth Tex Oealls

Livestock Receipts And Prices At Kansas City Market

Kansas City market reports receipts of hogs 8000 head and cattle 12000 head with varying bids. Prime fed steers around 16.40 to 12.00, dressed beef cuts near 7.50, cows 4.75 to 8.00, calves 6.50, lambs 11.50 to 12.40, wethers 7.50 to 8.70, stockers and feeders 5.50 to 11.99. Market described as steady with slight advances noted in some categories.

Kansas City

Cotton futures open steady with mixed early quotes

New York trading shows December at 19.98 as January 20.00 and March 20.20 with May and July around 20.87, while October sits near 18.42. Futures close 8 to 5 points lower as Liverpool futures due to open Tuesday with 8 to 7 points higher. 11 o'clock call to follow.

New York Liverpool Ie High Low Close Mar, Oe

Grain prices and quotations from St Louis and Kansas City

Quotations show wheat mostly lower in St Louis with No 2 at 1.81 to 1.92 and corn higher with No 2 at 88 to 89 cents. In Kansas City wheat mostly unchanged to higher, corn mixed around 87 to 89 cents, oats higher, and rye around 1.39 to 1.48 depending on grade.

T. Louis Kansas City

Chicago Bee Market Update Butter Creamery Receipts and Prices

Quotations show butter lower for creamery at 83 29c with receipts 8048 cases and firate 38 percent 34c. Ordinary firats 37 38 at mark. Potatoes steady with 63 car receipts. White potatoes Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota Dakota price ranges 1.50 to 1.60. Solid alive lower with 13c springs noted.

Chicago Bee Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Dakota Dakota-Ohios

New Orleans Cotton Slips Early On Weak Cables

New Orleans cotton opened with sharp losses of 18 to 26 points as selling spread on poor cable reports. Offers lingered and fresh buying was scarce, despite a private crop estimate of 11,130,000 bales. By noon the market steadied slightly but held a net decline of about 10 to 11 points at 1:30.

New Orleans Aevel

Chicago Livestock Receipts and Quotations Report

Chicago Illinois December 4 reports show hogs with slow market and bids from 9.40 to 9.90 per cwt, cattle receipts 20,000 with native beef cattle 6.90 to 12.50 and western steers 9.60 to 10.60, stockers and feeders 4.60 to 7.75, sheep receipts 30,000 with wethers 5.25 to 9.00 and lambs 9.76 to 12.60.

Chicago

Daily Market Quotes from Kansas City

Kansas City markets show butter at 41 2 1 2 cents a pound for creamery firsts 29 cents for seconds and 29 1 2 cents packing. Eggs for firsts 37 cents. Poultry lists hens 14 cents roosters 11 1 2 cents live turkeys 21 cents. Potatoes listed as easy at 1 50 per bushel.

Kansas City

Grain futures close mixed with wheat and corn

Grain futures closed with Wheat Dec at 1.66 and May at 1.68. Corn Dec at 86 1/2 and May at 88 1/2 cents a bushel. Kansas City markets report the day’s finish.

Kansas City

Sugar futures steady on covering demand in New York

New York sugar futures steadied at noon as covering and demand from outside accounts supported prices. Centrifugal sugar quoted at 5.64, molasses 4.77, refined and various sugar grades listed with prices including 8.45 for Cut leaf and 7.66 for powdered.

New York

Weather Bureau daily observations note wind and precipitation

Observations taken at 1 a m Monday December 4. Weather note states wind velocities under 10 miles per hour and precipitation under .01 inch are not published here. Allen Buell, harnessed as the weather official, signs as the weather bureau.

Allen Buell Ehancasioniat’ Weather Bureau

Cattle and hog quotes from St Louis market report

Receipts and quotations show hogs higher with live weights at 9.25 to 10.96 and bulk near 9.40. Cattle receipts around 9500 with native beef steers 7.50 to 11.78, yearlings and heifers 8.50 to 11.50, cows 6.50 to 7.75, stockers 5.30 to 7.56, prime southern beef steers 8.00 to 9.00, beef cows 4.25 to 7.55, natives 6.00 to 11.76. Sheep receipts 1800 with lambs 7.00 to 8.8, ewes 3.75 to 7.60, yearlings 8.00 to 10.00.

ST. Louis Texas

Cotton futures steady with mixed bids and declines

In New Orleans Ra Dee markets cotton futures held steady for December and January bids around 19.53 and 19.87 for March with 20.18 for May and 20.21 for October. The Salute closed 7 to 9 points lower as activity waned.

New Orleans Cotton Ae Coul

Italian aviator Cattaneo badly hurt in Buenos Aires crash

Cattaneo, Italian aviation pioneer who once beat J Armstrong Drexel in a 1910 Scottish meet, was badly injured when his plane failed during a loop at an event in Buenos Aires. The aircraft was destroyed. The report notes his prior Europe achievements before his South American visit.

Buenos Aires Argentina Cattamneo Cattaneo Europe Scotland J. Armstrong Drexel South America

Daily cattle sales report from Oklahoma City

Cattle sales at Oklahoma City on December 4 noted 1400 head steady with Hoge at 1400 weighing 5 to 10 cents higher. Top sheep at 1600, traders report strong demand. Buyers included Martin of Comanche Oklahoma and Oene Pitt of Magdalen Road, MOOT, with weights around 1089 pounds and prices near 5.75 dollars per hundredweight.

Oklahoma City Okla Price Martin Comanche Pitt Magdalen

Spot cotton prices ease as demand holds steady

Liverpool December 4 spot cotton shows moderate demand with prices lower. Good middling quoted around 11.99 pence per pound with middling near 11.83 pence. Trade reports about 9000 bales traded, including 8100 American receipts and 460 American bales.

Liverpool

Mercantile and financial rates from New York markets

Merchants report in New York shows 3% sterling, 60 day bills at 471 and 470 with commercial paper and demand at 475. Cables at 476 with 0% Mexican dollars at 57 cents. Government bonds steady and railroad bonds irregular.

New York Mercantile Paper Sterling Commercelal Gilldire

Futures Close Early on London Markets

Liverpool futures closed with settle values for December 11 11.7384 and a chain of contracts through November-December, October-November, and other month-to-month pairings. Prices show minor shifts across the calendar with several peaks near 13.95 and lows around 11.0 to 11.8.

Cotton Statistics Just Like the Others

A Birmingham Age brief quotes a man about streetcar conductors owing money and getting put off, illustrating common creditor issues in city life. The fragment notes a recurring pattern of debt collection and public frustration on transit platforms.

Birmingham

Big Orders For Steel Placed Last Week

New York reports robust steel trade with 1918 rail and equipment contracts by domestic lines and rapid pig iron buying for 1918. Ingots billets and bars for war munitions total 1.3 million tons for late 1917, while railroads reserve 1 million tons of standard rails for 1918 and Southern lines seek 100 thousand tons. Car builders ordered nearly 40 thousand cars in November.

New York

French Transport Sunk by German Submarine Near Malta

The French transport Karnak a 6000 ton troop carrier was sunk by a German submarine on November 27 near Malta. Karnak a passenger liner 447 feet long built in 1899 from Marseilles carried troops bound for Saloniki. She last arrived at La Ciotat August 8 and has since been in French admiralty service. Earlier reports noted a severe submarine chase at Marseilles and Alexandria Malta passages.

Berlin Sayville Admiralty Malta Karnak Saloniki Marseilles la Ciotat Alexandria

Weather Forecast Sees Clearing, Cooler Temps Monday Night

The muggy foggy conditions from the last two days are expected to clear Monday night. Major Allen Buell of the weather bureau says the region will turn colder but not very cold, with a high pressure area and northwest storm on the map.

Allen Buell Weather Bureau Major Buell

Canada Bars Lights Along Atlantic Coast

The Dominion naval department orders vessels in Canadian waters to display only indispensable lights from Halifax to Quebec to prevent German submarine detection. The blackout aims to reduce visibility and avoid signaling that could aid enemy operations, declaring a real emergency exists.

Halifax Dominion Naval Department Atlantic St. Lawrence Quebec

Bombs Destroy Ships in Archangel Harbor

The steam ships blown up in Archangel harbor were destroyed by bombs placed in their cargoes at Bush Terminal piers. The charge was made at police headquarters by the commercial agent hire of the imperial Russian embassy.

New York Archangel Bush Terminal Company

Judge Shot and Bailiff Killed in Hammond Incident

In Hammond Indiana Judge Charles E Greenwald was shot in the right arm and side. Bailiff Louis Debow was fatally wounded. Juror George Robbins was shot in the head. Suspect Michael Innik is said to have harbored a long standing grudge against the court.

Hammond Ind Charles E. Greenwald Superior Court Louis Debow George Robbins Michael Innik

Stocks Edge Higher as Rails and Utilities Rally

New York stock market opens with renewed rail activity led by minor lines such as Rhode Island Missouri Pacific Wabash and Southern gains small to over a point Mexicans rise on border developments utilities hit record demand Columbia Gas advances Ohio Gas up two points metals firm led by leather goods steel and Lackawanna Iron Repu Iron and fuel shares. Money rate hits 15 percent late day causing irregular trading and unsettled closes.

New York Rhode Island Missouri Pacific Wabash and Southern Railway Egats Deman Columbia Gas Ohio Gas Lackawanna Steel Repu Iron

Money Markets Brief From New York Trading Floor

On December 4 the money market shows time loans at 66 days 4 4 percent and 90 days 41 4 percent. Call money rises to high 15 low as five. Valine rate 6. Last loan 7, closing bid 6, offered at 7.

New York

Metal market quotes and prices from New York

The New York metal market report lists lead at 7.40 7.46, spelter steady at 12 12 1/2 cents delivered East St. Louis, copper firm with electrolytic first quarter 50 and others 2.50 933.50, iron firm with No. 1 northern at 56 20.04, No. 2 northern 29.00 29.50, No. 1 south 28.50 29.00, No. 2 southern 25.00 9.60, tin quiet at 6.

New York East St. Louis

London Metal Prices Reported in Dec 4 Trading

London market notes closing prices with lead at £30 108, speller at £60 103, copper at 161 pounds sterling, spectrolytic at £170, tin spot £189, futures £190 15s. Futures for copper and tin show gains while spot readings remain steady amid light trading.

London

Honor Shakespeare Birthday At Theater Event

Fragmentary text shows a suggestion to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with a movie event and a statuette display, linked to a Mrs. Tor and a question about attending. Readable names are scarce, but the intent is a birthday tribute via cinema.

Charley

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