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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
13
Advertisement for a large cream two story colonial with beaver board bath plaster and enamel kitchen finishes. Listed for 3000 dollars with mortgagee selling lot and all property through SINESS REALTY CO Exc Agents.
Ice new stx room cottage in AR with polished floors bookcases and china closets suitable for trade. William C Lott Son and partners offer sale or trade including house and barber or tailor shop with easy terms. Modern 8 room residence on Crockett with large lot and phone contact listed. Bungalow in north city part near Whitaker with Crockett contact.
Classified notice offers cash purchase for vacant lots and a new house. Contact Thorman at 425 Navarro Street or reply with full particulars, box 51, city, for details and terms including small cash payment and balance arrangements.
A dense listing of departure times and routes from Houston Dallas Fort Worth Kerrville Victoria Cuero Port Lavaca Victoria San Antonio and other points. Includes sets labeled Sunset Limited Fast Mail Local and Santa Fe with daily and specific schedule times across the era’s network.
New York traders faced a reactionary morning with limited progress as bears pressed. Copper and steel reports, London copper drops, and easing earnings pressured shares while banks raised call money to 6 percent. market closed firmer with Reading leading gains and utilities mixed.
Call money strengthens to 3 6% with a 6% ruling rate. Time loans vary by term from 5% to 6%, mercantile paper 5%6%. Sterling exchange steady after a dip with 60 day at 4.80 90 and demand at 4.85 25. Bar silver at 58 to cents, Mexican dollars 45 cents. Government bonds firm while railroad bonds show irregular trading.
Lead stays quiet at 4.06 dollars in New York trading with London markets quoting 17 pounds sterling 12 64 for zinc and other items. Speller eases to 5.10 London 20 pounds sterling lis 6d with mixed early activity across commodities.
Copper remains quiet with spot and futures unquoted in New York. Electrolytic and lake copper listed at varied nominal ranges. London copper firm with spot and futures around 65 pounds and 64 pounds sterling. Tin shows firmness with several monthly price points and London quotes. Antimony dull with Cookson’s at 7.50 to 7.70. Iron quiet with Cleveland warrants at 498 and 4%d.
In St Louis on December 5 prices for lead stood at 3.95 per unit while spelter ranged from 5.00 to 5.05 per unit, reflecting the latest metal market movements.
Galveston notes on December 5 report arrivals and clearances for multiple steamers and ships. Vessels arriving include Rava Port Barrios Hyndford Barry Emilia Cl enfuegos with departures and sailings for Martin Saenz Herbert G Wylie Jose de Larrinaga Man chester Havre Orator Vera Cruz Aiden El Sud Ivernia Celtic Koln Bremen among others.
Rain worsens flood in central Texas causing extensive damage to farm stock and roads. Rail lines San Antonio & Aransas Pass and M E T lose track with rebuilds estimated over ten days. Several county bridges reported gone as water runs six feet higher than October flood. Meanwhile Dilley reports 260-100 inches of rain and an overcast outlook for a bumper 1914 crop.
Forecast for San Antonio and vicinity calls unsettled Friday night and Saturday with colder conditions. East Texas also unsettled with showers in the northeast, freezing likely in the northwest, and frost in the southwest. Precipitation yesterday totaled 0.03 inch, excess for the day 0.03 inch, total since January 1 35.86 inches, excess 10.47 inches.
Opening prices for grape juice for delivery next year show a seven percent increase from last year's initial quotation due to a short crop and higher demand. Roasted coffee prices slipped slightly despite expectations of further rises and matches announce a ten percent hike starting January 1. Potatoes remain firm with sweet potato bids rising as growers seek higher prices.
A sweeping price table lists country eggs at 26¢ per dozen and various fowl, butter, cheese, vegetables, fruits, and canned goods. It includes oranges at 3.60 per box, lemons around 5.75 to 6.00, California and Texas produce, flour, rice, syrup, and canned meats with multiple per-unit costs and package sizes.
A clipping lists current prices for fish meats and lard with per pound rates. Salmon at 90 to 95 cents, hams from 17 to 18 cents, lard at 12% cents, and dried fruits including peaches pears and prunes with varied box and per pound pricing.
Quotations show poultry and dairy prices with chickens at 12 to 12 1/2 cents, turkeys 17 cents, ducks 12 to 12 1/2 cents, geese 10 1/2 cents, butter at 32 cents, eggs 31 cents.
Kansas City reports butter unchanged and eggs firm with 340 firsts in poultry. Chicago and New York markets also show butter eggs potatoes and poultry largely unchanged with varied price quotes for eggs and car lots of potatoes.
New York reports a quiet steady cotton market with jobbers noting retailers seeking on order goods. Raw sugar prices eased for Muscovado at 3.04, centrifugal 3.54, molasses sugar 2.79, refined sugar remaining steady.
Hides steady in New York trading with leather prices remaining firm and quotations unchanged as of December 4.
Hog prices rose today at union stock yards reversing a recent drop. Demand for pork improved while packers had stocked coolers. Receipts were moderate with cattle calves hogs and goats arriving. best hogs reached around 7.50 per hundredweight and sows up to 5.25. Calves led at 6.50 and most stock settled near 6.00.
In Fort Worth on December 6 cattle receipts reached 1800 with 260 calves. Beef steers sold from 5.60 to 6.26, stocker steers 5.26 to 6.25, butcher cows 4.60 to 5.75, helpers 5.60 to 6.60, stocker cows 4.00 to 4.76, calves 5.00 to 8.00. Hogs receipts 700 with a firmer undertone and top at 7.85, bulk 7.36 to 7.66. Sheep receipts 280 with a strong market. wethers at 5.
Receipts and prices for hogs cattle and sheep reported in Chicago today. Hog receipts 24000 market strong with bulk 7.50 to 7.70 and pigs 4.75 to 6.90. Cattle receipts 3000 market slow with Reeves 6.60 to 9.70 and cows 3.30 to 8.15. Sheep receipts 17000 market steady native 6.15 to 7.50 yearlings 5.30 to 7.00 lambs 6.50 to 7.90.
ST LOUIS December 6 Receipts show hogs six thousand with higher prices pigs and light sows 6.00 to 7.66 good heavy 7.65 to 7.80 cattle receipts about one thousand including two hundred Texans market steady native beef steers 7.50 to 9.15 cows and heifers 4.25 to 8.50 Texas Oklahoma steers 5.76 to 7.00 cows and heifers 4.00 to 6.00 calves in carload lots 4.25 to 5.50 sheep receipts sixteen hundred market steady high quality muttons 4.85 to 8.75 lambs 6.26
Get through from Waco confirms service, but five I and G N washouts again block the line. Texas and Pacific freight derailment at Mingus halts traffic for hours. Fort Worth hotels and stations host marooned travelers as railroads estimate two days to restore passenger service.
Receipts and quotations show hogs at 6600 with higher market. Bulk 6.35 to 7.36, heavies 7.66 to 8.50, lights 7.36 to 7.60, pigs 5.60 to 6.75. Cattle receipts 1500 with 800 southerns and steady market. prime fed steers 8.25 to 9.25, dressed 6.76 to 8.16, southerns 5.50 to 7.35, cows 4.26 to 7.25, heifers 5.50 to 9.00. Sheep receipts 4000 with lambs 7.25 to 8.00, yearlings 5.50 to 6.75, wethers 4.60 to 5.50, ewes 4.00 to 4.75.
Cotton in New York opened steady to higher by three points then eased slightly on spot selling and liquidation. The Dec crop yield estimate of 14,149,500 bales matched expectations, Liverpool showed resistance aided by spot demand, while futures drifted 2 to 12 points lower amid afternoon liquidation.
December 5 report shows futures at December 13.18, January 01, March 18.18, May 13.06, July 12.94. Market ends barely steady with slight gains and firming tones across near dates.
New Orleans December cotton futures opened steady to 5 points lower as late crop estimates and unfavorable belt weather weighed. Bulls offered little support though buying picked up near midmorning on fears of continued bad weather and potential outturn changes. By noon contracts slipped to 4 points down with afternoon trading continuing in dull fashion.
Prices started trading steady with December at 12.99 and January 13.168 16, March 13.80 31, May 18.36 387, July 18.38 39. Close held steady, showing a net decline of 12 to 16 points from the session.
Liverpool December 6 spot cotton market shows steady prices with middling around 7.88 pence per pound and sales totaling 14 000 for speculation and export. Receipts reach 36 000 including 20 000 American, indicating active trade and broad demand.
Cotton futures in Liverpool closed with small gains and steady tones across nearby deliveries. Prices ranged from Dec at 6.9814 to Nov at 6.384 with multiple month pairings quoted, including Jan-Feb at 6.95 and Dec-Jan at 6.384.
New Orleans on December 5 reports spot cotton steady at middling 13 16. Sales on the spot 975 with arrivals 1678. Various grades quoted from low ordinary 7 16 to strict good middling 13 11 16. Receipts 7354. total stock 201,728.
Galveston December 5 reports spot cotton closing quiet with revised prices across grades. Low ordinary six and one half cents, ordinary eight and a half, good ordinary nine, low middling eleven, middle two digits and above for covariant grades. sales total 374 bales f o b none. receipts 9555 bales and total stock 322039 bales.
The spot market closed easy, 1 16c down. Sales were 1064 bales F O B. Total stocks 183,441 bales with shipments 2614. Price ranges include low ordinary 7 1 16c, ordinary 8 1 16c, good ordinary 11c, low middling 11 11-16c, middling 18 1 16c, middling fair 14 25-26c.
In Memphis spot cotton remains steady at middling 1 1/8 in trade on December 5. New York coffee quotes hold with No 7 Rio at 9 1/2 to 9 3/4 cents and futures steady. March at 9.60 and May at 9.76 as markets digest demand.
This year's receipts total 61 346 bales with interior receipts at 71 319. Houston stock stands at 108 400 with large year over year and week differences. Liverpool weekly report lists imports 170 000 bales of all kinds 140 000 American, stock 770 000 with 686 000 American and forwards 100 000. Total exports reported 4000.
Memphis reports prime basis 3 percent meal prices around 27.26 to 27.50 with linters at 24 percent. New York closes firm on cotton seed oil with spot at 7.04 and futures rising through 7.36, with total sales reaching 9900 units across December to July contracts.
In New Orleans on December fifth the market showed a quiet tone for rough Honduras and Japan while clean Honduras held firm and Japan remained unsteady. Prices quoted include rough Honduras at 2.00 to 4.60, Japan 100 at 3.25, clean Honduras 4.00 to 6.00, and Japan 24% at 3 1/4. Receipts totaled 11,808 rough, 8,170 millers, and 6,133 clean. Sales featured 1 5/8 bushels of clean Honduras at 11 16 to 5 3/4, and 1,688 pockets of Japan at 2 11/16 to 3 1/8.
Observations taken at 8 a.m. on Friday December 6 1913 record weather and context notes. The fragment notes timing and date but lacks additional readable details or names.
Flood conditions prevent Assistant Attorney General W A Keeling and Chief Clerk Worth Ray from attending. The injunction suit filed by Chester Basse to stop cancellation of his liquor license is postponed to next Friday at 9 30 AM before District Judge W F Ezell. Basse seeks to block license cancellation amid alleged demands to tear down a partition and vacate the basement of a pool hall over which he has no control. The case also tests whether a proprietor may remain open past 9 30 PM.
A. L. Westgard, vice president and director of transcontinental highways for the National Highways Association, may abandon finishing the Texas road survey due to persistent rain. He and D. E. Colp left for Lawton, Oklahoma to attend the Meridian Highway Association meeting but could not return because of high water in Central Texas.
In Waxahachie Texas after another night of heavy rain principal streams flooded their banks. Interurban and railroad traffic remained badly crippled with no further damage reported today.
Disappointing threshing in Argentina strengthened wheat while India reported beneficial rains. Corn moved with storms looming, then settled after demand from buyers cooled. Oats followed the grain trend as May offerings stayed high, and provisions rose with ice and corn. Prices showed volatility before closing steady.
Quotations for cash wheat and corn along with oats are listed. No. 2 red wheat at 96½ to 97 cents, No. 2 hard 87 to 98. Corn No. 2 white old 79½ cents. Oats No. 2 40 to 43 cents. Receipts yesterday show flour 10,000 barrels, wheat 75,000 bushels, corn 37,000, oats 60,000. shipments include 73,000 flour, 40,000 corn, 27,000 oats. Wheat Dec 86, May 92½. corn Dec 73 to 73½, May 73¾. oats Dec 41, May 44 to 40.
Quotations today list cash wheat with No 2 hard at 83 to 88 cents and No 2 red at 87 to 88 1/2 cents. No 2 mixed 70 to 70 1/2 cents. No 2 white oats 41 1/2 to 41 3/4 cents, No 2 mixed 40 cents. Dec wheat 82 1/2 to 82 3/4 cents, May 83 1/2 cents. Corn Dec 70 to 71/4 cents, May 73 cents.
Topeka December 6 F D Coburn secretary of the state board of agriculture reports fall grown wheat in Kansas totals 38 580 000 acres the largest on record The season has been excellent for sowing germinating and growth with current wheat condition at 97 percent the highest since 1900 He notes condition six points higher than 1913 and ten points higher than 1911.
A Friday 7 PM banquet at the YMCA invites Suffragettes and Anti-Suffragettes who campaigned for membership and subscriptions. Anti-Suffragettes won by 388 votes and the defeated must pay indemnity. Clarence Jones and N H King will captain the Suffragette waiters with A M Fisher as toastmaster.
La Grange Texas faced a citywide blackout after the Colorado River rise forced a shutdown of the power plant. Stores closed as residents aided salvage and rescue in flooded areas with water several inches deep in the public square. Katy railroad tracks and nearby homes suffered washing hazards and loss of telephone lines cut off news from the danger zone.
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