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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1932
Page
13
The report covers mixed stock activity with minimal declines in several sectors. Notable movements include Ally and allied firms, grain prospects, and transport shares showing tentative gains while energy and metals drifted. Market sentiment remains cautious as traders weigh inflation signals and policy cues.
Historical market page shows wide fluctuations in bean eggplant and citrus prices with per hundredweight and per bushel figures. Mentions California produce prices rising while other items fall. Mentions personnel and names altered by OCR but indicates a market report with assorted vegetables fruits and dairy products and wage talks and notices.
Market irregularities noted as cattle categories range from medium to choice with prices around 1502.50 to 2080.00. Calves, heifers, bulls, and feeders appear with varied weights and bids. quantities and exact lots are inconsistently listed amid garbled OCR.
Market notes show fluctuating prices for Argentinian and U.S. wheat amid production curtailment and steady openings. Wheat demand varied by region with price signals from Chicago and St. Louis markets while corn and rice provisions reflect higher quotes and cautious activity across the sector.
Fragmented OCR text from a cotton market item mentions SRW OORLMASS December and multiple garbled names and terms. Readable bits reference a market series or event, notes on prices or goods, and scattered place names, with no clear action or outcome due to heavy transcription errors.
A condensed market update lists poultry and dairy items with varied pricing across New York and Chicago regions. It notes butter and cheese quotes, egg and turkey figures, and general meat market conditions, including demand and price ranges for fresh and frozen goods.
Edinburg Texas December committees for the South Texas division of the Texas State Teachers Association were announced by J Lee Stambough of Pharr president The convention will be held in Corpus Christi next year Named committees include Resolutions Nominations and Necrology with members from Rio Grande City Kingsville Brownsville Laredo Edinburg and Edna among others, reflecting broad regional representation.
Galveston War Mothers organize a charitable drive to aid poor children with toys and dolls in any condition. Firemen repair and repaint, while mothers sew dresses for dolls. A Christmas party is set for December 23 to ensure every child receives a gift from Santa Claus.
The Hev J W Long 4 pastor of the Methodist church at Waelder died after coming to San Antonio for treatment. The body was to be taken to Hondo for funeral services with Rev J M Alexander and Rev C E Wheat officiating. Survivors: widow Mrs Emma Long and daughter Eva Long of Waelder.
Austin December 1 there are busy days for the capitol locksmith who must prepare over 1000 keys for lawmakers. Each member gets four keys one for desk two for voting machine and one for rocker a full set of duplicates is kept for the speaker and machine operator. Keys are made anew when members lose them or fail to return. Two years ago the locksmith cut more than 1000 keys for both houses but recent sessions delayed fitting the keys as required.
Southwest Texas vocational agriculture teachers gather in Range on December 0 for their quarterly meeting. Four talks by local and visiting teachers precede round table discussions on specialty problems. Speakers include Fred B. Norris Robatown W. E. Driskill Brockdale and James C. Avery Choate school B C Davis Beeville. A poultry and egg judging contest rounds out the agenda.
Starr County oil test by Blox Oil Co. No 1 Dayne, located on west 14 acres of tract 4, Starr County, shows three feet of good land at 1485 feet with promising results. The nearby Myers and McGraghren No 1 Doyne well, at 1460 feet, recently completed, yielded oil and gas, suggesting the sand may widen north of the Heard discovery well completed last March.
It is estimated that as many as 450000 ton tanners of food have been canned in Ban Gaba county this year, alongside pastry demonstrations and canneries operating under a planned budget. Milas Serena Dry, county agent, aided the demonstration and budgeting efforts.
New Haven Conn Dec A psychologist will direct a course in professional practice and legal ethics at Yale Law School. Professor Edward B Robinson of the psychology department will train the first year class in the new subject, directing the program.
Eight new teletype machines for transmitting weather maps to distant airfields will be installed at Love Field Dallas. Machines, received, will generate master maps showing regional climate conditions at central points and send to all division airports along the route.
American Airways shows a 31 percent rise in passengers and a 10 percent gain in express for October, with 7,992 passengers and 14,954 pounds of express. Mileage flown reached about 52,000 miles, totaling 684,747 miles in October 1951 versus 244,739 in October 1941.
A. Street resigned as deputy constable of Precinct No 4 after the county commissioners refused to appoint Jesse Trebino as his successor. The court signaled possible nonrenewal or contract terms for rural deputies, with Uhr favoring removal unless resignations are tied to renewals. Abbott Maverick and Street cited better opportunities as reasons for resigning.
Two appraisers have been added to the Agricultural Credit Corporation in Hidalgo County to speed loan processing. One will be in Mercedes and the other in McAllen. The Valley committee will meet twice weekly to pass on loans, up from once a week, said J A Hollingsworth of San Benito, director of the Houston branch.
Southern Oil Company of America announced a contract to test a wildcat well by December 15 in eastern Howard county on the W F Williams estate lands. The site lies in the southwest quarter of section 42, block 96, township 1 north, near the P Railway survey, about one mile east of Cowhame and four miles north of the Dodge Denmin pool.
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