Bulls Display Confidence as Stock Market Rises
New York traders showed renewed confidence with a stronger tone and rising prices. Canadian Pacific led gains, with several major issues up one to two points amid short covering and positive sentiment from better bank statements and a large Lehigh Valley bond over subscription.
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New York
Canadian Pacific
New Haven
Reading
Union Pacific
Erie First
Western Union
Woolworth
Lehigh Valley
Coalers
New York Money Rates Steady Amid Trading
New York on December 19 reported call money at 5 percent with a closing bid of 34 percent. Time loans showed 60 days at 5 percent and 90 days with 6 percent, reflecting a firm but varied lending market.
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New York
Metal market round up from New York and London
Lead, copper, tin and antimony prices quoted with dull or steady activity. Copper futures and electrolytic copper listed, London spot rates shown. Iron and ore values noted, with separate New Orleans ledgers for lead and spelter. Coffee futures in New York show May and June prices around 9.38 to 9.63.
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London
Cooligan's
Northern
Cleveland
Weather Observations at Eight A.M. December 19 1913
Observations recorded at eight in the morning on Friday December 19 1913. Data includes temperature barometric pressure and wind direction as part of routine meteorological report.
Signals Disobeyed Drive Rail Accidents Says Report
A 1911 to 1912 railway safety study cites 14 block signal breaches causing 105 deaths and 311 injuries. It urges automatic train control, speed limits, and stronger Congress empowered investigations, plus legal changes for charges, suits, and railroad regulation.
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Congress
Department of Justice
Mercantile Market Roundup From New York
Prime mercantile paper quoted at 5 to 6 percent on Dec 19. Sterling exchange steady at 60 days 4.81 with demand 4.85 20. Commercial bills 4.80. Bar silver 58 cents, Mexican dollars 44 1 2 cents. Government and railroad bonds firm.
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New York
Hides Steady as Leather Firms. School Lunches Expanded
Hides steady while leather markets stay firm amid ongoing price stability. News notes school lunches are served at nominal cost to elementary students in 41 American cities across 200 English speaking communities, 150 German communities and 1200 French communities.
Unsettled Weekend Forecast for Texas and San Antonio
The Weather Bureau warns San Antonio and vicinity of unsettled conditions Friday night and Saturday with probable showers and colder temperatures. East Texas faces unsettled conditions tonight into Saturday with possible showers and near freezing in extreme northwest areas. Precipitation yesterday was negligible. total since January first stands at 37.50 inches with an excess of 11.28 inches.
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San Antonio
East
Texas
Hay Market Reaches New Highs Amid Scarce Supplies
Hay prices surged Friday as offerings dwindled and jobbers lacked stock at any price. Choice alfalfa hit 22 dollars per ton, prairie hay 17, and sorghum 15 with expectations of higher rates next week. Eggs and butter showed mixed shifts while Salmon packers report firm prices ahead of the next pack.
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Henry Martcneau
Maracheau Grain Company
Texas
F. O. B. Elgin
Wholesale Market Prices for Eggs to Lemons and More
Readable lists of wholesale prices for eggs poultry rabbits squabs butter cheese vegetables fruits and cereals across regions including California Texas and Florida. Prices cover items from eggs per dozen to coffee per pound and flour per barrel with assorted weights and crate or hundredweight pricing.
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Northern Creamery
Texas Creamery
California
Colorado
Texas
Messina
Missouri
Ben Davis
Florida
Japan
Honduras
Pioneer
Liberty Bell
San Antonio
Hay
South Texas
Illinois and California commodity price list summary
A scanned price listing shows varied wholesale figures for beans canned meats fish dried fruits and fats. Entries include California evaporated peaches pears apples prunes raisins cranberries currants dates hides and beeswax with prices per pound or per unit and several luxury items noted by name and weight.
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California
London
Chicago Market Quotations Report Dec 19
Quotations show butter higher and creamery at 22 36c, eggs unchanged with 2604 cases received, cheese and potatoes steady. Poultry alive prices dropped with springs at 12c, fowls 12 c, turkeys 16c, dressed 21c.
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Chicago
Commodity market roundups from multiple cities
Butter eggs and poultry prices steady in Kansas City and St. Louis reports. New York eggs steady. New Orleans rice products quiet with limited receipts and prices for rough Honduras and Japan rice reflected in small pockets and sacks traded.
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New Orleans
Honduras
Japan
Cotton markets steady with modest denim demand in New York
New York on December 19 reported quiet cotton goods markets with a hint of steadiness. Cotton yarns were quiet and fall lines of men's wear staples were bought moderately while raw silk showed little change.
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New York
Earthquakes Foreseen by Panama Region Blasts
A writer links Panama region quake shocks to heavy blasting in the Culebra cut and the Gamboa dike collapse. He notes over two hundred million cubic yards removed, possibly re weighting surface weights, amid unsettled raw sugar markets with Muscovado at 2.74 and centrifugal 3.24.
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New York
Culebra
Gamboa -Dike
Panama
Mexican cattle steady at Union Stock Yards as market opens
Mexican cattle again top stock receipts at over a thousand with pens crowded at opening. Except for 365 cattle and calves and 25 hogs, all offerings went to other points. Prices steady with best cows at 5.25, calves to 6.50, hogs 7 to 7.25. sheep and goats not offered. Texas stock shows well in quotations.
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Union Stock Yards
Texas
Fort Worth Livestock Market Reports Mixed Receipts
In Fort Worth on December 19 the supply included 2200 cattle and 450 calves, 700 hogs and about 2500 sheep. Prices ranged with beef steers at 5.50 to 6.50, stocker steers 5.50 to 6.25, cows 4.00 to 5.50, heifers 5.00 to 5.25, bulls 4.00 to 5.26, calves 5.00 to 8.50, hogs steady to 7.85 with bulk 7.50 to 7.75, and sheep selling readily at steady rates.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Chicago live stock market summary of December receipts and prices
Hogs receipts 29 000 market dull with bulk sales 7.50 to 7.70 and pigs 6.25 to 7.65. Cattle receipts 2500 market steady with beeves 6.60 to 9.75 and cows 3.30 to 8.40. Sheep receipts 10 000 market weak native sheep 4.25 to 5.60 yearlings 5.40 to 6.50 native lambs 6.25 to 7.70.
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Chicago
Texas
Kansas City Live Stock Receipts and Prices Report
Receipts and quotations shown for December 19. Hog receipts 7000 with market lower. bulk 7.40 to 7.65, light 7.35 to 7.60, pigs 6.50 to 7.15. Cattle receipts 1000 including 400 southern, market steady. prime fed steers 8.25 to 10.25, dressed 8.00 to 8.25, southern steers 5.50 to 7.00, cows 4.40 to 7.00, heifers 6.50 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 3000, market steady. lambs 7.00 to 7.65, yearlings 5.60 to 6.75, wethers 4.50 to 5.25, ewes 4.00 to 6.30.
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Kansas City
Market Prices and Receipts for Hogs Cattle and Sheep
At St Louis on December 19 receipts totaled 19000 hogs with lower prices from 6.50 to 7.70 for feeders, 7.00 for heavy. Cattle receipts 1100 including 300 Texans with steady trading. native beef steers 7.15 to 9.75, cows 4.25 to 8.50, Texas steers 5.75 to 7.00, calves 6.00 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 900 with steady markets. native muttons 3.75 to 4.66 and lambs 5.00.
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ST. Louis
Texas
Oklahoma
Cotton Market Dips on Wall Street Selling Pressure
New York December 19 cotton prices declined as Wall Street selling and liquidation pressured futures. January showed weakness while rumors of higher ginning estimates sparked late covering rallies leaving the market nervously unsettled at noon. General business remained quiet with week end figures near standstill.
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New York
Wall Street
Censsu Bureau
Cotton futures open steady as rail rate news influences bids
New Orleans cotton opened steady to four points down from yesterday with selling pressured by lower cable quotes. Bears eased as word railroads east of the Mississippi may raise freight rates, boosting Wall Street and general business, while late-day buying appeared on improved spot demand and higher mill takings.
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New Orleans
Misaleippi River
Wall Street
Hester
Cotton Futures Opened Steady Then Close Mixed
Futures opened steady on December 12 with December at 12.65 and January at 12.78. March rose to 12.91 with May and July around 13.01 to 13.03 as prices traded between 12.60 and 13.07. Cotton closed steady with a net decline of 10 to 18 points from the session.
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New York
New Orleans
Spot cotton prices hold steady in Liverpool market
Liverpool notes a good business day with steady prices. Middling fair at 7.674, good middling 7.334, middling 7.114, low middling 6.87d, good ordinary 6.214, ordinary 5.87d. Sales total 12,000, including 10,600 American and 2,000 for speculation and export. Receipts 40,000, including 39,500 American.
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Liverpool
Futures Close Quiet in Liverpool Market
Liverpool futures closed quiet with a series of exchange quotes. December to January 6.78 percent, January to February 6.7944, February to March 6.81 percent, and subsequent monthly spreads shown from March to April 6.84 to December to January 6.28 percent.
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Liverpool
Market Quotations Across Cities Lead With Mixed Prices
Leading spot markets show New York missing 12.80. New Orleans and Memphis quote middling around 13 cents. Houston and Galveston post middling 18 and 13 cents respectively while Liverpool reads middling 7.114 cents.
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New Orleans
Liverpol
Liverpool
Houston
Galveston
Memphis
Spot cotton prices hold steady in New Orleans market
On December 19 in New Orleans, spot cotton remained quiet and unchanged with middling at 13c. Sales totaled 1964 bales for immediate delivery and 895 for arrival, while receipts reached 9390 bales and stocks stood at 277,200 bales.
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New Orleans
Spot market closes steady with mixed cotton figures
Houston report notes no spot sales, 1160 bales shipped f o b and 9647 bales shipped with a stock of 170651 bales. Market remained steady and unchanged on the day from the Houston cotton market.
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Houston
Tex
Spot cotton report from New York on December 19
Spot cotton quiet with Middling uplands at 12.80 and gulf at 13.05. No sales recorded.
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New York
Spot cotton steady in Memphis market
Memphis Tennessee December 19 spot cotton remains unchanged with middling at 13 and a half cents. A Backwoods item quotes a joke about a chandelier in New York and meal memories from Mrs. BackWoods followed by a brief Life note.
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Tent
Backwoods
New York
Painter Praises Vera Maxwell as Beautiful Stage Girl
Paul Helleau, famed French etcher, elevates Miss Vera Maxwell beside Mrs. Leonard Thomas as America’s most beautiful woman. He previously named Mrs. Thomas the Western Hemisphere’s finest. Helleau’s new painting titled Beautiful Stage Girl completes the shift in acclaim.
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Vera Maxwell
Leonard Thomas
New York
America
Thomas
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Miss Maxwell
Record price for New York City land at Fifth Avenue
A plot 73.4 by 100 feet at Fifth Avenue and Forty second Street sold for 2,250,000 dollars, about 307 dollars per square foot. If Manhattan Island valued at this rate, its 21.9 square miles would be worth 187,534,646,724 dollars, exceeding the United States total wealth by over 2 million.
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Russia
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Cuban women push for suffrage in partition of Partido Popular Feminista
A letter received by Mrs. Raymond Brown, president of the New York State Suffrage Association, shows Cuban women organizing for voting rights. They propose Pauline Partido Popular Feminista with peaceful aims and legal procedures, asking Brown to become honorary president.
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New York
Raymond Brown
New York State Suffrage Association
Partido Popular Feminista
Marine and government dispatches from December reports
Galveston notes no arrivals yesterday and several steamers cleared or sailed to European ports. New York reports the arrival of America from Naples. Washington notes Major General Leonard Wood will command the eastern district at Governor's Island when he leaves the role of chief of staff next April, with General Barry heading to the Philippines. Orville Wright remarks that a universal stabilizer for airplanes remains beyond reach, offering no near term solution.
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New York
Orville Wright
Aeronautical Society
Wright
Fence Proposed Along Border by Senator Ashhurst
A barbed wire fence along the Mexican boundary was proposed in a bill by Senator Ashhurst to curb incursions into the United States. The measure calls for a total appropriation of 350000 dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Ashhurst
Mild weather tempers winter wheat market as bears hold
Chicago December weather kept wheat from a rally with prices trading around last night’s level. Forecasts of lower western temperatures pressured corn while provisions sold steadily but with limited follow through. First sales dipped 2.5 to 3 yet recovered slightly as traders awaited farm reserve signals and country sales trimmed gains.
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Til
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wheat and corn price quotations and receipts at St. Louis
Quotation figures for cash and futures markets show No 2 red wheat at 95 to 96 cents, No 3 corn No 2 white at 70 to 71 cents, and oats around 41 to 42 cents. Receipts yesterday included 67 000 bushels of wheat and 68 000 bushels of corn, with shipments totaling 78 000 bushels of wheat and 10 000 bushels of corn.
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ST. Louis
Market Quotations From Kansas City Exchange
Quotations today show cash wheat with No 2 hard at 83 80a and No 2 red at 90% 92c. Corn No 2 mixed at 67%c with No 2 white at 68c. Oats No 2 white at 41% to 42c. Wheat futures December at 86% and May at 83% while corn futures December at 65%c and May around 71%?
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Kansas City
Cotton Seed Prices and Meal Linters Report
Memphis Tennessee December 19 prime basis 5.80 meal 27.00 27.25 linters 2 3 cents per unit reported as prices for cotton seed products in a market bulletin.
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Memphis
Tenn
Linters
Cotton seed oil prices and sales report excerpt
New York cotton oil markets show steady firming with spot and forward bids across months from December to July. Trade details include specific bid prices and volumes such as 200 December, 100 January, and 400 March in recent calls, with total sales totaling 4700 units.
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New York
Oll
Spot
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