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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
11
Market notes describe cranberry prices advancing to higher per barrel levels while demand clings to limited supplies. Onions show strong price pressure with California shipments glutting, and orange and tangerine markets wobble after late half-day demand slump. Weather turns chillier with unusually harsh conditions foreseen to curb fruit movement.
A dense OCR style price notice lists vegetables fruits and staples with per unit prices and weights. Items include sweet potatoes pumpkins onions beans peaches pears apples and more with varied denominations in dollars and cents and occasional vendor codes.
OCR piece mentions Ada Ko roat and Cantritngal Do lesi LI with scattered names. It contains partial phrases about an evening event, a rump, and requests for direction or a signal about fall. The text is garbled, lacking clear events.
A garbled reminiscence from Harvard about a student Reinhart in a dorm yard. The text describes late night calls and laughter echoing Reinhart’s name as friends teased him, with others in the dorm reacting to the ongoing joke.
The cotton market opened weak in New York and New Orleans as Liverpool cables and Lancashire labor news weighed on futures. Reports of unsettled labor troubles and cautious buying followed, with prices slipping a few points before partial recovery amid short covering and renewed interest from longs.
Fragmentary OCR mentions employees and a plan related to 1919. It references Santa Street, copper, and New York entities but provides incomplete names, dates, and actions. The readable parts suggest an internal staff notice or policy outline with uncertainties about terms and conditions.
The fragmentary text lists cotton statistics and export figures with names such as Maria Vivin and Paulinan, mentioning trials and movements. It reads like a cluttered ledger sheet referencing regions, traders, and dates, but lacks coherent narrative or clear outcomes.
The Bureau of Statistics reports U S exports to British territory in the ten months ending December rose to 285 million dollars with imports at 94 million fewer than 1919 totals. Britain remains the largest market for American products while Canada and other colonies show strong gains across manufactured goods and agricultural items.
Market observers note a tendency toward advance as wool prices show gradual gains. Traders cite modest demand from textile mills and ongoing supply constraints as supporting factors.
The market opened with subdued moves and little change in standard stocks. Buyers shifted to speculative activity as Nippon and International Mercantile rose a fraction while Missouri Pacific and Amalgamated Copper edged higher and many rails lagged.
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