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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1917
Page
7
The Cot ton market opened with a moderate advance and moved to firm, volatile levels as trading stayed active. New York and New Orleans rallied three figures with Liverpool buyers pushing prices higher. San Antonio spots quoted at 14.50 amid nervous early activity and irregular closes.
The New York cotton market opened steady with a 14 to 16 point advance, then fell to 14.00 cents on liquidation and Washington news. May contracts climbed to 15.20 cents and closed with a net gain of about 90 to 108 points as buyers from Liverpool circles entered.
New York quotations show March at 13.95, May 14.25, October 13.90, December 14.06 with gains of 92 to 108 points. New Orleans early trade was unsettled with a drop on opening, then buying pressure as relations with Germany broke.
New Orleans reports a firmer cotton market with futures for March 13.28 and October 13.12 up about 116 to 136 points. Liverpool cotton opens Monday about 14 points higher while the weekly cotton statement is issued.
CHANGE-217 ACRES RICH BLACK desert land in La Salle and Atascosa counties near town and railroad. Also stock farm north of Corpus Christi property owned by McLeod & Co. at 811 te Bank Building. 400 acres fenced with woven wire offered at 12.50 an acre. Plus 36 acres near Maverick with 2 story house and utilities near a school. Writings refer to Alamo Bank Building Co. residence Cr. 2454.
New York February 3 report lists season totals and weekly receipts for cotton seed oil and related figures. The data compares this date with the same date last year and the year before, highlighting domestic stocks, exports, and mill takings across regions.
United States cotton receipts show stock at major ports Galveston Houston New Orleans Savannah Boston and Pacific. Figures list bales and stock comparisons to last week and last year along with export totals to Great Britain France and the Continent for the period reported.
San Antonio provisions list focus on packing house quotes for Saturday offers. Dry salt extras 17 cents, bacon extras 1 cent, dry salt bellies 14 to 16 pound average 1814 cents, fancy breakfast bacon 7 cents, fancy hams 22 cents, bacon bellies 14 to 15 cent pound average 20 cents, Pure lard 17 cents, compound 14 cents, American cheese 77 cents per pound.
Shippers market reports rising egg costs and steady poultry quotes. Texas waxes for candling with 46 items observed. creamery prices around 80 34c and 25 28c. Poultry values show hens large 7.00 to 8.00, medium 6.60 to 6.00, small 4.80 to 5.00, friers 5.50 to 6.09, broilers 3.66 to 4.00, springs 4.00, turkeys 21 to 22 cents per pound, ducks 7.00 to 8.00 per dozen, geese listed.
Chicago reports day quotations with batter steady at 38 to 38 c, receipts 4211 tubs. Eggs lower with receipts 6592 cases. firsts 42 c, ordinary firsts 40 to 42 c. Potatoes unchanged. white varieties quoted $2.00 to $2.25 in several states and Michigan $1.00 to $2.00. Poultry alive unchanged. fowls 20 c, springs 19 to 20 c.
Kansas City price quotes list butter creamery dairy products and poultry markets for February including firsts 39c packed 26c hens 19c roosters 13c turkeys 25c and potatoes at 2.10 dollars per bag Elgin butter market notes 60 tubs at 39c in Elgin Illinois on February 3.
Chicago prices for wheat fell six cents on news of severed U S Germany relations but trading stayed intense for ten minutes. May wheat surged to 1.68 and closed near 1.67 to 1.68 as shorts covered amid rumors of concessions. Corn also fell then recovered with a 2 cent gain, oats tied the corn move.
Quotations show grain prices in Kansas City with wheat rising up to 4 cents. No. 2 hard and red wheat priced around 1.64 to 1.72 dollars per bushel. Corn values higher with No. 2 mixed around 96 cents and No. 2 white about 85 to 87 cents. Oats lower to fractional gains, No. 2 white around 56 to 57 cents. Kaffir and mile maize listed at 2.55 to 2.85 dollars.
Kansas City grain futures closed with Wheat May at 1 661.67 and July at 1 44 percent. Corn May at 985 percent and July at 4 cents.
Chicago Feb 3 price quotes show wheat at No 2 red 1.67 and No 2 hard nominal corn No 2 yellow 5 3 4 c oats standard 61 53 c barley 1.05 1.28 dollars per bushel.
Observations recorded at 7 a m on Saturday February 3 1917 note subzero temperatures wind under ten miles per hour and precipitation under one hundredth of an inch. Allen Buell meteorologist Weather Bureau signs off.
In New Orleans on Friday both rough and clean rice held steady with unchanged quotations. Receipts totaled 1668 pockets for clean rice with sales evenly distributed among Honduras 542 pockets and Blue Rose 932 pockets.
Savannah market notes show dull turpentine with sales none and receipts 68 ship ments 513 stock 16157. Resin firm reports sales 263 receipts 303 ship ments 305 stock 77744. Quotations listed A through W with prices from 6.10 to 8.35 and variations W. G W. W 6.65 6.90.
J E Jarratt & Co of San Antonio won the $75,000 road bond issue for road district No 3 in Hays county including Buda. The sale Friday drew eight competitors and bonds sold at par plus accrued interest and a $1203 premium, the highest price for such bonds in Texas.
Mme Alma Gluck, Romanian-born American concert star, headlined Beethoven hall to a full house with an encore laden program. Hoff accompanied, the Mozart Society Chorus under Arthur Chaassen impressed, and selections from Handel to Hahn drew strong applause.
Medina Dam Toll Road Company officers will sign a contract with Martin Wright and Charles X. Gutzeit early next week to inaugurate immediate road construction. The project aims to complete and open by June 15, running from beyond Cliff post office on the Culebra road to two miles up from the dam, at an estimated cost of about 41800 dollars.
Sandy the plumber works on a town job with an apprentice. The boss waits for his return after not finding him. Sandy explains he was getting his hair cut, and the bees scold him with a joking Scottish reply about time.
Northern live stock market quiet cattle steady to lower at Fort Worth receipts show cattle 900 hogs 3500 and sheep 700. Cattle stockers 6.50 7.50 steers 6.50 9.25 calves 4.25 9.50 hogs top 9.0 10.35 bulk 10.0 10.4 sheep lambs 12.50 13.50 yearlings 11.00 12.00 ewes 8.50 9.25 goats 3.50 6.50.
Receipts and quotations show hogs strong at $11.00 to $12.08, cattle receipts 160 with native beef at $7.75 to $12.00 and western steers $7.75 to $10.15, stockers and feeders $6.00 to $9.10, cows and heifers $5.00 to $10.25, calves $10.00 to $14.00. Sheep receipts 1,000 with market strong. wethers $10.40 to $11.75, lambs $12.00 to $14.65.
Kansas City animal market reports show hog receipts 800 with prices from 11.50 to 11.99 for various classes. Cattle receipts 1000 with prime fed steers at 11.00 to 11.75, cows 6.00 to 9.50, calves 7.00 to 13.75, stockers 6.75 to 10.00. Sheep receipts 1500 with lambs 12.75 to 14.60, yearlings 12.00 to 13.00, wethers 10.25 to 11.25, stockers and feeders 7.00 to 13.85.
The weekly statement from New York clearing houses shows banks and trust companies hold 165,469,540 dollars in excess of legal reserve requirements, down 25,914,070 dollars from the previous week.
New York reports Friday cotton goods quiet with an easier tendency. Yarns fell while wool markets stayed firm and raw silk edged higher. Trading remained restricted across most dry goods lines as buyers await settlement of international affairs.
Captain Gordon Johnson detached to Third cavalry. First Lieutenant Herbert V. Weinrauch relieved in Southern Department with 24 days leave. First Lieutenant Edwin P. Parker Jr transferred to Fourth Field Artillery. First Lieutenant Stephen M. Walmsley to report to Southern Department. Lieutenant Colonel George T. Langhorne leave extended ten days. Brigadier General Charles G. Treat relieved from board of ordnance and fortifications. Captain De Witt W. Chamberlain relieved with Twentieth Infantry to report to quartermaster corps.
The injunction suit between San Antonio Belt and Terminal Company and Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company, set for Saturday, was postponed to next week. A counter-suit filed by the railroad against the terminal is to be heard in Austin, with local counsel for the railroad absent. Frank C. Davis for the Terminal Company planned to attend the Austin hearing.
Grand opening announcements note a Sunday February 4 event at Turner Hall with Willett's six piece Union Orchestra. Gents 50c and ladies free mark the social gathering.
January 1917 circulation at the Carnegie library reached 14 502, the highest monthly total. A February visit count began with 1 024 readers, up from 833 on the first day last year. San Antonio Police Rifle Club received 18 000 rounds of .30 caliber service rifle ammunition and plans to add about 50 rifles as membership grows.
J C Crider of Pipe Creek reported to police that a 30-30 rifle was stolen from his automobile Friday night. description of the weapon provided to officers J F Carl attorney-at-law furnished contact details. several ads accompany the notice.
Detective Semmel mann reports charges of bartering stolen metal. Police say the men bought brass copper from youths who stole from unoccupied dwellings. Several new brass water faucets bought for 20 cents each were recovered. Hertzberg Kercheville attorneys at law. 6056 610 Brady Bldg. (Adv.)
Mrs Susanna Sammer age 59 wife of Joseph Sammer died at 12 30 Saturday morning a native of Roddenbach Rhinefalz Bavaria Germany and a resident of San Antonio for 22 years Surviving also are five children Margaret Mary Katherine Louis and William Sammer all of San Antonio Funeral from 121 Zapata Street at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon with interment in Cemetery No 4
W. H. Swift aged 40 died at 8 15 Friday night at his sister Mrs J L Burd 511 East Laurel street He was a Memphis native who came to San Antonio three years ago from Palestine He leaves a widow one son two sisters Mrs A L Ulrich and Mrs J L Burd and a brother W E Swift all of Palestine The body will be sent Saturday night by Riebe Undertaking company to Palestine for burial.
Russell M Palmer a sergeant major of the Fourteenth Cavalry died at 126 Compton avenue Friday. He served in Cuba and the Philippine Islands. Survived by widow, mother Mrs Melissa Palmer of St Louis and three sisters. Services 4 30 PM Saturday at Shelley Loring chapel with military escort to railway station. Interment in St Louis.
Shelley Loring Undertaking Co advertises automobile equipment and related services with contact phones 971.
A long list of visitors stays at the Gunter and Menger hotels with guests from Kenedy Chicago Centerville Mo Cleveland Ohio and New York including T F Winthrop J A Dougherty W W Waite L M Sullivan H L Swain J H Straus and others. The piece ends with a brief joke about a former servant and her discharge from a hospital position.
New York stocks opened with declines after the break with Germany but recovered strongly led by United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel. Trading surged past 1 million shares as rails and industrials fell early then rose with war issue gains and a feverish closing.
New York reports steady government bonds while railroad bonds show weakness. Sixty day bills yield 47 2, commercial paper 50 day 47 2, 60 day 47 4, demand 47 5 70, cables 48 7 16. France demand 58 4 percent, cables 58 3 percent. Silver 76 1 6c. Guilders demand 40 percent, cables 40 18 16, Mexican dollars 59 %. notes on currencies and rates accompany local bond activity.
London reports bar silver at 377 164 per ounce and money at 3 percent. Discount rates for short and three months stand at 5 5 percent.
The M E T and Texas Special passenger train faced slowdowns Friday night as freezing water tanks blocked traffic from Missouri to Oklahoma. The Texas Special reached San Antonio Saturday 11 hours late, with passengers praising clear sunshine on arrival. E W Wright, M E T assistant general claim agent aboard, noted an ice covered country from St Louis to Muskogee and said Wright would depart for Dallas on a regular trip.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a father and child discussing what constitutes legitimate actors in movies, hinting at understanding actors beyond surface appearances. The exchange suggests curiosity about performance and perception within cinema.
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