Bearish Sentiment Drops Wheat Trade Despite Demand
Chicago dispatch notes broad bearish tilt across grain markets on February 17 as wheat struggles for sale, with mills and speculators deterred by losses. Corn movements remain heavy amid Argentina’s large crop and cheap shipments, while oats and provisions ease on weak demand and selling pressure.
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India
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Wheat and oats price quotations from Chicago
Quotations show cash wheat across grades from 99 percent to 1.12 dollars with No 2 red at 99 percent pendants. Oats list No 2 at 62 cents and No 2 white around 53 cents with standard at 53 cents per bushel.
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Wheat and grain quotations dip in Kansas City market
Quotations show cash wheat led by No 2 hard at 4.00 to 4.07 per bushel and No 2 red at 97 to 98 cents, with No 2 corn mixed at 65 to 66 14 cents and oats at 62 to 65 cents. May wheat closes at 99 1/2 cents, July at 91 cents. May corn at 68 1/2 cents, July at 67 1/2 cents with sellers in control.
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Kansas City
Market quotes from St Louis grain prices
Quotations list cash wheat and corn oats prices with grades and percentages. May and July futures shown for wheat corn and oats with varying bids.
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ST. Louis
Market Report Notes on Feb 17 Trading
New York on February 17 closes with prime mercantile paper at 3 to 4 percent. Sterling exchange strong with actual business in bankers bills at 4.91.50 for 60 days and 4.87.50 for demand. Commercial bills at 4.83 to 4.83 1/2. Silver at 68 1/2 cents per ounce. Mexican dollar 47 cents. Government and railroad bonds steady.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
London Financial Rates and Short-Term Bills Report
London market update shows Consols for money at 78 18 16, account 78 15 16 with bar pargh weak and short bills at 3 percent and three months bills at similar levels. The note recordsTodays figures for money markets and government securities in a concise quotation format.
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Rice Market Report from New Orleans Trade Notes
New Orleans reports light offerings of rough Honduras rice while clean grades stay firm. Quotations show clean Honduras 3% at 5 1/2 cents, Japan at 34 4 1/2 cents, rough 2203, millers 2008, clean 13 States. Rough Honduras 8 at 3.60 to 3.75 dollars, clean Honduras 2567 at 2 5/8 to 2 3/4 dollars, Japan 2885 at 2 4/5 to 4 1/6 dollars.
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Honduras
Japan
Mente
Millers
Wool stone prices and fiber grades report
ST LOUIS February 17 price list for wool fiber categories shows medium grade combing and pese 21 percent. Light fine 15 to 19 cents, heavy fine 12 to 15 cents, tub washed 27 to 30 cents.
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Illustrated Weather Story of Day’s Conditions
Weather data summary shows high 67 and low 44 with average 56 and a daily precipitation of 0.01 inch or more. It records monthly and yearly deficiency and excess, total precipitation since January 1, wind from the northwest at 24 mph, sunrise and sunset times, and time of observation with pressure and isotherm annotations. Weather symbols indicate cloud cover and precipitation types.
Live Stock Market Shows Strength At Union Stock Yards
Union Stock Yards reports a light week of receipts yet strong demand across cattle calves and hogs. Prices ranged up to 4 per hundredweight for cows 4 to 5 for calves and 5 to 6 for hogs with buyers optimistic for a six day run and high levels ahead. President Lassiter notes 4000 steers on feed at Realitos.
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Cattlemen's Asociation
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Realitos
Texas Cattle Raisers Set Fort Worth Convention Dates
Preparations for the 1912 Texas Cattle Raisers convention in Fort Worth March 19 to 21 are underway with San Antonio expected to send a larger delegation. Fort Worth plans to host another year, while towns like Oklahoma, El Paso, and Houston contend for the 1913 meeting. San Antonio members support Fort Worth and will aid its bid for 1914.
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Cattle Deal May Shift Green Cattle Lands to Boquillas Firm
Reports from the city say Green Cattle company ranches along the San Pedro river in Arizona may pass to Boquillas Land and Cattle company. Negotiations have been under way and, if completed, the deal would be among the region’s largest cattle transactions in years, transferring thousands of cattle and extensive grazing lands for several hundred thousand dollars.
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Green Cattle Company
San Pedro
Arizona
Boquillas Land and Cattle Company
McCormick Heads to Chihuahua Ranch for Spring Work
Dave McCormick departed yesterday for his ranch in Chihuahua to oversee his cattle operation for a couple of months. Early reports indicate winter thaws and recent snows have laid a promising foundation for a bountiful spring growth of grass.
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Chihuahua
Kerrville Stockman Visits City To Secure Spring Steers
G Schreiner of Kerrville spent a few days in the city and attended the Cattlemen's Exchange on Saturday. He has been scouting for good steers and yesterday said he contracted for a liberal spring delivery. He did not name the seller or price, suggesting more cattle are available and he seeks them all.
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Kerrville
Cattlemen's Exchange
Victoria man seeks spring weather in San Antonio
T. D. Wood of Victoria Texas visits the city and expects to stay several days. He says he hopes for spring-like conditions and believes Texas may offer it in San Antonio as grass and weeds begin to grow.
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Victoria
Tex
Texas
San Antonio
Bulls Run Wild After Fire Destroys Ranch in France
Fifteen hundred fighting bulls training near a Vià breeding establishment escaped after a ranch fire. They trampled fields and roads and were driven toward the Gagus river where many leaped in and over a thousand drowned in the water.
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France
Gagus
Optimistic outlook for new dipping vat at San Antonio yards
Dr. Amos Graves, president of the San Antonio Union Stock Yards, says the newly installed dipping vat and immune pens are the finest of their size in the country. Despite a late start last year, he expects strong stock handling this spring as cattlemen recognize the value of cleaning cattle. Dipping aims to keep Texas quarantine areas free as cattle are moved back to range regions.
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Amos Graves
San Antonio
Texas
Fort Worth Cattle Receipts Light as Markets Report Low Numbers
Fort Worth received 36 head of cattle yesterday while northern markets did not exceed 300 head each, marking the lightest receipts in several months as traders assess demand and prices.
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Cattle market steady on a short session in Fort Worth
In Fort Worth on February 17, cattle offered were hot enough to justify a real session but the trade was short and featureless. Prices moved in line with yesterday with nothing unusually good. Hog trade was livelier with 450 choice hogs. top price reached 6.30 while most hogs sold between 6 and 6.25. No sheep or goats were offered.
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Tex
Chicago Market Data Reports Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Chicago receipts and quotations show cattle about 300 head with steady to mixed prices from 2.10 to 8.25 for calves. Hogs near 10,000 head with market strong and bids from 5.85 to 6.85 for various weights. Sheep receipts around 1,000 with steady to slow demand and prices ranging 3.35 to 6.90 for natives and westerns.
Kansas City Market Prices and Receipts Report
Receipts and quotations for cattle hogs and sheep listed with steady markets. Cattle ranges include native steers 5.80 to 8.20 and southern steers 5.00 to 6.50. hogs bulk 6.00 to 6.25. sheep and lambs about 4.65 to 6.60.
Cattle Hogs and Sheep Prices at St Louis Market
Receipts total 300 cattle including 190 Texas cattle with steady market. Native beef steers 4.76 to 8.50, cows and heifers 3.00 to 6.75, Texas steers 5.00 to 7.00, calves 6.00 to 7.25. Hogs receipts 8000 with prices 5 cents higher. pigs 5.00 to 6.30, mixed 6.15 to 6.40, heavy 6.30 to 6.40. Sheep receipts 800 with steady market. native muttons 3.75 to 4.75, lambs 5.00 to 6.80.
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ST. Louis
Oklahoma
Cotton seed oil market quiet with spread of futures
In New York on February 17 the cotton seed oil market was quiet. Closing quotes show futures for February through September, with spot at 6.52 60. Total sales reached 8000.
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New York Sugar Prices Steady In Domestic Market
The domestic refined sugar market was unchanged with refiners quoting 5.70 cents less 2 percent for cash for fine granulated. Spot raw sugar held at 4.67 cents for centrifugal 4.17 for Muscovado and 3.92 for molasses sugar. European beet sugar rose with February and March beets up 1 percent to 16s 34 and May beets to 16s 6½d.
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New York
Slow Coffe Futures Trade Pins Finishes Higher
New York trading opened 1 to 4 points up with limited supplies and steady European markets, closing 2 to 6 points higher. Havre and Hamburg showed modest gains while Rio and Santos declined or held steady. Rio futures near 14 reais. Total sales 15,000 bags.
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Hamburg
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Santos
St Louis Trolley Changes Stop Location For Safety
The trolley now halts on this side of the crossing and does not stop at the far corner. The change aims to improve pedestrian safety as the car moves slowly across the street when starting up.
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St. Louis
Longest migrations by small birds include the hummingbird
Among migrating birds the smallest species undertake the longest journeys. The hummingbird travels from midwestern United States to Mexico and even to South America and returns each year.
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Middle States of America
Mexico
South America
Jobbers Handle Bi Spring Goods Orders
Volume of business in the local dry goods market exceeds last year as San Antonio jobbers report strong spring movement. February ahead of last year, dealers buying less from eastern markets, Texas merchants stock at home. Cotton goods firm with widespread price advances benefiting trade, retailers obtaining spring stock cheaper locally.
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San Antonio
Market Prices Reported For Dairy Poultry Produce And More
Prices listed across markets include butter at per pound two dollars, poultry items Springs five dollars, Eggs fresh country candled twenty three cents, Idaho potatoes two dollars fifty per hundredweight, onions California four dollars per hundred, seed potatoes Maine stock eleven packs per sack Triumph four dollars twenty six cents per sack, Trish Cobbler five dollars twenty five cents per sack, Burbanks four dollars fifteen cents, oranges California thirty five? ninety five cents each, lemons eight? sixty? five dollars.
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Butter and dairy items steady with mixed quotes
Butter steady with 25 28c for creamery, 23 27c for daisies. Eggs steady with 2714 cages received. firsts 27 28c, prime firsts 29 30c. Cheese steady across daisies 17% %ec, Twins 16% ijc, Young Americas 17% %c, Long Horns 17% 'ec. Potatoes firm with receipts in $1 cars. choice to fancy $8c to $1.02, Michigan and Minnesota $1.03 to $1.06. Poultry easy with turkeys 14c, chickens 12c, springs 12 '$c. Veal steady 50 to 60 lb weights 7 lic.
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Poultry Prices Mixed as Market Fluctuates
In St Louis on February 17, poultry demand remained uneven with chickens 16 cents and eggs at 27 cents. Butter and creamery butter markets stayed dull while turkeys and ducks moved at small gains or steady levels.
Kansas prices for dairy and eggs February 17
Quotations show butter at 29 cents for firsts and 22 cents for packing stock. Eggs list extras at 26 cents, firsts at 24 cents, and seconds at 19 cents.
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Kansas
Eggs Firm in ORK As Prices Hold Firm
In ORK on February 117 the market reports eggs firm with stable prices and steady demand amid uncertain conditions. Local merchants note small batches arriving and buyers awaiting potential shifts in supply.
New York Markets Steady on Sugar and Petroleum Prices
Raw sugar and molasses sugar hold steady with 89 96 tests trading around 4.80 and 4.05 for molasses. refined cubes and granulated grades near 6.06 and 5.80. powdered 5.990. Petroleum refined barrels sell around 8.10. Hides in Bogota and Central America steady with ~23 to 24 cents.
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New Orleans
Bogota
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Coffee Prices Steady as Rio Sees March Contracts
York market notes show coffee futures holding steady with Rio de Janeiro prices unchanged. March contracts quoted at 18 and a half cents per pound as trading closes.
Cotton goods markets hold steady with advances noted
The market report from New York on February 17 notes steady prices with some lines rising. Southern staples and shrinks show gains while domestic wools firm and foreign goods unchanged. Cotton yarns climb as trade remains fair and retailers push shipments more than in recent months.
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Jobbery
Wild fluctuations in price of cotton market
Sensational early week advances followed by a sharp reaction left the cotton market nervous but with a firmer overall tone. New York and New Orleans closed higher for the day while Liverpool slipped, reflecting persistent bull support and reports of strong European trade.
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Cotton futures open steady with varied early quotes
New Orleans markets show steady opening for cotton futures with February at 10.25 and March at 10.85, May around 10.35, and July near 10.39 while nearby prices finish steady after intraday moves.
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Spot cotton closes quiet as American middling falls
Liverpool spot cotton ends two points lower at 6.83 for middling with overall sales 6000 bales including 6400 American. Receipts total 25,000 bales, futures open weaker and finish steady with multiple contracts listed from February through next January.
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Market Snapshot From Leading Spots A Mixed Day
A compact market note shows mixed activity across key centers with Liverpool and New York steady and Houston and Galveston listed as quiet. The summary cites a large figure for New Ferm and refers to fluctuating ewes and steady trends in several markets.
Spot cotton quiet in New Orleans with steady quotes
Spot cotton in New Orleans on February 17 is quiet and unchanged. Sales reached 715 bales with arrivals 114, prices range from low ordinary to strict good middling, receipts totaling 5106 and total stock at 282119.
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Spot cotton prices hold steady in Memphis market
Memphis reports spot cotton trading steady with middling grade at 10 1/2 cents per pound and no change noted from prior levels. The brief market update captures unchanged bids as traders monitor futures moves.
New Orleans Cotton Statement Shows Movement Gains
Secretary Hester reports New Orleans cotton movement to sight up versus last year and 1909 across 16 days of February and 169 days of the season. Totals compare with prior years for receipts, inland stocks, foreign exports, and mill takings, with season-to-date supply totaling 12,680,654 bales.
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Stock Market Falters Amid Broad Dullness Says Traders
Market activity remains listless with narrow moves in major issues as traders lack leadership. Government reports show export and import records for January, while US Steel operates at high capacity. short term debt demand rises and New York banks report a cash reserve drop.
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New York Cotton Spot Prices Quiet on Feb 17
Spot cotton in New York on February 17 remained quiet with Middling uplands at 10.85 and Gulf at 10.60, and no sales reported.
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Cotton market closes steady in Houston session
Spot cotton closed steady with unchanged values. Sales totaled 17 dollars per bale f.o.b. across 129 shipments 13,062 and stock at 171,807. Prices ranged from low ordinary six and three quarters percent to good middling eleven percent, reflecting market stability.
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Cotton market closes quiet in Galveston on Feb 17
Spot cotton closes quiet in Galveston with prices listed for low ordinary through good middling. Reports show 11,101 receipts and stock at 362,536, while sales stand at 44, with 300 bales booked.
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Births Report From Local Homes
To Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McGlasson a girl born February 18 at Indianola and Wyoming streets. Mr. and Mrs. 8. L. Jeffries welcome a girl February 13 at East Laurel. A boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Kabaneck on February 12 at Narp Street. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Meza February 12 at South Laredo. A girl to Mr. and Mrs. W. Hill February 2 at 40 Street. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Rule February 10 at Victoria Street. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Sifuentes February ? on Lopes Street. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. John A. McDaritt February 10 at South Alamo. A girl to Mr. and Mrs. D. Jason February 14 on Laredo Street. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. Peairs February ?, 201 Magnolia Avenue. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. M. Bargas February 16 at 482 King William. A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Davis February 11 at 501 Hays Street. A girl to Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Milburn February 12 at 622 Porter Street. A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Garza February 16 at 2412 Monterey Street. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. J. Favella February 16 at 638 Camaron Street.
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East Laurel Street
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Narp Street
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South Laredo Street
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King William Street
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Gas Warnings and Telephone Sparks in German Works
The note warns that sparks from telephones could ignite gas in German gas works and prescribes covering telephone bells with wire AUS to prevent accidents.
Bank Statement Daily Average And Actual Condition Totals
Daily Average shows loans 2 019 241 000 up 7 680 000 and specie 381 834 000 down 6 718 000 while legal tenders 86 480 000 down 539 00 and net deposits 1 897 607 000 down 6 951 000. Actual Condition lists loans 2 019 042 000 up 975 000 and specie 382 442 000 up 35 000 with circulation 51 399 000 up 345 000 and aggregate cash reserves 468 475 000 up 1 ?000. Summary for Greater New York state banks and trust companies not reporting to the clearing house shows deposits 715 759 900 up 9 450 300.
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Burial Permits List Residents Who Died in February
Burial permits record multiple deaths with dates in February and addresses across Belmont street South Santa Rosa avenue Presa street Herbert street Twelfth street Camargo street North Twelfth Bianco road San Juan road Brackenridge avenue and Alamo street. Names include Beadle de Ramirez Childers Jones Schermerhorn Rheinhardt Rheiner Garner Gardner Thompson and Hein with ages ranging from 6 to 84.
Long Nails Draw Crowds to Shanghai Priest
A Shanghai resident known for his 22.75 inch nails garners attention as a money making spectacle. He guards the talons in bamboo cases when not on show and claims twenty five years of care produced their length. Worshipers flock to his temple while he warns ministers against copying the idea.
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