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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1916
Page
9
Auction style ad seeks a five room newtnee with bail on Furnisa Ave near S Flores car line. $1650 due, $20 monthly, property valued at $2.00, willing to trade for land equity. Conness Realty Co.
Galveston shipping news records arrivals including El rente from New York Wilhelmina Balit ore Martin Saens from Havana. Departures show Topila to Tampico El Alba to Liverpool and other listed vessels.
In New York on January 3 the futures market showed steady activity for March at 6.65 and July at 6.86 while after-hours trading reflected mixed price movements across the session.
A dramatic market day sees cotton starting with a sharp uptick near the close followed by a sudden collapse. Investors watched volatile swings as prices slid from a mid-session high to finish lower.
Quotations from the principal spot cotton market show middling grade prices delivered at the market. The data lists Houston and New Orleans sales figures with volumes and rates, reflecting daily base prices for immediate purchase and shipment.
Word from cotton exchanges reports January contracts opening at 12.30 then sliding to 12.67 for a loss over a bale within minutes. May contract opened 12.70 and fell to 12.61. San Antonio buyers paid prices for local delivery including strict middling and good middling grades.
Liverpool shows firm demand at reopening but global fears weigh on New York as prices dip. January slips to 12.05 and March to 12.30 while May reaches 12.54 amid mixed sentiment and modest late-day steadiness before a net decline of about 2.4 points.
New York cotton futures opened with slight gains and closed mostly unchanged to two points lower for the session. Prices listed show January at 12.30, March 12.52, May 12.70, July 12.86, and October 12.48 with varied intraday highs and lows. Liverpool expected to open Tuesday with gains of 3 to 6 points.
The New Orleans cotton market opened 8 to 7 points up before selling pressure hit on news that the steamer Glengyie had been sunk with loss of life. Prices slid over $1 a bale, then recovered slightly as submarine activity rumors persisted, ending the day 5 to 7 points below last Friday's close.
The New Orleans cotton futures market opened barely steady with January at 12.00, March 12.87, May 12.64, October 12.38, and July 12.73. The session closed 1 point higher on light activity, with intraday highs and lows listed but obscured by partial figures.
Spot cotton in Liverpool remains steady with American middling fair at 8.854 pence per pound and middling 8.01 pence. Trading activity includes 10,000 bales sold with 1,000 bales for export and speculation. Receipts total 28,000 bales.
Futures closed barely steady with a string of quoted levels for the year ahead. Notable bids include January at 7.7814 and February at 7.76 with a chain of tenor changes through December to January 7.14.
Forecaster Allen Buell states that winds under ten miles per hour and rainfall under .01 inch are not published here. This note clarifies reporting thresholds for local weather summaries.
A new shipment of fine strawberries arrived on Monday, fetching up to $6 per crate of 24 pint boxes. Markets expect strawberry supplies to rise by January 10 and prices to ease this week. Potatoes from Colorado and Idaho remain in short supply with prices around $2 to $2.25 per hundredweight as merchants monitor northern markets.
Grain quotations in San Antonio show frequent, material changes. Corn sells around 380 cents per bushel, wheat 2.25 per hundredweight, oats 47 cents wholesale. local flour and meat prices unchanged for the week. East Coast packers stay optimistic about 1916 with pork purchases. no fresh vegetable division news from the market Monday.
Markets bulletin from San Antonio dated January 3 shows wholesale trade prices with Texas country candied 29 30c storage 28 2dc butter firm with Texas creamery at 382 330 per pound and Falfurrias at 6c per pound. Poultry values listed for hens dozens at 4.09 5.50 broilers 2000 73.50 turkeys 15 16c per pound ducks 4.50 5.50 per dozen geese 7.00 19.06 per dozen rabbits per dozen 7c and 1.
Kansas City report lists butter at 33c creamery, 31c firsts, 2c seconds, 19c packing. Eggs quoted firsts 26c, seconds 2c. Poultry prices show hens 10% to 11c, turkeys 16c, springs 11 to 12c.
Chicago markets show butter steady at 22 2 3 c, creamery 22 4 22 c, eggs higher with firsts 28 c, ordinary 26 to 21 c. Receipts 1650 cases. Potatoes higher with 60 car receipts. Wisconsin and Michigan whites 90 cents to 1 dollar, Minnesota-Ohio whites 85 to 95 cents. Poultry alive higher with fowls 14 1 4 c, springs 14 6 c, turkeys 18 c.
New York on January 3 reported raw sugar steady with Centrifugal at 4.45 and 74.58 for cents per pound. Molasses quoted at 3.68 to 3.81. Refined grades mostly steady with cut loaf at 6.85 and related forms ranging to 5.70 for No 1.
Lead offered at Spelter not quoted while copper remains firm with electrolytic at 23.00 dollars. Iron holds steady with No. 1 northern 26.00 to 20.50, No. 2 19.50 to 20.90, No. 1 southern 19.75 to 20.25, No. 2 19.50 to 20.00. Tin listed as nominal.
Lead at 30 pounds sterling 6d Spelter 40 pounds sterling Spot copper 86 pounds 15s Futures 86 15 Electrolytic 110 Spottin 171 futures 172 Antimony 125 pounds sterling.
New York trading on January 3 shows cotton seed oil finishing steady with bids and futures around 8.65 to 8.92. January contracts listed at 8.70 to 8.72 and total daily sales reached 21 800 across listed months.
A brief note on the cotton market touches San Antonio activity and tire industry ties. Market conditions, prices, and supply indicators align with regional trends affecting textile and automotive sectors. Officials caution about seasonal shifts and export demand influencing local trade.
Henry Wones age 18 died at his parents residence two miles southwest of the city at 8 30 Monday morning He leaves his parents a sister Miss Hazel Fones and two brothers Wallace and Rus Fones of San Antonio The body will be sent to Houston Monday night by Sloan Hagg Undertaking Company and will be interred in Houston
Edward T OReilly brother of Mrs Mary KE Ballard of San Antonio died at his Fort Worth home Sunday night per a message to Mrs Ballard He is survived by his widow three sons two daughters all of Fort Worth two sisters Mrs Ballard of San Antonio and Mrs E M Taliaferro of Alabama He had many San Antonio ties from years past and was buried in Fort Worth Monday.
Mrs. Helen Dalrymple Williams died last Thursday and the funeral was held at 2:30 PM Monday from her son’s home at 802 East Euclid Avenue. Rev J M Todd of Madison Square Presbyterian Church conducted the services. Interment was in Mission Burial Park.
Helen Dalrymple Williams aged 64 died suddenly at 10 30 am December 29 1915 at her son J M Williams Jrs home 802 East Euclid Ave San Antonio Texas heart trouble native of Canada had been in San Antonio a month visiting family Survived by husband three sons H E Williams J M Williams Jr Walter D Williams with British forces in France and two daughters Mrs J P Flynn Jr Torreon and Hollie M Williams with her father Buried January 3 1916 in Mission Burial Park San Antonio Texas
An advertisement for Shelley Lorine Undertaking Co offering automobile equipment with contact phones 971 and an emphasis on merchandise and services.
Arrangements are set for a 12 30 luncheon at the Menger hosted by the Committee of One Hundred to unite women’s clubs and supporters for the proposed fair. Miss Nora Herndon leads in Selig Deutschmann’s absence, with Mrs Rena Maverick Green presiding and addressing the group.
The French government, in response to U S representations, ordered the immediate release of Germans removed from American ships by the French cruiser Descartes. The men will be turned over to the American consul at Fort De France, Martinique for detention.
J. D. Rockafellow defeated P. P. Fedick to clinch the Murray Brooks trophy in a 18 holes match play final at Huisache Club Sunday. The event, started Saturday with both class A and B entrants at medal play, saw Fedick handicap 10 and Rockafellow 20, Rockafellow winning 5 and 4.
In Chicago Til Jan 3 activity, US visible wheat supplies weighed on prices despite some foreign buying and Liverpool demand. May wheat around 1.24 to 1.25, July 1.16 to 1.17, closing 1.23 4 at May and 1.18 4 at July, with overall weakness. Corn followed with larger losses, oats lower, while provisions firm as hog prices fell on light offerings.
Carrot buyers paid prices for grain delivered in San Antonio today. Wheat Texas pep bushel 1.80, northern 1.31 per bushel. Corn Texas No 3 69c per bushel, northern No 2 mixed 78c, northern white 78c. Oats Texas red 46c bulk 44c sacks 46c, western white 42c bulk 42c sacks 68c. Oklahoma prices same as Texas.
Ban Antonio reports today dealer quotations for dry art extras at 22 percent, bacon extras 15 1/2 cents, dry salt bellies 14 to 16 pound average 14 16 cent, fancy breakfast bacon 28 cents, fancy hams 19 cents, bacon bellies 14 to 16 pound average 16 percent, pure lard ile compound 10 cents.
Quotations to Gay were as follows with grain prices for wheat No 2 hard 1.11 1.17, No red 1.1741 1.20, corn No 2 mixed 64 44 cents, No 2 white 67 6T Me, oats No 2 white 43 43 3 cents, No mixed 39 40 cents.
Kansas City January 3 grain futures closed with Wheat May at 1.14 per bushel. Corn May 70 and July 71 cents. Oats May 43 1/2 cents.
The St Louis market reports bid quotes for grain with No 2 red wheat at 1.24 to 1.27. No 2 hard is nominal. Corn No 2 71/2 cents and No 2 white 70 to 71 1/2 cents. Date No 2 42 to 43 8 cent range. White corn quotes are nominal.
Chicago market notes show No 2 red wheat at 1.21 1/4 to 1.22 1/4, No 2 hard at 1.18 1/4 to 1.20, corn No 2 yellow nominal, oats standard around 44 to 44 1/4 cents with Barney at 64 3/4 cents.
Dr W F McCaleb vice chairman of the Dallas federal reserve bank has accepted the New York City post as head of the bureau of municipal research and returned to San Antonio after a deer hunt. He plans to depart for New York when his affairs are in order and may delay heading east for a month despite resigning as a reserve bank director in November.
Sergeant first class Francis W Wicket Hospital Corps Presidio of Monterey to Fort McDowell and Honolulu. Quartermaster Sergeant Howard Sales Fort D A Russell to Douglas Arizona. Sergeant Gabriel Cushman Hospital Corps to Fort Winfield Scott. Sergeant Milton T Easterly Hospital Corps Fort Winfield Scott to Fort Stevens Oregon to relieve Sergeant Young. Captain Ralph C Caldwell Sixth Cavalry detached officers list. Captain Walter F Martin removed. Captain Madlen assigned to Second Cavalry.
A string of guests and registrants are noted at the Gunter St Anthony and Menger in San Antonio. Names include Gill of Raymondville Brooks Hoffmann Kennedy Kennedy H H Withoff Base Campbell Galbraith Johnson Emery Crabbe Wright Boisenberg Caffery Weiss among others. Dawson City population falls from 25000 in 1898 to about 200 today.
Oldham county authorities struggled to identify two 15 year old boys found near La Grange. Both victims appear to have been struck by a train. A note in one pocket stated that $1500 would be deposited January 6 in a Frankfort bank for K. Brown.
Hog prices fell across markets with 15 to 25 cents lower than last week as large hog offerings hit Chicago. Fort Worth Texas markets declined while San Antonio saw 95 head with best porkers at 6.26 and most between 5.75 and 6.09. Cattle and calf prices varied. no sheep or goats inspected.
Fort Worth market reports show cattle receipts around 1600 with steady demand and beef prices near 5.50 to 6.80 per hundredweight. Hog receipts total 2599 with prices broadly 6.00 to 6.80, while sheep and goats feature lambs at 7.50 to 8.75 and fluctuating ewe and kid prices under broad ranges.
In St Louis on January 3 receipts and prices showed hogs at 15 500 with the market lower. hogs ranged from 5.75 to 6.95 for various classes. Cattle receipts 6800 with steady markets. native beef steers 7.50 to 9.50, yearlings and heifers 6.50 to 9.59, cows 5.89 to 7.00, stockers 5.00 to 7.25, Texas and Oklahoma steers 6.25 to 8.50, native calves 6.00 to 10.50. Sheep receipts 1500 with steady market. yearlings 6.59 to 8.50, lambs 8.00 to 9.50, sheep and ewes 5.50 to 6.50.
Receipts show hogs 12,000 with market lower. bulk 6.70, heavy 6.75, light 6.60 to 6.75. pigs 5.25 to 6.00. Cattle receipts 16,000 with market steady. prime fed steers 9.00 to 9.50, dressed beef steers 8.50, cows 4.00 to 7.00, heifers 5.75 to 9.00, stockers 5.50 to 8.00. Sheep receipts 10,090, market strong to higher. lambs 8.50 to 9.25, yearlings 7.00 to 8.00, wethere 6.00 to 6.78, ewes 5.75 to 5.25.
Chicago January 3 cattle and hog market notes show steady to firm trends. Hog ranges list bulk around 6.60 to 6.95 with various grades, cattle receipts about 16,000 and beef steers from 6.20 to 9.80, calves to 10.50, sheep firm with wethers 6.50 to 7.10 and lambs 7.50 to 9.00.
Cattle sales reported in Fort Worth Texas on January 3 with commodity notes and pricing details. The brief item notes market activity and price ranges among cattle, with emphasis on one or more local auction lots.
Oklahoma City reports cattle market steady to strong with about 600 head. Hog futures show 15 cent lower on around 2250 head. A musician, Cert Gulette of Pendleton Oregon, regains sight in one eye after fifteen years of complete blindness, prompting a joyful reunion at home with wife and child.
Trading in New York started the year with caution as fears of Persia sinking touched sentiment. Oil, rail and war issues slipped early while United States Steel moved in blocks and recovered. Mexican Petroleum and smelting groups climbed, locks on Mercantile Marine preferred aided the late rally, leaving the close irregular.
New York reports show sterling at 60 day bills 4.69 percent and demand 4.734, cables at 9.74, guilders demand 43 percent and cables 4, Mexican dollars 2 cents. Government bonds and railroad bonds remain steady and firm amid trading.
Readability is low but the report notes time loans over 30 days at about 99 percent with a 2 percent cet or six months at 422 percent per cent. Call money is firmer with high and low extremes. An 18 percent ruling rose, last loan at 2 percent, with 2 percent offered.
In Findlay and nearby towns on January 3, archaic agricultural goods saw quotes for crude celts. North and went offered around 1.43 dollars, 1.28 at some stations, and Wooster noted 1.60. Findlay listings showed lith products at 1.57 and Plymouth at 1.33.
Public schools closed, courts adjourned and flags flown at half staff in St. Paul and Minneapolis for Governor Winfield Scott Hammond who died last week in Louisiana. His body lay in state in St. Paul yesterday and was taken to St. James Minnesota for burial.
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