This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 45 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1913
Page
9
Chicago markets report strong export demand for corn keeping prices firm. Wheat rose to around 92% while May contracts showed a modest gain, with futures and cash quotes showing gains across regions including Chicago Kansas City and St Louis.
Chicago quotes dairy and poultry markets with butter steady at 27 30c and 21 2%c fresh receipts 3642 cases while cheese remains steady and potatoes hold. Kansas City lists butter at 22c to 31k with eggs and poultry varying by class. New York notes eggs firm with 6797 receipts and fresh gathered leghorns at 16 to 23c, checks at 14 to 16c.
In St Louis on January 7 poultry prices show mixed moves with chickens at 14 cents per pound, turkeys 17 cents, ducks 15 cents, creamery letters 24 to 35 cents, and bees noted as a small item in the market listing.
A fragment lists licenses and names such as F. Mims 128 Soledad and V. Stewart 727 East Hou Street along with numbers 3127 A and 31380 S in a town utility section. The text also mentions North D. C. and O. 3131 T. A. Franker Hot Wells and refers to advertising notices in this service.
Captain H. E. Wagner inspector general of the Texas National Guard arrives January 13 with Col Emmet E. Walker for the annual inspection. Company E Second Infantry led by Captain Lansing to be ready for the 8 p.m. event at the St Anthony Hotel. Property and equipment will be checked at 10:30 a.m. Monday. several officers of the Second and Fourth Infantry ordered to report for the inspection at 5:30 p.m. at the hotel.
A long list of visitors and guests staying at San Antonio hotels include F Harsiem of Monterey and W T McCutcheon of Taylor at the Menger, J M Felder of Aransas Pass at the Gunter, and P J Harrison of Corpus Christi at the St Anthony. Other names span Dallas, Houston, Galveston, Mexico City, and beyond, with guests at the Bowie, Crockett, Savoy, Bexar, and nearby Harlandale spa. The roster features business travelers and tourists such as O E Fellera of Sweetwater, A S William of Eagle Pass, and Mrs Mae Yarbrough of Houston.
J. W. Daly files a co room dwelling on North Cherry Street for $800. Francis Smith seeks alterations on West Commerce Street for $1600. Dunaway plans a three room dwelling on Essex Street. K L Malczynski porches a three room dwelling on Dal last Street for $527. Mrs Annie Barry requests alterations and addition on South Flores Street for $450. Ed A Leighton proposes a five room dwelling on Avenue D for $3150. M Smith lists a two room box house on Coke. Three room dwelling on Grenet Tv Street by nee. T L Moore plans a workshop on East Commerce Street for $1200. Walter W Salter files a three room dwelling on Essex Street.
Birth notices list new babies born to families including Laechelin Bruhn Tovar Collyer Obriotti Briseno and Wickney on dates in December and January at various streets and addresses. Multiple households welcome boys and a girl in the period.
The Weather Bureau under Willis L. Moore reports unsettled tonight with cold temperatures and freezing, followed by a Wednesday of generally fair conditions. San Antonio and vicinity expect continued cold with freezing tonight, then fair Wednesday. East Texas sees freezing to the coast tonight and generally fair weather on Wednesday.
Sugar prices dropped as jobbers cut cane and beet sugar by 20 cents per hundredweight. Cane granulated now $6.30, beet grades $5.20, with beet dominating retail due to price gap. Bearish trend lasts weeks as Christ mas buying fades and refiners push lower to revive trade.
A long vintage price sheet lists EGGS, POULTRY, CHEESE, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, SYRUP AND MOLASSES, NUTS, RICE, MEATS AND LARD, CANNED MEATS AND FISH, DRIED FRUITS, BEANS and various staples. Includes prices per dozen, crate, pound, hundredweight, and per case with note that five or more cases reduce 6 to 10 cents. Entities include California, Mexico, South Texas, Johnson grass, and specific item names.
Cattle receipts near 1700 head with 250 calves trading firm. Beef steers around 6.00 to 7.50, feeder cows near 5.85, butcher cows high. Hogs receipts 1500 head steady with best around 7.77 and 7.60 bulk. Sheep and lambs about 600 head with lambs around 7.25.
Cattle receipts 7000 with slow demand. Hogs receipts 10000 and dull with values around 7.20 to 7.55 for different grades. Sheep receipts 27000 rise as native and western lambs and yearlings command higher prices, with several quoted ranges and odd figures in the report.
Receipts and quotations for cattle hogs and sheep at Kansas City on January 7 show total cattle 11 000 with native steers 6 75 to 9 00 and cows and heifers 3 50 to 6 25. hogs 16 000 with prices 7 05 to 7 42 for light to heavy. sheep 7 000 with muttons 4 00 to 5 75 and lambs 7 00 to 8 70.
ST LOUIS Jan 7 receipts and quotations today show cattle totaling 5000 with 1800 Texans and market steady native beef steers 5 10 00 Texas Oklahoma steers 5.00 7.90 cows and heifers 3.55 5.00 calves in carload lots 6.00 6.50 hogs receipts 13500 market five cents lower pigs and lights 6 7 57 50 mixed really 7.80 7.55 good heavy 7.45 sheep receipts 2000 market steady native muttons 3.75 5.00 lambs 6.50 8.75.
New York January 7 reporting higher activity in cotton goods with fall blankets entering the market to be priced tomorrow. Jobbers exhibit renewed interest while strikes among cutters and manufacturing trades disrupt deliveries on orders.
New Orleans on January 7 reports rough rice steady after firm activity. Receipts total 6934 rough, 1827 clean, 5692 mills. Sales show 604 clean and 3% Honduras at 5 3 4 cents. Quotations list rough unchanged and clean Honduras at 45 cents, Japan at 38 1/2 cents.
Arrived yesterday are steamers Fe I Mar from New York on Dec 31 El Valle from New York on Dec 31 Engineer from London on Dec 7 Breslau from Bremen on Dec 12 via Philadelphia Cleared are steamers Batenhal from Rot terdam Victoria de Larrinaga from Manchester Northwestern from Aransas No sailings listed.
London reports copper and tin dull with spot and futures quoted. Copper spot 76 pounds 10s, futures 77. Tin spot 229 pounds 6s, futures 12s 6d. Spelter 26 pounds 5s. Iron Cleveland warrants 67s 9d in London.
Wool steady in St Louis on January 17 with mixed grades quoted. Medium combing and clothing 23 to 26 cents, light fine 19 to 21 cents, heavy fine 13 to 18 cents, tub washed 27 to 36 cents.
New York markets report raw sugar steady with Muscovado 3.05 cents and 89 test, centrifugals 3.55 cents, molasses sugar 2.80 cents, refined quiet. Petroleum and molasses hold steady while hides and leather show firm prices.
OCR fragment outlines various goods with prices including sugar and coffee items. It lists granulated sugar, green and roasted coffee types, Maxwell House, canned vegetables with sizes and prices, and meat by quality with discounted damaged items.
At Oklahoma City Union Stock Yards on January 7, receipts totaled 110 cattle 17 calves 15 horses and 215 hogs. Market was active with best cows at 5 dollars and calves around 5, hogs at 7.60, bulk porkers 7 to 7.25, sheep in demand with mutton selling readily.
The Agriculture Department reports 1912 cotton per acre at 193.2 pounds, below 1911’s 207.7 but above the five year average of 180.1. California leads with 430 pounds per acre. Tennessee and Missouri exceed the five-year average in acreage production. Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and California show gains over 1911. Arkansas matches 1911.
New York cotton opened steady with a 6 point advance then slid as liquidation spread. By midday prices were 9 to 12 points lower, with limited support from trade and private spot reports. Unsettled sentiment followed yesterday's court decision, trading around 4 to 7 points below yesterday's close by 2 pm.
A 15 year old woman identified as Evelyn Stewart of Jacksonville Florida was found unconscious in a sleeping car berth on a Chicago to Knoxville Big Four train. She had arms bound behind her back and the medical staff said she likely took chloroform voluntarily. Forty six dollars in paper money and a Knoxville ticket were found in her hat. Train staff said no one could have entered the berth and all other occupants were accounted for.
Charles Kellner a broker reports Texas farmers have little cotton left and focus on oats and preparing land for an early cotton crop. North Texas shows potential gains as farmers prosper, market confidence rises, and warehouses run nearly empty with statewide output up in 1912.
Cotton futures opened steady with January at 12.98, March 12.57 and 58, May 12.56, June 12.52 bid, July 12.62, August 12.89, September 11.84, October 11.72, December 11.75. Closed steady, with mixed highs and lows across contracts and unclear late numbers.
Interior receipts show stock figures for cotton including last year and current season. The record lists port stocks, daily totals, and week-over-week changes with figures around 16 thousand bale entries and a season deficit of about 263 thousand bales. Named entries include Texas ports and related stock totals.
Four burial permits issued for local residents. Maggie A. Kirkland, 56, died January 4 at Orange and Angelo. David 8. Taylor, 63, died January 6 at 319 Lafitte. Aurora Fiores, 4, died January 5 at 220 North Pecos. Henrietta B. Mueller, 33, died January 6 at 722 North Monumental.
Dallas publisher of Farm and Ranch Journal and of Hollands Magazine, F P Holland, visits San Antonio after two months at Oak Shore Outing Club near Rockport. He is accompanied by J E White selle, Corsicana banker and club president, and plans to attend Chicago convention of the National Association of Farm Papers.
Attorney General Looney rules non residents are barred from hunting any game in Texas without a license. The opinion addresses a prosecution of a non resident who hunted rabbits, stating the license requirement applies regardless of game type.
The New Orleans cotton market opened steady to slight declines with prices 2 to 3 points higher early and then sagging as selling from both sides increased. Long contracts were liquidating as bulls sought to cover before the holiday and the census report. By noon, prices stood 15 to 16 points under yesterday's close amid heavy selling by leading spot interests.
The futures market opened steady with January at 12.79 and February at 12.78 80. March rose to 12.81 and April at 12.90 91. October moved to 11.7. By close, the cotton futures eased to a net decline of six points with varied bids through later dates including July and November contracts.
Liverpool January 17. Cotton closed easier with 12 000 bales sold including 1 500 for speculation and export. American middling fair 7.60, good middling 7.26d, middling 7.06d, low middling 6.88d, good ordinary 6.484, ordinary 6.04. Receipts 22 000, including 10 000 American bales.
Futures opened easier and closed quiet in Liverpool on January 7. Prices for various front and calendar spreads shown, including Jan to Feb at 6.28 percent and several mid year breaks around 6.7 percent.
New Orleans spot cotton unchanged with middling at 13 cents. Sales total 400 bales with arrivals none. Receipts 7307 bales, stock 197,886 bales. Various grades listed from strict low to good middling with cents per pound quoted.
Memphis cotton market reports spot cotton steady with middling price marked at 13 1/2 cents per pound. Trade notes minimal movement as buyers and sellers hold firm on price.
Prices listed from Cottonseed Products Memphis New York Cotton Oil and St Louis show steady to firm tones. Oils and meal listed with bid prices and sale totals in city reports dated January 7 with figures for January February and March sales and regional commodity levels.
Latest reports from New Orleans and New York note weak demand for cotton as Austrian trade slumps and more workers lose jobs. Forecasters expect December ginnings to drop below average, with the National Ginners Association projecting 12,917,000 bales by year end despite bullish spot activity and sporadic import demand.
The Waco Ad Club invites President-elect Wilson and Vice President Marshall along with National Chairman William F. McCombs to a March 12 banquet honoring Mr Wilson and Congressman R Henry. R L Stribling, former law partner of Henry, will serve as toastmaster.
New York stock market opened dull but moved higher as a broad inquiry and short covering lifted leading issues. Southern Pacific Union Pacific and St Paul rose while Beet Sugar and Western Maryland weakened. readings abroad showed improvement and Harriman stocks gained after yesterday's Supreme Court ruling.
A long list of real estate transfers from 1912 to 1914 features buyers such as S A Burris Isabel Burris Louis Volcker Henzel Tessman Parsons and more. Transactions cover city blocks lots tracts and parcels across Los Angeles Heights Harlandale Sunset Place and Rosedale Park with values ranging from several hundred to tens of thousands of dollars. Several entries reference the Southwestern Land Corporation and Lakeview Gardens with dates from 1912 through 1914.
Berlin reports Lieutenant Wilhelm Fitchner the German Antarctic explorer returned to Buenos Aires after 16 months at sea. He cables that the expedition was very successful naming the newly found land Prince Regent Luitpold Land and an ice barrier Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The Light publishes want ads and notices encouraging readers to place ads for better outreach and results. The brief guide highlights clear pricing and submission options for local readers seeking services or offerings.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.