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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jan 29, 1917

Page

9

The Award For Good Taste Temple Hill San Antonio Offer

An advertisement extols Temple Hill as a choice for a valued home in San Antonio. It promises not mislead investors but offers an excellent investment with potential happiness of ownership and property appreciation. The copy frames Temple Hill as the beauty of the city and invites inquiry.

Temple Hill San Antonio Mistletoe Avenue Antonio Loan Trust CO Thurman Navarro Crockett SAN Antonio Loan & Trust CO Army Post Mr. Saunders John Bollons Realty CO Alamo Ft Harlandale Travis New South Side High School W. Carolina South Alamo C. B. Watters & Co Gibbs Big Wells Tex Schnelle Gunter Rae

Cotton Market Declines Sharply Across Major Cities

Quotations from principal spot markets show a daylong slump. New Orleans and New York registers fall while San Antonio spots reach 16.90. Trading quiet, rumors of peace affecting demand, and renewed selling amid nervous activity across futures and cash markets.

New York cotton market opens with declines and nervous trading

The New York cotton market opened with heavy selling and a weaker tone. May futures fell from around 17.41 to 17.29 as present crop deliveries dropped sharply amid reports the government may question armed merchantmen and renewed selling from local sources emerged.

New York Liverpool Wall Street

Cotton futures open higher with mixed later drop

New York cotton futures opened on January 29 with March at 17.42 May 17.50 July 17.45 October 16.50 and December 16.8. Later closes showed declines of 7 to 12 points. Liverpool expected to open Tuesday with a modest gain and the 11 o'clock call to follow.

New York Liverpool

New Orleans Cotton Opens With Mixed Early Losses

In New Orleans on January 29, first cotton prices rose 7 to 9 points on near months and held steady for distant months after cables. Selling pressure emerged after Sunday peace run confirmation failed, pushing prices down through the morning to 6 to 18 points below Saturday’s close and continuing into the afternoon with trading months 26 to 35 points under last quotes.

New Orleans

Cotton futures open steady in New Orleans trade

New Orleans on January 29 reports opening cotton futures for March 17.12, May 17.16, July 17.26, October 16.25. December futures down 5 to 15 points. closes steady.

New Orleans

Spot cotton prices steady in Liverpool market

Liverpool Spot cotton remains firm with good middling at 11.24d and middling at 11.144d. Slow middling quotes around 10.964d as sales reach 0 bales, with 1099 speculations and explanations noted. Receipts show 10,000 bales in inquiry.

Liverpool

Futures Quiet On Liverpool Market As Dates Move

Liverpool reports futures trading quiet with a series of daily quotations across railway tobacco bonds and grain futures. The list shows January January-February and subsequent month pairs with standardized prices and minor shifts.

Cotton Statistics Waves Across Regions

Partial OCR text shows scattered city names and abbreviations. Readable items include New Orleans, Mabie Alabama, Charleston British Columbia, Norfolk Virginia, New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk placing, with scattered numbers and references to cotton statistics. No coherent event or figure emerges from the fragment.

Doe New Orleans Mabie New York Boat Aera Philadelphia Pacific Porte

New York Sugar Prices Hold Steady Amid Labor Tensions

Raw sugar remained steady in New York with centrifugal at 4.89 and molasses at 4.02. Refined grades also steady led by cut loaf 7.90 and con fectioners A 6.65. Sugar futures slipped slightly as unresolved labor issues weighed at midday.

New York

Wheat market slides after early advance on war news

Chicago traders drove wheat higher on Emperor William’s manifesto and a freight embargo then retreated as forecasts favored a hard winter crop. Corn and oats rose with wheat, while hog prices supported pork. Bearish pressure grew on fear Britain was selling wheat, closing down 1 to 4 cents. May and July prices moved from about 1.71 1/2 and 1.45 1/2 respectively.

Chicago William

Fragmentary Market Data From Chicago Page

Partial OCR shows stock quotes with dates and figures for High Low Close and percentage changes. Readable items include city context Chicago and scattered numeric values. many characters are garbled or missing. No clear events or names beyond general market data fragments.

Market Quotations Report from Chicago Grain Prices

Chicago price quotations show corn at level, No 2 hard corn at 1.01, oats at 58e, and barley around 1.2 in a brief daily market update dated January 29.

Chicago Ill

Grain Price Quotations From Kansas City Market

Kansas City daily quotation report lists wheat at No 1 hard about 1.80 to 1.82 percent, No 2 red around 1.78, corn No 2 white near 8 cents, No 2 yellow 9c, oats No 2 white about 87 to 40 cents, with minor variations for lower grades.

Kansas City

Grain futures close with mixed moves across wheat and corn

Grain futures quotes from Kansas City and St. Louis show wheat May around 1.68 to 1.69 and July near 1.41 to 1.42, while May corn trades near 96 to 97 cents and July around 95 cents. St. Louis quotations list No 2 red wheat at 1.96 and No 2 hard at 1.85 to 1.90, corn No 2 about 97 cents, No 2 white near 1.10, oats No 2 around 0.06," No 2 white nominal, rye about 1.45 to 1.46.

Kansas City ST. Louis Mon Sat Allis-Chalmers Teehee Bethlehem_ Steel Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Colorado Consolidated Gas Crucible Steel Erie Cuba General Electric Great Northern Great Northern Ore Nt. Mere Ware International Nickel Kansas City Gowthern Kennecott Co Toulaville & N Aahvil Ligt & Myers Orl Maxwell Motors Mexican Oe Com York Central Prrsase Es Norfoix & WwWenee Northern Pacte Pennsylvania Reading Sloss Shet Teel &Iron Southern Pacific Southern Ae Seeee Tennessee Sturtebaker Coopersiten Oaeee Saat Texas Company Union Pacific Uteh Co Virginia- Ere Chem. Wabash P Western Union Ae Westinghouse Electric Wee

World’s Largest For Sale Opens In St Louis Market

Pelts valued at 3 million dollars go to auction with over 300 merchants expected. German, Russian, British and other buyers attend. two thousand Alaska seal skins sold to the U S government. A live silver fox is slated to fetch at least 500 dollars.

ST. Louis United States Russia Australia Alaska England France Germany Canada

Convention Opens In New Orleans On High Cost Of Living

Thomas J Turner of Oklahoma City president of the Western Fruit Jobbers Association opened the convention in New Orleans with sharp criticism of nationwide newspaper articles blaming fruit and produce jobbers for high prices. About 1800 delegates from most states attended the opening. Turner called newspapers criminally careless for publishing unfocused statements that harm both producers and consumers.

New Orleans Thomas Turner Oklahoma City Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association Atlantic

Fragments Describe Luncheon with Battleship Reference

A partial line notes a Friday lunch and a quip about digestion and a battleship. The brief text hints at a humorous or cryptic exchange but lacks clear context, participants, or full event details.

Shippers Market Prices for San Antonio Country Produce

Buyers paid prevailing rates for eggs butter poultry and fowl in San Antonio with figures for country candied eggs butter creamery stock and packing stock. Poultry prices show hens friers broilers springs and birds by weight with turkeys ducks and geese priced per unit.

San Antonio Texas Texas Creamery

Quotations and receipts from Chicago and Kansas City markets

Chicago market reports show buttercreamery 31% 38c firsts 36 37c potato receipts 36 cars and white potatoes priced 1.90 to 2.00. Poultry alive steady hens 20 percent cents. Kansas City quotes Buttercreamery 41c firsts 39c potatoes around 2 dollars, poultry hens 19c roosters 13c turkeys 25c.

Chicago Butterigher Washington Colorado Oregon Idaho Wisconsin Springs Kansas City

Provision Markets Local Packing House Prices

Local packing house quotations show dry salt extras at 17 cents per pound and bacon extras at 1.5 cents. Dry salt bellies average 14 to 14 pounds at 181 cents, with lighter breakfast bacon at 2 cents. Fancy hams at 22 cents, bacon bellies 14 to 16 pounds, American cheese 27 cents per pound.

Cotton goods market shows strong early fall demand in New York

In New York on January 29 demand for fall delivery cotton goods remains robust with mills reporting sold-out inventories for new season items. Domestic staples trading steady while prints and bleached cottons move slowly. knit goods stay firm with steady hosiery purchases and irregular yarn prices.

New York

Tick Eradication Conference Opens in Dallas

Department heads from the U S Bureau of Animal Industry meet in Dallas for a five day conference on tick eradication ending February 2. The session aims to accelerate the campaign benefiting Texas and other livestock states with substantial annual gains. Wharton leads the Dallas meeting titled conference for tick eradication west of the Mississippi.

Dallas Tex Bureau of Animal Industry United States Department of Agriculture Southwest Texas Department of Agriculture Mississippi Atlanta George W. Wharton Department Office of Interveation

Weather Bulletin January 29 1917 Observations

Observations taken at 7 am Monday January 29 1917 note wind velocities under 10 mph and precipitation under .01 inch are not published. Allen Buell Stetserdenets Weather Bureau signs indicate official report.

Ives Allen Buell Stetserdenets Weather Bureau

Northern cattle and hogs unsettled at Union Stock Yards

cattle varied from strong at Kansas City to lower at Fort Worth and St. Louis, hogs rose at St. Louis but fell at Fort Worth. Sheep showed strength as receipts remained heavy. San Antonio market was active with cattle up about a quarter, hogs steady. Local yard receipts totaled 1098 cattle, 65 calves, 178 horses, and 209 hogs.

Union Stock Yards Kansas City St. Louis Fort Worth San Antonio Attle

Fort Worth Cattle and Hog Markets Open With Small Losses

Fort Worth market report shows cattle receipts around 5300 with prices mostly 10 cents lower. Steers 8.50 to 9.25, stockers 6.00 to 7.60, heifers 6.00 to 9.00, cows 4.50 to 6.50, bulls 4.50 to 6.75, calves 4.50 to 9.50. Hog receipts about 10,000 with bids 10.40 to 10.90, top 11. Sheep receipts 300 with steady tone. lambs 12.50 to 13.50, yearlings 11.00 to 13.90, wethers 9.25 to 9.75, ewes 8.50 to 9.00, goats 3.50 to 6.50.

Fort Worth Tex Helfern

Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report

Receipts and quotations show hogs and cattle markets mixed with firm tendencies. Hog ranges include bulk 11.46 11.65, light 11.15 11.65, heavy 11.28 11.75. cattle native beef 7.75 11.90, western steers 7.75 10.00, calves 11.00 15.00. sheep wethers 9.75 11.26, lambs 11.75 14.40.

Chicago

Kansas City Market Receipts and Quotes Jan 29

Receipts and prices in Kansas City show hogs firm with bulk at 11.40 to 11.70 and sows from 9.50 to 10.50. Cattle receipts about 12 000 with prime fed steers 11.00 to 11.60, calves 7.90 to 12.00, cows 5.50 to 9.50, stockers 6.76 to 10.00. Sheep receipts 13 009 with lambs 14.26 to 18.75, yearlings 11.70 to 12.60, wethers 10.00 to 10.50.

Wihr Abilene Amarillo Tex Atlanta Birmingham Brownsville Chicago Oklahoma City Kansas City

Cattle and hogs advance as mixed goods rise at St Louis market

ET LOUIS Mo Jan 20 Receipts and market mixed hogs and cattle show higher quotes. Hogs lights and prime steers rise with good heavy cattle firm to higher while beef cows and yearlings trade across a broad range. Sheep demand remains strong with lambs and yearlings quoted higher.

Oklahoma City Cattle Market Steady As Slaughter Steers Top

Cattle sales in Oklahoma City show steady demand with top hogs at 2790 and top price around 11.50 for 1000 weights. The day’s average price listed as 10.25 with mixed results for steers and sheep across several consignors including Minton Gotebs Chappelera and TD fields.

Oklahoma City Okla Minton Gotebs Chappelera Fort Cobb

Iron and Steel Mills Overwhelmed With Orders Abroad

American steel mills faced heavy demand from foreign markets and strong domestic need last week. Production was hindered by railroad embargoes floods and scarce raw materials while Entente agents secured large shell steel contracts. 690000 tons for 1917 delivery and 4400 cars sold recently including 2000 for export.

American Steel Mills New York American Steel Mille Entente Shell Steel

Coffee Futures Edge Higher as Markets Digest Patented Pen Note

New York trading on January 29 shows March futures at 8.45 and May at 8.56 for coffee. A newly patented double pointed pen design is noted, with a possible fine or stub point option projected for use.

New York

Wholesale fruit and poultry price shifts in local markets

The markets report price hikes and cuts on Monday for fruits and vegetables led by Texas cabbage at 7 per hundredweight and California onions at 7.50 to 8.00. Poultry wholesale prices fall for large and medium hens while small neons drop. eggs and butter unchanged. Seeded raisins rise, and several dried beans and seeds show notable increases with Sudan jumping to 40 per hundredweight in job lots.

Texas California Florida Commission Menton Delivery San Antonio Sudan Alpalpa

Wholesale produce prices and trade goods list

Wholesale prices to trade across fruits vegetables canned goods grains and meats. California potatoes onions celery cranberries and peppers feature with Texas and Florida lots, crates, bushels and per hundredweight rates. Includes coffee sugar flour rice and miscellaneous seeds, meats and canned items with per unit and per case figures.

Stock Market Slips After Opening Rally

Markets opened higher with advances led by United States Steel and rails firms like Union Pacific and Southern Railway. By afternoon gains faded as Steel fell five points and other issues weakened. Trading ended heavy with about 100000 shares exchanged.

New York United States Steel cope _ bers International Paper International Nickel Reacting Union Pacific Southern Railway Bethlehem Steel New Haven Mexican Petroleum

Money Market Report From New York Exchange

Mercantile paper settled at 4.72 percent for 12 day bills on banks. Commercial paper 12 percent, 10 day bills at 4.72. Demand funds 4,758. Cables 4.767-16. Francs demand 5.84 percent, cables 5.89. Guilders demand and cables 40 percent. Bar silver 76 1/2 cents. Mexican dollars 59 percent. Government bonds steady. Railroad bonds firm.

Peg A Sunet Mercantile Pacen Seettin Bain Aay

Time loan rates hold steady amid market activity

New York on January 29 reports time loans steady with 60 days at 24 percent and six months around 3 percent. High bid rates hover, with recent loans offered near 2 percent, indicating a calm money market.

New York

Metal markets New York activity and quotes

Metal exchange reports limited bids and mixed quotes in New York. Copper and tin show firm or steady patterns while spot prices for various metals reflect narrow trading and regional influences.

New York Metal Exchange East St. Louis Devery Perthera Ussria

London Metals Prices Reported in Telegraph Snippet

Spot copper trades at 133 pounds 6 shillings, futures at 125 pounds. Tin spot 191 pounds, futures 191 pounds 12 shillings 6d. Lead spot 30 pounds, zinc spot 52 pounds 158, futures 37 pounds.

London

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