The Man With a Billion Chapter Teases Master Thief Rivalry
In a fire wreck at the Excelsior Trust, vaults hold a billion in money and the Zophar diamond as master thief Sir Richard Calverly plots theft. Detective Tierney and Vanderpoel pursue clues. Adrian, newly housed in Westmoreland, studies Calverly with Faurot at Central Office and follows strategic leads, while a hotel link and the Violet Widow weave into the case.
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Excelsior Trust Company
James Tierney
Tierney
Richard Calverly
Lizzie
New York
Calverly
Palisades
Mrs. Peyton
Rogues
Sir Dick
Faurot
Bertillon
Central Office
Adrian
Scotland Yard
Dr. Crippen
Mid-Sea
London
Countess Perchanteaux
Lizazie
Sherlock Holmes
Westmoreland
Washington Square
Vanderpoel
Renewal of Old Acquaintance in London Vibe
Adrian in his Fifth Avenue apartment struggles to finish a note to Mrs Peyton. He reflects on a long lapse of time since their last meeting in London and feels uncertainty about recognition as he contemplates renewing their past connection.
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Vanderpoel Senior
Vanderpoel Junior
Vanderpoel
Weather Forecast for San Antonio and East Texas
The Weather Bureau forecast for San Antonio and vicinity calls for unsettled conditions tonight and Thursday with showers on the coast, while East Texas should expect unsettled weather with showers possible tonight or Thursday. The forecast covers through 7 p.m. Thursday, issued Wednesday, July 28, 1918.
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San Antonio
East Texas
Potatoes Prices Rise at Wholesale Market
Potatoes climbed a dime per hundredweight in today’s wholesale market though most producemen held steady as reserves labeled low. Other vegetables unchanged with corn cheapest. Butter firming with hot dry weather curtailing milk output. Elgin butter steady at 26 cents a pound. Wheat demand strong amid bearish stocks, patent flour down to 2.70 3.00 per hundred pounds. Packers’ prices rise for side meats and bellies. lards and compounds up slightly. Hides and wool quiet. overall price list static.
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Elgin
Chicago Market Quotations July 23 Butter and poultry steady
Quotations today show butter unchanged and poultry unchanged in Chicago. Eggs receipts totaled 10 444 cases, cheese advanced with daisies at 14 percent, twins 19 14c, young Americas 13 1bc, long horns 1444 c. Potatoes higher at 5c to 1$1, receipts 45 cars.
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Chicago
Kansas Market Prices Report Update
July 23 has butter at 26 cents per pound, creamery 26c, firsts 265c, seconds 24c, packing 24c. Eggs listed as firsts 18c, seconds 1c. Poultry prices show hens 13c, roosters 9c, ducks 15c, broilers 16c.
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Poultry and Butter Prices Reported in St Louis Market
On July 23 in St Louis poultry prices show chickens 13c, springs 16%C, turkeys 19c, ducks 12c. Butter Creamery 26c and eggs 12%c.
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Louis
Cotton futures open steady in New York trade
New York July 23 cotton futures opened steady with July at 12.15 cents, August 12.00, September 11.68, October 11.45, December 11.34, January 11.43, and May 11.00 as traders awaited midday developments.
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New York
Ewe
Copper and tin firm in London market report
London dated July 23 reports copper steady with spot at 64 pounds 8s 9d and futures 64 pounds 1s 3d. Tin remains firm with spot 187 pounds 6s and futures 187 pounds 5s. Iron Cleveland warrants noted at 65s 34.
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Cleveland
To Be Continued
A St Louis report opens with prices for lead and spelter and shifts to a scene of a young bachelor at a social gathering. The narrative follows his awkward attempt to craft a note amid a network of servants and rumors, as the telephone rings signaling a continuation.
Wheat gains as traders lead bullish buys in Chicago market
Chicago July 23 buyers from two leading bull houses lifted wheat while corn faded on rain and weak demand. September opened slightly lower but climbed to 87 cents in part of the session. corn slipped to 61 to 62 percent amid rain spreading to Kansas. Provisions held steady as hogs influenced prices. oats fell with corn, and the market closed steady with wheat up modestly and corn showing renewed weakness.
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France
Iowa
Illinois
Nebraska
Oates
Lée
Kansas
Market quotes for July to January notes on lard and short ribs
The record presents open high low and close figures for July September October and January futures. Lard shows July 23.25 at end with September and October around 21.40 to 21.92, while Short Ribs list July 11.77 and September 11.87 to 11.90 with October around 11.62 to 11.90.
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Coos
Chicago cash grain quotations July 23 1924
Chicago cash grain quotations list wheat prices for multiple grades including No 1 red No 2 red new and old varieties with values from 87% to 93 cents and corn at 624% cents per bushel and oats at 40 1/2 cents per bushel with standard oats noted.
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Ill
Moderate cattle market at Union Stock Yards July 23
At Union Stock Yards cattle pens showed a moderate supply and a busy market with a good turnout of butchers and packers. Noon offerings totaled 301 cattle, 7 calves, 7 horses, 83 hogs and 17 sheep with cows up to 5 1/4 and most cattle 4 1/2 to 5.00, calves to 7, hogs at 8.50, and sheep 3.50 to 4.00 amid steady demand.
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Union Stock Yards
Fort Worth Market Sees Mixed Cattle Calves Hog Trade
Fort Worth Texas markets report 4600 cattle 800 calves on hand with an uneven day. Beef steers mostly steady to lower while calves rise to a top of 8.15. Hog yards run about 2300 head with prices a nickel lower and top at 9.20. Sheep and goats scarce and market nominal. Oklahoma day noted in hogs.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Oklahoma
Cotton Buoyed by Weather as New York Opens Steady
In New York on July 23 Liverpool was slightly firmer than others and the market opened steady with minor fluctuations. Weather news remained a key factor with Texas and Oklahoma dry while the eastern belt saw showers. A New Orleans forecast of possible rain pressured new crop months, causing selling and losses of 6 to 9 points from yesterday's close. Demand was light and dominated by shorts, with bear pressure active.
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Liverpool
Texas
Oklahoma
New Orleans
New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady Amid Rain Forecast
New Orleans July 23 Cotton futures opened steady with July and August futures unevenly trading as liquidators sold. The weather map shown heavy rain across the belt and unsettled conditions ahead, pressuring prices into the first half hour with August weakest. Midday quotes placed prices down 9 to 19 points from yesterday, with receipts at 1147 and stock listed at 2300.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Cotton Futures Open Steady July 12 Bid
Cotton futures opened steady in New Orleans with July at 12.00 bid and August 11.95 asked and closed steady with a small net decline. Prices for September through March show slight shifts, with typical daily ranges and final settles near 11.40 to 11.70.
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New Orleans
Liverpool cotton market report July 23 1900s style
Spot cotton in fair demand and easier with middling values around 7.29d for fair, 6.95d for good middling, 6.69d middling, 6.49d low middling, and 6.01d good ordinary. Sales reached 8000 bales including 7000 American and 500 for speculation and export. receipts 1000 bales including 100 American bales.
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Liverpool
Futures close steady in London with varied spreads
In Liverpool on July 28 futures closed steady with July at 6.42 1/4d and spread quotes extending through the year. Key contracts include July August at 6.42d, September October 6.20d, and December January 6.11d, plus other successive month pairings.
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Liverpool
Leading spot markets report from July with cotton prices
New York and Memphis show middling around 12.35 and 12 percent. New Orleans quotes 12 3 4 percent with spot sales of 70 bales and 100 arriving. Liverpool and Galveston midpoints around 6 69d and 12%. Houston at 12 1 16. The July 23 report notes easy spot cotton with a five cent decline and limited activity.
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Chicago Market Receipts and Quotations July 23
Receipts and quotes for hogs cattle and sheep listed with ranges. Hogs 25,000 head, market slow. bulk sold 8.95 to 9.30, lights 9.10 to 9.50, mixed 5.80 to 9.46, heavy 8.60 to 9.30, rough 8.60 to 8.75, pigs 7.60 to 9.26. Cattle 18,000 head, market steady. Beeves 7.15 to 9.10, Texas steers 6.90 to 9.00, stockers 5.50 to 7.75, cows and heifers 3.70 to 8.40, calves 8.25 to 11.50. Sheep 2,000 head, market strong. native sheep 4.25 to 5.15, yearlings 5.40 to 6.55, native lambs 5.40 to 6.70.
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Texas
Cotton Prices Dip Slightly in New York Spot market
New York spots on July 23 ease five points as middling uplands trade around 12.35 and gulf around 12.60 with no sales recorded. Market activity remains quiet.
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New York
Cotton seed prices quoted in Memphis market
In Memphis on July 23 prices were listed for cotton seed products with prime basis at 8 cents per pound, meal ranging from 31.00 to 31.50 dollars, and lintier prices at 2% to 8% depending on quality.
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Tenn
Receipts and prices for cattle hogs and sheep at St Louis market
Receipts today in St Louis show cattle at 5000 with 1500 Texans and steady market. Beef steers 5.50 to 8.75, cows and heifers 4.75 to 8.40, Texas steers 6.25 to 8.00, cows 4.25 to 6.50, hogs 9000 with market 7.25 to 9.45, sheep 5500 with muttons 3.75 to 4.00 and lambs around .25.
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Jay
Texas
Renee Ogs
Cotton seed oil market closes firm with varied calls
July 28 report shows spot prices at 9.40 for July, 9.45 and 9.43 for quick sales, and later bids for August through February ranging from 6.72 to 9.50. Total sales reach 13 900 with multiple lots exchanged across August to November.
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Spot
Kansas City Cash Grain Prices Report
Kansas City prices list cash grain values for July 23 with bids for wheat corn and oats. No. 2 hard wheat 82 85. No. 2 red 81 82. No. 2 mixed corn 65. No. 2 white 41 42. No. 2 mixed 39 12. Futures close show September wheat 81 81 1 2. December 84 54. May 90 . corn September 62 68. oats September 39 1/2. December 41 1/2.
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Kansas City Livestock Prices and Memphis Cotton Update
Receipts and bids show Kansas City hogs at steady, cattle and sheep market steady to higher with primes and dressed beef ranges noted. Hogs bulk $8.95 to $9.16, cattle prime fed steers $8.60 to $9.00, cows $4.00 to $7.00, lambs $7.75 to $8.40. Memphis spot cotton steady at 18.5 cents middling. Memphis, Tenn. July 23.
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Tenn
Coffee futures hold steady as Rio No. 7 gains cited
New York July 23 coffee futures show Rio No 7 at 9 percent on call with steady sentiment. September contracts trade around 9.10 and March around 9.53 as buyers and sellers await direction.
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New York
Rio
Inspect Foreign Cattle Drive for Better Meat Standards
Col Ike T Pryor reports to Washington on clean cattle and meat from abroad. Dr A D Melvin, head of animal industry, will lead a three month probe of livestock conditions in South America including packing houses in Argentina Brazil Uruguay and Paraguay. Pryor notes South American herds may carry disease and urges strict import inspections. Secretary Houston plans accompanyagencies to southern republics to study conditions ahead of tariff changes.
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Washington
Houston
Department of Agriculture
A. D. Melvin
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General Packing House
Argentina
Brazil
Uruguay
Paraguay
Pryor
San Antonio
Wool market stalls amid slow Western buying
Boston July 23 Comparatively little improvement in prices or sales volume in the domestic wool market. Most trading focuses on territory stock while Texas wools of the new clip show moderate demand. West buying remains slow and experts report about half of the new clip purchased or consigned with quoted prices for fleeces and various blood percentages in unwashed and scoured grades.
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Texas
West
Wisconsin
Missouri
Kentucky
Weather notes from Cotton Region Bulletin 1913
Observations taken at 8 am on Wednesday July 23 1913 report fair belt weather and above normal temperatures. Rainfall of an inch or more reported at Galveston Greenville Griffin Macon Marianna Goodwater Savannah Valdosta Columbia Waycross Washington and Greensboro. Allen Buell local forecaster Weather Bureau.
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Wall Street slides as market opens with weakness in issue groups
New York July 23 The stock market opened quiet and declined as New Haven convertibles and California Petroleum fell. Major issues like Union Pacific Canadian Pacific Reading and Steel slipped while government issues and New Haven sixes weakened. July and August futures dropped with liquidation in cotton and mixed intraday moves ending the day irregular and lower.
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Chesapeake & Ohio
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Shorts
Republic Steel
Texas
Metal and alloy quotes steady or mixed in New York markets
New York July 23 lead at 4.80 bid in London 20 10s. Spelter steady 5.30 to 6.40 with London 20. Copper irregular spot 13.75 with July 18.76 14.25 August 13.75 14.12 September 13.75 14.59. Electrolytic 14.50 14.62 lake 14.50 14.76 casting 14.25 14.50. Tin quiet spot 41.25 41.6 July 41.40 41.50 August September 41.37 41.50. Antimony Cookson s 8.40 5.55. Iron irregular and unchanged.
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Market Brief: Sterling Rates Steady on U.S. Bank Bills
New York July 23. Prime mercantile paper 6 percent. Sterling exchange steady with actual business in bankers' bills at 4.83.25 for 60 day bills and 4.86.85 for demand. Commercial bills 4.82. Ba silver 58 1/2 cents. Mexican dollars 47 cents. Government bonds weak and railroad bonds irregular.
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Sterling Exchange
Money on Call Steady in New York Market
New York July 23 Money on call steady at 2 1/2 percent ruling rate 2 1/2 percent closing bid 2 percent offered 2 1/2 percent. Time loans easier 60 days 3 4 percent 4 percent 90 days 4 1/2 percent six months 5 1/2 percent.
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New York July 23 Egge Receipts Reported
New York reports receipts of 15,759 cases for Egge on July 23, with irregular but largely unchanged trends observed in early trading. The update notes stable demand and steady shipments across key markets.
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Egge
New York Sugar and Petroleum Prices Hold Steady
In New York on July 23, raw sugar prices remained steady with muscovado at 3.03 dollars cent per pound and centrifugal at 3.54, refined at steady 2.79. Petroleum molasses held steady while hides remained quiet and leather showed firm activity.
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