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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1917
Page
7
The Cotton Exchange notes a small morning loss giving way to record highs for the season as frigid northern cold and bullish crop figures lift prices. New York closes steady to 26 points lower than yesterday, New Orleans 8 to 17 points lower, while San Antonio spots show 21.10.
New York cotton rose early on renewed bullish sentiment driven by crop figures and spot buying in the South, with July at 22.55 and October 22.15. By late morning selling pressured futures, July slipping to 22.717 and October to 21.50, and the market closed steady near day’s low, down 21 to 26 points.
New Orleans market opened with a 2 to 3 point fall but rebounded to 14 to 21 points above yesterday's close at the end of the first hour. Buying was spurred by very low northern belt temperatures and reports of a firmer, higher spot market. Prices fluctuated as the session wore on and slipped near the close due to profit taking amid a market holiday.
New Orleans on June 2 reports cotton opened steady with July at 21.82, October 21.27, December 21.87 and January 21.48 asked. Futures closed Saturday 9 to 17 points higher, signaling gains across next contracts.
A report notes Liverpool is set to open Monday with a lead of 15 to 21 points, signaling a strong early advantage for the team across the matchup.
The fragment lists cotton statistics by location including figures that appear to reference units or tonnages. It mentions various places such as Ravennah and Charleston with numerical values. Data appears garbled but centers on regional cotton production quantities.
A real buyer offers to purchase a cottage on Tobin Hill or Laurel Heights and invites owners to list with G. Hagestein, Crockett 606, requesting contact through Mr. Coleman.
20 acres of land north of city with grocery beer saloon waterworks plant black shop barn garage and seven room house Louis Krause McCullough Ave 1508. For sale or trade for small arm an up to date stock of millinery pots in Corpus Christi invoice about 2400 good stand and doing good business John Bollons Realty Co 3048 Alamo S&t.
Temperature readings show colder air in Oklahoma and northwestern Texas with 40 to 46 degrees. Afternoon highs mostly exceed 90 in southern interior areas. Light to moderate showers fell across the Carolinas and parts of Georgia Mississippi Oklahoma and East Texas. Heavy rains occurred in Tennessee and Arkansas with several stations reporting over an inch and a quarter. Allen Buell meteorologist Weather Bureau.
Mrs. A. J. Lancaster, 76, died at a local hospital after a several months illness. A native of Alabama, she moved to Texas at age 11. Survived by four sisters and multiple children, grandchildren. Funeral at Sloan & Hagg parlors with Rev. C Wesley Weddell conducting. Interment Cemetery No. 6.
Union Stock Yards report June 2 shows northern hogs advancing 6 to 6 cents at Fort Worth and Chicago, with Kansas City up 6 cents. Cattle remain universally steady and sheep marginally under steady as receipts total 290 cattle 14 calves 4 hogs 129 sheep 398 goats. city trade includes 68 cattle 14 calves 4 hogs.
The wholesale price of corn increased by four cents on Saturday with Northern white and white prices at 1.89 per bushel in job lots and 1.78 in car lots, Northern mixed 1.44 in job lots and 1.77 in car lots, and Octe up two cents to 99 cents in job lots and 4 cents in car lots There were no changes in wholesale prices for fresh fruits vegetables eggs meat poultry groceries provisions seeds or mill products.
Shippers market shows jobbers' prices to retailers or paid shippers with 6 to 11 cent legs steady. Texas country candled 31 sle per dloven. Butter steady with Texas creamery at 82 35c per pound, country 25 30c. Poultry steady Hens 15 16c per lb, old roosters 11 1c, large springs 30 Ble, medium springs 28 8c, small springs 28 37c. Broilers 2.50 3.00 per dozen, turkeys 18 18c per lb, ducks 7.00 8.00 per dozen, geese 3.06 10.60.
Cattle receipts 500, market unchanged. Reeves 7.00 12.00, stockers 0.00 38.00, heifers 7.00 9.00, cows 5.00 4.00, bulls 4.00 7.75, calves 5.09 12.50. Hogs receipts 450, market 6 to 10 cents higher. Heavy 15.60 15.45, light 16.50 15.60, medium 15.40 15.50, mixed 15.25 16.40, common 14.00 14.75, pigs 9.75 9.0 11.60. Sheep receipts 50, market nominal. Lambs 15.00 16.99, yearlings 13.00 14.60, wethers 11.00 12.00, ewes 10.00 11.00, culls 6.60 8.00, yeats 5.00 7.60.
Quotations today show butter at 27 40c for creamery, eggs down with receipts at 18,836 cases and various grade prices, potatoes up in New and old categories. Louisiana Triumphs traded around 3.10 to 3.25 dollars, Texas and Alabama Triumphs 3.15 to 3.35. Poultry alive unchanged, fowls at 0c.
Receipts and quotations show hogs 50600 head with a strong market 5 to 19 cents higher, bulk 15.54 to 16.05, heavy 15.37 to 16.10, pigs 10.50 to 14.75. Cattle receipts 2600, market steady with native bees at 14.76, stockers 7.40 to 10.60, calves 9.50. Sheep receipts 4000, market weak with wethers 10.00 to 12.90, lambs 11.26 to 14.75, springs 12.60 to 17.60.
Quotations from Kansare City on June 2 show Butter at 44c for creamery firsts 42c seconds 49c packing 33c. Eyes firsts 32c. Poultry listed as hens 10c roosters 18c turkeys 22c broilers 3c. Potatoes old 3.10 dollars new 3.25 dollars.
Elgin June 2 Butter prices slipped as butter sold lower with 80 tubs quoted at four cents lower. Local market activity shows decreased demand and a gentle price correction across the dairy trade.
Government pledges to protect growers and guarantee high prices buoy wheat and corn in Chicago. July wheat peaks near 2.06 while September hits around 1.99, then eases. corn rallies with firmer hog prices supporting pork and ribs but lard weakens on spread closures.
June 2 Chicago quotations show cash wheat at 41 1/2 to 62 1/2 cents with No 2 yellow corn at 41 1/2 to 62 1/2. Standard cuts and berley values listed at $1,154 and 61,60 respectively.
Kansas City reports receipts totaling 600 for grains with bids at bulk 15.20 to 16.95 and heavy 16.55 to 16.65. Cattle show 1,000 head with 800 southern. prime fed steers 12.50 to 13.40. dressed beef steers 10.00 to 12.25. cows 6.50 to 11.00. heifers 8.60 to 12.20. calves 7.00 to 8.26. stockers 8.00 to 10.75. Sheep receipts reach 2,500 with lambs 14.00 to 18.00. yearlings 12.00 to 16.00. wethers 11.00 to 14.50. ewes 6.60 to 16.50. stockers 7.00 to 14.00.
Local packing house offers dry salt extras four and a half cents, bacon extras two cents, dry salt bellies 14 to 16 pounds at 25 and four tenths cents, fancy breakfast bacon at forty cents, fancy hams and bacon bellies 14 to 16 pounds, Pure lard at twenty three and a quarter cents, compound at nineteen cents, American cheese at two and a half cents per pound.
Quotations for pork and lard in Chicago show open high low and close figures for July and September contracts. Prices range around 38.55 to 38.56 for pork July, with Sept near 38.10 to 39.85, and lard around 21.60 to 21.70, reflecting market activity in early June.
Mrs Ola Hall wife of T A Hall died at 835 o clock Friday night at a local hospital Surviving include husband a daughter Miss Lilly Hall and five sisters Mrs T B Trotman San Angelo Mrs W M Owens Galveston Mrs J D Ryan San Francisco Mrs N T Franklin Pettux and Mrs A J Mabry Lockney The funeral will be held at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon from the residence 2121 Elmendorf Street Interment will be in the Mission Burial Park.
ST LOUIS Mo June 2 Receipts and Hogs Receipts 2000 market steady Lights 15.45 to 15.85 pigs 10.00 to 14.50 mixed 15.46 to 15.95 good heavy 15.95 to 15.00 bulk 15.45 to 15.00 Cattle Receipts 1000 market steady Native beef steers 7.50 to 13.00 yearling steers and heifers 8.50 to 13.00 cows 6.00 to 11.00 stockers and feeders 6.00 to 10.00 Texas quarantine steers 5.50 to 9.50 prime southern beef steers 8.00 to 11.60 beef cows and heifers 4.25 to 9.00 prime yearling steers and heifers 7.50 to 10.00 native calves 6.00 to 14.00 Sheep Receipts 1000 market steady Clippe lambs 14.00 to 15.00 clipped ewes 9.50 to 12.00 spring lambs 15.00 to 15.00 canners 5.00 to 6.00
New York sugar markets opened quiet on June 2 with raw sugar steady. Molasses quoted at 5.01 per hundredweight and centrifugal at 5.84. Eve and fine granulated sugars remained steady with fine granulated at 7.50.
Kansas City June 2 market notes list No 2 hard wheat at 2.64 to 2.80 dollars per bushel No 2 red wheat 32.73 dollars Corn No 2 mixed 1.54 to 1.56 No white 1.55 to 1.57 Oats No 2 white 66 to 66 1 2 cents No mixed 64 to 65 cents per bushel.
Grain futures in Kansas City closed with Wheat July at 3.12 and September 1.93 while Corn July stands at 1.474 and September 1.30 with December at 44 cents. Trading reflected modest shifts amid crop outlooks and market demand.
New York June 2 reports strong cloth markets with wide print cloths selling at Stee for 38 and GixGdg and 685x728 for tle. Drills moved on a basin of 12e a pound. Demand for fine goods and wash goods rose. Wool markets were strong.
New York traders faced a volatile session as war group stocks led early gains in steel oils and industrials while rails and motors softened. United States Steel and other leaders faced profit taking as rail storage rate suspensions and general market shifts weighed. closes were heavy with about 690000 shares traded and varied bond activity.
Trading in Mexican currency in San Antonio featured bid and asked prices for various notes and coins. Silver pesos and half pesos showed quoted prices, along with state, national bank, and Bank of London and Mexico notes, reflecting the exchange rates of the day.
New York on June 2 reports mercantile paper at 4 percent with Sterling 60 day bills at 472, commercial 60 day bills at 471 percent, demand 475 9-14 with Guilder at Demand 414 on cables, and silver at a percent near. government bonds hold steady while railroad bonds show irregular trading.
London reports Bar Silver at 38d per ounce and Money at 44 3/4 percent. Discount rates show Short bills at 4 11 14 percent and three months bills at 4 3/4 percent.
The New York clearing house banks and trust companies report a reserve excess of 96,869,710, down 79,559,400 from last week. Loans total 3,094,786,000 with a 13,235,000 decline, while aggregate reserves and deposits shift across federal and other depositories and circulation.
Funeral services for H. Kern, 50, who died in Dallas, will be held at 6 p m Saturday from the Riebe Undertaking Company chapel. Rev A Wolf of St John Lutheran Church to conduct. Kern, born in Germany, had lived in San Antonio a decade. A sister, Mrs Erin Harring of Dallas, survives.
Alfred Mueller seven year old son of Mr and Mrs L E Mueller of Flatonia died Friday in a local hospital after treatment arranged by his parents who brought him here. The Sloan Hagg Undertaking Company sent the body to Flatonia for interment.
Pablo Pinoco of 107 South Leona Street was struck by a car at West Commerce Street and Santa Rosa Avenue at 7:25 AM Saturday, sustaining a bruised left arm and hand. A. S. Brush, 23, was bonded by Officer Moriion for careless operation of a motor vehicle.
St Louis market update lists cash wheat at 2.76 for No 2 red and 2.77 for No 2 hard. Corn No 2 at 1.581.58 and No 2 white at 1.59. Oats reported nominal.
Texas cattle raisers pressed for a government favored, competitive market to boost meat supply while avoiding ruin from unforeseen risks. Ike Pryor Robert Klebverg and Day ton Moses proposed ideas including a five year import duty, full industry study, halting 15 percent freight rate hikes, suspending the homestead law, and a two year minimum price to shield producers from postwar overproduction.
New Orleans on Friday saw steady rough and clean rice with unchanged quotations. Receipts totaled 2322 pockets, while sales included 200 pockets of clean Honduras and 550 pockets of Blue Rose.
Savannah June figures show a turpentine firm with 40 percent sales totaling 368 receipts 298 ship ments 346 stock 12186. Resin firm records sales 932 shipments 4153 stock 166 quotations list prices for grades B D G H K M N W and W W with varied amounts.
Meteorologist Ailen Bueli notes observations at 7 am on Saturday June 2 1917. Wind velocities under 10 miles per hour and precipitation less than .01 inch are not published.
June 2 New York coffee market shows No 7 Rio at 104 cents a pound while July futures slip to 8.05 dollars and January futures trade around 8.23 dollars as the market remains cautious.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that railroads from New Orleans and Galveston to Missouri River cities may keep lower rates than to intermediate Kansas points if routes are reasonably direct. Lines at least 15 percent longer than their street route may continue lower rates to Missouri River cities than to Kansas intermediate points.
The chamber closed its drive Friday night reporting subscriptions totaling close to $6000 on three year terms. Under Generals Silliman and Haile the army and navy canvassers will push on Monday to contact prospective members not seen during the four day drive. Many supporters chose longer subscriptions to ensure ongoing chamber activity despite funding gaps.
METAL MARKETS NEW YORK June 2 copper market firmer though quiet. Spot and nearby deliveries quoted near 32 to 34 dollars. Small August and September lots offered around 29.50 with holders seeking 30 to 22 for the third quarter and 28.50 to 99.50 for the fourth quarter. Tron was unclean.
An Irish woman accuses a boy of lying and taunts him with sharp rhetoric, saying he could stand there and lie without changing color. The exchange captures a tense moment of accusation and simmering tension.
Portable bargain announcement lists bicycles priced from ten dollars and up available with easy payments at Portage Tire Company located at 221 8 Alamo.
Prices to the trade for potatoes onions cucumbers tomatoes and more. Includes Texas origins and California items with per bushel per crate per dozen prices, plus dried fruits and canned goods. Notes tax adjustment and potential refund if war tax not enacted.
Classified items include bargain loans, jewelry offers, and rest room invitations for Camp Funston troops in San Antonio. Also listed are bankruptcy petitions, legal ads, service hires, clothing sales, and a Saturday noon office closure for the school board, with minor vehicle fires and injuries reported nearby.
The fragment praises Ma Nature for doing a thorough housecleaning, noting a sense of completion and relief. It uses casual dialect to express admiration for natural sorting and renewal.
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