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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 05, 1917

Page

13

Local Home Furnishings Auctions Prompted by Basements Packed with Bargains

Several auction notices advertise private sales and timed auctions in San Antonio venues. Alam o Auction Co and Johnston Auctioneer pledge satisfaction and cash deals on household goods, furniture, pianos, dining sets, and accessories in multiple downtown locations. Several sales highlight upright pianos, fancy dressers, chandeliers, and Harvard Classics volumes, with details on directions and times.

B. Johnston N. Pine Crockett Paschal St Tobin Hill San Pedro Main Ave Dewey Place E. Dewey and McCullough Elegan Charley Dickens S. Alamo St Kimball Burroughs Harvard

Advertising Rates and Policies in North Texas Daily News

The Dallas Times Herald advertises want ad rates and insertion policies for North Texas. It notes per word pricing, bulk rates for multiple insertions, and requires stamps or advance payment. No ads accepted for less than a minimum total.

North Texas Big Daily News Dallas Times Herald The San Antonio Light

Cattle Market Shows Strength in Northern Markets

Union Stock Yards reports June 5 as the northern cattle market remains strong while hogs and sheep weaken. Local cattle trade is slow and prices fall 10 to 20 cents. hogs hold near steady. Receipts include 184 cattle and 56 hogs with 348 goats among city trade items.

Union Stock Yards

Market Notes from Fort Worth Cattle and Hogs Report

Fort Worth market activity shows cattle receipts at 4009 with steady prices across classes Peeves 7.50 to 12.00 stockers 6.00 to 8.09 heifers 7.00 to 11.00 cows 6.00 to 8.00 bulls 5.00 to 7.75 calves 9.00 to 12.00. Hog receipts 1000 steady values from 14.00 to 15.50 plus prime 15.85 to 15.45. Sheep receipts 4000 with lambs 15.00 to 16.00 yearlings 13.00 to 14.00 wethers 10.00 to 12.00 ewes 7.00 to 10.00 goats 6.00 to 7.50.

Fort Worth Tex

Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report

Receipts from hogs 16 000 with a slow market. bulk 15.50 to 15.90 and other classes listed. Cattle receipts 2000 with strong native beef demand. stockers and feeders 7.35 to 10.5, cows 9.5 to 11. Sheep receipts 6090 with weak market. southwestern lambs and yearlings quoted 8.60 to 11. Lambs and ewes 12.00 to 16.60.

Market Receipts and Quotations Reported for Kansas City

Kansas City officials list receipts totaling 14 000 with market steady to lower. Bulk cattle quoted 15.20 to 15.80 and heavy hogs 15.10 to 15.66. Prime fed steers range 12.50 to 15.50, dressed beef steers 10.00 to 12.26, cows 6.25 to 11.60, lambs 14.00 to 17.50, and other sheep stocks weak or mixed.

Market Report St Louis June Hog Cattle and Sheep Prices

Receipts and quotations show hogs at 13 000 with steady to lower market, lights to 15.80, pigs to 14.50, heavy and best 16.00, bulk 15.40 15.90. cattle receipts 6000 with steady market, native steers up to 13.00, yearling stockers 6.00 10.00, cows 4.25 11.00, prime southern beef steers 8.00 11.50, beef cows 4.25 9.00, calves 6.00 14.00. sheep receipts 1500 with steady to weak prospects, clipped lambs 14.00 15.00, ewes 11.50 12.00, spring lambs 15.00 17.60, canners 4.00 6.00.

Chicago Til Wethersa ST. Louis Texas

Cotton Spot Firm in Liverpool Market

Liverpool June 5 Cotton spot firm with good middling at 15.15d and middling 14.91d. Iow middling 14.66d. Sales total 5000 bales including 300 for speculation and export. Receipts 2000 bales.

Liverpool Raccipts

Futures unsettled values show mixed contracts across months

Futures quotes list unsettled levels for June 14 Screen 14,554 and September October 14,144 with other months noted. The report includes December January 12.694 and January February 64d with March April 13. Stock figures compare to yesterday, last week, and last year alongside a deficit figure and United States exports totals.

Cotton Region Bulletin Houston District Temperature Report

The 24 hour period ending 8 a m shows temperatures generally near or slightly above normal across the Houston district with no rain elsewhere. Maximums above 95 were recorded in Southern Alabama and the extreme southern Georgia while light to moderate showers touched the Atlantic coast. Allen Buell meteorologist Weather Bureau.

Cotton Alabama Georgia Atlantic

Wholesale price changes in fresh produce listed

The local market notes rises and falls in wholesale fruit and vegetable prices on Tuesday. Okra rose to 2.00 and 2.50 per bushel hamper or 1.00 and 1.25 per half bushel. rhubarb fell to 6 cents per pound. wine sapopgies season hardened to 2.90 and 3.00 per box. Florida grapefruit up to 5.00 per box and California grapefruit to 4.50. lemons firm at 4.25 and 4.50 per box. pinks beans 13.60 per hundredweight. black eyes 12.00 per hundredweight. No changes in poultry, eggs, butter, provisions, seeds, grains or mill products.

Florida California

Shippers Market Prices For Tuesday Report

Shippers market shows steady otions with pack butter and creamery rates. Texas country candled price listed at 31 6s2c per dozen, butter steady, Texas creamery 32 to 35 cents per pound, country 25 to 30 cents. Poultry prices flat including Mena 16 17 cents per pound, roosters 11 to 12 cents, broilers 2.50 to 3.00 per dozen, turkeys 18 to 19 cents per pound, ducks 7.00 to 8.00 per dozen, geese 9.00 to 10.00 each.

Texas Country Texas Creamery Country

Chicago Quotations and Market Receipts Report

Chicago June 5 quotations show putter unchanged and Creanery firm. Fees lower with receipts at 25 905 cases. Firsts around 32 to 33 cents, ordinary firsts 30 to 31 cents. Potatoes higher with new receipts listing Texas Louisiana and Alabama. Old receipts at 11 care and prices around $2.76.

Chicago Crean Cara Texas Louisiana Alabama

Provision Markets Local Packing House Quotations

Local packing house quotations to dealers list dry salt extras 24¢ bacon extras 26¢ dry salt bellies 14-16 pound average 25 cents fancy breakfast bacon 40c fancy hams at bacon bellies 14-16 pound average gitec pure lard 223 c compound 19c American cheese 2 c pound

Wholesale Produce Prices To Trade In Texas Market

Wholesale prices to trade list Texas vegetables and fruits by item. Potatoes onions cucumbers tomatoes okra beets carrots cabbage radishes celery turnips lettuce squash corn beans spinach strawberries dewberries apricots cherries apples bananas oranges grape fruit limes lemons dates raisins peaches apples runes sugar coffee rice and syrups. Prices note one-cent-per-pound shifts pending war tax. refunds if tax not enacted.

Tess Commission Texas Bermuda California Florida Ag Ag Ag C. IL. M Ile Honduras Japan

Wholesale Trade Prices for Canned Goods and Grains

The listing shows wholesale prices to traders across canned fruits vegetables meats and fish, cereals, seeds, and grains. Items include apples $1.90 per dozen, cherries $2.75 per dozen, No 1 roast beef $2.75, salmon Columbia River $3.00 per dozen, flour $13.80 per barrel, corn Northern white $1.59 per bushel, alfalfa seed $18-20 per cwt, and English money notes London silver at 38 1/4d per cent with discount rates.

California Illinois Maine Columbia River Alaska Texas London

New York Dry Goods Market Update

New York June 6 Cotton goods trended upward with several houses advancing brown and dress sheets. Worsted dress goods were strong though quiet. Raw silk at spot was dear and the new crop offered at stiff figures.

New York

Railroad rate rise depended on 1917 stats says N S C

Clifford Thorne for the National Shipping Conference told the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroad statistics so far in 1917 would justify at most a 3.8 percent freight revenue increase if rates remained constant, but fluctuations in rates do not warrant any increase at present.

Washington, D. C Clifford Thorne National Shipping Conference Interstate Commerce Commission

Texas railroads show assets jump in 1916 year

The Texas railroads intangible assets total $364,930,412 for 1916, up from $156,367,966 the year before, a net increase of $8,602,646. The rise mainly reflects larger lines in the state. preliminary figures from the state tax board, with a June meeting to hear objections on valuations.

Austin Texas State Tax Board A. P. Bagby State

Weather Bulletin From the Department of Agriculture

The bulletin notes wind velocities under 10 miles per hour and precipitation under .01 inch are not published. It is issued by the Meteorologist of the Weather Bureau.

U. S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau U. 8 Department OF Agriculture Weather Bulletin Attach

Special Sale Notice From Ed Steves & Sons

Carter White leads a special sale offering 12.00 per 100 pounds with smaller sizes at usual advances from Ed Steves & Sons.

Carter White Steves & Sons

Corn May Relieve Shortage of Wheat

Washington, June 5. Corn could displace wheat as a staple if the war lasts. The Agriculture Department seeks tax relief on flour adulterated with corn as an emergency measure. Secretary Houston advocates educating public taste for corn substitutes while protecting against deception in flour. England allows 10 percent corn in flour and extra 15 percent, while U.S. use of corn may vary by region. Secretary Daniels cautions against assuming Europe will be starved and recalls Civil War diets of corn pone and bacon keeping families fed.

Washington, D. C Department of Agriculture Houston United States Canada England Minnesota South Maine Daniels Europe France

IMMC Reports 1916 Earnings At Hoboken Meeting

The International Mercantile Marine shows a 1916 earnings figure of about 326.4 million dollars, presented at the annual Hoboken meeting by President P A Franklin. The figure implies roughly 61.23 dollars per peateres share, versus 12.55 million dollars or 26.27 per share in 1915.

York International Mercantile Marine Hoboken P. A Franklin

Federal Reserve reports mixed business conditions in war year

The Federal Reserve Board notes generally healthy business conditions but war economies loom large. Liberty loan dominates financial activity and government actions shape trade. Freight traffic improves in spots but remains serious and labor markets stay tight due to military needs.

Washington, D. C Federal Reserve Board

Grain supplies show mixed shifts on June 5 in New York

The visible supply of American and bonded grain changed with wheat up by 2,418,000 bushels, corn down 136,000, oats down 2,278,000, rye up 26,000, and barley down 708,000 bushels.

New York

San Marcos Hatchery Faces Closure Over Federal Demands

Texas congressmen urge immediate state action to avoid shutting down the San Marcos fish cultural station as Secretary Redfield ties operation to enhanced protections for fish and federal access. The loss would come despite added Congress funding and a new Texas hatchery authorized to open.

Washington, D. C San Marcos Texas Commerce Redfield Buchanan Ferguson Washington Redfield Congress

Mrs Lloyd George tours London communal kitchens

Mrs Lloyd George, wife of the prime minister, visits a new east end communal kitchen and calls the food good for her household. Municipal kitchens aim to feed the poor at nominal prices while becoming self supporting. The campaign features 35000 placards saying Eat less bread and 10000 restaurant cards urging bread waste reduction as a national duty.

London Lloyd George East End

What a Liberty Bond Does

The Hartford Post argues every man aged 21 to 31 without dependents may serve or equip a soldier if unfit for service. It estimates a $100 liberty loan bond buys equipment worth about $1350, including rifle, ammunition, bayonet, shoes, clothing, pack, and blanket costs, enabling those unable to fight to contribute financially.

Hartford U. S

Notable Pause in Proceedings Mentioned in Court Transcript

A fragment mentions someone named Jones being out of active business for some time and a brief five minute lunch allowance during a session. The text reflects a casual courtroom or meeting dialogue with limited context and several unclear speakers.

Jones

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