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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1912
Page
7
Explanatory Weather Bureau notes describe observation time at 8 a m and data elements for air pressure sea level, isobars and isotherms, weather conditions such as clear partly cloudy and rain or snow, wind direction by arrows, and three figures: temperature, 24 hour precipitation, and yesterday’s precipitation.
New York June 22 Prices were generally lower at the opening with a dull session. Reading, Canadian, Gas Company and Utah Copper showed fractional moves while many issues remained unquoted and closed heavy.
New York June 21 close shows Prime mercantile paper at 4 1/4 percent. Sterling exchange steady with bankers' bills at 4.84 3/4 for 60 days and 4.87 3/5 for demand. Commercial bills 4.84. Silver at 62. Mexican dollars 48. Government bonds and railroad bonds steady.
The statement of clearing house banks shows a weekly excess of 29.29 million dollars above legal requirements, marking an increase of 1.46 million from the prior period. The surplus reflects improved cash reserves across major New York banks.
Observations recorded at 8 a m Saturday 22 1912 show wind direction and speed, air temperature, rainfall, and overall weather state across columns for wind velocity, temperature, rainfall, and sky conditions.
The report notes that the West temperature figure for the last twelve months was not used in computing the Houston district averages. This omission affects the district’s overall climate assessment and may alter comparative results.
The report notes fair conditions across the belt with rain in the extreme east. Temperatures run below normal as of today. Yemassee recorded 1.50 inches of precipitation. Allen Buell cited for merit charge of local office under United Weather Bureau guidance.
Union Stock Yards reports a quiet Saturday cattle sale with under 100 stocker steers and 50 calves traded. Calves remained active with top prices around 5.25 dollars, most sales 4.00 to 4.50, some as low as 3.50. About ten hogs sold for 7.00 to 7.50 per hundredweight. no sheep or goats offered. Commission men expect liberal sheep and hog supplies next week as demand stays light.
Money on call remains nominal as time yields hold steady with 60 day notes at 3 percent, 90 day at 3 percent, and six month at 3 percent. The market shows no movement in rates on this June 22 report from New York.
Lead remains steady at 18 pounds sterling while Spelter sits at 25 pounds 15s. Tin shows ease with spot at 206 pounds sterling and futures at 196 pounds 15s.
A dispatch from Wellesley reports editor in chief Helen Logan urging students to drop slang terms. The piece lists slang phrases with likely meanings and notes how misused terms such as bat freaks or lah di dah appear in campus chatter while the fine system funds the student government building fund.
The Boston Post reports the elevated company tests a jointed articulated car in Roxbury to maneuver sharp downtown turns. If successful it may replace standard cars on through city lines, offering a fifty foot vehicle where larger prepayment cars cannot travel. It features a middle joint a hooded platform center doors and two roof trolleys.
A new machine can thoroughly cleanse three hundred barrels per hour by washing them inside and out and rinsing several times, offering a faster, more thorough cleansing method.
Fort Worth market on Saturday June 22 reports meager receipts with 147 cattle 75 calves and 88 hogs. Prices moved quickly with two cars of steer calves bringing 4.70 and rest sold in small lots. Sheep receipts were zero and hogs listed nominal.
Receipts and quotations for cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago on June 22 show cattle at 6.10 to 9.50 for beeves Texas steers 6.40 to 8.10 western steers 6.50 to 8.10 stockers 4.20 to 6.75 cows and heifers 2.70 to 8.00 calves 5.50 to 8.00 hogs receipts about 11 000 market strong light 7.30 to 7.70 mixed 7.36 to 7.75 heavy 7.30 to 7.80 pigs 5.25 to 7.05 bulk 7.60 to 7.75 sheep receipts 8000 market steady native 3.50 to 6.60 western 3.50 to 5.65 yearlings 4.75 to 7.10 native lambs 4.25 to 8.00 western 4.56 to 8.10 spring lambs 5.50 to 7.60.
Receipts total 2500 cattle and 3500 hogs with market steady. Native beef steers sell around 6. to 9. cows and heifers 3.75 to 8.50. Calves in carload lots 6.00 to 8.25. Hogs include pigs and lights 5.25 to 7.40 and good heavies 7.70 to 7.75. Sheep show native muttons 4.00 to 5.25 and lambs 5.50 to 9.00.
On June 22 cows steers and calves moved in a steady to strong market. Cattle receipts 700 with native and southern classes priced from 3.50 to 9.50. Hogs receipts 2000 with barrows and gilts selling from 6.00 to 7.80. Sheep receipts 500 with muttons and lambs trading between 4.00 and 9.00.
Miss Marian Merry and Miss Elizabeth Paterson faced a bandit near their home on a Saturday night. The thief grabbed at Miss Merry’s purse but she struck with a strawberry pie, blinding him and helping recover the loot. The pie splashed across his face as a posse pursued toward the South Shore Country Club grounds. Speed favored the robber in the end.
A Richmond news item reports the Confederate States seal, missing for fifty years, has been found by English makers and acquired by Eppa Hunton Jr., William H. White and Thomas P. Bryan. It was obtained from Rear Admiral Thomas C. Selfridge and brought to Richmond for the Confederate museum or Battle Abbey, ending tales by James Jones.
A new malaria treatment using ferrokabody arsenical compound and colloidal silver is being tested in Trieste hospitals. Discovered by Dr. Bareanovich, it reportedly cures severe malaria in twenty four hours with no relapses, after first used on forty five Austrian Lloyd sailors returning from India.
Chicago reports firmer cereal values on harvest woes in Kansas and Oklahoma bolstering wheat and corn despite bugs in Illinois. September wheat opens down and recovers, oats hold near steady as pork and lard futures move lower on packing-house sentiment.
Quotations listed for cash wheat and corn options in Chicago on June 22. Prices cover No 2 red No 2 hard No 1 northern No 2 northern No 2 spring velvet chaff and durum wheat as well as No 2 corn No 2 white No 2 yellow and No 2 oats white and standard grades.
The New York American reports American suffrage activists will boycott English goods during Mrs. Pankhurst nine month prison term. Martha Wentworth Suffren says thousands pledge to refrain from English merchandise and to brand themselves The Daughters of Liberty in protest against British treatment of women. The plan targets British shopkeepers this summer for perceived injustice to womanhood.
Professor Mahaffy tests a student who calls himself an agnostic on entering college. He challenges the student by noting the same agnosticism applies to Greek, implying the student is agnostic in Greek as well. The exchange ends with the student conceding.
An actress is credited with inventing a capacious trunk that can be converted into a full bureau and dressing table. The design promises compact storage and practical use for wardrobe and vanity needs.
New York closed 1 to 2 points lower while New Orleans fell 4 to 7 points and Liverpool dropped 3 to 4 points. spots were mostly steady except Houston. Traders watched political developments as coverage and late trading pushed the market to a firm close with little excitement.
New Orleans June 22 cotton futures opened steady and edged down 3 to 7 points by late morning. Cables matched expectations but light rainless weather boosted selling as forecasts signaled fair conditions through Sunday. Short covering supported prices mid-morning before long liquidation pulled near steady at week’s end.
Close cotton in Liverpool reports steady prices with moderate business. American middling 6.33, good middling 6.89, middling 6.63, ordinary 5.43, with 7,000 bales sold including 6,500 American. receipts 2,000 bales, 1,600 American.
Futures opened easier and closed quiet in Liverpool with a spread list showing January at 6.42 1/2 percent and several successive month contracts around 6.40 percent, noting a stable pattern across the curve.
Spot cotton in New Orleans steady with 195 bales sold for immediate arrival. Prices quoted include low ordinary 16.5 cents and higher grades up to middling fair 13.5 to 18.5 cents. Receipts total 794 bales, stock at 8096.
Cotton seed products in Memphis on June 22 show prime basis oil at 4.93 to 4.96 dollars per hundredweight meal at 27.50 to 28.00 dollars per ton linters at 2.5 cents per pound.
Cotton seed oil in New York on June 22 closed steady with spot prices cited from 6.70 to 7.04 cents per pound across months. Trade included 200 barrels July at 6.80, 200 at 6.81, 200 August at 6.90, 300 October at 6.95, 100 at 6.95, 100 November at 6.50, and 500 December at 6.45. Total sales reached 4600 barrels.
New Orleans on June 22 reports prime refined cotton seed oil in barrels at 7.15 cents per pound. Choice meal set at 29 dollars per cent. Long ton cake priced at 27.50 dollars.
Galveston June 22 spot markets closed steady with grades listed. Low ordinary 7 16 cents, ordinary 8 16, good ordinary 9? cents, low middling 10 16, middling 12 1/2, good middling 12 1/2 cents. Stock 79,952. Receipts 468.
Spot cotton in Houston closes steady with tinges of weaker prices across grades. Trade notes show sales at 7, 0, and none with shipments totaling 653 and stock at 31,708 bales.
Spot cotton in New York on June 22 closed quiet with middling uplands at 11.65 cents and gull at 11.90 cents. No sales reported.
MEMPHIS TENN June 22 Spot cotton holds steady at middling 12 3 4 cents with prices unchanged across the market as traders assess demand and weather implications in the region.
The navy chaplain argues tobacco is undesirable to the marine by noting no animal besides humans smokes, while the marine retorts that no other animal cooks its food. The exchange highlights humorous contrasts between human habits and animal behavior.
A French innovator creates a tool to measure how poorly bonded rail joints resist electrical current, aiming to improve track safety and reliability. The device assesses contact quality and continuity along railway rails, guiding maintenance decisions and preventing faults.
Bradstreet’s Review notes improved crop reports and steady industrial activity. Textile jobbers reorder for fall and price rises signal higher finished goods costs, while breadcloths up 5 percent and worsted yarns may rise. Iron and steel thrive though labor shortages bite. shoe wholesale dull. leather strong. hides easing. collections slow in many areas.
This last week and year show exports to Great Britain 6760 and 1234, exports to continent 14911 and 19030, exports to Mex and Jap 368 and 283. stock levels same day last week 247,399 and last year 247,416 with slight seasonal excess.
A Wisconsin man invents an attachment allowing a violin to be connected with a record and play music. The device links the instrument to the phonograph for synchronized sound production.
Trade reports opening California fruit prices attractive and jobbers placing liberal orders as European demand rises. Expectations of higher near term prices for American canned fruits due to European shortage and delayed Louisiana rice harvest. Rice and syrup markets show strength with cane losses from Mississippi floods signaling tighter supplies and higher syrup prices ahead.
Quotations show butter steady at 23 25c creameries 21 24c. Dairies 21 24c. Eggs steady receipts 15 142 cages at mark cases firsts 16c prime firsts 17c. Cheese steady dairies 15% 14c young Americas 15c long horns 15c. Potatoes weak new 42 old to new 1.25 1.85 old 65 70c. Poultry live weak turkeys 12c chickens 12c Veal steady 8 11c.
New York on June 22 reports steady cotton goods markets with a tilt toward higher levels. Wool markets are firmer and yarns steady, with broader demand seen for worsted yarns. Jobbers maintain moderate house trade as made up goods in retail stores stay active all week.
New Orleans reports clean rice steady with rough grades nominal. Receipts total 1192 units, sales 690 units, with quotations for Clean Honduras 4% at 5e and Clean Japan 4 tee.
ST LOUIS June 22 Wool steady with mixed grades. combing and clothing 20% 2iie. night fine 15 18c. heavy fine 12 16c. tub washed 27 30c.
A Louisiana inventor creates a mechanism that feeds dye from a hanging pail through a hose into sap rising inside a growing tree. The device aims to color wood as it forms, using the tree’s own sap flow for uptake.
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