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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1911
Page
17
New York opened 2.8 points higher on steady Liverpool cables and buying but uncertainty over the census report kept general business subdued. Prices stayed near best, with a net advance of 4 to 7 points by late morning as shorts covered. Readings showed futures firm with gains into the afternoon and closed steady.
San Antonio forecast shows tonight increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions. Saturday remains cloudy. East Texas expected warmer tonight, general cloudiness Saturday with cooler northeast and southwest. Storm system from the Pacific Southwest to the Lake region, unsettled west of the Mississippi, with snow in Lake region. Frost possible in the South Atlantic states and below freezing in northern districts and in eastern states down to Tennessee.
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened steady to higher amid poor weather forecasts and drought reports across the belt. Buying was cautious ahead of the Census Bureau ginning data with March through December contracts showing slight gains and overall steady activity throughout the morning session.
Closing cotton in Liverpool shows steady futures and cash trade with American middling at 8.28 for good middling 7.91 and figures for other grades. Sales total 10 000 bales with 2000 for speculation and export including 9000 American. receipts 9500 all American. Futures curves steady across March to January.
Across Memphis New York and New Orleans spot cotton sits steady or up slightly with middling around 14 to 14 1 16 cents. New Orleans reports sales on the spot at 500 bales with arrivals 800 and receipts 1297 bales while stock stands at 115112 bales.
A heart shaped pin containing 15 small diamonds is lost. A $25 reward is offered for its return to H. D. Matthews at the St. Anthony hotel.
Out-of-town buyers drive heavy wholesale activity in San Antonio with Friday orders for Saturday trade. Green vegetables show oversupply and price dips while strawberries fluctuate with crates at nine dollars. California tangerines arrive as a new local item, new potatoes offer better quality, and onions become scarce amid limited shipments. Local firms report carloads of apples cabbage limes and lettuce arriving for distribution.
The market opened with slight losses and closed near the day’s low amid dull trading. Heavyweights like Missouri Pacific and Great Northern faced declines. Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Coast Line showed partial recoveries while bonds varied.
Chicago quotes show butter and eggs steady with varied cheese and dairy item prices. Potatoes and poultry hold steady with dressed turkeys at 180 and hens around 14 percent. St Louis lists lead at 4.22 percent and spelter at 5.45 with poultry pricing and butter at 15 percent.
New York report from March 17 notes a brief, unclear item about keys and a small set of cases. The text is fragmentary, limiting precise details about persons, places, or outcomes.
Cotton receipts figures for today and last year are listed for Memphis Augusta Cincinnati and other ports with varying bales and tonnage totals, showing今年s trade activity and port performance.
Cotton seed oil quotations listed with open and close prices for March May and August contracts. Prime basis oil at 5.80 with meal at 23 and linters 4 percent noted from New York market report.
New York on March 17 reports money on call steady at 2 1/2 percent with ruling and closing bids at 2 percent and offered 2 percent. Time loans ease with no demand. Bond figures show sixty day and ninety day rates around 2 percent and six months.
Geo F Lupton reports Corpus Christi to Rockport crops show flat but improving conditions with adequate rain and strong truck crops. The San Antonio and Aransas Pass introduces a Pullman parlor car service next Monday between the city and Corpus Christi and Rockport. Travel times will drop about one hour once ballast work on heavy steel rails is completed.
A carload of live stock from Hondo Texas to Fort Worth drew buyers eager to absorb stock despite light weekly receipts. Cattle sold steady with cows $3.00 to $4.00, calves $3.25 to $4.75, and feeders up to $4.00. Hog purchases saw bids from $6.25 to $7.00 per head as market activity remained strong.
Receipts estimated: cattle 2000 strong with Reeves at 5.25 to 6.80, Texas and western steers 4.40 to 5.90, stockers 4.00 to 5.80, cows and heifers 2.60 to 5.90, calves 2.65 to 8.50. Hogs receipts about 16,000 market slow with ranges from 6.60 to 7.25, bulk 6.80 to 7.10. Sheep receipts about 10,000 market up to 10 cents. natives 8.00 to 5.15? western 3.25 to 5.25, yearlings 4.25 to 6.60, native lambs 5.00 to 6.50, western 5.25 to 6.60.
Kansas City dairy and livestock prices show cattle receipts around 1000 with a steady market. Native steers priced from 5.50 to 6.60, southern steers 4.75 to 6.00, cows and heifers mixed between 3.00 and 8.25, stockers 4.50 to 5.90, bulls 4.00 to 5.25, calves 4.50 to 7.50. Hogs receipts about 8000, bulk sales 6.85 to 6.95, butchers 6.85 to 7.00. Sheep receipts 6000 with muttons 4.00 to 5.25, lambs 5.50 to 6.40, weth ers 4.25 to 7.57, ewes 4.00 to 4.75.
Receipts total 800 cattle with Texan and Oklahoma influence, beef steers 5.00 to 6.75, cows and heifers 4.00 to 6.50, stockers 3.75 to 5.75, Texas steers 4.50 to 6.50, calves 5.00 to 8.00. Hogs receipts 10,000 with light pigs at 6.15 to 6.10, butcher hogs 6.00 to 7.10. Sheep receipts 3,000 natives 3.75 to 5.00, lambs 3.15 to 6.59.
A Klamath Falls tailor offers a salary of 100 to 125 dollars monthly for a first class bartender who is also a musician and can lead a military band. The Chicago Federation of Musicians received the letter two weeks ago but no applicant has been found yet.
Chicago reports show traders bearish on wheat as Kansas fields are described as dark colored with strong moisture and deep roots. May futures moved from 90% to 90% with limited oats activity and pork and lard futures at lower to unchanged levels. cash grain prices varied by grade for wheat corn and oats.
Chicago notes daily grain movement with receipts and shipments across major commodities. Flour 18 400 receipts 14 800 shipments. Wheat 10 800 receipts 18 700 shipments. Corn 192 500 receipts 228 400 shipments. Oats 188 000 receipts 268 500 shipments. Barley 81 500 receipts 85 000 shipments.
Special dispatch from New Orleans reports Congressman R. F. Brousard will sail to Puerto Cortez and Tegucigalpa to pitch plans for bringing cattle on the hoof to the United States. Two inspectors from the Bureau of Animal Industry have studied Honduran cattle to assess import viability without cattle tick risk, with a possible change in inspection laws needed by Congress.
Today 221 cars of wheat arrived at Minneapolis and Duluth, up from 187 last week and 396 on the same day last year, with oats firm and cash wheat steady. In Kansas City, No 2 hard wheat bids around 87 to 94 cents, No 2 red near 98 to 94, oats and corn mixed with slight declines and steady quotes for white and mixed oats.
The family expresses heartfelt gratitude to neighbors and friends for courtesies during illness and death of Anton Mueller. They acknowledge many floral offerings and special thanks to Harmonia No. 1, Order of Hermann Bons, of which he was a member. Signed by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ellett and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hull Moritz Mueller.
Bright weather aided New Yorks St Patrick Day celebration noted as one of the largest in years. The 60th regiment of the National Guard led the parade, with about 50,000 participants following in the procession.
The funeral for Chief of Police Charles T. Van Riper will be held at 3 30 PM from the late home 310 West Dewey Place with City and county officials attending. Rev. George Belsey of St Mark's Episcopal Church will officiate under the Natchez Tribe Improved Order of Red Men. Interment is in Alamo Masonic cemetery. Also noted Mary Mermal Storms wife of John R Storms died at 217 Devine Street after illness. six children survive and burial set for Center Point Texas.
Edward G. Taylor, 18, died last night at 9 at his home 701 South Zarramora from tuberculosis. He came here three weeks ago from Del Rio. his home was in Columbus, Mississippi. Survived by his father W. H. Taylor and his mother. Body sent to Columbus for interment.
Earl Edwards aged 16 died at 1 p m yesterday at his residence 125 West Ditmar avenue from pneumonia. He had lived in the city about two years and was employed as a clerk. He was a son of J D Edwards. The body will be sent to Oakwood Texas for interment.
Mrs. Lucia Ramires Barron aged 22 died yesterday of tuberculosis at her home 1121 South Colorado Street. The funeral and interment will be in the Sando cemetery.
Funeral held at 4 pm from 1127 North Laredo Street under the Benevolen cia society of which he was a member. Felipa Perez a 47 year old tailor who lived here all his life leaves three children and a widow. Interment was in cemetery No. 3.
The body of Mrs. John Jungmann, who died Wednesday morning, was moved to Castroville yesterday for funeral services set for Sunday. Dr. Saran F. Merdmann, osteopath, Gibbs building, phone Mes N. & 3055 blue.
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