Featureless Stock Market Opens With Few Exceptions
A calm stock market open shows limited movements with few exceptions. Transactions highlight uncertain tone as investors weigh early shifts in major indices and select shares.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
11
A calm stock market open shows limited movements with few exceptions. Transactions highlight uncertain tone as investors weigh early shifts in major indices and select shares.
The New York cotton market opened with mixed activity and early gains driven by higher prices in nearby contracts. May and July futures rose as traders absorbed supply concerns and demand expectations, with May near 18 to 52.07 cents and October around 52.09 cents, while deliveries and selling pressure tempered gains.
The New Orleans market notes steady pricing across cotton and livestock, with quotes for May and December futures and mixed gains in cattle and hogs. Prices show firm demand amid steady to higher trading, reflecting a cautious market mood in the Harbors and exchange rooms.
Fragmented OCR text appears to reference metal markets with scattered figures and names. The readable portions mention prices like 28 and 450 and obliquely reference locations or entities, but the passage is highly garbled with no clear event or outcome to report.
Fragmented OCR text prevents identifying entities or a clear event. No discernible people, places, organizations, dates, scores, or outcomes are readable enough to summarize into a proper news item.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention cotton statistics and assorted names and places. The readable bits reference Marth Stovener, Marl creas, and New York reporting with scattered figures and dates, but the text is garbled and lacks coherent events or outcomes.
Market brief reports prices and commodities in Texas and Chicago areas. Quotations touch creamery butter, turkeys, turkeys and other dairy products, with price levels around per pound and per dozen. Headlines reflect shipping and production notes from Kansas City and Chicago markets.
Fragmentary OCR text describes packing house allocations and various named places and items in San Antonio. The readable segments mention bacon products, addresses like 2242 and 34 Var e etc, and scattered phrases about American and local commerce. The passage lacks coherent events or clear individuals.
The article reports arrests and indictments for sedition and anti government activity, including a Mexican revolution loyalty case in Los Angeles and a federal grand jury charging Kenth Nearing with violating the espionage act. The pieces mention a post office mail conspiracy and a trial linked to the Regeneration movement.
Ronhyn School No. 19 has adopted two wards, D-3 and Ded, at Camp Travis for special care. Teachers plan to visit soon delivering flowers and gifts from students, with hospital visits and deliveries arranged through Major Thoms.
Fragmentary OCR lists numerous officer appointments at Camp, including aviation and medical assignments. Names such as Wher Batley, Dana Soliittiar, Herbert Walle, and Percy K. Welfard appear alongside ranks and station details, with references to Camp Divle and Kelly Field. The text seems to document promotions, detachments, and cadre changes across several Army branches.
Trade notes continued decline in corn receipts at Chicago futures, with prices volatile and market participants adjusting expectations. Traders cited uncertain demand and harvest timing, while some observers noted potential near term support from tighter stocks and bull spread activity.
Fragmented report notes seventeen ships sunk in a week with multiple loss figures. Eleven ships of 4800 ton class and six smaller vessels are cited among broad naval casualties. Spanish and Uruguayan vessels are mentioned with crew casualties and torpedoed ships.
A Royal Mail Packet Company steamer named Amazon was reported sunk near the Gibraltar area after an explosion. The ship was en route from Liverpool to the Americas and 10,017 tons gross, with passengers reportedly unaccounted. Local offices await official confirmation of casualties and rescue efforts.
Doris Stevens urged the Texas Labor Federation to back federal woman suffrage. The convention adopted a resolution calling on Senator Culberson and the President to push the federal suffrage amendment through Congress and to telegram supporters.
MW Tang, 72, native of Motnte and San Antonio, died after noon at a hospital. Survived by sister and brother. services set with Bay Antoni funeral unit undertakers. Burial in Rosetown Cemetery with funeral home arrangements and burial lot details included.
A candy pull planned for Thursday evening at the association will feature Goudy sugar delicacies. Mrs Behuts, head of the botany department, and Iva Scott will reflect on horticultural topics while guests attend.
Liverpool reports the first American soldiers hospital in the Mossley Hill district. American Major Udo J. Wile leads Hospital No. 4 as staff and Red Cross support, with 200 beds and facilities for convalescent care and discharge processing.
A report from Washington notes proposed wheat price increases from $2.00 to $2.50 per bushel tied to new agricultural spending measures. The plan, debated in Congress, follows approval of a higher tariff and budget allocations. In Oklahoma, Senator Suncor Gorre supported the higher pricing move while opponents questioned its impact. A separate line mentions the death of Henry Loeb, a South region financier, by suicide at his home, triggering questions about his last years and family.
A chaotic report from a frontier county describes retaliation against two men accused of disloyal remarks. Bands raided farms near Westbrook, forcing oaths and applying tar and feathers, while a second group targeted another home. Authorities note alleged German sympathies and a push to ban Liberty Loans and Red Cross support.
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