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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
8
Mixed listings for furnishings, real estate, seeds, bicycles, and business opportunities. Offers include doors and windows weatherstripping, office furniture sale, cheap hardware, plant and seed lots, bikes for sale or repair, real estate ads, bankruptcy notices, auctions, and bids for municipal equipment. Names, addresses, prices, and contact details prominent throughout.
Chicago hog prices fell while other markets showed mixed moves as traders anticipated cooler conditions. Fort Worth and Kansas City receipts were light with steady to unchanged quotations for cattle hogs and sheep, while Chicago posted softer hogs and mixed cattle futures across the board.
New York May 11 trading in stocks showed a broad uptick with rising gains in equipment shares and several specialties. Utilities, tobaccos, marine preferreds, distillers and other issues gained 1 to 3 points while overall volume stayed large and the market closed firm despite some earlier weakness.
In San Antonio, Saturday pricing for produce and poultry shows steadiness with minor shifts. Texas country candied goods at 34 pabe while creameries quote 8c per pound. ducks at Portica and geese price points noted. Chicago and Kansas City listings reflect broader market rates for hens, butters, fowls, and related dairy items.
A mixed retail and wholesale market report lists oyster prices and fish varieties available in San Antonio. Wholesale prices show halibut, red snapper, shelled cod, barracuda, and other items by weight. notes on head removal and ready-to-cook forms. Also touches mercantile rates, and a brief sample on detective fiction humor.
Chicago markets opened weaker as forecasts of favorable planting weather depressed corn values. Reports noted widespread feed offerings at reduced prices and measures to curb cereals’ prices, while weekly receipts and hog price declines influenced provisions. Futures slipped with May and July contracts unevenly posting losses amid thin cash demand.
Classified notes from a historic newspaper item showing multiple small ads. Interests include cash for used goods like second hand trunks clothes shoes and jewelry, requests for typewriters and rags, and offers for business opportunities such as a retail dairy route and a garage location sale. Firms and individuals named include Armengot in Laredo Texas Sunset Loan Co 532 BE Commerce St Williams 1108 WW Commerce and others. Also mentions a cabinet Victoria with Tecorda and a Diamond Loop garage site.
Cover Texas papers Dallas Times-Herald Fort Worth Star Telegram El Paso Herald Houston Chronicle San Antonio Light report combined guaranteed daily circulation 175000 and Sunday 198600. Classified rates set per word per insertion daily with special Sunday and weekday packages. minimum 20 words apply. Send orders with cash to The San Antonio Light Classified Advertising Department by noon prior day.
San Antonio provisions list vague quotations for Saturday buying including bacon ham lard oleomargarine and other items with prices and products such as dry salt vellies fancy breakfast bacon and Pure lard. Chicago quotations show pork prices with high low close figures and May trading values in a chaotic OCR excerpt.
New Orleans reports heavy selling as cooler, unsettled weather hits the cotton belt. Prices drop 60 to 87 points from recent highs, with late session decline narrowing, and May July October futures showing substantial losses. New York futures firmer on Friday while domestic demand for knit goods and silk remains steady. U.S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bulletin notes conditions from San Angelo to Texas.
Cotton futures in New York opened irregular on May 11 with declines of 23 to 65 points after a volatile session. October and December showed losses while nearby months fluctuated around 26.00 to 26.60, as market talk of demand and weather influenced trading. some contracts closed firmer but overall prices drifted lower.
Prices for mixed corn, white and red oats, corn chops, and steers quoted from Fort Worth and San Antonio offices. Market helpers note a feed shortage and urge herd owners to contact officials for seller lists while wholesale beef quotes give steer and cow prices. Turpentine and related sale data from Savannah, plus a theater quip about a failing play and critics enjoying themselves.
Cotton statistics list stock figures for Galveston and other Gulf ports with yesterday and weekly comparisons. United States export data show totals to Great Britain and other destinations, with figures for imports and exports, including American and British totals. The report covers Atlantic ports and goods routed through New Orleans and Savannah.
New York May 4 The weekly summary shows clearing house banks and trust companies hold 202,807,738 in reserve above legal requirements an increase of 365,508,150 from last week Loans and discounts total 1,598,721,000 up 97,749,000 Cash in vaults and in Federal Reserve accounts rise 108,041,000 with a 71,? thousand gain Reserve deposits in state banks and trust companies total 17,545,000 up 220,400 and other deposits fluctuate. overall deposits decline 4,879,000 as reserve totals expand in Greater New York banks and related institutions.
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