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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 30, 1911

Page

11

Honey Crop For 1911 Records In Texas Markets

The article notes Texas honey prospects for 1911, with Uvalde cited as the center of the honey belt and reports of a record crop due to rains. It also mentions Sicily lemons on New York docks and 204,000 boxes in sight, compares 1910 and 1909 figures, and mentions Stockton warehousing plans and prune market activity.

Texas San Antonio Uvalde New York Geiger New York Fruit Exchange

San Antonio Produce Prices To Shippers And Retailers

Price list shows shipperless commission and retailer prices for dairy eggs cheese and poultry. Butter creamery 1843c, country butter 16c per lb. eggs country aozen 16c. various cheeses 1843c to 31c. poultry broilers 3.25–3.50, fryers 6.00–6.60, hens 6.00, guineas 3.25–3.60, ducks 6–7 per dozen, squabs 1.25–1.50 per dozen, geese 10–15 per pair, turkeys 18½c per lb.

Aozen Badger State

Cotton goods markets show gains as denim and duck rise

New York May 30. Cotton duck advances on stronger demand and thinner supplies. Denim up to a yard with major mills signaling 30 day production cuts. Large cotton goods houses closed. raw silk quiet. Yarns firm with light trading. Dress goods and men’s wear changes minimal. overall trade quiet.

New York

Leather Wool and Rice Trade Quiets in New Oak

May 30 report from New Oak notes steady markets for hides at 22 3/4 cents, leather wool and rice also holding firm with no price shifts indicated.

New Oak Bogota

New Orleans Rice Market Report May 30 Trades Dull

New Orleans May 30 trading in the local rice market was dull with good demand for roughs but few offerings. Receipts: rough 8055 sacks, clean 713, millers 2915. Sales: 220 sacks rough Honduras at 2.10 to 2.75. 993 sacks at 1 38 11-16 for clean Honduras. 500 sacks at 15 3/4 for clean Japan. Quotations: rough Honduras 1.50 to 2.00. rough Japan nominal. clean Honduras 2 34 to 2 34?. clean Japan steady at 2%.

New Orleans Honduras Japan

What The Contents Of Your Market Basket Should Cost

Prepared for San Antonio housewives from City Market prices this guide lists eggs 20c per dozen, butter 35c, dressed poultry including hens 50c each fryers 50-65c, turkeys 23c lb, ribs, veal, pork and beef cuts with per pound prices, fruits and vegetables with per item or per unit costs, and assorted fresh fish meats.

San Antonio

Wholesale Market Prices Across Texas and Nearby Regions

Readable price list shows Texas wholesale goods including vegetables fruits canned goods and grains. Items listed include cabbage cucumbers oranges lemons bananas potatoes and onions with per crate or per cwt prices, canned meats and fish, dried fruits, nuts and seeds, sugars and grains with several regional notes from San Antonio and nearby markets.

Livestock Market Steady at Union Stock Yards

May 30 at Union Stock Yards reports a steady strong market across cattle hogs and calves with light supply. Calves topped 5.50 for choice lights cows to 3.65 with general around 3.50 and hogs selling little or none.

Union Stock Yards

Fort Worth Cattle Market Totals and Prices

Fort Worth cattle market shows receipts of 1500 with an active and steady trend. Best steers bring 4.75 dollars, bulk 4.26 to 4.60. cows 3.00 to 3.35. Hogs receipts 1200 with tops at 6.10 and bulk 6.85 to 6.05. Sheep receipts 2500 with steady market and few sales.

THE Associated Press Fort Worth Vex

Chicago Market Receipts and Quotations May 30

Cattle receipts about 2000, market steady with bees at 5.15 to 6.40, Texas steers 4.60 to 5.55, western steers 4.80 to 5.60, stockers 3.90 to 5.75, cows and heifers 2.50 to 0.80, calves 8.25 to 8.00. Hog receipts around 14,000, market slow, nets 5.50 to 6.15 for heavies, porkers to 6.15, bulk 6.00 to 6.10. Sheep receipts about 14,000, market slow, natives 8.25 to 4.75, westerns 3.75 to 4.85, ewes 4.50 to 5.50, native lambs 4.76 to 6.75, western lambs 5.70 to ?

Associated Press Chicago Texas

Kansas City Livestock Market Report May 30 Cattle Hogs Sheep

Receipts and quotations show steady cattle and mixed hog demand with large runs. Native steers bring 5.25 to 6.25, southern steers 4.25 to 5.60, cows and heifers 3.00 to 6.00, stockers 4.75 to 5.65, calves 4.50 to 7.50, western cattle 3.00 to 6.10. Hog prices 6.00 to 6.15 for most, few at 5.95 to 6.05. sheep feeders 4.00 to 5.75, lambs 6.00 to 7.25.

Associated Press Kansas City Ensy

St Louis Livestock Prices and Receipts May 30

Receipts total 6000 cattle including 1600 Texans with market steady. Native beef steers 5.50 to 6.25, cows and heifers 3.50 to 6.15, stockers and feeders 3.00 to 5.35, Texas and Oklahoma steers 4.25 to 6.85, calves 5.00. Hog receipts 16000 with prices 6.05 to 6.20 for pigs and lights, 5.25 to 6.15 for packers, 6.00 to 6.10 for butchers and best heavies. Sheep receipts 8000 with native muttons 3.75 to 4.35 and lambs 5.50 to 6.35.

Associated Press ST. Louis Texas Oklahoma

Cotton Opens Quiet as Bureau Reports Due

New Orleans May 30 cotton futures opened quiet with little change as the bureau reports on condition and acreage loom and New York is closed. Prices drifted tiny gains and losses through morning as weather forecasts showed unsettled western belt conditions. By noon new crop months rose 1 to 2 points while old crop remained near yesterday’s close.

New Orleans Bureau New York

Auction Bids Spotted With Varied Monthly Totals

Fragmentary notes show bids by month with values like May 16.30 June 15.80 July 15.53 August 14.61 and October 13.01. References include January 12.99 to 13.01 and September 1% 43 45, plus a comment “a gene.” indicating unclear context.

Associated Press New Orleans

Liverpool cotton market reports steady with mixed futures

Liverpool May spot cotton quiet and unchanged with American middling fair at 8.81 and good ordinary at 7.81. Day’s sales reach 4060 bales with 2900 American. receipts total 6000 incl 4500 American. Futures open dull and close idle with contracts from May through March-April listed in tight ranges.

Associated Press Liverpool

Market Wrap: Liverpool New Orleans Houston Edge

Fragmentary market notes show Liverpool and New Orleans trading in varied tones with Houston steady. The garbled data hints at price shifts and regional commodities across several ports, but lacks complete figures or clear outcomes.

New Orleans Spot Cotton Prices May 30

Spot cotton in New Orleans unchanged with middling at 15 1/2 cents. Sales on the spot 65 bales to arrive 40 bales. Grade ranges from low ordinary to strict good middling with values from 12 1/16 to 16 3/4 cents. Receipts 1746 bales. total stocks 95,471 bales.

Associated Press New Orleans

Spot cotton steady in Memphis market

Memphis trade reports spot cotton steady at mids 15 3 4 cents with unchanged quotations on May 30 as per Associated Press dispatch from the Memphis market.

THE Associated Press Galveston, Tex Memphis, Tenn

Cottonseed products prices in Memphis market

Memphis May market report shows prime basis oil around 5.78 to 5.74 per unit, meal at 24.25, linters 4.4. The brief notes small price ranges for cottonseed products including prime oil meal and linters.

Associated Press Memphis Tenn May

Cattlemen Discuss Market Quality and Big Ranch Moves

W F Tompson of Pearsall visits San Antonio while weighing whether to stay in cattle or sell. Cattlemen note shifting harvest ages with hogs at six months and cattle around one year. Fort Worth dealers see no clear improvement in steers this year over last, and Ward Cattle and Pasture Co. heads with 51,427 head on 250,000 acres at Crescent V ranch. Christine to Chicago shipments include Monkhouse, Henry, Franks, Peeler and Lauderdale consignments.

Cattlemen’s Exchange Fort Worth San Antonio Legal Commission Wilried W. E. Jary Saunders Commission Company of Ward Cattle and Pasture Company Crescent V Ranch Carancahua Bay Jackson County United States Christine National Stock Yards Chicago Monkhouse & Peeler F. L. Henry Franks & Monkhouse A. M. Peeler Bob Lauderdale L. Henry

Decoration Day Holiday Affects Weather Bureau Publication

On Decoration Day the United States weather bureau issued no figures or weather map for public release due to the national holiday.

United States Weather Bureau

Cotton Exchange Gossip Signals Mixed Open and Prospects

The market opened largely steady with light buying and mixed weather forecasts for Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma and the Panhandle Texas. W R Shaw reported a two week delay in cotton planting after touring the southwest and warned prospects look weak. A member claimed new cotton would be in San Antonio by July with at least one bale ginned, stirring discussion among exporters. The season's crop appears ahead of last year with the first bale often two weeks earlier than last year s June 22 ginning date.

W. R. Shaw Taylor Cameron Waco San Antonio Texas Jackson Miss Mississippi Hinds

Cotton yields and boll weevil warnings across southern farms

Wall Street Journal reports on experimental cotton farming showing twenty acres yielding 22 bales at 32 dollars per acre in North Carolina with projected belt-wide output near 35 million bales. Weevil activity is noted in Mississippi and Texas forecasts, while southern rains are scarce and drought stress remains a concern for crop growth.

Wall Street Journal North Carolina South

No Unwritten Law For Doctors Speeding

Judge Buckley in police court fined Dr. Russell Caffery five dollars for speeding while responding to an emergency on San Pedro avenue. The judge rejected the idea of any unwritten law allowing physicians to exceed speed limits and said traffic ordinances apply to all. Caffery said he believed his speed was justified to save a life.

San Pedro Avenue Buckley Russell Caffery Bennett Dr. Caffery W. J. Moore Belknap Place San Pedro

Coffee Market Advances as Coffee Holds Strong Outlook

The coffee market turns upward after a period of widespread pessimism and speculation. Brazil controls the supply picture with Santos and Rio crop estimates around 10 million and 2 million bags respectively, while 1912-1913 prospects sour due to drought and weak trees.

Club 10 to Battle Fake Advertising in San Antonio

The San Antonio Advertisers association held a 12:30 meeting at the St. Anthony hotel with thirty members. A motion was adopted to discuss and classify legitimate versus fake advertising at the next meeting, aiming to protect merchants from dishonest solicitors.

San Antonio National Association of Advertisers

Lockhart Starts First Steps on New City Hall Project

Lockhart Texas May 380 The initial preparations for building the city hall began yesterday as contractors moved in bond financed plans. New equipment for the fire department with horses and paid drivers are included in the underway improvements.

Lockhart Tex

Widely Traded Tobacco Stocks Rally After Court Ruling

New York brokers kept offices open on a market holiday to handle tobacco stock trading after yesterday's Supreme Court ruling dissolving the American Tobacco Company. The market saw tobacco shares rise as financiers welcomed the plan to reorganize the tobacco business under court supervision.

New York Supreme Court Tobacco Trust American Tobacco Company Tobacco Corporation

Oil strike on county poor farm yields new resource

Drillers hit oil at 380 feet on land adjoining the county poor farm nine miles south of San Antonio. A lively stream began to flow from the well and a sample indicates a fine crude. Commissioners plan to use the oil for revenue if quantities rise. otherwise it may fuel county roads. The 100 acre tract was bought for 7500 and is now a productive site with onion specimens and a thriving truck farm run by inmates.

San Antonio

Passengers Rob First Streetcar on Alamo Heights Line

B Twitty, a traction company streetcar conductor, was robbed at gunpoint on the Alamo Heights line near Brackenridge Ave. Two white men seized about $15 from a change box while he was on the rear platform. Twitty was struck and wounded in the forehead but resumed work today. the attackers were described as ordinary looking whites.

B. Twitty Traction Company Alamo Heights Brackenridge Avenue River Avenue Twitty

Culver Elected President at Polytechnic College

Dr. Frank P. Culver was elected president of Polytechnic College this morning by the trustees. He will succeed Dr. H. A. Boas, who becomes vice president of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Culver Associated Press Fort Worth Tex Frank P. Culver Methodist College Birmingham Ala The Polytechnic College H. A. Boas Southern Methodist University Dallas

Sell Your Stock by Phone Ad Service Mention

A light want ad offering to sell stock or cow via telephone. Call 176 to dictate your ad to a skilled operator and arrange payment.

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