Price Committee Reports Small Changes in Food Rations
The Food Administration’s price committee announces limited revisions this week, including a sugar allowance increase for households from two to three pounds per person per month. Retailers must use receipts and certificates. wholesalers shift to November certificates. Flour records replaced by substitute purchases. prices adjusted for sugar, flour, and various staples. Ostend reflects wartime disruption with destroyed bridges and German occupation notes.
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United States Food Administration
Qest
Esra
Persaeck
Honduras
Colorado
Serethley
Gov- Sub
Haske
Navy
Germans Leave Fortifications Along Belgian Coast
Belgian Headquarters in Flanders reports that retreating German forces abandoned a continuous line of redoubts trenches and barbed wire from Zeebrugge to Ostend. Many guns were removed but remnants and camouflaged dugouts remain. Ostend Blankenberge and Zeebrugge show extensive fortifications and destruction. The coast is described as desolate with stripped copper and shell damage.
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Burgundy
Champagne
Ostend
Victor Forman
Flanders
North Sea
Belgium
Zeebrugge
Nieuport
Lelgian
Ost+end
Blankenberghe
Zeebrugee
England
Luse
Katy Watchman Killed by Train on Katy Line
Louis J. Huffard age 45 watchman for Katy Oklahoma and Texas Railway was found dead after 7 am Friday in a deep-cut near Sulphur Springs road within city limits. Investigators Say he was struck by a locomotive overnight, possibly while sitting on railway ties. His body was hurled about 15 feet from the point of impact. Huffard's overcoat lay on the tracks, a burning lantern signal remained, and a small fire smoldered nearby. He is survived by a widow and children of 70% Concepcion Road. the body is at Riche Undertaking Company awaiting funeral plans.
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Louis J. Huffard
M. OK
T. Railway
Katy
Sulphur Springs
Proudfoot
Barneburg
Justice Fisk
Jack Owens
Huffard
Hufford
Sike O'Clock
Concepcion Road
The
Riche Undertaking Company
Willard to Fight Texas Tate at Camp Travis
News from New York says Jess Willard may box Texas Tate in Texas city venues for the United War Work drive. Camp Travis could host a 30000 spectator match, with Monaghan as a possible opponent if Willard tours Texas. Camp Travis athletic officer Captain Lowry reports contact with Willard and Monaghan seeks a reply within days.
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Jess Willard
Texas Tate
Travis Stadium
Tess Willard
Lexus
San Antonio
Camp Travis
Willard
United States Army
Travis Field
New York
Texas
Monaghan
N. Lowry
Camp
Camp ‘Travis
War dignifies the bachelor in wartime view
The rookie on the porch of the hotel argues that war dignifies the bachelor by giving him prestige and purpose. He notes mothers and girls prefer husbands who will carry into the next generation, and says the bachelor may wed after the war while civic duties shift toward reproductive aims.
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Ontario Ost
Lively corn market despite Austria-Turkey news
A market report notes corn prices opening lower on news of Austria's collapse and Turkey's surrender, then modest declines tempered by a rebound. Wheat holds steady, oats slip, hog market advances support provisions, and railroad aid may curb hog arrivals as Kansas City dispatches the day’s grain quotations.
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Chicago
Austria
Turkey
Railroad Administration
Kansas City
Renewal of Broad Demand Sways Early Stock Market
New York November 1 Buoyancy marks the opening as war news renews broad demand. Mexican Petroleum climbs about 7 points while shippings and key specialties gain 2 to 4 percent. Copper motors fertilizers and distillers advance 1 to 2 points, U S Steel up slightly, rails including Pacifics Pennsylvania and colliers up 1 to 2. Afternoon sees irregular trends with war stocks slipping 1 to 4 points and rails rising 1 to 2. All ties and traction shares harden.
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New York
U. S
Pennsylvania
da Rand Aerog
Kennecott Copper
Louitsville & Nashville
Maxwell Motors
Petroleum
Tee Tho
Miami Copper
Idvale” Steel Wertereee
Agissourl Pacific
Essen
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Ohio Cities Gas
Bllisburg Coal
Ray Consolidated Copper
Republic Tron and Stoet
Southern Pacific Sinclair of and Refining
Southern Railway
Studebaker Corporation
Nga Oe Ae Dd
Y ‘Texas Company
Tennessee Copper
United Cigar Stores
Io Mage
United States
Aholy Itrah
United States Rubber
United States Steel
Ares Utah Copper Aeree
Westinghouse Electric
Willys-Overland Bees
Provision Markets: Weekend meat and dairy bunting included
Local packing house quotes list dry salt extras bacon bellies and breakfast bacon sliced varieties with price notes per pound. Also featured are American cheese oleomargarine options. mid grade to fancy items listed with unit prices and weight ranges for Friday delivery.
Metal Exchange Quotes Lead Steady at 8.03 in New York
Metal Exchange quotes lead at 8.03 on spot in New York with quiet trading. Hast Street in St Louis reports spot at 5.03 and 98.75 in the same market segment.
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New York
Metal Exchange
St. Louis
Kelly Field to Meet Rice Institute in First Out of Town Game
Kelly Field football team departs Friday for Pullman via Southern Pacific en route to Houston for Saturday's clash with Rice Institute. Rice hosts at the Rice Hotel. Kelly returns to San Antonio Sunday morning. Overbaugh out with a fractured jaw. Overlees to start at quarterback. Larry Splawn expected to contribute heavily at back. Coaches Major Brapf and Lt. Clough and Cadet Johnson will accompany the squad.
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Kelly
Southern Pacific
Houston
Rice Institute
Rice Hotel
San Antonio
Army
Overbaugh
Brown University
Overless
Haskell Indian
Rice
Kelly Vield
Larry Splawn
Michigan
Hutchson
Splawn
Brick
Harper
Keaney
Fraser
Walker
Dahlen
van Duren
Bingaman
Brewer
Galvin
Downey
Sherwood
Overlees
Russ
Yan
Sullivan
McDownmore
Newton
Shepauird
Brapf
Clough
Johnsion
Downward Course of Cotton Prices Continues
The cotton market extended its decline with New York opening 36 to 40 points lower and finishing near the day’s lows. Prices slipped about $6 per bale from the previous close, with December and subsequent months showing large losses over two days.
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Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
New York
New Orleans Cotton Market Slackens on Weakness and Supplies
The cotton market opened lower with declines of 20 to 44 points as traders eyed frosts in the belt and ample supply. December and January contracts traded softer with December around 27.80¢ and January near 24.98¢, while New York futures showed meager support and heavy selling from spot houses and Wall Street.
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New York
Liverpool
Wall Street
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Sales Report
Liverpool market reports lower cotton prices across grades with good middling and ordinary values listed. Total sales reach about 2000 bales with 1100 American and 6200 unsettled receipts among 11,000 bales. Futures show unsettled entries for November to February.
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Liverpool
Cotton Statistics Receipts at U S Ports
Fragmentary OCR lists port names Galveston Houston Boston Norfolk Wilmington, with stray quotes and a humorous aside by Ralph Carrot about Germinism and the meaning of discretion. The readable phrases suggest a column note on cotton receipts at U S ports and a quoted humorous piece.
Wholesale Produce Prices From California and Texas Markets
Disjointed price list shows wholesale vegetable and fruit rates for California and Texas goods. Onions potatoes yams tomatoes cabbage lettuce and more priced per sack, hundredweight crate or dozen, with figures for California Colorado and Texas markets.
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Estern Commission
California
Texas
Colorado
Cranberiness Dee Parr
Local Grocery Yardage of Barges and Weights Listed
Commodity prices and weights for various foods and farm staples appear in a dense catalog style. Items include marmalade butter jelly flour corn oats hay and seeds with per unit costs and ton or bushel quantities. Multiple entries list sacks and sacks weights with prices in dollars and cents.
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Bates
Texas
Markets News Shows Mixed Dairy Poultry Prices Across Regions
Produce prices steady in Texas and northern markets with butter at creameries reported firm. Poultry demand remains good with hens around 26 2 on older rosters and small broilers about 9 to 10 cents. geese and ducks cited per dozen or pound figures. Sugar markets in New York also show steady raw sugar and refined grades trading around 7.28 to 8 cents.
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Kansas City
California
COFFE
Liptons
Maine
Moly
Meath
Alaska
Colombia
Iggs
Texas
Texas Creamery
Cattle and Hogs Steady to Slightly Lower at Stock Yards
At Union Stock Yards on Nov 1 cattle and hogs showed general weakness with prices down to 10 cents. Cattle receipts reached 10,000 head and hogs 19,000, with cows and calves mainly steady, and hogs trading from 16.50 to 17.50. Chicago and St. Louis quotes reflected uneven declines and mixed demand across major classes.
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Ugion Stock Yards
J. W. Rothman & Co
Ise
Chicago
St, Louis
Stockers& Southern Bears
WANG
Natika Callie
Sao
Iatuer Atronic Lambs
Kinsea
Nav
Hoge
Bulle
ONMAT
Kouthern
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Vint International
Metal Markets
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Victoria
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