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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1912
Page
37
Wheat and oats prices slipped on reports of favorable weather and foreign selling. Prices opened lower with December grain contracts down and livestock futures mixed, while provisions held steadier as the market absorbed new data from Chicago trading floors.
Market notes show mixed grain futures with No 2 hard wheat at 87 to 88 1 2 cents, No 2 red near 98 cents, and December wheats around 81 4 cents. New York call money at 5 to 6 percent, coffee futures around 13.88, and regional produce quotes for eggs and poultry.
The notice lists licensees B. G. Stumberg at 108 City St with number 2985, B. F. Kelley at $15 on Pecan St with number 29346, and W. G. Schuwirth at 231 West erce Street with number 2937.
California canned fruit prices were released to the trade listing per dozen cans for apricots 1.90 blackberries 2 2.10 cherries 2.40 grapes 1.75 clingstone peaches 2 freestones 1.90 Bartlett pears 2.10 plums 1.75. Reports from California note steady shipments as packing houses stay busy though car shortages persist. Demand is strong, reducing surplus and widening the shortage in several varieties. Tomato canners complain of very poor tomato quality and light supplier offerings in the city.
Retail prices shown for poultry butter cheese eggs and vegetables including Hens fryers and turkeys. Cattle hogs sheep and lambs market notes from Fort Worth indicate steady hogs and mixed cattle receipts with price ranges.
Burial permits record multiple deaths with ages and street addresses. Names include W. M. Mayfield 48 Frank Gotham 42 Vicente Molino 89 Annie May Terrell 9 Joseph Shannon Carr 72 Josefa Vela Soto 21 Frank Meixner 24 Millard A. Harper 26 and dates spanning November 1 to 13 at various streets.
To Mr and Mrs P Sandoval a boy born November 13 222 Guadalupe street. To Mr and Mrs T L Evans a boy born November 11 1715 Durango street. To Mr and Mrs 8 Burbank a girl born November 12 at a hospital.
At Union Stock Yards on November 14 traders faced dull activity amid ample receipts of cattle calves horses and hogs but weak quality. No sheep or goats were offered with hogs selling around 7.25 while cows mostly brought 3.60 to 4.25 and calves about 4.50.
The Cattlemen's exchange reports the purchase of 50,000 head of Mexican steers cows and calves by R R Russell from the Santenas Land Company of Mexico. The deal totals 500000 pesos or 250000 dollars with delivery within a month and much of the stock to be fed for immediate marketing.
London market reports copper at spot 77 pounds 2s 6d futures 77 178 6d tin quiet spot 225 pounds 5s futures 228 local tin sales 10 tons lead 18 7s 6d Spelter 26 17s 6d Tron Cleveland warrants 67c 16444 in London. Galveston arrivals list ships with routes and clearances and sailings include El Rio Mercedes de Larrinaga Harry T Inge Brazos New York.
Paris reports three per cent rentes at 89f 90c for the account with London exchange at 26f 28c for checks and a private discount rate of 3 4 percent.
The Imperial Bank of Germany increased its discount rate from 5 to 6 percent today. The Bank of Bengal in Calcutta also raised its discount rate from 5 to 6 percent today.
Copper remains firm with the November contract at 17.12 to 17.50 and related months at 17.12 to 17.87 for electrolytic lake and castings. Tin holds at 50.25 to 50.50 for spot and near months while lead weakens to about 4.75. Spelter steady at 7.35 to 7.45 and antimony steady at 10.50 as iron shows no change.
New York cotton opened steady with a early decline of 6 to 10 points, then turned higher on active demand from bulls and covering. By noon prices showed fractional gains or remained steady as southern spot holders hedged, with indicators of firmer sentiment from bullish regional advice and ginning rumors.
New York November 14 reports cotton futures opening steady with mixed bids for December through May and July near 11.5 to 12.0 cents per pound. Closing barely steady shows small shifts with notable price readings per contract, while some lines appear garbled but indicate ongoing trading activity.
Prices for prime basis oil and meal in Memphis and New York show a dull market with minor variances. Spot cotton seed oil trades near 5.9 to 6.0 in New York, with forward months quoted. St Louis notes lead and spelter steadiness. London reports Consols at 74% and bar silver around 28 15 16.
New Orleans cotton opened steady with an 8 to 12 point drop on lighter cables. Weather maps showed warm, sunny conditions across the cotton region and selling was heavy at first before short sellers' demand steadied prices. A London firm crop estimate of 14.5 million bales sparked bearish sentiment but bulls bought, lifting prices midmorning.
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Chicago quotes show butter steady with creamery 28 33c. eggs at mark with 1692 cases received. poultry firm with turkeys 17c and springs 12c. veal at 14c. New Orleans rough Honduras rice steady with mixed bag receipts and specific price ranges for rough and clean Honduras and Japan.
The cotton goods markets were firm with steady demand on November 14. Cotton yarns rose and there was a call for carpets and rugs for the new spring shipments. Jobbers reported a steady finesse.
In St. Louis on November 14 dealers report steady demand for medium grade fabrics with prices around 23 to 26 cents, light fine at 19 to 21 cents, heavy fine 13 to 18 cents, and tub washed items at 27 to 36 cents.
On November 14 in New York raw sugar held steady with Muscovado 89 test at 3.55 cents and 96 test at 4.03 cents, molasses sugar at 3.30 cents, refined sugar steady. Petroleum, molasses and hides also steady, leather firm.
Cotton futures closed steady with little change from yesterday. December and January prices hovered around 11.85 to 12.14, March near 12.07, May around 12.16 to 12.28, and July around 12.26 to 12.47 as traders watched brief price swings and daily open high low and close levels.
Liverpool November 14 report lists American middling fair at 7.28d and other grades down to 5.68d with 7000 bales sold, 600 for speculation and export including 5000 American. Receipts total 8000 bales, of which 7600 are American.
Futures opened easy and closed steady with a series of London silver futures quotes across months from Nov to Oct. Highlights include Nov 6.61 1/2 percent and Dec 6.49 pence, with several monthly spreads in the 6.4 range.
Arizona Commercial 4 percent Calumet and Arizona 78 percent Greene Cananea 9 percent North Butte 35 percent listed for Boston market on November 14.
A series of 1912 real estate transfers lists buyers and sellers including Alamo Home Builders to E Tapia for lot 24 block 7 Santa Maria addition. J A Appleby to Jim Mann. W G Startz and Bruno Vogel to Bruno Voight. Carrie Kimbrough to Horace H Shelton. Beacon Hill and Buena Vista areas feature multiple deeds. Amounts range from $10 to $4000 across various lots and tracts in new city blocks and additions.
New York prices shown, New Orleans middling 12 1 16 cents, Liverpool middling 6 80 pence, Houston middling 12 1 16 cents, Galveston middling 12 1 16 cents, Memphis middling 12 cents.
Philadelphia-Thomas O Rorke, a butler for Samuel Friedberger, devised a feathered rat trap after watching arbutus bushes where rats frequented. He coated a fat rat with glue, placed it in a bag of feathers, and released it nearby. The feathered bait drew other rats from their burrows, aided by local boys who collected the five cent city bounty on each rat caught.
New Orleans market reports quiet on November 14 with middling at 121 16 cents and various grades listed in fractional quotes. Spot sales reached 300 bales, with 550 bales for arrival, receipts 14 807 and total stocks 224 499 bales.
The market closed steady with at market figures for cotton at 1 1 2 cup, es 23 f o b. shipments reached 1 648 with stocks at 126 734 bales. Prices ranged from low ordinary 7 5 16c to good middling 12 16c with middling fair around 12 13 16c.
New York November 14 spot cotton closed steady with middling uplands at 12.10 and middling gulf at 12.35 per bale. Sales reported at 31 bales.
In Memphis spot cotton held at 12 3 4 cents for middling. The U S State Department wired 10000 dollars in two grants of 5000 dollars each for Balkan war wounded and sick and 1000 dollars for the Turkish Red Crescent, with another 5000 dollars for Balkan Red Cross societies in Bulgaria Serbia Greece and Montenegro.
L Leveytansky has let the contract to build a two story brick building in Yoakum Texas. The lower floor will house stores while the Elks lodge will occupy the upper floor.
Annice Jones files permit for a four room dwelling on Alabama street costing 500 dollars. A brick store building on Main avenue valued at 7000 dollars. Kerr Hill Methodist church section shows a three room dwelling on San Fernando street costing 160 dollars. Jose Alameda seeks a two room dwelling on Kerr street with transfer to M. V. Tubb a five room dwelling on High street priced at 750 dollars. Joe Ferguson requests a one room addition on Worth avenue costing 120 dollars.
Cable from Ambassador Rockhill reports over 14,000 sick and wounded soldiers in Constantinople with increasing cholera and widespread sickness and destitution among thousands of refugees. notes former ambassador Oscar S S Straus in New York.
A Cincinnati Enquirer anecdote describes a Vermont general store worker who failed to weigh a half pound of melted maple sugar. The scales toppled with each ladle, prompting the boy to return home and tell his mother they cannot make a half pound.
New York November 14. The stock market opened with large gains led by Pacific and Reading but soon turned irregular. Steel and Smelting fell back from early gains as the list relapsed into dullness though some issues ended higher. Call money firm and bonds easy with a stable tone. market closed strong.
New York on November 14 reports prime mercantile paper at 6 percent and sterling exchange heavy with brisk bankers' bills at 4.81 for 60 day bills and 4.85 15 for demand. Commercial bills 4.80 percent, bar silver 624 cents, Mexican dollars 48 1 2 cents. Government bonds steady, railroad bonds irregular.
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