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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Nov 26, 1913

Page

9

Stocks Decline as Market Shows Lifeless Speculation

New York markets weaken from yesterday’s rise as shorts drive prices lower. Trading is light with cautious sentiment ahead of holidays and calls for gold shipments to Canada. United States Steel leads declines while Reading and Steel gain. bond trading remains irregular.

New York Canada Charles M. Schwab United States Harrimans and Amalgamated Reading and Steel Virginia-Carolina Chemical Harriman Roads Southern Pacific Union Pacific Western Railroad

Metal market notes from New York and St Louis

Lead quotes around 4.20 with London and New York figures. copper steady with standard cathode and electrolytic ranges. tin firm with London spot and futures. antimony dull. spellter and tin prices list. London copper and Cleveland warrants cited. St Louis reports lead at 4.15 and spelter at 5.00 to 5.10.

York London London Spelter Pt L.onvion Cookson's Cleveland ST. Louis

Cotton seed prices steady in Memphis and New York markets

In Memphis prime bale prices run at 6.14 with meal 27.25 to 27.50 and linters 24 percent. In New York the cotton seed market closes steady with spot at 7.05 and December 7.06 to 7.07, others ranging up to 7.45 for July. total sales 12,900 across months.

Memphis Tenn Linters New York

BC Lakes Interior Land Area Estimated

An estimate places British Columbia total area at about 253 million acres with roughly 1.6 million acres comprising interior lakes.

British Columbia

Wholesale Markets Report Reveals Erratic Crop Prices

Readable lines show wide range prices for eggs poultry butter cheese vegetables fruits and grains. California Virginia Texas and Colorado produce appear with varied rates for potatoes onions cabbage lettuce celery cucumbers peppers and oranges. Also listed are fruit cans coffee syrup flour rice and canned meats with scattered typos and inconsistent figures throughout.

Northern Creamery Texas Creamery California Colorado Texas

Turkeys Plentiful on Thanksgiving Eve

The city market house buzzed as housewives shopped for tomorrow. Wholesale markets showed liberal turkey supplies after delayed shipments arrived today. Prices ranged from 12 to 18 cents per live pound and 16 cents dressed, with retail at 17 to 18 cents and live at 14 cents. farmers were urged not to hoard for a shortage, as levels remained abundant.

Cotton Situation At A Glance For New Orleans Market

In sight for week ending Friday the report covers world visible supply and season takings. It lists spinners takings, season exports, closing prices, and spot sales with ginning totals to various dates. Data includes high and low middling prices, acreage, and crop conditions across May to September with New Orleans market context.

New Orleans

Grocery Price List Highlights Meats And Dried Goods

A dense listing of prices for corned beef sausages hams and lard along with fish meats dried fruits including peaches pears apples and raisins and other staples. Indicates varied price points per pound or per box across multiple departments and brands.

Chicago Quotations Butter and Cheese Prices Mixed

Chicago market news shows butter and eyes steady while cheese climbs. Receipts include 3960 for butter and 30 cars for potatoes as poultry prices rise with springs at 13% and turkeys at 22 cents.

Chicago Americas

Commodity Prices Report From New York and Kansas City

In Kansas City on November 26 butter eggs and poultry held steady. In New York on November 26 raw sugar remained barely steady with Muscovado at 3.14 and centrifugal at 3.64 per unit as molasses sugar stood at 2.89 and refined prices were steady.

Kansas City New York

Poultry and Butter Prices Reported in St Louis

Quotation details show poultry prices with chickens at 10c, springs 12c, turkeys 15c, guineas 12c, geese 10 1 2 c, butter creamery 22c, and eggs at 33c as of today in St Louis.

ST. Louis

Egg prices in New York market report

New York on November 26 reports fresh gathered eggs with extras firm at 46 to 48 cents, extra firsts 44 to 45 cents, firsts 42 to 43 cents, seconds 38 to 41 cents, and thirds 28 to 37 cents.

New York

Market quotes for rough Honduras and Japan rice

New Orleans reports rough Honduras and Japan rice active with firm Honduran and Japanese tones. Quoted rough Honduras at 2.00 to 4.75 per unit and Japan at 2.00 to 3.50, with clean Honduras at 4 6e and Japan at 1% 3%c. Receipts total 20,341 rough and 1,880 clean with millers at 17,608. Sales list 1,187 sacks rough Honduras at 2.75 to 3.85, 416 sacks Japan at 2.50 to 2.85, 2,033 pockets clean Honduras at 115-16 to 6 11léc and 788 pockets Japan at 24% 3%c.

New Orleans Honduras Japan

Market Notes Quiet Cotton Goods Trade Amid Strikes

New York reports a quiet barely steady cotton goods market with yarns inactive. Foreign men s wear at the low end for fall 1914 faces weak demand as ribbon makers warn of potential production losses due to strikes.

New York

Telescope spectacles aid near sighted in Germany

Inventors in Germany have developed telescope spectacles for people with extreme near sightedness. The report notes receipts today and weekly totals, with season to date figures listed as 49 021 and 67 070.

Seecees Germany

Cattle Pens Cleared With Prices Steady at Union Stockyards

The Union Stockyards market, Nov. 26, saw a barely steady day with 118 cattle, 129 calves, 11 horses and 152 hogs received. Top cows brought 5.25, calves 6.60, hogs 7.50. most grown stock cleared from 4.50 to 5.00. calves around 6. hogs near 7. no sheep or goats offered.

UNION

Fort Worth cattle market report and prices

Fort Worth Texas cattle receipts reach 4000 with 800 calves. General market active and steady with beef steers 5 3/4 to 7, stocker steers 5 2/3 to 5 9/10, butcher cows 4 to 5 1/2, stocker cows 4 to 5 1/5, heifers 5 to 6 1/2, bulls 4 to 5, calves 5 1/2 to 7 1/5. Hoge market declines about 20 cents with top 7.80 and bulk 7.40 to 7.70. Sheep receipts 28, no prices listed.

Fort Worth Tex

Cattle and hog market quotations for St Louis sale

Receipts today include 600 cattle with 400 Texas cattle, market steady. Beef steers bring 7.50 to 9.15, cows and heifers 4.25 to 8.36, Texas and Oklahoma cattle 5.55 to 7.00, calves 4.54 to 5.60. Hogs receipts 7000, market higher. pigs and lights 5.75 to 6.70, good heavy 7.75 to 7.85. Sheep receipts 750, muttons 4.60 to 8.75, lambs 7.25 to 7.75.

ST. Louis Texas Oklahoma

Cattle and Hog Prices Steady as Receipts Hit Chicago Market

In Chicago today the hog market showed receipts of 86 000 with steady demand and mixed lots ranging from 7 25 to 7 80 for most weights while pigs brought 4 756 90. Cattle receipts reached 11 000 with steady trade and prices from 3 35 to 9 35 for cows and calves 6 50 to 10 25 for calves. Sheep receipts hit 20 000 with a strong tone. natives 3 90 to 5 10, yearlings 5 20 to 6 60, native lambs 6 00 to 7 65. No market tomorrow.

Chicago Navy Texas

Kansas City Market Receipts and Quotations Reported

Market data show hogs receipts 9000 with steady bids and top hogs around 7.60. Cattle receipts 3000 with prime fed steers up to 9.00 and cows to 6.76. sheep and lambs also listed. The rest cites historical notes on English rowing attire and a London Chronicle anecdote, ending with a prayer anecdote from Ladysmith Avenue.

Cotton market slips on big crop estimate and weak overseas demand

New York trading opened with a drop of 6 to 7 points as a Memphis spot man put the crop at 14,800,000 bales and Liverpool cables eased prices. Hedge selling and liquidation reduced buying power, though cover bids kept declines modest. Prices narrowed to 4 or 5 points below yesterday's close as the market drifted through the holiday.

New York Memphis Liverpool

Market trading session shows steady prices amid holiday demand

The session revealed strong demand from shorts seeking cover and profits over the holiday. Prices stayed firm with most active months up 4 to 6 points at peak, then 1 to 3 points higher at midday. By early afternoon quotes were 6 to 7 points above yesterday's close before slight late declines.

New Orleans Cotton Futures Open, Close Steady

Cotton futures opened steady with November at 13.64, December 12.72, January 12.98 bid with 13.09 offer, May 13.17, July 13.20. At close, prices showed little change, ranging two points up to five points down from yesterday.

New Orleans

Liverpool cotton prices ease on fair demand

In Liverpool on Nov. 26 the cotton market showed fair demand with easing prices. Middling fair 7.75, good middling 7.43, middling 7.25, low middling 7.08, good ordinary 6.43, ordinary 6.09. Sales 10,000 bales, including 8,400 American and 500 for speculation/export. Receipts 12,000 bales, including 1,600 American.

Liverpool

Futures steady in Liverpool market across series

Futures closed very steady with a range of intermonth quotations. Notable figures include Nov at 7.06 1/4 percent and Dec at 6.91 percent with several adjacent pairings around 6.90 to 6.92 percent, reflecting a calm forward curve.

Liverpool

Cotton futures steady as markets open with mixed Dec to Aug bids

New York futures opened steady with December at about 12.90 cents and August near 12.50. The session showed several contract points across months from December to October, with prices posted near intraday highs and lows and quotes indicating a calm start to trading.

Market Snapshots From Global Trading Hubs

Bulletin of spot market quotes across cities including New York New Orleans Houston Galveston Liverpool Memphis and the notable middling figures for each market. Prices shown reflect near term trading activity with varying fractions and percentages recorded by exchange observers.

New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady Amid Poor Demand

New Orleans Cotton futures opened steady for the day with declines of 3 to 7 points due to poor cables and large crop estimates. Reports of weak spot demand and favorable belt weather kept selling pressures light. bears did not press hard and prices recovered to near unchanged after the first hour as buying picked up.

New Orleans Bears

Spot cotton prices in New Orleans and Memphis

In New Orleans on November 26 spot cotton remained steady with middling at 12 15-16 cents, sales 2 048 bales on hand and arrivals 2 744 bales. Weekly receipts 14 895 bales, stocks 287 807 bales. In Memphis prices were steady with middling at 13 6/8 cents.

New Orleans Memphis Tenn

German architect proposes cremation pyramids for ashes

New York reports a German architect suggests building in major cities vast pyramids to house the ashes of one million cremated bodies as a solution to disposing of the dead. The note mentions spot cotton prices in New York.

Market Up on Russian Wheat Reports Amid Argentina Weather

Chicago November 26 reports show wheat rallied despite favorable Argentine weather as Russian rumors favored bulls and rainfall shortages in the west lingered. Corn and oats followed firming trends with December shorts covering while provisions weakened. futures closed steady with minor declines.

Chicago Ill Argentina

Market quotes for grain and futures in Kansas City

Quotations show cash wheat with No 2 hard at 82 to 88 cents and No 2 red around 87 to 88 cents. Corn prices include No 2 mixed at 68 to 69 cents and No 2 white 68 to 69 cents. Oats list No 2 white at 39 to 40 cents and No 3 mixed at 29 to 40 cents. Futures for wheat Becembee 81 to 81? May 86 to 87 cents. Corn futures Dee 69 to 72 cents May.

Kansas City

Commodity quotes and grain market figures from yesterday

Wheat prices ranged from No 2 red 95 cents to No 2 hard 93 cents with Georgia and other values. Receipts show 98 000 bushels of wheat and 61 000 of oats, corn 30 000, shipments include 93 000 wheat and 46 000 oats. Futures list December wheat 88 cents and May around 2 dollars. Corn December 70 cents and May 70 cents. Oats December 39 cents and May 42 cents.

ST. Louis

Chicago Grain Quiet as Fog Delays Inspections

Chicago grain markets report no cash grain quotations today due to fog delaying inspections and market activity.

Chicago

Marine Intelligence Galveston Cargoes and Arrivals

Galveston reports arrivals and clearances including the steamers Jose de Larrinaga Beckenham Flixton and Gloria de Larrinaga with routes to Liverpool Buenos Ayres St Lucia Yokohama Kobe Manchester and Cape Francis Also listed are sailings of Justin Sandefjord Bremen and Fairfield from Cape Francis to Cuba New York shows arrivals of Madonna from Marseilles Ioannina from Patras with dates November 26 and 2 cents in New York notations

Galveston Jose de Larrinaga Liverpool Beckenham Buenos Ayres Flixton St. Lucia Middleham Castile Yokohama Kobe Gloria de Larrinaga Manchester Justin Sandefjord Bremen Fairfield Cape Francis Cuba

Weather Observations Record for November 26 1913

Observations logged at 8 a m on Wednesday November 26 1913. Readings cover atmospheric conditions and daylight data recorded by the local weather station.

Cotton Statistics Receipts and Shipments Report

Cotton statistics show receipts, shipments, and stock levels with figures in brief. Readings include totals for arrivals, outbound movement, and on hand stock reflecting market activity.

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