Cotton Crop Condition Narrow in Markets and Nationwide Status
The report details steady, narrow stock trading with mixed gains in Amalgamated and Nevada Consolidated and a strong uptick in Steel. It notes Bank of England rate changes with limited domestic impact and lists U S cotton crop condition at 64.1 percent of normal as of September 25, contrasting with prior years and the ten year average, highlighting drought effects in Texas Oklahoma and Missouri and recent rains easing some damage.
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Treasury daily balance and deficit figures
The Treasury reported at the start of business yesterday a general fund balance of $123,416,613. Yesterday’s receipts totaled $1,347,870 with payments of $24,350, showing a fiscal year deficit of $10,342,809, compared with a year-ago deficit of $4,850,052 excluding Panama Canal and public debt transactions.
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Market Report Amid Currency and Bond Movements
New York on October 2 reports prime mercantile rates at 544.6 percent, sterling exchange firm at 4.82 for 60 days and 4.86.10 for demand, commercial bills at 4.81, bar silver 61 1/2 cents, Mexican dollars 47 cents. Government bonds easy, railroad bonds steady.
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Marine Intelligence Galveston Update
Galveston reports arrival of steamers Herbert G. Wile and Huttonwood with tanks and cargos from Tampico and Barbadoes, and the D. N. Laickene bach from Baltimore. Also notes cleaned steamers Herbert G. Wylie and arrivals from Tampico and sails to Boston and New York, with Carpathia sailing to Naples and New York.
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San Jacinto
Cotton goods markets rise on firmer cotton
New York buyers pushed prices higher as cotton strengthened. Dundee burlap mill disruption added market excitement. Worsteds firmer, laces and embroiderers for spring bought carefully by retailers. Fancy dress goods and coatings called for immediate shipment.
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Weather Observation Record From October 2 1913
Observations recorded at 8 a.m. on Thursday October 2 1913. Data includes temperature barometric pressure wind and cloud cover from the reported observing station.
Bank Rate Raised by Bank of England to Five Percent
London Oct 2 The Bank of England directors voted to raise the bank rate from 4 to 5 percent as a precaution to restore reserves depleted by over 10 million dollars from exports to Egypt. Gold consignments from South Africa have been absorbed by the continent amid a global scramble for gold. The move aims to temper forward gold demands and support the bank as New York exchange steadies.
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Cotton Region Bulletin Weather Summary for Oct 2 1913
The belt remains fair with rain in the western part and near normal temperatures. Rainfall of an inch or more measured at Koppers Snyder Palestine Brenham Longview Huntsville Lampasas Mexia Columbus Temple Houston Austin and San Antonio with four to six inches at several stations. Allen Buell Local Forecaster Weather Bureau.
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Louis Produce Market Report for October 2
ST. LOUIS October 2 Poultry prices include chickens at 12 1/4 cents per pound turkeys 18 cents ducks 11 1/2 cents and geese 14 1/2 cents Butter and eggs listed with miscellaneous prices and notes on salt content and cream cheese.
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Market Prices for Lead Spelter and Eggs
ST. LOUIS METAL reported lead 4.50 to 4.55 per unit and spelter 5.50 to 5.55. NEW YORK PRODUCE noted eggs unchanged with no price movement.
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Coffee Prices Jump in New York and Local Markets
Local quotations reflect a sharp rise in coffee prices on the New York market yesterday with most grades hitting new highs for the season. Retailers report a cent per pound increase, while jobbers anticipate further gains before week’s end. Sugar also falls as beet and granulated varieties trade higher prices amid a lighter demand.
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New Orleans
Texas Rice Mills Shut Down Markets Hit by Floods
Two large Texas rice mills halted operations and informed San Antonio representatives they were temporarily out of the market as floods devastate Southwest Texas and Louisiana crops. Estimated 20 percent damage portends a price spike. buyers report tight supply and higher costs, while egg, butter, poultry and produce prices hold steady with no major changes today.
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Produce Commission
Market Prices From Texas Goods List
A dense catalog of wholesale prices for eggs, poultry, butter, cheese, and vegetables across Texas California and Colorado. Includes per dozen or per crate costs for onions cabbage lettuce celery corn cucumbers beans peppers eggplant okra melons cranberries oranges lemons peaches limes bananas pears plums apples grapes coffee sugar rice flour and hay with many items showing state origin and unit measures.
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Cotton Market Opens Firm On Heavy Rains And Spot Sales
New York reports indicate southwest weather and strong English spot sales support an opening rise in cotton futures with first prices 16 to 16 points higher. Trading shows early gains then gains eroded by realizations and a Washington condition report near midday, with prices dipping then recovering modestly.
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New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady Amid Rainy Belt Trade
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened with a 6.9 point gain on reports of heavy rains in Texas and the western belt. Liverpool prices climbed while spot sales reached 20 000 bales, the largest daily volume in months. Bulls blamed nervous spinners and noted a mixed census figure while the market fluctuated through the morning.
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Oats Buying Active As Wheat Rallies Fall Off
Chicago Oct 2 trading shows oats holding firm while wheat and corn dip from early gains. Weather concerns spark a later rally in corn as oats face active pit support and cargo chatter from Ft William. Provisions slide on record lard stocks, markets close steady to fractionally higher.
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Grain Quotes From St. Louis Market Report
St Louis cash wheat prices list No red 98 to 95 cents per bushel, No 2 hard 87 to 94 cents. Corn values show No 2 at 72 to 73 cents, No 2 white 73 to 74 cents, and No 2 yellow 82 to 84 cents. December and May futures cited: wheat December 93 1/2 cents, May 94 cents. corn December 78 1/2 cents, May 78 3/4 cents. oats December 43 cents, May 45 cents.
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Market Prices for Wheat Corn and Oats in Kansas City
Cash wheat levels show No 2 at 84 to 90 cents, No 8 at 88 to 90 cents, and No 2 red at 92 to 98 cents. Corn lists No 2 mixed 73 cents, No 8 72 to 74 cents, No 2 white 18 to 74 cents, No 3 75 cents. Oats quote No 2 at 48 cents, No 8 mixed 42 cents.
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Market Quotations Show Mixed Wheat and Corn Prices
Quotations from Chicago show cash wheat at 88 9 1/2 cents and 89 1/2, corn No 2 around 71 2/3 to 72 1/2 cents, No 2 mixed 73 3/4 cents, No 2 white standard 42 1/2 cents. Inflation and typographical errors obscure full details.
Cotton seed prices posted in Memphis report
In Memphis on October 2 price quotes show prime basis at 6.10 dollars, meal at 27.00 to 27.60, and linters at 2 percent crude content.
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Tenn
Rains Delay Cattle Market at Union Stock Yards
Oct 2 at Union Stock Yards reports crowded pens and moderate supply as rain delays shipments. Hogs fell in northern centers but local hogs stayed steady with top porkers at 8.25. Cattle remained active with best cows at 5.25 and calves around 6. Prices held steady by noon. no sheep or goats offered.
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Cattle and Hogs Market Report From Fort Worth
Fort Worth market reports a sluggish day with cattle receipts at 8500 and calves 800. Beef steers 5.50 to 6.80, feeder steers 5.60 to 6.85, butcher cows 4.00 to 5.75, heifers 5.50 to 7.00, bulls 4.00 to 5.50, stocker and heifers 4.26 to 5.50, calves 4.50. hogs 1000 receipts steady at 8.40. sheep 560 receipts. lambs and goats sold steady.
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Chicago Live Stock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago markets show hogs receipts at 22 000 with slow steady demand. Bulk sales $8.30 to $8.70, rights $8.25 to $9.00, mixed $8.10 to $8.95, heavy $8.00 to $8.90, pigs around $4 56 to $7 76. Cattle receipts 4500 with steady markets. Beeves $7.15 to $9.40, Texas steers $6.90 to $7.99, stockers and feeders $4.50 to $8.75, cows and heifers $3.75 to $8.55, calves $7.75 to $11.75. Sheep receipts 25 000 with steady markets. Native $3.75 to $4.85, yearlings $4.90 to $6.90, native lambs $6.80 to $7.45.
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Kansas City Livestock Receipts and Prices Report
Receipts today 6000 cattle including 800 southern and 8000 sheep. Cattle markets steady with prime fed steers 8.80 to 9.26, dressed beef steers 8.00 to 8.75, southern steers 5.50 to 7.00, cows 4.25 to 7.00, heifers 5.00 to 9.00. Sheep market strong with lambs 6.50 to 7.40, yearlings 5.00 to 6.00, wethers 4.25 to 5.00, ewes 3.60 to 4.50.
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Market Receipts and Quotes for Cattle Hogs and Sheep
In St Louis on October 2 the market reported cattle receipts of 4500 including 1500 Texans with native beef steers from 5.50 to 9.40 and cows from 4.75 to 8.75. Texas and Oklahoma steers 5.50 to 7.75. calves 5.00 to 6.00. Hogs totals 8600 with steady to lower tone. pigs and lights 6.00 to 8.75 and good heavy 8.60 to 8.70. Sheep receipts 3000 with steady tone. native muttons 3.70 to 4.30 and lambs 5.50 to 7.40.
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Coal prices raised by 26 cents a ton in Boston
Retail prices of all grades of coal were advanced 26 cents a ton by dealers in Boston today. The dealers said the increase was necessitated by higher costs of handling.
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Chicago Market Report Shows Little Change on Oct 2
Butter and eggs held steady in Chicago as receipts rose to 6371 and 80 carloads of potatoes were received. Poultry remained lower with live fowl at 13 1 2 cents and whole birds at 15 cents.
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Ills
Butter Eggs and Poultry Unchanged in Market
Kansas City report notes butter eggs and poultry prices hold steady with no changes observed on October 2. Key buyers and vendors remained cautious as supply lines and demand patterns stayed steady across markets.
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Cotton futures open steady with varied month quotes
New Orleans on October 2 reports steady opening in cotton futures with prices for October at 13.9793, November 13.9799, December 18.9914 to 19.00, January 14.02 asked, March 14.01 bid, and May 14.16 asked.
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Liverpool cotton market steady amid limited demand
Liverpool spot cotton shows firm prices across grades despite limited demand. Middling fair at 8.31 pence per pound and good middling at 8.034 pence, with sales totaling 20 000 bales including 15 300 American and 8 000 for speculation and export. receipts 4 000, including 1 800 American.
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Futures close quiet in London markets October to November series
Futures closed quiet in London with multiple calendar spreads cited. Gold tone figures show October at 7.49½d and October-November near 7.40¾d, with several other monthly pairings ranging from 7.03d to 7.82½d across the season.
Spot cotton holds steady in New Orleans market
New Orleans reports spot cotton steady with middling at 14 cents. Gales on the spot yield 360 bales. arrivals total 1100. Quotations listed for various grades from low ordinary to strict good middling, with values ranging 10 1 16 to 14 9 16 cents.
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Cotton Prices Steady in Memphis Market
In Memphis on October 2 cotton prices held steady with spot cotton unchanged at middling 18 percent.
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New York Spots Cotton Quiet on Oct 2
Spot cotton in New York on October 2 shows middling uplands at 14.20 and Gulf at 14.46 with no sales reported.
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Rice Market Reports From New Orleans on Oct 2
Rough Honduras and Japan show strength with Honduras active and Japan steady. Quoted prices include rough Honduras 3.50 to 4.00, Japan 2.25 to 3.75, clean Honduras 4% 6c, Japan 3% old 2% 3c. Receipts list 1818 rough, 804 millers, 1078 clean. Sales record 979 rough Honduras sacks, 32.508 4.00, 361 Japan sacks at 3.00 to 3.75, 25590 clean Honduras pockets at 1% 5c, Japan 1202 pockets at 2% 3c.
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Sugar Prices Drift. Raw Sugar Steady in Early Trading
New York on October 2 reports raw sugar markets showing modest stability with Muscovado at 2.98, centrifugal at 3.45, and molasses sugar at 2.73 while refined values remain unsettled.
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Hides and Leather Prices Move in New York Trading
Hides hold steady while leather markets show firmness in New York today with buyers cautious and producers watching margins as trading continues under mixed demand conditions.
Cotton Seed Market Closes Barely Steady
New York reports the cotton seed market ending barely steady with prices across months from September at 7.18 to May at 7.65 per unit. Total sales reach 14 000 with notable lots: November 190 at 7.14 and March 200 at 7.89 among others.
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New York Coffee Prices Ease in Futures Market
In New York on October 2, Rio coffee futures softened with December at 9.84 and May at 10.40. Market watchers noted an easy drift as traders weighed supply and demand signals.
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LARGER ORE TONNAGE SHIPPED THIS YEAR AT LAKES
Duluth reports ore tonnage from the head of the lakes will exceed 1912 marks despite strikes and weather. Superintendents note 2,642,431 more tons shipped by Oct 1 than in the same period last year. Seven loading points total 32,401,249 tons vs 29,758,818 last year.
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Prizes for Peace Essay Contest Opens in 1914
The American School Peace League invites high school and normal school seniors worldwide to submit essays on two topics The Opportunity and Duty of the Schools in the International Peace Movement and The Significance in the Two Hague Peace Conferences Three prizes of 75 50 and 25 dollars will be awarded for the top essays in both categories The contest closes March 1 1914 Essays should average 3000 words and not exceed 5000 They should be sent to Mrs Fanny Fern Andrews secretary 405 Marlborough street Albany NY.
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Family welcomes 14 additions to police family in Philadelphia
Patrolman Michael Pugusky greets his parents from Russia at Pennsylvania Station and learns fourteen relatives have arrived to live with them. His mother introduces aunts uncles and cousins who arrived seeking the famed wealth and power of the police, and he guides all forty residents home.
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Bridges, roads and county property suffer widespread flood damage
County commissioners estimate damage to Bexar county property and roads may exceed 50000 dollars as bridges, culverts and drains washed out. Precincts report heavy losses to bridges, roads, and a Donop Rosillo Creek area. A store on the Salado bank is swept away, and the courthouse roof leaks while the fountain reopens after years.
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Metal markets report from New York listings
Lead steady around 4.55 with London rates 12s 6d. copper dull with no trades and futures around 16.75. Tin steady per spot 187 pounds and futures 188 pounds. antimony quiet at 8.39 for Cookson's. London iron and Cleveland warrants noted at 54s 6d.
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Money Rates and Bonds Slide Amid New York Trading
The New York market shows call money at 2 to 3 percent and time loans at 4 percent for 60 to 180 days. The British Board of Trade approves a new single Gavit launch boat concept with an automatic water release on touch.
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