Bear Operators Press Down Stocks in Turbulent Week
Wall Street bears dominated trading as the market slid on fears over antitrust actions, railroads, and a looming commodities clause ruling. Declines hit Southern Pacific, Rock Island, and Union Pacific as speculation and cautious sentiment curbed buying.
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Marine Intelligence Galveston and New York Arrivals and Cleared Vessels
Marine intelligence reports show arrivals in Galveston and New York with several steamers listed. Vessels arriving include El Mundo Chemnitz Wittekind and El Dia, while clearances include Bloomfield Tuxpam Origen and Salled among others. Also noted is Waneta with barge Hainut departing Tampico and earnings from New York Produce market reporting eggs and related items.
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Denver
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Origen
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Sioux
Wittekind
el Dia
Fruit by Fast Trains Sharpens Pacific Fruit Shipments
Railroads compete to speed Pacific coast fruit to New York with a Rogue River association carload reaching in eleven days five hours. The rapid transport scheme shortens usual thirteen to fourteen day deliveries and improves fruit quality on eastern arrival.
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California
Trade Outlook Bright in New York Area as Markets Shift
Bradstreet’s review notes optimistic distributive trade sentiment with crop money boosting agricultural areas. Prompt textile shipments, liberal staple purchases, and improving collections mark activity ahead of last year, though buyers hold back amid tariff uncertainty and bonds Withdrawals. Failures for the week total 114.
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Bradstreet
Wool Market Quiet in Boston as Week Sees Modest Sales
Wool buying eased in the past week with around 43 million pounds moved, mostly on former terms. Pacific and Australian fleece lots and bales traded at prior rates, with ranges cited for fine Australian 70s plus and various regional wools including Missouri and Texas grades.
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Boston
Coffee makes record in New York market opening
The coffee market opened firm in New York on Oct. 11 amid a rally in European prices. May futures reached 11.25 with other contracts posting gains. total volume 920,000 bags. Rio No. 7 rose about ten percent? nais.
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Havre
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Rio
Santos
New York Banks Report Higher Excess Reserves in Week
Weekly statement shows banks and trust companies hold 7.97 million in excess reserves, up 4.26 million from last week. Loans total 1.929 billion, down 13.9 million. specie 330.97 million, up 682 thousand. net deposits 1.761 billion, down 24.04 million. Total deposits 622.92 million, down 2.92 million.
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Clearing House
Pecie
Observations from 8 a m on October 11 19184
The record notes observations taken at 8 00 a m on a Saturday dated October 11 19184, indicating a log style entry with time and date. It preserves the historical dating format from the source.
Cotton seed oil closes steady in New York trading
Cotton seed prices hold steady with spot at 6.95 to 7.10 and futures across the curve from October through May. Market activity records 3100 total sales with multiple lots traded at 6.93 to 7.35 and notable volumes for January March and May delivery.
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New York
Brackettville Gin Active in Cotton Harvest
Brackettville Texas October reports the local gin near finished ginning the season while the Feblie gin runs hot with about 600 bales. Kinney county cotton remains in early stages but plans for large planting next year as farmers struggle to house a big feedstuff crop.
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Feblie
Kinney County
Market Quotes Show Sterling Ease and Bond Shifts
New York on October 11 reports prime mercantile paper 5 and 4 per cent, Sterling at 4 81.40 for 60 days and 4,865.65 for demand, commercial bills 4 81.15. Bar silver 61c, Mexican dollars 47¢. Government bonds easy, railroad bonds heavy.
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New York
Bellroad
Weather Bureau Explanatory Notes and Daily Climate Report
Observations taken at 8 p m local time with air pressure adjusted to sea level. Data include temperatures highs and lows, precipitation totals, wind speeds and directions, and month to date summaries. Sun rises at 6 33 a m on Sunday.
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Donny
Greatest Apple Sale Sets New Northwest Record
The Northwestern Fruit Exchange announces the sale of its entire Skookum apple season to a New York buyer. Rogue River Spitzenburgs topped Hood River stock for the first time, with a price about 60 cents higher per box. The deal marks a landmark shift toward branded, season aware advertising and broader U S demand for boxed apples. Buyers show a keen appetite as American demand replaces European markets this season.
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New York
Hood River
Northwestern
Hood River Spitseenburgs
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Northwest
Pacific Northwest
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Wholesale Farm Prices From Country Produce Market
Country produce price list covering eggs butter cheese poultry and a wide array of vegetables fruits and staples with regionalquotes for Texas California Colorado and more. Various crates baskets and per pound costs listed for cantaloupes watermelons onions tomatoes lettuce apples pears and other items.
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Texas Creamery
Texas
California
Colorado
Cotton Region Bulletin Weather and rainfall report
For the 24 hours ending at 8 a m. Tith meridian time on Saturday Oct 11 1918 the belt is generally fair and near normal. Rainfall of an inch or more reported at Wilmington New Bern Monroe Batesville Helena Pine Bluff Brownsville Milan Malvern Newport Portland Warren Eldorado Clarkedale Greenville and Rosedale. Chicago produce quotations noted with commodities including butter eggs potatoes and poultry.
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Fall
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5. C
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Atlanta
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Tenn
Vicksburg
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Cocesten New Orleans
Little Rock
Butter eggs and poultry unchanged in Kansas City market
In Kansas City on October 11 prices for butter eggs and poultry remained steady with no changes noted. Market observers cited stable supply and steady consumer demand as the reasons for the hold.
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Kansas City
Cattle steady hogs drop in Texas stock markets
Union Stock Yards reports mixed cattle and hog prices with hogs declining across centers while cattle hold firm. Best cows reach 5.25, calves 6.50, hogs around 8.25 with most stock in the 4 to 4.76 range. Sheep sparse. rain boosts range conditions and fattening prospects for Texas cattle.
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Fort Worth cattle market steady with modest gains
Fort Worth, Tex. reports cattle receipts 285 and calves 60 with steady market. Butcher cows bring 4.25 to 5.26 and bulls around 4 to 5.0. Hog receipts 800 show prices up about 10 cents. Lambs 500 offer a 15 cent weekly gain, with range bulk at 8.10 to 8.60.
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Cattle Hog Sheep Prices Steady at St Louis Market
On Oct 11 at St Louis receipts totaled 1200 cattle including 600 Texans with steady prices. Native beef steers brought 5.50 to 9.40 with calves 5.00 to 6.00 in carloads. hogs and lights 5.76 to 8.50, good heavy 8.36 to 8.57. sheep receipts 1900 with native muttons 4.76 to 4.60 and lambs 6.60 to 7.26.
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Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago on October 11 reports hogs receipts 10 000 with strong market bulk of gales eight to eight fifty, mixed seven ninety to eight sixty, rough seven eighty to six, pigs four seventy five to eight. Cattle receipts three hundred market steady bulls seven ten to nine fifty Texas steers six ninety to eight stockers five twenty five to seven seventy five cows and heifers three sixty to eight fifty calves seven sixty to eleven twenty five. Sheep receipts two thousand market steady slow natives eight ninety to four ninety five yearlings six to six, native lambs five ninety to seven twenty.
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Texas
Kansas City Livestock Receipts and Prices Report
Receipts today include hogs 600 with a higher market and cattle 400 steady. Prime fed steers range 9.00 to 9.50, dressed beef steers 8.00 to 8.90, southerns 5.50 to 7.00, cows 4.25 to 7.26, lambs 6.25 to 7.00, yearlings 5.00 to 6.50, wethers 4.00 to 4.75, ewes 3.50 to 4.26.
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Cotton goods market steadies with modest price shifts
New York reports quiet cotton goods trading as gray goods hold near steady. Amoskeag flannelettes for the cutting trade list 10% for 36 goods for fall 1914, while fine carpet mills curb output in anticipation of freer wool. Yarns show easing demand.
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New York
Steady liquidation drives cotton near five dollars per bale
The cotton market in New York shows a week of unsettled prices, with declines of nearly five dollars per bale from record highs. Reports cite better southern weather, revising crop estimates, and weaker overseas trade as factors, while domestic spot markets also slide and weekend spinners’ buying lags.
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New York
Lancashire
Cotton market closes lower for week across markets
New York shows closing posi tion with cotton futures down 19 to 77 points from last week. New Orleans reports steady prices with declines of 44 to 67 points shaping weekly quotations across the market.
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Movements Show Cotton Decline but Season Progresses
The weekly report from Secretary Hester notes cotton moved in the United States last week reached 644,642 bales, down 13,000 from the prior year, while season totals remain ahead of last year. Receipts at all ports total 1,850,645, with overland moves and southern mills activity contributing to a season-to-date of 2,410,773 bales. Foreign exports for the week stand at 201,360. The year’s total takings by American mills rise to 547,357, with seaboard stocks and interior centers showing increases and overall supply at 2,737,101 bales.
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Southern Mills
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Cotton Statistics And Interior Receipts Report
Cotton statistics list total net receipts at all ports since September 1 in bales with figures for combined receipts and interior receipts. New York market report notes hides steady and leather firm as of October 11.
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Spot cotton quiet in Liverpool market report
Liverpool Oct 11 spot cotton quiet with Priadiog tele at 8.084 and middling around 7.614. Middling low 7.394, good ordinary 6.734, registrations 394. Bales 6000 with 4100 consumed inland and 300 for speculation and export. Receipts 25,000 bales including 24,700 American.
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Priadiog
Futures Closes Firm Across Series in Liverpool Market
In Liverpool on October 7 futures markets showed firm closing. Details include October to November at 17.16 percent with 4d, various month spreads from January to October across multiple contracts, and values around 6.68 to 7.16 percent for the listed year.
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Liverpool
Pfutures
Spot cotton price and market figures in New Orleans
Leading spot markets report New Orleans on October 11 with middling at 13 9 16 cents. Spot sales total 134 bales, arrivals 300. Receipts 6346 bales and stock 62,895 bales. Various grades listed from low ordinary to good middling with respective bids and price ranges.
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New Orleans
New York Spot Cotton Quiet as Prices Hold
Spot cotton in New York on October 11 remained quiet with Middling uplands at 13.70 and Middling gulf at 13.96 cents per pound. no sales were reported.
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New York
Cotton Price Steady In Memphis Market
In Memphis on October 11 spot cotton held steady with middling grade quoted at 13 and three quarters cents per pound.
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Memphis
Rice Prices Rise as Honduras and Japan Lead Market
New Orleans market notes rough Honduras and rough Japan strongest with clean Honduras and Japan also firm. Quotations show rough Honduras at 2.75 to 5.08 per unit and rough Japan at 2.75 to 4.05. clean Honduras 4% 6%c and Japan 3% 4c for new. Receipts include rough 2207 and millers 1382. sales report 1463 sacks rough Honduras and 642 sacks rough Japan. 1654 pockets clean Honduras and 659 pockets clean Japan.
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Honduras
Japan
Metals Quiet as Copper Prices Hold Steady
New York metal market report shows copper near $16.75 to $17.00, electrolytic copper $16.50 to $16.87 with cost at $16.37 to $16.75. iron prices unchanged.
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New York
Lake
Quotations From St.oe Quotations Market Notes
Quotations list odd prices for dairy and poultry products including ducks and geese with small changes noted. Prices shown are 12c for eggs and 1c for geese with creamery terms listed as well.
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Government report stirs grain markets with mixed signals
Chicago Oct 11 The government crop report for October 1 showed corn at 65.4 condition, 2.378 billion bushels yield, vs last year’s 3.125 billion. Wheat feared export demand and potential Canadian movement, while oats eased as December shifted to May. Traders note no dramatic price shift yet, with bears edging ahead late week.
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Winnipeg
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Prairies
Canada
United States
Grain Prices Hold Steady in Chicago Markets
Trade in Chicago on October 11 shows cash wheat values around No 2 and No 8 red with a range near eight to nine cents, corn at about seven to eight cents, and oats near forty cents. Prices remained close to steady as buyers and sellers set quotes in thin trading.
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Shicago
Grain Prices and Receipts Reported in St Louis Market
St Louis market update lists No 3 red winter wheat at 89 930 cents and No 2 corn at 78 1/2 cents. Oats No 2 die No 3 white 42 cents. December wheat 70 cents and May oats around 41 1/2 cents. Receipts show flour 10, wheat 48,000 bushels, corn 47,000, oats 0. shipments include 64,000 bushels of wheat 70,000 bushels of corn and 18,7000 bushels of wheat.
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Cotton Market Quiet in Galveston on Oct 11
Spot cotton remained quiet and unchanged in Galveston as of October 11 with no spot sales. Total stocks stood at 150,561 bales and receipts at 17.
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Spot market closes quiet and unchanged in Houston
Houston October 11 The spots market closed quiet and unchanged with shipments totaling 18 884 bales and stock levels described as stores.
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Houston
Kansas hay prices and coffee futures report excerpt
Kansas hay market reports Prairie and Timothy prices with alfalfa ranges. New York coffee futures show Dec at 11.07 as strong. The item also notes James Sutherland claiming to be an elephant killer arriving in London amid jungle adventures.
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