Cotton Market Surges as More Boats Sail
Market gains lift as more ships load cotton and depart, signaling rising demand and confidence in the commodity. Shipments increase, pushing prices higher and attracting buyers.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1916
Page
13
Cotton futures rise to new highs on export optimism
The New York and New Orleans cotton markets opened steady and posted sharp gains as vessels sailed and favorable Liverpool cables supported prices. December and January hit new seasonal highs with rallies of 29 to 36 points, while shorts covered and demand increased ahead of the census mill report.
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New York
Liverpool Cables
New Orleans
Census Bureau
Cotton futures open steady with mixed early bids
New Orleans notes show opening bids for cotton futures with October at 16.56 and December at 16.83 while January hits 17.06 and March 17.33 and May 17.65. Early highs and lows are listed alongside scattered numbers and trade markers.
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New Orleans
Liverpool Cotton Market Report from October
Liverpool spot cotton eases with good middling at 10.25 and sales of 6000 bales while receipts reach 24 000. Futures quoted quiet with values around 10.11 to 10.15 per unit across active delivery months and total forwardings to mills listed for American and other origins.
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San Antonio
Houston
Galveston
New York
New Orleans
Liverpool
Shippers Market Prices for Produce in San Antonio Report
Market notes list prices paid for perishables and poultry in San Antonio. Texas country candied 29¢ per unit, Texas creamery 28 30¢, packing 1 22¢ per pound, hens $6.20 per dozen, large fryers $6.59 to $7.00, turkeys 18 to 19¢ per pound, meat prices around $4.80 to $5.50 per dozen, hens and broilers included among items.
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San Antonio
Texas
Texas Creamery
Colorado
California
Butter steady and egg receipts in Chicago market report
Chicago market notes show butter unchanged while eggs receipts reach 4955 cases. Potatoes firm with 45 car lots from Minnesota, the Dakotas, Ohio, and Wisconsin whites priced at 1.30 to 1.20. Posies alive higher. fowls at 17 cents. springs at 1 cent.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Dakotas
New Orleans Rice Market Strong on October Receipts and Sales
In New Orleans on October 13 rough and clean rice prices held firm with sizable receipts. Rough rice totals reached 13 280 sacks in stock and 42 221 for mill buyers while clean amounted to 3160 pockets. Sales included rough Honduras and Japan with 2628 and 434 sacks respectively and clean Honduras plus Japan with 8046 pockets and 1431. Blue Rose sales included 60 rough sacks and 1128 clean pockets. Market notations list prices around 2.65 to 3.35 for rough and 3.80 for Blue Rose, with clean Honduras quoted at 4 5c.
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New Orleans
Honduras
Japan
Blue Rose Reeb
Turpentine Sales and Receipts Reported in Savannah
Turpentine sales listed at 210 with receipts 425 and stock 24 896. Ship stock shows figures 4630 and WW. Additional entries note sales 1821 receipts 1736 550 and a fragmentary line with MN 3 i tw. indicating unsettled totals.
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Savannah
Tock
Fiat
Profits in Meat Are Subject of a Probe
A government report on meat economics shows retailers take 8 to 33 percent profit on centralized market meats and 15 to 28 percent on farm prepared meats. Farmers receive 62 to 85 percent of gross returns from centralized meats, while 64 to 84 percent from local meats goes to the farmer. The study covers conditions from winter 1918-19 into this year.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Wholesale vegetable and fruit market prices listed
Wholesale prices to trade include potatoes onions tomatoes and peppers from multiple states with per unit rates and bulk equivalents. Fresh fruit goods cover apples bananas oranges lemons grapes peaches and apricots with per box and per pound quotes.
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California
Colorado
Jonathan
Barre
L. M
Illinois
Maxwell House
Japan
Texas
Columbia River
Alaska
Sudan
Coddles Seeks Yorkshire Hospitality Ends Up Wearing Pudding
Mr. Coddles seeks Bradford visit for recovery but falls ill and is given a Yorkshire pudding. Three hours later he reveals he has eaten none of it, mistakenly wearing the dish on his chest. The hostess had intended it as a remedy.
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Eaton
Mr. Coddles
Chicago News
Wheat gains lift after lower open in Chicago trading
Chicago reports buying by leading houses pushes wheat higher after a weak start. Weather rains in Argentina and a late drought relief in the north influence the market, with Liverpool firmer and U. S. exports to Britain cited. December near 1.58, May around 1.574 in unsettled close. corn also gains on domestic belt weakness. Kansas City quotations list mixed grain prices by grade and type.
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Chicago
Ill
Argentina
Liverpool
Winnipeg
United States
Great Britain
Illinois
Squirrels and Swayze Powers Move to Mount Kisco
Doctor and Mrs J Swayze Powers relocate to Mount Kisco with three English servants and a hundred pedigreed squirrels. The party quells curiosity at the hotel rooftop, transporting nineteen large boxes of gear including nuts, oak branches, pine knots, and tree trunks amid a guarded, hushed relocation.
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Hotel Majestic
Meadows
PORKERS MOVE UP A NOTCH IN MARKETS
Market notes from Fort Worth and St Louis show hog receipts around 1000 and 5000, with bulk hog prices 9.60 to 9.75 and top 9.85 in Fort Worth. Cattle and sheep prices also listed with steers, cows, yearlings, lambs, and ewes at varied quotations.
Chicago livestock market report shows mixed demand
Receipts of hogs at 24000 were slow versus average with prices for bulk 9.65 to 10.10, lights 9.30 to 10.20, roughs 9.30 to 9.50, and pigs 7.25 to 9.28. Cattle receipts around 2000 with native beef 6.60 to 11.10, western steers 6.10 to 9.30, stockers 6.75 to 6, cows and heifers 3.50 to 9.30, calves 7.25 to 11.60. Sheep receipts 9000 and strong with lambs 7.75 to 10.40 and feeders 6.60 to 8.25.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City Livestock Prices Report October Ring
Hogs receipts about 4000 with prices 9.60 to 10.10 for bulk and packers. Cattle receipts near 1000 with prime fed steers at 9.60 to 11.00. cows and calves range 4.50 to 11.00. Sheep receipts around 3000 with lambs 9.75 to 10.35 and yearlings 7.50 to 8.50.
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Kansas City
Senate’s Champion Joiner From Oklahoma Senators
The Rochester Post-Express notes a rivalry between Oklahoma senators Gore and Owen for conspicuous fraternal memberships. Gore lists several orders and societies while Owen claims numerous affiliations and two university degrees, making him the senate’s noted champion joiner in the current Congress.
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Rochester Post- Express
Colonel House
Oklahoma
Congressional
Senate
Gore
Order of Ellis, Moose
Knights of Pythias
Woodmen of
Knight Templar
Elk
Moose
Owen
Congress
Republic
Wheat and oats prices steady with mixed grain quotes
In St Louis on October 13 quotations show wheat steady for No 2 red at 1.66 to 1.72 dollars, No 2 hard at 1.61 to 1.62, No 2 white oats at 47 to 47 cents, No 2 white at 48 cents, rye steady No 2 from 1.25 to 1.26.
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Kansas City
ST. Louis
Wheat and corn prices quoted in Chicago market report
Chicago market notes October 13 show grain quotations with No 2 red wheat at 91.58 and corn at 1.00 per bushel. No 2 oats traded around a half dollar and barley at 75 cents.
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Chicago
Provision Markets Chicago San Antonio Quotations
Local packing house quotations to dealers report dry beef extras at 16 cents, bacon extras at 18 cents, bacon bellies 14 16 pounds at 20 cents, pure lard 16 4 cents, compound 13 cents.
Sugar Prices Reported For New York Markets
New York report lists raw sugar at 6.14 per cent cent weight and centrifugal at 6.14 with molasses at 5.24 and steady fine granulated at 7.15.
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New York
Butter and Eggs Prices From Kansas City Market
Kansas City produce report dated Oct 13 notes butter and eggs at firsts 30 cents per pound, potatoes firm at 1.25 dollars per hundredweight. Authority credits Kansas City Produce.
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Kansas City
Market Quotations from Kansas City Onion Potatoes and Eggs
Kansas City Oct 13 quotations show Butter Creamery Range first 9 per lb, second 29 14 c. Packens at Petitey Hens 16 c, roosters 11 2/3 c, brooders 19 c. Potatoes firm.
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Kansas City
Five Year Old Sheds Light on Sunflower Champion
The Boston Post notes contenders for the champion sunflower title across New England. J. Walter Risdon reports a fourteen inch blossom in Arlington Vermont while William Gibney grows a plant with 150 blossoms in Antrim New Hampshire.
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J. Walter Risdon
Arlington, Vt
Boston Post
William E. Gibney
Antrim
N. H
George A. Warren
Brockton
Nashua
James Dickle
Orleans
Edward E. Sargent
Boston
Owen F. McCabe
Evarts
Vermont
Marine Shares Center of General Stock Advance in New York
Trading resumed after a holiday with higher prices and renewed confidence. Mercantile Marine preferred rose over three points, war and equipment issues gained, rail shares advanced but uneven, Nor fork & Western and Union Pacific up 1–2, Mexican bonds firmer, Gas and Sugar and National Biscuit up, Rock Island up two, and overall volume under one million shares as markets closed heavy amid sub marine activity rumors.
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New York
Mercantile Marine
Raila
Norfolk & Western
Union Pacific
National Biscuit
Rock Island
Money Markets Report from New York Oct 13
Mercantile paper at 3 percent. Sterling rates show 60 day bills 4.71 percent and demand 4.75 percent with cables 4.76 percent. Francs demand 5.85 percent cables 0.8 percent? Guilders demand 40 percent cables 41 percent. Bar silver 67 1/2 cents, Mexican dollars 52 1/2 cents. Government bonds steady while railroad bonds show irregular trading.
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New York
Mercantile Paper
New York Money Rates Steady Across Short Terms
New York money markets report steady time loans with 60 days at 3 to 3 percent, 90 days at 3 percent, six months at 8 percent. Call money remains steady with high 2 percent, low 2 percent, ruling 14 percent. Last loan and closing bids at 2 percent, offered 2 percent.
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New York
Market Rates in Tondon Gold and Money Markets
Tondon on October 13 reports bar silver at 325-164 per ounce. Money 4 percent. Discount rates show short bills at 6 percent and 5 percent, three months at 64 and 5 percent.
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Tondon
Metal markets report from New York and East St. Louis
Lead at 7.05 offered. Spelter dull. East St. Louis delivery at 9 1 2 cents. Electrolytic zinc first quarter 27 25 28. Iron steady. Tin quiet with spot offered at 42.00.
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York
Market quotes for London metals and futures
London metal prices report spot copper at 123 pounds 8 pence futures 118 pounds 10 8. lead at 30 pounds 108 pence electrolytic tin at 180 pounds 15 shillings futures 181 pounds 5 shillings.
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London
Friction Matches Sparked Complaint Over Lighting
A Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung anecdote recalls a peasant woman who bought friction matches and complained they would not light. A shopkeeper demonstrated lighting one quickly by striking it on his trousers ensuring they worked, prompting the woman to question the need for lighting them on his clothing.
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Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung
STOP COLLEGE GAMBLING AT STANFORD WELCOME
President Ray Lyman Wilbur urged freshmen to avoid risky fraternities and quit if they drink first night. He warned against pledges and said Stanford has taken steps to discourage poker parties. He cautioned that cutting classes dodging exams and cribbing only cheat themselves.
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Palo Alto
Cal
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Wilbur
He Took the Hint from Scribb and His Wife
Scribb and his wife argue over goats on the dressing table. He admits the hint and says they are older now. The wife insists the goats are actually their children, calling them kids. The exchange ends with him taking the hint.
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Scribb
Wa Scribb
Querie
Re Scribb
Joys of Incognito Doctor Shaw Visited Mississippi
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, returning south last winter after illness, visits Mrs. Ella Biggs, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association leader. A household servant manically fetches items for her, prompting reminders about tipping and the comfort of being addressed as Miss Shaw. She defends the service as a concession to years of public respect.
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Anna Howard Shaw
New York Sun
Ella Biggs
Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association
Doctor Shaw
Anna
Golf the Stateman's Game
A collage page notes golf as the preferred recreation of leaders from Asquith to Wilson and Taft, while the colonel scorns it as not a man’s game. The piece imagines presidents seeking relief on the links and mocks political foibles amid light anecdotes from Stray Stories and Louisville Courier-Journal.
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New York Post
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Asquith
Lloyd-George
Balfour
Taft
Hughes
President Wilson
Jimson
Huilo
Smith
Weather Summary for Houston District Stations
The 24 hour period ending 8 a.m. reports general warmth across the belt with temperatures above normal. Rainfall of an inch or more observed at Altus Carnegie and Mangum in Oklahoma. Allen Buell, Meteorologist, Weather Bureau.
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Houston
Altus
Car+negie
Mangum
Okla
Allen Buell
Meteorologist
Weather Bureau
Weather Bulletin Observations October 13 1916
United States Department of Agriculture weather bulletin reports 8 a m observations for Friday October 13 1916. Wind speeds below 10 mph and precipitation under .01 inches are not published. Allen Buell signs off.
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U. 8S
Department OF Agriculture Weather Bulletin
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