Downward Break Sends Stock List to New Lows
New York stocks opened lower with most leading issues in the current movement at new lows. Southern Pacific fell three points to 86 1 2, its lowest since 1903, amid government suit pressure that could threaten Union Pacific’s control of Central Pacific. Union Pacific slipped to 150 and American Telephone to 120 1 2 as losses spread across the list. Trading was light after early declines, with brief rallies in Steel and Amalgamated.
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New York
Southern Pacific
Ithern Pacific
Central Pacific
Eel
Union Pacific
American Telephone
South Pacific
Reada Steel and Amalgamated
Market Close Report from New York on Oct 14
The New York market closes with prime 5 percent at 6 percent, 60 day commercial bills quoted at 4.81 and 4.81 for 60 days, sterling demand at 7s, Mexican dollars at 47 1/2, government bonds steady while other bonds remain weak.
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New York
Money on call rates and time loan figures reported
New York financial desk notes money on call at 8 percent with three year percent rates near 3 percent. Time loans show weakness with 60 day loans around 4 percent and 90 day loans near 5 percent.
Metal market snapshot from London and Cleveland
Market notes show London metals quiet with mixed spot and futures prices for electrolytic lake and casting metals. Copper and nickel prices drift, while London futures ease. US grain and copper references appear alongside terse London market chatter from Cleveland updates.
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London
Marry Each Other Eleven Times In World Tour
Hagerstown Maryland report details Mr and Mrs Frank Vernon who have married eleven times since 1909 in nations including England Wales France Germany Russia Australia and Mexico to ensure marriages would be recognized abroad. They began in Columbus Ohio in 1909 and continued in 1910 and 1913 across multiple countries.
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Hagerstown
Frank Vernon
Ock Heights
Vernon
Entreal
England
Wales
France
Germany
Russia
Australia
Cruz
Mex
New Orleans Rice Prices Show Strong Japanese Demand
Rice markets in Orleans Louisiana report robust activity with Japanese and Honduras grades trading. Prices quoted include rough Honduras at 2.75 and 8.25 per sack, Japan at 2.75 to 4.05 and 3.15 to 4.02, with millers and sacks noted. further details on clean moeseres and varied grades appear, reflecting vigorous demand and high power in freight rates.
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New Orleans
Orleans
Mras
Japan
Honduras
Millers 1860
U S Egg Exports Reach 21 Million Dozen in 1913
The 1913 fiscal year saw 21 million dozen eggs exported from the United States, with Canada and Cuba as primary destinations. Value rose toward 4.5 million dollars, while imports also increased, and October and November marked peak shipping months.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Canada
Cuba
Mexico
Central America
Panama
England
Scotland
Equator
Brazil
Venezuela
French Oceania
New Caledonia
Pacific
Birth Records Record Several Local Newborns
To Mr. and Mrs. G W. Se Dr ber 1041 West Falls avenue a boy. To Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Burke October 12 319 Wickes street a boy. To Mr. and Mrs. W. Wilson September 17 Sast North Olive street a boy. To Mr. and Mrs. E. Chapa October 11 112 Undo street a girl. To Mr. and Mrs. B. Almaras October 10 419 West Romana street a boy.
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G W. Se
Drber
West Falls Avenue
Will H. Burke
Wickes Street
W. Wilson
North Olive Street
E. Chapa
Undo Street
B. Almaras
West Romana Street
Metal Prices Report From St Louis
St Louis metal market notes lent by lend $4.90 and spelter priced at $5.30 with values listed for Oct 14.
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ST. Louis
Cotton Region Bulletin for October 14, 1918
The 24 hour period ending 8 a m on Tuesday October 14 1918 shows generally fair weather in the cotton belt. Temperatures are nearly normal. Allen Buell reports as local forecaster for the Weather Bureau.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Weather Bulletin Notes From October 14 1918
Observation records show a general weather bulletin with data compiled at 8 a m on Tuesday October 14 1918. The fragment references time and date but no further meteorological details are provided in readable form.
Weather Forecast For Texas Regions in 1918 Update
Tuesday October 14 1918 forecast covers San Antonio and vicinity clear tonight and Wednesday with generally fair conditions for East Texas. Colder air expected in the northwest portion Wednesday with continuing dry weather.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
East Texas
Onions and Fish Prices Rise as Winter Demand Grows
Wholesale onion prices creep toward 3.50 as Texas crop shortfall boosts demand. California imports feed San Antonio markets while trout and other salt water fish rise. Louisiana oysters move northier amid smaller Texas oysters. Seed houses report heavy fall orders and delayed fills.
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Texas
San Antonio
California
Louisiana
Mississippi
Wholesale Country Produce Sale Prices Listed
A list of market prices for eggs, poultry, dairy, vegetables, fruits, and staples. Entries include eggs at 23 24c per dozen, various hen and fryer prices, butter and cheese per pound, and produce prices by region. Also includes sugar, coffee, rice, flour, hay, and syrup figures for Texas and California markets.
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Northern Creamery
Texas Creamery
Texas
California
Colorado
Grocery Price List Shows Wide Range Of Meats And Canned Goods
The list details prices for meats and lard, pickled meats, canned goods, and dried fruits. Items include dry salt bacon and hams, pure and compound lard, No. 1 roast beef, salmon and sardines, California canned fruits, dried peaches and prunes, raisins in multiple varieties, cranberries, currants, dates, beans, and hides, wool, beeswax, and tallow. prices are per pound, per can, or per dozen as specified.
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Alaska
Columbia River
California
London
Thompson
Navy
Market Quotations From Kansas City Sellers
Quotations today show butter at 29 cents for firsts and 22 to 27 for others with creamery 29 cents. Eggs list firsts 26 cents and seconds 18 cents. Poultry prices include hens roosters ducks and springs around 10 to 11 cents.
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Kansas City
Springs
Egg and hides market report from New York
New York reports steady eggs with fresh gathered extras at 83 36 cents. Hides remain steady with bo goats at 82 88 cents and Central Americans Leather firm. Hemlock firsts run 29 30 cents, seconds 28 2 cents.
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New York
Bogota
Market snapshot of raw sugar and refined prices
New York report lists raw sugar quiet with Muscovado $2.92 and centrifugal A $8.42. Refined futures show five points lower with various forms priced from $2.67 for molasses sugar to $4.95 for crushed sugar and $4.60 for mould A and cubes.
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New York
Market Quotation Report From Chicago
Chicago October 14 quotes show butter and eggs steady receipts 5941 cases and 55 carloads of potatoes. Keg price for a live hogs is lower with springs 130 and fowls closing in unchanged.
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Chicago
Ill
Market Quotes From St Louis Poultry and Geese Prices
ST LOUIS Oct 14 Quotations were as follows today Poultry Chickens 12c covings 12c turkeys 18c ducks spe geese 1 Let Sle Kegce 2.
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St, Louis
Burial Permits for Two Local Deaths
Jesus de Casanova aged 33 died October 13 at Santa Rosa hospital. Paul Garcia five months died October 12 at 224 South Presa Street.
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Jesus de Casanova
Santa Rosa Hospital
Paul Garcia
South Presa Street
Uninterested buyers stall cattle market at Union Stock Yards
At Union Stock Yards on Oct 14 sales began with only 142 cattle and calves 16 sheep and 29 goats in pens. Prices stayed barely steady with last week as hog pens were empty at start and a late hog arrival may move stock to other markets or tomorrow. Best cows hit 5.25 calves 6.50 hogs 8.25 with most stock 4.50 to 5.00. calves 5.60 to 6.00. Sheep and goats held steady with no public sales by noon.
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Union Stock Yards
Fort Worth Market Report Cattle Hogs Steady
Fort Worth Texas market notes cattle receipts at 3500 with feeder steers 6.00 to 6.85 and beef steers 6.00 to 7.85. Hogs receipts 750 with bulk sales 8.20 to 8.60 and a brisk steady market. Sheep receipts 1960 unchanged.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Chicago pork and cattle prices report October market
Chicago cattle and hog markets show slow trading with mixed prices. Hog receipts reach 20 000 with bids from 8.20 to 8.70 for various weights and pigs at 8.00. Cattle receipts 4 000 show steady demand with Texas steers around 6.85 to 6.88 and calves 7.00 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 2 000 with native lambs 5.85 to 7.20 and yearlings 6.00.
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Chicago
Texas
Bhoep
Market News: Kansas City Livestock Receipts and Quotes
Receipts and bids vary across hogs cattle and sheep today in Kansas City. Hogs steady with bulk around 8.10 to 8.35, heavy and night hogs listed. Cattle receipts near 21,000 with prime fed steers 9.10 to 9.40 and dressed beef steers 7.85 to 8.90. southern cattle weaker to steady. Sheep receipts about 12,000 with lambs 6.50 to 5.5 and yearlings 4.75 to 4.25. ewes 8.60 to 4.25.
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Kansas City
Fed
Market Report Cattle and Sheep Prices At St Louis Auction
Receipts 6800 cattle including 1000 Texans with steady market. Native beef steers 5.50 to 9.50, cows and heifers 4.78 to 9.00, Texas and Oklahoma steers 5.00 to 7.80, calves 5.00 to 6.00. Sheep receipts 9300 with native muttons 8.75 to 4.60, lambs 3.60.
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ST. Louis
Texas
Oklahoma
Cotton Seed Sprouting Locks in Texas County
Cotton seed for planting in Hart County was nearly destroyed by recent heavy rains. Seed in bolls sprouted turning into a total loss for planting. About 40 percent of the crop had been gathered when rains hit, reducing future supply and raising prices as dealers struggle to stock seed.
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Lockhart
Tex
Cotton Ends Sharp Downtick Amid Liquidation Markets
The New York cotton market fell after a sustained selling wave linked to easier Liverpool cables and good weather. Active months dropped 12 to 16 points, January hit 12.80, with noon prices down 14 to 21 points and a net loss of 19 to 26 points before a late rally offered partial relief.
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New York
Liverpool
New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady After Morning Decline
The New Orleans cotton market opened with a slight drop of 10 to 14 points as Liverpool values weighed on sentiment. By midmorning prices recovered to 5 to 6 points down, aided by a favorable weather map and a bullish census report showing September consumption at 469,870 bales.
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Liverpool
Census Bureau
Ces
Shorts
BeeRey
Cotton futures open and close mixed in New Orleans
Cotton futures in New Orleans show opening quotes on October 13 for several contracts with declines of 22 to 24 points by close. Futures list include December 13.03 04 and March 13.34 bid with various hourly highs and lows, ending steady to lower.
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SRE
Akc Cde i Dee
Mch, m
Liverpool Cotton Market Sees Demand While Prices Ease
Spot cotton in fair demand with prices easing. Midding at 7.58, good middling 7.58, middling 7.46, low middling 4.58, ordinary 6.24. Sales 8000 bales, including 7200 American and 600 for speculation and export. Receipts 28,000 bales, including 15,700 American.
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Liverpool
Taft Objects to Lincoln Memorial Commission shakeup
Professor William Howard Taft, once president, expresses amusement at a Democrat suggestion to replace Republican members of the Lincoln Memorial Commission. He quips that Democrats took the presidency and vows to protest if his job is taken.
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Yale Law School
United States
Representative Bourland
Taft
Joe” Cannon
Lincoln Memorial Commission
Cotton consumption and stocks in September reported by census
The census bureau reports U S cotton consumption in September at 469 870 running bales, with 668 252 bales on hand in manufacturing establishments and 1 304 657 bales in independent warehouses. Imports totaled 7514 bales and exports reached 990 312 bales for September.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Egypt
Peru
China
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Commissioner rules spliced bands on cotton bale dangerous
Texas labor official says spliced bands create the most dangerous spider on cotton, backed by port workers and maritime inspectors. He warns compresses using the bands will be prosecuted, after department inquiries.
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Commissioner Starlin
Deliom
Tex
Commissioner of Labor
Texas
Cotton seed markets in Memphis pricing update
Memphis Tenn October 14 prime basis five ninety per hundredweight for seed meal four fifths price two seven dollars for meal and twenty seven sixty linters two percent market notes on cotton seed products with prices listed.
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Memphis
Tenn
Linters
Cotton seed market quotes and sales totals in New York
The report lists spot and future prices for cotton seed in New York with daily sales totals of about 14 400 units across October through May contracts. It also cites Frederick Townsend Martin praising charity after a Bowery mission visit and comparing humanity to an old fashioned beefsteak.
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Frederick Townsend Martin
Bowery Missions
Townsend Martin
Futures Close Steady In Liverpool Market
Futures closed steady in Liverpool with October 7.144 and near term spreads cited. The list shows several intermonth prices including Oct Nov 7.084 and Dec-Jan 6.954 with multiple roll figures such as March-April 6.954 and June-July 6.984, among others.
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Liverpool
Leading Spot Markets Reported Prices Across Cities
New York middling 18 50 cents New Orleans 13 percent Houston middling . Galveston 13 Liverpool 7 464 Memphis middling 14 percent.
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Tex
Amarillo
Atlanta
Augusta
Birmingham
Boston
New York
New Orleans
Houston
Galveston
Liverpool
Memphis
New Orleans Cotton Prices and Bales Report
New Orleans notes mixed cotton prices with middling around 18 to 18 1/2 cents per pound and different grades listed. The record shows totals of 64 861 bales with 12 888 bales for a subcategory and 62 maybe.
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New Orleans
Market notes show mixed cotton prices on Houston session
The Houston market report records varied cotton grades with 10% to 14% middling ranges and a steady debenture level. December and July futures quoted at around 10.73 with notes of steady prices for futures.
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Houston
Cotton Prices Steady in New York Market
Spot cotton closed quiet with middling upland at 13.50 cents and middling gulf at 18.75 cents. Sales totaled 489 bales as of the day’s market report.
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New York
Spot cotton steady in Memphis market
Memphis reports spot cotton remains steady at middling 13 3/4 cents as of October 14, with unchanged tones. Coffee gains noted in New York with Rio futures at 11 3/4 cents.
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Memphis
Tenn
New York
Rio
Jane Johnson the Oldest Woman in the Hills
A census tale recounts a self nasal retort where a woman claims to be as old as the Hills while the clerk notes Jane Johnson as old as the Hills. Glasgow joins a campaign against flies with posters showing a fly threatening a baby and urging action to kill that fly now.
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Jane Johnson
Glasgow
Receipts Pressure Wheat at Canadian Ports Dampens Market
Wheat futures fell on weak cables and Winnipeg receipts as Liverpool shipments from the Black Sea grew. Chicago reports poor buying support and early declines, with North Dakota elevator loadings cited and futures closing lower. Prices for cash wheat ranged No. 2 red 92 to 93 cents and No. 2 hard 85 to 86 cents.
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Winnipeg
Liverpool
Black Sea
North Dakota
Kansas
Wheat and grain quotes at Kansas City market report
Quotations to cash wheat and corn prices listed for No 2 hard and No 2 red wheat. Corn No 2 mixed and No 2 white prices shown along with oats No 2 white and No 2 mixed. December Clore price and December corn futures also recorded.
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Kansas City
Grain quotations from St. Louis market report
Quotations list cash and nearby prices for wheat corn and oats in St. Louis. Wheat No 2 hard 6 percent, oats No 2 white 41 to 42 cents, corn No 2 yellow 1 to 8 cents. Futures close shown for December Wheat 87 to 91 1/4 cents, December Corn 68 cents, May oats 43 cents.
Real Estate Transfers Involving Banks and Developers
State Bank and Trust Co transfers include KE Hillie lots 2 8 and 4 block cs for 5280. FE B Hillie to Hot Wells Development Co lots 2 3 and 4 block 1 for 3000. Mrs Mary Kinney to Vories P Brown lot 7 block 84 new city block 1856 Laurel Heights for 1500. E B Warden and wife to Ma S Izard tract starting at 5 corner lot 1 block 10 new city block 847 Erie avenue for 3500. Frank E Abbott and wife to J EB Dawgon part of lot 17 block 2 new city block 937 for 2100.
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State Bank and Trust Co
New City Block
Erie Avenue
Frank E. Abbott
J. EB. Dawgon
Automobile Licenses List Includes Several Brands
A catalog of automobile licenses shows entries for Chalmers in Detroit held by E. Guerin of 408 Water Street and Indian motorcycle registered to J B Littlepage of 811 Erie Avenue. Other lines list Ford licenses for A L Haag at Schertz Station Juan D Sandoe of 528 East Park Avenue Hudson issued to J E Beisaner of Menger Hotel and Ford licenses for W F Emery Jr 2719 and H C Balsley 416 Car.
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W. F. Emery Jr
H. C. Balsley
Building Permits for River Ave Mentioned by Mrs. Persch
Mrs. Persch notes additional building permits on River Avenue as part of ongoing municipal approvals.
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Persch
River Ave
Marine Intelligence Galveston October Report Brief
In Galveston and port areas a Marine Intelligence note lists steamers El Oriente and Aspremon Senemi Plaza New York, with Italian reference and port movements to Tampa. Jailed: crew member Harry T. Nor. Port Barrios mentioned.
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el Oriente Es Carer
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Port Tampa
Aspremon Senemi Plaza
New York
Cato
Harry T. Nor
Port Barrios
Mount Athos hosts seven thousand monks in Greece
Mount Athos in Southern Greece is home to about seven thousand monks living in a large monastic community renowned for its spiritual heritage and centuries old religious traditions.
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Greece
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