Trade Request For Small Cottage South Of Ruiz
A brief classified notice indicates a trade or exchange proposal for a 50 foot lot cleared for a small cottage south of Ruiz Street, with a small assumed amount. Contact Central Office Bids. Light Want Ads promotes itself as the direct channel to reach readers in San Antonio and Southwest Texas.
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Highland Park
W. P. Phillips
Bedell
Price
Travis
Progressive
San Patricio County
Arkansas Farm
C. McLeod & Co
State Bank
Panola
Shelby
Texas
Lubbock
Tex
Ruiz @t
Cail Ziv Central Office
San Antonio
Cotton Soars as Gulf Hurricane Fear Sparks Rally
Cotton prices rise sharply amid fear of a Gulf of Mexico hurricane threatening production. Traders monitor weather forecasts as demand remains steady and markets react to potential disruptions.
Cotton market soars as storms threaten belt trading gains
The Cot ton Exchange reports a sharp rise in December prices led by New Orleans and New York futures. Traders cite storm fears along the Louisiana Texas coast and growing demand from spot buyers and Liverpool as factors in the surge. San Antonio spot prices rise to 16.75 with strong bid activity across markets.
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Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Advancine
Louisiana
Texas
Liverpool
Dallas
New York
Wall Street
Commission Houses
San Antonio
New York Cotton Advances Amid Storm Fears and Demand
The New York cotton market opens firm, scaling fresh highs as buyers return amid tropical storm worries and Liverpool firmness. December reaches around 18 cents with January and March near 18.05 to 18.04, while realizing remains heavy but demand from spot houses and Wall Street supports a later rally.
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New York
Gulf Coast
Liverpool
Cotton futures open steady with varied October to July prices
New York on October 17 reports cotton futures opening steady with October at 17.70 December 17.78 January 17.60 March 17.93 May 18.06 and July 18.06. Futures closed steady.
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New York
New Orleans Cotton Rises on Weather and Storm Fears
Unfavorable weather across the belt and anxiety over a tropical storm push cotton prices higher in early trading. May touches 17 cents, highest since Sally year, with intraday gains expanding to 21 to 25 points and a 31 point spot surge. March moves above 18 cents toward 16.07, with other months up about 44 cents from yesterday's close.
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New Orleans
Weather Forecast for San Antonio and East Texas
The Weather Bureau report from October 17, 1916 notes unsettled conditions for San Antonio and vicinity with rain tonight and occasional rain Wednesday. East Texas faces rain tonight, colder conditions in the northern portion, and unsettled weather through Wednesday.
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San Antonio
East
Texas
Vigorous Campaign Against Bad Eggs
The state pure food department, led by Commissioner Robert H. Hoffman Jr., reports rapid strides in an aggressive drive against bad eggs. Thousands have been condemned or confiscated, and a San Antonio produce alert case set a legal precedent with a conviction for possessing and selling bad eggs. Dealers argued eggs came from farmers, but Hoffman maintained the seller bears responsibility for eggs in possession.
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State Pure Food Department
Robert H. Hoffman Jr
Hoffman
Produce Alerty
San Antonio
Eea
Shippers' Market Prices for Texas Produce in San Antonio
Tuesday buyers paid steady to firm rates for country produce. Epes prices held steady with Texas country candied at 294 30c, Butter steady at Texas creamery 309 34¢ per pound. Poultry remained firm with hens at 66 009 per dozen, turkeys 18 1e per pound, ducks 4.80 5.60 per dozen, geese 6.00 38.00.
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San Antonio
Texas
Texas Creamery
Javrgeriers
Bdrollere
Market Quotes and Receipts in Chicago Trade
Chicago on October 17 reports unchanged quotes to Gay with receipts of 6257 cases. Potatoes move higher with 40 car receipts from Minnesota Dakota and Ohio whites at 1.25 to 1.36, Michigan Wisconsin whites 1.20 to 1.35. Live poultry prices fall with fowls at 16 1/2 cents and springs at 16 1/2 cents.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Dakota
Price Averages Steady Across Butter Eggs and Pegs
Kansas City report notes butter eggs and pegs unchanged with potatoes firm. Northern and western rural prices listed at 1.30, reflecting steady commodity markets.
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Kansas City
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Receipts Report
Liverpool, Oct. 17. Cotton market shows good middling at 10.61 cents, middling 10.47, low middling 10.00. Receipts total 8000 bales, with 6000 from current season. no speculation noted.
Liverpool Demand Drives Grain Market Higher Amid Poor Crop News
Chicago dispatches report broadening demand at Liverpool and falling submarine fears lifting grains. Argentine drought and talk of lower British grain rates buoy wheat and corn, with December and May futures around 1.38 to 1.58, then a nervous close up 1 to 1.5 cents. Oats and provisions also rise as buyers return.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Argentina
Market Quotation Report From Chicago Oct 17
Chicago market notes show wheat at around 1.59 to 1.60 a bushel with No 2 rye near 1.62 to 1.63. Barley trades quoted 73 cents to 1.14, with yellow varieties and standard grades indicated in the late session.
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Chicago
Man
Market quotes from St Louis grain prices October 47
In St Louis quotations wheat rose with No 2 hard at 1.621 to 1.68, corn fell with No 9 8% to 4c, No 2 white 8c, oats No 2 46% to 49c, No 2 white around 4f0c, rye steady at 1.26 for No 2.
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ST. Louis
A&k
Kansas City
Wwe Hiner
Futures steady in Liverpool trading October to September
Futures were steady in Liverpool with closing prices across the forward curve. Leading rates included October 10.8 and various spreads such as November-December 10.3844 and January-February 10.3944, reflecting a stable forward structure through the year.
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Liverpool
Eptember
Cotton market notes and local packing house quotes
Mills in Rock Hill report good middling cotton prices with little sales. Seed sold at 90 cents. Packing house quotes for dealers include dry salt extras at 16 percent, bacon extras 18, dry salt bellies 14 to 16 pounds at 18, fancy breakfast bacon and hams 22 cents, bacon bellies 20, pure lard 17, compound 13.
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Rock Hill
8. C
Grain futures close with mixed gains in Kansas City
Kansas City grain market reports wheat and corn prices rising slightly and oats holding steady. Wheat for December 1.57 and May 1.59, corn for December 0.75 and May 0.47, with rye at 1.19 and various feed oats near 0.44.
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Kansas City
Cotton and linseed futures quotes from New Orleans and Duluth
New Orleans reports cotton prices steady with October 17 and December 17.48 for January 17.71 and May 18.02. Duluth notes linseed trading at October 24.7?%, November 24.5?%, December 24.0?%, and May 24.5?% as asked.
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Duluth
Wanted workers and rentals fill city listings
Classified warnings and help wanted notes list rough carpenters, a young woman as cashier, a boy with a wheel, room rentals on Commerce Street, candy factory positions, and a painter. Includes box reference, company names, and a wage offer, reflecting a bustling job and housing market.
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Travis
Eee
A. Light
Herff & Wilding
Ave. C
Lae
E. Commerce St
Liverpool Opens Wednesday With Lead Up To Eleven
A fragmented dispatch notes Liverpool schedule details and a late 11 o clock call plus scattered market quotes, including cotton seed oil and turpentine prices from Savannah and New York. The item mentions detachable tandem seats for motorcycles designed to lessen shocks with springs and a back rest.
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Liverpool
Live Stock Market Continues Steady At Union Stock Yards
Union Stock Yards reports a steady market with demand good yet less active than yesterday. Prices held, no big shifts expected. receipts totaled 438 cattle, 164 calves, 296 hogs, 192 horses with 438 cattle, 164 calves, 138 hogs listed for the market.
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Union Stock Yards
Cattle and Hog Market Report From Fort Worth
Fort Worth market report shows cattle receipts at 6000 with steady price ranges including steers 6.00 to 9.50, stockers 6.00 to 6.70, heifers 5.50 to 8.50, cows 3.25 to 6.26, bulls 4.00 to 5.00. Hogs receipts 2000 with bulk 9.45 to 9.65 and top 9.70. Sheep and goats receipts 400 with lambs 9.00 to 9.50, yearlings 6.70 to 8.70, ewes 6.50 to 7.00, goats 4.50 to 5.50.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Market results from Kansas City hogs cattle and sheep sales
Receipts and quotations show hogs at around 9.30 to 9.75 for bulk and heavy categories with bids near 9.40 to 9.75. Cattle receipts total 23,000 with steers selling 9.50 to 11.00 for prime time fed, dressed beef 7.00 to 9.25, southern cattle 5.50 to 7.50, cows 4.50 to 7.25, heifers 6.00 to 8.50, and feeders 5.00 to 8.15. Sheep receipts 15,000 with market steady. lambs and yearlings 7.50 to 10.30, wethers 7.00 to 8.00, ewes 6.75 to 7.36, stockers 5.25 to 9.45.
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Kansas City
Cattle and sheep prices weaken and rise at St Louis market
In St Louis on an autumn market day receipts reached 8000 cattle and 8000 sheep with prices mixed. Cattle native beef steers ranged 7.50 to 11.00, yearling steers and heifers 8.50 to 10.78, cows 6.50 to 7.50, stockers 5.30 to 7.50, Texas quarantine 5.50 to 8.00, prime southern 8.00 to 9.00, calves 6.00 to 11.00. Sheep lambs brought 7.00 to 10.50, ewes 5.00 to 7.25, bleating ewes 8.50 to 9.50, yearlings 5.00 to 8.75. Market was steady to lower for cattle and strong for sheep.
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Texas
Chicago market notes on cattle hogs and sheep prices
Chicago Oct 17 receipts: hogs 22 000 strong bulk 9 35 10.00. hand 9 00 9.90. mixed 9.10 10.00. heavy 9.00 9.90. rough 9.00 9.20. pigs 6 50. Cattle 10 000 weak native beef 6 50 11 40. western steers 6 10 9 26. stockers feeders 4 50 7 65. cows heifers 3 40 9 20. calves 7 60 11 50. Sheep 24 000 market weak wethers 6 75 8. lambs 8 00 10 40.
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Chicago
B.u
Daily cattle sales report from Oklahoma City stockyards
Receipts today: cattle 1400, steady and active. price ranges to 10 cents higher. Sheep 2500, steady. Notable consignors include Pruitt of Comanche Oklahoma with steers around 2.60 to 5.90. Gafigas of Tucumca and Foster of Cuervo New Mexico with calves around 6.26.
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Okla
Rae
Price
Pruitt
Comanche
Tucumca
Foster, Cuervo
N. M
Cattle in Fine Shape Ahead of San Angelo Fair
Sam H. Hill of San Angelo reports cattle in fine shape and ample feed for winter. He notes the San Angelo fair opens October 20 and runs to November 1, with expectations to surpass prior fairs. Accompanied by Seth W. Tuley of the U S Post Office Department, Tuley formerly Texas resident, now with Washington office.
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Tex
Sam H. Hill
San Angelo
Hill
Aspen
Avatin
Seth W. Tuley
Post Office Department
Washington, Dp. Co
Tuley
Texas
Washington
Southern Pine Association reports weekly mills data
New business booked 96,810,460 feet shipped 77,389,260 feet and orders on hand 552,997,560 feet for southern yellow pine mills as of close of business Friday, per the association. In New York raw sugar prices hold steady with centrifugal 6.27 and refined at 7.25 while molasses sits at 5.39. Punch cartoon quote notes uncertain duration of the war with a Scotsman dialect reference.
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New Orleans
Southern Yellow Pine Mills Aa
Southern Pine Association
New York
Stocks Rally In Early Trading Amid Firm Market
US stocks surged with United States leading by 8000 shares at a higher price. Bethlehem Steel shipping shares munitions copper leather and motor stocks advanced while Industrial Alcohol International Paper Crucible Steel and Baldwin Locomotive softened. Afternoon breadth grew with United States Steel copper and war stocks posting gains though steel and other leaders yielded 1 to 2 points late. Irregular closing.
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United States
Bethlehem Steel
Industrial Alcohol
International Paper
Crucible Steel
Baldwin Locomotive
United States Steel and Allied
Steel
Money Markets New York October 17
Mercantile paper 3 percent. Sterling sixty day bills 4 7 1/2. Demandables 4 7 6 percent. Demand 6 8 4, cables 5 8 3 4. Guilders demand 40 1/2, cables 41. Mexican dollars 6 8 2 cents. Government bonds steady. Railroad bonds strong.
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New York
Mercantile Paper
Time loan rates steady in New York market
New York on October 17 reports steady time loans with sixty day loans at 3 3 percent, ninety days and six months at 4 3 percent. Call money firmer with light rate near 8 percent, low 2 percent, ruling 2 1 2 percent, last loan 8 percent. Closing bid 2 3/4 percent offered at 8 percent.
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New York
London Money Rates and Discount Figures
London reports bar silver at 329 and a half to 164 per ounce with money at 4 percent. Discount rates show short bills at 4 5 percent and three months at 6 4 5 percent.
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London
Metal markets report from New York and Chicago
METAL MARKETS NEW YORK OCT 17 Lead ranges 7.00 to 7.10 with spot East St. Louis delivery at 9 1 2 percent asked. Copper firm electrolytic first quarter 27.40 to 28.60. Iron steady No 1 northern 21 092 50 No 2 northern 20.50 to 21.00 No 1 southern 20.00 to 20.50 No 2 19.50 to 20.0 percent. Tin dull spot offered at 341.
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New York
East St. Louis
Northern
Southern
London Market Figures From Early Trade Day
London reports mixed commodity values with lead at 0 pounds sterling, Swelter steady at 63 pounds, spot copper at 123 pounds, futures at 119 pounds, electrolytic at 142 pounds, tin at 178 pounds, and futures at 7s.
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London
Will Discuss Cotton Act With Federal Officials
E J Watson president of the National Association of Commissioners of Agriculture says lack of cooperation between federal authorities and state officials in enforcing the Smith Lever cotton act will be discussed at an executive meeting in Washington on October 28. He notes conditions in several states and emphasizes the association is not antagonistic to the law.
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Watson Fage Commissioners’ Association
Columbia
D. C
E. J. Watson
National Association of Commissioners of Agriculture
Washington
Shadow Lawn
New Orleans Rice Market Report Oct 17 192X
Rough rice ease while clean rice holds steady. Receipts total 16 482 rough sacks and 5 621 clean pockets with 11 361 rough millers. Sales include 649 rough Honduras and 8 518 clean Honduras with Japan 670 and Blue Rose 1 991. Quotations list rough Honduras 2 50 to 4 00 per unit. Japan 2 65 to 3 40. Blue Rose 3 00 to 0 5c. Sold price per ton 28 to 30 dollars and Brand 17 to 20 dollars.
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Blue Rose
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Japan
C. Solish
Brand
Prosperity Evident in Texas Banks Records 1916
Prosperity evident in Texas as of September 12 1916 with 885 banks and trust companies reporting deposits totaling 117977504 dollars, up 20816829 from 1914. Loans and discounts stood at 84580886 dollars, overdrafts 546136, guaranty fund 1837010 down, other resources 13319448 up 8124383. Total resources 170780461 up 2578491 with surplus and profits 10826725 down 659764.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
State Department of Insurance and Banking
ICC Cancels Proposed Freight Rate Increase
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that proposed increases of about 5 cents per 100 pounds on cotton seed cake meal and hulls from southern Texas to Kansas City and Kansas end points were not justified and ordered the schedules cancelling the increases.
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Washington, D C
Texas
Kansas City
Kansas
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Prices Rise on Indigo and Silk Fabrics
New York reports announce price advances for American prints to six and a half cents a yard for indigos and six cents for blacks and reds. Cotton goods and yarns stay relatively firm as dress goods show activity and raw silk remains steady.
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New York
Weather Bulletin and Apology Bungle
Cottons region bulletin lists 24 hour weather for Moxston district with unsettled conditions and below normal temperatures. It notes rainfall of an inch or more at Mobile Greenwood Anite Clinton New Orleans Brenham Columbus San Antonio Cuero. The piece ends with a quoted quarrel over an editor's remark about a reformed drinker and a forced apology.
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Tex
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Mobile
Ala
Greenwood
Miss
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Clinton
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Brenham
Columbus
Cuero
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Weather Bureau
Men’s Shoes Prices Soar Beyond Previous Bounds
Reports from shop windows show men’s shoes priced at 8 to 10 dollars for quality pairs, up from 5 to 7 dollars last year, with cheaper styles rising to 6 dollars. Women’s shoes also up, with novelties reaching 18 dollars as leather shortages and heavy demand strain supply. European armies and auto factories consuming vast leather drive scarcity. only large manufacturers keep supplies at high costs.
Cotton prices ease as market shows scant offers
In Charlotte on October 17 spot cotton traded around 17.5 cents with only 11 bales offered. Compared to last year 5% bales moved at about 12 cents. Seed priced at 85 to 90 per unit with little seed offered.
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Charlotte
N. C
Reorganization Plans For Missouri Pacific Railroads
B F Bush receiver and road attorneys presented to the Missouri Public Service Commission the refinancing plan for the Missouri Pacific and St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern systems. Most interests supported the plan except bondholders in Germany up to 3 million dollars. One system will emerge from the two lines totaling 7030 miles of track.
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Germany
Weather observations for October 17, 1916
U S department notices daily observations taken at 8 am on Tuesday October 17 1916. Wind speeds under 10 mph and precipitation under .01 inch are not published here.
Similar Taste Leads French Bride to Quick Marriage
A French woman wed soon after noting that her husband and she shared similar tastes and indifference. She stated she does not care much for him and he does not care much for her, yet they chose to marry based on their likeness rather than affection.
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