Stocks Close Firm After Entire List Moves Higher
New York stock market closed strong as virtually all leading issues rose with short sellers covering amid renewed demand from bears and long accounts. Union Pacific Southern Pacific Canadian Pacific Amalgamated Can rose 1 point while Colorado Southern fell. Can issues retreated amid a broad advance.
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Metals Prices Edge Higher in Quiet New York Session
New York metals trade shows a dull, near nominal session on October 18. Copper firm with quotes for Lake at 16.78 to 17.00, electrolytic 16.78 to 16.87, casting 16.37 to 16.45. iron prices unchanged.
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Lake
Market Report Highlights Decline and Demand Shifts
Lead price at St. Louis listed around 4.20 with Spelter near 5.15 to 5.17 percent. New Orleans rice demand shows lean Honduras and Japan, with rough and clean Honduras and Japan quotations. Receipts include rough Honduran and Japan holdings, with sacks and pockets of rice noted and varied price ranges across grades.
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New Orleans
Japan
Honduras
Money on call and time loan rates quoted
The report lists money on call at nominal to no loan. Time loans show 60 days at 4 percent, 60 days at 5 percent, 90 days at 5 1/2 percent, and 6 months at 4 1/2 percent to 5 1/2 percent.
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New York
Cattle Trade Totals Across Cities in Brief Sketch
Fragmentary OCR listing mentions Kansas City St Louis and Oklahoma City cattle figures with amounts like 1,000 200 800 600 8,000 200 12 and 3,000. Insufficient readable context prevents a full event or headline.
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Chicago
Cattle Market Mixed. Receipts Up in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Texas reports cattle receipts 800 with calves 200 and a nominally steady market. Beef prices span Reeves 5.50 to 6.00, stocker steers 4.75 to 5.00, butcher cows 5.75 to 8.60, heifers 5.00 to 6.00, bulls 4.16 to 5.26, calves 8.50 to 7.00. Hog prices around 8.00 to 8.30 range. sheep receipts 380 with ewes and wethers at 4.00, wethers 5.25, and breeders 2.25.
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Chicago Market Reports Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Chicago markets show hog receipts around 12 000 with slow sales and mixed, light, heavy lots trading between 7.70 and 8.70. Cattle receipts near 800 with steady demand and varied classes from calves at 7.00 to 11.00 and cows up to 8.30. Sheep receipts about 4 000 with native and yearlings trading from 3.90 to 6.00.
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Texas
Cattle and hog market report from St Louis auction
Cattle receipts reach 8000 with 300 Texans, steady prices for native beef steers and cows. Hogs 3000 down with pigs and sows around 6 to 5.85, good heavy near 3.80. Sheep 500 steady with native muttons 3.75 to 4.60 and lambs 5.50 to 7.00.
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Texas
Hogs Cattle and Sheep Receipts and Prices in Kansas City
Kansas City market reports show hog receipts 500 with bulk sales 8.00 to 8.80 per cwt, heavy pigs 8.10 to 8.80, cattle receipts 600 with prime fed steers 8.76 to 9.25, dressed beef 7.75 to 8.75, cows 4.25 to 7.00, heifers 5.00 to 9.00, sheep receipts 2500 with lambs 6.00 to 6.75, yearlings 5.00 to 6.50, wethers 4.25 to 4.75, ewes 3.60 to 4.25.
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Kansas City
Temperature drops cool wholesale produce trade
The cool weather reduced demand in fruit divisions while grocers and meat packers reported varied activity. Coffee and green coffee prices rose with roasted coffee expected to rise. pink beans gained 10 cents per hundredweight. Rain slowed hay movement as feed prices stayed firm and rising.
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California
Wholesale Market Prices for Eggs Fruits and Staples
A dense list of wholesale prices across eggs poultry butter cheese vegetables and fruits by region including Texas California Colorado and Mexico. Notable items include eggs 80 per dozen. hens 4.00 per dozen. turkeys 18 114c per pound. butter 83c per pound. potatoes 1.85 per hundredweight Texas white. tomatoes 11 per 4 basket crate California 1.40 per 4 basket crate. oranges 4.60 per box. lemons 7.00 per box. apples Colorado Jonathans 1.75. sugar 6.10 per hundredweight. rice 3.75 per hundredweight. flour 4.90 per carrel.
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California and Alaska Food Prices in Historic Market List
A detailed price list shows Alaska fish and fruits with items like Alaska pink at 90c and Alaska red at 96c, with Columbia River and American keys priced around $2.40–$3.50. California canned goods cover fruits, vegetables, dried fruits, and nuts with per dozen apples $1.00 and prunes by size, while dates, hides, wool, beeswax, and tallow are listed among animal products and by weight.
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Chicago Market Report Butter and Poultry Prices
Chicago market update shows butter steady with receipts of 4512 cases. Potatoes higher with 65 car lots for Midwestern states. Live poultry prices rise with 13440 springs and fowls at 13 1/2 cents.
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Minnesota
Ohlo
Poultry Prices Quoted in St Louis Markets
Quotations today show Chickens at 11 is 9 c? Actually 11%c, springs 120, turkeys 18c, ducks 12 40c, geese 10c, city greenvern 29%0 ic.
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Kansas City Market Quotations for Butter Eggs and Poultry
Market quotes from Kansas City dated Oct 18 show butter at 29 cents for creamery firsts and 26 to 21 for others, eggs at 26 and 19 cents for firsts and seconds, and poultry prices with hens at 12 cents and roosters at 9 to 10 cents plus Deaton price listed.
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Kansas City
Sugar and coffee prices steady in New York markets
New York report shows raw Muscovado at 2.98, centrifugal sugar 2.73, refined steady. Coffee No 7 Rio remains steady with December at 10.84 and July contracts noted.
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Cotton seed products and oil market notes
Memphis reports prime basis oil at 5.87 with machine 27.00 and linters at 3 percent. New York markets close quiet with October spot at 6.34 and December at 6.00. February through March futures ranged up to 7.27 with bundled sales around 6.80 to 7.18, including several lots traded across October to December.
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New York
Cleopatra Needle Height and Weight Details Quoted
New York reports leather prices steady as Cleopatra's Needle stands at sixty eight feet tall and weighs 140 tons. The Luxor monument in Paris is described as a single stone seventy six feet high weighing 240 tons.
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Wheat Ends Decline as Market Rebounds on Short Covering
In Chicago on October 18 wheat halted a long slide of 11 cents a bushel as short covering and bullish Wall Street tips sparked buying. Corn and oats rose early but weakened by close while millers increased purchases and provisions steadied on the cereal rally. Wheat closed mixed, near steady to slightly up from yesterday.
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Ills
Wall Street
Commodity Futures and Weather Notes In Cotton Belt
Provisions and fat cut prices listed with daily high low close figures. Lard and short ribs show percentage changes and monthly futures. Cotton region bulletin notes unsettled weather with above average rainfall in several Alabama towns including Melville Covington Tallapoosa Tuscumbia Dyersburg Aberdeen and Livingston. Allen Buell.
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Wheat and grain quotes from Chicago market report
Chicago market notes price quotations for cash wheat, corn and oats. Wheat prices include No 2 red 91 92c and No 3 hard 83% 84K%e. No 2 northern 84e. No 2 spring 86c. durum 83%e. Corn lists No 8 68% 69e, No 2 white 68% 69e, No 2 yellow 68% 69Xe. Oats show No 2 white 40c and standard 33% 29%o.
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Market Quotations From Kansas City Report
Quotations listed show grain prices in Kansas City on October 18. Wheat prices ranged No 2 hard 81 86 percents, No 2 red 87 80 cents. Corn No 2 mixed 71 %, No 3 white pall 6 cents. Oats No 2 white 38 percent, No 2 mixed. Wheat contracts for December 79% cents, May.
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Kansas City
Commodity price snapshot and receipts report
Market notes show cash wheat at No 2 red 87 to 90 cents and No 2 hard 82 to 90 cents. Corn No 2 89 cents and No 2 white 70 cents. Oats No 2 59 cents and No 2 white 40 cents. December wheat 84 cents, May 84 cents. Receipts yesterday total 41 000 bushels of corn 46 000 oats 66 000. Shipments: flour 13 000 barrels, wheat 68 000 bushels, corn 16 000 bushels, oats 160 000 bushels.
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ST. Louis
Weather observations at 8 a.m. October 18, 1918
Readable fragment notes observations taken at 8 a.m. on Saturday October 18 1918. Possibly part of a weather or climate log listing conditions or measurements from a specific location.
Cotton Statistics Show Banks Hold Extra Reserve
New York October 15 the weekly statement on bank conditions reports clear in house banks and trust companies hold 12 671 850 in excess of legal reserve requirements an increase of 4 714 100 from the prior week.
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New York
Holiness People in Mountain Regions Alarm Local Officials
Gadsden reports warn that a religious sect called the Holiness People or Holy Rollers may be used to justify dangerous practices. Leaders in Eito wah and nearby counties stir followers with supposed miracles and snake handling while exorcising demons in pit ceremonies. Observers describe mass possession, trance like states, and exhausting frenzied activity with dozens affected per gathering. A court stenographer captured nonsensical utterances heard during one meeting.
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Cotton Futures Rally After Shorts Buy Cover
New York reports cotton fell on open due to weak foreign cables and frost fears but rallied as shorts covered. Nov and Dec futures held around 13.30 to 13.34 cents, with steady overall closings amid unsettled weather views and late market irregularities.
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Liverpool
New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady as Rain Boosts Buying
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened steady with small gains amid rain prospects in central and eastern belts and a cold western wave. Early activity saw a spike on bullish rumors from New York traders, followed by rapid profit taking. Prices drifted but late morning and afternoon sessions firmed to near highs for the day.
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New York
Cotton futures open steady in New Orleans market
Cotton futures opened steady in New Orleans with October at 18.44 cents bid and November at 18.30 cents asked. December traded 13.34 to 13.360, January 13.38 to 13.370, May 18.50 to 13.51, and July 18.56 to 13.54 as futures points moved.
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New Orleans
Liverpool cotton market shows price easing on limited demand
Cotton prices ease with limited demand as of Oct 18 to Oct 31. middling around 8.00 pence, low and ordinary grades near 6.3 to 6.7 pence. Sales reach 4,000 bales including 2,100 American and 300 for speculation. receipts around 24,000 bales.
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Market futures close with varied October to May dates
In Liverpool trading, futures closed with complex notes across October, October to November, and February contracts. Prices shown include 7.004 and 6.8444 for select months, with other terms and dates obscured in the OCR.
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Liverpool
Hope
Study of Leading Spot Markets Across Cities Shows Mixed Rates
New York and New Orleans report varied market tones with shifts in midseason prices. Houston and Galveston show middling figures while Liverpool and Memphis display modest gains and mixed performance across 6 to 18 date ranges.
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Galveston
Liverpool
Memphis
Market Report Shows Trading Terms and Stockpiles
The document lists grade terms and price bands for cotton including low ordinary to good middling and strict good middling. It notes receipts for 1973, with stock at 87,169 bales and sales on the spot, reflecting a steady market and nominal rates.
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Marachin
Market Figures and Shipments Reported for 1934
The fragment lists 1934 sales at 2218 bales and shipments of 18 230 with stock at 116 828. It presents a cryptic ledger style summary of market activity and inventory levels from the period.
New York Spots Market Report Dated Oct 1
New York spots market notes Middling uplands priced at 13.80 per hundredweight with related letters indicating futures or related price movements for the day. Market terms suggest typical regional commodity pricing context for the period.
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New York
Cotton Spots Hold Steady in Memphis Trading
Memphis notes October 18 report cotton spots steady with advances up to 13 1/2 cents on moderate demand as market shows firm tone amid limited activity.
Marine Intelligence Galveston Oct 18 Arrivals and Clearances
Galveston reports arrivals including Gay pees New York wilooms field Br tank xpam Ceara Fort Morgan Benie del Toro Dressing Se Dan New Orleans San Jacinto. clearances for Alston Havre El Norte New York Olive Br Man er. sailings include Wicelona tt he erpool Lodovica Wynne and others.
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Market Briefs From New York Trading Floor
New York reports October 18 shows close prime mercantile paper at 6 percent. Sterling exchange weak at 4 90 7644 81 for 60 days and 4 85 25 for demand. Commercial bills 4 99 80. Bar silver 61 tc. Mexican dollars 479. Government bonds and railroad bonds noted.
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