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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
19
Packers push canned tomatoes to 95c and 1 per dozen with centers reporting firm prices and a predicted rise. Onion prices rise 26c per hundred as local jobbers quote 2.25 per hundred. supply is limited and market remains tight across oranges lemons eggs cabbage celery and potatoes with mixed forecasts for holiday demand.
Butter steady at 80c per pound creamery, 18 to 20c country butter. Eggs steady with fresh country candled 18c to 19c, storage 22c. Cheese firm with varieties from 12% to 24c. Poultry steady with large hens frozen at $6, medium hens per dozen $4.60 to $5.00, springs $3.50 to $3.00, small $2.40 to $2.75, guineas $3.26 to $3.60, ducks $6 to $7 per dozen, squabs $1.25, turkeys 14 to 15c per pound.
Association quotes show dairy and poultry items with varied prices. Creameries and eggs hold steady. cheddar and cheese items listed with several denominations. Potatoes and live poultry prices range modestly, with veal weights noted at specific cents per pound. Major items include Daisies twins and Young Americas cheese brands and various turkey and chick prices.
Quotations today from the Associated Press in Kansas City show butter values at 28 cents for creamery firsts, 26 cents for firsts, 24 for extras, and 22 1/2 cents for seconds. Packing stock is 19 1/2 cents with goods at 24 cents and 22 1/2 cents for seconds.
New, Oct 20. Eggs irregular in receipts and prices. Reports show 10,515 cases received, with non Aree ST. LOUIS market conditions listed at 412 percent. Spelter figures incomplete.
Oct 20 at Union Stock Yards shows light business with half a dozen cattle 23 hogs and two horses on consignments. No fancy stock and prices unchanged from yesterday with cows at 3.50 and bulk around 3. Calves three head reached 4 while hogs held steady at 6.50.
W H Myers of Clay County sold 1085 pound Hereford feeders for 5.50 at the Fort Worth market. Exposition style fat stock brought 5.55 to 5.70. W T Way heads to Pearsall to manage loading carloads for northern markets. E O Lachausen of Haymond notes rains boosting pasture and grain prospects. expects Haymond to ship fancy stock within two weeks.
New York reports close primes for mercantile paper at 4 percent with sterling exchange firm and bank bills at 4.83 25 for 60 days and 4.86 80 for Commercial bills. Bar silver at 54 cents and Mexican dollars at 45 cents. Government and railroad bonds steady. money on call steady at 2 percent with time loans at 3 percent for 60 days and 3 1/4 percent for 90 days and six months. The piece ends with a London Chronicle anecdote on Highland etiquette at Castle Grant and a carousing party Pablo.
A Shakespearean enthusiast reports totals for the plays: 106,007 lines and 814,780 words overall. Hamlet is the longest with 3,980 lines and 11,610 words spoken. Comedy of Errors is the shortest with 1,777 lines. The cast includes 1,277 characters, 157 female. Costard in Love's Labour Lost delivers the longest single word line.
A humorous exchange features a salesman touting spring mattresses to Mrs. Youngbride who asks for winter options, highlighting seasonal product pitches and buyer questions.
Fort Worth dispatch notes hogs down a nickel per hundred pounds across centers. Cattle, stockers, feeders steady with modest gains. cattle top $6.60 and typical $4 to $6. Hogs top at $6.70. most contracts $6.26 to $6.65 with 1 759 head received. Sheep steady with 500 offered.
Cattle receipts about 25 000 market weak. Reeves 4 75 8 75 Texas steers 4 10 6 10 western steers 4 25 5 26 stockers and feeders 3 25 5 80 one heifers 2 00 6 16 calves 9 00. Hogs receipts about 23 000 market slow 5 to 10 cents lower. Light 5 95 6 62 5 66 mixed 6 00 6 66 heavy 6 00 6 65 rough 6 00 6 20 good to choice heavy 6 20 6 66 pigs 3 76 6 00 bulk of sales 6 30 6 60. Sheep receipts about 10 000 market strong to ten cents higher. Native 2 25 3 75 western 2 40 3 85 yearlings 3 60 3 75 native lambs 3 70 6 00 western 3 75 6 15.
Associated Press reports cattle receipts 2000 with steady to weak market. Native and southern steers and cows show varied bids. stockers, feeders, bulls and calves priced between 2.75 and 7.50. Flags trade down 5 to 10 cents. bulk and packers quotes listed. Sheep receipts 3000 with steady demand, muttons and lambs priced 3.00 to 4.80, range wethers and yearlings 3.25 to 4.50.
Cattle receipts 2500 with steady market and various feed, steer, and calf prices listed. Hogs receipts 10,000 with steady to five cent lower trend and price ranges for pigs, packers, and heavy hogs. Sheep receipts 3000 with steady market and mutton and lamb price brackets.
Cattle sales at Fort Worth dated October 20 show three year olds from Boyd and Taylor of Honey Grove averaging 888 pounds at 4.15. Murphy and Kay of Refugio report cows at 3.35 per hundredweight and 725 pounds averaging 2.26. Chapman and Wilbur of Benbrook offer 46 cows at 3.30.
New York says cotton goods stay in a hand to mouth pattern awaiting further raw material adjustment. Yarns stay easy and ambroseriae on selling steady. In men's wear the dup orders for the day exceed expectations for the season.
Trading began with heavy activity in U S Steel and Union Pacific as 50 000 shares changed hands and prices moved from 60 to 69 5 percent. Union Pacific initially rose then slipped below yesterday’s close as other steel related stocks under pressure.
The Associated Press reports New York cotton rose 12 to 17 points at the close, with New Orleans and Liverpool showing smaller gains amid forecasts of frost risk in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Early declines gave way to a firm finish as traders covered and bought for a week end reaction. Spot middling uplands held at 9.35.
President Peter Radford of the Texas Farmers Union will join a conference called by Governor Colquitt at New Orleans on October 30. Texas farmers, governors, and business leaders will seek a plan to secure better cotton prices for the South. Local cotton men warn the situation grows desperate as this year’s crop value may fall short of last year despite 1910’s undersized yield.
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened unchanged to one point down as frost fears faded. Traders dumped contracts after no frost was reported, then renewed buying pushed active months 6 to 10 points higher before noon. By afternoon, steady trading saw prices 8 to 10 points above yesterday’s close.
New Orleans reports steady opening for cotton futures on October 9 with bids at October 9.29 31, November 9.15 9.17, December 9.12, January 9.14, March 9.26 327, May 9.41, and July 9.48 bid.
Liverpool market closes with cotton prices up three points as demand holds steady. American middling fair 5.71, good middling 6.48, middling 5.29. sales 10 000 bales with 1500 speculative and export including 400 American. receipts 5000 bales, 3800 American. futures opened and closed steady with various forward prices listed for months through September.
Cotton seed items listed with prices as of Oct 20 in Memphis. Prime basis oil at 4.47 cents per pound. Meal priced at 24.25 to 24.50 dollars per hundred pounds. Linters 2 3/4 to 3 cents per pound.
Market reports show mixed cottonseed oil quotes with prices listed for various contracts. Highlights include prices for Oct Nov Dec Jan delivery, aiding traders assessing near term supply and futures positioning.
The report lists stock totals for yesterday 724,856 and comparisons to last week 685,913 and last year 609,178. It notes excess this season at 145,178.
The report lists export figures to Great Britain 13.4 with 440, to France 62,155, to the continent 111,002, and to Mexico and Japan 2 334, reflecting regional trade volumes and changes in export patterns.
Leading spot markets indicate steady prices in Liverpool New Orleans Houston and Galveston with volumes noted. Midday sales data shows modest activity and steady bid levels across OW and Gun trade references.
New Orleans spot cotton shows a 1 16 cent gain to steady prices. Sales on the spot reach 6.00 for delivery 3400 and receipts total 6390 with stock at 87,793 while various grades range from low ordinary to good middling with mixed quotes.
In Houston Texas on October 20 the spot cotton market remained steady with middling grade values at 90. Prices showed no movement from the previous session as buyers and sellers held to unchanged quotes and nearby demand.
MEMPHIS Menn Oct 20 Spot cotton is steady with middling grade quoted at 9 18 16 cents.
ST LOUIS October 20 The market reports weakness in wool with mixed price signals across fabric weights. Medium weight combings and clothing yarns edge lower while tub washed varieties hold at softer levels. Details note fine and heavy weights showing varying adjustments.
New York market reports spot cotton closing hull 10 points down. Middling inland 9.46 cents and middling gulf 9.79 cents. No sales were recorded.
Associated Press notes quiet hides and steady petroleum and molasses with rice firm and raw sugar near nominal levels. Muscovado 6.30 c, oe sugar 56.05 5.12 cents, refined steady.
The spice market in New Orleans showed little change with receipts of Rough 7293 and clean 1311, alongside millers 2000. Sales included Rough Honduras 3856 at 2.50, clean Honduras 6482 at 25 percent, and Japan 1166 at 3.5 cents per pound, with various notations on prices and percentages.
Prices in St Louis on October 20 show quiet market for poultry with chickens at 9 10 cents, springs 10 cents, turkeys 14 16 cents, ducks 12 cents, geese 8 cents. Butter steady, creamery 23 30 cents, eggs higher at 20 22 cents.
Snow and rain in the Northwest slow threshing and leave wheat in the fields, while the market for futures and cash slips shows a fresh price uptick. December oats and corn move with limited selling. provisions hold steady as hog, pork, and lard prices edge up.
Chicago grain movement summarizes today’s receipts and shipments with figures for Flour, Wheat, Corn, Oats, Rye and Barley in barrels and bushels. The data shows totals of 22 200 barrels of flour and 97 200 bushels of wheat received and 587 600 bushels of corn shipped, with other grain movements listed.
Chicago reports today may show 60 car receipts with mixed grades for wheat. Corn receipts total 199 cars with various grades, oats 134 cars. Total wheat receipts at Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth compare with 600 cars yesterday and 461 cars a year ago.
Cash grain prices listed by the Associated Press show No. 2 red wheat at 1014 and No. 2 hard at 1.05 with other grades around 1.15 to 1.17. The text also notes No. 2 white and No. 3 white prices and includes miscellaneous nonstandard figures and garbled segments.
Wheat gains with Dec at 1.01 and May 1.06, corn up with Dec at 65 cents and May 66 1/2, oats steady to higher with Dec 48 1/2 and May 50. Prices shown for No. 2 track and No. 2 white in various classifications.
New York coffee futures closed steady with slight gains from 28 to 44 points. Spot prices remain steady with Rio No 7 and Cordova listed. market notes include a telegraphic report and a reference to mild firmness in Cordova. A separate item mentions Rodgers passing Georgetown Texas at 1:26 heading toward Austin with about six thousand people observed in the passage.
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