Wall Street closes strong after dull trading session
New York September 6 Wall street ends the day with gains of 1 to 4 points among specialties while standard railroad stocks inch higher on improved demand. New Haven slips to 90% after Morgan withdrawal then recovers. readings show mixed moves with industrials relatively stronger than railroads as buying broadens.
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New York
Wall Street
London
New Haven
J. P. Morgan & Co
Reading
Copper
Union Park
Steel
Health instruction urged in schools by Claxton visit
Denver reports quote Knoxville education commissioner P P Claxton on life based schooling for youths. He favors practical training over classical studies, supports rural schools, and argues health and eugenics topics belong in education, with mothers and schools sharing child upbringing duties.
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Denver
P. P. Claxton
Knoxville
Tenn
Claxton
University of Denver
Dr. Holmes
Abe
Onli
Births for Morotta Woodruff Coy Seerne Beltran
A city birth notice lists a boy for Morotta and John Morotta on August 29 at 906 West One Street. a boy for Roy C. Woodruff on September 3 at 1720 North New Braunfels Avenue. a girl for Alex Coy on September 6 at 1021 South Pecos Street. a girl for Ben Seerne on September 4 at 417 Live Oak Street. a girl for T Beltran on August 36 at 526 Arthur Street. Cincinnati may establish a municipal fresh air farm for poor and tired mothers and children.
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West One Street
Roy C. Woodruff
New Braunfels Avenue
Alex Coy
Pecos Street
Ben Seerne
Oak Street
T. Beltran
Arthur Street
Cincinnati
Fair a Success at National Conservation Exposition
Mrs Homer Van Derwenter presides the women's board with Mrs W W Woodruff and Mrs W B Shields aiding as Knoxville Tennessee hosts the National Conservation Exposition. It opens Monday and runs until November first featuring eleven large buildings and numerous smaller structures across 100 plus acres with lakes and drives.
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Homer van Derwenter
Woman's Board
W. W. Woodruff
Weather Bulletin Reports Unsettled Belt With Heavy Rain
The Cotton Region Bulletin notes unsettled weather in the belt with above normal temperatures. Rainfall of an inch or more observed at Charles ton, Alexandria, Raleigh, Monticello, Toc coa, Jacksonville, Savannah and Holly Springs.
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Charleston
Alexandria
Raleigh
Monticello
Toccoa
Jacksonville
Savannah
Holly Springs
Memphis market reports steady cotton prices
Memphis trading notes show spot cotton steady at middling 12 3 4 cents. Unchanged from prior levels with buyers and sellers awaiting next price cues.
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Memphis
Tenn
Hay Prices Rise as Short Crop Hits Texas Oklahoma
Short crops in Texas and Oklahoma push price hikes across hay and feeds. Grain jobbers and commission houses report scarce alfalfa and hay, rising seed costs, and higher corn futures as elevators fill with oats and wheat, while grocers seek strong business and stores hold steady breadlines. Egg and butter markets show mixed movement with creameries firm on price.
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Texas
Oklahoma
San Antonio
Markets Produce Prices for Retailers Today
Fresh eggs 20¢ per dozen, various poultry and meats with per pound or per hundredweight rates. Vegetables and fruits listed by type and origin, with crates and boxes prices. canned meats, fish, dried fruits, nuts, syrups, and sugars priced by case, weight, or unit. Laboring goods include hides, wool, bedwear, and candles.
Market Prices for Grains and Canned Vegetables
Prices listed include Rio roasted coffee 17 percent for freight to destination, Arbuckle's Rio roasted 16 percent, and Pea verry roasted at 21 percent. Flour and meal prices show MEAL in 85 pound sacks at 66 cents, pure bran 1.40 per 100 pounds, corn chops 1.70 per hundredweight, FLOUR Pioneer 5.00 per barrel, Lib erty Bell 6.00 per barrel, and various tonnages. Canned vegetables list No. 2 standard tomatoes 95 cents, No. 3 1.25, second tier corn fancy 1.00, Maine corn fancy 1.36.
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Texas
Best
California
Colorado
Valencia
Alaska
Choice Rio
Arbuckle’s
Peaverry
Flour Pioneer
Liberty Bell
Wal AY
Johnson Gross
Maine
Weather Observations at 8 A M September 6 1913
Observations recorded at 8 a m on Saturday September 6 1913. Data covers temperature, wind direction and speed, and barometric pressure as part of routine meteorological notes.
Market Report Rice Prices and Receipts in New Orleans
New Orleans on September 6 reports rough Honduras rice quiet and Japan prices nominal while Honduras clean rice shows activity. Quotes list rough Honduras at 2.40 to 3.30 and clean Honduras at 4% 51 16 cents. Receipts include rough 6985 and millers 806. Sales show rough Honduras 3573, Japan 119 at 3.00, clean Honduras 8484 at 1 1/4.
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New Orleans
Honduras
Japan
Steady Prices Rule In Live Stock Trade At Union Yard
Receipts were light at five stock centers with yards clearing by noon and prices holding steady. Best Chews sold to $5, calves ranged $5.50 to $6, hogs around $7.75, up from Monday. Rain in Texas and Oklahoma improved range conditions, reducing imminent cattle flow.
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UNION
Here
Oklahoma
Fort Worth Auction Receipts Tedious with Mixed Cattle
Fort Worth Texas on September six receipts Saturday light across divisions. About 500 cattle 800 calves 500 hogs and 600 sheep in supply. Calves were lower while hogs were generally a nickel higher and active with one load at 8.70 and choice hogs up to 8.80. Bulk sales ranged 8.40 to 8.50 and sheep remained fully steady.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Kansas City Livestock Market Prices and Receipts
Receipts today show hogs 800 head with a strong market. bulk 8.204 to 8.70, heavy 8.10 to 8.40, light 8.00 to 8.75, pigs 6.757 to 7.00. Cattle receipts 1000 with steady market. prime fed steers 8.50 to 9.00, dressed beef steers 7.60 to 8.50, southern steers 5.00 to 6.50, cows 3.50 to 6.50, heifers 3.50 to 8.75. Sheep receipts 1000 with steady market. lambs 6.75 to 7.60, yearlings 4.76 to 5.25, wethers 4.25 to 4.75, ewes 3.60 to 4.00.
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Kansas City
Chicago market report on hogs cattle and sheep
Receipts: hogs 9000 steady market with bulk sales 7.90 to 9.25, pigs 4.26 to 8.50. Cattle 500 steady with beeves 6.90 to 9.15, Texas steers 6.70 to 7.75, calves 8.75 to 12.00, cows and heifers 3.70 to 8.60. Sheep 4000 steady native wooled lambs 3.50 to 4.75, yearlings 5.00 to 6.76, native lambs 5.50 to 7.66.
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Chicago
Ill
Texas
Livestock Market Reports from St. Louis Fairly Steady
Receipts today include 1600 cattle with Texan share and 2500 hogs. Cattle prices ranged from 4.25 to 9.00 for native beef cattle and calves 5.00 to 6.00 in carload lots. Hogs advanced with pigs and lights 5.50 to 9.30 and good heavies 8.85 to 9.10. Sheep receipts 160 with native muttons 3.25 to 4.00 and lambs 5.50 to 7.00.
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ST. Louis
Texas
Sugar and commodities steady in New York market report
Raw sugar holds steady with Muscovado at 3.26 dollars, centrifugal 3.76, molasses 3.01, and refined steady. Hides firm. Bogota quoted at 30 to 31 cents, Central America 30 to 31 cents. Petroleum and molasses show steady prices.
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New York
Muscovado
Bogota
Central America
Coffee futures drift with little change in early trade
New York market notes quiet activity as Rio coffee bids hold around 9.0 cents for futures. December at about 8.92, March price unchanged as traders wait for clearer signals.
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New York
Rio
Metal markets hold steady in New York trading
New York metal markets opened quiet on Sept 6 with copper quoted firm at 16 1/2 to 17 cents, electrolytic at 16 1/2 and casting at 16 1/2 cents. Iron prices remained unchanged as trading paused with nominal activity.
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New York
Lake
Cotton unsettled by anti-future bill developments
New York market opened firm but soon drifted as news of a proposed futures tax unsettled traders. Active months slipped 21 to 27 points amid heavy liquidation, then rallied to end 8 points higher to 2 points down from yesterday’s close.
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New York
New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady Then Rises Amid Quick Fluctuations
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened 12 to 16 points higher on strong cables but soon turned nervous as Clarke bill debates spurred sporadic buying and heavy short selling. By mid session prices dipped 10 to 17 points from yesterday, then rebounded about 20 points on the most active months despite weather hints of rain in Texas and clouds over Oklahoma.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Clarke
Texas
Oklahoma
Cotton Futures Chart Steady On Opening
Futures opened steady with September at 12.58 cents bid October 12.70 December 12.78 January 12.82 March 12.90 May 12.93 cents asked. Cotton futures closed steady unchanged to 6 points higher than yesterday.
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New York
Fee
New Orleans
Liverpool Cotton Prices Sealed in Steady Market
Liverpool September 6. Cotton spot steady with limited demand. Middling fair traded at 7.95 pence, good middling 7.67, middling 7.35, low middling 7.13, good ordinary 6.53, ordinary 6.19 pence.
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Liverpool
Futures steady in Liverpool market with varied rates
Futures closed steady in Liverpool with September at 7.03 percent and successive months showing gradual declines from September-October at 6.89 percent to August-September at 6.64 percent. The list records precise month to month futures differentials.
Leading Spot Markets Report Across Cities
New York middling 12.75. New Orleans middling 12 percent. Houston middling 12 percent. Galveston middling 12 percent. Liverpool middling 7.35 percent. Memphis middling 12 percent.
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New York
New Orleans
Houston
Galveston
Liverpool
Memphis
Cotton spot quiet in New Orleans market
New Orleans on Sept 6 reports cotton spot quiet with middling at 12 3/4 cents and various other grades quoted or nominal. Sales on the spot recorded at 2 bales, with 450 bales to arrive. Receipts total 909 and stocks 20,845.
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New Orleans
Spot market closes steady with unchanged totals
Houston reports the spot market ending steady and unchanged. Sales reach 167 fob 90032 with shipments at 13,538 and stock listed at 44,610.
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Houston
Galveston Cotton Market Report Sees Minor Declines
Spot cotton closed quiet with fractional declines across grades. Prices ranged from low ordinary to good middling, with a total of 15,195 bales recouped and 98,880 bales in stock. no spot sales noted.
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Galveston
Tex
Cotton prices steady in New York market
Spot cotton in New York on September 6 remained quiet with Middling uplands at 12.75 cents and do gulf at 13.00 cents.
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New York
Clearing banks report excess reserves drop
The weekly statement for New York clearing house banks and trust companies shows a reserve of 4,681,350 dollars in excess of legal requirements, down 457,756 dollars from the previous week.
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New York
Market Buoyed As Dairy Prices Hold Steady
In New York on Sept 6 butter cheese and eggs remained unchanged with dairy prices steady, signaling stability in basic goods markets for the day.
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New York
Money on call and time loan rates set
New York reports money on call nominal with no loans available. Time loans fixed at 60 days four percent, 90 days four percent, and six months six percent.
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New York
Bitter eggs and poultry unchang
Kansas City produce market report from Kansas City Kansas noting no changes in egg and poultry prices as of September 6. Market tone reflects steady demand and stable early fall trading with no significant shifts in livestock or grain values observed.
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Kansas City
Pope appoints Bonzano as representative for second missionary congress
The Holy See names Most Rev. Dr. John Bonzano to represent the pontiff at the second missionary congress in Boston starting October 19. More than a hundred archbishops and bishops from the United States Canada Mexico and the West Indies are listed to attend with Cardinal Gibbons Farley and O Connell taking prominent roles.
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Apostolic Phone
Pope Pius X
Pan- Uift
Boston
United States
Canada
Mexico
West Indies
Gibbons, Farley and
O'Connell
Maritime Intelligence Galveston September Arrivals and Cleared Vessels
Galveston reports arrivals of steamers Pio IX San Juan Ikbal El Sol Fort Gaines Tuerto Cortez Herbert G Wrylle and others with routes via Havana New Orleans Baltimore New York and Bocas del Toro Cleared vessels include Drowning Olga Cayo Benito Bremen and El Norte bound for Cuban ports Haiti Tampico and New York El Oriente sails from New York to unspecified destination.
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Tex
Pio IX
San Juan
Havana
New Orleans
Ikbal
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el Sol
New York
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Bocas del Toro
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Olga
Cuban
Haiti
Cayo Bonito
Bremen
Tuerto Cortez
Herbert G. Wrylle
Tank
Tampico
el Norte
el Oriente
Cotton seed prices in Memphis on Sept 4
Prime basis of cotton seed meal ranges from 31.50 to 32.00 dollars per unit with linters priced at 84.50 to 84.60. The report from Memphis lists prime seed at 72.66 and confirms market figures for the day.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cotton seed oil market closes steady in New York
The cotton seed oil market in New York closed steady with spot bids around 8.00 dollars and September at 8.08 to 8.10. Sales totaled 7500 across varying months from October through December and into next year, with prices ranging from about 7.03 to 8.20 dollars and multiple large lots traded.
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New York
First Eugenic Marriage Permits Issued in Pittsburg
The Pittsburg license clerks issued the state’s first eugenic marriage permits. Twenty three men and twenty three women answered intimate questions without denial, prompting the clerk to call the law a joke and noting the longer processing time. A joke about naming the baby is also mentioned with parody.
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Pittsburg
Walter Nevin
Grain Market Reacts to Frost and Rain Delays
Frost in Canada and rain across Minnesota and North Dakota boosted wheat while heavy selling tempered gains. Corn rose on dry hot weather but milling demand lagged. oats followed corn as provisions firmed briefly before closing weaker. Cash wheat prices showed varied readings across No 2 red to durum and corn mixes, with No 2 white quoted around 77 to 78 cents.
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Canada
Minnesota
North Dakota
Wheat and corn quotes from Kansas City market report
Quotations today list cash wheat at No 2 hard as 86 88 and No 2 red at 91 92 cents. No 2 mixed corn at 0 cents and No 2 white at 77 17 cents. Oats No 2 white 48 cents and No 2 mixed 42 43 cents. December wheat at 88 cents, May at 93 terr. September corn at 7 percent, December 73 percent, May 75 percent.
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Chicago
Rept. O. Se
Kansas City
Quotations to Cash Wheat and Corn Prices
Wheat quotes show No 2 red at 93 960 and No 3 hard at 88 92c. No 2 corn at 79% and No 2 white at 8c. No 2 oats at 43%c and No 2 white at 44c. Close wheat for September at 89% and May at 97% 97%c. Corn September to May at 75%4c. Oats September at 43c and May at 48%c.
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ST. Louis
Money market and rates steady in New York trading
Close price mercantile paper at 5 to 6 percent, sterling exchange firm at 482.50 for 60 day bills and 485.75 for demand. Commercial bills 482 and Bar silver at 59. Mexican dollars at 46. Government and railroad bonds hold steady in today’s session.
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New York
Sterling Exchange Firm
Cotton Goods Market Surges to Record High Prices
New York reports strong cotton goods markets with yarns rising up to a cent per pound and silk piece goods and ribbons in active demand. Jones achieved a record price of 34 pounds per ton for cotton goods. Carpet wools show brisk demand as buyers seek fabrics.
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New York
Jones
Missed Home Comforts and a Short Term Murder Sentence
The Chicago Post notes a Kentucky murder case where the prosecutor preferred a nominal sentence. The prisoner's father pleads for leniency, arguing Henry will be released in three to four years, lamenting harsh conditions and loneliness of prison. The piece contrasts this with Yokohama trade figures for 1912.
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Kenstucky
Chicago Post
Seatt
Henry
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