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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1891
Page
5
Fragmentary readable text hints at a wire service summary about workers and a mess world. No clear names places dates or outcomes. The legible elements suggest a behind the scenes report with uncertain specifics and chaotic phrasing.
Liverpool spot cotton remains dull with middling uplands at 45-16 pence per pound. Sales reach 8,000 bales while futures close easy, with Ramen reported at 4 December 6 PM.
Money closed at 3 percent with daily high 3.4 percent and low 2 percent. Exchange steady. posted rates 4.82 to 4.85, actual 4.81 4.81 for 60 day bills. Government bonds steady. refined sugar and coffee prices noted. Baltimore grain futures mixed with firm wheat and corn, firm butter and eggs, steady tea. Local lime and turpentine market notes from Clareston and Savannah.
A brief fragment notes continuing activity amid difficulty referencing an ongoing situation. No clear persons or organizations are readable, leaving the core event vague.
A broken snippet mentions a principal and large crops along with a sum of money. The text is garbled, but implies a financial or agricultural issue involving a principal figure and substantial crops.
Disjointed OCR fragment records historical crop losses and weather notes from 1880s reports. Mention of beetles, vines, and late frosts tied to poor yields, with references to 1882 and 1884 events and vague timelines in a local agricultural context.
The readable portion shows bale counts and prices with figures like 139,000 and 279,000 alongside terms middling and prices per unit. The text is fragmented and lacks coherent narrative or identifiable names, dates, or places.
Dec 4 stock quotes for Oregon Alabama Virginia North Carolina and others with bid prices. Bond and stock updates for Virginia consols Baltimore & Ohio Northern Central Consolidated Gas. flour and grain prices for New York and spot and futures levels for wheat corn oats pork lard and molasses. cash markets show dull to steady trading with several price points for futures and spot deliveries.
In Chicago the wheat market opened quiet but firm, then closed weak as long positions were dumped. Corn rose early on shorts' demand, then sagged after gains, oats held steady, and provisions climbed on lighter hog arrivals and firmer prices. Spirits turpentine and rosin markets in New York and Wilmington show steady to firm pricing with slight regional differences.
Advertises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money refund if not satisfied. Priced at 25 cents per box and offered for sale at John Y. MacTine's.
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