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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1893
Page
4
Indications show fair weather for North Carolina with possible coastal showers and warmer conditions. Raleigh area forecast: fair and warmer with a maximum near 77 and minimum around 65, rainfall about 0.09 inch. Local notes mention hotel hours, lectures, and community notices including college events and upcoming anniversaries.
A list of arrivals including J H Ramsey Seaboard Lem Mann and many others from cities like Baltimore New Berne Fayetteville Atlanta and New York. Following are market items: Baltimore Produce Market June 8 Flour prices Wheat and corn trends. New York Cotton Market June 8 spot and futures activity with acreage estimates. Wilmington and other regional notes. Classified ads and letters to the editor on health medicines and testimonials.
Money on call 4 to 6 percent, closing 5. Prime mercantile paper 6a8. Sterling weak. commercial bills 4.84a4.86. Government bonds steady. Southern flour and various commodities quoted. wheat and pork prices noted alongside futures at Chicago and Urteaco. Cash wheat No 2 spring 62-63 cents. pork mess around 20.20 to 20.23.
New York spot cotton easy with middling uplands at 72 and varying grades. sales 2,189 bales. Futures closed steady with June 7.75 and December 8.05. Regional quotes show mixed calls from Galveston to Houston and New Orleans with several thousand bales traded locally.
Liverpool market notes for June 8 at 1 PM show American middling fair at 41 1/16, good middling 44, middling 43, low middling 43, good ordinary 43 and ordinary 41 5/16. Futures closed barely steady with a slight decline. successive June to February spreads listed with values ranging 41 4 64 to 29 64.
A collection of notices and advertisements highlights vacation inquiries for Vermont and Virginia mountain areas. It mentions special Recreation Department arrangements with The Christian Union, requests for information and pricing on board, and notes about resorts in Vermont’s Green Hills and Virginia Mountains. Also included are endorsements for P P P tonic, Ayer’s pills, and Southern bureau travel planning for the World's Fair with contact details, plus ice price guarantees from Jones & Powell in Raleigh.
L KR Wyatt of Raleigh announces wholesale and retail sales of White and Wheeler and Wilson sewing machines, repairs, parts, and mail orders across North Carolina. Also offers farm implements including engines, boilers, mowers, reapers, binders, and Wood horse rakes with ship and price information on request.
SPECIAL NOTICES. Agents wanted for tale and female, old and young, $5 to $25 daily selling Queen Plating Outfits and doing plating on metal goods. No experience required, portable from house to house, work with high earnings claimed. Send for circulars. Russia daily petroleum production noted as 111,640 barrels.
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