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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1928
Page
6
New Orleans cotton prices ease as boll weevil report disappointment and scant rainfall curb buying. July at 26.23, October 19.04, December 19.93, with small intraday recoveries before closing down 13 to 17 points. New York futures follow steadier with minor declines. spot cotton quiet across markets.
Liverpool on June 16 reports a quiet cotton spot market with prices steady. American grades show mixed results with strict good middling around 11.63 and strict middling near 11.43 while other staples hover close to 11. intradable entries reflect damp demand as sales and bales traded modestly.
New York June 16 cotton seed oil closed easy with futures showing declines across several contracts. Prime summer yellow 10.00 prim crude 8.50 to 8.75 with subsequent months June 10.10 July 10.12 August 10.33 September 10.45 Per 10.52 November 10.52 December 10.54. sales 000.
Hogs 4 000 head active market strong to 100 higher than Friday. Top 10.20 paid for choice 200 to 260 lb clippers 12.00. Cattle 600 head, grain fed steers and yearlings steady to 25c higher. heavies up, grassy types 25-50c lower. Cows steady, cutters off 25c, bulls steady to 25c lower. vealers 10-15c lower.
Butter prices rose as creamery scores climbed 44 to 92 with an 8 to 91 price movement. Eggs held firm amid steady demand and prices in New York on June 16.
New York June 16 government bonds closed with Liberty 314s at 100.9 and 1st 4s at 101.20. Treasury 354s traded at 106.8 and 4s at 113.30, with Ath 4s positioned at 102.3 and 3rd 4s at 100.
Turpentine firm 5214 shows sales 217 receipts 579 with stock 16273. Rosin firm records sales 411 receipts 1997 shipments none and stock 92048. Quoted prices list grades B through WG and WW indicating firm demand and pricing signals.
St Louis cash grain prices show cash wheat No 3 at 1.70 and No 2 hard at 1.49. Corn prices include No 2 mixed at 1.04 and No 3 mixed at 1.03 1.03 percent, No 1 yellow at 1.07 and No 2 yellow at 1.06. No 3 white 7 11 44 72 and No 4 white noted.
The Moultrie hog market in Georgia shows daily updated figures from Swift and Company. Markets list No 1 Packer Hogs and No 2 Packer Hogs with roughs and betweens reflected, as percentages and classes vary throughout trading.
Sparta Ga June 16 Mrs W L Coleman about 70 years old was killed yesterday afternoon when lightning struck a tree she stood beneath in the yard near Deveaux. She leaves a husband six sons and three daughters.
Three of four men arrested in the Home Trust Company holdup were said to have confessed. Police reported the traffic patrolman James H. Smith and Chief Lincoln R. Toyne indicated further arrests may follow based on the information obtained.
Wall Street faced renewed selling in high priced shares with declines in Radio, Wright Aeronautical and Du Pont. Bear covering provided a late lift, but the market closed irregularly after about 1.3 million shares traded as investors weighed next week’s money conditions and tax payments.
W C Coleman of Wichita opened the 19th annual Northern Baptist convention in Detroit today urging unity and sympathetic understanding amid difficulties in church organization. He cited contacts with Northern and Southern Baptists and both fundamentalist and liberal groups, saying both believe the same core tenets despite differing expressions.
Annapolis Md June 16 Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson assumed command as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in a simple ceremony marking the transfer of authority from Rear Admiral McC Nulton who led the academy for over thirty three years Admiral McC Nulton will command a division of the battle fleet with West Virginia as his flag ship on the Pacific Coast June 26
Captain George R. White of New York was slightly injured in St. Augustine Florida when a wing flapping ornithopter attached to a car rope snapped a wing strut and the machine performed a complete somersault during a test. White sustained minor cuts and bruises.
In Trepassey Newfoundland on June 16 the departure of the monoplane Friendship for Europe was delayed by unfavourable sea weather. Pilot Wilmer Stultz said no definite hop off date could be set with Amelia Earhart and Louis Gordon.
Oslo June 16 Major Maddalena an Italian flier en route to Spitzbergen to aid the Nobile party hopped off from Vadsoe for Kings Bay. He flew a Savoia Marchetti hydroplane and had to land briefly for repairs. Kings Bay base crew place hopes on relief mission.
Brunswick officials announce dates for the St. Simons Island air derby and aerial circus have shifted from June 7-9 to Friday and Saturday June 8 and 9. A large field of commercial and U S service planes will join, with many staying Sunday for passenger flights. Prize money is posted by Brunswick citizens, promising one of the state’s great air derbies.
England defeated the United States four matches to three to capture the Wightman Cup at Wimbledon. The deciding doubles victory came from Mrs M Holcroft Watson and Miss Essenee Bennett over Miss Helen Wills and Miss Penelope Anderson 6 2 6 2.
The paymaster Charles Garrett and driver Sidney Kressel of the Theatre-Dufield Fire Works Company were kidnapped and robbed of $1200 of a $1700 payroll by three armed men near Robey Indiana. After crashing into a telephone pole they escaped, leaving the two men trapped in the overturned car.
Lieutenants James E. Parker and R. W. Douglas Jr. depart Frances Field Panama for home station on a course via Jacksonville Havana and Tegucigalpa. They pilot a small Doeing single seater plane pursuing speed about 125 miles per hour.
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