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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1917
Page
3
The New York cotton market opened steady with May around 20.85 and October near 19.27 on the call as firm weather and continental buying supported prices. By midmorning selling pressures emerged from Wall Street and local traders, giving way to quieter trading and a mixed close with May around 20.68 and October 19.06.
A civic appeal urges residents to join a broad buying initiative to boost upgrowth in Wilmington and the surrounding region. The notice asks for careful consideration and suggestions to aid the movement and reads as a call to readers to support the effort for the area's advancement.
New York reporters note spot cotton in quiet trade on April 10 with middling grade priced at 21.05 cents per pound. The brief market bulletin shows no wide price swings and lists no notable buyers or sellers.
The New Orleans cotton market opened irregular with gains of 12 to 24 points on good cables and cool belt temperatures. By midmorning trading was mixed with months mostly unchanged to three points down from yesterday, then drifted to 9 to 22 points under the prior close before noon when a firmer tone appeared and net advances ran 4 to 7 points.
New Orleans spot cotton steadies after a 5 to 8 point decline as May and other months show mixed quotes. Demand and sales totaled 1,151, with receipts at 4,144 and stock at 370,565, while price levels span from 18.03 to 20.55 across the reported futures and grades.
Chicago market reports show butter firm creamery quotes 38 to 44 cents, eggs strong with large receipts. poultry alive lower, fowls and springs around 22 to 24 cents. New York butter and eggs rise with fresh gathered storage packed prices at 34 to 35 cents. cheese irregular with 6,422 receipts. Chicago grain closes with wheat May 2.06, corn 1.26 1/4, oats 6.36 1/2, pork 36.50, lard 20.82, ribs 19.55. war risk insurance and crew wages affecting sugar cargoes.
Raw sugar prices in New York April 10 show centrifugal at 6.05, molasses 0.17, refined 8.95 as the market holds firm. Futures remain active amid a strong spot market and Cuba reports boosting optimism.
In Savannah on April 10 turpentine firm sales are 461-2 47 with receipts 85 shipments 288 and stocks 9 825. Rosin firm sales are 624 with receipts 940 shipments 940 and stocks 98 468. Quoted prices range from 5.55 to 5.80 with various grades listed.
Mercantile paper and various bills steady with 60 day bank bills around 4.72. Foreign and metal prices show small shifts as franc and ruble demand quotes adjust. Time loans remain firm at 60 and 90 days with high and low call money noted, closing bid around 21 4.
Walter C. Sanders Jr returning from Washington D C. Capt James B Lynch and Lieut Edward H Holmes of the Second Company Coast Artillery Corps proceed to Greensboro for promotion exams. Col John Van B Metts leaves for Goldsboro to rejoin his regiment. Clarkson T Hunt leaves for Lehigh University with brother Raymond Hunt remaining in the city.
Oner notes the difficulty of cleaning the middle back inside a bath tub. He explains the back is inaccessible, preventing reaching it with a wash rag or underarm scrubbing. The piece humorously laments the challenge of self cleaning in the tub.
An odd promotional blurb claims a night skin itching ailment can be eased by a prescription and a bottle to help sufferers rest and wake refreshed. A hindsight anecdote then riffs on a failed back brush invention and the impracticality of reaching the middle of the back.
In St. John's Cathedral Milwaukee the Most Rev Sebastian Messmer archbishop marked the twenty fifth anniversary of his bishopric with a pontifical high mass of thanksgiving. Clergy and laity from across the archdiocese attended this notable Episcopal jubilee.
An advertisement touts Hall's Cure as a non quack medicine that cures catarrh by cleansing blood and mucus. It claims the remedy is recommended by top physicians and offers a free test. Presented by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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