Cotton Price Notes and Spot Listings
Fragmentary market notes show cotton spot listings for Wilmington Charleston Savannah Norfolk and mixed bid details. Shown prices include 32.50 but the text is incomplete and lacks full context or quantities.
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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
7
Market Lift on War News Boosts Steel and Auto Shares
New York trading opens with gains driven by favorable war advisories as Baldwin Locomotive American Smelting and Refining and other industrials show strength. Liberty bonds hold, while varied notes and stocks such as American Can and General Electric advance amid broader market optimism.
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New York
Baldwin
American Car & Foundry
American Locomotive
American Smelt, & Refining
American Sugar
American T. & T
Anaconda
Atchison Ae
Atl
Gulf & W
Indies
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Bethlehem Steel
Canadian Pacific
Central Leather
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chi
Mil
St. Paul
R. I
Pace
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Crucible Steel
General Electric
General Motors
Illinois Central
Bid
Inspiration Copper
Int
Merc. Marine
Merc
Marine
International Paper
Kennecott Copper
Louisville & Nashville
Maxwell Motors
Mexican Petroleum
Miami Copper
Midvale Steel
Missouri Pacific
New York Central Ee
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Ohio Cities Gas
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Coal
Ray Consolidated Copper
Reading
Esse
Rep. Iron & Steel
Sinclair Oil & Refining Ee
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Studebaker Corporation
Tennessee Copper
Union Pacific
United Cigar Stores A
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United States
United States Steel
Utah Copper
Wabash
Wests
Willys Érland
Ba Pe Poon
American Tobacco
Atlantic Coast Line
Gulf States Steel
Seaboard Air Line
Sloss, Shef, Steel & Iron
United Fruit
Virginia Carp. Chem
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New York Cotton Market Hits Sharp Break After Opening Rally
The New York cotton market opened higher on firmer rumors and bullish overseas notes, pushing July to 29.85 and December to 28.60. Heavy offerings then spurred a steep decline, with duty and October positions down to about 27.50 and 28.93 as selling intensified and market talk of price regulation grew.
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Chicago
New York
Liverpool
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Spot Cotton in New York Market April 18 Report
New York reports spot cotton prices and trading activity on April 18 with daily fluctuations and basis levels noted. Market participants assess fiber quality, futures linkage, and demand signals amid thin volume.
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New York
Cotton trading fluctuates amid war news in New Orleans
irregular activity marked early trading as war news weighed on sentiment. after a brief rally, prices slipped, then recovered modestly but finished with a net decline. futures showed mixed moves with October and December slipping while January held. closing data reflected a steady tone with varied point changes and price levels.
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New Orleans
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Futures Report
Liverpool notes a quiet spot market with higher prices for good middling at 23.59 and middling 29.07, with sales of 5,000 bales including 4,400 American. No receipts. Futures closed weak with April 22.83, May 22.45, June 2.20, July 21.95, August 21.72. old contracts show fixed prices for April 21.92 and May-June 21.76.
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Liverpool
Livestock Prices and Receipts at Chicago Market
Hogs receipts 72,000 with mixed and heavy classes trading from 16.40 to 17.85. Cattle receipts 16,000 with native steers 11.00 to 16.90, stockers 9.75 to 12.75, cows and heifers 8.50 to 13.50, calves 9.50 to 14.50. Sheep receipts 10,000 with lambs 16.50 to 21.75 and sheep 13.00 to 17.85.
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Bhpacs
Chicago
Naval Stores Prices Decline Reported
Rosin sits at 4.80 and 4.50 dollars, tar at 3.00 dollars with 1312 cents, and crude at 4.00, 4.00, and 3.00 dollars.
For Sale Wholesale Goods Lot Including Oats Seeds and More
A wholesale sale offers 5,000 bushels Heavy No 7 White Oats 1,000 sacks Creama Cotton Seed Meal 80 tons 7 per cent Cotton Seed 300 bushels Jumbo Peanuts 500 barrels Flour 600 barrels Molasses and various canned goods and other typical wholesale store items.
Turpentine and Rosin Market Figures in Savannah
In Savannah on April 18 reports show turpentine firm 381-2 with sales 70 receipts 59 shipments 201 stock 23413. Rosin firm 344 sales 216 recipes 582 stock 97588. Quotes list commodities prices for multiple grades and firms.
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Savannah
New Orleans Spot Cotton Holds Steady Amid Trade
Spot cotton in New Orleans unchanged with prices for low middling 31.00, middling 33.00, and good middling 34.25. Sales on the spot 36, arrivals none, receipts 1,356, stock 452,328.
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New Orleans
Boxers Use Pseudonyms, Says McAuliffe
Jack McAuliffe asserts that neither Jack Dempsey nor Bill Brennan is the real name of either famed fighter using the aliases. He references aliases and questions the true identities behind the celebrated boxers.
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Jack McAuliffe
Jack Dempsey
Bill Brennan
Dr Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey Cough Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement urges prompt use of Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey for hacking coughs and breathing distress. It touts soothing throat relief, phlegm loosening, antiseptic action against germs, and feverish symptoms. The copy claims effectiveness in thousands of cases and promotes rapid relief and prevention of serious after effects.
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Dr. Bell
Meeting Call of George Washington Council No 67
All members of George Washington Council No 67 Junior Order United American Mechanics are urged to attend a meeting Friday night April 19 in hall No 19 North Second Street. Visiting brothers are invited. R T Watkins Recording Secretary by order of the Council.
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George Washington Council
United American Mechanics
Our Hall
North Second Street
R. T. Watkins
Weather report for Wilmington and vicinity
Increasing cloudiness tonight with likely showers. Thursday looks unsettled with moderate south winds.
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Wilmington
Stage of water reaches 12.4 feet in Cape Fear at Fayetteville
The stage of water in the Cape Fear River at Fayetteville North Carolina measured 12.4 feet at 8 a m yesterday. This height indicates river conditions on the monitoring date and location.
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Cape Fear River
Fayetteville
N. C
Eddie McGoorty targets top boxing rivals after Brennan win
Eddie McGoorty plans to face leading opponents after beating Fran Elie Brennan. Tom Cowler, an English heavyweight, has lately finished on the short end in several bouts, suggesting a skid.
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Eddie McGoorty
Fran- Elie Brennan
Tom Cowler
Sage and Sulphur Compound Restores Dark Hair
An old remedy from grandmothers time Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound is advertised in modern form for restoring faded gray hair to natural color. A downtown druggist says it darkens evenly and naturally, use a sponge to apply strand by strand, morning results, not a disease cure.
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