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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
3
A scanned price sheet shows Spring chickens 35 to 50 cents, grown chickens 70 cents, puddle ducks 50 cents, Irish potatoes at 4.50 per bag, cabbage and onions priced, beef dressed 130 to 186, salted hides and wool items, and various garden goods with per unit or per bag costs.
Cotton prices firmed briefly in New York with Wall Street selling later dampening gains. The port tallied 10 142 858 bales as December months moved, with January and March futures slipping about 18 to 21 points. Spot cotton quoted at 31.10.
Orleans December cotton opened lower by about a half point, rebounded on bullish futures signals, and finished mixed with the front month trading around 28.50 to 28.60 cents. Prices showed brief declines before settling higher than early levels amid speculative demand.
Orleans on December 20 reports cotton as steady in price. Sales for delivery on the 25th total 2,265 bales with low middling to middling around 28.88 cents per pound. Receipts reach 8,987 bales and total stock stands at 356,722 bales.
Cotton spot prices show steady levels with good middling at 22.31 and low middling. Sales total 3,000 bales including 2 American. Futures contracts slip, December January 2091, January February 20.81, March April 20.47, with fixed prices for the December year.
Hogs receipts 15,000 firm, bulk 15.90 to 16.46. mixed 15.70 to 16.55. pigs 11.00 to 16.49. Cattle receipts 15,000 steady with primes 14.35, western hogs 12.75, cows and heifers 11.20, calves 9.00 to 16.59. Sheep and lambs receipts 18,000 slow. lambs 12.45 to 16.69.
New York December 20 cotton seed oil market summary shows prices for spot December and January 1870 and the March contract steady with total sales figures not fully shown. The report notes closing rates and demand for the seed oil in the current session.
Washington Dec 20 The War Department adopted all but one of Surgeon General Gorgas's health reforms for training camps. Woolen uniforms are provided and health in National Guard divisions improves while some Army cantonments report higher pneumonia measles and meningitis. Baker notes only unacted step is establishing observation camps to screen new recruits for two weeks before company assignment.
Unable to extract a coherent event from the fragment. Readable portions mention Wilmington Naval Stores and cotton receipts but lack a complete action, date, or outcome for a concise summary.
Chicago rumors that the eastbound embargo on corn and oats might be lifted and a maximum corn price removed sparked a sharp upturn in corn and oats on the board. May corn rose 6 1 4 cents to 1.26 1 2 dollars. oats gained 3 cents. Cash prices for corn and oats were nominal with various yellow and white grade quotes. rail shares and others slipped as trading opened in New York.
Citadel College marks its Diamond Jubilee with commemorations recalling its 1842 founding and seventy five years of progress. The institution, long a leading Southern military school, hosts events as it notes its current enrollment above 250 students and a 16 member faculty.
The Bolsheviki press claims Allied missions in Ukraine bolster counter revolutionary General Kaledin. Lieutenant Colonel W. V. Judson, chief of the American military mission, says all American officers remain in Petrograd and available for duty.
Washington December 20 D R Coker resigned as South Carolina food administrator sending the note to the Food Administration due to private business pressures. It probably will be accepted.
In an Atlantic port on December 20 John Hunter of the United States Shipping Board drove the first rivet in the first 5000 ton standard cargo ship. The ship yard, rushed to 76 days, will lay keels for two more vessels this month as a private firm aims to complete 150 ships at the fastest pace with 28 under construction simultaneously.
Paris reports describe a vast American training camp for aviators in Central France. Under 250 workers, material from America, huts few, work started in September, and fully trained pilots will be sent to the front. French aviators share experience, and the camp’s order and comforts impress Paul Ginisty.
R. B. Batson and T. Erwin Cheek were arrested at 12:45 pm at the Orton Hotel by Special Agent Dorsey E. Phillips and Deputy Marshal A. L. Kelly. They face a charge of violating the bone dry law after investigators found 4% quarts of liquor in their baggage. Brass knuckles were found on Batson. both men awaited a hearing before U.S. Commissioner A. S. Williams.
Washington December 20 The next step of the House sub committee probing war activities of the Navy had not been revealed and further sessions likely would be deferred until after the Christmas recess. The committee adjourned last night without fixing a resumption time.
576 pale and suffering Austrian children aged 7 to 9 arrived at Buchs on the frontier from Vienna and other towns. They had not tasted milk for months and endured scant clothing, bad bread, stomach diseases, and no home fuel. They will be cared for in Switzerland until health improves.
Major General John F. Morrison is named director of military training with headquarters at the War College Washington. He will coordinate army training nationwide with the military training committee of the general staff and will report on progress from camps in the United States and France. Morrison, cited as a potential successor to General Bliss, previously commanded the Camp Sevier division and inspected training camps in France.
New York reports young men of draft age who enlisted since the selective draft law took effect refuse to answer questionnaires on officers advice. Philip J. McCook, local Adjunct General rep, complains to the War Department seeking an order to compel compliance. Local exemption boards face confusion as families also refuse to answer.
San Francisco report notes California fruit growers and other large employers plan to petition Congress to bring Chinese coolie labor for the war period. They pledge to return workers to China after peace and cite France as proof such labor could avert shortages.
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