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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1916
Page
6
New York reports show early cotton trading with small price moves and mixed activity. Liverpool bought March as traders reassessed quo tations, with brief fluctuations in the first hour and a sharp rise in New Orleans triggering mixed support before a late pullback. The local market ends barely steady with spots at 17.25 and no sales.
Spirits 51 12 and 52 Rosin 6.20.
A garbled wartime era market note lists rosin prices at 5.60 and 5.36, tar at 2.60 and 11c, and crude values at 4.00, 4.00, and 3.00 with receipts mentioned. The fragmentary text includes stray letters and unreadable lines, offering only scattered references to spirits and related terms.
New York report shows money on call this week within 2 1 4 to 3 1 2 percent. Time money remained quiet with quotations around 4 1 2 percent for 60 and 90 days and for four to six months. Industrial loans ranged 5 to 6 percent, mercantile paper bought sparingly with top names at 4 to 4 1 2 percent.
Cattle prices shown for native butchers 5.95 to 875, canners 4.40 to 5.20, cutters 5.25 to 5.85, heifers 5.00 to 10.50, calves 5.00 to 12.75. Hogs prices range mixed and butchers 10.00 to 10.55, light 9.50 to 10.25, heavy 10.25 to 10.55, rough 10.10 to 10.25, pigs 7.75 to 9.25, bulk 10.00 to 10.50.
Advertisement notes schedule for cars to the beach every 30 minutes from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM today and tomorrow.
Grain and provisions range with closing figures for wheat corn and oats. December and May contracts shown for wheat at 165 1 2 and 174 1 2 respectively, corn around 95 for December and 93 for May, oats 51 1 3 for December and 53 3 4 for May. Pork futures quoted at 26.60 for May.
Chicago December activity drove wheat short sellers into losses as December futures spiked to 1.68 a bushel before retreating. deferred months followed with sharp gains, while cash wheat and corn sales listed notable volumes and prices as hog products rose on short covering and investment buying.
Judge Harriss in Recorder's Court yesterday found Sandy Allen guilty of maiming Robert Jones with a deadly weapon and ordered trial in Superior Court. George Allen’s involvement case left open. M D Meir arraigned on two bad check charges. must repay face value plus costs and post $50 bond. Cowan ordered jailed six months or to stockade. Harry Stewart paroled for six months. H H Hall case left open. Lizzie Miller charge frivolous. costs paid. Viola Johnson paid costs. Geneva Chestnut to county roads for 30 days. Tank alias Ed Williams and Lula Stephenson cases continued to Tuesday.
A newspaper item notes service to the beach today and tomorrow with cars every half hour from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Adverts reference ongoing bridge repairs near a streetcar line. A man named Yarborough nearly toppled from a wheel while observing the danger but remained uninjured.
A boy fell from a plank beside a car track and was struck by a steel stringer then by a passing Atlantic Coast Line train. He escaped serious injury with only a cut lip, aided by workers J R Elmore and Mr Rehder who reached him quickly.
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