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Wilmington Dispatch

Location

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Feb 02, 1918

Page

3

Market Review and Agricultural Prices From Coastal Markets

Coastal market notes show spot prices for cotton and vegetables, scarce eggs and chickens, potatoes, hams, shoulders, cabbage, hides, wool, corn, peanuts, apples, and assorted staples. New York stock market summary reports gains in shippings, oils, and various specialties with an irregular metals sector and a strong closing. Bond prices vary with Liberty bonds listed by series and value.

Maine N.C N. C New York Reading Liberty

Funeral plans for Joseph N. Jacobi announced

The obituary notes Joseph N. Jacobi died suddenly Friday morning. Funeral arrangements were not completed by midafternoon but will be announced in tomorrow’s Dispatch. The Rotary Club says the membership will attend in a body and members should assemble at the Y M C A thirty minutes before the service time.

Joseph N. Jacobi Rotary Club

New York Cotton Rebounds on Bullish Inquiries and Weather

The New York cotton market rose early on February 2 with gains of 21 to 51 points as traders priced in reduced price fixing fears, holiday abandonments, railroad shipment orders aiding New England deliveries, and favorable Southwest weather. May reached 99.86, July 29.36, while overall sentiment turned bullish before closing barely steady.

New York New England Eeee Aoree New Orleans Faos Ee Po ‘Speek. E

New York Spot Cotton Prices Logged Quiet Trade

New York spot cotton on February 2 shows middling uplands at 31.50 cents per pound with quiet activity in the market.

New York

New Orleans Spot Cotton Prices Steady

New Orleans spot cotton is quiet and unchanged with 33 bales sold on the spot and 148 arriving. Prices show low mid dling at 29.25 cents, middling at 30.50 cents, and good middling at 21.25 cents.

New Orleans

Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report

Chicago livestock market update shows hog receipts at 93 000 with prices 13 25 to 16 90 for pigs and 15 70 to 16 50 for bulk hogs. Cattle receipts 6 000 with steady to weak demand. steers 8 65 to 14 15 cows 6 40 to 11 90 calves 9 50 to 16 90. Sheep receipts 5 000 with steady demand. ewes 10 00 to 13 50 lambs 14 75 to 17 75.

Chicago Livestock Chicago

Chicago Grain and Provision Prices Summary

Grain and provisions prices list for corn oats rye and barley with March May futures and cash quotes. Includes corn No 2 No 3 No 4 yellow ranges and cash ranges for oats white standard rye barley tobacco pork lard ribs and timothy clover prices.

Chicago

Naval Stores Prices Fluctuate in Mixed Trading

Readable scraps show price ranges for spirits rosin at 5.00 to 5.30 dollars and naval stores mixtures with turpentine and crude rosin listed at several dollar figures including 3.80 and 16 cents.

Receipts Detail From Obscure Cotton Shipment

A fragment lists a cotton shipment with weights and amounts in mixed figures. The legible items include quantities around 200 and 42, suggesting crude or basic goods. No clear dates or full entity names are readable to provide precise context.

Turpentine and Rosin Prices and Stocks Reported

Savannah market report shows firm turpentine with 652 sales, 115 receipts, 13 shipments and 25 701 stock while rosin stays firm with 628 sales, 478 receipts, no shipments and 90 255 stock. Quotations listed for BDT FG HI EK M N WG WW.

Savannah Rosin

Weather outlook with rain tonight and tomorrow

The local weather observatory reported unsettled conditions this afternoon with rain tonight and tomorrow almost certain, accompanied by rising temperatures. No snow was observed statewide this morning and snow is not expected in the community.

Cotton seed oil market closes quiet in New York

The cotton seed oil market closed quiet in New York with spot at 20.20 and futures at 20.45 for March and 20.25 for May and no sales reported.

New York

Public Auction of Wilmington Lot Under Court Decree

By decree of the Superior Court dated December 27 1917 in the case Alice Larkins et al versus Thomas Harriss et al the undersigned will sell at public auction for cash at the Court House door Wilmington on February 4 1918 at twelve oclock M a described lot in Wilmington City Beginning 80 feet east of the Queen and Second street corner running 42 feet along Queen street 66 feet north parallel with Second street 42 feet west parallel with Queen street 66 feet to the beginning being part of Lot 6 Block 74

Gale Superior Court Alice Larkins Joan Larkins Thomas Harriss Court House Wilmington Queen Street William M. Bellamy

Owen promoted to superintendent of transportation

James H. Owen longtime Atlantic Coast Line employee has been named superintendent of transportation for the Florida East Coast Railway. His friends here commend his rise as he advances in the railroad field. Guard led the Bolshevik attacking party and defenders capitulated after four shots from their cannon.

Atlantic Coast Line Car & Foundry American Tobacco American Smelt American Sugar Anaconda Atchison Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Canadian Pacific Central Leather Chesapeake & Ohio Chi Mil St. Paul Chino Copper Colorado Fuel & Iron Columbia Gas and Electric Corn Products Crucible Steel Cuba Erie General Motors General Electric Great Northern Pfd Great Northern Ore Ctis Gulf States Steel Inspiration Copper Tllinois Central Int Mer Marine Ptd Kennecott Copper Louisville & Nashville Maxwell Motor Co Mexican Petroleum Miami Copper Midvale Steel Missouri Pacific Nevada Copper New York Central Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Ohio Cities Gas Pennsylvania Pittsburg Coal Bay Consolidated Copper Reading Republic Tron & Steel Sinclair Oil Seaboard Air Line Sloss-Shef. Steel and Ivor Southern Pacific Southern Railway Studebaker Co Tennessee Copper Texas Co Union Pacific United Cigar Stores United States Steel Utah Copper United Fruit Oreo Ever Virginia Cara, Chem Wabash Pfd Westinghouse Electric Willys-Overland Ws Sess Owen James H. Owen Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Florida East Coast Railway Guard

Bolsheviki Capture Kiev Without Resistance

News from Petrograd reports Kiev fallen to Bolshevik forces with minimal resistance. Red detachments from Petrograd Moscow and Ukraine reportedly established Bolshevik authority across the city and region.

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Abandoning Eastern Front Report from Amsterdam

A war correspondent states large evacuated Russian front portions are expanding. Trenches crumble, wire entanglements posts are burned as fuel. Disbanding of some units continues south of the Pripet region.

Amsterdam Dusseldorf Nachrichten Pripet

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