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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1917
Page
3
The market shows nervousness with small trade volume and mixed early price moves. Futures traded unevenly, with cotton and steel showing modest shifts, while foreign bonds weakened and various industrials slipped, signaling cautious sentiment across commodities and equities.
New Orleans cotton opens with losses then steadies as buyers appear ahead of holidays. Early trading shows active months down 9 to 13 points from yesterday's close while some contracts finish near steady.
New Orleans spot cotton remains nominal and unchanged as sale on the set 1 to arrive 200. Prices across grades show strict good ordinary at 16.19 and strict low middling around 16.00 with wet and dry ranges in the mid to high 17s. Receipts total 2,148 with 885 stuck ADU.
Cotton prices listed for Liverpool with spots tealy good middling 10.66 and mid ding Wolow middling 10.38. Trading at 1,000 bales for speculation, receipts 42,000. Futures quoted steady with varied forward months from February to February 9.34.
Liverpool reports weekly cotton statistics with totals forwarded to mills. American stock stands at 881 TM with 742000 imports and 400 exports. Data shows American and Liverpool figures across forwardings and stocks for the period in February.
Washington A British subject grain market advance observed as rail strikes threaten, aided by Nebraska crop damage claims. Futures shifted with gains in Chicago and New York while reports of a British subject fireman death from a sinking incident surfaced in dispatches.
Savannan naval stores report shows turpentine dull with no sales, receipts three ships, 102 cargo, stock 15 897. rosin firm with 252 sales, 611 receipts, 84 shipments, stock 78 951. Quotes list grades B C E F G at 6.05 and higher grades N 6.45 W G 6.60 W W 6.86.
Kansas City reports butter eggs and poultry unchanged. St Louis notes poultry largely steady with turkeys at 25c while butter holds. New York markets show butter unsettled with varied creamery prices. eggs unsettled with multiple grades and receipts. cheese firm. dressed and live poultry prices mixed, with chickens and fowls around 18 to 29 cents.
Four YMCA teams duel in two Friday night games at the association gym beginning at 8:30. Captain Rich's Red Sox face Captain Rhodes' Tigers, both strong despite a recent loss by the Red Sox. in the second, Captain Gerdes’s Athletics challenge Captain Hanson’s Americans, who have won the last three games.
Stage of water in the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville North Carolina measured 6.4 feet at 8 a m yesterday.
The family thanks friends and neighbors who assisted during the illness and death of their father and husband John C. Redd. Their deeds and sympathy eased the family’s bereavement. Signed by Mrs. J. C. Redd.
Lieutenant Hans Berg commander of the German prize crew aboard the Appam will be detained under guard in Philadelphia Navy Yard. The crew will live with relatives of German auxiliary cruisers and are not labeled prisoners but detained under surveillance.
Firefighters were summoned to South Second Street Friday around 2 PM for a chimney fire at the Johnson apartments. They found only soot burning in the chimney. The building is owned by E. P. Bailey near Market Street with many onlookers at the scene.
Notice of sale under mortgage by The Co operative Building and Loan Association to James Donaldson seeks sale of Lot 3 in Block 494 in Wilmington. Court house door auction February 10 1917 at noon, to satisfy principal and interest defaults. Attorney Thomas W Davis signs dated January 11 1917.
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