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Wilmington Dispatch

Location

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Feb 11, 1917

Page

6

New Orleans Cotton Market Mixed on Steady Demand

New Orleans February 10 reports steady trading as buyers and sellers meet with broad offerings. U S government market activity for cotton goods, private bureau data and mill shipments show large, but not record, demand against last year. May futures rise slightly while other months hold near steady. prices close with modest gains.

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Cotton market steady with slight gains and price list

The market opened quiet with a firmer tone in covering and cautious buying. May cotton rose to 15.65 cents per pound before easing, while receipts and varied futures activity framed a cautious session with a net small advance.

Turpentine and rosin prices in Savannah market report

Savannah reports dull turpentine at 51 with 40 receipts and firm rosin at 333 receipts. Price quotes show B through M grades around 6.05 to 6.60 and WW 6.75 to 6.80. New York stocks edge lower with advances in Marine preferred and several large rails offset by utilities declines. United States Steel holds gains while Bethlehem Steel drops. trading light ahead of holidays.

N. C California Florida Anis-Chalmers American Car and Foundry American N.C Virginia Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baldwin Locomotive Ae Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago, Mil. & St. P Chi, R. I. & Pac. Ry Colorado Fuel & Iron Consolidated Gas Fee Ee Crucible Steel Cuba Erie General Electric Great Northern Pfd Great Northern Ore Ctis Allinois Central Inspiration Copper Int Merc Merc. Marine Prd International Nickel International Paper Kansas City Southern Kennecott Copper Louisville & Nashville Liggett & Myers Lorillard Co Bid Reading Republic Iron & Steel Seaboard Air Line Sloss, Shef, Steel & Iron Southern Pacific Southern Railway Studebaker Corporation Tennessee Copper Texas Co Union Pacific United Fruit United States Rubber “Dee Eth U. S. Smelt. & Ref United States Steel Uteh Virginia-Caro. Chem Savannah Rosin New York Wall Street Marine Preferred Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Texas Company Pittsburgh Coal General Motors Brooklyn Transit Colorado American Telephone

New York Spot Cotton Prices on February 10

New York market report notes spot cotton in wiry middling at 15.55 cents per pound on February 10.

New York

Wheat Prices Rise Sharply Amid Seaboard Optimism

Market reports show wheat advancing strongly on improved seaboard connections and anticipated grain shipment facilities. Corn and oats gain while hogs and cereals support firmer provisions as shortages and crop damage complaints drive demand. figures for May and July contracts reflect notable gains with mixed reactions.

Seaboard Southwest WWF

Eggs and Poultry Prices in Mov Yer February Market

Mov Yer February report shows butter and creamery items steady with higher creamery prices and various egg classes listed from fresh gathered extras to firsts. Poultry remains steady with chickens and fowls quoted in several trimmed price ranges, reflecting mixed demand across the market.

Saiz Ciala Aecus Egex

Sugar futures steady with little change in New York market

Sugar futures in New York opened steady and closed about unchanged with slight losses. March to September contracts traded around 4.03 to 4.12 while raw sugar remained steady and molasses prices were listed.

New York Teigel

Cotton Seed Market Closes Firm in New York

The New York cotton seed market closed firm on February 10 with spot at 12.65 and futures ranging from 12.24 to 13.00 for various delivery months. Total sales reported 6,500 bags.

Cotton York

Coffee Prices Steady As Markets Open February

Coffee quotes show Ric ahre Fitures steady with March 1982 in view suggesting price stability as the market begins trading.

Y'S York Ric Ahre Fitures March, Aly

New Orleans Spot Market Report

Orleans Feb 10 spot cotton trading listed as noming and unchanged. Sales include 450 bales to arrive 445 arriving in the market.

New Orleans Orleans

Money market snapshot from New York on Feb 10

Mercantile paper and various bills quoted with rates for sterling francs marks and other currencies. Demand and cable rates listed for guilders francs rubles and kronen. Bar silver and Mexican dollars noted. Government and railroad bonds described as irregular.

New York Mercantile Paper

Fall injures aged flat boat worker Louis Simmons

Louis Simmons, an elderly African American laborer, was seriously hurt late yesterday afternoon after falling from a scantling on a flat boat used to haul cord wood to the city. His exact injuries could not be determined and officials feared they might be serious due to his age.

Louis Simmons

County Buys Five Ton White Truck for Road Work

The road committee of the County Commissioners purchased a five ton White truck to haul rock and aid ongoing road improvements. They traded in an older truck and secured an unusually good price from White Company after an agent explained the truck's merits. the deal was completed yesterday.

County Commissioners

Police puzzled by booze truck smuggling case

Plain clothesman Leon George linked a trunk of whiskey to a Florida bound passenger and arrested Susie Robertson and Sam Merrick, both colored, after a mid night train arrival near Wilmington. A search found no trunk and Merrick faced a driving while intoxicated warrant. they would be arraigned Monday.

Wilmington Leland Florida Leon George Market Street Ferry Susie Robertson Sam Merrick Duskies Merrick George D. W. Coleman Special County H. Mack Godwin Brunswick River Bridge Cape Fear Eagles’ Island

Inside Morning Bath With Limestone Phosphate Ad

A health advertisement extols drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning before breakfast to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims this daily internal bath prevents constipation and improves mood and energy, suggesting a quarter pound suffices to show cleansing effects.

Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure with $100 Reward

An advertisement claims catarrh is curable by Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally and affecting the blood. It offers $100 to any case that fails to cure, urging readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.

F. J. Cheney & CO Toledo Ohio

Sprunt to Speak on Business as a Life’s Work

Mr W H Sprunt delivers the second talk in the Y M C A vocational series this Sunday afternoon from 5 to 5 45 in the boys lobby invites every city boy. The subject is Business as a Life’s Work and piano solo by P C White. Last week drew the largest crowd yet and more are expected tonight.

W. H. Sprunt Sprunt P. C. White

Freezone claim ends corn pain fast in Cincinnati statement

A Cincinnati authority promotes freezone as a quick treatment for corns claiming immediate dryness and no irritation to surrounding skin. He says a small amount cures hard or soft corns and calls it affordable, appealing to women wearing high heels.

Cincinnati

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