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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1918
Page
7
New York cotton prices fell as liquidating pressure and weaker fuel transport outlook weighed on futures. March slid to 30.58 with a later rally from Western and Wall Street buyers, while spot middling cotton traded at 32.55.
The New Orleans cotton market closed very late with a 2 point decline, trading 10 to 21 points lower. The drop reflected broad selling across futures and spot thin liquidity.
Spot cotton in New Orleans steady with 25 point decline on sales. On spot the board shows 94 dollars per bale bid with 1,400 awaiting arrival. Prices current low middling 25 cents, middling 31.50, good middling 32.25. Receipts 7,016 and stock 407,812.
Liverpool on January 16 reports spot cotton prices firm with good middling at 23.51 and low middling 22.98. Sales total 3,000 bales including 2,700 American. receipts 8,000 with no American. Futures closed barely steady with January at 23.64 and March at 23.13.
The cotton seed oil market in New York closed steady with spot bids at 20.15 for January and 20.29 for May. Vial sales totaled 400 barrels as the market held firm.
Captain Hill McDonald longtime Texas Ranger and personal guard to Presidents died last night in Wichita Falls Texas. The notice appears amid a society section with forthcoming meetings of Sorosis and local church circle events, and a dated bank report and stock market summary excerpt.
Market notes list Spring chickens grown ducks and guinea fowl, beef dressed, Irish potatoes cabbage hides and wool prices, onions. Peanuts apples Winesap oranges corn bees wax and salted hides also shouted with naval stores prices for spirits rosin tar and crude oil plus cotton receipts and other staples in Wilmington area markets.
Chicago markets report January 16 with hog receipts around 12 000 and bids 16.10 to 16.55 for various weights. Cattle receipts total 3 000 with native steers 8.25 to 13.60, cows and calves 5.85 to 15.75. Sheep receipts 7 000 with wethers 9.75 to 13.25 and lambs 14.25 to 17.50.
Turpentine firm reports 46 34 to 47 pricing with 311 sales, 3 receipts, 184 shipments and 26 189 stock. Rosin firm shows 760 sales, 810 receipts, 475 shipments and 90 537 stock. Price quotes list grades B D E F GH RB K M N WG WW with ranges from 6.40 to 7.70.
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board and Charles Pier of the Emergency Fleet Corporation will conduct personal inspections of East and South shipyards to gauge merchant ship building progress. Three day weekly excursions to the shipbuilding festival have already been made, and more yards are scheduled for visits.
At the Mothers' Boys' Work Association annual meeting in the Y M C A rooms officers were elected for the coming year. Mr Qdis B Hinnant city boys' work secretary will address city mothers on The Instincts of Childhood in Hemenway auditorium January 17.
Washington January 16 the Navy Dept announced a new record for sustained endurance by a modern destroyer from Pacific to Atlantic port in ten and a half days at an average speed of 19.15 knots. A second record was set for ship construction with keel laying to launch in 51 weeks.
Amsterdam reports the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations resumed Monday afternoon per Berlin Volks Zeitung. The article notes the restart of discussions aiming to settle terms between the warring parties.
Mr. R. B. Rives, 54, died at his residence 312 North Third Street this morning after about two weeks of illness. He was formerly with Sterchi Bancroft and later with the company’s receiver. He leaves his wife, two children aged 9 and 13, and three sisters Mrs. Carrie Tillman of Columbia South Carolina, Mrs. Lily Bruner of Rock Hill South Carolina, and Mrs. Annie Wood-.
Physicians led by Dr. Ferdinand King urge women to use organic iron to combat iron deficiency. They cite notes from Dr. Schuyler Jaques, Dr. H B Vail, and Dr. James Francis Sullivan praising Nuxated Iron for rapid strength gains, while warning against standard metallic iron products.
The deceased, a faithful Grace Methodist member and Woodmen of the World lodge, will lie in state at the residence tonight at 9. Rev. M. T. Plyler will conduct the service, after which the remains will be taken on the early morning train to Charlotte, N Y for interment.
Miss Drew Ganey died this morning at James Walker Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Blood poisoning set in last Thursday and weakened her quickly. She was 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ganey of Delgado, with several siblings named. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10 at the family home in Delgado.
Mechanics' Home Union to sell at auction on February 15, 1918 at noon in the New Hanover County Courthouse for cash the two described parcels in Block 20 Milmagen city property. The sale follows mortgage deeds by W A Simon Annie and C Howell Jessie N Howell with Mechanics' Home Union. Financing default noted in the mortgage provisions.
Washington January 16 Louis G Daniels was nominated by President Wilson to be postmaster at New Bern North Carolina.
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