New York Cotton Market Opens Mixed. Prices Rally Then Ease
May cotton advances on cables with July near 21 market points and October around 19.40 on call. Prices ease as July falls to 19.02 and October to 19.30 before end of first hour. Texas spot supports October while prospects of higher acreage in Texas Oklahoma and Mississippi are noted.
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New York
Texas
Adirts
Oklahoma
Liverpool
Allis-Chalmers American Beet
American Can
Amer, Car and Foundry
American Locomotive
American Cotton Oil
American Smelting
American Sugar
American Tel
American Tobacco
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Bid
Bethlehem
Cuba
Tonessee General Electric
Great Northern Pfd
Great Northern Ore
Illinois Central
Inspiration Copper
Int
Merc. Marine Pfd
International Nickel
International Paper
Kansas City Southern
Kennecott Copper
Louisville & Nashville
Ligg
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Ray Consolidated Sapper
Reading
BSA Rep. Iron & Steel
Seaboard Air Line
Ae Bess's
S. Steel Pfd
Peak Conde
Poe
Car. Chem
Western Union
Westinghouse Electric
Midvale Steel
General Motors
Bales
Local Markets and Stocks Reported in Wilmington Area
The page lists local market prices for butter, beef, poultry and produce including butter at 30 to 40 cents, chickens 50 to 65 cents each, and pork and potatoes with various regional notes. It also previews Wilmington naval stores and provides a stock market rundown from New York trading, highlighting leadership in equipment, metals, and shipping groups with notable advances in United States Steel and related industrials.
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New York
Wall Street
United States Steel
Atlantic Gulf
West Indies
New York Spot Cottons Quiet at Middling 20.70
New York on May 1 reports spot cotton quiet with middling grade at 20.70 cents per pound. Market activity subdued with no major changes noted today. Strong naming of the cotton market not indicated.
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New York
New Orleans Cotton Opens Higher on Cooler Western Belt
New Orleans May 1 better cables and cooler western belt temperatures spurred uptick in cotton trading at the open. Offers were light but prices advanced 14 to 16 points from yesterday's close in the first half hour of business.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Spot Cotton Prices and Market Update
Spot cotton in New Orleans is steady with futures closing higher by 18 to 27 points. Sales on the spot reached 1,623 bales to arrive 576, with a stock of 329,728 bales and varied quotes across grades from good ordinary to strict good and middling to strict good middling.
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New Orleans
Ae Ae Ltd
U. Oo
Liverpool Cotton Futures Steady After Spot Drop
Liverpool on May 1 reports spot cotton easier with good middling at 13.08 and sales of 10,000 bales including 1,500 for speculation and export. Receipts reach 5,000. Futures close steady with May 12.63 and later spreads from May-June 12.56 to January-February 11.77.
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Liverpool
Wind Damage Near Charlotte and Towns
A heavy rain and windstorm caused extensive property damage across Charlotte and surrounding towns including a cotton mill collapse in Charlotte, mill damage at Kings Mountain, and about fifteen houses reportedly blown down near Maysworth though lines hinder verification. Gastonia also reported significant damage with damaged communications and power lines. No deaths reported.
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Associated Press
Charlotte
N. C
Kings Mountain
Maysworth
South Carolina
Gastonia
Turpentine Steady and Rosin Firm in Savannah Trade
Savannah naval stores report shows turpentine stable with receipts 494 and shipments 131, stock 9 530 while rosin remains firm with receipts 1 292 and shipments 1 457 and stock 86 781 Prices list: B 5.70 D 5.70 5.80 3H 5.75 5.80 F 5.80 G 5.86 5.90 H 5.85 5.96 I K 5.39 6.00 M 5.90 6.10 N 6.15 WG 6.20 WW 6.25.
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Savannah
Rosin
Sugar Market Steady Amid Quiet Futures Opening
New York May 1 Raw sugar steadies at 6.21 cents per lb centrifugal. molasses 5.33. refined sugar steady 7.50 to 8.00. Futures open very quiet as operators await spot market developments. At noon prices unchanged to one point higher.
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New York
Wheat Drops Sharply Amid News of German Peace Offer
Chicago wheat and corn tumbled as imports from Canada pressured prices and a late news sweep about German peace talks and strikes spurred a broad market decline. May wheat closed about 2.57 and July 2.13, with corn also lower and lard and ribs showing gains for packers.
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Chicago
Canada
Washington
Germany
Wilson
von Bethmann-Hollweg
New Army Recruiting Record Reported in May
Washington reports yesterday's regular army recruiting hit 2,556 men setting a new record. April totals reached 40,258 recruits across the month.
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Associated Press
Washington
Eggs and Poultry Prices Reported in Kansas City
Butter and poultry unchanged in Kansas City trading. Eggs Firsts at 31 1/2 cents per dozen.
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Kansas City
Dairy and Poultry Market Report Chicago and New York May 1
Chicago markets show butter higher with receipts 44 447 cases and unsettled potato receipts of 30 cars. Wisconsin Michigan white butter 2.40 2.50. Idaho Colorado Oregon Washington 2.60 2.65. New York markets report butter weak with creamery prices higher than extras 41 2, 42, 92 score 41. Eggs unsettled with 29 025 receipts. fresh gathered extras 37 3 61 2. storage packed firsts 35 36 1 2. Cheese unsettled with 7 084 receipts. state fresh specials 26 3 4 27. dressed poultry dull with chickens 23 31, fowls 20 1 2 26 1 2, turkeys 18 3 5.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Michigan
Idaho
Colorado
Oregon
Washington
New York
American schooner Woodward Abrahams sunk by submarine
The American schooner Woodward Abrahams, 744 tons gross, previously at Pensacola and last reported from Jacksonville on February 28, has been sunk by a German submarine. The nine crew members were saved, according to a cable to Pendleton Brothers, former owners.
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Associated Press
New York
Woodward Abrahams
Pensacola
Fla
Jacksonville
Pendleton Brothers
Abrahams
Inconsiderate Shopper Dilemma in Wardrobe Shopping Tales
A narrator recounts a day shopping for costumes with her mother for a production. She observes other shoppers wasting clerks’ time, noting a fault in indecisive behavior and urging readers to know their needs at home before entering stores.
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Mother
Swamp-Root Promises Relief for Backache Kidney Troubles
Dr Kilmer swamps root advertised as a physician prescription for kidney and bladder diseases. The ad claims rapid relief, lists bottles at 50c and 1.00, and offers a sample for ten cents by mail from Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York, with a nod to The Wilmington Daily Dispatch.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Wilmington Daily Dispatch
Wilmington to launch rat extermination campaign May 6
The Health Department will oversee a citywide rat extermination drive starting May 6 in Wilmington. Dr. Charles T. Nesbitt estimates food losses from rats could reach 250000 this year due to rising prices, and expert exterminator W F Moore will plan and lead the effort. He recently worked for the government in Washington and for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in Petersburg.
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Wilmington
Health Department
Charles T. Nesbitt
Nesbitt
W. F. Moore
Moore
Washington
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Petersburg
Goldsboro High School Expels Baseball Players
Goldsboro North Carolina May 1 special to The Dispatch several members of the Goldsboro High School baseball team were expelled from attendance after a trip to Cary High School for a game was blocked by principal and coach A B Carson. The incident follows ongoing friction between teachers and students with over twenty pupils expelled or suspended since January.
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Dispatch
Goldsboro
N. C
Goldsboro High School
Cary High School
A. B. Carson
Cary
Funeral of Mr Jones Interment in Oakdale After Church Services
Funeral services for Richard J. Jones longtime city resident will be held at Grace Methodist church this afternoon at five o'clock conducted by Rev. M. T. Plyler. Interment follows at Oakdale cemetery with pallbearers Thomas J. Gause James F. Gause Jr. S E. Wood and Gaston Phares.
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Oakdale
Richard J. Jones
North Seventh Street
Grace Methodist Church
M. T. Plyler
Oakdale Cemetery
Messrs
Thomas J. Gause
James F. Gause, Jr
S. E. Wood
Gaston Phares
Coroner's Jury Fails to Charge Suspect in Death Case
Coroner's jury returns no charges linking the suspect to the Elizabeth City murder or the highway robbery conviction. He denies guilt, claims innocence about the Bellevue cemetery shooting, and maintains he was at the stockade on the night of the 11th. Witnesses Cameron and Taylor defend free speech about articles but deny attempts to influence the trial. Major Harriss refutes a quoted remark about arresting the employer and the Davidson woman.
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Elizabeth City
Johnston
Neal Walon
Bellevue Cemetery
George Cameron
J. Allen Taylor
Taylor
J. B. Hewlett
Dispatch
Cameron
Saturday Record
Mr. Cameron
Major W. N. Harriss
Superior Court
Walton
Davidson
Major Harriss
Raleigh
Mr. Woodcock
Troops to the Front Roosevelts Urgent Appeal
New York May 1 Theodore Roosevelt returning from Chicago urged Americans to send an American force to the French front without delay. He said delaying training many men risks a discreditable failure to do our duty and an ineffective army when sent.
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Associated Press
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Chicago
Marshal Joffre
National Guard
Plattsburg
Roosevelt
Voting Light at Noon for Factory Site Proposition
Voters in the Fourth Ward showed light turnout before noon though early returns favored the factory site proposal. Over a hundred ballots had been cast by 11:30 with seven opposed, as Rotary drive accelerates to push turnout before polls close at 6:55 pm.
Seagate School Commencement Program Set For Thursday Night
Seagate school will hold commencement exercises Thursday night at 8 o'clock. The program includes Welcome Song by Primary, dialogues and drills from Primary classes, songs by the School, recitation Polly Wants a Cracker by Eric Thomas, a Flower Drill by sixteen Primary Girls, and a Flag Medley by six girls.
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Seagate School
Polly
Eric Thomas
Brave Professor
British Nurses Association to Celebrate 30th Anniversary
The British Nurses' Association led by Princess Christian for many years plans a year of events to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its founding.
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British Nurses’ Association
Princess Christian
Special Round-Trip Rail Rates From Wilmington
The Seaboard Air Line Railway announces special round trip fares to cities including Atlanta Raleigh St Louis New Orleans and Dallas with sale dates from May to June and limited return terms midnight deadlines. Contacts R W Wallace and A W N C H BE for details.
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Progressive Railway of the South
Wilmington
N. C
Atlanta
Black Mountain
Ridgecrest
Bimingham
Ala
Raleigh
N. Cy. O
ST. Louis
Spartanburg
New Orleans
Washington
D. C
Dallas
Tex
R. W. Wallace, Co. T
Pleasan
T.P.A
Wiln
N.C
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Market Review
Marine and
Yannah
Arieston
Norfolk
Graneifornia
Florida
Virginia
Eliza
Philadelphia
Mount Holyke College
BY McManus
Health Dept
MR. Jones
Asheville
Exelzento Medicine Company
Atlanta, Ga
Pruggis Parcel Post
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