Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 44, 2 January 1918 — Page 8
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, THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, J918.
MARKETS
GRAIN QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, Jan. 2. The range of futures on the Chicago Board of Trade follows: No trading In -wheat Corn Open. High. Low. Cloae. Jan. ......126 126 126ft 126 May 124 125 124 124& Oata Jan 78 79 78 78 May 75 76 75 75 LardJan 23.80 23.80 23.45 23.45 May ......24.32 24.32 23.85 23.87
No.
CHICAGO, Janl 2. Corn
yellow and No: 3 yellow, nominal; No. 4 yellow. $1.7501.76.. Oats No. 3 white, 8081; standard. 81 82. Pork Nominal. Ribs $23.25 23.75. Lard $23.50.
TOLEDO. O., Jan. 2. Wheat No. 1 red, $2.20. Cloyerseed Old $16.65, new $16.75, Jan. $16.75. Feb. $16.80, Mar. $16.30. Alslke $14.70, Feb. $14.70, March, $14.80.
Timothy Old $3.90, new ?4.oo; Mar. $4.52. " CINCINNATI, Jan. 1. Wheat No. 2 red winter, $2.17; No. 3, $2.14; No. 4, $2.13; sales, two cars. Corn No. 2 white, $1.9001.92; No. 3 white, $1.90; No. 4 white, $1.85 $1.90; . No. 2 yellow. $1.9001.92; No. 3 yellow, $1.90; No. 4 yellow. $1.85 $1.90; No. 2 mixed. $1.9001.92; ear corn, white. $1.4501.50; yellow, $1.45 01.60; mixed. $1.4001.45. Oats No. 2 white, 4545c; No. 2 mixed, 80084 c.
PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, Jan. 2. Butter Market
Steady; creamery firsts 39049c.
Eggs Receipts 5,982 cases; market
steady; firsts 5o 56c; lowest 4lc.
Live Poultry Market higher; fowls
23c; springs 23 c.
Potato Market Steady; receipts 15 cars; Minn. Wis. and Mich., bulk, $1.80
2.00; do sacks, $1.902.00. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
2. Closing quo-
York Stock Ex
NEW YORK, Jan. tations on the New
change follow: American Can., 40. American Locomotive, 57. American Beet Sugar, 73. American Smelter, 81. , Anaconda, 62. Atchison, 85. .Bethlehem Steel, bid, 80. Canadian Pacific, 140. Chesapeake & Ohio, 51. Great Northern Pfd., 89. New York Central, 71. No. Pacific, 86. So. Pacific, 83. Pennsylvania, 46. TJ. S." Steel Com., 95.
LIVE STOCK PRICES
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2. Hogs Recelpts, 5,500; market strong; packers and butchers, $16.25016.50; common to choice, $12.00015.50; stags. $10.00 013.60; pigs and lights, $13,000
16.60.
Cattle Receipts, 1,100; market strong: steers. $6.00011.75; heifers,
$6.00011.00; cows, $5.5009.00. Calves Market strong, at $5,000 15.25. Sheep Market steady, at $5,000 10.50. - Lambs Market steady, at $10,000 17.00. .
LOCAL QUOTATIONS
FEED QUOTATIONS (Corrected Daily by Omer Whelan.) Paying Oats. 70c: old corn, $1.85; new corn, $1.25; rye, $i.60; straw, $9.00 a ton. Selling Cotton seed meal, $58.00 a ton, $3.00 a cwt.; middlings, $49.00 a ton, $2.50 a cwt; bran, $47.00-a ton, $2.40 a cwt.; salt, $2.35 a barrel; tankage, $92.00. a ton; $4.65 a cwt.; oil meal, $63.00 a ton;' $3.25 a cwt.
DROUGHT-SfRICKEN CATTLE CARED FOR BY U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
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Enough cars have been requisitioned through the efforts of the. United States Food Administration to bring 150.000 head of cattle out of the drought-stricken districts and place them in territory where there is ample pasturage and water to sustain them. Conservation of these cattle ia extremely important because of the world shortage of meat. "
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BRITISH ADVANCE THREE WAYS
FRUIT & VEGETABLES (Corrected Dally by Eggemeyers) . SELLING PRICES'
CHICAGO. Jan. 2. Hogs Receipts, 38.000; market slow; bulk of sales, $16.5016.85; lights. $16.75316.80; mixed, $16.15(8)16.90; heavy, $16.15 16.90; rough, $16.1516.30; pigs, $12.00 15.25. Cattle Receipts. 21,000; market weak; steers, $7.5014.00; . stockers end feeders, $6.6510.40; cows and Jhelfers, $5.3011.30; calves, $8.50 16.00. Sheep Receipts, 14,000;. market ctrong; wethers, $9.3513.20; lambs, $13.00 17.15.
PITTSBURGH. Jan. 2. Hogs Receipts, 3,000; market lower; heavies, $17.0017.10; heavy- Yorkers, $17.10 17.15: light Yorkers, $17.0017.15; pigs. $16.7516.90. ' Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 300; market steady; top sheep, $12.50; top lambs, $17.60. Calves Receipts, 100; market steady; top. $16.00.
' INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2. Receipts p Hogs. 10,000. higher; cattle, 1,200, steady; calves, 350, higher; sheep, 100. steady. Steers Prime corn fed steers, 1300 and np $13.50 14.50, choice steers -1150 to 1250. $12 12.50; common to . medium steers. 1150 to 1250, $13.00 13.50; good to choice steers, 800 to -1100 $9.5011.50; common to medium steers, 800 to 1100, $6.509.50; good .'- heifers, $8.00 10.00; fair to medium to choice yearlings, $11 13.00. Helfera and Cows Good to choice heifers, $8.6011.00; common to fair heifers, $6.00 8.25; good to choice cows. $8.0C9.75: fair to medium heif- ' ers $7.50 8.25; fair to medium cows, $7.00 7.75; canners and cutters, $5.00 7.00. Bolls and Calves Good to prime export bulls, $8.00 9.60: good to choice
buthcer bulls. $7.&o8.25; common to fair bulls, ' $6.00 7.25; common to best veal calves, $716; common to best heavy calves $512; stock calves 250 to 450 pounds, $7.5010.50. Stockers and Feeding Cattle Good ' to choice steers, 700 lbs., and up, $9.00 10.50; , common to fair steers under "700 lbs., $7.009.00; good to choice - steers under 700 lbs., $8.00 9.50; common to fair steers, under 700 lbs.,
.$6.007.75; medium to good heifers. $6.007.50; medium to good feeding
cows, $5.507.00; springers, $5.50 $7.5011.00.
(Corrected Daily by Eggemeyers.) VEGETABLES
Brussel sprouts, 35c; green beans, scarce; carrots, 3 to 5c per pound; cabbage 3 to 5c per pound; cauliflower 15 to 25c per head; hot-house cucumber 18c; egg plan,ts 15 to 25c; kohlrabi 10c bunch; leaf lettuce 20c per pound; bead lettuce 5 to 20c per head; French endive, 75c per pound; leak. 10c bunch; mushrooms 75c to $1.00 per pound; onions 4 to 5c per pound; Spanish onions, 8c per pound; new potatoes, 10c per pound; sballot3 8c bunch; young onions, 5c bunch; oyster plant, 10c bunch; parsley, 5c bunch; mangoes 3 to 5c each; radishes 5c bunch; squash 10 to 20c each; 6pinnach 15c per pound; H. H. toms 20 to 35c per pound; turnips 3 to 5c per pound; water cress 5c per bunch; celery cabbage, 10c per pound. FRUITS Apples 3 to 8c per pound; grape fruit 8 to 10c; Spanish malaya 35c per
pound, 2 for 2oc; cranberries 15 to 18c per pound; lemons 30c per doz.; bananas, 8c per pound; limes 30c per doz.; Cal. pears, 6 for 25c; pomegranates 8 to 10c each; tangerines, 40c per doz MISCELLANEOUS. Chestnuts, 25 to 40c per pound; new sbellbarks, 10c per lb.; black walnuts. 3 to 5c per pound ; eggs, 60c per doz.; strawberries, 50c per pt.; butter cleamery, 58c, country, 48c; fry chickens, 32c per lb.; turkeys, 88c; ducks, 32c; Geese, 33c. PRODUCE (Paying Prices) (Corrected Daily by Eggemeyer &. Sons.) Butter 40c; chickens, old, 16c; fryers, 18c; eggs, 48c; potatoes, new, $150. Onions Yellow, $3.003.25; white, $2.753.23 per 100-lb. sack; Spanish, Tomatoes Hothouse 15 20c per lb. $1.65 1.75 per crate.
Indianapolis Representative Sales HOG8
Mystery Ship" Will
Sail For Russia
A PACIFIC PORT, Jan. 2. While the Russian steamer Sbllka. regarded
at a "mystery ship" for some time af
ter her arrival from Vladivostok under
Bolshevik! control is ettll closely guarded by police and federal officers, the sailors are now allowed the freedom of the city. Government officials, It was said today, have decided there 1b no reason for detaining the steamer and she is now taking a cargo of pig iron for the return voyage. When the Shilka arrived here last month, it was said she bad brought $100,000 in gold for the defense of the , Industrial Workers of tba World now . awaiting trial at Chicago and for a time it was thought she might be interned. Sailors of the Shl'.ka'a crew have been buying merchandise heavily ;for sale on their own account when they again reach Vladivostok. Their j
rubles have been accepted by local
merchants as having a value of ten
cents. One aailor purchased twenty pairs of women's shoes, retailing for $10 A He said they would sell in Rus- ; sia for $30 a pair. ., , , r ii ' Help put the business of the country on a war basis by buying War Savings Stamps.
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132 402 181 202 , , , 280 STEERS , 638 993 1213 . 1400 HEIFERS 480 ; 612 , . 808 , 750 COWS , 710 , 815
.1065 .1150
BULL8
. 560 .1030 .1480
1800 CALVES 1320 140 185 130
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Above Cavalry crossing bridge thrown over "British trench, and infantry below making way along trench bottom. Below British tank lumbering through wrecked Village street. The photographs show three methods of British advance on the western front. The network of trenches which rendered ' cavalry practically useless to the British early in the war do not bother the horsemen so much since engineers have- built portable bridges which are thrown across the trenches. The infantrymen are in their usual place below ground level on the trench floor. The tank is roaring and rumblin? through the wreck of a village near Cambrai.
Hoover Partly Responsible For Largest Cuban Sugar Crop
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. One of Herbert Hoover's first acts in his effort to handle the food situation was to try to settle strikes in the Cuban cane field so; this country's supply might be protected, he told the senate investigating committee, today. "A .few days after ; I arrived, from Europe the state department asked me to see what could be done to settle
labor troubles in Cuba," the food ad
ministrator said. "At my suggestion a representative was sent to Cuba to see what could be done with the Cuban government." . Testimony showed that soon after that time much of, the trouble was cleared up. - Lodge Conducts Probe. The examination of Hoover was con-
SHE HEADS ARMY SERVICE LEAGUE
Grocers of County
in Meeting Tonight
A special meeting of retail grocers
of Richmond and Wayne county has
called by Food Administrator Weidner
for Wednesday night in the Commer
cial club rooms. , Weidner requests
that every grocer be present as the
meeting is important.
NEGOTIATIONS CONCLUDED
STOCKHOLM, i Jan. 2 The Svenska Dagbladet ascribes to the Swedish foreign office information that negotiations with the United States have been concluded satisfactorily. It says that an agrement has been reached under which 11,000 tons of necessities, chiefly coffee, petroleum and drugs, will arrive in Sweden about the middle of February.
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Mrs. Albert L. Mills.. . The wife of "Major General Albeit
L. Mills, U. S. A, has been elected
president of the Army Service league, an organization of army women who will supply soldiers with knitted garments and other comforts before they
go abroad.
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ducted . by Senator Lodge, who announced that Chairman Reed was un
able to come. . Senator Lodge attacked Hoover's testimony before a senate committee last May in which he said a short Cu: ban crop was feared this year because of labor troubles. , Statistics show that this year's crop was the largest on record. . . "When I investigated the Cuban situation at the invitation of the.tate department, many sugar men gave , a gloomy outlook of this year's crop," Hoover said. "My statement was based on facts brought to my attention then. Those hearings were 'in executive sessions and that is why I spoke so freely., I did not wish to alarm the country."
Unthanks Observe SOth Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Un thank celebrated their golden wedding anniversary New Year's eve at their home. West Main street. Fifty years ago, after their? marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Unthank went to Cincinnati and took a boat for St. Louis, there taking a covered wagon to the interior -of Kansas, where they settled. ' Later they returned to Richmond. Dinner was served to the children and grandchildren. -The oldest grandchild and family, who reside in Washington state, were unable to be present. The table was decorated with fifty yellow candles and with yellow flowers. ' H. P. Thomas of Arlja, a brother of Mrs. Unthank, was among the guests.
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN. ' " . f WASHINGTON. jn- 2 The next national loan will b designated officially as "The Thld Liberty Loan" not the. Victory joan, or Freedom Loan, or Peace L4an, as bad been suggested. This wis made known today after receipt hundreds of . suggested names fro persons all over the country in response to a request for submission - of; ideas. . . . f . WILL DETOUR TRAINS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2. Through passenger as well af freight trains may be routed arounl Chicago, instead of through the citjf in order to increase the efficiency of the national transportation system! ' Italy possesses rich mines, of zinc, but as It is not a coal-producing country the output of ths metal Is limited.
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