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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1913
Page
10
Market notes show lemons around 6 dollars per box and crates of cabbage selling 1.00 to 1.25 each. Crabs are being counted among fish market receipts as imports rise, indicating hard shell crabs are running. Wholesale price holds about 20 cents per dozen. high water hampers carloads ordered by local merchants, especially produce dealers.
The South shows a small actual market with little activity. Weather maps favor mostly cloudy skies with little precipitation. no broad change expected. Liverpool spot sales up, foreign demand improving, markets quiet and steady. some call a Jew's harp a musical instrument.
Woodrow Wilson lays out a program to abolish privileges in tariff laws and push for more efficient, competitive industry. He stresses gradual reform, building foreign trade, and banking changes to open prosperity, concluding with applause as he exits the Capitol.
Amalgamated Copper 78 5 8 American Beet Sugar 34 5 8 American Cotton Oil 42 American Smelting 71 3 4 American Sugar Refining 114 American Tel Tel 132 1 4 Anaconda Mining 39 3 8 Atchison 103 1 4 Atlantic Coast Line 124 1 2 Baltimore & Ohio 100 1 2 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 91 1 4 Canadian Pacific 238 1 4 Chesapeake & Ohio 69 Chicago & North Western 134 3 4 Chicago Milw St Paul 112 Colorado Fuel Tron 35 Colorado & Southern 30b Delaware & Hudson 162 Denver & Rio Grande 201 1 2 Erie 30 General Electric 141 1 2 Great Northern ptd 130 3 8 Great Northern Ore Diss 37 Illinois Central 121 Intenborough Met 173 4 Inter Harvester 160 1 2 Louisville & Nashville 135 Missouri Pacific 37 Missouri Kansas & Texas 26 1 4b Lehigh Valley 161 3 4 National Lead 51 New York Central 1065 8 Norfolk & Western 107 1 2 Northern Pacific 118 7 8 Pennsylvania 119 People s Gas 111 1 2b Pullman Palace Car 159b Reading 167 7 8 Rock Island Co Rock Island Co ptd 39 Southern Pacific i Southern Railway 265 8 Union 166 1 2
The Mallory Line steamer Comal 2251 Avery sails for Tampa Key West and New York with cargo and passengers. Mercator 699 Kiaisen sails for Puerto Cortez. Fort Morgan shifts to Louisville and Nashville. Charles G Endicott repairs at Pinto docks. Sunny South loads for Alabama river while Mary S Blees heads to Tombigbee river. John Quill and American depart for Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. Paloma 1498 Nelson due Wednesday from New Orleans to load cargo. Livingston 620 Jacobsen due Wednesday afternoon from Puerto Cortez for United Fruit. Winona revenue cutter sails for Daphne for target practice. Tug C M Moss arrives with oil barge for Oil Company from Port Arthur.
Hydrographic reports note April 2 at lat 36.25 lon 70.06 a waterlogged three mast schooner passed with mizzen mast carried away. March 22 at lat 31.38 lon 80.92 a can buoy with black and white stripes seen about five feet above water. March 30 in Florida Straits the schooner Samuel T Beacham was struck by a steamer and sunk. crew rescued.
The forecast urges protection against 32 degrees for 36 hours for shipments heading north while eastern and western routes expect moderate temperatures.
The steamer Tarpon from Florida ports delivered 1 000 barrels of rosin for the Mallory line as part of an 8 000 barrel total to Mobile. Jones-Dusenbury Company of Pensacola are the shippers. See Bunny at the Bijou today.
New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with a 3 to 5 point advance amid talk of a broken levee near Memphis and favorable weather forecasts. Early gains narrowed as demand faded and bearish selling receded, leaving prices 3 to 5 points above yesterday at noon.
The New York cotton market opened steady with a 3 to 4 point advance on Liverpool cables and weather gloom. Trading cooled after opening as tariff doubts and mill holdings limited demand while showers in the belt offered little influence. midday prices held 1 to 2 points higher.
Receipts today show Southern Railway Company export of 900 compressed bales and Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company export of 372 compressed bales.
Observations at 7:00 a m show the Tombigbee river and its branches will fall the next two days while the Alabama river continues to fall. Albert Ashenberger, local forecaster, Weather Bureau.
A barometric low over Texas drives rain in the west and gulf, snow in the upper Mississippi Valley, with warm southerly winds in the west gulf states and cold northerlies in the mountain region. A high pressure area over the upper Great Lakes extends south and brings fair weather with freezing north, seasonable east gulf and south Atlantic. Showers expected at Mobile tonight and Wednesday.
For rheumatism you will find nothing better than Chamberlains Liniment. Try it and see how quickly it gives relief. For sale by all dealers.
The Bijou shows the two reel feature Queen of Spades and John Bunny's Honeymoon with admission set at five cents. Critics call the program exceptionally great for a penny admission.
A local ad urges shoppers to visit Mitchells tomorrow for Bargain Day and featured items. The message highlights SEHAD and today’s item as part of the sale.
Associated Press report from Washington states the comptroller of the currency issued a call for a statement of condition of all U S national banks as of close of business Friday.
A Mobile city ordinance prohibits entering walking riding or driving on streets or sidewalks undergoing paving when barriers or warning signs are displayed. Violations incur fines from 5 to 50 dollars with immediate effect upon adoption and publication.
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