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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Apr 09, 1916

Page

12

Cotton and stock market wrap from New York and New Orleans

Cotton futures closed steady in New York with July October and December contracts quoted and New Orleans prices showing similar stability. The New York Stock List lists numerous rail and industrials, while fruit and vegetables in New Orleans show quiet demand with varied prices for oranges onions potatoes peanuts and other produce.

New York BEY Cvvsocese Cecees New Orleans DABY Cccvccess Allis-Chalmers American American Can American Car & Foundry American Locomotive American Cotton Oil American Smelting American Sugar American Tel. & Tel American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Chicago Consolidated Gas Crucible Steel Erie General Electric Great Northern Great Northern Ore Ctfs Illinois Central Interborough Consol. Corp Warley Fruit and Produce Company

VESSELS IN PORT AND REPAIR YARD LISTING

Port records show numerous steamships and auxiliary ships in port or at dockyards including Tarpon Ollinger Bruce Docks Corinto Carmela Springfield Georgia Gilkey Oscar G Flora A Kimball Edna V Pickels Mary C Hale Gypsum Empress Bessie Whiting Camelia May Page Phineas W Sprague Goldfield Albert D Mills Euphrosine Josephine Gen 8S and more. Repairs at Olinger Bruce Docks, Gulf Dry Docks and Munson Docks along with loading and unloading activity at Foot of Dauph Laid Up and other docks.

Springfield Georgia Gilkey Co. W. Mills Oscar G Flora A. Kimball Edna V. Pickels Mary C. Hale Bessie Whiting Camelia May Page Phineas W. Sprague Goldfield Albert D. Mills Euphrosine Josephine

Vessels and civic memo mix in port notices and civic plea

Shipping entries list multiple vessels with routes and dates from Liverpool to Cuba and the Bahamas, plus Alabama river packets and a wagon of timber firms. A civic appeals letter praises Jewish women for fly trap and mosquito control, curbside cleanliness, gutter upkeep, and beautification via planting fruit trees, ending with cemetery visits and city beautiful notes by L Schwarz.

Balencia Liverpool Francis Hanity Cuban Molasses Company Banan Nor United Fruit Co Bluefields Carbarein Cuba Rebecca R. Douglass Ladd Mercedes Carrie A. Lane Marstch Martinique

Republican Convention Called for May 17 in Alabama

Official call issued for a Republican congressional convention in Birmingham on May 17 1916 to elect one delegate and one alternate to the National Republican Convention in Chicago June 7 and to nominate a candidate for Congress and a presidential elector plus related business Delegates apportioned by county Choctaw Clark Marengo Monroe Mobile Washington and others to participate under Alabama law.

Mobile Railway Association Dept Brooklyn N. Y Railway Bureau East St. Louis U.S Franklin Institute N. Rochester Internal Revenue Civil Service U. S. School of Civil Service Kenois Bldg Washington, D. C Ite P. O Burkett Cedar New Jersey Askin & Marine Co Dauphin St Altoona Gus Seiple Bell Alabama Democratic National Executive Committee Supreme Court Court of Appeals Alabama Public Service Commission First Circuit Court Mobile County Sree Ersisches D. B. Cobbs Haseen Birmingham Chicago Congress Republican District Committee Ala Ata Mass Choctaw Clark Marengo Monroe Fite Washington P. D. Barker

Schwarz Suggests Ways for Making Mobile Beautiful

Volunteers report daily for the City Beautiful movement as Mobile residents pledge aid to plant azaleas and improve lawns. Clubs endorse the plan and offer help to reduce flies and mosquitoes, with Commissioner Laz Schwarz replying to the Council of Jewish Women.

City Beautiful Mobile Azuelas

Marine Movements Dockside Cargoes and Arrivals

The schooner William H Sumner sails for Cuba with lumber. The Corinto arrives at Mobile and Ohio Docks with bananas from Porto Barrios and will unload then load a general cargo for Porto Barrios. Tarpon undergoes repairs at Ollinger Bruce Dry Docks and prepares to sail for St Andrews Bay. Stranger arrives for repairs. tug returns to Galveston. Verona and Banan banana ships due this week with large cargos from Tela.

Corinto United Fruit Company Mobile and Ohio Docks Porto Barrios Guam Mobile and Ohio Fruit Dock Government Street Tarpon St. Andrews and Gulf Line Ollinger & Bruce Dry Docks Tucsoy St. Andrews Bay Pensacola Barkentine Stranger Steele Towing and Wrecking Company Galveston Ollinger & Bruce Verona Banan Tela Fort Gaines Orr-Laubenheimer Com- Ohio Ohio Belize Mobile and

Shipping News From Port Reports and Harbor Movements

Various vessels including the Norwegian steamships Heina and Fort Gaines and the Swedish Sydie and the Nepos are active with cargoes of general goods, coal, and bananas. The river packets Peerless and City of Mobile carry passengers to Alabama landings. the Melba returns for repairs after grounding near Key West. A coast guard cutter departs for Ken Waen, and hydrographic notices detail Mississippi passes depths and offshore obstructions.

Exchange Offer For Two Rented City Houses

A notice seeks exchange of two rented city houses within fifteen minutes’ walk of business districts for farm property of equal value. The houses are valued at $4,000.00.

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