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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1916
Page
9
Friday markets show mixed activity with steamer lines listing bale totals and exporters. New Orleans and New York cotton futures slip amid easing political tensions while Census March consumption adds to bullish tone. spot at New Orleans steadies with May to December contracts cited.
The cotton seed oil market closed easier with futures ranging from September to November and total sales reaching 12 100 barrels. Wall Street Review reports broad selling on open amid international crisis, with declines in Mexican Petroleum American Smelting Texas Company Crucible Lackawanna Steel and several motors and equipment stocks while United States Steel shows limited weakness and some sectors rally later.
Chicago hog cattle and sheep receipts and price ranges with beef steers calves and stockers listed. Savannah naval stores notes with turpentine and rosin prices and receipts. Also brief items on French losses at Verdun a Cedartown death notice Theodore Alabama obituaries and Mobile Clearing House officers elected Staples president.
Gulf City Skating Rink offers two professional instructors at Temperance Hall with a maple floor. The rink is open to private parties from 10 to 12 each night, and free skating for ladies and girls is available every Tuesday and Friday afternoon.
Ida Vera Simonton leads 300 women in the American Women's League for Self Defense planning to drill in armories learn to use rifles and trap shoot to support war effort. The group endorsed by Major General Wood aims to help front lines with first aid soup kitchens and morale for troops.
In Mobile harbor many vessels are listed at streams and docks including steamers sailings and barges. The document notes ships such as Georgia Gilkey Flora A Kimball Albert D Mills Josephine Waltham Delia Montrosa Deva Lisboa and Irma Bentley along with auxiliary barks Ollinger and Bruce and various schooners and river packets. Dock facilities at Bay Steamers Dauphin Street and East Shore Trade are described with repairs loading unloading and awaiting season conditions.
A compilation shows multiple ships bound for different firms and routes. Vessels include Ban an Nor to United Fruit Co April 15 Bluefields Nor to United Fruit Co April 14 Hiena Nor to Munson Lines Mercian Br to Mobile Liners Oranian Br to Mobile Liners Nubian Br to Mobile Liners Laguna Am to Bahamas Timber Co Jennie S Hall Am to Bahamas Timber Co Emma 8 Lord Havana Francis M to Southern Railroad Evelyn W Hinkly Am to master Barks Schwanden Russ to master Skoda Am to Whitney Bodden Co.
Mack Couevas of Biloxi formerly of New Orleans escaped from Biloxi city jail after battering the door with a blunt instrument about 2 am. He had been sent to work on Biloxi streets in lieu of a $25 fine and costs for assault. Mrs. Conevas had her son arrested Tuesday on an assault charge.
A house select committee pronounces United States Attorney Marshal of New York guilty of contempt for criticizing a house sub committee probing impeachment charges by Representative Buchanan. Chairman Moon says no action will be taken for two weeks to allow consideration.
In Washington on April 14 the senate rejected the Underwood amendment by 48 to 11, blocking authorization for a nitrate plant site as part of the army reorganization bill discussions. A Smith amendment for a nitrate plant was awaited later. A boy on a motorcycle was slightly injured in Crichton when a collision with a truck occurred. his father Williams took him to Mobile. driver J H Tew was turning the truck at the time.
Dr W H Oates Alabama state prison inspector branded the present penal system a survival from the barbaric past at a Sociological Congress session in New Orleans. He urged imprisonment focus on health, regeneration, education and moral instruction and called fee systems paying sheriffs deplorable and pernicious. Willard Moran fight pictures showcase at Columbia Sunday.
A flood of sail, steam, and river traffic shifts through Mobile Bay as vessels from Norway, Britain, Cuba, and the Bahamas Timber Company load lumber, lumber products, and general cargo for Central America and the West Indies. The Mobile Liners announce arrivals for April including the Oranian and Nubian with steel billets and cotton, while local court actions record fines for prohibition violations and petty theft.
Tracts of 40 to 10 000 acres offered with one quarter cash and liberal terms on balance. Includes prime pine long soil in Mobile County Alabama. Interested buyers should contact George Kilborn at 409 North Royal Street Mobile near Union Terminal Station for maps and price lists. Bell Phone 957 7.
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