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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1916
Page
11
Mobile cotton prices steady with ordinary to good middling levels and a sale of 75 bales. The market lists receipts, exports, and stock figures, plus fruit and vegetable quotations and a broad securities roundup with numerous price moves and total 427,400 shares traded.
The officers and members are requested to attend the regular monthly meeting next Thursday evening May 4 at 8 o clock by order John H Moore President Henry Ledebur Secretary
Chicago reports show wheat and corn prices varying with No 2 red wheat at about 1.19 to 1.20 a bushel and corn around 78 1-2. Oats and rye list modest gains while pork and lard trade near recent highs. Wall Street notes Mercantile Marine leads, with preferred stock rising to a new high and heavy volume in dealings.
Severe headache with coated tongue loathing of food constipation torpid liver and vomiting are symptoms of a pilious attack. Relief may be had by taking three Chamberlain's Tablets which are prompt and effectual and obtainable everywhere. In Praise of Chamberlain's Cough
The New York cotton market opened steady with May futures down one point, while responses to steadier cables and favorable goods trade reports lifted other months. July and October traded narrowly as reports on acreage and fertilizer use influenced sentiment, and cotton futures closed steady with modest gains. A testimonial for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy concludes the page.
Police report a series of liquor seizures across multiple roadhouses and sites near Cedar Point and Dog River. Deputies Bernstein Oberhaus and others confiscated whiskey beer and gin, with several arrests and investigations ongoing.
Funeral services for Captain David G. Coster were conducted Friday at 3 p.m. from the family home at 754 Charleston Street with Rev. J B Northcutt and Rev. V Calhoun officiating. Interment followed at Magnolia Cemetery. pallbearers included Henry Searcliff, William Searcliff, John Dorgan, Tim Dorgan, W C C Dorgan, Edward Coster, Charles Ladnier, and Frank Bogue with honorary captains Joseph Norville, Thomas Cook and T A Johnston.
George N. Turner age 66, a Semmes farmer and Illinois native, died Friday at 4 p.m. after illness. Survived by widow, one daughter, one grandchild, and other relatives. Roche & Burke took the body, sent to Semmes for burial Saturday.
Cotton spot closed steady with good middling at 8.13 and middling 7.95. Low middling 7.71d. Sales reached 3 000 bales including 500 for speculation and export. receipts 400 bales. Futures quiet with May 7.71 and other forward months slightly ranged through March April at 7.40.
A summary of shipments shows M. & YU. i. R.-Barker Barker Cotton Milla exporting 6 bales compressed at total 7 dollars per bale and Ity Steamer Peerless Baker with Lyons & Co. delivering 5 bales.
Cottonseed oil prices closed mixed with May at 10.72 and June 11.00 while other months ranged from 9.95 to 11.10. Total sales reached 4,900. Laura Ellen Conway, wife of James Conway, died April 28 1916 and funeral arrangements announced for 3:00 pm at 404 Charleston Street and Magnolia Cemetery. A benefit performance for the School of Organic Education at Fairhope is planned for Saturday at the Lyric Theater with teachers and local students in a three act farce aimed at supporting literacy efforts in Alabama.
Nine nurses are listed for graduation with a continuation of the ceremony. The Mobile Infirmary Association officers include president Mrs. C J Torrey and treasurer Mrs. Pauline L Kauffman. Trustees and superintendent Miss DeWitt C Ditlard are named among the governing body.
General Townshend’s force advanced toward Baghdad after victories at Ctesiphon and Kut el Amara but faced sieges and mounting Ottoman reinforcements. The retreat to Kut el Amara under dire odds was hailed in England as a notable, though desperate, feat amid fierce 1915 campaigns.
Immediate possession at 926 See Street an elegant home with two to twelve rooms bath gas electric lights servant’s house fruit trees large 80 by 326 feet recently repaired Southern Realty Company Agents also for sale one roadster in excellent condition Bell phone 1871 Orchard listing Pecan graftwood from bearing orchards Richard Orchards Pecan Miss
Able bodied unmarried men 18 to 85 may apply at the Recruiting Office, 108 St. Francis St., Mobile Alabama. Requires U S citizenship, good character and English literacy. For information contact the Mobile office.
Paris reports a violent bombardment near Avecourt and Hill 204 on the Verdun front. German troops massed for an assault but French artillery dispersed them. A separate attack east of Thiaumont farm failed with heavy German losses.
A British relief ship carrying supplies for the Kut-el-Amara garrison grounded four miles east of Kut in the Tigris. An official statement released this evening confirmed the incident.
The Greek government refused to discuss the Entente request to move Serbian troops from Corfu to Saloniki via the Latrinia to Piraeus railroad, per a Athens dispatch reported by Overseas News Agency. Also included are New York cotton market notes with steady prices and a sheriff sale in Mobile, Alabama, detailing Fr W Horn's property auction May 11 1916.
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