Joyous tidings from storm zones pour in to Mobile
Relief spreads as telegrams reach Mobile families with news of loved ones safe in Galveston Beaumont and Port Arthur after the Texas coast storm. Reports describe drowning floods, families fleeing Sabine and Buffalo Bayou areas, and lingering anxiety over several ship crews and residents.
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Texas
Mobile
Ed J. Phelan
Stewart E. O'Neill
Galveston
O'Neill
Houston
W. A. Rice
North Joachim Street
Beaumont
Port Arthur
McTaggart & Thompson
A. T. Eddington
W. O. Enholm
Sabine
R. F. Storecker
Marine Street
Enholm
Bertha Wallerstein
Ralph
Ralph Wallerstein
Ben Chambers
Charles Chambers
Chambers
Percy W. Sadler
Pensacola
Buffalo Bayou
Billy Sadler
United States Engineer’s Department
Sadlers
Spring Hill Avenue
W. P
Wilson weighs if sinking was a deliberate unfriendly act
A collection of editorials weighs the sinking of the Arabic and potential responses. The papers urge recall of ambassadors if neutral rights are ignored, defend American rights at sea, and stress a grave national crisis as details unfold.
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Baltimore News
Germany
Chicago Journal
Hohenzollern Court
Kansas City
Not Yet Known If U S Citizens Were Lost in Sinking
The article recalls the ship's final moments with passengers urged into boats and rescued from the sea. Captain Finth notes engineers and firemen stayed at their posts to save others, at the cost of their lives, and mentions the captain’s nephew among the dead. The survivor laments more time could have saved everyone.
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Finth
White Star liner Bovic sunk by submarine
Advices received today report the White Star liner Bovic torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine while in Australian service. The vessel was 6,500 tons.
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White Star
New York
New Orleans and Mobile Cotton Markets Update
Mobile market reports mixed receipts and varying middling prices with Good middling at 8.87. New Orleans notes weakness after the Arabic torpedoing fears, with spot cotton steady at 9.07 and overall declines in war shares on Wall Street.
VESSELS IN PORT Vease!rnene. CO. BD. cvctibedvaseee.
Listing of ships at various docks and piers with vessel names such as Dictator Lizzie E Dennison Teresa Buland Glenesk Songvig Hedgarde Gaeger Elfreda and others at Pier 3 4 Gulf Dry Docks Turner Terminals and related yards. Includes schooners steam ships barkentines motor barks and routes to Porto Rico United Kingdom Guantanamo and Spain with repair activity noted.
Cotton Market Dips on Arabic News and Futures Slide
New York cotton opened nervous with first prices 12 to 13 points lower amid Arabic sinking and stock market weakness. Prices recovered slightly but remained unsettled as traders awaited details of the Arabic incident and crop reports from the Southwest. Spot middling uplands listed at 9.35 with 12 bales sold. futures closed steady with varied month quotes.
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New Orleans
Texas
Wall Street Review
New York
General Motors
New York Airbrake
Studebaker
Goodrich
Westinghouse
American Can
Crucible
United States Steel
Reading
Am. Agri. Chem
Chi
R. J. & Pacific
Consolidated Gas
Erie
Great Northern,ptd
Kansas City Southern
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard Co
Maxwell Motor Co
Mexican Petroleum
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
National Load
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Pfd
Tennessee Copper
Texas Co
Union Pacific
United States Rubber
United States Steel Pid
Virginia-Carp. Chem
Western Union
Crucible Steel
Anaconda
Allis-Chalmers
Liverpool
Uying
Haere
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
California
Warley Fruit and Produce Company
Maritime traffic signals busy Mobile harbor scene
The Ponce from New Orleans moored at Pier 3 as cargo handling continues. Frednes finishes loading likely to Cuba. Freda expected from New York to Windward Islands. Fort Gaines clears for Tela Honduras. Ward Line awards Seattle ship contract for 6000 tons. Laguna from Tampa arrives, owned by Capt. E. P. Bayliss, to go on the docks for repairs.
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Caribbean and Southern Steamship Company
Freda
New York
Windward Islands
Fort Gaines
United Fruit Opten
Tela
West Indies
Frank
European Lumber Company
River Packet City of
Mobile
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
Lock 17
Salter's Bluff
Laguna
Tampa
Fort Morgan
E. P. Bayliss
Carmela
Munson line ships load cargoes at Tampa for Cuban and South American ports
Repairs after the storm leave Tampa as the Danish steamer Berlin arrives from New Orleans in ballast for the Munson line. The American steamer Pacific with port cargo from New Orleans is expected tonight or tomorrow to finish loading for South American ports. CABH GRAIN AND PROVISIONS Chicago notes wheat and corn prices with various futures. oats, rye, hay and lard figures listed.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Pier 3
New Orleans
Frednes
Cuban
Tampa
Berlin
Munson Line
Paccific
Chicago
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Mgr
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Ni Acre
Marine News
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Maury & Unruh Real Estate, Insurance and Loans
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